Bakti Desa

Bakti Desa is an annual internal SMAN 3 Bandung's program. This is the program that we go to the village for 3 days and we worked with the people at that village. The purpose of Bakti Desa is we can feel how to see the world through their eyes. Bakti Desa held on Thursday, 23rd of October 2014, until Saturday, 25th of October 2014. At first day (Thursday), first we gathered at SMAN 3 Bandung at 6 a.m. We went there by public transportation (angkot). We went to the location at 8 a.m because we had to prepare our packing first. We arrived at Desa Resmi Tingal at 10 a.m. First, we gathered at Balai Desa, and then we sit to did an Opening of Bakti Desa. In the opening, our headmaster, Mr. Encang, spoke and gave us a speech about this program. After that, the Mayor of the village was also gave us a speech. After that, we lunch at Balai Desa with the prasmanan menu. After we finished eating, we went to our house in the village. We were divided in a group, which one group consist by 4 or 3 people. I'm on the Group 1 Putri, the member is female students in my class from absent 1 until absent 4. My group's house was at RW 08. The parents in my house was Bapak Amang Enan. He worked as the helper in the mosque (like sweeping the mosque, etc.), and his wife worked as the gardener. This is the picture of Bapak Amang's house.

We walked to the hill, and then we can saw the view of the mountain. It was very very cold. But it was very amazing and I looove it.

On the first day, we pray Maghrib at the mosque. We also followed the "Pengajian", it was very nice. We prayed Isya at the mosque too. After we finished pray, we came back to our house. At 8 p.m., my class gathered at RW 08, we did the bonfire. It was very wonderful. We talked to each other, and that moment made me very happy. The second day, i with my friends went to the river. The river is soooooo far from our house, so we must walked through the steep hill. It was quite difficult.

At the night, there was a little event at Balai Desa. Because of the Islam new Year, the people at the village did the Pawai Obor. It was very cool. After pawai obor, there was some bonfire in Balai Desa. The third day, in the morning, we gathered in the mosque to do the counselling (education) about health. The speaker was from our class, and Kang Dito from Faculty of Medicine Maranatha University. The audience were the people that lived in Desa Resmi Tingal. After we did the counselling, we prepared our bags and put it in Balai Desa. After that, we waited for the transportation. We came back to Bandung at 11.30 a.m. We arrived at SMAN 3 Bandung on 2.30 p.m. I was tired, and also my bag was really heavy, but Bakti Desa was very awesome! So many lessons that I can took from these 3 days. This was really worth.

Matswapati 2014

MATSWAPATI is a festival held by SMAN 3 Bandung on Saturday, 27th of September 2014 at Lapangan Bali. This is the first festival by SMAN 3 Bandung after vacuum for 7 years. It's been 7 years since 3 Senior High's last event. In Matswapati, we can see so many culture from our province, West Java. The culinary at Matswapati are from Sundanese. There were so many guest stars, like Glenn Fredly, Barsena, Saung Angklung Udjo, and many more; and also from the students of SMAN 3 Bandung, like Tiloe's Theatre, Musik Klasik 3, Vocal Group, and many more. It was very amazing.

I'm so proud to be a student of SMAN 3 Bandung that can present an awesome festival like Matswapati. I was worked as the Decoration Comittee. The price of the ticket is Rp25.000.

I was very happy and enjoyed the festival, especially when Glenn Fredly sang on the stage. It was awesome!!! We sang together in every song.

This event is also supported by the Mayor of Bandung, Mr. Ridwan Kamil. He also came on the opening of MATSWAPATI.

Bullying

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.

There are many roles that kids can play. Kids can bully others, they can be bullied, or they may witness bullying. When kids are involved in bullying, they often play more than one role. It is important to understand the multiple roles kids play in order to effectively prevent and respond to bullying. There are some specific types of bullying behaviour: verbal or written abuse (such as targeted name-calling or jokes, or displaying offensive posters); violence (including threats of violence); sexual harassment (unwelcome or unreciprocated conduct of a sexual nature, which could reasonably be expected to cause offence, humiliation or intimidation); homophobia and other hostile behaviour towards students relating to gender and sexuality ; discrimination including racial discrimination (treating people differently because of their identity) ; cyberbullying - either online or via mobile phone.

