Self Reflection (Portfolios)

I learn that the AC class is a basic foundation that teaches me how to write an academic essay. Until the end of the first semester, overall I don't see any drastic improvement in my writing skills due to the fact that I'm still haven't adapted to it, especially for academic writing where there are certain criteria and steps that must be fulfilled in writing an academic essay. Although, I do also believe that I have improved a bit base on what I've seen so far; for example, my cause and effect essay it's not much but I feel like I have improved myself in term of the way I'm writing my essay. Even though my score is not that high, but it shows my improvement from the first academic essay that I've made. Of all academic essay that I have written, I prefer to write cause and effect essay rather than comparisons and argumentative. The reason why I chose cause and effect essay is that they are much more direct essay that stated the cause or the effect of my particular topic. Furthermore, it is easier to find the right scholarly article due to the fact that there many authors who wrote about cause and effect articles on some topics. The most challenging essay that I've written so far is an argumentative essay due to the fact that argumentative essay is written base on my own stances, and it is difficult to found a solution toward the counter-argument. Furthermore, writing an argumentative essay is discussing on both views and determining which side I should take without any uncertainties. Which require a lot of details about the topic, which is quite challenging for me due to the fact that I have to read many pages to obtain the detail as well as the main idea. The way I overcome my challenges is to read calmly even with the time I keep on ticking, even if it takes a lot of time just to read the article. Class activities that helped improve my writing are blog journal, where the blog helps me in expressing more on my thoughts and feel allowing me to construct a good blog. The blog helps in a way to provide a basic construction of making an essay, where I believe attracting the reader is the number one priority in constructing a good essay. Base on many blogs that I 've written so far, I learn that blogs help to essay differently. However, the downside of making a blog is that I wrote every blog in an informal way for the purpose to attract the reader even though my goal is to improve my writing skills using much more academic or more formal. As for the assignment, I say that blog journals are the most helpful assignment in enhancing our writing skills base on what we have learned so far. But, It's not academic writing which not requires a lot of research to write a blog. On the other hand, a blog journal helps me to remove my frustration over a variety of things which is helpful in expressing all of my thoughts and feelings over the topic. 

Reflection of Argumentative Essay

After finish writing, my argument essay, my biggest challenge of writing this essay is probably reading the article. Since reading four scholarly article takes a lot of time to obtain the main idea, other challenges that I face in making an argumentative essay is remaining neutral in some way, where I have to take both points of view and provide a solution toward the counter-argument base on what I've believed. I believe there are none what so ever making an essay is easy, due to the fact it takes a lot of time and energy for making an essay. Since I haven't submitted my first draft. So, I'm not sure the changes are. However, I do make some changes in my argumentative essay from the introduction and the author citation. Although it hasn't been check by the teacher and students so I'm not sure if it is correct or not. I think this is the worst essay I've ever made due to I haven't managed my time well and haven't fully prepared. Which lead me to get no feedback from the teacher as well as the student. Writing an academic essay is not an easy task, where I'm struggling in finding the right sources that can support my essay. Furthermore, I'm still struggling in the author's citation even though I've read the book, and ask my friend. I still don't know how to make the right citation. The way I plan to improve myself is to read more articles and relearn how to make the right citation. I could have put more effort into my argumentative essay. However, without any feedback, I'm not sure I can put more effort into it due to I don't know what is my mistake. Ready or not, I believe that we will eventually write a longer academic essay due to the fact that writing an academic essay is important for future majors. I'm not sure about how prepared I am in entering AC 2. However, I believe that there are rooms to improve.

