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THE FIRST WELL

There once was a small kingdom around a lake. One very hot summer, it did

not rain and the lake dried up. People grew anxious and went to the King. “It

has not rained for so long. Our fields are barren!” said the farmers. “There

are no fish to catch. How shall we earn a living?” asked the fishermen. “Save

us from disaster, good King,” urged the women, as their children cried with

thirst. 

The King sent his four generals in all directions to look for water. The first

general went east, towards the sunrise; the second went south, to the dust

and heat; the third went west, where the sun sets; and the fourth followed

the North Star. 

They searched day and night, night and day; high and low they searched

everywhere, but in vain. Three of the generals returned, empty-handed. But

the general who had gone north was determined not to fail his King. At last,

he reached a cold mountain village. 

As he sat at the foot of the mountain, an old woman came by and sat next

to him. The general pointed at the horizon and said, “I belong to a beautiful

kingdom, where it has not rained for a whole year. Can you help me find

water?”

The woman motioned the general to follow her up the mountain and into a

cave. “We have no water in our country either,” she said. Then, pointing to

the icicles in the cave, she continued: “We call this ice. Take some, and your

kingdom will never go thirsty again.” The general broke off a huge piece,

loaded it onto his horse-cart and rushed back home. 

By the time he reached the court, the enormous icicle had melted into a small

lump of ice. Nobody in the court had ever seen ice, so everybody gazed at it

with wonder. “This must be a water-seed!” one of the ministers exclaimed

suddenly. The King ordered the ‘water-seed’ to be sowed immediately.

While the farmers dug a hole, the lump dwindled in the sun. They swiftly

placed the seed in the hole, but before they could cover it up, it had vanished.

The farmers there grew confused and worried. They dug deeper and deeper

into the earth, all night long, looking for the mysterious seed. 

At the break of dawn, the King found the farmers fast asleep around a hole.

Curious, he peeped in and cried out in amazement: “Wake up, my worthy

men – the water-seed has sprouted! There’s water in the hole!” This is how

the first well was created.

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AMAZING STUCTURE

LLOYD'S BUILDING

Hi guys, I want to tell you about one of amazing structure in this world. I am sure that you will be stunned to see this stucture. That Amazing stucture is LLOYD'S BUILDING!!! Let me tell you about Lloyd's building, REMEMBER I never visit Lloyd's building, so, many infomation about Lloyd's building that I will give to you are from internet. Before I tell you about Lloyd's building, I want to say thankyou to Internet , THANKYOU INTERNET <3<3,<3.

The Lloyd's building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of London. The building is a leading example of radical Bowellism architecture in which the services for the building, such as ducts and lifts, are located on the exterior to maximise space in the interior.

Twenty-five years after completion in 1986, the building received Grade I listing in 2011; it was the youngest structure ever to obtain this status. It is said by English Heritage to be "universally recognised as one of the key buildings of the modern epoch."

The first Lloyd's building (address 12 Leadenhall Street) had been built on this site in 1928. In 1958, due to expansion of the market, a new building was constructed across the road at 51 Lime Street (now the site of the Willis Building). Lloyd's now occupied the Heysham Building and the Cooper Building.

By the 1970s Lloyd's had again outgrown these two buildings and proposed to extend the Cooper Building. In 1978, the corporation ran an architectural competition which attracted designs from practices such as Foster Associates, Arup and I.M. Pei. Lloyd's commissioned Richard Rogers to redevelop the site, and the original 1928 building on the western corner of Lime and Leadenhall Streets was demolished to make way for the present one which was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 18 November 1986. The 1928 building's entrance at 12 Leadenhall Street was preserved and forms a rather incongruous attachment to the 1986 structure. Demolition of the 1958 building commenced in 2004 to make way for the 26-storey Willis Building.

The current Lloyd's building (address 1 Lime Street) was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986. Bovis was the management contractor. Like the Pompidou Centre in Paris (designed by Renzo Piano and Rogers), the building was innovative in having its services such as staircases, lifts, electrical power conduits and water pipes on the outside, leaving an uncluttered space inside. The 12 glass lifts were the first of their kind in the United Kingdom. Like the Pompidou Centre, the building was highly influenced by the work of Archigram in the 1950s and 1960s.

The building consists of three main towers and three service towers around a central, rectangular space. Its core is the large Underwriting Room on the ground floor, which houses the Lutine Bell within the Rostrum. The Underwriting Room (often simply called "the Room") is overlooked by galleries, forming a 60 metres (197 ft) high atrium lit naturally through a huge barrel-vaulted glass roof. The first four galleries open onto the atrium space, and are connected by escalators through the middle of the structure. The higher floors are glassed in and can only be reached via the exterior lifts.

