National Training…School…or…

Haduuuuh…..bingung…berdilema…..Pelatnas direncanakan pada tanggal 28 November – 11 Desember 2007 ini, tetapi menurut kabar, surat resmi baru bisa datang pada Senin, 25 November 2007, which means I will have just got a day for preparation JIKA….dan HANYA JIKA diundang mengikuti Pelatnas. Karena sampai saat ini status masih “Kelas-Tiga-Medali-Perunggu”….hemmm…..

Akhir-akhir ini kenapa pikiran tidak bisa fresh yah ? Adaaa aja yang dipikirin….mulai dari COCI kemaren yang selesai dengan hasil yang cukup…hemm…yahh….memalukan [memalukan karena sangat mungkin orang bakal bertanya-tanya...."Hasil COCI nya kayak gitu, kok anak ini bisa-bisanya yah, dapat perunggu ?!?!?"], sampai ke hal yang konyol seperti….yahh gitu dehh….dibilang menyenangkan ya iya….tapi kok ya agak mengkhawatirkan…..

Belom lagi urusan logo RSBI itu….rasanya gak mungkin bisa dicapai kata sepakat klo anak-anak dimintai pendapatnya….yang ini lah, itu lah, warnanya kurang begini lah, gak cocok gambarnya lah,…dst..dst…dst….sementara ada sebagian yang lebih parah tidak ikut menyumbang pemikiran, tapi nanti klo logonya sudah jadi, kritikan pedas nan tak membangun sama sekali meluncur dengan derasnya dan tanpa perasaan….

Kemaren abis ngomong-ngomong ngalor ngidul sama kak Dian, hemmm….banyak hal yang kita omongin, dari masalah buku [Kambing Jantan-nya Raditya Dika, sampe The Secret karya Rhonda Byrne] sampai ke masalah Pelatnas itu pula…..hemmm…..lumayan lah….plg ga pikiran jadi sedikit plong…..

TOKI 2008 National Training….School……or……

BNPC HS…..ikutan gak ya…

I have just seen the finalist of BNPC HS 2007 [Bina Nusantara Programming Contest for High School students]. This is the first time I make into the final but I am not happy because of it, even I am confuse, I am worried, what should I do ? Join the final or not….

Hemmm….about today….nothing special…today is a holiday, because SMADA’s teachers are having a TOEFL Test @school…
@09.00 a.m. I went to Sony’s house [as usual nebeng Gigih :D ], preparing for our aerobic test.

About tomorrow…maybe I will do the chemist presentation, hopefully everything goes well tomorrow….I have spent a whole life to prepare the flash presentation….

Finally this day is over…

Ho0o0oahmm….

Today is really a hard day for me. First of all, I have just got home @ 03.30 p.m. , had lunch, and then directly went to Mrs.Yulis’ home for chemistry course. The course finished @05.30 p.m., arrived at home, took a bath, and then directly went to EF…..and this where I got the ‘hard’ side….

When I arrived @EF, there was no one in my class. I was wondering where the other were when suddenly, there came….*jreng* *jreng* *jreng*….****…….
Firstly, he gave me some tricky riddles – something like, how could you drop in an egg 6 meters high without breaking the egg – it seemed to me that he hoped me not to be able to answer the question, everytime I got confused or took too much time to answer, he looked very happy….-_-”

I really hoped that the other students would come soon and helped me to get rid this monster.But, guess what….there was just one of them who came….so it was just two students and one teacher…..what the !?!??!?!
Actually it was not really burden me, but unfortunately, the girl [or woman ?] was too quiet – most probably because she was sleepy – so I was also just keep silent almost all the time, answering stupid and ridiculous question from the teacher…….

One hour and a half passed and finally, it’s over…..I got back home at nearly 09.00 p.m., then directly check my Speedy connection and found out that it had just been fixedthank God – I really could not imagine what would happen to my already-bad-mood-brain if I could not connect myself [my computer I mean] to the internet.

Hufff…so far, there are only a person who had read AND gave a comment for my post…..hemmm…..looking at my other friends’ attitudes, no wonder if there are still only one of them who read AND gave a comment…..

o0o yea, one more thing, today…there were 2 of my classmates who were online on www.lazzanight.co.nr AND wrote something in shoutbox…but guess what….they still did NOT make any post…..yahh…as usual…….no wonder….but still, it made my heart hurted…

www.lazzanight.co.nr VS blog – A tragic tragedy

Lazzanight…stands for “dua belaz science eight”, is my class nickname. It was officially formed when we were in our eleventh grade. Sony was the founder of this nick.

The nick itself was made, commonly because the need of having such a cool name to unite us, and particularly because, at that time, we were designing our class T-Shirt and were confuse about choosing a proper nickname for our class.

The fact is…the nick Lazzanight does not just end in our class T-Shirt, but it has grown more and more…even become a URL link which is floating somewhere in the cyber world of WWW [World Wide Web].

The idea for making a LaZzaNigHt forum was firstly pioneered by Bhakti who made a Lazzanight group in Friendster. Because Bhakti realized that she would be rarely online to maintain the group, Bhakti asked me if I wanted to organize that group. I said yes, and then I became the owner that group.
For the first time, I made a discussion board named Dear Diary. The usage for it was mainly an aid for Lazzanight’ers to share their feelings.

Unfortunately, the participation from the other LZ’ers was very low…most of them [who have FS acc.] did not have time to write for the thread…but it was quite reasonable, because the Friendster network itself is so lemot and lelet……
Next few weeks, the group had been so troubled, the thread Dear Diary could not be opened anymore !! I had tried every single possibility to recapture the data and store it on my computer as a backup….but the result was nothing…I even could not see the members list !!