Screen Time

When I heard or read the word "screen time", the first thing that comes to my mind is the amount of time that we used electronic every day. The creator of the mobile phone has implementing screen time, which is used to remind us as the user to manage our time using a mobile phone. The way screen time work is by monitoring our daily activities on our mobile phone and report your activities to see if you played a lot of games, spend time on social media, or using your gadget for working purposes. Screen time can provide a risk to the user, especially health and social issues. Too much screen time would damage their eyesight. When we read or scroll through social media we tend to blink much lesser which leads to dry eyes. Other symptoms caused by too much screen time are giving eyestrain, headaches, and even stress. Furthermore, screen time also causes a sleep problem that is caused by the light emitted from the screens that disrupting our sleep cycle in the brain, which leads to insomnia. The risk of screen time can damage the relationship with their close one, whether it is their family or friends. Even with this concern, I do also experience insomnia due to the fact that I have been using my phone and laptop for working and entertainment purposes, there are times when I slept only 2 hours. As a person who likes to stay up all night, I would try to set a limit but I would not guarantee success. As a night person, I would prefer to work during night time where it is more productive for me. My limit of screen time is when I finish all of my work or when I'm experience fatigue, that is the time when I went to sleep. I think children nowadays have experience more screen time, rather than when I was a child. Technology has been more advanced than before I was a child where they provide a variety of entertainment that allows children to stay entertained for a long period of time. When I was a child, my parents only bought me toys to stay entertained. To some extent, I agree with banning screen time especially for children due to children need to get more exposure to outside activities rather than staying in their bedroom watching movies or playing games, It is healthier to go outside and socialize with other people. However, children also need to expose to gadgets, where I believe that we live in the era of technology which they will develop further. By allowing children to use their gadget is allowing themself to adapt toward technology and using it in an effective way.

My Dream

I want to become the owner as well as becoming the head chef of the restaurant. I always love cooking and things that are related to food, where I see not just for consumption but also a form of art that brings joy toward the consumer. For me, cooking is like doing an experiment, where trial and error occur there are times when my cooking tastes not as good as I thought. However, I tried over and over again until I found the taste that are befitting for me. 

My long term plan is learning Japanese until I can communicate with Japanese people, as I would like to learn more about Japanese culture and work in a Japanese restaurant to increase my experience in cooking as well as how to run a restaurant. Furthermore, I would like to focus on how to run a business due to the fact that my dream is wanting to become the head chef as well as becoming the owner of the restaurant. Which is why I need to learn how to manage my restaurant. 

There are times when I'm questioning myself about my dream. From middle school until high school, I always ask myself if I'm on the right track or not. There are some roads I can choose either becoming an environmentalist or becoming the owner of the restaurant. I like to learn more about the environment where I want to make people aware of environmental concerns, at the same time I also like cooking and my interest in learning new technique of cooking. In the end, I've realized that I love cooking more than becoming an environmentalist.

Seth Goldin said:" Don't build a business because you want freedom, build a business because you want to run a business.", where Seth Goldin is trying to say that pursuing your dream is base on your own interest on doing it, Interest is derived from motivation, passion, and inspired by other people. Which lead me to believe that people's interest in doing what they love to do is because they are inspired or motivated by other people. While having an interest in doing because of passion.

Something that I have never learn to do, but wish I had. Although it doesn't really relate to my dream, I wish that I can play a musical instrument especially guitar and piano. I was never really good at playing a musical instrument, there is a time that I have an interest in learning it. However, I don't have the patience to learn how to play a musical instrument.

Representing My Country in International Exhibition

If someone would ask me to send one object that represents my country to an international exhibition, I would choose batik as my object. In my point of view, it is important for a country to introduce their culture first where I believe that culture is one of the important aspects of our country. Batik is made out of silk cloth as the basic foundation then decorate the cloth with wax and dye. Batik is the most popular traditional clothes in our country. Which lead me to believe that batik is the most appropriate object that represents my country. A traditional object is the most reasonable way of representing the country, due to the fact that traditional object is created and became very popular on that very own country that has been accepted by societies in that particular country to use traditional object can be representing their very own country. Batik is used for clothes, handkerchiefs, and pants but the most popular one batik in the form of clothes. Batik provides a unique characteristic that makes Indonesia different from other countries. Indonesia is made up of various tribes with each have its own traditions. However, batik helps to unify all of the tribes become one, as batik can remind each tribe that they all shared the same land which is why our country celebrates batik day every Friday. The creation of batik has been past down for many years, as they part of Indonesia's history. Batik has a unique pattern that some people would not understand, however behind that pattern there is a meaning which all depends on the person who creates it. 

Technology

Technology can be defined as a tool that is created from scientific knowledge, in which the purpose of technology is to make our life more easier in communicating and educating them to improve the country's economy, politic, and social. Technology can be seen in many forms, either social media, mobile phones, laptops, computers, and any other machinery. Although technology provides a lot of benefits to society and the country, they also provide some drawbacks. For the past centuries, technology is created for solving a certain problem that is difficult for a human. As technology advances even further they also create problem toward society, unemployment are very common nowadays where technology replaces labor. Another problem that technology does is providing many entertainments toward society, entertainment can be view as beneficial as well as having drawbacks. Where entertainment can be seen as a stress reliever, however at the same time they also provide addiction toward a society which leads people to be lazy. By distancing themself from the close one due to technology obsession may damage their relationship with their close one, which is families and friends.  

