Friday, August 2, 2013

Sedikit Coreratan di kelas Introduction to English Literature….. ^_^


 
Membaca biografi bapak Arzyumardi Azra membuat saya sangat terkesan. Seolah-olah saya membaca cerita hidup yang sama dan mimpi-mimpi yang sama yang ingin saya wujudkan di masa depan. Berawal dengan ketidakinginan dan minat sama sekali untuk memasuki dunia bahasa, hingga akhirnya saya jatuh cinta pada sastra dan bahasa Inggris. Mungkin sedikit berbeda namun jalan cerita rasanya sama. Ketika pikiran hanya tertarik kepada matematika namun dipilihkan takdir untuk mengambil pendidikan bahasa Inggris. Tapi setelah beberapa bulan menjalaninya saya mulai sadar dan mungkin bisa dibilang sekarang Bahasa Inggris adalah hidup saya.

Seperti halnya dengan pak Azra, saya ingin melanjutkan study saya di luar negeri. Belajar dan terus belajar. Saya ingin mengetahui dunia lebih luas lagi dengan tetap berpegang teguh pada ajaran Agama Islam yang saya yakini. Semoga Allah SWT selalu menunjukkan jalan yang lurus kepada hamba-Nya ini. Mencoba memenuhi kehausan jiwa ini dengan ilmu pengetahuan dan agama. Hingga pada akhirnya nanti saya bisa mewujudkan cita-cita saya. Menjadi seorang ‘Dosen’ dan pemilik ‘Sekolah Dasar Internasional yang berbasis Islam’. Mengapa saya memilih sekolah dasar, karena menurut saya seorang anak harus didik semenjak ia masih kecil, bahkan kalau bisa sejak dalam masih kandungan. Tapi tidak mungkin kan saya yang mendidik, tentunya harus orang tuanya masing-masing. Untuk itu saya ingin berusaha mencerdaskan anak bangsa ini melalui pendidikan sedini mungkin yaitu di SD. Selain itu saya menyukai anak-anak, jadi rasanya akan sangat menyenangkan sekali jika saya bisa terlibat dalam pendidikannya.
Saya berkaca dari kehidupan masa kecil saya. Rasanya sedikit menyesal mengapa dulu saya tidak belajar sungguh-sungguh. Di masa depan saya tidak ingin penyesalan itu terulang kembali. Jadi mulai dari sekarang, berusaha melakukan yang terbaik dan menjadi yang terbaik yang bisa saya lakukan.
Mengenai pandangan politik, saya sependapat dengan pak Azra yang tidak memihak kubu manapun, karena terus terang saya kurang suka dan kurang mengerti tentang dunia politik. Hanya saja sering mendengar dari orang-orang bahwa dunia politik itu sarat dengan manipulative. Jadi, jika tidak benar-benar kuat iman sebaiknya tidak usah berpolitik. Tapi entahlah…
 Kemudian jika kita berbicara mengenai agama, dari dulu saya selalu tidak setuju dengan orang-orang yang membeda-bedakan golongan Islam hanya karena sedikit berbeda pandangan. Terbesit dalam pikiran saya. Mengapa kita harus saling menjelekkan bahkan memusuhi satu sama lain? Bukankah sebagai umat Islam seharusnya kita bersatu. Namun, memang tidak bisa dipungkiri bahwa perbedaan itu merupakan hal yang fitrah. Hanya saja diperlukan suatu pemahaman bersama bahwa dengan adanya perbedaan bukan untuk saling terpecah belah, namun untuk saling melengkapi hingga tercapai suatu kesatuan umah. “Learn how to live and learn how to live together”.  Allahu a’lam bisshawab.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

