Winter in Tokyo. That’s one of Ilana Tan’s novels. I’ve read it several weeks ago. The genre of the novel is romantic with Tokyo as the setting. It’s published in 2008 by Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
This novel is tell about an Indonesia-Japan girl named Ishida Keiko that work as a Librarian. She meet Nishimura Kazuto, a photographer from New York, when he move to Keiko’s apartment. They falling in love each other but, no one of them tell their feeling until Kazuto become amnesia.
The conflict comes when Kazuto do not remember about Keiko and his first love named Akira. She fell in love with Akira because he ever help Keiko to looked forher necklace when she in elementary school. Actually, the person who helped Keiko at the time is not Akira, but Kazuto. So, the true of Keiko’s first love is Kazuto, and she know it after Kazuto told her.
I think, this novel is so interesting. The story line is simple but it’s make me never forget it. The author, Ilana Tan, make the story easy to understand. We do noty need to read twice because, we can understand the story with once reading.
Free Topic 11
Smoking is suck a dry tobacco which is burned. The person that smoking is man. They usually smoke after eat or when they are chatting with another mans. There are many kind of cigarette, such as Star Mild, Djarum 76, Sampoerna Hijau, and many more. The price ia also varies. Usually, price of one set cigarette is Rp. 10.000,00 to Rp. 20.000,00. It’s very expensive for the price of one set cigarette.
I confuse, what is the advantages of smoking. In my opinion, smoking is just make our body unhealthy. It’s also means throw our money for something useless. In Indonesia itself, prohibiting act for smoke is not effective. Although, it has already forbade, but, there are many people still smoke in public place. Probably, the Indonesian government mut following prohibiting act for smoke of Singapore’s government.
In Singapore, the price of one set cigarette is more expensive than Indonesian cigarette. Not all of the shop sell cigarette. It’s not only that, the government also placed CCTV on some big roads. So, if there is people who smoke in there, the police will be catch them. And the regulation, decrease smoker in Singapore successfully.
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K-Pop or Korean Pop is the music industry in Ginseng country, Korea. There are some boybands and girlbands which is formed by some artist managements. Since several years ago, boyband and girlband had already “damaged” suffered by time. Korea is the first country that make a singer formatted as a group after the music industry in this world dominance by bands.
In 2005, Korean boyband and girlband still didn’t famous yet. Many people in Asia, included Indonesia, prefer to watch Korean drama than listen to Korean music. But now, fans of Korean pop is so many. It’s not only in Asia, but in Europe and America, too. Why they like Korean pop? The answer is simple. Because the song of their boyband and girlband is very easy listening. The quality of their voice and dance is good. Their appearance is also interesting to see. Of course, it’s because of the plastic surgery that they do before debuted as a singer.
I begin to like Korean pop when I entered university. My friend introduced me about that. And now, I become a fans of a famous Korean boyband, Super Junior. They have a good performance in the stage although they have 13 members. Their song, Sorry Sorry, became a popular song in 2009. Because of the song, many people in this world begin to like Super Junior.
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FATE. This is the 11th of Orizuka’s novel. Fate is tell about a Korea family’s life in Indonesia. Jang Dae-Gwan, a success businessman, have two son named Jang Min-Ho and Jang Min-Hwan. Min-Ho is his legal son from hisa wife, temporarily, Min-Hwan is his son from a prostitute woman in Korea. Min-Ho and Min-Hwan separated during several years. Min-Hwan live in Korea with his mother.
Min-ho and Min-Hwan meets again after their father died. They come to their father;s house to listen about inheritance letter from Jang Dae-Gwan. The letter asked Min-Ho and Min-Hwan become a successor of their father company together. So. Min-Ho and Min-Hwan must go to university for business study. Min-Hwan have a persistent character since he drive away by Jang Dae-Gwan when he was child.
