Essay 5

My Mom and Dad are My Heroes

   Do you ever have a hero in your life? or even heroes? if you have, who is your hero? everyone should has a hero in his life. For me, my heroes is my mom and my dad and they are the persons who I love so much because they are the only precious and important thing i ever have. My mom is the only one who gave birth to me and raised me, my dad is the only one who always kept working for our family and both of them are my inspirations. Without them, we are nothing we are just like stone on the middle of the road because we need love and careness from them and also without them we are nothing everyone won't see or respect us. Can you imagine how's your life without a mother and a father? it could be feel really empty and you might be really miss to be loved by them. My mom is an intelligent woman and a wise woman, and my dad is an intelligent and wise man as well as my mom and they are an optimistic. I would like to describe my mother and my father physically, my mom has a pointed long nose, short wavy hair, white skin and a bit fat now but when my mom was a girl she used to has a slim body and long hair. She has a mix blood of Netherlands, so she looks like a Holland woman and she also tall for an Indonesian woman because she has 5 foot and 4 inches tall. My dad has a pointed nose but not really long as my mother, curly hair, with light beard, black skin and bloated belly but when he was a teenager, he used to has a shape and ripped muscles and many girls likes my father and his hair looks like 80's with semi afro side headed skin. My dad is really tall for Indonesian, he has 5 foot and 7.4 inches which is 175 cm. Both of my parents are Indonesian, so i am Indonesian.

   My mom is a very intelligent woman and a wise woman. She usually manages our family financial in our home and she is a really disciplined person. When I was a young stubborn kid she always gave me a good advice. My mom was born in a strict family tradition, but my mom is a stubborn person as well as me but when she grew up she changes a lot to be mature and many guys likes her. My mom is a pretty woman, she has a pointed long nose and white skin and look alike Netherlands woman. She is also a servant on the church and she had served for 8 years. My dad is a very intelligent man and a wise man as well as my mom. He usually works for our family 8 hours a day and it's his responsibility to feed their family and keep on living. He is a quite guy but not that quite, back on the day when i makes a mistake he's just saying to me for not doing it again but with seriously, he also a funny guy sometimes me and him always laughing all the time, teasing around with his tummy why it's so bloated. They've been in a hard time back in the day but now everything is fine, thankfully to God.

   Anyway, whenever my mom meets everyone, especially an elder person she always respects them and she always smiles at them. She is a very polite and very kind person, whenever her relatives came to her, she always help them. My mom always helps people and kind with a people because she is also always feels pity. But, everytime my mom did a good thing for them, they always reply it with a bad behaviour. My mom is a very patient woman, she won't mind the bad people, she will just pray for them who did a bad thing to her. My father is kinda different with my mom because when everytime he met people like our neighbourhood, he's not always smiling but he's friendly when you know him. But everyone respects my father, as well as my father. My father is a very patient man also, he won't mind the bad people. It's not really different between my mom and my dad, they got some common and that's why they are match.

   Now, my mom's and dad's marriage have been almost for 20 years. My mom used to work on a film company in Indonesia as the creative team. My mom work early before my dad. But, now my mom doesn't work anymore because my dad told her for not working. Me, my sister and my parents live happily. 

Essay 4

CR7

  "Viva Ronaldo Viva Ronaldo Running down the wing Hear United sing Viva Ronaldo" That's what i heard when every time i watched Manchester United's game and it's really makes me excited and makes me goosebump because he is my idol. If you don't know Cristiano Ronaldo, i will write post about him. Cristiano Ronaldo has gone from a small island in the middle of the ocean to the top of the soccer world. Born on Funchal, Madeira, Portugal February 5th 1985 born as Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro. He grew up in a small house in the city of Funchal and began playing soccer for a youth team in Madeira, where his dad was the team's equipment manager. Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, where he played for two years, before moving to C.D. Nacional. In 1997, he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal. At just 12 years old Cristiano moved 600 miles to Lisbon, which is on the mainland of Portugal, to play for Sporting Lisbon's youth team. The move was a difficult one for Cristiano, since he was away from his family and many of his teammates made fun of his Madeiran accent. While some kids chose to tease Cristiano about his accent, no one was teasing him about his soccer skills. His dazzling footwork and goal-scoring abilities made him a teenage super-star. He played his first game for Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese Super League when he was 17 and quickly became known as one of the most exciting young soccer players in the world.

