Growing from Coccon

Dear Bloggy,

This is Mitha, oh I mean, the "blooming" Mitha typing to this blog. Today is the day, I have to start count the days left. Today is the day I have to value all of my days here, and reflects how I grateful I am. I'm thankful of what God given to me. Family and friends are great example how I don't want to leave them. Family builds a trust and secure to myself. They introduce a lot of new things to me. They got our back when we're troubled, eventhough we're not related biologically. Friends, introduce a social life, build peer understand, not just stereotypes.

Value is not how people give us a lot of pricy trust. Value is about accepting everything by saying grace to our God.

Life is never can be controlled. Life is always going through. Minutes, seconds, depends on how we treat life.

Innalillahi............

Jadi, semalem aku dapet kabar kalo kakaknya temenku kecelakaan gara gara Car Crash. Temenku ini termasuknya salah satu temen baikku. Rasanya lemes aja, walaupun aku gak kenal sama kakaknya, tetep aja aku ngerasain hal yang sama kayak temenku.

Berita kecelakaannya tersebar se-McHenry County, dan aku baru tahu, ternyata pacar kakaknya temenku meninggal di tempat, gara2 gak pake seat belt dan Airbagnya rusak. Menurut Northwest Herald, badan pacar kakaknya temenku kepental keluar mobil jeepnya.

Semoga kita semua selalu dilindungi oleh Allah SWT, dan selalu selamat dalam setiap perjalanan. Amiiiiiiin

I love you, Molly, Get well soon, Zach :)

That Awkward Moment............

You're laughing so hard,

No noise coming out,

So, you're clapping your hand like a retarded seal.

- 9gag.com-

REGIONALS

RE-GI-O-NALS

RE-GI-O-NALS

RE-GI-O-NALS

RE-GI-O-NALS

RE-GI-O-NALS

RE-GI-O-NALS

RE-GI-O-NALS

RE-GI-O-NALS

For you, sincerely, 10.000 miles worshipper

How to Love - Lil Wayne

You had a lot of crooks tryna steal your heart
Never really had luck, couldn’t never figure out
How to love
How to love

You had a lot of moments that didn’t last forever
Now you in the corner tryna put it together
How to love
How to love

For a second you were here
Now you over there?
Its hard not to stare,
The way you moving your body
Like you never had a love
Never had a love

When you was just a young’un your looks but so precious
But now your grown up
So fly its like a blessing but you can’t have a man look at you for 5 seconds
Without you being insecure
You never credit yourself so when you got older
It’s seems like you came back 10 times over
Now you’re, sitting here, in this damn corner
Looking through all your thoughts and looking over your shoulder

See you had a lot of crooks tryna steal your heart
Never really had luck, couldn’t never figure out
How to love
How to love

See you had a lot of moments that didn’t last forever
Now you in this corner tryna put it together
How to love
How to love

For a second you were here
Now you over there?
Its hard not to stare the way you moving your body
Like you never had a love
Had a love

You had a lot of dreams that transform to visions
The fact that you saw the world affected all your decisions
But it wasn’t your fault
Wasn’t in your intentions

You the one here talking to me
You don’t wanna listen
But I admire your poppin' bottles and dippin’
Just as much as you admire bar tending and stripping
Baby, so don’t be mad
Nobody else trippin'
You see a lot of crooks and the crooks still crooks

See You had a lot of crooks tryna steal your heart
Never really had luck, couldn’t never figure out
How to love
How to love

See you had a lot of moments that didn’t last forever
Now you in this corner tryna put it together
How to love
How to love

Oooh,
See I just want you to know
That you deserve the best
You’re beautiful
You’re beautiful
Yeah

And I want you to know, you’re far from the usual
Far from the usual

You see you had a lot of crooks tryna steal your heart
Never really had luck, couldn’t never figure out
How to love
How to love

See you had a lot of moments that didn’t last forever
Now you in this corner tryna put it together
How to love
How to love

See you had a lot of crooks tryna steal your heart
Never really had luck, couldn’t never figure out
How to love
How to love

See you had a lot of moments that didn’t last forever
Now you in this corner tryna put it together
How to love
How to love

Piece of Writing : The American Dream

This is another piece of writing within 30 minutes in my english class. Basically about America as a myth of melting pot. But, sort of a "group" in America is not merged into our society, or methaporally, is not including into the melting pot. Not going to mention who are they, but i know readers might take some guesses who are those "group". Again, this piece of writing is not going judge any types of people in America, these are thoughts and deliberations. Hopefully, no sexist and pejorative language and minimized as possible. Thanks !

