5 Wisdom

 

 

1. If you are right, then there is no need to get angry and if you are wrong then you don’t have any right to get angry.

[Jika Anda benar, maka Anda tidak perlu marah dan jika Anda salah, maka Anda tidak layak marah.]

2. Patience with family is love, patience with others is respect, patience with self is confidence.

[Sabar dengan keluarga, itu namanya cinta. Sabar dengan orang lain, itu namanya respek. Sabar dengan diri sendiri, itulah kepercayaan diri.]

3. Never think hard about past, It brings tears. Don’t think more about future, It brings fears. Live this moment with a smile, It brings cheers…

[Jangan berpikir terlalu keras mengenai masa lalu, hal itu membawa air mata. Jangan pula berpikir terlalu banyak mengenai masa depan, hal itu membawa ketakutan. Hiduplah saat ini dengan senyuman, hal itu akan membawa sukacita.]

4. Every test in our life makes us bitter or better. Every problem comes to make us or break us. Choice is ours, whether we become victim or victorious.

[Setiap cobaan dalam hidup kita, bisa membuat kita lebih terpuruk atau lebih baik. Setiap masalah datang untuk membuat kita lebih berprestasi, atau hancur sama sekali. Pilihan ada di tangan kita, untuk menjadi seorang pecundang atau pemenang]

5. Search a beautiful heart, not a beautiful face. Beautiful things are not always good, but good things are always beautiful.

[Temukan hati yang indah/tulus, bukan wajah yang rupawan. Hal-hal yang indah tidak selalu baik, namun hal-hal yang baik selalu indah]

Reading?! Yes, it can be FUN.

Imagine yourself facing this square thing right in front of you. It is not that thick; it is just a bundle of papers. Yes, it can be your textbook or story book. Hesitating you open the first page, initiating to read, but then the urge to read is evaporating. The thought of reading itself seems tiring and boring let alone facing a thick-encyclopedic book. Well, pretty sure many of us feel that way towards reading, the reluctance of reading.

However, since we live in the so called “The Information Age”, reading is compulsory. So how do we tackle this problem? How to ease the reluctance and laziness to read? How to develop your desire to read? Well here I give you one tip that works really well for me. Believe it or not I was one of those people who used to think that reading is a waste of time, yet now I am all about reading and can’t get enough of reading for one day.

Looking back at my childhood experience, I would laugh at myself seeing myself with books, the same way as I see myself becoming a writer. I was not the type of the kids who liked to read even the story book type. But I do love comics, I enjoy them very very much. Reading comics is my limit of reading. Then, one day, my brother brought this story book with this really weird nerd boy on the cover. Yes, it was one of the Harry Potter books. He borrowed it from one of his friends and recommended me to read one too. I was like, “Hello! Like you don’t know me.” Can you imagine how thick it was for me?

Despite my reluctance of reading, yet I did read the novel. The first start is always the hardest part. I was hesitant, turning the front and the back cover, and without realizing I had finished the whole book. With my surprise, I even enjoyed reading it. It took me to another world, the world where magic and wizards existed. It stimulated my crave for imagination, exploration and adventure and started wandering in the new world. I was absorbed into this new enjoyment. I like the sensation I had from reading, my imagination and being able to mind-wander/travel. Since then, I began to like reading and reading more and more books, especially novels.

Learning from the experience, I realized one of the ways to develop our interest in reading. It is the “fun”. Pick yourself a story book with a topic or a genre you like. Just a light reading for fun and pleasure. Do not stress yourself reading the “heavy” one for a start. Then, let your imagination wander as you explore your “new world” while reading. Imagine yourself being on the spaceship, exploring the new galaxy and meeting new creatures. Enjoy your own adventure. The more you practice this, the more you get used to yourself with reading. And perhaps at the end, reading might be your new hobby and it might not seem that tiring and boring anymore.

I know the saying “easy said than done”, but if you never really try it, how will you know? Do not limit yourself with assumption and perception that block you to be better, to a new adventure. Give it a try and a practice. Should you later fail at first attempt on trying your reading, giving the second try won’t hurt you. So are you ready to start your adventure?

Happy reading, guys.

HELLO ALGEBRA!! :)

Hello ALGEBRA..!!

What can you get from your parents?

There are so many possible answers for this question. some may answer “I can get many things, like monthly allowance, food, home, car, and any other facilities,” while others may answer, “Everything I want!!”

Okay, let’s move on to the next question…

What can you get from mathematics?

Hahaha….Can I guess?

The answers might vary from “headache”, “stress”, “boring”, and other negative answers.

However, believe it or not…. Math is an amazing subject in our school. Why???

It is because …..

MATH IS EVERYTHING IN OUR DAILY LIFE

Now, we will see how close our life with math, especially ALGEBRA..

So..HELLO ALGEBRA..!!

Do you like playing football?

Do you like playing ANGRY BIRDS?

If yes, please say thanks to ALGEBRA and say to Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Musa al-khawarizmi.

WHO IS HE..?

He was the founder of algebra..

Although the term “algebra” is now in universal use, various other appellations were used by the Italian mathematicians during the Renaissance. Thus we find Paciolus calling it l’Arte Magiore; ditta dal vulgo la Regula de la Cosa over Alghebra e Almucabala. The name l’arte magiore, the greater art, is designed to distinguish it from l’arte minore, the lesser art, a term which he applied to the modern arithmetic. His second variant, la regula de la cosa, the rule of the thing or unknown quantity, appears to have been in common use in Italy, and the word cosa was preserved for several centuries in the forms coss or algebra, cossic or algebraic, cossist or algebraist. Other Italian writers termed it the Regula rei et census, the rule of the thing and the product, or the root and the square. The principle underlying this expression is probably to be found in the fact that it measured the limits of their attainments in algebra, for they were unable to solve equations of a higher degree than the quadratic or square.

(Melissa Snell: The History of Algebra, 1911 Encyclopedia)

So now, in our daily life where is the ALGEBRA?

Have u ever compared prices when you shop, rent something, save your money in bank deposit, or think how to hit all the pigs by only using less number of birds in our favorite game..?

If the answer is yes, that’s ALGEBRA..

ALGEBRA teaches us how to solve our problems with critical thinking and develop our problem solving skill. It helps us in our future.

Now for the less interesting stuff, when we finish school and start applying for jobs, our possible future employer may give us tests with some math problems. They want to know if we can use mathematical skills to solve the problems and they may include algebra – problems with variables. Most employers that pay well will not hire us unless we can solve algebra type problems to prove that we have logical and reasoning problem solving skills.

So, let’s be closer with ALGEBRA and it will give us more than a best score in MATH..

(picture source: David H.Bailey and Jonathan M. Borwein.Algebra Is Essential in a 21st Century Economy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-h-bailey/algebra-is-essential-in-a_b_1724338.html )