   

Sporting Club de Portugal

   Ronaldo joined Sporting's other youth players who trained at the Academia Sporting, the club's football academy, in Alcochete. He became the only player ever to play for Sporting's under-16, under-17, under-18, B-team, and the first team, all within one season. He scored two goals in his league debut on 7 October 2002, which Sporting CP won 3–0 against Moreirense, while featuring for Portugal in the 2002 European Under-17 Championship.

   At the age of 15 Ronaldo was diagnosed with a racing heart, a condition that might have forced him to give up playing football. The Sporting staff were made aware of the condition and Ronaldo's mother gave her authorisation for him to go into hospital. While there, he had an operation in which a laser was used to cauterise the area of his heart that was causing the problem. The surgery took place in the morning and Ronaldo was discharged from hospital by the end of the afternoon; he resumed training only a few days later.

   In November 2002, Ronaldo was invited to Arsenal's training ground, London Colney to meet manager Arsène Wenger and his coaching staff. Wenger, who was interested in signing the midfielder had arranged to meet Ronaldo's representatives, Formation (who suggested the player originally to Gérard Houllier, then Liverpool's manager) in the subsequent months to discuss a transfer arrangement. However he came to the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson in the summer of 2003, when Sporting defeated United 3–1 in the inauguration of the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon. Ronaldo's performance impressed the Manchester United players, who urged Ferguson to sign him. Ronaldo caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, who signed him for £12.24 million (€15 million) in 2003 at the age 18.

Manchester United2003–2006

   Ronaldo made his team debut as a 60th-minute substitute in a 4–0 home victory over Bolton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for Manchester United with a free kick in a 3–0 win over Portsmouth on 1 November 2003. Ronaldo ended his first season in English football by scoring the opening goal in United's 3–0 FA Cup final victory over Millwall. Ronaldo became Manchester United's first-ever Portuguese player when he signed for €15 million (£12.24 million) after the 2002–03 season. He requested the number 28 (his number at Sporting), as he did not want the pressure of living up to the expectation linked to the number 7 shirt, which had previously been worn by players such as George Best, Bryan Robson, Eric Cantona, and David Beckham. "After I joined, the manager asked me what number I'd like. I said 28. But Ferguson said 'No, you're going to have No. 7,' and the famous shirt was an extra source of motivation. I was forced to live up to such an honour." He scored United's 1000th Premier League goal on 29 October 2005 in a 4–1 loss to Middlesbrough. 

Ronaldo playing against Chelsea in April 2006.

   He scored ten goals in all competitions, and fans voted him to his first FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year award in 2005. He was sent off in the Manchester derby at the City of Manchester Stadium on 14 January 2006 (a game which United lost 3–1) for kicking City's former United player Andrew Cole. 

   Ronaldo won his second trophy in English football in the 2005–06 season, scoring the third goal in Manchester United's 4–0 Football League Cup final victory over Wigan Athletic.

2006–2009

Ronaldo with United during their 2006–2007 season.

The 2006–2007 season proved to be the breakout year for Ronaldo, as he broke the 20 goal barrier for the first time and picked up his first league title with Manchester United.

In November and December 2006, Ronaldo received consecutive Barclays Player of the Month honours, becoming only the third player in Premier League history to do so after Dennis Bergkamp in 1997 and Robbie Fowler in 1996. He scored his 50th Manchester United goal against city rivals Manchester City on 5 May 2007 as United claimed their first Premier League title in four years, and he was voted into his second consecutive FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year award at the end of the year.

Despite rumours circulating in March 2007 that Real Madrid were willing to pay an unprecedented €80 million (£54 million) for Ronaldo, he signed a five-year, £120,000-a-week (£31 million total) extension with United on 13 April, making him the highest-paid player in team history.

Ronaldo amassed a host of personal awards for the season. He won the PFA Players' Player of the Year and PFA Young Player of the Year awards, joining Andy Gray (in 1977) as the only players to receive this honour. In April, he completed the treble by winning the PFA Fans' Player of the Year. He also won the PFA Fans' Player of the Year and the FWA Footballer of the Year, becoming the first player to win all four main PFA and FWA awards. Ronaldo was also one of eight Manchester United players named in the 2006–07 PFA Premier League Team of the Year.

Ronaldo and Carlos Tévez prior to a Champions League match.

Ronaldo's 2007–08 season began with a red card for a headbutt on Portsmouth player Richard Hughes during United's second match of the season, for which he was punished with a three-match ban. Ronaldo said he had "learned a lot" from the experience and would not let players "provoke" him in the future. After scoring the only goal in a Champions League away match against Sporting, Ronaldo also scored the injury-time winner in the return fixture as Manchester United topped their Champions League group.