A bad relationship between Min-Ho and Min-Hwan getting well by Adena, a daughter of head servant in their house. In the beginning, Adena loves Min-Ho. She haven’t bravery to tell about her feeling to Min-Ho until she fall in love with Min-Hwan. The conflict comes when Min-Hwan find some letters from his mother to his father. That’s the true secret. Min-Hwan return to Korea because he feel beaten. The conflict calm again when Min-Ho and Adena follow Min-Hwan to Korea and they tell to Min-Hwan that they will considered Min-Hwan as their family.
The story line in this novel is interesting enough. But, the end of the story seems suspend.
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Yesterday, my father invited me to a bakso restaurant. At the moment, I just go down from the train and my father picked up me at the train station. I’m very hungry, so, he offered me to eat chicken porridge or bakso. I chose bakso because, I had already ate chicken porridge as my breakfast.
When I look some meat ball in my bowl, I remembered something. It’s called embarrassment moment. At the time, I still study in elementary school and I’m 8 years old. I remembered, at the moment, I’m very hungry and I want to eat bakso. I heard a sound of bowl that knocked with spoon in front of my house. I guessed that it must be bakso seller with carriage. So, I called my mother and pulled her hand to bought me a bowl of bakso.
When I went out with my mother, I only saw some children that brought a bowl and spoon. They screamed, “Bakso! Bakso!” with laughed. I can’t believed that I just cheated by the children. They saw me brought a bowl and they laughed directly. I feel embarrassed at the time. So, I ran away to my bedroom and cried. I never forget about the moment. Now, I just can smile and laugh when I remember it.
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June, 4th 2011 ia a bad and good day for me. Why I can say that? Because, on the day, my favourite Korean boyband, Super Junior, held on a concert in Senayan and I can’t watch it. Because of that, I decided to stalked them in Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. I hope, I can see them in there. At 9 a.m, I had already arrived in Blok M to meet some friends who want to go to airport, too. We ride from Blok M to airport with Damri bus.
At 11 a.m, we arrived in airport. We took a comfortable place behind the fence terminal 2 arrival. We waited one of Super Junior’s member, Lee Donghae, because he comes from Taiwan. So, he comes first at 1 p.m. when I bought bread and drink in a food shop in the airport, my friend called me and said that Lee Donghae was came. I ran away quckly out from the shop. On arriving there, I saw Lee Donghae wave his hand to his fans in there. He smiled so sweet. I screamed his name loudly. My body feel pliant after he get out from airport. I can’t believe that I just saw my favourite member of Super Junior.
But, it’s not long away. When I waited Super Junior’s arrival during 1 hour, a security told that Super Junior was arrived in Senayan. They passed terminal 1 for avoided their many fans in airport. I feel really sad. I just want to see their face, not to make them unlucky. Because of the day was dark, my friends and I decided to stay in airport till morning comes. Although my body was hurt, I never regret to do the same thing another day.
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Spring in London. It’s the fourth of Ilana Tan’s novel after Summer in Seoul, Autumn in Paris, and Winter in Tokyo. Several days ago, I bought it in Gramedia book store. The same as her another novels before, Spring in London tell about a woman and a man that meets by their past story.
Naomi Ishida is a model and she live in a flat with her friends in Lonodn. She meetes Danny Jo when they starring a music video of Jung Tae-Woo. Since meet at the first time, Naomi avoided Danny Jo. She always looked scrae when Danny approached her. However, it’s didn’t make Danny surrender, in the contrary, he more curious with Naomi. He want to know the reason of her avoided.
Danny Jo approached Naomi successfully. Naomi feel cpmfort when Danny stand beside her. Danny isn’t make Naomi scare again. But, Danny still didn’t find the reason why he make Naomi scare. The conflict comes when a friend of Danny’s bother meets Naomi in a party. He want to injure her with reminded her about Danny’s brother, Jo Seung-Ho. The secret revealed slowly. Jo Seung-Ho ever “soiled” Naomi in the past, until she feel that her body is dirty. So, she never want Danny approach her. Danny already know about the secret. But, because he was fall in love with Naomi, he didn’t keep away Naomi.
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Except singing, reading, and listening to music, I also have another hobby. That is cooking. I usually cook on the holidays. I do not cook by myself, my mother accompany me. She informs the food salty or not because sometimes, my tongue difficult to differentiating delicious or not the food I make.