One of the questions that my friend ask me is, what do you know about Cambridge Analytica? I have never heard or read of that word before and I never knew what is the meaning of Cambridge Analytica. Until recently, after I have read a certain article I can define Cambridge Analytica as gathering information and data through social media to become the target of the marketing section. Using a social media platform to research further about consumer preference and advertise the product through social media, which is beneficial for many businesses to attract more consumers.

Digital detox is referring to not touching our mobile phone, laptop, or computer for a certain period of time. Some people would be fine in doing it, due to they have control over themselves and have no addiction toward electronic. However, some people find it difficult to do it due to they are already addicted to the use of electronic. I also have an addiction toward electronic and it is difficult to overcome addiction as it takes a gruesome process. If I were participating in digital detox I don't think I can go through with it and even it was only for just one day.

There is an expression of "boon or bane", where technology can be boon or it can be a bane. In my point of view, technology is a boon because without technology our world could not be this great where people can get proper education with the help of technology, and it also improves countries condition. There is a phrase that I always believed in "no glory without sacrifice", where addiction is the drawback which representing the word as sacrifice and glory are representing this era where technology helps to develop country's economy, and politic as well as influencing globalization in a positive way. As the benefit is outweighing the drawbacks.

Alan M. Eddison said: "Modern technology...owes ecology...an apology.", this phrase is referring to the production of technology damage the environment. I agree with this statement, where a certain chemical substance is produced during the production of the technology which can be deadly toward the environment.

Social Media

Social media are essential to our everyday life, where social media are perceived as a tool to communicate, sharing information, and establishing relationship indirectly with other people. Social media also provide a sense of community toward people who are interested in a certain topic that they would like to talk about. Nowadays, social media can be access everywhere, where they only required a good internet connection and a gadget to access social media platforms.

In a sense of purpose, social media is the most helpful tool as well as an addiction toward our health, physically and mentally. However, the benefit of social media is outweighing the drawback of the use of social media. The biggest positive thing about having social media is that information is easily accessible and allowing us as users to share our knowledge with other users. Allowing users to learn as well as growing their knowledge in the long run which may be useful in the future and improving a country's economic, politic, and others. Despite the benefit that social media has provided us, but it also provides drawbacks to society. Generally speaking, social media also provides many entertainments toward users, which leads users to be addicted to social media and causing them to have an unhealthy lifestyle. Even for me, as the user of social media, I also have an addiction toward social media and it is very difficult for me to overcome them. 

Identity in social media can be interpreted in various kind of way, as some users would reveal their identity too much, some users would reveal their identity a little bit, and others would remain anonymous. It is very common for people to freely express their opinion on social media. However, expressing too much is not good in the eyes of many users on social media and it may also give away your identity. Where are some users who are curious about your identity may hack into your account and post it on social media. There are others who like to become someone else and play around with their identity, I think this is a bad thing to do on social media especially for the person who does it. By imitating someone, you can manipulate users to believe that you are someone else that is popular which may provide some popularity toward the person who did it. However, it can also be backfired due to there are users who like to hack into someone's account and revealing their real identity and this situation may lead to cyberbullying.

To some extent, I believe social media can bring people together externally and at the same time, social media can also keep people farther apart. The meaning of externally is that social media can connect with people from different geographical locations. However, the use of social media can also affect internally, where the meaning of internally can be defined as someone who is very close to you which is families and friends. In my point of view, social media can create communities that bring people together, but it can also damage their relationship with someone closer to you which are families and friends.

Social media can change people's behavior in a physical and mental way, for me personally, social media changes the way I behave in class or during my study time. Just like what I have said before social media have many entertainments that can be difficult for me to not get distracted. Some people may experience much more, but I believe that social media is becoming a part of my distraction which leads me to have a difficult time focusing on my studies or during class. 

Some people may have privacy concerns in social media, where it is a concern that an unidentifiable user is accessing your personal information. It is common for people to have concerns over their personal information. However, in my standpoint of view, I only use the social media platform that is used by many users as I believe that a popular social media platform has a stronger security system that is difficult to bridge. It is more reliable to use social media that are used by many users, which leads me to believe that popular social media can keep your personal information safely.   

