6 Alasan Belajar Bahasa Spanyol

"Si hablas a un hombre en un idioma que entiende, va a su mente. Si le hablas en su idioma, va a su corazón"

- Nelson Mandela

"If you talk to a man in a language he understand, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart"

Saya telah mempelajari bahasa Spanyol hampir selama 3 atau 4 bulan dan sejauh ini saya sudah memasuki level A2 yaitu level dimana saya dapat berkomunikasi tentang kehidupan sehari-hari dan juga dapat membaca koran dalam bahasa spanyol dengan pemahaman 40 hingga 60 % yg menurut saya pencapaian yg cukup luar biasa.

Selama proses belajar banyak orang yg bertanya mengapa saya tidak belajar bahasa Jerman saja, mengapa mesti Spanyol?

Tentara Jepang yg Hidup 29 Tahun di Pedalaman Hutan Filipina

Tadi saya baru saja membaca article menarik di "Today I Found out" yg mengisahkan kisah seorang tentara jepang yg hidup di pedalaman hutan Filipina tak sadar bahwa perang telah lama usai. Di bawah ini kisah selengkapnya (Text telah saya terjemahkan Ke indoneia)

Hiroo Onoda adalah warga Negara jepang yg dulunya bekerja di sebuah perusahaan perdagangan Cina. Saat ia berumur 20 tahun, ia terkena wajib militer dan kemudian di latih sebagai pengumpul intel dan prajurit perang gerilya kerajaan Jepang. Pada tanggal 26 desember 1944 ia  dan beberapa prajurit lainya di kirim ke pedalaman pulau subang Filipina untuk menjalankan misi yg di beri oleh Komandan nya, Mayor Taniguchi. Dalam misi nya ia dan prajurit lainya di perintahkan untuk mengumpul kan data inteligen dan sebisanya menghancurkan fasilitas tentara musuh yg ada di pulau tersebut. Mereka juga dilarang keras untuk melakukan bunuh diri dan menyerah ke pihak lawan walau apapun yg terjadi.

I’ve loved you from the first time I saw you

I’ve loved you from the first time I saw you. I was 15 the first time you walked passed me by, the way you walked, the way you spoke, they drove me totally insanely crazy. I was so scared of the way I felt.

I tried to to convince myself that it was just a gut feeling that would go and fade away as the time pass by, but I was wrong, I was completely wrong cuz the more I kept it inside for myself and pretended that I  don't give a dang, the stronger the feeling would be. I realized who I was, I was just no body in your eyes, I was just a pathetic loser whose heart keep asking for yours. God gave me two eyes to see so I won't bump or hit My legs against the table or a wall, He gave me two legs so that I won't walk limp, But why did he give me only one heart? why? it's cuz our hearts  are meant to be together you know.

Bridge English Club

Bridge English Club or what’s best known as “BEC” is a Local English club in Banda Aceh which has been in existence for nearly 2 years. It was first co founded by Zatin Abdulla, Dulce (an American woman who has an English course with the same name), and me for a place where Learners of English could go to and practice their English. During the first few months of its existence there were very few people who attended the club for it was not well known at first, but by the end of its first anniversary more and more people coming in and now we have more than 15 to 20 people in each meeting.

Thinking and Feeling

Thinking and Feeling refer to how people make decisions. Thinking people are objective and make decisions based on facts. They are ruled by their head instead of their heart. Thinking people judge situations and others based on logic. Whereas Feeling people are subjective and make decisions based on principles and values. They are ruled by their heart instead of their head. Feeling people judge situations and others based on feelings and extenuating circumstances. 

From the definitions above I believe thinking and feeling should go together. You can’t really chose one and leave the other out since they come as one package. For instance, if there were a world war three and you were drafted into military service and deployed to the front line where killing is just another part of life for soldiers, it’s either kill or be killed. When you do this on a daily basis it becomes natural and you don’t even think twice and blink when you carry out the killing. But one day you were ordered to take two young kids to the edge of a forest and ordered to execute them with single shots to the back of their head.

Tidying Up "Kitchen From Hell"

Hmm I thought I would share what's working for me to get my house clean. So once I got home from a small gathering at a friend’s house I went to the kitchen and I was kinda just like standing there for 10 minutes thinking of how messed up and disgusting my kitchen was. My roommate dirty clothes, kitchen appliances, fishing gears, loud speakers and some other stuff so strange and foreign I didn’t even know  what they were, it’s more like a shipwrecked rather than a kitchen. I totally hated it, I mean if I were the only one who lived in this house, I wouldn’t just throw them there, let them lying on the floor like that. I can’t remember of how many times I cleaned it up, but a few days afterward they would do the same thing over and over again I’m tired of  telling them not to do what they do. But it didn’t seem to work. I’ve got no idea what’s going on in their fuzzy mind.

Racism

Racism is still very well alive and kicking in community all throughout the world. No matter who you are, where you are from or what community you belong to, Racism exists and it slowly tears us apart. It is even more lethal and dangerous than any other diseases combined. There have been hundreds of wars on racism, Thousands of people were, are killed just because some races feel that they are more superior than the other races. They are attempting to promote the supremacy of their races by discriminating those whose races are different from their own. They feel the need to put other races aside just because they’re different.