I usually cook menus in the receipt book. I ever try to make “Kangkung Kuah Soun”. I practice it like in the receipt. I cut kangkung with its stem. Then, I shop the chicken. After all of the material clean, I peel some garlics and then chop it. I pour hot water to a bowl of soun noodle till it’s change withered.
I heat frying oil on the frying pan and then stir-fry the garlics. I pour the water on it. After the water boiled, I put the chicken and wait until the chicken cooked. After that, I put the kangkung and stir it. I adding salt, sugar, broth, and pepper on it. Before I off the gas stove, I put the soub boodle and then stir it. Now, the food ready to eat.
I make “Kangkung Kuah Soun” that means many times. My family never complain about tha taste. With the other words, my Kangkung Kuah Soun is always delicious.
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Train is one of public transportations. If you want a practical transportation to go to your destiny place, use train. Because, train have a cheap price. Rp. 1.500,00 until Rp. 8.000,00. There are some kind of train. Economic Langsam, Economic KRL, AC KARL, and Express. I usually used economic KRL which is priced Rp, 1.500,00 to went to my college everyday. Economic KRL stopped in each train station and the last stop is in Tanah Abang. Because of my college is in Ciputat, so, I went down on Pondok ranji train station and then I use a public car to in front of my college.
Before I use train to go to my college, I use public car first. The price is Rp. 7.000,00 from my house. I feel that it’s very decrease my money because I must use the public car, go ang leave. It means, I must spend my money Rp. 14.000,00 everyday. That is the reason why I prefer to use train than public car to go to the college. It’s because of the price.
Except that, use train is also practical. Both from the price side and time. If I went to my college needs almost 2 hours with public car, I just needs 45 minutes with train. This is so help me to spend the time efficiently on the road. Although, I must jostle to the passengers another sometimes, I still prefer to use train if I went to the college and other destinies.
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Television is a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens. At the beginning, television’s screen have black and white. But, along with development of period, television have many changes. Now, we can see many kind of television’s type, from the slim type until television that is can use like DVD player and computer.
There are some program on television, for example, sinetron, quiz, music, and many more. Some of thet was showed didn’t fix with the time. Like sinetron, some of tv station in Indonesia showed its after 6 p.m. it should be don’t. there are many still children do not sleep yet at that time. And of course, if there are not another program for children on television, they will watching sinetron like their parent. That’s the reason why there are so many children have adult character before they are really adult.
It’s not only that, sinetron is also give “love knowledge” for children. Many kind of sinetron showed a love story. And of course, it’s very bad for children. Sinetron should be showed on the times when many children already sleep. Like Korea. Eventhough, in their dramas always there are kiss scene, they showed the drama only 2 days everyweek and showed when the children sleep. So, there are not children that watching drama.
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Last year, one of private television in Indonesia, RCTI, created a battlefield of talent seeking named Indonesian Idol 2010. This program is adapted by American Idol. This is a battlefield for singing. The winner will receive a hundred million and a car from the sponsor.
According to support from my family and my friends, I decided to followed the contest. They valued that I have a good voice. After I put in a list as the finalist by wesite of In donesian Idol, I decided to went to audition place in Integrity Convention Center, Kemayoran. At the moment, I just want to know the route in order I do not lose on the audition day. I invited my friend, Laili, to accompanied me, because she’s afraid would arrived in her house in the evening, so, she just accompanied me until Senen.
After I separated with Laili in Senen, I tried to went to ICC by myself. I rode a metromini and asked the driver to stopped the bus in Mega Glodok Kemayoran. But, the driver just to pointed at the building without stopped the bus, so, I went down in the last bus stop. Finally, I must rode a metromini again to ICC. On arriving there, I asked a taxi driver where is ICC. After that, I entered Mega Glodok Mall and found the audition place.
On audition day, my parent didn’t gave their permission suddenly. They said that I must have friend to accompanied me because, Kemayoran is so far from my house. At last, I failed to followed the contest.
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