The American Dream

America, in the past, present and future, has been a dream place to be. As an exchange student, being in America for one year, is a prodigious experience. Many people come to this country, to earn new things, new hopes, in order to gain a better life. This also happens towards the immigrants around the world, whom has a willingness to move to America, to get betterment in many aspect of lives.

In my opinion, it is hard to move to somewhere than we have never been before. We might feel how harsh that place could be and insecure. But this immigrants is not giving up easily, they sailed in so many days, because many centuries ago, they have not build any planes, and carry their hopes into an effort to obtain equality of rights. In past decades, there are many immigrants from European countries. Dictatorship and Communisms are diffused in their countries, and they lost their civil rights. They start to think, how could we continue our life, our children's life, our grandchildren's life or even our generations, in a place that they are not even gain what they supposed to get ? This idea, triggers massive migration to America, and with a hope of a better future.

Life has not been that easy for the immigrants. They are faced by harsh condition, they start from zero. Lucky, if they could get a job easily, but at that time, there are only a few numbers of factory, but it is already dominated by settled-civilians. So, they decided to start a job from their house. Agriculture sector is the common thing for the immigrants have done. Many italian and french immigrants grow apples, grape, wheat, etc, either consumed by themselves or sold it. Besides job issues, in the past decades, racial become a public issue. African immigrants come to America, but they are admitted as a slave, when they migrate to north after civil war in order to get a better life, people are still unacceptable towards their existence, it is because, they get another competitiors for job, which on that time, it is so hard to get. That is the root of racialisms happening in the past. Many public signs are conditioned for white americans, but they have different signs for African American. If I were positioned on that time, I would have felt so much pressure. I start to think, this is the place where I believe I get equality, but why it is still the same.

It is still hard until now, how we could abolish those issues. Because the younger generation will get the effects of it. In school, students start to stereotype each other, in society, people start to black-sheeping each other. This is not the most comfortable thing, they are in the same country, they are in the same citizenship, then why they have to judging each other ?

At the end, although I never experienced such thing that I have mentioned in my arguments, I still believe that people move to america, although for temporary, they believe, this country will give so many beneficials, in terms of education, entertainment and a life scope.

Last Team Dinner

So yesterday, I and My Girls went to Allison's house for having Last Team Dinner. Wait, Anyway, We're going to Regionalssssssssssssssssssssss ! I'm going to post about basketball stuff later :D

Jadi kemarin, mamanya Allison nyiapin 2 batch of Southern Style Fried Chicken, entah beliau beli di Popeyes/KFC atau bikin sendiri, tapi beneran deh itu Ayamnya enaaaaaaaaaaak banget ! Rasanya kangen makan ayam, habisnya lebih sering makan beef or a lots of cheese.

Mamanya Allison juga nyiapin mini cupcakes, mashed potato with gravy, veggie salads as well as fruit salads, gatorades, choco milks, water, and chocolate drops ! Gak tanggung tanggung deh, habis practicing, kita semua langsung ngambil 1 dada ayam yang paling gede dan 1 chicken wings.

Setelah selesai makan, kita basically went downstair, dan di rumah Al, basementnya asik banget ! Soccer table, table tennis, static bicycle, any kinds of musical instrument AND................KARAOKE ! Jadi 2 jam kita di basement, agak guilty juga makan ayam ampe 3, jadi lumayan buat bakar kalori, hehe.

So, next week we'll be having REGIONALS ! BOOOYAAAAAAAAAAAAA ! whoops, but today we have away game @ Kaneland HS. Wish us luck !

Teammies !

Setelah 31 Hari......

Setelah 31 hari pertama di tahun 2012.......

