Exam is Coming Soon!

Hi guys! How's school?? Some schools in Indonesia are having mid term test next week or in the next 3 weeks. For 12th graders, they are facing final exam in the next 2 weeks. The preparation for our exams is so important because we wanna get good marks, don't we? Although there are only Science, Math, Bahasa and English tested for mid term test in my school, I'm so lazy to prepare by making revision or at least reading the books haha. Ok, so I tell you that I'm not that diligent student who's so eager to get perfect marks for every subjects tested. For me, getting above 80 is a must, but getting perfect mark is a bonus because it depends on the preparation I do for my exam. Oh ya back to the topic! Since exam is coming soon, I'm giving you some tips for preparation before your exam:

1. Have enough time to study
We need to study some weeks before our exams or at least a week before. We usually plan to study a few weeks before but it turns out that we cram every materials a night before which is not effective. Look at the exam's schedule and start studying for the good marks! :D

2. Pay attention in class
You need to pay attention in class because sometimes a week before your exams the teacher will usually give some hints about your exam and you won't miss the hints to answer and study easily, will you?

3. Organize your study place
Make sure we have enough place to put our stuffs and our chairs comfortable :D

4. Make revision
Making revision is the laziest thing to do but it is so important. By writing the materials makes you memorise them as well.

5. Review the past exams
Reviewing the past exams helps us to get used the format of the questions, and - if you time yourself - can also be good practice for making sure you spend the right amount of time on each section.

6. Study in a group
We can ask the questions we don't understand and it highly possibles we can get new knowledge about the subjects because sometimes what we don't know is known by others.

7. Get enough sleep
As in the article bellow about the importance of sleeping, we need to get enough sleep so that we can concentrate while doing the exam.

8. Eat your breakfast
Breakfast is as important as sleep because you don't wanna be starving during the exams which decreases your concentration, do you?

9. Have your own stationary and ID card
Some schools use ID card as the identity to join the exam. For instance in my school, if we don't bring our student card, we'll only get the minimum score, 75. About the stationary, we need to have it our selves because we don't want to be suspected, do you?

10. Drink plenty of water
As a final tip, being well hydrated is important for our brains to work at its best. Let's drink during our revisions and on the exam day as well!

Good luck! :D

Let's Sleep Earlier!

Hola guys! As human, we do have some important habits that we cannot live without doing them such as eating, bathing, and sleeping. Everyday we do all those habits and there is the most important habit that we cannot leave. Yes, it is sleeping. Who doesn't like sleeping? For some people, sleeping is the most comfortable habit and so do I. Without sleeping, we cannot do our day normally because the lack of sleep causes bad effects for our day. We should have slept at least 7 hours per day but as a student, I do realise that ENOUGH SLEEP IS VERY IMPORTANT. I often sleep only 5 hours a day and it causes me sleepy at class. I have never been brave to sleep at class because I am scared I will be punished by the teacher hahaha. So here are some bad effects if we sleep less than 7 hours.

First, it caused less concentration. In 1997, the incidents in nuclear factories were caused by the sleepy workers. Research proves that the lack of sleep impacts our concentration and it increases the percentage of both traffic and work accidents.

Second, it causes stupidity. Believe it or not, it does. I was shocked at first while reading the second effect haha but you know, sleeping plays an important role in brain's activities in thinking and studying. The lack of sleeping can really prevent the cognitive process in many things. For instance it affects our alertness, concentration, ability to solve problems, and speed in responding.

Third, it increases the risk of heat attack. Actually, there are lots of heart illnesses that can be caused by the lack of sleep such as heart attack, high blood pressure, irregular heart rhythm, diabetes, even stroke. According to scientists' survey, there are 90% people with insomnia tend to have an unwell heart condition.

Fourth, it affects our skin because it makes our skins become yellowish, swollen eyes, panda's eyes, and even skin illnesses. When our body lacks of sleep, our cells are going to release stress hormone or so called cortisol. In a certain amount, this hormone is highly able to damage our collagen cells which are keeping our skins flexibility.

Fifth, it affects our memory. In 2009, America's and France's researches found that a work in our brain or called "sharp wive ripples" which is responsible to keep and strengthen our long-term memories. That "sharp wive ripples" is produced while we are sleeping. So the lesser time we sleep, the lesser memories we have, 

Sixth, it increases the risk of death. As we can see from the six effects above, it can be said that the lack of sleep increases the risk of death. Lots of small things we think are not important such as sleeping but you know it is very important. It has bad impact for our bodies and it can lead to death. Isn't it scary?

Seventh, it tends to increase our weights. A survey in 2004 said that people who sleep less than 6 hours per day have 30% more tendency of obesity than the ones who get enough sleep, 7-9 hours. It turns out while we are working in our sleeping hours, our appetites are getting bigger so that we feel hungry then eat. That condition also stimulates the needs to eat carbohydrate.

