The Legend of Tanabata

Have you ever heard about the Summer Triangle? That's a Triangle that consist Deneb from Cygnus Constellation, Vega from Lyra Constellation, and Altair from Aquila Constellation.

So, there are many kinds of this story. The chinese's (Qixi), the greece's, and the japan's that i will told you 

Tanabata originated from a Chinese legend called Qixi and was brought to Japan in the 8th century. This is the story of two lovers. Princess Orihime, the seamstress, wove beautiful clothes by the heavenly river, represented by the Milky Way. Because Orihime worked so hard weaving beautiful clothes, she became sad and despaired of ever finding love. Her father, who was a God of the heavens, loved her dearly and arranged for her to meet Hikoboshi, the cow herder who lived on the other side of the Milky Way. The two fell in love instantly and married. Their love and devotion was so deep that Orihime stopped weaving and Hikoboshi allowed his cows to wander the heavens. 

Orihime’s father became angry and forbade the lovers to be together, but Orihime pleaded with him to allow them to stay. He loved his daughter, so he decreed that the two star-crossed lovers could meet once a year--on the 7th day of the 7th month if Orihime returned to her weaving. On the first day they were to be reunited, they found the river (Milky Way) to be too difficult to cross. Orihime became so despondent that a flock of magpies came and made a bridge for her. It is said that if it rains on Tanabata, the magpies will not come, and the two lovers must wait another year to be reunited, so Japanese always wish for good weather on Tanabata. There are many variations of this story, but this version is the most widely held. 

Source : http://www.japan-suite.com/blog/2014/7/6/tanabata-story-of-two-star-crossed-lovers

My School's Festival - MATSWAPATI

Matswapati is a festival held in my school. Matswapati was took a place in Saturday, September 27th 2014 on Bali Field, Bali Street. The festival was very fun, the concept is about Sundanese Culture.

The festival is started at 11.00 although we have to came at 06.00 because we opened a stand and we weren't done to decorating it. My stand's theme is ARJUNA. One of Javanese's story characters. My friend, Davy, was the mascot of my stand and dressed like Arjuna in order to be our mascot.

Before the festival began, we had a parade in ordered to advertising Matswapati to Bandung's people, started at Bali Street - Bandung Indah Plaza (BIP)  - Bali Street. It was fun bun sadly we didn't win the prize that the most attractive class won Rp 1,000,000!!. A very big prize for teens like us. After the parade, we watch some culture shows in Bali Street that scary enough to see. Then, we enter the Bali Field, and in next 1 hours the gate will open for public!! We are very excited about this.

My stand theme was about puzzle. There is  4 puzzle to solve in 3 minutes, including chess. There was a puzzle that very hard that no one can't solve :). Then my friends and me went to the canteen and bought foods and drinks, it was expensive you know :( i bought MILO, and my friends bought batagor, kur cubit. After we ate the food, we went to other class's stand and played in some stand. I had a secret that i'd played in a stand and i didn't pay for it :D (don't tell anybody okay? :s) and we watch the music shows. At night, there was a guest star, Glenn Fredly. He sang very good, and it was one of my best day ever! Thanks Matswapati :))

MY UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE

My Unforgettable Experience is when i go to Bali, My Family and I went to Bali in March 2013, for 3 Days and 2 Nights. We flew at 18.00 WIB and arrived at 21.30 WITA. Then someone picked up us at the airport, he is our tour leader, he is named Mr. Made John, called John. Then he take us to the hotel, the hotel name was Ibis Styles Hotel. Then he said that he will took us at 07.00 tomorrow. 

The next day, he takes us and we went to Tanah Lot and took many photos there, and then we went to GWK (Garuda Wisnu Kencana) and we had lunch there, although the food is not really nice. And after that, we go to Uluwatu, the view is very good, but sadly, my father's glasses was stolen by a monkey :(, then we went to Padang-Padang Beach (a new beach that just opened) we stay for a long time. Then we went to hotel because it's already dark.

Tomorrow, we went to Tanjung Benoa Beach. But sadly, we didn't play any games there, we just took many photos of my sister. Then we went to Jimbaran and watched the sunset that was VERY AMAZING! The food is very well, we watched a great sunset, what a day! After that we go to Krisna (Center of Gifts in Bali) and buy lots of gifts there.

The next day, we flew to Bandung. Bye bali! 

My Friend's Biography

My friend's name is Muhammad Faris Aslamahadi. He was born Desember 24, 1998 in Bandung. He's 175 cm and 95 kilos. He has 1 little brother named Farel. 

His hobbies are listening to music and making a music, the music he like to listening to is kind of slow rock, ED-M, and kind of Japanese music and something like that. He likes anime, manga, and kind of japanese stuff. He likes some computer stuff too, like programming, gaming and e-books. 

He came from Tunas Harapan Elementary School and 2 Junior High School, both in Bandung. Anyway he wants to have a college in Japan, Technology Institute of Japan in Tokyo in IT faculty, that's why he joins NK as his extracurriculer to learn japanese for his college. His favorite subject in school is mathematics, physics, and art.

His activity is like normal students in Indonesia. Wake up early in 3.30, and then take a bath, do a morning pray, and then have a breakfast and go to school in 5.45 by car. After get a lesson, in a break he often buy food in our canteen, bazaar. And when it is 12.00, he always go to the mushola and do a dzuhur pray. He often go to home after the lessons end by a public transportation, he goes home earlier than others because he don't want to get a worse traffic jam. In his home, he likes to sleep, play games, and do homework.

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Hi, My name is Dimas Laksana Yudharaputra, and you can call me dimas or dim. I was born in March 12, 2000 in Bandar Lampung. I went to Banjarsari Elementary School, 5 Junior High School Bandung and now I go to 3 Junior High School Bandung, and my extra curriculer is BC, S3PONG, SpeD, and MP3. I have 1 sister, she’s Digita Natarina Yudharaputri. She also go to school in 3 Junior High School. My parents are both a doctor, his and her name are Yudhaputra Tristanto and Gustiara Munir. I am 60 kilos and 165cm tall.

By the way, I want to be a diplomat, this was started when i thought that was cool to speak a language that no one didn’t understand what we were talking about. So i started to learn languages, but till now i don't have any languages that i can speak fluently to. My favorite language to learn is Spanish, because in spanish, the pronountiation is very similiar to indonesian. Why am i not join the language studies class in high school? Because my school don’t have any language studies class, there is only science studies class and social science in my school. Anyway my other hobbies is playing badminton, table tennis, and other racquet sports. My favorite athlete is Wang Lin, Lilyana Natsir and Zheng Bo (Badminton), Ding Ning, Wang Hao, and Ma Long (Table Tennis) and Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams (Tennis). Anyway my favorite subject is Physical Education, Mathematics, and kinds of language subject except Indonesian *don’t think i didn’t have any nasionalism, i just trying to be honest :p*. My favorite teacher in 5 Junior High School (because i didn’t know all of the teacher in high school because i’m new) is Mrs. Lia, Mrs. Kenros, and Mr. Bambang.

My favorite food is all about chicken and beef. My favorite drink is mineral water, tea and some kind of juice. I rarely eat fruit and vegetables because i am not really like them, and if i have to eat fruits/vegetables i usually eat carrot, spinach, grape, apple, lychee,and  pineapple.