• Life is an adventure. Begitulah salah satu slogan iklan rokok ternama di Indonesia. Itulah yang bikin aku tertantang hidup ditempat yang completely different. Jalani hidup dan kegagalan bukanlah jaminan kalau kita bakalan mati di tempat. Sama seperti pas aku ganti hostfam, a piece of my heart uttered, " You're FAILED ! HA ! Go back to your country ! " Pffft, itu cuman omong kosong kalau kamu langsungmenyerah, pindah bukan berarti gagal. Coba deh diliat sisi positifnya, kamu bisa kenal lebih banyak orang, iya gak ?
• Udah mulai enjoy sama English III. Mungkin telat banget kalau baru suka sama English, tapi better than not at all, right ? Hmp, jujur ya ngeliat nilai anak anak exc stud yg ngambil English kok nilainya bagus bagus ya ? Haha, coba bersyukur dulu, Mith, akhirnya kamu bisa mencapai sesuatu yang tadinya kamu expect bakalan gagal. Yang penting sets a goal buat bulan ini dan lihat apa kamu bisa buat accomplished ? Jangan lihat orang lain dulu, coba, refleksiin ke diri sendiri,
• At least, bisa bikin temen temen ngakak. Bukan dilahirkan seseorang yang humoris sih, tapi seneng aja ngeliat wajah temen temen yang tadinya putih banget, tiba tiba langsung jadi pink gara2 gak kuat nahan ketawa. Itu jadi hiburan tersendiri, entah kenapa. On the other part of my heart uttered, " I can make a joke in English "
• Pity Procrastinator. Sekarang udah mulai belajar buat jadi organized people. Putting off something definitely drags someone become lazy, dan pengen berterimakasih banget sama School Agenda. Jujur banget, agenda itu SA-NGAT MEM-BAN-TU. Kesannya keren abis, kalau ada janji sama temen gitu langsung catet di Agenda, rather than just note down Homework, Quiz atau Test

- My lovely agenda -

• Mulai homesick. Bukan galau pengen pulang sih, malah kebalikannya, gak mau pulang, gak mau ninggalin keluarga dan temen temen disini. Semua orang ngasih kenangan tersendiri buat aku. Semua orang janji mau dateng ke Indonesia, dan aku janji di dalam hati kalau suatu hari nanti aku bakalan balik ke Amerika.
• Mulai Irit. Sejak ditolak independent travel ke NYC, entah kenapa jadi lebih irit. Hmm, mungkin gak ada korelasinya, tapi jujur pas november, pas lagi heboh hebohnya planning buat trip ke NYC, malah borosnya minta ampun, tapi sejak ditolak, entah kenapa jadi gak mood beli ini beli itu.
• Mulai sporty. Rada "goofy" sama point ini, tapi beneran, aku sadar, aku bukan sporty person, dan cenderung "cewek lemah". Agak dramatis sih, tapi aku aja disuruh angkat besi tanpa beban aja tangan ampe gemeteran saking gak kuatnya. Disuruh sit up pake 25 lbs beban juga suka ngeluh, pokoknya ngerasa semuanya gak bisa deh. Bangun bangun, badan linu semua. Darn you, sore body ! Tapi sekarang udah mulai kebiasa, dan ngerasa lebih seger eventually :D

Overall, banyak hal hal positif yang aku dapetin di awal bulan ini. Semoga banyak kebaikan yang datang, beserta tantangan kedepannya !

6th Hour, Health Occupation Class

Marengo Community High School

Sports

This is just personal reflections. Regarding to everybody's accomplishments. Still thinking that i have not put myself into a big effort, well, this is who I am, this is what I'd like to do. Not because I would like to waste my time here.

I'd like to say about my self. I take so many hard classes, no arts, no gym. I feel bad for myself. I'm feeling there is no balance in my life. I realized that I'm a study-oriented person. Frankly, my parents is not really emphazising me for doing sports or any other arts. My parents are not that typical of that person. So, after I've been observing, even the most genius student in this school, is in Football team and one of the starters. Great isn't it ? He said, " I got tired when I have to study more than 2 hours after I've been studying at school for 7 hours for doing the same thing I have to do after I got home " Well, true that, we need something different instead of studying.

In here, Parents are really enthusiastic when their children have a sports game. They bring their camera, they cheer and they support them as well. It's a personal excitement and pride to have their children play in the game, being a part of the team, eventhough rarely play !

I'd like to disagree when elder people say that, " Why you play sports ? It doesn't make any money to your future ! Go into your room and study for your National Exam and College's stuff ! " I was like, " What the heck ?! It's good for your body ! Your brain needs a rest and find another stuff to do ! "

Because i realized, here-not only in my school- I believe every school's sports' team in America must be practicing everyday, no matter they have a lot of homeworks, quizzes or tests. That was one of the reason I quitted from practicing Tennis on mondays and wednesdays when I was in middle school. I always complained, " It's because tennis, so my grades dropped ! "

*giggles* that's just a bullshit. People here practiced everyday and still keeps a good grade. So, I'd like to take the advantage when I'm doing Soccer next spring !

Please excuse my words, it does not really reflect that I'm an emotional person ( well, kinda.... ), This is just a personal opinion through observation and deep deliberation.

Have a great day and give a big warm to the first day of february !