He finished as the runner-up to Kaká for the 2007 Ballon d'Or, and was third in the running for the FIFA World Player of the Year award, behind Kaká and Lionel Messi.

Ronaldo scored his first hat trick for Manchester United in a 6–0 win against Newcastle United at Old Trafford on 12 January 2008, bringing Manchester United up to the top of the Premier League table. He scored his twenty-third league goal of the season in a 2–0 win against Reading, equalling his entire total for the 2006–07 season. During a 1–1 Champions League first knockout round draw against Lyon on 20 February, an unidentified Lyon supporter continuously aimed a green laser at Ronaldo and United teammate Nani, prompting an investigation by UEFA. One month later, Lyon were fined CHF5,000 (£2,427) for the incident.

On 19 March 2008, Ronaldo captained United for the first time in his career in a home win over Bolton, scoring both goals in the 2–0 victory. The second of the goals was his 33rd of the campaign, which set a new club single-season scoring record by a midfielder and thus topped George Best's forty-year-old total of 32 goals in the 1967–68 season. Ronaldo scored another brace in a 4–0 win over Aston Villa on 29 March, which at the time gave him 35 goals in 37 domestic and European matches as both a starter and substitute. Ronaldo's scoring streak was rewarded with his becoming the first winger to win the 2007–08 European Golden Shoe, finishing eight points ahead of Mallorca's Dani Güiza.

"Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United."

Three-time Ballon d'Or winner Johan Cruyff in an interview on April 2008.

In the 2007–08 Champions League final on 21 May against league rivals Chelsea, Ronaldo scored the opening goal after 26 minutes, which was negated by a Chelsea equaliser in the 45th minute as the match ended 1–1 after extra time. His misfire in the penalty shoot-out put Chelsea in position to win the trophy, but John Terry shot wide right after slipping on the pitch surface, and Manchester United emerged victorious 6–5 on penalties. Ronaldo was named the UEFA Fans' Man of the Match, and wrapped up the campaign with a career-high 42 goals in all competitions, falling four short of Denis Law's team-record mark of 46 in the 1963–64 season. In the Champions League he was also named best forward and player of the tournament and was the competition's top goalscorer.

Ronaldo and Manchester United against Albert Riera and rivals Liverpool.

On 5 June 2008, Sky Sports reported that Ronaldo had expressed an interest in moving to Real Madrid if they offered him the same amount of money the team had allegedly promised him earlier in the year. Manchester United filed a tampering complaint with FIFA on 9 June over Madrid's alleged pursuit of Ronaldo, but FIFA declined to take any action. Speculation that a transfer would happen continued until 6 August, when Ronaldo confirmed that he would stay at United for at least another year.

Ronaldo underwent ankle surgery at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam on 7 July. He returned to action on 17 September in United's goalless UEFA Champions League group stage draw with Villarreal as a substitute for Park Ji-Sung, and scored his first goal of the season in a 3–1 League Cup third round win over Middlesbrough on 24 September.

In a 5–0 win over Stoke City on 15 November 2008, Ronaldo scored his 100th and 101st goals in all competitions for Manchester United, both from free kicks. The goals also meant that Ronaldo had now scored against each of the other 19 teams in the Premier League at the time. On 2 December, Ronaldo became Manchester United's first Ballon d'Or recipient since George Best in 1968. He finished with 446 points, 165 ahead of runner-up Lionel Messi. He was awarded the Silver Ball after finishing with two goals as United won the Club World Cup on 19 December.

On 8 January 2009, Ronaldo was uninjured in a single-car accident in which he wrote off his Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano in a tunnel along the A538 nearManchester Airport. A breathalyser test he gave to police officers at the scene was negative, and he attended training later that morning. Four days later, he became the first Premier League player ever to be named the FIFA World Player of the Year, in addition to being the first Portuguese player to win the award since Luís Figo in 2001.

Ronaldo scored his first Champions League goal of the season, and first since the final against Chelsea, in a 2–0 victory over Internazionale that sent United into the quarter-finals. In the second leg against Porto, Ronaldo scored a 40-yard game-winning goal as United advanced to the semi-finals. For this goal Ronaldo holds the distinction of being the first player to win the FIFA Puskás Award, in 2009, an honour handed by FIFA to the best goal of the year. He later called it the best goal he had ever scored. Ronaldo participated in his second consecutive Champions League final, but made little impact in United's 2–0 loss to Barcelona. He finished with 53 appearances in all competitions, which was four higher than the previous year, but scored sixteen fewer goals (26) than his career-best total of 42 from the previous season.

