Interview: Aqiyasa Adiba

Adli        : Hi, Yasa. How are you?

Yasa       : I’m good

Adli        : How does your school in SMA 3?

Yasa       : I think not too good, because I am difficult to adapt

Adli        : Then, why did you go in school 3?

Yasa       : Actually my aim since elementary school is SMA 3. Suddenly, I want to enter SMA 8 when   I’m in 9 grades. But, because my path towards SMA 8 often jammed and my mom wish I enter to the SMA 3, so I try  to choose SMA 3. I tried to encourage myself with the value of  37,45, can't or not. Yeah, maybe that’s my destiny.

Adli        : You follow 'JEPRET'extracurricular, isn't it? What is the reason you get in 'JEPRET' extracurricular?

Yasa       : Of course because I love photography. A pleasure to perpetuate what is seen in the photograph and became a memory.

Adli        : Do you feel to be famous in instagram? Because you were quite a lot of followers.

Yasa       : Ah, no. That may be because I have had  instagram very old.

Adli        : But I know the results of your picture is good, that’s the reason you have a lot of followers.

Yasa       : Haha, such a joy to see people happy with my shoot results. Thank you.

Adli        : What do you want to do in high school?

Yasa       : My aim is only one, I want to make my parents happy.

Adli        : Yes, of course. Thank you for your time Yasa, happy to talk with you.

Yasa       : Yes, you are welcome

Bandung City Tour: Stone Garden

Stone Garden is a brand-new recommended place for photography that located in Kampung Giri Mulya, Desa Gunung Masigit, Kecamatan Cipatat, Kabupaten Bandung Barat. This location is above 700 mdpl.

Friday, 1th May 2015, my family and I went to Stone Garden. We were out at 8 am, and arrived at 10.30. From Gegerkalong, we come through Surya Sumantri, Pasteur Highway, and using exit toll Padalarang. We passed Kota Baru Parahyangan, and turned left to Bandung-Cianjur route. When we were passing Tagog, the traffic were little bit awful because there were traditional market in there.

In this trip, I saw many rock craftsmen selling marble, limestone, onyx, and many of these. Stone is a livelihood in there. I found Bandung’s traditional foods and handicrafts stores in Jalan Cipatat.

Rock Craftsmen

This picture is a signpost to the Stone Garden, and it is not as big as another sign so if you want to go there, you must open your eyes widely or you’ll miss it.

The First Signpost

After following the sign, we through country road, and it broke my back. Even this is a stone garden, but maybe we don’t have to through stony road too. In this awful trip, we found another sign to turn right and after that we moved forward. We can using car, motorcycle, or bike. But, if you want to walk and only using your foot, no one will hold up among you.

The Second Signpost

Finally, we arrived in the gate of Stone Garden. We bought ticket for parking, and for car it took Rp5.000. We parked our car, and felt the atmosphere of geological site. My broken back was healed by the fresh air in this place. But my mood felt down, because we should walk to the garden from the car because the place is huge, and we cannot using our car. After my back, this is my foot turn. 

Parking Ticket

In the garden, we can hired a tour guide who will tell you from A to Z about this place. Or maybe we can walk alone in this place, it’s up to you. 300 meters from the parking area, walking along the hill, and you’ll see a rest area, which there are toilet, kiosks, but there is no prayer room in there.

Toilet

Rest Area

Before entering the ‘really’ stone garden, you have to buy the ticket and fill the guest book first. It’s only Rp4000/person. And after we arrived the ticketing booth, we have to walk forward to the top of the hill. Exhausted.

Ticketing Booth

Visiting Hours

Well, at the end we arrived at the actual stone garden, without any track we should take. But, amazing scenery will make your body and your mind healthier. You can relief all your problem in this beautifulness. Amazing place that teach us history, geology, and selfie with family and friends.

And now, I want to tell you about the ancient story about this place. This Pasir Pawon Geopark is a place with various size of rock, little to huge rock. And archeologist said that they found many artefact and fossil of sea creatures.

Bassed on research, the KRBC (Kelompok Riset Cekungan Bandung) or a team of researcher of Bandung Geological structure conclude that this area was an ocean 30 million years ago, and after the ebb this area became a village of prehistoric man. And now, this researcher lab became a tourist place with a ‘back to nature’ atmosphere.

