Broken Vow

I don't know what kind of reason why I am here writing this lyric.. All I know is I love this lyric.

Tell me her name
I want to know
The way she looks
And where you go
I need to see her face
I need to understand
Why you and I came to an end

Tell me again
I want to hear
Who broke my faith in all these years
Who lays with you at night
When I'm here all alone
Remembering when I was your own

[Chorus:]
I'll let you go
I'll let you fly
Why do I keep asking why
I'll let you go
Now that I found
A way to keep somehow
More than a broken vow

Tell me the words I never said
Show me the tears you never shed
Give me the touch
That one you promised to be mine
Or has it vanished for all time

[Chorus]

I close my eyes
And dream of you and I
And then I realize
There's more to life than only bitterness and lies
I close my eyes
I'd give away my soul
To hold you once again
And never let this promise end
 
[Chorus]

Kostan

Haiiii

Semester 2 ini gue memutuskan untuk ngekost, karena capek PP dan capek jatoh dari motor.
Akhirnya mama men yetujui untuk gue ngekost juga, daripada kenapa kenapa dan kecapekan jadi gak ada waktu buat belajar.
Akhirnya perburuan kostan dimulai!

Sebenernya gue udah dapet sih kostannya dimana. Yang jelas disini ada 2 orang temen gue. 
blablabla~~

Ternyata tempatnya kumuh gitu kan (dari luarnya), dalemnya juga sih, kurang terurus gitu, dengan budget dibawah 700K emang sih udah untung daripada enggak sama sekali kan.
Setelah selesai booking, besoknya gue beli cat dinding, warna abu-abu sama lavender (karena gue suka warna yang kalem dan sejuk a.k.a gelap dikit). Hari pertama ngecat gue dibantuin sama Raysa, Anne, dan Febri. Dan ternyata ngecat dinding itu capek banget, gak sama kayak ngelukis di kanvas (YAiyalahhh). Tapi harus tetep semangat dong.

Setelah selesai warna abu-abu di pagi harinya, gue tinggal nunggu kering dan lihat hasilnya.

Hari selanjutnya adalah dilanjutkan dengan warna lavender di dua sisi dinding lainnya (gue 2 warna di kamar kostan). Kali ini dibantu sama Faqih dan Hanif (Aaaaaaa thank youuuu :*). Biarpun awalnya bete banget karena cat lavendernya tumpah kena ke dinding yang udah selesai, tapi tetep calm dan imut. Hasilnya juga masih tetep bagus, biarpun di dinding satunya lagi masih keliatan putih gak rata :(
tapi hasilnya sih kalo dalam persen, yaaa masih masuk di deretan 70-80% lah, gak buruk kan?

4 hari selesai ngerjain kamar kost dari kumuh jadi nyaman dan rapi. Maacih yaaa Raysa Pakih Hanif udah bantuin kemaren, enaknya kalo punya temen temen yang selalu bantu disaat lagi butuh, tapi  kalo mereka butuh gue nanti gue pura pura lupa ah. HAHA jahat
JK

xoxo

Public or Private?

Today, in week four of our Foreign Student Series, we discuss differences between public and private in American higher education.

A big difference involves money. Public colleges and universities charge for an education just like private schools. But state schools cost less because they get money from the states that started them to educate local citizens. As a result, out-of-state and international students usually pay more than state residents, at least the first year.

The state with the most residents, almost forty million, is California. Its systems of two-year and four-year colleges and universities are among the largest in the world.
But the example we are going to focus on today is to the north of California, in a much smaller state on the West Coast: Oregon.

The University of Oregon, located in Eugene, is one of the campuses in the Oregon University System. The cost for undergraduates this year is six thousand dollars for state residents. Housing is an additional eight thousand. Nonresidents pay the same for housing -- but almost twenty thousand dollars for tuition and fees.