The way I overcome my social media addiction is by putting my phone far away as possible, especially during class or my study time. I would put my phone in my bag or put it somewhere that is difficult for me to reach. There are times when I ask my friend to keep my phone until I have finished all of my work and it is very difficult. Since our brain could not adapt quickly in term of not using social media, which lead people to experience the urge of using social media as their break time. However, it is possible to resist but it requires time as well as energy to stop the urge of using social media 

Unemployment

Unemployment is a common word that has been happening to every country in the world, even in my own country also experiencing unemployment problems. unemployment can be defined as a person who does not have any job or seeking employment. The prosperity of a country is determined by the level of income that is produced by the country, where a country reaches its full potential the employment rate is high in those particular countries. However, every country would face certain challenges in reaching prosperity, and unemployment is one of the hindrances. Each country may experience different kinds of unemployment and how they resolve unemployment issues. In Indonesia, unemployment is a very serious problem that leads the country to have low income. Indonesia's government's biggest concern is that they don't have any job available, which leads to an increase in unemployment. Since the Indonesia economy is located in the capital city, Jakarta. Which lead people to migrate from a rural area to Jakarta to find more job opportunity causing more unemployment in Jakarta. Other factors that cause unemployment is the high usage of machinery rather than labor, due to some company believe that machine is more productive than labor, and they are less likely to make a mistake. In the long run, the machine is most likely to dominate the workplace and decreasing the employment rate.    　

Increasing the unemployment rate can cripple the country's economy as well as the person. As the country lose some of the contributions to the economy in term of goods and services. High unemployment can cause homeless, where unemployment causes loss of earning. This leads the country to face more crime and vandalism, due to they are unemployed and have no money. Furthermore, unemployment can also devastate the business as well due to unemployed people unable to purchase goods and services, which lead decrease the GDP and slowly affecting countries economy.

If the amount of unemployment rate is high, then it is most likely to brain drain due to people need money to survive. Without a job, they could not earn any money, which leads people to emigrate to another country or places that have higher chances of getting employed. Where brain drain is referring to a person who studies abroad to get a better education and work in other countries that have higher opportunities of employment.

In my opinion, seeking opportunities in a market is a very important aspect which allows you to have a better opportunity. Different job has different qualification and requirement, where certain country have their own needs and wants. Certain skills that are needed to have better opportunities are gaining experience and knowledge from a part-time job or other things that provide experience. It is very important in competing with other people who also want to have a job. Lack of experience are more likely for a person to be unemployed. The government can reduce unemployment by having population control, as well as encouraging the company to be more labor base. Providing a certain advantage toward company that is labor base rather than machinery. 

Losing Important Natural Resources

Indonesian is a develope country that contains 18,307 islands and it is home to more than 300 ethnic groups. Under the leadership of Joko Widodo, Indonesia has implemented a long term goal that improves the economic growth of the country. From 2014 until now, Joko Widodo has been prioritizing infrastructure development, where Joko Widodo believes that infrastructure is the most important factor in boosting the Indonesia economy. However, for the last couple of years, Indonesia has been developing too quickly, which lead the Indonesian natural resources to be depleted very quickly. These factors are mainly caused by the countries population, where Indonesia's natural resource could not sustain the amount of population in the country. As the population kept on increasing, so does the demand for more resources. 

Deforestation is one of the many problems in Indonesia, either in the form of human activities or natural causes. There various reasons why deforestation happens in Indonesia, from the expansion of space to exploiting resources. Expansion of space can be divided into three factors, a need to grow resources, the need for shelter, t and the need for infrastructure. Growing resources is referring to agriculture, where growing food is needed to have large spaces, which allows farmers to have more diversified farms that produce a variety of resources. As for, a need for shelter is referring to the amount of population that can be sustained in a particular area, expanding land spaces allow countries to sustain more. The need for infrastructure is very important to boost countries' economies by providing an opportunity to work as well as the need to transporting resources from one place to another, without the road to connect from one city to another the countries economy would crumble. Exploiting natural resources is also another factor that is caused by human activity, where exploiting natural resources occur due to the increase in demand for natural resources. Nowadays technology is very advance, which allows natural resources to be extracted very quickly and efficiently where the purpose of extracting more natural resources is to fulfill the demand. There are also natural factors that make Indonesia having deforestation since Indonesia is a country located in a tropical area this leads Indonesia to experience dry weather, and it is more likely for Indonesia to experience the spread of wildfire. Indonesia is a country that has the potential of becoming the largest economic power in South East Asia. However, the government of Indonesia needs to consider some solutions toward natural causes, as well as overexploitation of natural resources.