This place is a birth of our beloved city, Bandung. This is a cluster of lakeside that made ancient Bandung Lake because the explosion of ancient Sunda mount.

There is an ancient cemetery of ancient figure who called “Eyang Ibu Doro Rangga Manik” and that grave have a powerful mystic things who people in there believe.

Ancient Cemetery

Ancient Cemetary

Me and My Mom at Stone Garden 

CAMPRT

“CAMPRT”, is an annual scout camping that made for all 10^th graders of SMA Negeri 3 Bandung. In this year, it held on 24^th March 2015 in Curug Layung, Kabupaten Bandung and took two days and one night.

A day before the camp, there was a technical meeting for talking about what we should do, what we should not do, what we should bring, and we were grouped by several team. The team is called ‘Sangga’ and there were about forty of girls and boys Sangga.

In that morning, my beloved friends and I gathered in our beloved school. We were attending opening ceremony and after that we entry Angkot and went to Curug Layung. I was the last one in the line for getting transport. Unfortunately, when everybody was leaving I should waiting for Angkot because we running out of it.  From school to the camp site is take one hour. It’s on a middle of forest and the trip was awful.

Finally, we arrived on the camp site. Even we were on the middle of nowhere, but that atmosphere, that scenery, we would never find it in any city. After we got off the car, we took our carriers, tent, and another things we bring. We must walk to our point with heavier things, and I was really exhausted.

Several tent were ready to use, and several team were get into it. But, my team haven’t do anything because the tent was with me and I left behind of them. We built the tent immediately and we’ve got free time before next activity.

The first thing I’ve got is first aid stuff. I learnt how learnt about bandage, learnt about how to treat people, and everything about what can I do as teenager in an accident. In the afternoon, there was a race about first aid, emergency stretchers, and another things. It was simulate of an accident. After that we were enjoying dinner, even we were doing all of it as long as we can but it’s yummy.

In the night, there was a campfire and we enjoyed that night. Every class gave their performance, such as sing a song, drama, a poem. We ended that day with a full of happiness.

The second day, we had nuggets and cornet for our breakfast. After that, we were going to explore the forest. Every each of group had a paper of code, and we should finish that. When we were trying to solve it, the rain comes and everybody using their raincoats. We walked along the track, and the route is so far.

We haven’t end the game, but the times up and we should back to home. We back to campsite and packing our belongings. After that, we were attending closing ceremony, and we get angkot and go home.

Animal Kingdom

HIPPOPOTAMUS

Scientific Classification

Class: Mammalia (Mammals)

Order: Artiodactyla

Family: Hippopotamidae

Genus: Hippopotamus

Species: amphibious

 

Quick Facts

Life span: Median life expectancy is 36 years

Gestation: 8 months

Number of young at birth: 1

Age of maturity: Females 5 to 6 years; males average 7 years

Size: 10.8 to 16.5 feet (3.3 to 5 meters) long

Size: Up to 5.2 feet (1.6 meters) tall at shoulders

Weight: Females average 3,000 pounds (1,400 kilograms); males are 3,500 to 9,920 pounds (1,600 to 4,500 kilograms)

Conservation Status

Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)

The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis orHexaprotodon liberiensis). The name comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse" (ἱπποπόταμος). After the elephant andrhinoceros, the common hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal and the heaviest extant artiodactyl.

Common hippos are recognizable by their barrel-shaped torsos, wide-opening mouths revealing large canine tusks, nearly hairless bodies, columnar-like legs and large size; adults average 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) and 1,300 kg (2,900 lb) for males and females respectively, making them the largest species of land mammal after the 3 species of elephants and the white and Indian rhinoceros. Despite its stocky shape and short legs, it is capable of running 30 km/h (19 mph) over short distances. The hippopotamus is a highly aggressive and unpredictable animal and is ranked among the most dangerous animals in Africa. Nevertheless, they are still threatened by habitat loss and poaching for their meat and ivory canine teeth.

The common hippopotamus is semiaquatic, inhabiting rivers, lakes and mangrove swamps, where territorial bulls preside over a stretch of river and groups of five to 30 females and young. During the day, they remain cool by staying in the water or mud; reproduction and childbirth both occur in water. They emerge at dusk to graze on grasses. While hippopotamuses rest near each other in the water, grazing is a solitary activity and hippos are not territorial on land.

