My Cozy Place; PLURK

Aneh, asing, tidak biasa, itu yang ada dalam pikiranku ketika pertama kali tau ternyata ada sebuah situs jejaring sosial bernama PLURK. Jika diperhatikan dari konfigurasi susunan hurufnya juga agak janggal; Terdiri dari 4 huruf konsonan yang mengapit 1 huruf vocal. Konfigurasi ini juga sedikit menyulitkan lidah kita ketika melafalkannya apalagi jika ingin dieja layaknya sedang belajar membaca (Kalau mengeja BUDI, Be ubu De Idi bacanya Bu-DI lantas bagaimana gampangnya mengeja kata PLURK??? Hahahahaha ujung-ujungnya tetep bawa2 namanya Budi). Belum berhenti disitu rasa ‘’Lain-lainku’’ ketika baru berkenalan dengan PLURK. Setelah iseng-iseng saya buat akun dengan nick AzRa, Eh...ternyata ada juga yang namanya KARMA. Awalnya saya pikir KARMA itu sejenis aplikasi game online yang memang disediakan PLURK untuk mereka pecinta game dan saya memilih untuk mengacuhkannya karena saya kurang tertarik dengan game tapi ternyata KARMA itu membantu kita mendapatkan emoticons lucu yang bisa dipakai sebagai simbol yang kekuatannya lebih besar dalam penyampaian pesan (Plurk tanpa emoticons = Hambar). Ada estimasi-estimasi tertentu yang harus dicapai untuk mendapatkan emoticons tersebut (Mulai dari 10 sampai Tak terhingga) Dan peraturannya adalah Statistik karmamu akan meningkat jika kamu melakukan banyak aktivitas Plurking (Misalnya: menambah teman,membuat tread, merespon ataupun direspon dll) dan akan berkurang drastis jika kamu tidak melakukan apa-apa.

Setelah membuka akun di halaman ini, yang saya lakukan adalah menambah teman dan hanya membuat tread-tread seperti *assalamualaikum!! Selamat pagi* untuk sekedar menyapa saja para penghuni plurk yang notabene memang tidak saya kenal. Sesekali membalas respon dan juga merespon tread-tread lain. Saya juga tak peduli dengan masalah Karma yang naik atau turun. Cuman sebatas itu saja. Bahkan saya sempat benar-benar meninggalkan dunia PLURK beberapa bulan dan akhirnya kembali lagi.

Ya,,awalnya semua terasa asing namun entah bagaimana sepertinya hukum newton 3 telah berlaku sebagai hasil dari intensitas kegiatan Nge-plurk (Membuat tread dan saling merepon). Tiba-tiba saja nama-nama asing yang selalu kuliat ditimeline menjadi begitu akrab. Aksi dan reaksi ditimelinepun akhirnya berlanjut ke dunia nyata setelah diadakannya beberapa kopdar dalam rangka kegiatan sosial bersama dan setelah itu silaturahim ini tetap berjalan baik didunia maya maupun didunia nyata. (cozy)

Lama kelamaan bahkan saya pun baru menyadari telah terjangkit Plurk Addicted. Setiap membuka mata spontan langsung ngecek timeline di plurk. Di Angkutan umum, Ngeplurk. Sambil jalan-jalan, Ngeplurk. Lagi menunggu/antrian, Ngeplurk. Lagi nonton dirumah juga Nge-plurk. Kadang lagi makan juga Ngeplurk, sampe mau tidur juga Ngeplurk. PARAHHHHHH!!! Hahaha (setelah lama saya rasa ini berlebihan, jadi perlu adanya pengendalian diri).

PLURKpun akhirnya menjadi bagian yang sulit untuk dipisahkan dari dalam hidupku. Many things happen here with meaning to.  

PLURK untukku seperti...................................................