Let's see how these numbers compare to a private college in Oregon.
Lewis and Clark College in Portland has four thousand students, compared to twenty thousand at the University of Oregon. Housing costs eight hundred dollars more than at the state school. But the big difference is tuition. The published price at Lewis and Clark is almost thirty-four thousand dollars.
Yet Lewis and Clark is one of the few American colleges to offer financial aid for international students. Each year it awards financial aid to twenty students from other countries. And it says the average award last year was nineteen thousand dollars. That would make Lewis and Clark cheaper for international students than the University of Oregon.

But, of course, prices alone do not say anything about the quality of a school or the value of an education.

Analysis 

Simple Present Tense
1.  Colleges and universities are among the largest in the world.
2.  Today is to the north of California.
3.  is one of the campuses in the Oregon University System.
4.  This year is six thousand dollars for state residents. Housing is an additional eight thousand.
5.  But the big difference is tuition.

Simple Past Tense 
1.  From the states that started them to educate local citizens.
2.  And it says the average award last year was nineteen thousand dollars.

Simple Future Tense
1.  We are going to focus on today is to the north of California

Analysis Of Tenses In A Short Story Below I

Betty Friedan, 1921-2006: A Leader in the Modern Women's Rights Movement

Betty Friedan is often called the mother of the modern women's liberation movement.  Her famous book, "The Feminine Mystique," changed America.  Some people say it changed the world.  It has been called one of the most influential nonfiction books of the twentieth century.

Friedan re-awakened the feminist movement in the United States.  That movement had helped women gain the right to vote in the nineteen twenties.  Modern feminists disagree about how to describe themselves and their movement.  But activists say men and women should have equal chances for economic, social and intellectual satisfaction in life.

Fifty years ago, life for women in the United States was very different from today.  Very few parents urged their daughters to become lawyers or doctors or professors. Female workers doing the same jobs as men earned much less money.  Women often lost their jobs when they had a baby.  There were few child care centers for working parents.

Betty Friedan once spoke to ABC television about her support for sharing responsibility for the care of children:
"If child-rearing was considered the responsibility of women and men or women and men and society, then we really could pull up our skirts and declare victory and move on."
Betty Friedan was born Betty Goldstein in nineteen twenty-one in Peoria, Illinois.  Her immigrant father worked as a jeweler.  Her mother left her job with a local newspaper to stay home with her family.

Betty attended Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts. It was one of the country's best colleges for women. She finished her studies in psychology in nineteen forty-two.
After college she attended the University of California at Berkeley to continue her studies.  But her boyfriend at the time did not want her to get an advanced degree in psychology. He apparently felt threatened by her success.  So Betty left California and her boyfriend.  She moved to New York City and worked as a reporter and editor for labor union newspapers.
In nineteen forty-seven, Betty Goldstein married Carl Friedan, a theater director who later became an advertising executive.  They had a child, the first of three.  The Friedans were to remain married until nineteen sixty-nine.

When Betty Friedan became pregnant for the second time, she was dismissed from her job at the newspaper.  After that she worked as an independent reporter for magazines.  But her editors often rejected her attempts to write about subjects outside the traditional interests of women.
In nineteen fifty-seven, Friedan started research that was to have far-reaching results.  Her class at Smith College was to gather for the fifteenth anniversary of their graduation. Friedan prepared an opinion study for the women.  She sent questions to the women about their lives. Most who took part in the study did not work outside their homes.

Friedan was not completely satisfied with her life. She thought that her former college classmates might also be dissatisfied.  She was right.  Friedan thought these intelligent women could give a lot to society if they had another identity besides being homemakers.

Friedan completed more studies. She talked to other women across the country.  She met with experts about the questions and answers.  She combined this research with observations and examples from her own life.  The result was her book, "The Feminine Mystique," published in nineteen sixty-three.
The book attacked the popular idea of the time that women could only find satisfaction through being married, having children and taking care of their home. Friedan believed that women wanted more from life than just to please their husbands and children.

