Inspiring Person

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14 1984, in New York. If you've never heard of him, he is the co-founder and the CEO of the famous and phenomenon social-networking website called "Facebook". He also one of the world's youngest billionaires.

A little bit about Mark, he was a student of Harvard University, one of the best university in the world. When he was student there, he had developed a reputation as the "Software Developer" on campus. It was at a time when he built a program which allowed users to compared the pictures of two female students on campus and every users can vote on whom they like the most, but this program was later got shut down by the school because it was deemed inappropriate. 

About Facebook, the purpose Mark created this site was just to made students of Harvard University to communicate and allowed the users to create their own profile which have photo and other  basic information of themselves and publish it so others can know about him. Mark created this site with his friends and called it "the Facebook" for the first time. After a while this site spread to other university and by the end of 2006, facebook  got over 4 million users world-widely.

Oh right, I forgot to mention that Mark dropped out from Harvard in pursuit of his dream to develop his company.

The things I like about him are: 

1. He didn't afraid to dropped out from school and follow his dream and he just confident to did this
2. He became a billionaire by his own effort. He didn't ask for his parents' gelp or other. He became success by his effort and his effort only
   

Amazing Place

Kuta Beach is located on the western side of the island's narrow isthmus and is considered Bali's most famous beach resort destination. Kuta Beach is also minutes away from the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban. The nearby resorts of Tuban, Legian and Seminyak are all within close walking distance. Once a simple, rustic and quiet fishing village, Kuta Beach has witnessed a transformation over the past years due to the rise of various accommodations, dining and shopping options. The rapid growth owes much to visitors, beachcombers and art lovers from the tourists. Expatriates also helped pioneer surfing in Kuta, as well.

Although a rather frenzied traffic scene has become commonplace here, Kuta Beach continues to attract thousands of visitors every year with its unique charm. During the peak season from July to August and the holiday season for Christmas and New Year, Kuta Beach is regularly fully-booked by travellers looking forward to a pleasant and affordable Bali escape.

Kuta in addition  to being the Sunset Site Number One, with its daily spectacular sunsets, it is also the centre of night life activities in Southern Bali and a shopping mecca, with its lines of shops, boutiques, and galleries.Restaurants line up the streets as well as the Bachfront,Hotels, ranging from a small, inexpensive homestay to a luxurious resort, will ready accomodate you. BALI BOMBING MEMORIAL After the first Bali Bombing in 2002 at Kuta, a permanent memorial was built on the site of the destroyed Paddy's Pub on Legian Street. (A new bar, named "Paddy's: Reloaded", was reopened further along Legian Street.) The memorial is made of intricately carved stone, set with a large marble plaque, which bears the names and nationalities of each of those killed. It is flanked by the national flags of the victims. The monument is well-maintained and illuminated at night. The memorial was dedicated on 12 October 2004, the second anniversary of the attack. The dedication included a Balinese Hindu ceremony and the opportunity for mourners to lay flowers and other offerings. The Australian ambassador and Indonesian officials attended the ceremony as most of the victims were Australians. The Balinese mark their commitment in a nine-day long event. After major cleansing ceremonies, establishing a memorial for the lost lives, and paying respect to those who left loved ones behind, the people of Kuta look forward to restoring Bali’s image through an event named "Kuta Karnival — A Celebration of Life”. The community event consists of traditional art performances such as Balinese Sunset Dances, sports on the beach as well as in the water for young and old plus rows and rows of culinary displays along the one kilometre of sandy beach. In line with the return of tourism to Kuta, Kuta Karnival has grown into a tourism promotional event with major coverage from television and newspapers from across the globe. Companies, embassies, Non-Government Organizations, associations and even individuals come forth to get involved in the various events such as a Balinese dance competition presented by a surf-wear company, an environment exhibition presented by an embassy, a fun cycle presented by a group of individuals, a seminar presented by an association and a parade on the streets presented by an NGO. Tourists and locals alike, more than ninety thousand people participates in the numerous events, year after year. A repeated tragedy in Bali in 2005 did not reduce the Kuta community’s determination to carry out this annual event. Kuta Karnival is conducted to commemorate and give respect to the victims of human violence and show the world the true spirit of local community survival despite terrorism attacks. Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuta http://www.bali-indonesia.com/kuta-beach/ http://id.indo.com/active/kuta.html

Inspirational Person

Steve Jobs, the American businessman and technology visionary who is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc, was born on February 24, 1955. His parents were two University of Wisconsin graduate students, Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian-born Abdulfattah Jandali. They were both unmarried at the time. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconsin when Steve was born, said he had no choice but to put the baby up for adoption because his girlfriend's family objected to their relationship.

