Meeting a star

On Saturday morning at 9:30, I was walking down Sunda Street, looking for a record store. A man stopped me and asked me the way to the Hyatt Hotel. I wasn't sure exactly where it was, but I walked with him to the end of Sunda Street. He was very friendly, and his face looked so familiar. Then I remembered where the Hyatt was and told him how to get there. He thanked me and tried to give me something. I thought it was money. I said 'no' at first, but he really wanted me to have it, so I took it.

I found the record store and listened to a few records. D' Masive had a new record that was number two in the top twenty. I decided to buy it. I looked in my bag for my wallet and found a piece of paper the man gave me. It was a photo. I was so surprised! He was a singer in D' Masive!

How to overcome nervousness

1.     Be prepared.

 If you have a presentation then study your notes and what you are about to say carefully before stepping up on stage. Doing this carefully and meticulously can remove a lot of nervousness. It may not always be fun. But being well prepared can be helpful not only to remove nervousness but also to ace the presentation or get the job.

2.     Ask yourself: What is the worst that could happen?

What is really the worst that could happen? How will it affect you in the long run? In many cases you’ll find that the answer boils down to: not really that much. It’s easy to get too wrapped up in what is about to happen and magnify the event and possible consequences in your mind until it seems like it’s a matter of life and death. It seldom is. Asking a few simple questions can put things into a healthier perspective and calm you down.

3.     Take 30 belly breaths.

.           Here’s how you go about it:

§  Sit in a relaxing position with your legs apart.

§  Put your hands on your stomach. Using your stomach breathe in slowly through your nose. If you are doing it right your stomach will expand and you’ll feel it with your hands.

§  Breathe out slowly through your nose and do it with some force so you feel your stomach pull slightly inwards towards your spine.

§  Breathe in and out 30 times. Take slow and deep breaths.

§  After you have taken 30 breaths and focused on counting them you should not only feel more relaxed and centred. Your body will also be able to continue breathing in this manner without you focusing on it. And that’s it. Continue with your normal day.

Taking some deeper breaths with your belly can also be useful if you start to feel nervous or unfocused during your interview/presentation/meeting.

4.     Visualize in a positive way.

Much of our time is spent habitually visualizing what may go wrong in a future situation. This can, of course, create a lot of nervousness. It can also give you the results you imagined – or feared – through self-fulfilling prophecies. If you think you’ll fail, then you are making it a whole lot harder for yourself to succeed.

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5.     Practise, practise, practise.

The more you practise, take action and put yourself in situations that may make you nervous the more confident you become. You have been there before, you know pretty much what will happen. So you feel more and more comfortable and less nervous.

6.     Realize that people don’t care that much about what you do.

One big source of nervousness is focusing too much on what people will think of you. And thinking that their criticism is always about you.

But people don’t think that much about what you do. You keep much of your attention from day to day on your problems, challenges and triumphs. And that’s exactly what the next guy/girl is doing too.

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7.     Stay in the present moment.

This one ties into the one about belly breathing. When you take those deep, powerful breaths and focus on doing that your mind seems to silence. Your projections of what may happen at the meeting or job interview die out. Nervousness comes from these negative projections of what may happen sometime in the future. Or from what happened in the past, perhaps from the last time you had a meeting or an interview. When you instead focus your attention on what’s happening now, now and… now the nervousness dies out too.

The Pink Panther 2

Directed by Harald Zwart

Reviewed by Hayatul Husna

           

            The Pink Panther 2 is an American comedy film directed by Harald Zward. This film takes place at the Vatican church, France, and America. The main character is Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He is a police officer and he usually takes other job from his superior as a detective. In this movie he keeps the pink panther when the thief whose tornado is coming. Tornado steals the historical things in many countries. That is why clouseau asked to keep the pink panther.

            Now, he teams up with a squad of International detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. They are Closeau, Inspector Pepperidge (Great Britain), Vicenzo (Italy), Kenji (an electronics specialist from Japan), and Sonia (Aishwarya Rai) (a researcher and criminology expert from India) Their mission: stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts. They plane to go to France to solve the case but clouseau refuse it. He said that the tornado is here so, I don’t need to go to France. But his superior does not care, he asked clouseau to go. Clouseau takes to go to airport with his partner Ponton. When he wants to leave suddenly he saw the news that the pink panther has been stolen too.

            The dream team began to solve the case by going to go to Rome to investigate Alonso Avellaneda who has a deal with tornado to claim his self to be a tornado. Nicole, the girl who loved by clouseau also comes with this investigation. At least he luckily lies to the dream team, in this investigation clouseau know that the real tornado is there but nobody believe him. They decide to continue the investigation in the night. When clouseau wants to solve the case by doing spy in a restaurant, unfortunately he looks Nicole having date with the man who joins dream team. Clouseau feels jealous he decides to stop the spying. He tries to separate Nicole and the man. At least he does the same thing like 3 months ago. The restaurant is burning done again.

            At the same time tornado steals pope’s ring in the Vatican church. In solving this case clouseau makes the foolish thing in the Vatican. People claim him as an idiot. And he is voted off from the team, no body care about that but Sonia does. Shortly, clouseau called to the office where he saw the tornado was killed himself. The dream team claim that tornado died by checking DNA. In that place is found the historical artifact that has been stolen by tornado but the pink panther not found. Tornado wrote the letter that he wants to keep pink panther because he likes it.

            In short, this movie is very good to watch. The combination of comedy, love, and adventure make it more interesting. So who is the real tornado? Does clouseau found him? What about Nicole? Will she comes back to clouseau? Watch it. 

           

One week at home

After final examination of 3^rd semester I spend about 1 week at my home. Having a short refreshing, I think I am kind of couch potato. I have no much duty at home I don’t know what I should do. Just watching, listening the music, eating, yeah just it when I in active day at college there are so many things that I done by me, And I have so many things too to fill my free time. I spent much meal at home. Meanwhile at the rent house sometimes I become a famine, there is no meal to eat at all.