The 11th floor houses the Committee Room, an 18th-century dining room designed for the 2nd Earl of Shelburne by Robert Adam in 1763; it was transferred piece by piece from the previous (1958) Lloyd's building across the road at 51 Lime Street.

The Lloyd's building is 88 metres (289 ft) to the roof, with 14 floors. On top of each service core stand the cleaning cranes, increasing the overall height to 95.10 metres (312 ft). Modular in plan, each floor can be altered by addition or removal of partitions and walls.

In 2008 the Twentieth Century Society called for the building to be Grade I listedand in 2011 it was granted this status. 

The building was previously owned by Dublin-based real estate firm Shelbourne Development Group, who purchased it in 2004 from a German investment bank. In July 2013 it was sold to the Chinese company Ping An Insurance in a £260 million deal. 

That’s all obout Lloyd's building , and thanks a lot to internet that have helped me tell about Lloyd's building. I am sorry if I make mistake of using english words, Thankyou for reading

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org)

Event at Matswapati

Jaipongan Performance at Matswapati

Guys!! Do you know Matswapati?? Matswapati is one event which was held by SMAN 3 Bandung. That event supossed for preserved indonesia's culture. There are Jaipongan performance, wayang performance, and others cultural performances. I stunned to see Jaipongan dance, so i am going to tell you about Jaipongan dance. 

Jaipongan is a dance that was born from the creativity of an artist from Bandung, Gugum Gumbira. He was inspired by the folk art one of them is Tilu Tap into treasury well know and recognize movement patterns that exist in traditional dance or Bajidoran Kliningan or Tap Tilu. So that he can develop a dance or art that is now known by the name Jaipongan.

The beginning of its history is In 1961, Indonesian President Sukarno challenged Indonesian musicians to revive the indigenous arts. The name jaipongan came from people mimicking of the sounds created by some of the drums in the ensemble. Audiences were often heard shouting jaipong after specific sections of rhythmic music were played. Jaipongan debuted in 1974 when Gugum Gumbira and his gamelan and dancers first performed in public.

Dance Jaipongan today can be called as one of the West Javanese dances, looks at important events arrival of guests from foreign countries who came to West Java, always welcomed with dance performances Jaipongan. Jaipongan dance this much influence on other art-art that is in West Java, both in art wayang, gamelan, and other Genjring has even collaborated with Modern dangdut.

Now, Indonesia’s young generation have fogotten their own culture, the popularity of Jaipongan has decreased. Therefore, Matswapati, cultural Festival which was held by SMAN 3 Bandung senior high school, showed Jaipong dance.

At 27 September 2014, The four dancer of Jaipongan from Jugala Raya studio was beautiful with good make up. They wore pink kebaya and samping batik, they danced skillfully. The other atribute which they used was sword. I didn’t really know what musical instrumen which accompanied them, but usually Jaipongan accompany with gamelan.

Many people took photo of their performance, included me. These are some photo.

Matswapati have us realize that Jaipong dance is not boring dance, but cool dance. I belive that someday Jaipong dance will be popular because us, Indonesia’s young generation.

Now is our time to preserve Jaipongan. We are Indonesia’s young generation, so if not us, who else? If not now, when? Spirit Indonesia!! I love you.

That’s all about Jaipongan performance at Matswapati. I am sorry if I make mistake of using english words, Thankyou for reading .

UNFORGETTABLE MOMENT

  PAGELARAN

The moment that I never forget is when Pagelaran at 9th grade. Pagelaran is one of the practice test of 5 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Bandung. Pagelaran filled with many performances, there are playing flute with several of 9-B squad (9-B is My class at 5 JHS Bandung), Ngawih (Sing a sundanese song), musical poetry, and many additional performances from several student who wanted to show off their talent.

Actually Pagelaran is not something that unforgettable moment but the process to show Pagelaran is very impressive for me.

I was the leader of that event, so I must manage that event to be able to run successfully. The duty to be a leader was a little difficult, I thought the part was very difficult was, when we had different opinion and it became dispute , but it’s okay, that’s life with many people, we must accept all opinion which was different from our opinion. 

Sometimes our spirit down, actually that was a big problem, spirit is very important for our performance, so if our spirit our down, it’s my duty to rise up my friend’s spirit.