The baby was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986). Later, when asked about his "adoptive parents," Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents." He stated in his authorized biography that they "were my parents 1,000%." Unknown to him, his biological parents would subsequently marry (December 1955), have a second child, novelist Mona Simpson, in 1957, and divorce in 1962.

The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Steve was five years old. The parents later adopted a daughter, Patti. Paul was a machinist for a company that made lasers, and taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his hands. The father showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family garage, demonstrating to his son how to take apart and rebuild electronics such as radios and televisions. As a result, Steve became interested in and developed a hobby of technical tinkering. Clara was an accountant who taught him to read before he went to school.

Jobs's youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. At Monta Loma Elementary school in Mountain View, he was a prankster whose fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school—a proposal his parents declined. Jobs then attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. During the following years Jobs met Bill Fernandez and Steve Wozniak, a computer whiz kid.

Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their son's higher education. Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy. He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple

In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, an electronics industry worker, founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it. They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer Mike Markkula.

Through Apple, Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.

Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated pancreatic cancer.

Courtesy of http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading-steve-jobs-biography.php#.U39kjNKSxIE

Summary of 'A Mouse Deer and Crocodiles'

 One day, when a mouse deer was scavenging for fruits he saw a tree full of delicious durians across the river. But there was a crocodile who was resting underneath the tree. The mouse deer won't go to the tree because he was scared that the crocodile would eat him. So he came out with a brilliant idea.
The mouse deer ask the leader of the crocodiles to line up and he will count the crocodile because tiger, the leader, wants to have a party and want to prepare so he have enough food for the party. The crocodile agreed and lined up to the other side of the river. And then the mouse deer counted them to the last crocodiles. After that, the mouse deer thanked the crocodiles because they helped him crossed the river safely.

Moral value: Think smart, if there is a will there is way. There will be something that keeps you away from what you want, but don't give up. Just think and think again, and than you will find a way that can lead you to your goal.

Journal of Dewa Athena

On February 15th 2014, I went to Dewa Athena's opening ceremony. Dewa Athena itself is a sport competition that made by OSIS SMAN 3 Bandung and the participates are all the student from all the classes. There are many sports in this competition. There are basketball, futsal, tarik tambang, ping-pong, relay race, and even a digital sport game.
Okay, now I'm going to tell you what I did on that day. First, I'm arrived at Lapangan Bali at 9 am. Yeah, I know I was late but the opening ceremony itself wasn't began until about 30 minutes later. So i'm basically didn't come late haha. In the opening ceremony, there was a lot of people who gave speeches. The headmaster, Mister Dudi, the student's president, and many more. It was pretty boring so I didn't listen to what they said. I mean, who doesn't get bored to that kind of thing? Everyone does, including me haha. After the speeches finally stopped, than the games began. My class got the relay race for the first game and I picked to be one of the runners. They picked me because there were only few people who were there. And so, the race begun. In the race, I got the first turn. When I was running to my teammate, suddenly my stick slipped and I dropped it. And because of that I had to picked it up again and of course I lost a lot of time there. By the time I gave the stick to my teammate, the other was already way ahead of me and in the end we lost the game. My teammate blamed me to be the one who screwed up and I agreed.
After that, because there was nothing left to do, I watched the other classes. I watched this basketball game that was so exicitng, the teams are evenly match and the scores were always catching up. I also watched my class played futsal, but only the girls. The scores with the opponent were same so there had to be penalty kicks. In the end, my class lost again. What a bad luck that day. But wish us lucky for the next games.

Pacific Salmon Migration

Pacific salmon species vary in terms of their life cycles. Some spend hardly any time in natal streams; some spend years. Some mature at two years of age; some mature at five. Some live for only a couple of years; others live for ten. And some, like Steelhead and Cutthroat, can even spawn more than once.

Despite all this variation, we can still make some general observations about the life stages of salmon.

All Pacific salmon are anadromous, which means they start in freshwater (streams, lakes, rivers, etc.), migrate to the ocean, then return “home” to spawn and die.

Adult spawners often journey for hundreds of miles to return to the waters their parents spawned in, and where they themselves were born.

If they make it back, eluding all sorts of obstacles, the males and females court, and ultimately breed. At the crucial moment, the male releases sperm and the female releases eggs ... at precisely the same time!

The eggs and sperm float in a fog of milt to the bottom of the stream or lake bed where the female has painstakingly prepared a “redd” (aka nest), which, covered with gravel, will hopefully protect the eggs until they are ready to hatch.

While new salmon are preparing to enter the world, their parents die (usually only days after spawning). Their bodies remain in the water or along the shore to decay and/or be eaten by other species. In this way they continue to nourish the environment around them.