Not only that I will talk to you, my brother Muhammad Yusuf who sit in 1^st grade at primary school always make me happy and he like making smile at my lips.

Corporal Punishment in Education

            Corporal punishment is the physical punishment by hitting, kicking and many others. In education this punishment is given to the student who does not obey the discipline. Nowadays most of the teachers give the corporal punishment for the student. This punishment is not good to be applied in education. It can cause many negatives effects; it can be explained by the following reasons.

            Corporal punishment can lower a child’s IQ. A study at the University of New Hampshire, released in 1998, found that corporal punishment apparently slows down their intellectual development. That is why this punishment is not good in education. The student who has high IQ and clever may become lower IQ and stupid student, there are too many student who can not increased their IQ because of this punishment. It also can hamper their creativity and imagination.

Corporal punishment can cause serious physical damage. We can find much news in the mass media that talk the about the student needing treatment for broken arm or injures on their skin. In this case we can conclude that the student is not safe with this punishment, in Washington sometimes the teacher hit or kick the student on their sex organ. So, this case is under human right, it doesn’t solve the problem but make new problems.

On the other hand, Walter William said that corporal punishment is a good tool for disciplining students.  Nowadays there are criminals done by the student in the school and out of school. This punishment is the wider solution to solve it, the student can not prevented by speaking and the other punishment. Corporal punishment can make the student afraid to do the mistake, it can be more effective.

              The second opponent is the corporal punishment can help save a child’s future. Oscar Goodman said “I also believe in a little bit of corporal punishment going back to the days of yore, where examples have to be shown.” For example the student who gets this punishment in the school she or he will not break the discipline but obey the discipline. The discipline student will be the success people in the future.

In short, corporal punishment is not good for student. Corporal punishment can help to save child’s future and it a good tool to discipline the student. Those are not good reasons for corporal punishment allowed to be applied in education. There are many ways to make the student discipline. Children do not need hitting but they need advising and motivation. The other way is by giving them the good example in their daily.

State university of Padang

            State University of Padang is the big university in Sumatra. It was built in 1954 before it named UNP it was IKIP Padang, Its mean UNP is become better and better year-to-year. Now UNP is one of most wanted university in Indonesia. The number of student who wants to study in UNP is increasing every year. Mr. Mawardi Z. Efendi said that in 2000 the total of UNP’s student are only 9000 persons and in 2011 the student of UNP increased to 35.000 persons.

            Students who studies in UNP are very intelligent people, survey in 2011 from 100 students it just taken 5 students. Some student said that studying in UNP is one of the prides; it’s not easy to study in UNP. In many competitions UNP is always being the winner for example, last year UNP got the winner in mathematic competition in Indonesia, also many student of UNP are invited to study abroad like, Salam Mairi the student of English department in UNP who is invited to study in Canada, and there are so many achievements that UNP have.

            UNP has seven faculties, FMIPA, FBS, FIK, FIS, FE, FIP, and FT. there are many achievements in each faculty. It has libraries, central library which located in front of FMIPA and the libraries in each faculty. It also has policlinic, BAAK, bank nagari, bank BRI, and next to bank BNI. In its administration use online system such as KRS online where student take their courses by log in this, paying the school fee it use system online too.

            Mr. Mawardi Z. Efendi said that in 18 latter the building of UNP will be changed to better building. Its mean UNP will become better than before. And the number of students who want to study in UNP will be increased more. The miniature of the buildings have been shown since 6 months ago, it          seem very elegant and better.

            In short, UNP which located in air tawar barat, Padang is getting better every year such as the number of the student, the quality of building, the ADM system, and in the other aspect. May be someday UNP will become the most wanted university in the world.

my self

            My name is Hayatul Husna, I was born on Sunday July 26^th, 1992. I come from a small family which lives in Paninggahan, Solok Regency. I have two sisters and one brother their names are Riska Mulyani, Suhervina, and Muhammad Yusuf. My sisters are studying in secondary school and my brother is studying in primary school. My mother is a housewife and my father is seller. Talking about myself, there are so many things that I will talk.

            Talking about my education, now I am studying in state university of Padang. I am majoring in English education. In 1998 -2004 I was studied at elementary school in my hometown SDN 03 Paninggahan, after that I was continued my study to Diniyyah boarding school in Bukittinggi for six years. In the middle of 2010 I graduated from there and I continue my study to state university of Padang until this time and I plan to be graduated from this university at the end of 2014 and I hope I can study at Ohio University to take master degree.

            Now let us talk about my appearance, I am 152 cm high and 96 ponds weigh. I have black eyes, brown skin, pointed nose; I always wear the veil, long shirt or T-shirt, and long skirt. I love to use back pack and flat shoes. I really don’t like to be messy; I am kind of tidy person in my appearance and everything in my life. My blood type is A, in science about blood is who has blood type A that means she or he very organized.

            Listening to music is one of my hobbies, I am a moody person but in listening music I never feel boring.  I like to do everything when I am in good mood, sometimes I get hot tempered to everyone when I am in bad mood. If I have a problem that makes me a little stress, I like to eat to lose my stress. Talking about eating and food I am a unique person who does not like to eat vegetables and fruits, it seems like my enemy, but now I am trying to love them. Another hobby is travelling, making a new friend, and hiking. I’ve made many achievements in hiking since 2004-2010, but now I leave it for many reasons.

            In short, I am not a very perfect person at all; I have many achievements also many weaknesses. But I never claimed myself is a bad person, I just try to be a good person in my life. I try to do everything as good as I can and try to be a pride of my family, my country, and my religion. That is it about me.