Now the story begin, I am going to tell you about Pagelaran. It’s in the morning D-7 from pagelaran show, several teacher who taught Culture and Art, Indonesia Language and Literature, Sundanese, and ICT told us that the practice test of Culture and Art combined with Sundanese, Indonesian Language and Literature, and ICT. There were performances  that must be present, there were playing flute for Culture and Art score, Ngawih for Sundanese score, musical poetry for Indonesian Language and Literature score, and for ICT score was, made a video from pagelaran show and others practice lesson which didn’t present in pagelaran show.

Playing flute test, and Ngawih test didn’t require all student to play, just several who could play flute and ngawih show their performance gave all student score. For musical poetry test divided in some group, so all sudent must present their performance, and for made video divided in some group too, my group was three members, and we were alloted to make video music lessons practice test.

We practiced to prepare pagelaran show, everyday. At the time all teachers understood the condition that we would face practice test, so they always gave us free time, andthen we could practice when studying time. Usually we practice at Kartini park at 5 JHS, I love that moment, because that time I felt our friendship became solid, the practice was not running too serious, we enjoy the practice. I remember the part I couldn’t stop laughing when we made  a song for musical poetry, the lyrics that we made were funny. 

Besides we prepare our perfomances, we must decor our stage. Our design is, make  a big TV, so we as though showed in the TV.

We made TV at Rara’s place. Several boy bought materials for decoration, and the others made something which support decoration from available materials. The material of made TV were styrofoam, woods, and paint. Made a TV was not easy as I thought. The first we must cut styrofoam, andthen the styrofoam that have been cut,  taped on the wood(it’s still easy). When all have done, the TV often fall, several times we must change the stucture of TV until the TV could stay perfectly. AalhamduLillah when Pagelaran time, it could stay until Pagelaran finished.

The part when I couldn’t stop laughing when comedy performance from my friend, until now if i remember their jokes  I always laugh. Actually I miss that moment.

Pagelaran is the moment I never forget. Our hardworking and our laughing always remember till i become old, I miss you 9-B!. 

That’s all about my unforgettable. I am sorry if I make mistake of using english words, Thankyou for reading .

MY FRIEND

Maya Larasati

 

 I want to introduce my friend. Her name is Maya Larasati, everybody call her Maya, She was born on 4th March 1999, she is the only child of his parents.  Now, she studies at SMAN 3 Bandung, her previous school is at SMPN 5 Bandung, SD GIKI and TK GIKI. Her dream identic with artistic , yes, She want to be Designer interior or fashion designer or architec. She loves reading novel, her favorite novel are The Fault in our star by John Green and The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins besides novel, She likes reading Manga (Japanese comic). She enjoy watching cartoon and movie, her favorite movie are Tangled (Rapunzel) and Enchanted (Disney).

Maya has beautiful face, medium body size, and curly long black hair. Now, Maya is my classmate, specificly is my chairmate, Iam happy can be her chairmate, because, I sit with smart student, VERY SMART, she is recommended to be accel student, but she refuses that recommendation because  She wants at Senior High School 3 years. She also always became top 3 at class when She was at Junior High School.

She is very energetic girl, I think my class will feel silent if she doesn’t exist. She has big initiative to control a class, She has many idea to make something good, She has a huge laziness but if she does something She will do it perfectly.  now, she become a coordinator of “Danus (Dana usaha)”  for qurban 2014 at SMAN 3 Bandung. Maya is not only energetic but also funny, She makes some people laugh, so everybody loves her and will miss her jokes.

Now, I want to tell about Maya’s daily habbit. Maya wakes up at 5 o’clock every schoolday and goes to school at 6 am. Her breakfast menu usually bread and milk. She sometimes eats just at night or even She doesn’t eat at night. Like me, She has extra studying at course. At that course She learns Math, Physic, and Chemistry. She goes to a course every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday but She can goes to that course everytime when she has a homework or exam. She often do her homework at night because She feels more focus at night, that’s why she often sleepy.

Maya likes eating, and she loves so many food such as noodle, sushi, pizza and many other snack. Her favorite pizza is meat lover, and she loves going to sushi tei. Maya doesn’t like vegetables but She eats so much fruit, such as apple juice, banana, and papaya or sometimes, an orange melon.

When Maya in Junior high School her body is fat, but since She studies at SMAN 3 Bandung, many people(include me) said that she is become thin, maybe because so many task.

Guys, you won’t regret if you know Maya, you will be happy everyday because her jokes and her talents. 

That’s all about my friend, Maya. I am sorry if I make mistake of using english words, Thankyou for reading .