Mid Semester Reflection

From the very first day, I attend TIU my goal is always having an improvement in my writing skills. Specifically, in my writing structure and vocabulary as such, it is difficult for me to make formal essays or academic essays. Since most of my essay was written in informal words, there is a certain aspect of why a formal essay is important in our daily life. The workplace is common for using formal words either in reporting, documenting something, or writing a letter toward your boss. People nowadays perceive the formal essay as a mandatory thing to learn, due to formal essays with a good writing structure allow people to view the essay neatly and more polite without having any emotion that may offend someone or contain bias. 

Until now, my goal still remains the same. My writing goal is more to a long term goal rather than a short term goal, since writing an essay requires an understanding of the structures and making an essay that does not contain any bias. For me personally, it takes some time to process this kind of thing and patients. However, for the last couple of months, I have seen myself improving day by day. Part of speech and tenses are the most important things in making an essay in my opinion, due to I believe that understanding the part of speech and tenses can help me get a better understanding of the essay as well as making an essay. I also starting to adapt and use the standard APA structure for my essay.

Beside my writing skills, TIU also teaches me the Japanese language which is for me is the hardest part. At the same time, it is the most rewarding thing learning Japanese takes patience, time, and dedication. There are times when learning Japanese is the most difficult thing, especially when you do not understand most of the parts, and your classmate is way ahead of you. Learning Japanese is like riding a roller coaster, where there are the ups and downs in learning the Japanese language. My ups time is happening when I am able to read some kanji, where Japanese has a lot of kanji word and for me, it is very difficult to read kanji since I have never taken the mandarin class seriously. In my opinion, it is a great improvement as well as the most successful things that I had so far. However, there are also times when I have my downs. Every people who have experience in learning a new language would face some challenges and for me, it is my conversation skill. Most of the time when the teacher asks me a question, I always feel nervous and anxious which leads me to have difficulty in answering the question due to my mind is blank. 

After the end of this semester, I'm planning to have a part-time job that are more interaction with Japanese people. This would be helpful in improving my conversation skills as well as making money for my daily needs. Type of job that I would be interested in, working in a restaurant, or working in a convenient store, since those kinds of jobs are most likely interacting with Japanese people. Other things that I'm planning to do are probably, studying Japanese. It takes a lot of time in learning the Japanese language since I'm learning Japanese in a much slower phase comparing to my classmates so I need to catch up with my classmates. I'm also planning to try various kinds of food in Japan, especially the most popular one. Using the money that I have earned from working I'm gonna use the money to buy food that I haven’t tried yet.

Global Warming

From the past centuries, human activities have been the main cause of global warming. Which lead to a change of temperature as well as weather pattern. Some countries are aware and try to reduce the number of greenhouse gasses that may lead to global warming, and some countries are aware but did not take global warming seriously, they perceive global warming as not their number one priority. The most concerning part of global warming is that global warming reduces the number of resources on planet earth. The higher the temperature the lesser the resources we have, agriculture and fisheries are highly dependable on the climate. The increasing temperature may disrupt certain requirements of growing crops, such as; nutrient level, soil moisture, water availability, and other conditions that are disrupted by the increase of temperature. There are times when climate change causes the land to dry due to, the temperature is rising and there are times when climate change causes drought and flood. Which lead the farmer to have a difficult time growing crops. Fisherman also faces some difficulty in catching fishes, due to climate change affect the water temperature which disrupts mating season as well as migration. Some aquatic animals are highly dependent on temperature and season, to reproduce. 

As an individual, we can reduce the amount of carbon footprint by either planting trees in your backyard or by donating your money. Every donation can increase the number of trees on the planet earth, which reduces the number of greenhouse gases. Trees are very crucial in every aspect, while trees can produce resources, but they can also cool down our planet and helping in conserving energy,  where planting trees can reduce the AC cost. 

Some people may confuse the difference between global warming and climate change. Scientists perceive climate change as a weather and climate system affecting the planet earth. Meanwhile, global warming is referring to long term changes in temperature that affects planet earth. 

