Loving Money Too Much

Loving Money Too Much

There was a man who liked money very much. He worked all of his life and wanted to save all of his money for his own future. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything.

Even, just before he died, he said to his wife; "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I wanna take my money to the afterlife." So he asked his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.
Well, one day, he really died. Then he was stretched out in the casket. The wife was sitting there in black clothes next to her closest friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait just a minute!"

She had a box in her hands. She came over with the box and placed it in the casket. After that the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away. Not long after that, her friend said, "I hope you were not crazy enough to put all that money in the casket."

The wife turned to her friend and replied; "Yes, because I have promised." Then she continued; "I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him." Feeling shocked, her friend said; "You mean that you have put every cent of his money in the casket with him?" Then the wife answered; "Surely I did. I got it all together, put all the money into my account and I just wrote him a check."

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Methane

Methane

Methane is second only to carbon dioxide in its impact as a greenhouse gas.  It comes from landfills, livestock, natural gas systems, wetlands, and natural gas stores within the earth.
Methane is more commonly known as swamp gas.  This is the second most abundant greenhouse gas and it is 21 times more efficient at warming than CO2. CO2 is much more abundant in the atmosphere and remains in the atmosphere for a much longer period of time than methane and therefore has a larger overall warming effect in the atmosphere than methane does. Methane is produced anthropogenically by landfills, ruminant livestock, biomass burning and natural gas systems.  Some natural sources are wetlands and termites.  Methane is the largest component of natural gas, which is used as a fuel source once the contaminants are removed.
The atmospheric lifespan of a molecule of methane is estimated to be around 12 years.  From 650,000 years ago until the industrial revolution, the concentration of CH4 never rose above .00000073% or 730ppb.  However, the current CH4 concentration, as of 2009, is around .000001774% or 1774ppb.  In the past fifteen years the concentration has not increased much, but scientists are hesitant to celebrate.  Some theories state that there are variations in output from wetlands and biomass burning, or there are more removal processes than previously thought.
Methane Up Sharply; Ozone Impact Studied
A sharp increase in methane gas in the atmosphere since 1978 will probably make the earth warmer and may worsen seasonal losses of protective ozone over Antarctica, scientists say.
But the 11 percent increase in methane in the last decade may also slow depletion of the ozone shield over the rest of the planet, said F. Sherwood Rowland and Donald R. Blake, chemists at the University of California at Irvine.
Their study, financed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was published Friday in the journal Science.
Methane is the major component of natural gas, but about 80 percent of atmospheric methane comes from decomposition in rice paddies, swamps and the intestines of cows, with some contribution from wood digestion in termites, Mr. Rowland said.
Humans are responsible for increased methane levels because they are raising more cows, growing more rice and chopping down tropical forests, which provides food for more termites, said atmospheric scientist Pat Zimmerman of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
Mr. Blake and Mr. Rowland collected air samples regularly from January 1978 to September 1987 at up to 60 locations around the Pacific to measure methane levels. Their study indicates the rate of increase in methane gas slowed slightly in the last five years. The Greenhouse Effect
Researchers generally agree that by trapping solar heat like glass in a greenhouse, methane, carbon dioxide and other pollutants are likely to warm the earth's lower atmosphere by a few degrees in the next half century.
They fear this greenhouse effect may cause crop-threatening droughts and partly melt polar ice caps, raising sea levels.
Ozone is an air pollutant at low altitudes, but in the stratosphere it shields the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. Scientists say reduction of the ozone layer will cause more skin cancers and ecological damage.
In 1974, Mr. Rowland and a chemist, Mario Molina, first warned that the ozone layer was threatened by man-made chlorine compounds called chlorofluorocarbons, or CFC's, which are used as refrigeration coolants, aerosol propellants and for making plastic foams. The United States banned spray-can CFC's in 1978. A global treaty aims to reduce global output of CFC's and other ozone-destroying chemicals.
Mounting evidence indicates CFC's are responsible for the worldwide loss of about 1 percent of the earth's ozone shield and drastic thinning of the ozone layer above Antarctica for a few months starting every September. Ice Clouds Over Antarctica
Mr. Blake and Mr. Rowland said methane increases might worsen the Antarctic ozone hole by aiding formation of ice clouds above Antarctica. Studies by Molina and others suggest the clouds enhance chemical reactions that allow chlorine from CFC's to break down ozone.
As methane rises into the polar stratosphere, it breaks down and releases hydrogen, which combines with a chemical called hydroxyl to form water, which in turn freezes into clouds, Mr. Blake explained.
Outside Antarctica, wind and higher temperatures prevent formation of stratospheric clouds. Instead, by attacking chlorine from CFC's, methane may reduce the amount of chlorine available to destroy ozone, Mr. Blake said.
The 11 percent methane increase ''will make the ozone hole over Antarctica more severe,'' said Mr. Molina, who is at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. ''It will probably make the ozone depletion in the rest of the world less severe,'' he said.
Mr. Rowland and Mr. Blake also said that because increasing atmospheric methane reduces the amount of hydroxyl present, it may reduce the atmosphere's ability to cleanse itself of pollutants. Hydroxyl reacts with many pollutants and removes them from the atmosphere.