Aren't those 7 effects scared you?? To those who like to stay up until late at night, let's sleep earlier, guys! We should manage our times smartly so that we can get enough sleep every days. We need to let our body rest to gain new strength for the next great day! :D

#XAMyTripMyAdventure

Last month, I had a class trip to Lembang exacly in January 23th. It wasn't a part of school activity because my class had planned it by ourselves. If a class trip it must be with our home room teacher, mustn't it? The unique thing of my class trip was we went together with our history teacher even we called him Ayah Dion! Hahaha. Hola Ayahhh! (I bet you'll laugh or at least smile while reading "hola ayah" muehehe)
Not all of my class member joined the outing, only 22 of 36 students joined, 7 girls and 25 boys. Our ayah also invited his friend, Pa Agus & Pa Hendi to join the trip :D We began the trip from our school then directly headed to Gunung Batu(Mount Batu). In the top of Gunung Batu, we could se such amazing views of Lembang and Bandung. To reach the top of it, we needed walk quite far, through muddy road because of raining at the night, even we needed to climb! Haha. The funny thing was when we had to walk through the muddy road, my friend wore an expensive shoes and he didn't want his shoes to become dirty until he was carried by my another friend hahaha.
Unfortunately, there were lots of clouds above Bandung whereas it was said that the view of Bandung was the better than Lembang's. But the view of Lembang was worth enough to pay the tiredness of walking and climbing onto the top of the mount.

Before climbing to the top of the mount.

Wasn't the view beautiful?

Full squad!

The girls!

Our journey didn't end at Gunung Batu we also had another 2 destinations to go. Those were around Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI). We visited Education Museum and Isola Building. Education Museum's collections weren't that complete yet because it had just opened but we had so much fun there. We get lots of knowledge about education in Indonesia since the colonialism's era until now. Inside Education Museum, there was a side which was decorated like an old class. Isola Building was the last destination, we got some information about it. Having visited those places, we went home. Before going home, some of friends and I had an early dinner. It was such a great day with a bunch of great people. Going in a trip with our ayah gave us lots of information, and I was so amazed about how historic Bandung is. Looking forward for another trip with our ayah! muehehe

Ayah Dion :D

Inside the Education Museum

In front of Isola Building

#SYC2015

I had such an amazing trip to end 2015 and to start 2016. I joined SAAT Youth Camp or socalled SYC which was held in Malang in December 27th, 2015 - January 2nd, 2016. SYC was a camp for Christians Youth all around Indonesia. The camp was joined by almost 1000 participants from all around Indonesia. This 2015 camp had a theme, Winning Life's Battle tuning heart into God's wisdom through The Poetical Books. At first, I almost canceled to join this camp because my friend SUDDENLY HAD CANCELED A DAY BEFORE GOING THERE -_- If I had canceled to go, I'd have missed 4 great days.

With my church friends in front of SAAT

DAY 1
I had arrived in Malang before my church friends arrived because I had went to Bali first. I went to SAAT from Jatim Park 2 by taxi accompanied by my aunty and uncle. I arrived at SAAT at around 4pm and directly reregistered then went to my hostel room! Yay! Hehe. It was nice to stay at a dorm since I had never experienced it before. The opening ceremony was good and I did not know anyone at first. My church friends and I were divided into groups and I was the only one from GII(my church) in my group :') At the first night, we had our first session, Enjoyment Under The Sun. We continued by doing a group sharing and it was the time I knew each other in my group :D I was so happy that I could know lots of new people. I took a very late bath like at about 11pm HAHA I tried to sleep early but I could not! Hahaha because there were 3 friends, Michiko, Diana, and ci Anna, who were nice to talk with :D We talked like until 2am whereas we had another adventurous day on the next day.

Inside The Peter Wongso's Hall

The hostel

DAY 2
Day 2 was the last day of 2015, December 31st, 2015. It was the first time I was away from my parents during New Year's eve and New Year yet I was so grateful to be there because there are lots of brothers and sisters in Christ :) The second day was started by morning worship then continued by a session called "Life Under The Sun" which we had an outdoor activity, searching for Lady's Wisdom. There were 7 posts we needed to visit and ALMOST at all the posts my group lost. Wasn't it sad? BUTTTTTT...... GOD WAS SO GOOD! We won the game! Yay! We were the first group who found a "gold" although we did not found the real Lady's Wisdom. It was such a tiring morning and finally we could rest! In the afternoon, we had a session, God is too Wise to be Mistaken. At night there was a session, "A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance". After that session, each of the participants was free to go anywhere around SAAT to reflect on what God had done in 2015 and what our commitment in 2016. It was a blessed night where I could thank God for everything He had done in 2015. Since it was the last night of 2015, we had a New Year's Eve party while waiting for the New Year. There were lots of foods! Haha. At 1am, I had come to my room then slept! What a blessed day...