In my point of view, the world is changing every single day. Technologies have been more advance, and more ecofriendly, which is helpful in a way of reducing greenhouse gases. I remember when I was a child, the solar panel is not that popular in my country due to the cost of one solar panel is quite pricey and our government does not really emphasize it, due to economic and political issues. In the present day, the new government has been established which is Jokowi Dodo, and he emphasized the used of solar panels. If I were in charge of government policies of global warming, I would restrict the amount of personal transportation, by increasing the cost of fuel and emphasizing more to use public transportation. Other policies that I would like to implement are about no littering if someone is littering there will be sanctions, they have to pay Rp.50,000 for every trash that he or she litter.

Learning New Language

Nowadays learning new Language is very important, where language is a tool that allow people to communicate with other people outside their own country. More students are interested to study abroad, it is crucial for them to learn new language. Language is very important tool to survive abroad. Although technology have make life's more easier for people to go abroad without learning their language. But it is best to learn the language rather than relying on technology, since learning new language allow us to be more open minded. Especially communicating with people that are not from your country.

It's difficult to learn new language, especially language that have different letter from your country. For example America and Indonesia, although their accent and their vocab is different, but they use the same letter. On the other hand, if we pick America and China they have different accent, different vocab, as well as different letter. Learning new language is very difficult, you need patient and determination to learn. It's very important to have a long term motivation of learning new language, those people who have who have a long term motivation are less likely to give up. 

Base on my experience, I don't like speaking with foreign people. Especially using language that Im not confident with. But I like listening to foreign people while their talking. As a foreign student I can understand that some people can understand what their trying to say, but you could not reply to his or her question when they ask you. People have their own liking and disliking, in term of learning new language skills. 

The most difficult thing to learn new language is memorising their vocabulary, and grammar rules, because vocab and their grammar are very different from my country. Some vocab or grammar may ring a bell in your head, since some vocab and grammar are taken from other foreign country.

I want to learn Japanese language, because It's my dream to live in Japan, as well as learning and understanding their culture. My language goal is to have a fluent conversation with Japanese people, which allows me to understand more about their culture.

I believe language effect the way I'm thinking, because learning new language allows me to communicate with other people, which lead to understanding their culture. New language can make me be more open minded.

In my opinion every school should open language learn. It is important for students who are interested to study abroad to learn the language first.

APA Reflection

I think the difficulties of making the Introduction is stating your topic and reasons of making the essay, without answering the topic directly. I didn't make a perfect introduction, because my introduction only describing a brief information about the topics. I didn't state the reason why I make this paper.

As for the conclusion, I think the difficulties of making the conclusion is not  to summaries all of the my information that I've already type, and you have to make a short conclusion that overall summaries all of my paper. I didn't make a perfect conclusion, because I only make a short conclusion.

organization part is a bit challenging for me, because the essay doesn't come out the way I wanted. I thought that, in each paragraph are supposed to link with the other paragraph. My structure was basically from external factor first, which is the geographical location and slowly going to the internal factor, about ancient Rome and ancient Greece cultures.

The most difficult part in making the APA is to find the right source from scholarly article. Not all scholar article provide explanation and answer toward my topic. It takes a lot of time to find the right source. In term of the formatting Im still adapting to the APA format, since my school approach essay differently and also different formating.

I believe my essay content provide many evidence that support my topic. Since my topic is about the difference between ancient Rome and ancient Greece culture, than it is more likely for me to have evidence. However I also believe that my evidence are not that strong, which may cause confusion or does not looked convincing.

In term of my mechanics, I have a lot of problem in giving puctuation and putting certain vocab in the right place. Other problem that I have is putting the tenses. Since my topic is about ancient time, I forgot to put past tenses.

Overall I could say that this essay is quite stressing for me. This is my first time  making APA, but I'm gonna try my best to be more prepared in the future APA.

Sports

The most popular sport in my country is badminton. In Indonesia, badminton was firstly established in Jakarta on January 27, 1947. Until now badminton is the most popular and adored sport in Indonesia. what make badminton unique in my country is that badminton are affordable for everyone. You only need 2 rackets, 1 shuttle cock, a net, and a large spaces. secondly, badminton can be played by everyone. there's no requirement of playing badminton, and badminton can be access everywhere. Thirdly, Indonesia hold most champion in badminton. producing many talented athletes that had won many medals. As Indonesia produce a lot of talented athletes, they also attract many young generation to be the next badminton champion.