Methane and Carbon Dioxide. Methane is five time more effective than Carbon dioxide. The major sources of Methane are melting permafrost and cows flatulence. Methane builds up in old permanently frozen ice aka permafrost, and the united states is trying to find a better diet for cows to produce less gas. Carbon Dioxide is getting stronger from deforestation and car emissions.

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Advanced Debate Community UIN Malang

Advanced Debate Community

written by Savira Larasati

If you like debate, then you will love Advanced Debate Community (ADC). This community is about how we express our opinion and how our argumentation will be accepted in a debate. I think, Advanced Debate Community is interesting. So that’s why I sign up to be an ADC member. There, I can get more knowledge and experience.
    In addition, Advanced Debate Community will gives me a lot of benefits. Debate is about how to develop our awareness in environment and see a problem from many points of view. In a debate, we must convince others with our own opinion and point of view. Moreover, debate helps to develop our personality because we can’t remain shy in a debate. We must speak up when the opponent challenges us. On the other hand, if we are become angry or arrogant, our mind is unclear, and that will defeats us in a debate. All at times, we need to maintain emotional balance in a debate.
So, In my opinion, join Advanced Debate Community will gives me a lot of benefits, not only on how we express our opinion and how our argumentation will be accepted in a debate, but more than that, Debate will increases my social awareness. I will be able to see a problem from many points of view and convince others. As well as I can develop my personality to be brave and to be able to speak up without remain shy.

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Rainbow

Have you ever had this happen to you? You're walking down the road, rushing home from work, when a light drizzle begins. You feel elated because while the tiny drops of water feel cold as they fall on your bare skin, you can see and feel the warm glow of the sun, which looks so mellow, far out in the horizon. You want to just run towards it because it looks like a giant marshmallow, waiting to be devoured when suddenly you see something more breathtaking: a rainbow!

The subtle arch of vibrant colors, which appears to go from one end of the earth to the other, beckons you. Just as you come out of the magical trance and take a step towards it, it begins to fade away. And you're back to feeling that gloom that preceded the wonderful phenomenon that you just witnessed. Rainbows can have that effect on anyone. We all love to watch them, but we never think about how they form. While explanations about the formation of rainbows can range from fairy dust being sprinkled to the fox and vixen getting married on a hill top, the real story behind its formation is quite technical, thus making it a little (dare I say) boring.

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The Causes of Landslides

THE CAUSES OF LANDSLIDES

The causes of landslides are usually related to instabilities in slopes. It is usually possible to identify one or more landslide causes and one landslide trigger. The difference between these two concepts is subtle but important. The landslide causes are the reasons that a landslide occurred in that location and at that time. Landslide causes are listed in the following table, and include geological factors, morphological factors, physical factors and factors associated with human activity.
Causes may be considered to be factors that made the slope vulnerable to failure, that predispose the slope to becoming unstable. The trigger is the single event that finally initiated the landslide. Thus, causes combine to make a slope vulnerable to failure, and the trigger finally initiates the movement. Landslides can have many causes but can only have one trigger as shown in the next figure. Usually, it is relatively easy to determine the trigger after the landslide has occurred (although it is generally very difficult to determine the exact nature of landslide triggers ahead of a movement event).
Occasionally, even after detailed investigations, no trigger can be determined - this was the case in the large Mount Cook landslide in New Zealand 1991. It is unclear as to whether the lack of a trigger in such cases is the result of some unknown process acting within the landslide, or whether there was in fact a trigger, but it cannot be determined. Perhaps this is because the trigger was in fact a slow but steady decrease in material strength associated with the weathering of the rock - at some point the material becomes so weak that failure must occur. Hence the trigger is the weathering process, but this is not detectable externally. In most cases we think of a trigger as an external stimulus that induces an immediate or near-immediate response in the slope, in this case in the form of the movement of the landslide. Generally this movement is induced either because the stresses in the slope are altered, perhaps by increasing shear stress or decreasing the effective normal stress, or by reducing the resistance to the movement perhaps by decreasing the shear strength of the materials within the landslide.