argumentative_What I wrote in writing class

HAVING BOYFRIEND OR GIRLFRIEND HELPS STUDENTS LEARNING?
            Some students believe that having boyfriend or girlfriend would help students learning. It encourages them to study better. On the other hand, some would think of the opposite. Those are questioning such influence of having a lover. Is it always true that if you have a lover, you will get a better achievement in your study? Don’t you ever think that having a special relationship with someone means having an additional responsibility? There are two main reasons, at least, why having boyfriend or girlfriend doesn’t help students learning, namely individual concepts and religious concepts.
The first reason is individual concepts. Those mean having a lover is related to individual person who makes the relationship. Students might want to weight up the pros and cons before making a final decision. Those are important for them because having a lover might lead to a big problem especially when they do that while they are a student. They might be better or worse because of it. Some examples which students might be faced are too many do’s and don’ts from their partner, there is a lot of thing to do because school time is not the best time to make a lover, and it is not an easy task to build a bridge for two different backgrounds, etc.
The second reason is religious concepts. In almost all religious especially Islam, people is not permitted having boyfriend or girlfriend when they are student. If they do, their religion will punish them. It is what God say in the Holy Qur’an. Here might be happen different association with God’s instructions. Some people interpret those as a big problem, because they take it for granted. Some would think of differently. They think that students didn’t allow having a lover because they are still young. They didn’t think and know about the consequence. Thus, when students are permitted having a lover they will be free and of course, it doesn’t help their learning anymore. Moreover it will encourage them to the wrong way because they are not obeying their religion.    
There are many reasons why having boyfriend or girlfriend doesn’t help students learning. Those reasons above are the main reasons. Students might think about the advantage and the disadvantages before making a relationship. They also need to think about the consequences that can occur after having a lover, because it is not in line with religion.

persuasive


Should you say “I love you”?
            Love, love and always is about love. We feel that our time is not enough when we talk about love. Love is a strong feeling of deep affection for somebody or something, especially a member of your family or a friend. Love also can be a person, a thing or an activity that you like very much. Everything in the world can be better or worse because of love.
            Remember your first love. It was so beautiful, wasn’t it? You felt that everything became beautiful because of your love. You felt happy because of your boy friend or your girl friend. Your mind was full of him or her. When you began to think which appeared in your mind was him or her. Then when you wanted to do your activity which appeared in front of you was their shadow. You thought that you cannot life without them. Your feeling to say “I love you” was very strong. If you could say, you would say it at the first time you met him or her. But, you couldn’t do it because your love was very shallow. You only thought for that time. You didn’t think for the future of your love. What was the consequence after saying your love? You didn’t think it yet. High time you realized that your couple was not perfect. You began bored with them. You thought that there was someone who would be perfect for you and walked beside you for good or ill. Then it became a new problem for you. Is this your love? Yes, I think it was your love.
            In the other hand, there were your parents who gave everything and fulfilled your necessary completely. They never said their love clearly. Moreover they seldom said “I love you”, but they proved their love to you. They showed their love with their action, and you could feel it without you had to know from their words. Of course, it was more influential for you.
            Yes, you understand now. Yet, you couldn’t say that you didn’t want to know about other people’s love, because sometimes you wanted it. You wanted to express your feeling each other. You wanted to say “I love you” to your parents or your special someone. It’s normal and you need this process. Yet, the important thing is not how many times you say your love, but how often you prove it. Share a smile, your love with someone but don’t forget about the proof. Because of life is not about promise, but the proof.




narrative

It’s Me an Extraordinary Iir
            Every cloud has a silver lining. When you think that something is bad, maybe it could be best. It was happen to everyone and I was no exception. My name is Nurlia Irvani and most of people call me Iir. I am still ordinary girl coming from an ordinary family, but I have dreamed someday I will be an extraordinary woman who has an International School. I was born in Tambah Subur on 22th August, 1992. My father’s name is Suhaeji and my mother’s name is Maryanah. Then I have one old brother, my brother’s is Umri Afrizal. In spite of a small family, but my family is very happy. My parents always give the best for my brother and me especially for our education. They think that education is the best way for us to get better life. It is also becoming my spirit to study because I can see from my parent’s life now. How education influences their life very much. Keep in mind when my mother told me about her effort to get Strata 1 Degree and what my father did to hold out in hard times at his big family. Both of them make me realize that I couldn’t be lazy to study and make my parents are disappointed. I always study hard and all praise is to Allah it was not wasted away.  I always get whatever I want. Then time passed and I am growing up. It was time for me to continue my study at the university. Firstly, I have my heart set on entering SEKOLAH TINGGI AKUTANSI NEGARA (STAN) but unfortunately I didn’t pass the test. At that time I was very sad. I felt bad and shy to everyone because they know who really I was. Nevertheless I was still grateful for Allah because He gave me power to face it. So I was not drop and blame other for my failure. Then together with my parents support, I stood up from hard times and found my new world in STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro. I have many friends and enjoy my study here. I am very happy. I can forget about my failure and focus on my study now. I think that may be Allah has a big plan for me than I have for myself and of course, it is more beautiful than mine.