Sports is a good thing. Sports allows people around the world support the same team. when many people routing the same team, it does't takes time before they became friendly with one another, even though if are a total stranger. people from different backgrounds and classes come together as one to route the same team, that is how amazing sports can be. Sports allows people to connect with each other that came from different classes and backgrounds, unifying them through sports language.         

Sports is for everyone, and that’s include, females too. sports doesn’t judge their gender, classes, backgrounds, or origin. Although there are some sports that does not allow males and females to compete with each other, due to different sheer strengths. But they can compete with the same gender. Some sports allows males and females compete with each other.

My favorite sports is badminton and basketball. I never played basketball, but I love NBA. I enjoyed watching NBA player shows their skills and move. My favorite team is Portland blazers and my favorite player is Damian Lillard. I like Damian Lillard because he have a good ball handling, and he was  able to shoot at the clutching moment. As for badminton, in my country I always play badminton everyday, and I also enjoyed watching badminton athlete shows their endurance and agility.

Do you Ever Feel Insecure?

Every people have experienced insecure once in their lifetime. wether it was came from the past, present, or future. Every people will eventually feel insecure, even I as a writer also feel insecure. Insecure can be define as someone who are lacking self confidence or having doubt with his/her abilities. Insecure are mostly experienced by introvert, usually introvert people doesn't value himself enough.

As a writer I do also have experience insecurities, where self doubt consume me and making me less confidence in doing things. In my point of view insecure came from the persons past experience, where they have failed in doing something and have been bullied by other people. Which lead people to be haunted by their past experience and causing them to be lacking confidence.

Here are some helpful tips that can prevent people from being insecure. for starter you need to derive your self confidence, where some people may beating themselves to hard for having insecurity.  Accepting the fact that you have insecurity are very important. Overcoming insecurity is like a journey, taking little steps to boost your confidence and stepping out from a comfort zone. Secondly, excluding people who want to take you down. Every people need a friends, however in this world there are two types of friends. There are friends that are trying to take you down and there are also friends that support you. So if you have any friends that are trying to take you down, you should start distancing yourself from those kind of people. 

Insecurities are a negative thing that came from our emotion. Insecurity creates self doubt, which lead to lacking of self esteem. Which affecting your mental health as well as your life. Socialising is part of our daily life, where interacting with other people can be difficult for people that have insecurities. When you're interacting with other people and you feel insecure. They can judge you base on your word and your action, which make people feel uncomfortable around you. To sum things up, insecurities is a negative emotion that will affect your self esteem. which lead people that feels insecure are difficult to interact with other people, due to the lack of confidence. 

Is it Mandatory for Students to Attend Classes?

Some people believe that college students are required to show up in class. while other people believe that it's not a must to attend classes. Which will be discussed in the next paragraph.

people who believe that attending classes are relevant because some subject are difficult to be understand without attending classes. The purpose of attending class is to provide guideline on those particular subject, allowing students to have better understanding of a subject. Furthermore, attending class can also provide social benefit, since students are required to have a discussion with other classmates which lead to have a better understanding with each other. In addition, discussion also lead students to become more open minded, by hearing other students and teachers opinion.

On the other hand, those people who believe that attending class is not a must are lead to believe that students should focus on their subject of interest. If those subject are irrelevant for the students than they don't need to attend. Forcing students to attend class that they don't have any interest in, would lead to be overwhelming and stress which can affect their health mentally and physically. Moreover, students can gain more knowledge and  experience on those particular subject of interest, where they can apply for job that are related to those major of interest. Rather than attending classes that have no relation with those interest, students can enhance their skills by applying for a job. Allowing students to be more open minded as well as enhancing social interaction between other people.

Overall some people may oppose my opinion, but I think  students are not required to attend classes that they have no interest in. I think students can gain more experience on the subject of interest by using their free time to apply for a job.

Indonesian Country Music

Indonesia is a country that have diverse range of societies and culture. One of which is their country music, dangdut is a popular traditional music that consist of pleasent and harmonical melody that makes you wanna dance. Tabla as the main percussion beat that creates a flow of rhythm. Most Indonesian people love  to listen dangdut, and it's only been played on special occasion, such as; wedding ceremony, festival, or concert.

Music is very important for us, because music is a way to express musician feelings in life, which allows listener to understand as well as enjoying  the music. Music is a form of art, that can unify people all around the world because people can relate to the song, as well as feeling inspired. furthermore music is a form of entertainment, where people can express their own feeling through dance and sing.