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Gelato

 Gelato

Gelato (Italian pronunciation: [dʒeˈlaːto]; plural: gelati) is the Italian word for ice cream, derived from the Latin word "gelātus" (meaning frozen). In American English this word commonly refers to varieties of ice cream made in a traditional Italian style. Gelato is made with milk, cream, various sugars, and flavoring such as fresh fruit and nut purees. It is generally lower in calories, fat and sugar than ice cream.
Gelato is a type of soft ice cream containing a relatively small amount of air. By statute, gelato in Italy must have at least 3.5% butterfat, with no upper limit established.
The sugar content in homemade gelato, as in traditional ice cream, is balanced with the water content to act as an anti-freeze to prevent it from freezing solid. Types of sugar used include sucrose, dextrose, and inverted sugar to control apparent sweetness. Typically, gelato—like any other ice cream—needs a stabilizing base. Egg yolks are used in yellow custard-based gelato flavors, including zabaione and creme caramel, and non-fat milk solids are also added to gelato to stabilize the base. Starches and gums, especially corn starch, are sometimes also used to thicken and stabilize the mix.
In the United States there is no standard of definition for gelato set forth by the United States Food and Drug Administration, as there is for ice cream. Whereas ice cream in the U.S. is defined by the Federal Code both by its ingredients, which includes milk fat (also known as butterfat) of 10% or more, gelato in the U.S. covers a wide range of products including frozen desserts eaten like ice cream; products that are identical to ice cream with the exception of their butterfat contents; and premium ice cream containing butterfat far exceeding the minimums set forth in Italy.
The history of gelato dates back to frozen desserts in Sicily, ancient Rome and Egypt made from snow and ice brought down from mountaintops and preserved below ground. Later, in 1686 the Sicilian fisherman Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli perfected the first ice cream machine.  However, the popularity of gelato among larger shares of the population only increased in the 1920s–1930s in the northern Italian city of Varese, where the first gelato cart was developed. Italy is the only country where the market share of handmade gelato versus industrial one is over 55%. Today, more than 5,000 modern Italian ice cream parlors employ over 15,000 people, mostly Italians.
The mixture for gelato is typically prepared using a hot process first, where the sugars need to dissolve. White base is heated to 85 °C (185 °F) completing a pasteurization program. The hot process to make chocolate gelato is essentially the same for conventional ice cream, and depending on recipes, it is meant to be traditionally flavored with cocoa powder and cocoa butter.

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Sleeping Beauty

Contoh Drama Bahasa Inggris. Drama Bahasa Inggris Sleeping Beauty. Naskah Drama Bahasa Inggris. Naskah Drama Bahasa Inggris Sleeping Beauty.

Sleeping Beauty

Once upon a time, in a beautiful castle, there was life a king and his queen. They didn’t  have a child. And it made the queen sad.
Queen     : “Oh my King, What should we do? We will be old and sick, but we haven’t  a child”
King    : “Don’t worry my Queen. I think  God have other plan for us. Be patient”
Queen    : “I hope so”

A years later..
Queen    : “Look my King!! I’m have a child here!!” ( hold her stomach)
King    : “Really?! I will be father!! Thank’s God!!”