Inspiring Person: Soekarno

I believe that everyone has an inspiring person. It could be an actor, actress, musician, or maybe politician. I want to tell about my inspiring person. He is a very famous person and I think everyone knows him. He is Soekarno. I've been admired our first Indonesian president since a long time ago. The reason why I admire Soekarno is because of his passion and dignity to make Indonesia indenpendent. It was hard to believe that Indonesia had a person like him and apparently this information is just two-percent of his real life and struggle to make Indonesia independent. Ir.Soekarno is the first Indonesian office in periode 1945-1966. He played an important role in the independence of the Indonesian nation. Along with Mohammad Hatta, Soekarno was Proclaimers Independence of Indonesia on August 17, 1945. I admire Sukarno because he was the nation's leaders who have a very strong personality, dignity, a sense of patriotism (nationalism), which is very high, an orator (an expert in speech) that exceptional, progressive-minded, as well religious figure. Nationalism and the personality of Sukarno has been proved by his struggle to achieve independence until Indonesia proclaimed its independence of this nation. If I asked you a question, "Who is the best Indonesian president?" I guess that you will answer "Soekarno". Yes, Soekarno is the best Indonesian president because with him, Indonesia was the strong, brave, and confident country. We were much more independently country because there was no country that could control us. Soekarno didn't fear to spoke up to the world with his opinions and complains. He had a very big spirit, very big charisma, brilliant opinions, and powerful voice whenever he talked in front of the public. All countries around the world paid attention to our country at that time. He is one of the best leader in the world. He wants Indonesia become a big country in the world without depends on other countries.

When Soekarno (Indonesia's first president) and Mohammed Hatta (first vice-president), two of the country's most prominent nationalists, pronounced the proclamation of Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945, together with the publication of a short and provisional constitution, troubles were far from over. In fact, it would take four more years of Revolution against the Dutch who - after being freed from the Germans in Europe - returned to reclaim their colony. The Dutch were stubborn to relinquish their lucrative Southeast Asian colony but eventually had to face reality. Under international pressure they acknowledged Indonesian independence in 1949 (except for the western half of the island of New Guinea). However, negotiations with the Dutch resulted in the 'Republic of the United States of Indonesia' containing a Federal Constitution that was considered to be too much influenced by the Dutch. Therefore, it was quickly replaced by a new constitution in 1950 which stipulated a parliamentary system of government, provided guarantees for individual freedoms and made the military subordinate to the nation's civilian leadership. The president mainly had a ceremonial role only in this system. How about his spirit? His spirit is very big to released Indonesia from Dutch colonized. He has a quote, “Don’t forget about history”. It means that we shouldn’t forget about all struggles that Indonesian heroes has done. They had a very big spirit that could change our country’s faith. So, in conclusion, Soekarno is a best leader to follow. His leadership can’t be compared to any Indonesian leader at this time.

Idul Fitri 2014

Last Lebaran holiday, I got two weeks holiday. One week before Lebaran, and one week after Lebaran. In the week before Lebaran, I just went to some places in Bandung with my family. I went to some malls, went around the city to “ngabuburit”, breakfasting with my big family in my cousin’s house, and breakfasting in some restaurant. I thought Ramadhan this year flew very fast. I felt like I just fasting for some weeks and suddenly Idul Fitri came! On Malam Takbiran, I and my family went to my grandparents’s house and gathered with all my big family. It was like tradition in my big family, every year, at Malam Takbiran we always came to my grandparents’s house. It was very fun. There was some fireworks. And because of my grandparents’s house is near to the mosque, the sound of takbir was clearly heard by us. After that, I came back to my house at 10 p.m. Some of my cousins slept over in my grandparents’s house. But I didn’t, because I pray Ied in the mosque near my house, and I must did the silaturahmi with my neighbors. On Lebaran, I and my family didn’t go to other city, we just stayed in Bandung because all of my family is in Bandung. I went to all my cousin’s house to do the silaturahmi. On the day of Lebaran, I and my family prayed Ied in the mosque near my house. After prayed, I silaturahmi with my neighbors. After finished, I and my family went to my grandparents’s house. There, I met all my big family again. We apologized to each other. And then, we ate the food that always exist in Lebaran, such as Ketupat, Opor Ayam, and Lebaran’s pastry. After that, we gathered and shared about everything, we told our stories, and we spent the time with laugh and laugh. The condition was very warm and I love that.

After that, we went to the out of the house to take some photos. It was very awesome. We were so excited. We took so many photos. Here are some photos that I took in Lebaran at my grandparents’s house.