On 11 June 2009, Manchester United accepted an unconditional offer of £80 million from Real Madrid for Ronaldo after it was revealed that he again had expressed his desire to leave the club. It was confirmed by a representative of the Glazer family that the sale was fully condoned by Ferguson. When Ronaldo had eventually completed his transfer to Real, he expressed his gratitude towards Ferguson for helping him develop as a player, saying, "He's been my father in sport, one of the most important factors and most influential in my career."

Actually there is a lot of Cristiano Ronaldo's story but i only wrote when he was on Manchester United, because i loved him as Manchester United player and also legend, he is the person that i really admire because he has a good determination and disciplinary, he always work hard and the results is always tremendous, that's why i admire him and he is my good influence on sport and even on life.

Essay 3

CHILDREN SHOULD BE EDUCATED BY THEIR PARENTS

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ― Maya Angelou , that's a good topic which is match with my post. However, children doesn't like to be educated by their parents nowadays because many research said the reason is they felt like being in controlled and felt immature. Automatically it will affect the children to be a rude and a bad boy if children refuse to be educated. Education it's not really about formal things, it's also has informal things like education in home and it's really really important. It's parents responsibility to take care of children attitude and behaviour. I would like to state the arguments of this topic.

The first argument. Nowadays, children likes to blame their parents eventhough parents teach children with a good attitude and behaviour. That kind of attitude it's not really appropriate and it's not polite because like i said earlier it'll just makes the children become rude and naughty and stubborn as well. Maybe they think that against their parents rules it's cool and it's a trend, but it's not. When they grow up, they will just ignoring elder people even act rude to them. I have seen many evidence that kid who don't like to be teach about behaviour and attitude, it's when me went out of my house to buy some stuffs and i see a boy and a mother, the boy was asking to her mother to buy a toy but the mother couldn't buy it for the kid because she doesn't has enough money, the boy cannot accept it and still forcing her mother and suddenly she said a harsh word to his mom and he just left his mother alone. See? what will you be in the future if you did something like that, all you can do is just forcing and do something bad.

The second argument. At young age, we as a teenager likes to do something bad, likes abusing something or maybe someone. As you all know, why i said and i agreed that children should be educated by their parents, everyone will respect you and also respect your parents because from the parents they are the most influences people around you, if you're parents shows something bad to you of course you will get influence from what they did. Many abusing things that happen among the children nowadays, such as an internet abuse, drug abuse. Those two things are the most concerned case. Maybe some parents didn't allowed their children to have an internet on their room because they may scared if the children will open an adult site. But, for me if i were a parent i will let them to have an internet on their room, just in case for them to know the responsibility of using an internet, it can also said that i'm teach the children about responsibility so they will get the good benefit and never think in the future that they would like to abuse people.

Some other people would like to agree that children should not be educated by their parents. In my opinion, they seems it's useless because eventhough the children had been taught by their parents but still the children will makes something bad. It also got a support from that state because many teens like i said a while ago likes to having a bad trend on their life and if everything around the children are bad influences automatically the children will get affected.

So, my point talking about this topic because it's really happens and it's really worried nowadays because many teenagers can't take care of their attitudes and it's just makes them embarrassed themselves. For all parents, it's not your fault, this is your kid's fault. Within years by years when entering 2000's, teenagers in USA become more rude with their parents and their attitude as well. It's not also happen in USA, it's Universal problem now it's also happen in Asia country like Japan, Japanese teenagers today likes to fight and act like a mafia to make them look tough. But the cases it's not that, it's about your pride of yourself and how makes you look wise. So I persuade you to become and have a good attitude and behaviour (especially teenagers) !

Essay 2

I am Happy to Moved to The Philippines!

"Mabuhay!!!" That's what i heard from Philippines Airlines and it's really makes me excited because it's my first time came to Philippines, because eventhough we look alike but the country is a lot different between my country, Indonesia. Yeah, it's different from the government and the history amongst the past years, my country was colonised by the Japan, Netherlands, and England as well but i don't see my country got any benefit from that. Even Philippines was colonised by Spain only, they got benefit from it such as some language in tagalog were influenced by Spanish and their name were influenced by Spanish. The most thing that makes me excited of Philippines is about 80% of the population are Catholic and they really religious and faithful. 