Next  9  mounth later...
The queen give birth a beautiful princess. The king was so happy, then he held a big party to celebrate it. The King invited a good witch to bless his princess.
Queen     : “I really happy, my daughter is so beautiful. “
King     : “ She like me! I give her name,.. Aurora!”
G.Witch:  “ What a beautiful name! And for the present, I give you beautiful  act and have high intelegent”
Queen    : “ Thank you... Thank you so much”

Meanwhile,... in place of evil Witch.
E.Witch    : “What it  this!! How can they held a party without me?! They make me angry!”
Then the Evil Witch went to the grand ball

E. Witch : “ How dare you held a party without me, King!”
King      : “ What are you doing here! I’m not invite you!”
E. Witch : “ Woo.. What a beatufil princess... so, this the reason you not invite me? Woah... Let me give her a big present” (walk to the Queen)
Queen      : “What are you doing ?  Go away!”
E. Witch : “ Hahaha... The beautiful princess , I have big present for you. When you touch a thorn of cactus, you will dead! Hahahahahhaha....”
 After that , the Evil Witch dissappear  from the grand ball

 Queen     : “Oh my God!! What should we do ? My princess..” (Crying)
G. Witch : “ Dont worry, my Queen. I will give a protect for the princess.” (took her magic stick) “She will not die, but just sleep for a while. When a prince come to her and say the magic word she will wake up”
King    : “Magic word? What word?”
G. Witch : “Just the prince who know that!”

Next day, the king command to throw all of the cactus in the country to the forbidden jungle. He won’t his princess know about cactus in her life..

(music )
It so long time when the king command to throw all the cactus. The princess grow up and be a beautiful girl. She have good act and so intelegent. Everyone love her.
Aurora     : “My name is Aurora and I really love rose! Everyone know about it!”
Queen    : “You look so happy, My princess... What happen?”
Aurora    : “I’m just feel happy! I love walk out in garden!”

Without know, Evil witch come to they in a old grandma.
E. Witch : “I have a present for you, Princess”
Aurora     : “ What is that?”
E. Witch : (take out a cactus) “There is a cactus for you!”
Aurora    : “ Cactus? It look so unique! I never see plant like this!”
Queen    : “ Don’t touch it my princess!” (scary)
Aurora    : “ Why? I really like it!” (Touch the thorn) “Auch! It’s hurt! Look a blood!”
Queen    : “ Aurora!!”
The Princess aurora was fell down. Then the old grandma change into Evil Witch.
E. Witch : “HAHAHAHAHAHA... Watch out this Beauty princess! You will die!! Hahahaha!” (take her magic stick)  “And for you, my Queen! All of the country will be a rock ! hahahahaha..”

Then, the evil witch dissappear
Many prince try to save the princess but they failed. They can’t fight with the evil witch Gulliver  that keep the country.
Gulliver    : “HAHAHA... I’M A BIG DRAGON AND I’M STRONG! NO ONE CAN KILL ME!!! HAHAHHAHHAHHA!!!”
Prince     : “ But, I can!”
(the prince & the dragon do hom pim pa)

Prince    : “ I win!!!! Hahahaha... you lose dragon! Now you die!!” (happy)
Gulliver    : “ Yeah.. you win! Just go inside!”  (The dragon sit down)
Prince    : “Hei,.. is here the cave of many diamond, gold, coin????”(puppy eyes) “ I heard many prince come here to looking for that!”
Gulliver    : “Yeah,.. just go inside and don’t ask anything! I feel queasy because of you!!”

Narator     : “What’s happen here? Having Funny right? But you all out from the story!!”
Dragon    & Princess : “Who’s care??” (out off stage)

Back to story.  After  that the prince go inside to the grand ball and look a beautiful princess
Prince    : “What a beautiful Princess! But,...” (The prince shake the princess body) “ Hei! Wake up!! You smell bad! How long  you not take a bath!!”
And... hei! The princess wake up! She look at the prince with revolted
Princess : “Who are you! How dare you say to me like that!”
Prince    :  “ Hey! You should say thank’s to me ! I save you from the Evil witch! So where the golden and the diamond?”
Princess : “ What? Diamond? What you talking about? Hey!!!”
Prince    : “ yeah,.. I’m just looking for some diamond!”
Princess : “  What? You not come here to save me but,.. for some... diamond?”
Prince     : “ Yeah...”
Princess : “You greedy boy!!”
Prince     : “Hey!! Don’t call me like that!!”