The book said women suffered from feelings of lack of worth. Friedan said this was because the women depended on their husbands for economic, emotional and intellectual support.
"The Feminine Mystique" was a huge success.  It has sold more than three million copies.  It was reprinted in a number of other languages.   The book helped change the lives of women in America. More women began working outside the home. More women also began studying traditionally male subjects like law, medicine and engineering.

Betty Friedan expressed the dissatisfaction of some American women during the middle of the twentieth century. But she also made many men feel threatened. Later, critics said her book only dealt with the problems of white, educated, wealthy, married women. It did not study the problems of poor white women, single women or minorities.

In nineteen sixty-six, Betty Friedan helped establish NOW, the National Organization for Women.  She served as its first president.  She led campaigns to end unfair treatment of women seeking jobs.
Friedan also worked on other issues.  She wanted women to have the choice to end their pregnancies.  She wanted to create child-care centers for working parents. She wanted women to take part in social and political change.  Betty Friedan once spoke about her great hopes for women in the nineteen seventies:
"Liberating ourselves, we will then become a major political force, perhaps the biggest political force for basic social and political change in America in the seventies."

Betty Friedan led a huge demonstration in New York City for women's rights. Demonstrations were also held in other cities.   A half-million women took part in the Women's Strike for Equality on August twenty-sixth, nineteen seventy.  The day marked the fiftieth anniversary of American women gaining the right to vote.

A year after the march, Friedan helped establish the National Women's Political Caucus.  She said the group got started "to make policy, not coffee."  She said America needed more women in public office if women were to gain equal treatment.

Friedan wanted a national guarantee of that equal treatment. She worked tirelessly to get Congress and the states to approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that would provide equal rights for women.

The House of Representatives approved this Equal Rights Amendment in nineteen seventy-one. The Senate approved it the following year. Thirty-eight of the fifty state legislatures were required to approve the amendment.  Congress set a time limit of seven years for the states to approve it. This was extended to June thirtieth, nineteen eighty-two.  However, only thirty-five states approved the amendment by the deadline so it never went into effect.

The defeat of the E.R.A. was a sad event for Betty Friedan, NOW and other activists.
In nineteen eighty-one, Betty Friedan wrote about the condition of the women's movement.  Her book was called "The Second Stage."  Friedan wrote that the time for huge demonstrations and other such events had passed.  She urged the movement to try to increase its influence on American political life.
Some younger members of the movement denounced her as too conservative.
As she grew older, Friedan studied conditions for older Americans.  She wrote a book called "The Fountain of Age" in nineteen ninety-three. She wrote that society often dismisses old people as no longer important or useful. Friedan's last book was published in two thousand.  She was almost eighty years old at the time.  Its title was "Life So Far."

Betty Friedan died on February fourth, two thousand six.  It was her eighty-fifth birthday. Betty Friedan once told a television reporter how she wanted to be remembered:
"She helps make it better for women to feel good about being women, and therefore she helped make it possible for women to more freely love men."

Analysis 

Simple Present Tense
1. Betty Friedan is often called the mother of the modern women's liberation movement

Simple Past Tense 
1. life for women in the United States was very different from today.
2. If child-rearing was considered the responsibility of women and men or women and men.
3. Betty Friedan was born Betty Goldstein.
4. It was one of the country's best colleges for women.
5. She was dismissed from her job.
6. Friedan started research that was to have far-reaching results.  Her class at Smith College was to gather for the fifteenth anniversary of their graduation. Friedan prepared an opinion study for the women.  She sent questions to the women about their lives. Most who took part in the study did not work outside their homes.
7.  Friedan was not completely satisfied with her life. She thought that her former college classmates might also be dissatisfied.  She was right.  Friedan thought these intelligent women could give a lot to society if they had another identity besides being homemakers.
8. She talked to other women across the country.  She met with experts about the questions and answers.  She combined this research with observations and examples from her own life.  The result was her book, "The Feminine Mystique," published in nineteen sixty-three.
The book attacked the popular idea of the time that women could only find satisfaction through being married, having children and taking care of their home. Friedan believed that women wanted more from life than just to please their husbands and children.
9. And more.