Classification

A pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis).

The hippopotamus is the type genus of the family Hippopotamidae. The pygmy hippopotamus belongs to a different genus in Hippopotamidae, either Choeropsis orHexaprotodon. Hippopotamidae are sometimes known as hippopotamids. Sometimes, the subfamily Hippopotaminae is used. Further, some taxonomists group hippopotamuses and anthracotheres in the superfamily Anthracotheroidea. Hippopotamidae are classified along with other even-toed ungulates in the order Artiodactyla. Other artiodactyls include camels, cattle, deer and pigs, although hippopotamuses are not closely related to these groups.

Five subspecies of hippos have been described based on morphological differences in their skulls and geographical differences:

• H. a. amphibius – (the nominate subspecies) which stretched from Egypt, where they are now extinct, south up the Nile River toTanzania and Mozambique
• H. a. kiboko – in Kenya in the African Great Lakes region, and in Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Broader nasals and more hollowed interorbital region
• H. a. capensis – from Zambia to South Africa, most flattened skull of the subspecies
• H. a. tschadensis – throughout Western Africa to, as the name suggests, Chad, slightly shorter and wider face, with prominent orbits
• H. a. constrictus – in Angola, the southern Democratic Republic of Congo and Namibia, named for its deeper preorbital constriction

The suggested subspecies were never widely used or validated by field biologists; the described morphological differences were small enough that they could have resulted from simple variation in nonrepresentative samples. Genetic analyses have tested the existence of three of these putative subspecies. A study examining mitochondrial DNA from skin biopsies taken from 13 sampling locations, considered genetic diversity and structure among hippo populations across the continent. The authors found low, but significant, genetic differentiation among H. a. amphibius, H. a. capensis, and H. a. kiboko. Neither H. a. tschadensis nor H. a. constrictus has been tested.

Extinct species

Choeropsis madagascariensisskeleton with a modern hippopotamus skull.

Three species of Malagasy hippopotamus became extinct during the Holocene on Madagascar, one of them within the past 1,000 years. The Malagasy hippos were smaller than the modern hippopotamus, likely through the process of insular dwarfism. Fossil evidence indicates many Malagasy hippos were hunted by humans, a likely factor in their eventual extinction. Two species of hippopotamus, the European hippopotamus (H. antiquus) and H. gorgops, ranged throughout continental Europe and the British Isles. Both species became extinct before the last glaciation.

Behavior

A hippo out of water just after sunrise

With the exception of eating, most of hippopotamuses' lives – from childbirth, fighting with other hippos, to reproduction – occurs in the water. Hippos leave the water at dusk and travel inland, sometimes up to 10 km (6 mi), to graze on short grasses, their main source of food. They spend four to five hours grazing and can consume 68 kg (150 lb) of grass each night. Like almost any herbivore, they consume other plants if presented with them, but their diet in nature consists almost entirely of grass, with only minimal consumption of aquatic plants. Hippos are born with sterile intestines, and require bacteria obtained from their mothers' feces to digest vegetation. Hippos have (rarely) been filmed eating carrion, usually close to the water. There are other reports of meat-eating, and even cannibalism and predation. The stomach anatomy of a hippo is not suited to carnivory, and meat-eating is likely caused by aberrant behavior or nutritional stress.

Hippo defecation createsallochthonous deposits of organic matter along the river beds. These deposits have an unclear ecological function. Because of their size and their habit of taking the same paths to feed, hippos can have a significant impact on the land across which they walk, both by keeping the land clear of vegetation and depressing the ground. Over prolonged periods, hippos can divert the paths of swamps and channels.

Adult hippos move at speeds up to 8 km/h (5 mph) in water; typically resurfacing to breathe every three to five minutes. The young have to breathe every two to three minutes. The process of surfacing and breathing is automatic. A hippo sleeping underwater rises and breathes without waking. A hippo closes its nostrils when it submerges into the water. As with fish and turtles on a coral reef, hippos occasionally visit cleaning stations and signal, by opening their mouths wide, their readiness for being cleaned of parasites by certain species of fishes. This is an example of mutualism in which the hippo benefits from the cleaning, while the fish receive food.

