The rain and its sins!

        Hey dude! What’s going on? Today I will tell you my deep reflection about rain. Ha-ha! Just kidding guys! Well, allow me to say that I like complaining. I complain about many things: my ex-girl friend, my bedroom, my friends, my future girl friend, and my underwear :-D. And I am doing a lot of complaints in this week, because the days are not good. The rain comes in the morning and evening; it makes me mad, for I have to go to my campus in the rainy day. Actually, the rain gives me some bad effects -the rain can make my body unhealthy, the speakers’ voice in the class unclear and my clothes wet- but it also gives good effects.

          This morning I got wet when I went to my campus. Well, I wore a raincoat, but it didn’t really help me; I still got wet. Getting wet on your clothes and wearing a wet underwear in the classroom were not really interesting, guys. Next, I sat on the chair and tried to listen my lecturer. Guess! What did happen? I could not really catch the subject, spoken by the teacher. The lecturer’s voice was unclear because of the rain. Yeah, I kept on pretend cool. Tried to convince the teacher that I knew what he said. But my mind said, “What the fucking bitch! I understand nothing”. After the class was over, I went to my nice boarding house. Another problem came. There was not any cloth leave. “Come on my blanket! You’re my clothes now.”

          I keep my complaint until I realize something; the rain helps many people. I think that some people really need it now. The trees before my boarding house and the small flower beside our house must be really need it. It also helps a new-married couple to be more romantic, doesn't it? Yeah they will not like to leave their bed :D So, everything has its own destiny. Let it be what The Lord wants. Keep praying guys :-p!

White, Yellow Flowers

Yellow flowers

On bad black leaves

I know you are yellow flowers

I am the bad black leaves

I never ever be flowers

And you will never ever be bad black leaves

So, let you be on me as yellow flowers

And I am the bad black leaves who never ever be flowers

but here with you, yellow flowers :-) 

Transfer of learning

This morning I made a reflection about a topic in PSIKOBEl class. It was about transfer of learning.

          I start my reflection about this topic by quoting this sentence, “No one is born with the ability to function competently as an adult in society” (page 39, handout). I made my own quote like this, “None of students is born with the ability to function competently as a teacher in the classroom”. The sentences tell me how important transfer of learning is. I will show you the importance of this topic from two points of view.

          First, as a student transfer of learning helps me to face problems in my daily life. When I want to ask some questions in my class discussion, I have to use what I have learned in the pronunciation class, the speaking class, the structure class, even the reading class. Does transfer learning only help me in the classroom? The answer is no. Two months ago I worked in an international taekwondo event that happened in Yogyakarta. I met with some people from Australia, USA, India, China, Korea and other countries. How could I help them if they needed my help? Yes, I had to speak English with them. See? What I have learned helps me in my life.

          Second, someday I will be a teacher. How can I teach my students and improve their study? I have to learn about the topic that I will give them. I have to give them feedback to improve their study. What I know about transfer of learning today will really helps me. This topic doesn’t only help me to cope with my daily problems; it also helps me to prepare my own future.

          I have also made a reflection about my study. I found that my study did not really improve. It seemed that my study stuck. What do I mean by word stuck? My scores in some classes were down to the earth. I cannot get progress in my study. My motivation to study declined. How could the problems happen? The problems happened because of lack of repeating, lack of understanding, lack of motivation, and lack of practicing.

          The four factors tend to block my study. If my studies do not improve, of course I cannot do transferring of my learning well. I go to my campus with lack of motivation; I only go because I am afraid of teachers. I fear whatever they will give me a bad score in their class. I sit in the classroom and have a day dreaming. I just memorized what teachers told without any repeating the topics. I could not transfer into practicing, because my understanding about the topics was not good.

          I have told you that I got problems with my study recently. It means that I also get problems to transfer what I have learned to practice or to study about other subjects recently. But that is not an excuse for me to stop study. I have made some plans to improve my study. There are some steps that I will do.

          First, I start from my motivation. Before I do studying and transfer what I have learned, I want to think about the reason why I go to the university, sit on my chair, and listen to the teacher. Yes, I have to motivate myself.

          Second, I will do repeating and try to understand the materials in the classroom. I want to add some sources to complete my understanding. I have to read some books that support my study. I think that it is not enough if I just take what teachers give me in the classroom. That is why I am in university, because I am mature enough to study.

          Third, I will do a lot of practicing. Practicing becomes important to help me understand more and to transfer what I have learned. Practicing can be very fun nowadays, for example chatting with an American via facebook to improve structure and vocabulary, talking face to face with an English person via Skype to improve pronunciation and listening, and even sharing about linguistic with teachers from Singapore by e-mail.

          Finally, I close my reflection with this quote; “if you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. -Dr. Maya Angelou. I hope that this reflection helps me to be a better person.

         

         

         

           

           

           

 

Bad Effects of Jogging

          Everyone knows that sports are very good for our health. One of sports that I like is jogging. Why? Because it is the cheapest sport that I know. You only have to get up in the morning, wear your shoes and jog. Besides, Jogging is also good for your heart. However I like jogging, I have interviewed some of my friends that usually jogged, and I found some bad effects of this sport.

            First, doing jogging too much will make you get injuries in your joints, including the ankle, knee, nip and lumbar vertebrate of the lower back. As we know that when we are jogging, the body pushes other body, such as knees. If the knees are not very good and weak, the knees will break slowly. Jogging also stresses the front region of the lower leg, commonly causing pain and connective tissue irritation that we refer to as shin-splits.

            Second, jogging is not good for people who have a weak heart. One day I asked my friend to join me doing jogging. He refused me; He said that he had a weak heart. He told me that his doctor warned him to pay attention to his heart. The doctor suggested him to do walking sport than jogging. I think the doctor is right. We know that when we jog, the heart will work hard. If the heart is not good, doing jogging will cause death. I also interviewed my friend, Brayan, who has a disease heart and appendicitis from his junior high school up to now. He talked many reasons that made him stop jogging. One of the reasons is because jogging is dangerous for his heart. He said that jogging made his feet and his knees sick. His doctor said that Jogging was also dangerous for his appendicitis. He stopped jogging in semester two, but he still likes to take a walk.

            Third, jogging is also bad for a woman. I read an interesting article from oleda.com. The article said that jogging could make organ’s women press against the bladder; latter it could cause incontinence and urinate too much. So, women who want to do jogging must be careful, if they want to save from getting incontinence and urinating too much.

            Finally, I want to say that before someone jogs, the effect of the jogging should be given attention. If we want to be health, we must be careful with our sport activities. Paul J. Meyer said “Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses, on your powers instead of your problems.” Hence, if jogging is not good for you, you can do other sports such as walking in the morning.