When they fight with other the country back as look as before. The queen look at the prince and the princess. She smile.
 Queen : “ So,.. When you  will married my daughter, prince?”
Prince and princess scared!
P& Ps     : “ What?! Marry?!”

Prince    : “ With her?”
Princess : “With him?!”

Yeah,.. then the last word!
And then the prince and the princess live sadly ever after.
Story finish...
Thank you for your attention
And good bye

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Ande Ande Lumut

Contoh Drama Bahasa Inggris. Drama Bahasa Inggris Ande Ande Lumut. Naskah Drama Bahasa Inggris. Naskah Drama Bahasa Inggris Ande Ande Lumut.

Ande Ande Lumut

Hundred years ago, there was a family live in Gedangan Village. A widow called Madam Gedangan with one daughter called Kelenting Abang and one her foster daughter called Kelenting Kuning.
Kelenting Abang lived was enjoying, happy always because she is from esteemed family and their mother spoiled them, except Kelenting Kuning. Kelenting Kuning who’s the only one foster daughter was silent, calm and really diligent. Her sister had different behaviour from her. Klenting Abang was very lazy and have rude attitude to Kelenting Kuning.
One day, Kelenting Kuning was sweeping the floor in the living room, when Kelenting Abang came.
Kelenting Abang    : Oh…my God! I feel so tired today. It is a very busy day, you know?  I have spent my day from one mall to others. Hi, do you have finished the job that I give you yesterday?
Kelenting Kuning    : I have finished all my jobs, sister!
Kelenting Abang    : I’ll check it then!
 (And then Kelenting Abang came and with hands on her hips stood up in front of Kelenting Kuning, she was bringing a piece of cloth)
Kelenting Abang    : Hey… Kelenting Kuning, can you make a job better? You said you’ve washed this cloth. Now, notice it! Don’t you see it, there are still stains? How come you don’t know them? You are useless!
Kelenting Kuning    : I’m so sorry sister. I don’t purpose...
Kelenting Abang    : Ah, You never make a good job.  I don’t know what’s the matter with you! Since you stay here, everyday always makes me annoyed. Remember your status here, only foster sister. Just go away!
(Kelenting Kuning nodded her head down, her tears dropped in her cheek. Kelenting Kuning cried, wiped her tears, and let out a sob)
Kelenting Abang    : Stop laughing girl! You are intentional to ridicule me, right?
Kelenting Kuning     : No, I’m crying not laughing, you know!
Kelenting Abang    : Oh my God..! Stop pretending, Kelenting Kuning! Do you think I’ll get compassion with your tears? Forget it!
(Heard the noisy situation, Madam Gedangan out of from her room and came over to them)
Madam Gedangan     : What’s wrong my daughter? Why are you all so noisy? You know…what time is it now? It’s time for you to take afternoon nap. You must keep your health, keep your beauty…!
Kelenting Abang     : Mom…
Madam Gedangan     : What’s the matter Kelenting Abang?
Kelenting Abang     : Mom…Kelenting Kuning damaged my cloth. See it is! Mom, it’s my lovely cloth.
Madam Gedangan     : Kelenting Kuning! I’ve given you attention many times. Doing anything carefully! Listen your mom said and hammer into your head! Understand?
Kelenting Kuning     : Yes mom…I’m sorry, please forgive me.
Kelenting Abang    : You are careless person! You are only parachite here! I really dislike you! Now… take it and wash it again until clean.
(Kelenting Abang threw the cloth in Kelenting Kuning’s face. After that Kelenting Abang turned over and rushed out to her room, leave Kelenting Kuning)
Madam Gedangan    : All right Kelenting Kuning, don’t forget finished clean the floor, you must clean the chicken coop, wash the clothes and don’t forget prepare for eat lunch. Don’t be late or your sisters will shout you! Hurry up!
Kelenting Kuning    : Yes mom, I’ll do.   
One day Madam Gedangan heard that Madam Dadapan from Dadapan Village looked for a girl to be her son’s wife. Her son’s name is Ande-Ande Lumut.  Who didn’t know Madam Dadapan? She was famous person cause of her rich. Madam Gedangan had dream that one of her daughters become Ande-Ande Lumut wife.
Madam Gedangan     : My daughter…where are you? Come in honey. I have good news!
Kelenting Abang    : What’s the matter mom?
Madam Gedangan   : Now, listen to your mom say carefully. I have good news for you! You know Dadapan Village, don’t you? Well, Madam Dadapan the famous widow from there, now looking for a girl for her son called Ande - Ande Lumut. He is good looking boy, polite and quite rich more famous than David Beckham and more handsome than Tom Cruise. Imagine honey how lucky you are if you can make him fall in love to you. Great your life, I guarantee!
Kelenting Abang         : But mom… Dadapan Village is so far from here. I must cross the sea. Everybody says that it’s dangerous sea. I can sink in it.
Madam Gedangan      : Don’t worry honey…there are so many girls from other villages who will across too. You can join with them. Remember “where there is a will there is a way” you must go there and prove that you are great! Show up the world that you can make Ande-ande Lumut fall in love with you.