Simple Future Tense
1.  We will then become a major political force.

Masa PKL di BPPT

Tiba tiba kangen sama masa masa pkl dulu. Udah sekitar 2-3 tahun yang lalu.
BPPT, itu kantor yang gue jadikan tempat pkl (Halah). Lokasinya di thamrin, BPPT Thamrin. Tepatnya di lantai 1, BPPT Enjinering, bener gak ya penulisannya?

Gue inget banget pertama kali masuk disana itu naik busway, berangkat dari rumah jam setengah 5 pagi dianterin ke Ciputat sama bokap, dan lanjut ke Lb bulus naik angkot. Jam segitu udah rame loh..
Begitu sampe di halte busway, udah ada temen temen gue yang emang barengan buat ke Thamrin.
Sekitar jam 6 pagi kita udah otw, dan ini jalurnya muter alias lebih jauh. Karena kita gak bisa langsung ke Jakpus yang harus lewat Blok M, no way to the bus goin' there. Jadi harus muter lewat Daan Mogot, Roxy, dan berenti di Harmoni. Tapi dari Harmoni juga udah deket banget ke Thamrinnya. Dan lagipula letak kantornya bener bener diujung dari Thamrin. Jadi kalo dari Harmoni deket banget.
Begitu sampe disana, masih jam setengah 8. Kalian harus tau rasanya jam segitu udah ada di pusatnya perkantoran. Di tengah tengah orang yang kerja dengan pakaian formal mereka. Jam segitu banyak banget orang yang keluar dari halte dengan rapinya. Wuiiii aura pengen kerjanya dapet banget.
Sampe kantornya kita disambut sama mbak Dian. Dia itu sekretaris disana. Tapi disana namanya apa ya lupa deh.. Gak ada sih namanya manajer dll, disana disebutnya Kabid. (Bener gak ya?).
Hari pertama di bulan Januari agak boring juga. Karena emang tahun pertama di bulan pertama (tepatnya) belom ada kerjaan yang padet, jadi para karyawannya santai banget. Yang diurusin cuma arsipin file aja. Udah gitu aja -____- (Puuffft gak ada yang menantang).

Disana yang gue masih inget namanya mbak Vivi, mbak Nurul, pak Asep (AAAAA kangen), pak Yanuar, kak Deny, kak Agung, mbak Laras (AAAAA kangen juga), mbak Dian (aaaaaaaa), terus siapa lagi ya? Lupa ih -______-
Disana awalnya agak kaku juga, ya gak enak aja ditengah orang-orang kerja gitu, dan yang kita (anak pkl) lakuin cuma duduk santai ngeliatin mereka kerja dan sembari main hp. Haha
Lama kelamaan kita mulai saling kenal, dan mulai akrab. Bercanda tiap hari, bahkan kalo udah waktunya buat balik suka tega gak tega, saking asiknya selama disana.
Kebiasaan kita disana yaitu nunggu jam 12 HAHAHA
Nunggu jam istirahat, padahal gak begitu capek loh kerjanya, tapi entah kenapa pengen cepet cepet jam segitu. Dan kita langsung meluncur ke kantin atas atau kantin bawah, tergantung kesukaannya apa. Kalo kantin atas rata rata harganya mahal. Kalo dibawah rata-rata murah. Dan gado gado (MY FAVORITE) 8K udah buanyaaak banget sampe tumpeh tumpeh.
Kadang kalo males makan juga pas istirahat kita main komputer aja, mumpung ada internetnya haha
Buka FB atau twitter atau main game online. Istirahat cuma 1 jam, tapi kalo mulai aktif kerja lagi itu sekitar jam setengah 2.
Yang bikin capek itu sebenernya gerah. Soalnya pake seragam dan sepatu dan kaos kaki panjang kan. Kalo yang kerja sih nyantai banget. Dateng pake sepatu, kerja pake sendal jepit. Lah kita yang pkl kan gak mungkin begitu. Apa kata orang...