AMAZING PLACE : Hillier Lake (Pink Lake)

Hillier Lake is a lake on Middle Island, the largest of the islands and islets that make up the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia. The most notable feature of the lake is its pink colour. The lake is thought to have been first visited by the Flinders expedition in January 1802. Flinders observed the pink lake after ascending the island's peak. John Thistle, the ship's master, collected some of the lake's water, which he found to be saturated with salt. The length of the lake is about 600 metres (2,000 ft). The lake is surrounded by a rim of sand and a dense woodland of paperbark and eucalyptus trees with a narrow strip of sand dunes covered by vegetation separating it to the north from the Southern Ocean. The most notable feature of the lake is its pink colour. It is such a significant distinguishing feature of the archipelago that air passengers often take note of it. The colour is permanent, and does not alter when the water is taken in a container. Although the source of the pink colour has not been definitively proven in the case of Lake Hillier, the pink colour of other salt lakes (e.g., Pink Lake) in the region arises from a dye created by the organisms Dunaliella salina and Halobacteria. Lake is stained to the color pink. The reason for this color has not yet been clarified. This color is permanent, even following the entry of water into a container. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists have studied the composition of water in the lake wanting to find out what causes the lake takes on the color pink. At first it was thought that the color of algae that produce such Dunaliella salina, which produce a red dye, but their conjecture is not confirmed. Another hypothesis is that the pink colour is due to red halophilic bacteria in the salt crusts. Despite the unusual hue, the lake exhibits no known adverse effects upon humans. From above, the lake appears a solid bubble gum pink, but from the shoreline it appears more of a clear pink hue. The shoreline is also covered in salt crust deposits

Inspiring Person : J.K.Rowling

J. K. Rowling is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling, on 31 July 1965 in Yate, England. Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history, and been the basis for a series of films which has become the highest-grossing film series in history. Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and maintained creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment. The seven-year period that followed entailed the death of her mother, divorce from her first husband and poverty until Rowling finished the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997). Rowling subsequently published 6 sequels—the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)—as well as 3 supplements to the series. In 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on an old manual typewriter. Upon the enthusiastic response of Bryony Evens, a reader who had been asked to review the book's first three chapters, the Fulham-based Christopher Little Literary Agents agreed to represent Rowling in her quest for a publisher. On 26 December 2001, Rowling married Neil Michael Murray (born 30 June 1971), an anaesthetist, in a private ceremony at her home, Killiechassie House, near Aberfeldy. Rowling's and Murray's son, David Gordon Rowling Murray, was born on 24 March 2003.Shortly after Rowling began writing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince she took a break from working on the novel to care for him in his early infancy. Rowling's youngest child, daughter Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray, to whom she dedicated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was born on 23 January 2005. The family reside in Edinburgh, Scotland near the authors Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and Kate Atkinson. Rowling has received honorary degrees from St Andrews University, the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, the University of Exeter, the University of Aberdeen and Harvard University, for whom she spoke at the 2008 commencement ceremony. In 2009 Rowling was awarded the Légion d'honneur by French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. This is J.K. Rowling’s masterpiece: • Harry Potter series Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (26 June 1997) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2 July 1998) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (8 July 1999) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (8 July 2000) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (21 June 2003) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (16 July 2005) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (21 July 2007) • Other children's books Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (supplement to the Harry Potter series) (1 March 2001) Quidditch Through the Ages (supplement to the Harry Potter series) (1 March 2001) The Tales of Beedle the Bard (supplement to the Harry Potter series) (4 December 2008) • Adult books The Casual Vacancy (27 September 2012) • Cormoran Strike series The Cuckoo's Calling (as Robert Galbraith) (18 April 2013) The Silkworm (as Robert Galbraith) (24 June 2014) • Short story Harry Potter prequel (July 2008) In 2004, Forbes named Rowling as the first person to become a U.S.-dollar billionaire by writing books, the second-richest female entertainer and the 1,062nd richest person in the world. Rowling disputed the calculations and said she had plenty of money, but was not a billionaire In addition, the 2008 Sunday Times Rich List named Rowling the 144th richest person in Britain. In 2012, Forbes removed Rowling from their rich list, claiming that her over $160 million in charitable donations and the high tax rate in the UK meant she was no longer a billionaire. In February 2013 she was assessed as the 13th most powerful woman in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.