Kelenting Abang     : I will go there Mom… I’m sure Ande-Ande Lumut likes me. I’m a beautiful, I’m intelligent, and energetic! I have confidence.
Madam Gedangan     : Very good my dear
Kelenting Kuning    : Mom…can I take a part in this competition?
Madam Gedangan    : What? You’ll follow your sister go to Dadapan Village? Hmm…. I don’t think so Kelenting Kuning!
Kelenting Abang : Exactly right Mom. Hi Kelenting Kuning, do you think who are you? You look so disgusting! Your cloth so embarrassing!
Kelenting Kuning    : Sister, life is quite complicated. There are many choices in this life. There so many ways to walk on. And there are many secrets that we don’t know. so, who is knows if Ande-Ande Lumut will choose me?
Kelenting Abang    : Yah, I really don’t understand where you get bravery to go there and have opinion to marry Ande-Ande Lumut. It’s up to you then, but I bet you just get some mock from madam Dadapan. It’s Impossible.
Madam Gedangan    : My dear Kelenting Abang, Now you must go to beauty pallor to manicure, pedicure, hair spa, and facial. You must seem beautiful.
Kelenting abang : yes mom.
Madam Gedangan    : and you, klenting kuning, go to the sea, was the cooking Vessel till seems new one! Don’t back home before you do it.
Kelenting kuning    : I will do it mom.
Madam Gedangan    : oh yes before I and Kelenting abang go shopping, i have special powder for your face, to make your face look very ugly and smell bad!
(madam gedangan and klenting abang forced klenting kuning to use that powder)
Klenting Abang    : Don’t washing it out or You can’t go to the dadapan village!
Klenting Kuning    : Y...Yes sister.
(Kelenting Kuning wash dishes in the sea)
Kelenting Kuning    : Oh God…. You know everything what happen to me. Now, I live without love. God, I live separate with my family. I really don’t know the way how I can meet them. I do miss them. Now I stay in Madam Gedangan’s home. They don’t like me very much! They never satisfied everything I’ve done. I should not be here. I have to change my life right now. I have to go to Dadapan Village and meet Ande-Ande Lumut. But the rumors said that if I wanna go to Dadapan Village, I must across the sea without a bridge. What must I do God?
(and suddenly some lidi fall out to her hand)
Kelinting Kuning : what is this actually? I don’t know what this is for, but I will save it.
In the morning Kelenting Abang was in the journey to Dadapan Village. At the time she stymied by large sea. They were confused because there wasn’t bridge to across.
Kelenting Abang     : I don’t have any ideas to reach Dadapan Village. How come I go there if there isn’t a bridge?
When she confused found out trouble situation, suddenly in the middle of sea was appearance a big, big crab! He swam to the edge of sea and approached Kelenting Abang’s place.
Yuyu Kangkang     : He…he... what are you doing here?
(Kelenting Abang surprised and move back from edge of sea)
Kelenting Abang     : Who are you? Why you can speak like a human? Actually you are a nice crab or a devil crab?
Yuyu Kangkang     : He...he... Don’t be afraid. I’m a kind crab. My name is Yuyu Kangkang.
Kelenting Abang     :  Yuyu Kangkang, I get trouble. Could you help me please? I’ll go to Dadapan Village, but I can’t across this sea. Could you take me across the sea please?
Yuyu Kangkang     : Ha...ha... Of course I will help you. I’ll do it pleasure. ehm…. But I have one condition
Kelenting Abang     : What condition is? Money? Jewellery? Mention it!
Yuyu Kangkang      : Ha...ha... no my dear, I don’t need them. Ehm…first time you must pay me.
Kelenting Abang     : How much money?
Yuyu Kangkang     : Not money….but, let me kiss your cheeks one time only… will you?
(Kelenting Abang exclaimed disgust. The refused immediately)
Kelenting Abang     : No… of course I don’t want!
Yuyu Kangkang      : All right! I don’t force you if you don’t want but I can’t help you, take across by yourselves. Ok. I leave you now, I sleep in deep of the sea… Bye...bye…
Kelenting Abang    : Wait…wait a minute! Don’t go please… we can make negotiation
Yuyu Kangkang    : What else? Have you changed your mind? So, you agree with this condition?
Kelenting Abang     : Oh God…I never dream that I get first kiss by ugly crab….Oh…how poor I am.
Yah... Yuyu Kangkang, I agree with your condition, but promise only one time, ok?
Yuyu Kangkang    : Okey.
And then kelenting abang was across by Yuyu Kangkang. And then Kelenting abang continued their journey to Dadapan Village. Yuyu Kangkang stayed under water. Meanwhile Kelenting Kuning arrived in the edge of sea when her sister left that place. Kelenting Kuning had the same as condition with her sister. She was confused how to take across because there wasn’t bridge. Suddenly she saw Yuyu Kangkang in the middle of sea.
Kelenting Kuning     : Yuyu… come here please! Would you help me to take across?