FUN FACTS

• When agitated, a hippo can charge at up to 14 miles per hour (30 kilometers per hour) on land.
• The hippo is similar in size to the white rhinoceros.
• Hippos can store two days' worth of grass in their stomachs and can go up to three weeks without eating.
• An adult hippo can hold its breath underwater for up to 30 minutes.
• In African rivers, hippos look like floating islands, with birds fishing from their backs.
• Turtles and even baby crocodiles have been seen sunning themselves on hippos.
• A group of hippos is sometimes called a bloat, pod, or siege.
• Hippos have stiff whiskers above the upper lip and some fuzziness around their ears and on their tail.
• Several fish species in Africa can keep busy feeding on the food remnants and dead skin cells found on the hippo’s skin.
• Hippos are much faster than they appear, reaching speeds of 20 mph (32 kph) on land and also moving quickly in the water.
• Hippos vocalize on both land and in the water and are the only mammals that make amphibious calls.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus

http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/hippo

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/hippopotamus/

Song

"Stand Up For Love"

[Beyonce]

There are times I find it hard to sleep at night

We are living through such troubled times

And every child that reaches out for someone to hold

For one moment they become my own

And how can I pretend that I don’t know what’s going on?

When every second of every minute another soul is gone

And I believe that in my life I will see

An end to hopelessness

Of giving up

Of suffering

Then we all stand together this one time

Then no one will get left behind

And stand up for life

Stand up and hear me sing

Stand up for love

[Kelly]

I'm inspired and hopeful each and everyday

That's how I know that things are gonna change

So how can I pretend that I don’t know what’s going on?

When every second of every minute

Another soul is gone

And I believe that in my life I will see

An end to hopelessness

Of giving up

Of suffering

If we all stand together this one time

Then no one will get left behind

Stand up for life

Stand up for love

[Michelle]

And it all starts right here

And it starts right now

One person stand up

And the rest will follow

For all the forgotten

For all the unloved

I'm gonna sing this song

And I believe that in my life I will see

An end to hopelessness

Of giving up

Of suffering

If we all stand together this one time

Then no one will get left behind

Stand up for life [Kelly]

Stand up and sing [Michelle]

Stand up for love [Beyonce]

For love

For love

"Stand Up for Love" is a song by American recording group Destiny's Child from their first greatest hits album, #1's (2005).Columbia Records released it as the album's first single on September 27, 2005. The song was written by Amy Foster-Gillies and David Foster with the latter also serving as the producer along with Humberto Gatica. Musically, "Stand Up for Love" is a slow-tempoadult contemporary ballad inspired by poverty-stricken children and families. It was termed the 2005 World Children's Day Anthem and used in conjunction with McDonald's‍ '​ Ronald McDonald House Charities in order to raise awareness of that day.

Canadian musician David Foster was inspired to write "Stand Up for Love" for poverty-stricken children and families which receive funds from charitable organization.Destiny's Child group member Beyoncé acknowledged that they wanted to record the song for the people who help poor families.She further talked about the song, saying, "The kids we've met have no idea how much they've given us. We wanted to record this song for them, in hopes that people would hear their voice through ours." Michelle Williams further said the song was her "favorite" and went on to describe it as "one of the best songs that we've done collectively", emphasizing the vocal performance.

The song has been touted as the 2005 World Children's Day Anthem in conjunction with Ronald McDonald House Charities. It was used toraise awareness of that day; Destiny's Child were also global ambassadors for the 2005 program. In August, 2007, the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards (SPCS) requested that New Zealand radio stations play "Stand Up for Love" to reflect on child abuse after the Nia Glassie abuse case received widespread media attention. Similarly, organizations Sensible Sentencing Trust, Family First and For the Sake of Our Children Trust, asked radio stations to play the song during a three minute silence which was also requested by them.

The song was sent to rhythmic contemporary radio stations in the US on September 27, 2005 and was released as a 7-inch single the same day. It also impacted contemporary hit radio on October 3, 2005 in that country. "Stand Up for Love" became the group's last single together before their disbandment, as the second single from the compilation, "Check on It" was a solo song by Beyoncé featuring Slim Thug.

source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Standupforlove.jpg

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/destinyschild/standupforlove.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DavidFosterMar10.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_Up_for_Love