Then, there came the idea to make a forum, a steady and rarely-troubled forum in which we could gather together in the cyber world and share our story to each other. Before I started to choose which board provider for the forum, I suddenly remembered that I did have ever registered a board forum in invisionfree. The forum itself was firstly made for my school’s alumni forum, but unfortunately, my school’s alumni are one step forward : they have had their own forum….so the board which I had already registered was left unattended. So, I decided to re design the board forum, from a school’s alumni forum became a class-website-like forum.

First of all, I removed all of the thread which was not suitable for my class and added some more threads like Dear Diary, DUDU, Newz, Rulez, and FAQ, and also Off Topics. I also altered the appearance of the forum, in order to beautifully done it, I tried hard to study and understand about CSS [cascading style sheet] script languages, after mastering some of the CSS syntax, I added a background and also a shoutbox for the forum.

With that kind of such an improved version from the FS Group, I had expected a great responses from my classmates, I expected that they would be actively helped to cheer the forum up, expected that they would be willing to AT LEAST READ the post I had made and understood the manner in a forum….
But…..it was all just turn into a wish…an ungranted wish….what have done was that they even did not ever read the rulez that I have made, they rarely [almost never] read the post which have been made by the others…..and even they ONLY registered and NEVER write anything…..[OK, that's the hiperbol...they did read the post made by the others, BUT it was just in a particular thread, and most of them, who rarely log in, were too lazy to read from the last post since their last visit.....they act as if the other threads/topics were just a complement and did not need a feedback....]

When I asked them why….why they were so uncare with their own class forum….why they were so uncare with THEIR OWN friend’s work, with me ?!?!?! They answer…..”we don’t have much time to write”….”the cost is too much”….”I am TOO LAZY to read your post, it is TOOOOOOO looong”…….
Those are what I got from my hard work from founding and maintaining my class forum….
Above all…..last Tuesday [Oct 30] our teacher gave us assignment to make a blog….and guess what….in less than a week, almost half of my classmates have made their blog PLUS a LOT…and I mean a LOT…writing in their blog…..they were willing to spend lots of their time….they had enough time to write SUCH A LOT of writing….they WERE willing to spend their cash for the internet…….

Wasn’t it so pathetic….wasn’t it SO disappointing….wasn’t it so TRAGIC…..????

They do NOT have enough time to write in their OWN class forum….BUT they DO have enough time to write SUCH A LOT of writing in their blog…just because the blog is a task from the teacher while the class forum is JUST their friend’s wish…

They do NOT have enough money to pay for the internet cost for visiting their OWN class forum….BUT they DO have enough money to pay for their blog task….just because the blog is a task from the teacher while the class forum is JUST their friend’s wish…

They do NOT have any desire to READ and give reply for the thread in their OWN class forum…BUT they DO have SUCH A HIGH MOTIVATION to learn how to make a blog, how to POST a writing, etc…..just because the blog is a task from the teacher while the class forum is JUST their friend’s wish…

The other very tragic plus so annoying event is when one of my friend talked AS IF they knew everything, AS IF he/she has participated and gave high contribution to their forum class, AS IF he/she was the only one who knew about the latest news…..

www.lazzanight.co.nr VS Blog……..A tragic tragedy……..

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IT Curriculum

My first post….

Could you imagine, what if your teacher asked you to make a blog and consider it as an assignment ? It was pathetic, wasn’t it ?
Guess what ? It happened to me…and my goal of making this blog was [unfortunately] blackened with that damn assignment.

I’m really concerned with the curriculum for ICT subjects here in my school. It is not arranged to give students an understanding about IT. It just [in my honest opinion], teach the students HOW to OPERATE computer, NOT the real essence of IT. No wonder if the students never have an IT-based-minded.

I think the very reason is because they use the computer as an OBJECT of that study itself, not as a SUBJECT to support the teaching process.

Let’s see, in Junior high school we learned about Microsoft Office AND we also learn it AGAIN in Senior High School…it was so time-wasting,isn’t it ? WHY ? Because I am sure that we will definitely forget what we have learned if we have never used it. Maybe you are disagree with my opinion, it is quite reasonable, because maybe you think, capable to operate Ms. Office is an important thing, and a must-have-skill for nowadays.
If you think so, could you imagine if we do NOT learn it at school BUT everytime we need to do a school assignment, we use that Ms. Office, e.g. using Ms.Word to do homework, Ms. Power Point for making a presentation, etc. I am SURE that we will be absolutely familiar and skilled to operate Ms. Office WITHOUT having to learn the theory, and even the most pathetic thing, having to face a THEORY test for it.

The other example [heard it from my friend]. His teacher got him to do an assignment. The assignment was that he had to print a picture which contained informations about all functions of the IE [Internet Explorer] tool bar. He had to draw a line for each tool and make a the corresponding function for it.
What a wasting-time and useless activity !! I mean, did it help us to understand how to use IE ? Did it help us for making us more familiar with IE ? Was it WORTH to DO ?? NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT !! If they wanted to make us familiar with IE, why didn’t they ask their students to search for their homework’s information from the internet ? By doing that, I am sure, without having to ask the students to write all of the functions of IE tool bar, they will absolutely know it by themselves. In this case, the computer is used as a SUBJECT, and not as an OBJECT.

If the school’s keep on using computer as an OBJECT, not as a SUBJECT, the ICT lesson in Senior High School will be absolutely useless.