Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Descriptive Text- My Cutie Little Brother


I have a cute brother named Gilang. He is 7 years old now and in the 1st grade of an Elementary school. He is my second little brother.
        He is a cute little boy in black straight hair with fair complexioned skin. He also has chubby cheeks. The dimples in her cheeks make him even cuter. Then, he has a sharp nose and two beautiful eyes. For short I love the composition of his face. His body, although he is skinny but he likes eating so much. His favorite meal is sweet foods whatever it is. The most he likes is chocolate. One thing that makes me jealous is that, he likes eating but he cannot be fat.
        Another thing about him is that he is also a diligent student. He always does his homework at home with or without any help from me, or my parents. Whenever he asks for help to finish his homework, he becomes an enthusiastic one. He will not stop asking until he gets an answer that is really satisfied him. Besides being diligent, like other little boy, he also likes playing. Playing anything especially play station. He really likes playing it with my older little brother. Unfortunately, he often gets lose in game. He is often defeated by his brother (my first little brother). Then, whenever it happens, he will cry a moment. What he wants is that always to be a winner. Then, another thing is that he is a sensitive boy. Besides crying when he gets lost to win the game, he also becomes whine when we unconditionally say little crude words to him. When this happens, he will lock himself in his room for hours. And it needs a hard struggle for us to make him becomes normal again as usual.
        He is so closed to me. We often spend time together at home. I often take care of his eating schedule. I become his servant whenever at home, for short. But he is also my guardian for keeping me whenever there is a cat appears unconditionally at our home. Unlike me who do not like cat, he does not have any fear in many animals. He even has ever told me that he will have his own tiger when he becomes adult. What a weird thing it is?

        Well, that is all about my little brother.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Report Text - Tea




Tea is a kind of beverage that has an aromatic fragrance. It is originated in China since a long time ago as a medical drink. All tea is produced from a plant called Camellia sinensis. It has a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavor. It is usually served by blending it with boiled or hot water then adding sugar to give a sweet taste. Actually, tea is not always served in hot water, it is also can be served in cool water, it depends on someone’s taste. Furthermore, tea is also often served with some kind of snacks like cookies and cakes, and sometimes people just enjoy drinking it whenever evening comes, sometimes morning also.
Nowadays, tea becomes the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water. Instead of its benefits for health, people enjoy drinking tea because of its unique taste. Its benefits for health may count from its capability in making people feel calm, preventing obesity, cancer, liver, and others. Studies have shown from Glasgow University  that drinking green tea can prevent those kind of diseases mentioned, especially cancer.

There are also some kinds of tea like Jasmine tea, green tea, black tea, herbal tea, rose tea, chamomile tea, and others. Those kinds of tea are being  favorited by many  people now. In Japan, there is such kind of ceremony of drinking tea named Japanese Tea Party or sado. Another example, in Britain, British custom of drinking is also very famous until there is a song entitled “Everything stops for tea” because everything they do, whether they are still working or not, they will stop doing their work and start drinking tea.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Narrative Text The Legend of Sendang Coyo




Long time ago, in Grobogan ,here was a king named Prabu Anglingdarma from Malwapati Kingdom who had an ability to hear animals’ speaking. One day, he and his wife were sitting together, spending time doing chit chat. But suddenly, the king smiled because he heard a male lizard who flirted to female lizard. He heard that male lizard said he loved female lizard but she did not believe in him. Misunderstood, king’s wife considered that her husband smiled because he wanted to mock her softly. Moreover, the king did not want to tell the truth that he was smiling at the couple of lizard, not to his wife. but his wife forced him to tell, if not, she would burn herself right at that time. Then, because of his love toward his wife, he finally told her the truth that he could hear all animals’ speaking.
              After knowing that the king had such a unique ability, she insisted him to give the ability to her. But the king refused it because he had swore to the god that he would not tell anybody about his ability, moreover he also did not know how to transfer his ability to his wife. Unfortunately, his wife reacted too much. She said that he would burn herself if the king would not give her the ability. Because of his love, the king decided to burn himself together with his wife. His wife agreed.
              On the day given, Malwapati people were gathering to see their king and queen burning their body together in a vast yard, behind the palace. The queen jumped to the fire first. Then, it was king’s turn to jump, but suddenly he heard a goat mocking at him. “Oh how stupid our king is, just because of her love to his wife, he would do anything childish. Who would be able to lead this kingdom if the king itself does not have a logical thinking?” Right at that time, the king realized that he had done something stupid. Then he decided to take the water into the fire where his wife burned his body. But it was so difficult to get water, then with his strong power, he made a sendang, a place where water comes naturally to the surface from underground. Then he succeeded and his wife was safe.

              The next time he demanded his servant to take care of the sendang. His servant’s name was Gabusrowo. For the sendang, he spent forty days fasting to immortalize it. Because of it, his face turned bright from day to day. Then because his face turned bright as the light, this sendang is called as Sendang Coyo. Coyo itself means light, implied from the brightness face of Gabusrowo.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Spoof Text :A Smart Girl


When I was a little, I used to curious with anything about cooking. One day my beloved grand mother came. She was an expert cooker that made me think I could learn how to make a bowl of chicken soup from her. So I asked for help to her. She looked worried about me because I used to make a chaos whenever in the kitchen. I told her not to worry about me, I will be careful and kept the kitchen clean also would not make any chaos. I promised her and she believed. I felt relief.
              Then she told me about the ingredients needed. I prepared the things she mentioned. When everything was ready, she started to teach me how to make chicken soup. First was about putting vegetables in boiled water, then adding pieces of chicken, and so on. Because it would take a little bit long to wait the soup cooked, she left me for a while to watch TV. She turned the TV in a loud volume. I was alone in the kitchen and a few minutes later my grandma mentioned this unusual step. She told me to put Molto, a brand of cloth fragrance to the soup. I was startled, and said “Grandma, are you kidding me? Molto you said?” she answered “ Yeah, what’s the matter with that? It will make it tastes good, you know” I was so confused with this, since when Molto can be added in food?  Didn’t it will make us be poisoned? Then once again I asked her “Grandma, are you sure about this? Molto?” she answered in a little bit angry voice “just do what I said, I’m the expert.” Worried about making her angry, I did what she said, putting Molto into the soup.
              The soup was cooked, I served it in a large bowl then called her to observe my masterpiece. First she looked satisfied because I served it nicely, seemed like it would be delicious. Then I felt something strange in her face. Her nose whiffed near the soup. She asked me “Why do I smell perfume in this soup? What did you add?” then I answered fretfully “Molto, you told me to add Molto so I did, then what?” She was shocked, her eyes looked bigger than before. She said “ I told you to add Motto (a kind of MSG) not Molto. Oh my God, I was shocked too.


I think I need to see the doctor consulting about my ears. Oh no, but I think it was her fault to turn on the TV in a loud volume. Shame!

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