I am now leaving in Philippines, precisely in Makati and i'm studies in here at Asia Pacific College and i'm first year student. I moved from Jakarta, Indonesia 'the city of traffic', it's almost everyday has traffic. Philippines also has a traffic but it's not almost everyday it's only traffic on Monday and Friday. The situations in here are very different, different weather and different kind of people. There's always a clear skies in Philippines but when i first moved here it's always rainy and foggy. When i were on the airplane going from Jakarta to Manila, the airplane was shaking because of the weather and it's kinda scary because that's the first time i ride an airplane was shaking so badly.

Like I said earlier that I moved on from Jakarta to Philippines, i live alone and do everything by myself. It's a really tough challenge because i never do it before and i'm really excited about it because it's kinda free to do anything in here but still i need to have a responsibility of my own. I live in Condominium with one bedroom. The first thing i really want to tell you that when i had my class during the first day i was thinking that "hmm, i think it's really difficult to adapt with them and i need time to get close with them" yeah that's what i thinking. But, when the first day, i already makes friend and she's a girl and she was my ex as well (it's pretty awkward to tell this but it's the reality though)

After several days on my first term on the college i already makes friend with my block 'BM 121' and they really nice, some of them are quite and some of them are noisy but they are very nice with me, it looks like that i'm welcome to get along with them and i'm really excited and happy. Me and them were talking one by one personally to get closer with them. After 2 weeks or more they came to my house and we eat and they are so many, i'm really happy with them because we really enjoy a good time we had a karaoke and they feel really happy in my place.

Days after days, weeks after weeks i have best friends and their name is Mon, Sef and Reggae. From 3 of them, the one who first talking with me about their life is Reggae, he's the oldest (but not really old),  he's telling me many things about his life and he's a really good friend of mine. Secondly is Mon, first we know each other from jollibee on friday, and we talk a lot of things and it's really fun to talk with him, he also the person who brings and tell my classmates to come over my house. Thirdly is Sef, first time i know sef when we were playing basketball and we always sitting on the courtyard of APC when it comes during break time and he telling many things about his life as well and he also a good guitar player as well as Reggae. I trusted 3 of them because they're my best friend. Meanwhile, me, Mon, and Sef have a nickname it's '3 Kalbo Idiots' and it's really hilarious, we shave our hair to keep the brotherhood and the friendship till forever and to makes a motivation.

Yeah...that's a part of my story why I love Philippines and it's really a pleasure to live here and study here. Maraming salamat po!

Essay 1

The Feelings About Someone Who I Love

"I'm thinking two is better than one" maybe that song is really related with my current blog post, and it's really mainstream among the teenagers today because nowadays every teenagers would likely to talking about love, someone who is special, broken hearted, and etc. I don't have any idea why every teenagers mostly talking about love if they were gathered. To be honest, i feel sick and tired of love things (to someone) because for me it's just wasting your time and money. Why i said like that? because everytime i fall for someone (a girl), she will never has the same feeling with me. Maybe she had the same feelings probably it's 'like' but the feelings that i expected is 'love'.

I had this feelings several days ago or maybe 2 weeks ago. I have crush with someone, just call her name 'F'. She is a kind girl and that's why makes me have a crush on her since the first day i know her. But, it's a really awkward feeling because i already like her since the day one i know her and talk with her on school. However, she really helped me a lot in the class, example like i asked something about the situation in here (APC) and with the professor's names. Day after day we talked everyday and she always wave on me whenever we met. Someday, when my classmates were coming to my place and she also coming, we become so close and talking just the two of us, eyes to eyes, heart to heart. I'm really happy but also makes me so nervous because i'm talking with my crush, and also the situation was really support me to get really close with her.

After we talking , texting everyday, she told me that she has a feeling with someone. Obviously, it makes me really curious because she's hinting me and give me a clue about the guy that she likes. I always asking to her and she never told me. One day, my classmates and also with her came again to my place for the third times, something was happened! I asked her about that guy, and she said that the guy is in here with her, i asked her who is he and she said it's me. She told me to not playing around, and i'm so happy with that! After that, we hugging, holding hands and i show my feelings more than she did. I told her that she will be my last, but the fact is not. I already told her to not playing around with my feelings as well, but she didn't keep her promise that she won't playing around with me. So, our relationship was just happen for one day and it's really makes me feel so sad. For me, love to someone is just waste of time, we must love those who love us too. That's one of my experience. I don't think stick up for someone is worth it.