Attitude Toward Drugs Abuse

My attitude toward drugs can somewhat be a mixed feeling. Where drugs can be view as a substance  that are injected in to the body, which were used for medical treatment in term of altering their body’s function physically and emotionally. Some countries believe that drugs should be legal, while others believe that drugs should be illegal.

As most people believe that drugs is used for medical treatment, but nowadays society have miss used drugs as part of their entertainment purposes. Some believe lead to believe that drugs are used for escaping reality, to fit in, to be seen like a grownups, as well as to experiment. As they believe drugs are a solution towards problem. But eventually drugs become the problem. As humans, it is in our nature to try something new by taking risk and experimenting.

Drugs can be view as a poisons, where the amount of drugs that are taken will determine the effect. Small amount of drugs can make your body stimulated, which allows you to have more energy. Greater amount will sedating your body. Excess amount drugs can lead to a poisons and can cause death.

Drug user can affect your physical and mental health. Which can lead to social problem and causing it to destroy your environment, such as; friends and families. The use of drugs can directly affect your mind. Which it can distort your perception of what’s happening around you. Leading to a person action are considered to be odd, irrational, as well as inappropriate.

Indonesia is a countries that considered to have a lot of drug user. In the eyes of the government, drug use is a serious issues. Drugs problem were mostly found on a major cities, particularly in Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Which lead to attract many tourist who’s seeking a holiday fueled by drugs. President Joko Widodo has given the authorities of wider powers, as well as enhancing drug laws. Where of the laws include death penalty for the dealers and traffickers.

Happiness

what is happiness to you?

 for me personally happiness is a positive energy that are emitted by our emotion due to various things that are happening. Enjoy = happiness, the more you enjoy yourself the happier you will become.


do you think that you are living a happy life? why or why not?

right now I'm living a happy life. as I'm entering college I'm free from my parents and It's my dream to stay in Japan.


some people believe that the happiest time in a person life is when they are a child? do you agree?

"happirst time in a person life is when they are a child" for me personally I'm strongly disagree with this statement. Life is full of happiness, just do what you what you want to do and if you don't want to do it, than don't do it. Every people have a choice to make and it all depends on how you make your life become more enjoyable in the face of hardships.


do you think people are happier than they were in the past?

Some people can be more happier than they were in the past. Those kind of people are usually a successful people or people who enjoyed their job. While others, would think, that they were happier in the past. Those kind of people are either not successful people or they don't like their job.


do you consider happiness as a goal to achieve?

no, since I'm already enjoying my life which lead me to believe that happiness is not a goal to achieve but how you can utilize your surrounding and making it become more enjoyable.

Changes in my Country

I came from a country that are considered a Muslim majority country, and has the largest muslim population. Indonesia is a country that are located in Southeast Asia, some countries considered Indonesia as producer of various type of mining materials, such as; petroleum, tin, natural gas, nickel, copper, bauxite, coal, gold, and silver.

Indonesia have 17.504 island that contain 32 province and home to hundreds of ethnic groups, that speak different language. 

If I can change one thing in my own country, I would like to change their energy source. Indonesia is a country that still use natural resource as their source of energy, even though some natural resource are nonrenewable and this may lead to environmental issues, such as; global warming, and deforestation. Global warming have been a problem to many countries, while some countries are trying to prevent global warming others still doesn't care. CO2 emission s in Indonesia are high and the cause of this issues was mostly due to deforestation and construction.

My Writing Goals

 My problem in writing an essay was that the longer I wrote an essay the harder it gets to stay connected with the topic. Every time I wrote a long essay, there was a time when my essay has no connection with the topic. which lead the reader, unable to understand my essay. furthermore, I have a problem in writing an essay was due to my limited grammar, which prevents me to use more sensible and more appropriate grammar in my essay. 

I want to make an essay, that can attract the reader emotionally and physically. either to persuade them, giving information, explanation or entertainment. It's important for me to learn how to construct a good essay, which allows me to understand the structure of an essay and how to attract the reader in reading my essay.

So for my goal for this semester is to improve my writing style, improve my grammar, and my vocabulary. train myself in using the right vocabulary which enables me to write a proper conclusion that supports my research. I hope that I can improve my writing skills, in a way of making the readers can easily understand my essay.