Yuyu Kangkang     : ha... ha... Excuse me?
Kelenting Kuning     : Please help me to take across this sea. I’ll go to Dadapan Village.
Yuyu Kangkang      : Ehm…
Kelenting Kuning    : Yuyu, did you see my sister? I mean beautiful girl call Kelenting Abang? Did she past through this sea?
Yuyu Kangkang     : Of course…I know everybody who takes across this sea, your sister instead. And I have taken across her for few hours ago.
Kelenting Kuning    : Really? Will you help me across the sea?
Yuyu Kangkang     : I don’t think so young lady. I can’t help you. Better do it by yourself.
Kelenting Kuning    : Why? You have helped my sisters, but you don’t help me.
Yuyu Kangkang     : Because yours sisters are beautiful and fragrant. And you? You smell bad. I don’t want close to you. Bye Bye....
Yuyu Kangkang left Kelenting Kuning. Kelenting Kuning was very sad and sat down in a stone in the edge of sea and she began remembered about the lidi she get last night.
Klenting Kuning    : I don’t what this is for, but this lidi might be something that help me out across the sea.
Klenting Kuning    :Arasto momentum! Expecto petronum! Crustacio! Humm... There’s nothing happen. So what this lidi for?
(Klenting Kuning suddenly drop it into the sea, then sea make some path for her to across)
Klenting Kuning : Whoa! That’s amazing. Now I can across the sea to reach dadapan village and meet Ande ande lumut!
Meanwhile Kelenting abang had already arrived in front of Madam Dadapan’s house.
Kelenting Abang      : Excuse me, this is Madam Dadapan’s house, isn’t it?
Madam Dadapan     : Exactly right girl! Do you will follow competition to marry Ande- Ande Lumut?
Kelenting Abang    : Right madam.
Madam Dadapan     : Ok! Firstly you must fill the guest list and I’ll call you. Is it clear?
Kelentings                : Yes madam
A few minutes later madam Dadapan call Kelenting Abang.
Madam Dadapan     : Who are you beautiful girl?
Kelenting abang       : I’m Kelenting Abang from Gedangan Village.
Madam Dadapan     : I know you came here because you want to marry my son, don’t you?
Kelenting abang       : Of course madam. I had tell you before, right?
Madam Dadapan   : Ok girl! I hope you’ll success, so many beautiful girls has been refused by Ande-Ande Lumut. I’ll ask my son first. You wait here.
(Madam sang a special song to call Ande-Ande Lumut)
Madam Dadapan :My son calls Ande-Ande Lumut. Please you come down there is a girl who marry you. She is a really beautiful girl. Every body likes calling her Kelenting Abang
(And then Ande-ande Lumut answered by sang a song too)
 Ande Ande Lumut : Mom I don’t want to come down. Mom I don’t want to meet her. Kelenting Abang is Yuyu Kangkang’s remnant.
Madam Dadapan     : My dear Kelenting Abang, you heard by yourself just know that my son refused you because you are actually Yuyu Kangkang’s remnant. Aren’t you?
Kelenting Abang      : Madam, Yuyu Kangkang kissed my check only once. Could you persuade him to come down? Please madam, help me…
Madam Dadapan     : I’m so sorry my dear. Ande- Ande Lumut is wise person. He knows everything that better for him. I trust his choose. My dear, better you go home. Don’t be sad, may be it is not a good day for you.
Kelenting Abang leaved madam sadly
A few minutes later Kelenting Kuning arrived in Madam’s house. Madam Dadapan startled when she watched Kelenting Kuning appearance. Kelenting Kuning wore old cloth and lusterless.
Madam Dadapan     : What do you want here?
Kelenting Kuning    : Madam, I want to marry Ande-Ande Lumut.
Madam Dadapan     : Are you? A thousand beautiful girls came here to marry my son but he didn’t, and you?
Kelenting Kuning    : Yes madam. Maybe your son doesn’t look for beautiful girl like them, maybe he looks for a girl like me, who knows?
Madam Dadapan     : It's Impossible you know.
Kelenting Kuning   : Madam, can you ask Ande-Ande Lumut who knows he want to accept me? Please help me. My house so far from here…
Madam Dadapan     : Hm…what’s your name?
Kelenting Kuning    : Kelenting Kuning madam, I’m from Gedangan Village.
Madam Dadapan     : Ok, I’ll ask my son first but I’m not sure you’ll get a good answer
Kelenting Kuning   : Madam, if he refuses me, I’ll not disappoint. I just want to hear his voice.
Madam Dadapan     : Hm...Actually I feel so tired to sing a song again. I have been singing a song for 1650 girls today. But it’s ok. You are the last one.
(Madam seemed reluctantly but finally she sang a specially song to call her son)
Madam Dadapan : My son calls Ande-Ande Lumut. Please you don’t come, there’s a girl who marry you. She is a smells bad. Everybody mention her name is Kelenting Kuning.
Ande ande lumut : Mom, I’m coming down now. Mom, I love that the girl. I have been waiting her for a long time
Madam Dadapan     : My son, are you ok? Don’t you make mistake? She is not the girl like your image.
Ande Ande Lumut : no mom, I truly know that she is the one who have kind heart. not like the other girl.
Finally, Ande-Ande Lumut was married with Klenting kuning, and they happily ever after.