This salmon has spawned and died in the Adams River. It will continue to contribute to the ecosystem around it.Photo: Adams River Salmon Society

Egg
Some of the thousands of eggs that the female has released will be successfully fertilized by the male’s sperm. The eggs begin their chance of life as salmon, though they are very fragile and many eggs will be destroyed. This is why habitat protection is so important to salmon stocks.

Chinook alevins hatching.

Inside the egg is an embryo and a yolk which feeds it. For a while, the embryo has enough oxygen inside the egg, but as it grows, it needs more. Finally it reaches the breaking point and struggles free of its egg shell, though not yet discarding its yolk. It is now an alevin.

Alevin
Alevins’ yolk sac contains sufficient nutrition for their early development. They remain under the gravel for protection against predators until their yolk sac is fully absorbed. It is virtually impossible to see alevin in the wild!

Salmon fry are little guys, and they’re favourite snacks for many predators. Photo: Adams River Salmon Society

Fry
Once it has absorbed its yolk, the alevin becomes afry. Small and vulnerable, fry spend a lot of their time avoiding predators. They head for dark pools in protected spots (e.g., behind logs) and dart out only to catch and eat any organic matter that comes their way. When they feel the urge, they begin their migration toward the ocean (see Species for the different migratory patterns that characterize each species).

Smolts
To manage the transition between freshwater and saltwater, salmon fry must go through a physical change known as smolting. Smolting begins in freshwater and sees the young salmon through the estuaries and into the ocean when it is time. Smolts have a silvery coating over their scales to camouflage them from predators and shield their bodies from fresh to saltwater.

This Adams River couple has achieved salmon’s life purpose: to come together to spawn. Photo: Adams River Salmon Society

Adults
Salmon enter the ocean as young, or juvenile, adults and leave it as mature adults, ready to spawn. The length of time salmon spend in saltwater depends on how old they were when they entered, their species, marine conditions, and other factors. Their travels in the ocean are similarly variable, and one of the least understood parts of their lives.

When they are sexually mature (see Species  for maturity patterns of different species), salmon obey their homing instinct and travel back to their natal streams to spawn. It is an arduous journey, and only the toughest and luckiest salmon complete it.

Posted by Kiley Turner on 9/18

And this is the life cycle of salmon itself

Courtesy of (http://www.thinksalmon.com/learn/life_cycle/salmon_life_cycle/)

Going Back to Bali

Yeah, for six months I had been missing this place and finally I went there, haha. I spent 3 weeks of my holiday there, even the official holiday that the school gave was just for 2 weeks but I don't care. Rules are made to be broken, right? I went to Bali on 17th December and came back to Bandung on 7th January. And now I will tell you about what I've done in Bali.

First week in Bali, I spent it with my family because I missed them so much. I went to my favorite restaurants and ate all the things that I couldn't find in Bandung. There's one restaurant that my brother and I missed very much, and it's called "Genteng Biru". It serves the most delicious grilled duck that I've ever tasted. We ate a whole duck alone because it was very delicious and we missed it so much and there was many more restaurant that I visited. And because of that, in the first week I gained about 3 kilograms. But it was okay because I will lose 3 kilograms when I come back to Bandung.

The second week, I spent it for "alone time". I went to many places alone and just enjoyed the view. I went to Kuta beach to see a beautiful sunset and it was so amazing. I've never seen a sunset that's so beautiful except in this place. Its view and the atmosphere just made me so relax and made me questioned myself WHY DID I EVER WANTED TO LEAVE THIS PLACE??!! hhe, just kidding. I'm sure Bandung also have many beautiful places, but I just haven't found them yet. Back to Bali, I also visited Sanur Beach to see sunrise and many other places that I forget. But unfortunately it was rainy, so I hadn't enjoy this week very much.

For the last week, I spent it with my old friends. This is my favorite time of the holiday. I met my friends and they were not the same person that I knew when they're still in junior high school. There is my friend, Bagus, who just got much taller than the last time I met him. When he was in junior high school, his height just about my ear and now I'm the one who just about his ear-height. Than there is my friend, Maotama, who just got heavier voice. But one still didn't changed, they're still my friends. I spent this week with my friends, we went futsal, we went karaoke, and many things more. We spent the new year's eve in my friends house. We just hanging around, played guitar and sing till our throat hurts, we talked about our school, and anything that were in our mind. We did it till 2 in the morning and we just didn't want to stop, but what can we do? Our parents called us to get home, so we ended that night. The last night in Bali, I had dinner with my friends. That night, all my best friends were there. And after we finished, they made me to pay the bill all by my own. They told that it was my last night before I go back to Bandung and I have to give them a treat, so yeah I literally got robbed that night.

And the day had came, the day that I have to leave Bali, the day that ended the holiday, the day that made me to leave my friends and family. Hehhh..... Well, it's nice to see you again Bali. Just wait till I come back and I will bring new stories that I've made in Bandung. We'll meet again soon....