Moral Values

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    Since I have taught all the materials for the semester but we still got plenty of times before the exams week, we had movie screening recently. The movie I chose was Mean Girls, because I think Mean Girls is funny yet full of lessons that the students can learn about bullying. After watching it, I asked my students to write down the moral values that they could get from the movie. Most of them listed down things like responsibility and “You will not be happy by ruining someone’s life.”

    Their responses for the movie got me thinking about a lot of things. “You will not be happy by ruining someone’s life.” It made me think about karma. Do you believe in karma? In some ways, I do believe in it; in the other ways, I don’t. Just think about: if karma does exist, the world would be one big circle of hell.

    Suppose A hurts B in one way or another. Karma takes her role in a form of someone, let’s just call that someone as Z. Z hurts A. Then karma takes her role again in a form of someone else we call X. X hurts Z. And so on and so forth until it becomes a sick cycle carousel.

    There are times when it crosses my mind how easy it is to try and break someone’s heart because they’ve hurt me or talked bad about me behind my back. But is it worth it? Will it make me happy? Will it make me genuinely happy? Wouldn’t it be easier to just forgive and let go? Isn’t my life already perfect now?

    I should think about it whenever I feel that the world is unfair just because someone is talking bad about me. Hating is exhausting, ya know. How much time do you waste everyday just to think about someone who is not worth thinking?

    Stop it. Just stop it.


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    14 May 2013

    Covers of the Week: Fall at Your Feet

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    Months ago, I shared some of my favourite YouTube covers for Adele’s Someone Like You here. I need to tell you that I have this thing for YouTube covers. If we are friends on Facebook, you might have already known this as I often share some of them on my timeline. But tonight I told myself “What about making it a regular post on my blog?” Well then here it goes my first attempt on the Covers of the Week series. Hope I can stick with it. (You know me. I’ve had some series but none of them really stay.)

    So, there’s this one song in James Blunt’s live acoustic album Bedlam Sessions (or whatever it is called) entitled Fall at Your Feet. It wasn’t until recently that that song touched my heart and made me fall in love. I looked it up on Google and found out that the song was originally sung by Crowded House.


    I loved the original song much more than James Blunt’s version. That was until I found these awesome covers by other singers. I fell even more in love.





    What do you think? Do you like the song? Which cover do you like best?

    10 May 2013

    I Need to Sleep

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    I pulled an all nighter the night before my student teaching examination. I’m one badass procrastinator who managed to pull the preparations for the exam until only a few hours before the exam actually started. I ended up getting only two hours of sleep. However, there’s a price I have to pay for that decision. My sleeping schedule is screwed up now. In the next 10 minutes, I’ll be trying to fall asleep. Though I’m going to wake up in less than 3 hours because tonight is London derby time (The Blues versus Spurs).

    But srsly, I need to sleep.

    8 May 2013

    The Student Teaching Examination

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    I finally had my examination for the student teaching programme I am on this morning. I had been nervous and anxious all day yesterday, but the examination turned out to be far from what I had imagined. It went naturally; very, very naturally that for some moment I forgot that I was being observed by three observers. I chose the XI IPA 7 class to teach for the examination and the students were very supportive and helpful. I knew that I didn’t prepare for the examination too well, but they could get along with my weird lesson plan and I could perform quite well and did not become nervous at all. I should thank each one of my students and hug them very, very tightly!

    I should also thank A for being uber supportive and being there when I need something to rely on. Yesterday when I was feeling anxious, didn’t want to go home, and decided to stay in McDonald’s for hours after dark, he came over and accompanied me there. He also helped me with a teaching media. He even came to my school this morning to bring me some stuffs I had forgotten to buy yesterday. He’s the best thing that’s ever come into my life. I’m such a lucky girl.

    The last person I should thank is Velentina. She’s been very helpful during the programme and the examination. In fact, she’s always been very helpful all these years we spend as college students. We’re like partners in crime when it comes to procrastinating and pulling an all nighter as its consequence. Haha!

    I love you guys 🙂

    7 May 2013

    Bye Bye, April!

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    Wow. I can’t believe tomorrow is the fifth month in 2013 already. Time goes by really fast, doesn’t it? And when I checked this blog, it turns out that I only wrote 8 posts this month (or 9 with this one). I’ve become a bad blogger and I’m getting worse each day. I should really do something about it.

    Now, April huh? April this year has been quite boring. I’m still student teaching in SMAN 3 Bandung, though I (as the student teacher for eleventh graders) had too many holidays because April was the busiest month for the twelfth graders as they had their final exams in this month. Having too many day-offs had made me even lazier. When the final exams were over, I had a hard time getting back to where I was before. I forgot my schedule and my lesson plan. And now, just when I start getting used to it again, the student teaching examination is already right in the corner. Exactly one week from now, I’m going to teach in a class with my supervisor, the English teacher, and the headmaster watching me. Sounds scary, huh?

    But that’s for next week. Tonight I’m just going to browse my Tumblr dashboard for a good laugh and tomorrow I’m going to create a small surprise for somebody. Come back here tomorrow night (western Indonesia time) for an update.

    Love ya!
    Dara.

    30 April 2013