Tempat silaturahmi: Kegiatan plurk seperti merespon, membuat tread membuatku serasa berada dalam dunia nyata. Seolah seperti sedang berada di sebuah warkop dan ngobrol banyak hal sambil diketawai padahal kita semua berada pada lokasi yg berbeda. Yah, meski terkadang ada sedikit timbul hal-hal yang tak diinginkan sampai harus berdebat hebat tapi semuanya saya bawa santai saja. Hidup kita sudah cukup serius jadi kalau di dunia maya tak perlu terlalu serius manyikapi semua hal. Yah, Plurk is for Fun.

Tempat ‘’Ini-Itu’’: Mau nanya alamat, nanya tempat makan paling enak, nanya dimana download ini itu, nanya situasi arus jalan mana yang macet, nanya tugas2 kampus, nanya tempat perbaiki ini itu, membahas topik-topik pembicaraan yang ringan sampai yang berat juga boleh, mau pasang pengumuman juga bisa, minta saran atau opini, promosi ini itu juga bisa asal jangan nyari HP yang hilang aja haahahhaha....

Tempat katarsis paling nyaman: Rasa marah, sedih, senang, bete, susah, semuanya secara spontan langsung dapat dituangkan tanpa sungkan. Tread yang tadinya sedih, bete’ atau lagi marah-marah sekalipun justru bisa diketawai saja seenak hati karena respon-respon plurker yang menghibur bisa bikin lupa kalau hariku sedang suram. 

Dan yang paling membuatku betah disini karena saya merasa telah memiliki keluarga kecil disini. Disini saya punya kakak, saya bahkan punya adik yang sudah saya anggap sebagai keluargaku sendiri, juga mendapat teman terbaik yang tidak pernah saya bayangkan sebelumnya. Mereka yang dulunya orang asing, berubah menjadi orang yang paling dekat dihati tanpa harus selalu saya temui dalam wujud nyata. Terimakasih untuk kalian yang selalu membuatku betah disini, yang membuatku merasa ada dan menjadikanku bagian dalam hidup kalian. (cozy)

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American Idioms and Phrases Just For Fun

All of sudden

This phrase is similar to the more common adverb Suddenly, and can almost always be used in place of it.

Example: All of sudden there was a loud knocking at the door.

To get on the Ball

This amusing little phrase says that someone needs to improve something.

            Your work is so sloppy. Get on the ball!!

To have the blue/ To be Blue

To many the color blue suggest coolness or calm,but in this idiom it means that someone is sad or depressed.

            Since Jane stop dating Bob, She is been very blue.

            Don’t be blue. Think about all the happiness you’ve had.

Break The Ice

This idiom really has nothing to do with ice; instead, it says that someone was the first to approach another person.

            The silence was a long, but Maria broke the ice with a simple “hello.” 

A card

This word describes a man (more rarely, a woman) who is very funny or witty.

            I like Jack. He’s such a card.

            You always make me laugh. You’re a real card.

To Keep an eye on

This unusual expression means that someone will watch carefully or guard something.

            Keep an eye on my car. I have to go to the bank.

            I can’t leave right now. I want to keep an eye on the pot on the stove.

To kick the Bucket

This expression is usually used when someone speaks about someone else’s death in a casual or even comic manner. Its synonym is to die.

            When you kick the bucket, you’re going straight to hell.

            Her house was sold a couple of years after Granny kicked the bucket.

Once in a blue moon

This expression explains about something which is very seldom.

            Once in a blue moon, he will go out and see the movie.

Out Of The Blue

This expression has similar meaning with adverb suddenly, unexpectedly.

            To his parents his wedding plans came out of the blue.

Pie in the sky

This expression means an unlikely future reward.

            You’re nice to your uncle just because you think he might leave you all his money

            When he dies?? Oh come on, that’s pie in the sky!!!.

On The Go

This phrase is usually used in a place of busy and in a hurry.

            Her busy job really keeps her on the go.

To Keep in Touch

This phrase means to maintain communication with someone whether by telephone,letter, or other means.

            After you move to New York, please keep in touch. 

Rain Cats and Dogs

This expression has absolutely nothing to do with animals. Use it when you want to say that it is raining very hard.