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How to Train Your Dragon

Reviewed by Savira Larasati

    How to Train Your Dragon is a computer-animated action-fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation based on the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. The film was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the duo who directed Disney's Lilo & Stitch. It stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

    The film was released March 26, 2010 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards, but lost to Toy Story 3 and The Social Network, respectively. The movie also won ten Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature.

    Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) is not a popular Viking.  He is scrawny, he is nerdy (he has a knack for invention), and he is so clumsy that he gets in the way of how most of his fellow Vikings spend their time to fighting dragons.  To make matters worse, Hiccup’s father Stoick (Gerard Butler) is the chief of the village and the best dragon-slayer around.  In an effort to prove himself to everyone, Hiccup uses a bola-catapult to bring down a dragon, but no one sees it.  He sets off to find the felled dragon only to discover it’s still alive, but captured in the ropes of the bola.  Unable to bring himself to kill the creature, Hiccup begins training the dragon-who he names “Toothless” due to the dragon’s retractable teeth-and discovers that they’re not the violent predators they’re made out to be by Viking lore.

    The animation is very detailed, although a little more expressiveness in the characters’ faces might have been nice and all voice actors provide great performances that always keep pace with both the humor and the range of the characters’ emotions. It also has a strong moral lesson about how it’s more courageous to be kind than to be violent.

    Overall, How to Train Your Dragon is an excellent movie and we enjoyed it from beginning to end. Feel free to bring kids of all ages to this one, nothing in it is inappropriate or so scary that it would give the little ones nightmares. Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing it again.

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