Oh iya kalo pulang juga kita santai, alias gak harus gerah di bis atau metromini. Soalnya ada transportasi gratis dari BPPTnya. Haha
Tapi ya begitu, suka ada karyawan yang merasa berkuasa atas bis itu, padahal itu bis yang beli juga bukan dia. Tapi disediain dari pemerintah. Gak tau sampe kapan akan ada karwayan kuno dengan pemikiran yang sempit gitu. Gak maksud menjelekkan sih, cuma biar sebagai pembelajaran aja, Ini udah jaman milenium bro, jaman sosial. Kalian juga bukan kaum borjuis kan. Kalo di lingkungan sosial padahal jabatan juga biasa aja gak usah terlalu gimana. Yang jabatan super tinggi dan gaji super besar aja rela naik kereta. 
Loh kok gue jadi kesel ya? heehe

tapi dimana ada yang alay, juga ada yang baik banget. Seperti barisan belakang yang duduk di bis. Mereka itu baik banget. Serius. dan asik yang jelas. Yang paling gue inget dan paling gue suka dan paling gue anggep udah kayak om sendiri itu om Biarto. Dia rumahnya di Pamulang juga dan tinggalnya deket sama smp gue. Awalnya gue kira dia itu bapak-bapak yang agak judes gitu (hehehe) soalnya diem aja pas gue pertama di bis dan duduk disamping dia. Tapi lama kelamaan kita kenal dan deket jadi tau kalo om Biarto itu ROCK *wkwkwkw
Dia juga nanya sama gue kenapa pas pertama naik bis diem aja, jadi dia kira kalo gue yang jutek. Wuakaka
Terus ada siapa lagi ya, oh iya yang masih muda. Mbak siapa gitu namanya. Dia deket sama kak Dhitra juga (anak alay yang pkl di BPPT juga tahun sebelum gue pkl). Jadi kita juga suka ngobrol kalo lagi duduk bareng. Terus ada sepasang suami istri yang sama kerja disana, mereka lucu deh. Diem sih, tapi lucu aja. Haha suka aja liat suami istri satu bis, satu tempat kerja, dan kayaknya serasi banget.

Oh iya ada 1 bis lagi, yang ini tapi beda rute. Lewat tol. Nah ini tapi bisnya super asik. Orang-orangnya super lucu (menurut gue). Bis yang dinaikin sama pak Yanuar. Ada tuh foto dia di postingan tentang BPPT juga beberapa tahun lalu. Kalo itu kita (anak pkl) kalo disana selalu bercanda, terutama Nisa. Biasanya kita berebutan kursi sama pak Yanuar (bercanda doang sih). Pak Yanuar kalo gasalah sukanya di bangku 4 deret paling belakang. dan kita yang pkl mau gak mau duduknya di depanan. Kalo lagi cepet, kita yang duduk di 4 deret. Dan dia duduk di depan. Wuakakak
hah masa masa pkl...
Biarpun mereka udah tua dan udah kerja, tapi mereka asik semua.

3 Bulan pkl disana itu kayaknya lama, tapi pas dijalanin ternyata bentar banget. Sempet sedih juga waktu hari terakhir pkl. Yah.. soalnya kan gak akan kesana lagi. Walaupun disuruh kesana buat main, tapi kan gak enak ya bukan siapa siapa lagi disana tiba tiba dateng. Kalo ganggu gimana.
Sampe sekarang udah gak pernah kesana lagi :(
Mau kesana juga udah pada lupa kali ya. Udah susah juga, sama urusan kuliah yang ribet dan waktu lebih banyak di kampus daripada di rumah malah.


I miss all of 'em