            I’m not going out there. It’s raining cats and dogs!!

Scatterbrained

This expression suggests that someone is Completely disorganized or a poor thinker.

            She’ll never finish that project. She’s too scatterbrained.

To run out of

This expression is used to say that someone has exhausted the supply of a certain product or that is used up.

            I think we’re about to run out of milk.

            They run out of gas just before getting to Chicago.

To be sick of

This phrase means that someone finds something unbearable or can no longer endure it.

            She left him because she was sick of his constant complaining.

            Will the sun never shine? I’m sick of this weather!

Many Happy Returns of The Day

This phrase is used primarily in the form given above. It is used as a form of congratulations for a special day such as a birthday, anniversary, or wedding.

            ‘’Happy birthday!! Many happy returns of the day!!’’

Topsy-Turvy

This is used to say that something or some place is in a terrible state or very disorganized.

            Mother entered my room and became angry when she saw that everything was

            Topsy-turvy.

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Langue and Parole (Linguistic Antrophology)

Saussure is considered to be responsible for making dichotomy between Langue and Parole. Here, I’m trying to explain these two concepts by reference to Course in General Linguistics.

Ferdinand de Saussure is a linguist who has given much significant influence to the development of Linguistics in the 20th century. As the “father” of Modern Linguistics, he is considered as a linguist who has had a monumental impact on Structuralism theory. Furthermore, Saussure’s idea about general theory of sign system that is semiology. He has five views about language that was being guidance for many linguist, they are signifier and signified, form and content, langue and parole, synchronic and diachronic, and syntagmatic and paradigmatic. However, in this case I would like to proffer only one of his views that are Langue and Parole as the components of language.

Langue
Langue refers to the abstract system of language that is internalized by a given speech community. Langue can be considered as pure referential. In this case, the point of this approach is analyzing internal relation of elements in languages and search for the structure and system of languages without considering external elements of language. Here, structure must have three characteristics that are: (1) consist of units, (2) having an order, and (3) one element precedes the other element. The branches of Pure linguistic that is made by Langue approach are Phonetics and Phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Here, I intend to give the explanation about those branches of language by adding some example in order that we are able to see system and structure in it.

• Phonetics and Phonology: linguistic branch that focus on the phoneme in language.
   Example: Phoneme /b/ vs phoneme /p/ → [pin] vs [bin]
• Morphology
  Example: Cat (plural) → Cat + -s
  The sign Cat and cats are associated in the mind, producing an abstract paradigm of the word forms of cat. Comparing this with other paradigms of word forms, we can note that in the English plural often consist of little more than adding an s to the end of the word.

• Syntax is a linguistic branch that study about the inter relationship between elements of sentence structure, and of the rules governing the arrangement of sentences in sequences.
Example: The cat Climbs the tree (The Cat is a Subject, Climbs is a Verb and The tree is an object)

• Semantics: pure linguistic approach to semantic is to emphasize one of modes significance way that is called pure semantic approach (referential).
Example: a cat chases a mouse. 
- This sentence claimed in proposition that there is an agent “a cat” doing an activity “chases” and the patient is “a mouse” and the proposition must be true if it relevant with reality. 
- To construct the sentence we may follow some process such us selection of the words (system), syntagma (structure) and also concatenation (stretch of words). The sentence constructed by using the convention language which gives a meaning to the sentence. In this case, we select the word “a cat”, “chases” and “a mouse”. These words are appropriate to construct a sentence a cat chases a mouse. Thus, we will consider syntagma in the sentence in which we cannot relate the word “chases” with “flow” or “a mouse” with “flow” because we found no meaning from this relation and it is inappropriate with grammatical structure.