The Winner! :D

DAY 3
It was the first day of 2016 and the last night in SAAT. I was both happy and sad. The same as yesterday, the day was started by mornig worship. There was 4 sessions on the third day. The first one was "Buy The Truth, Get Wisdom". The second one was all about love, "The Gradeur of Love" bahahaha. Then in the afternoon we were divided into 2 sessions either From Addiction to Action, which was talking about pornography, or Socializing with(out) Social Media. I chose the Socializing with(out) Social Media since I was so addicted with my phone HAHA. The last session was A Parados of Vanity and in the end of the session there was an Altar Call :) Lots of youths knelt down and surrender their lives to God. It was another blessed night! Since the third day was the last night, my group had the very last sharing session. Because of the limited time, we could not have a long sharing session whereas personally, it was the most memorable night during 3 nights in SYC. We exchanged our social medias to still keep in touch and I was more than grateful to be there, to know new amazing friends in God. Oh, I also wrote letters for my group's mentor.

DAY 4
Last day in SAAT and I was so sad to leave my new friends. Last day was also a final day for the Art and Bible Competition. My church joined it and the won the second place, Congrats!!! In the closing ceremony, my group was called to the stage as the first winner! YAY! Before going back to each of our hometowns, we took the last proper photo haha. See you soon, Yehezkiel(my groups's name)! :) It was such a wonderful 4 days in SAAT. Look forward to join this year's! But...... hahahaha. I really recommend you to join SYC2016 which is gonna be held in December 27th - 31st, 2016.

Guess if you know which I am :p

Putting our Hearts in Bali, Indonesia

Hola! So this post must be before the Malang trip posted by Jasmine haha. You can check the Malang trip on the last 2 posts :D

I went to Bali a day before Christmas which meant I was gonna spend my Christmas in Bali. During Bali Trip, I only went there with my brother, aunties, uncles, and cousins. My parents didn't join the trip because they said they were tired haha. Actually we went to Bali because my cousin held a wedding thanksgiving in her house. I didn't even go to beach in Bali although I stayed around Kuta :')

DAY 1 (December 25th, 2015)
On Christmas Day, all the family went to church to celebrate it and I met my friends who lived in Bali. We had our lunch then we came back to the hotel waiting for another family, Jasmine's and ko Arip's family, to come. We had different ticket haha. Because I had never gone to flapjacks, the most famous pancakes and waffles house in Bali, I asked my aunt to go there. We ordered Christmas Edition Waffle. It was a combination of greentea-redvelvet waffles, 2 choices of gelato, oreo, nutella and choco stick. It just tasted so delicious :") Then at night we went to my cousin's for dinner :D After the dinner we played together and had so much fun!

DAY 2
Before going to my cousin's wedding thanksgiving, my another cousin and I went to Waterbom! I really enjoyed the time we spent there because it was more than fun :D In the afternoon we went to my cousin's. The next day, we only went shopping. Shopping and shopping all the time hahaha. We also often went like until 12am HAHA. At the 28th, we continued our journey to Malang by bus. You can check the Malang trip bellow this post! :)

 

Around 11.30am at Blue Ocean Kuta.

 

Last photos in Bali :)

#RaaNanaGiveAway

Hi guys! My best friend, Velicia, and I now do make a youtube video! Yayyy! hehehe. So the first video is when we were opening the #RaaNanaGiveAway. We made the video in Bahasa. Please do check it out! Channel: QuayleMoooo. Thankyou so much!!

Left Our Hearts in Malang, Indonesia

Hi guys! It's been a long time, right? Now I want to tell you about our trip to Malang, Jawa Timur, Indonesia.

Actually, we spent our vacation firstly in Bali, but just three days. And I think its not enough, really. Well, then we moved our feet to Malang by a boat in Gilimanuk. After one hour, we arrived in Banyuwangi, Jawa Timur. After that, we took a long sleep, maybe around six hours, continued our trip to Malang.

Gilimanuk, Bali, Indonesia

Okay, let's talk about the exciting one, like... our night in Batu Night Spectacular. I think it's a place like a night - themed park. Just like Ancol, but this is opens every night. 

(up) scary playground called "Histeria", that was sick,
but really fun too!

Our Squaddd!

These are our journey in Eye Trick Museum.

You guys surely know that this museum serves a lot of eye trick painting. With a good angle of shoot, you can make it like a real thing!

I mean, like a three dimension, or even four dimension.

cuz u know what to do with that big fat butt.

Okaaay that's enough for BNS todayyy.

I will post about Jawa Timur Park later, bcs my homework is really really made me mad, yea.