 
Parole
Parole can be considered as individual act of speech and “putting into a practice of language”. Parole is heterogeneous, that is to say composed of unrelated or differing parts of elements. The study of parole would be entirely focused on individual utterances, using all the available resources of formal and empirical study to analyze actual statements, usually within a specific language. It could be reflection of individual freedom in which the speech that created by saying the words in given language. In this sense, de Saussure defines that language as a product, the social side of speech being beyond the control of the speaker. In addition, according to de Saussure, language is not a function of the speaker, but passively assimilated and speaking as defined by Saussure, is premeditated act.
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Mimpi Cuma Mimpi

Mimpi??
Aku belum ingin kembali bermimpi,aku masih tak bernyali...
mungkin karena mimpi-mimpi sederhanaku,yang senantiasa kupatrikan dulu tak juga terpenuhi, meski sekali....

Perjalanan ini masih panjang tapi tak juga pasti,
namun terlalu bodoh bagi diriku untuk memenuhinya dengan ratapan-ratapan tak berarti....

Kini....
Aku hanya ingin menjalani apa yang diberi,
mencoba menerima dan mengerti apa yang terjadi,
mencoba memaknai setiap senti hidup ini,
dan berhenti mengiba-iba lagi

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Curhat Buat Sahabat

Sahabatku, usai tawa ini
Izinkan aku bercerita:

Telah jauh, ku mendaki
Sesak udara di atas puncak khayalan
Jangan sampai kau di sana

Telah jauh, ku terjatuh
Pedihnya luka di dasar jurang kecewa
Dan kini sampailah, aku disini...

Yang cuma ingin diam, duduk di tempatku
Menanti seorang yang biasa saja
Segelas air di tangannya, kala kuterbaring... sakit
Yang sudi dekat, mendekap tanganku
Mencari teduhnya dalam mataku
Dan berbisik : "Pandang aku, kau tak sendiri,
oh dewiku..."
Dan demi Tuhan, hanya itulah yang
Itu saja kuinginkan


Telah lama, kumenanti
Satu malam sunyi untuk kuakhiri
Dan usai tangis ini, aku kan berjanji...

Untuk diam, duduk di tempatku
Menanti seorang yang biasa saja
Segelas air di tangannya, kala kuterbaring... sakit
Menentang malam, tanpa bimbang lagi
Demi satu dewi yang lelah bermimpi
Dan berbisik : "Selamat tidur, tak perlu bermimpi bersamaku..."

Wahai tuhan, jangan bilang lagi itu terlalu tinggi
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Language Acquisition of Child

First language acquisition of child is the process of children in acquiring their first language or mother tongue. In this stage, the ability of children in acquiring language is influenced by two major factors that are internal (family) and external (environtment out side the home where children live in).

Babies are born with the ability to distinguish speech from other sounds they hear, even though they do not understand what it means. By the time children reach school age, they are speaking in complex sentences, having conversations, and understanding most of what they hear.

Children's brains are designed to help them learn language. From the time they are born, their brains register and process the sounds they hear. As a child's brain, thinking skills, and motor systems develop, so does his/her understanding and use of language to communicate. Underlying language development is the ability to think about the world, and explore it with vision, hearing, smell, touch, etc. As a child begins to make sense of the world through exploration, language is attached to those experiences. Language develops gradually, from single words at about twelve months to complex sentences at five years, and from simple concepts (juice, shoes) to those that are more abstract (frustrated, addition). School-age children continue to learn and use increasingly complex and abstract language.


From the phenomenon that we seen in every day, here is an interesting question (but people think it is natural phenomenon). However, I will try to explain it according to my experience when I was child. The question is “how the children learn their first language?’’ ‘’How do I acquire and learn my mother tongue?’’ To answer the question, I have asked my mother and father to get the information about the way I acquire and learn language when I was child. Then, here, I greatly describe about that.

First of all, When I was 10 month, I able to say some words but not perfect. The first word that I could utter is MA-MA and PA-PA. In this stage, I couldn’t say many words because I have a tendency to utter the words which have the same pattern of morpheme. Such as CU-CU (susu), MA-MAM (makan), MI-MI (minum), BO-BO (tidur), NE-NE (nenek), KA-KA (kakak).

Furthermore, My mother and father told me that I was categorized as a child who made a giant leap in acquiring and learn Bahasa Indonesia as my mother tongue. I able to say many words fluently and clearly when I was 1 years old. For example: I did not say any more MA-MAM for MAKAN, MI-MI for MINUM, PI-GI for PERGI, ATUT for TAKUT because I could say these words correctly that MINUM for MINUM, MAKAN for MAKAN, PERGI for PERGI, TAKUT for TAKUT etc.

Moreover, My father and mother told me that I able to speak bahasa Indonesia as my mother tongue when I was 2 years old because I lived around the people who used to speak in bahasa Indonesia rather than local language. At this age, I used to call my father by saying “Bapaknya Icha” not “Bapak” because I used to hear my neighbor called my father with that call then I imitated it. My neighbor called my father “Bapaknya Icha” because my brother’s name is Icha therefore they called my father so. Then, my parents explained to me that I should call my father with “bapak” so step by step I could understand. This is being an unforgettable moment that my parents used to tell me.

Finally, my parents told me that I could interact to another people actively because I understand what they mean when they tried to talk with me. I could answer the simple questions correctly.

For example:
Q = “bapakmu pergi kemana?”
A = “bapakku pergi ke kantor”
Q = “kamu mau pergi kemana?”
A = “main”
Q = “siapa nama kakakmu?”
A = “icha”
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September End (The Trip is begin)

Mungkin isi kepalaku sedang membeku atau bisa jadi benar-benar buntu. Tapi yang pasti saya sedang menjadi orang dungu. Saya tidak tahu, saya tidak tahu, saya tidak tahu. Kata-kata itu setiap hari memalu dikepalaku sebagai jawaban dari pertanyaan: Kemana lagi saya melangkah?? Dimana lagi saya mencari jalan??. Saya juga tidak tahu sampai dimana estimasi otakku bekerja dengan baik. Apakah daya pikirku menurun atau stabil, tapi sepertinya tak mengalami peningkatan (hahaahhaha). Entah ilmu apa yang masih tersisa dikepalaku, setidaknya untuk bisa kubagi dengan orang lain (Mungkin karena sudah lama tak pernah diuji lagi sich!! Hohohoho). Semuanya seperti menguap bersama lamanya rentang waktu ketidakproduktifanku sebagai manusia, sepertinya ini efek samping terdahsyat yang pernah saya tahu ketika seseorang yang dalam setiap minggunya menghabiskan hampir sebagian besar waktunya dalam rumah saja dengan rutinitas itu-itu saja. Bukannya malas keluar rumah tapi lebih karena saya mesti memilah-milah mana aktivitas yang perlu dan mana tidak perlu dilakukan diluar rumah sana.

Sepanjang september ini saya masih selalu bergairah mencari lowongan kerja, masih senantiasa menulis surat-surat lamaran dan mangantarnya, tapi memang sampai akhir bulan ini belum juga ada kabar baik yang saya dapatkan. Meskipun begitu, semangatku tak memudar sedikitpun karena saya punya alasan untuk terus berjalan, Kelurgaku. Hmm,,,Kenapa tak kucoba saja peruntungan ke luar makassar, beradu nasib saja!!! Hitung-hitung sudah cukuplah 2 tahun saya bertahan berwara-wiri disini, mungkin saja rejekiku ada diluar sana (Who knows, I am the lucky one). Ah, sepertinya ini ide yang menarik dan patut dicoba. Anggap saja ini sebuah rekreasi, refreshing, atau sejenis terapi ringan bagi otakku yang membeku...hahahaha..(yahoo)

Perjalananku akan dimulai awal bulan Oktober ini. Ada rasa sedih yang menyelinap dalam hati yang berusaha saya tepiskan ketika ingin beranjak dari kota Makassar. Yach..Terlalu banyak kenangan yang bermakna disini, terlalu banyak yang saya miliki disini sehingga saya benar-benar benci jika harus berjarak jauh dari tempat ini meski hanya untuk sementara waktu. Namun itulah bagian yang memang tidak enak dari pilihan ini, mesti dijalani. Saya tidak tahu nasibku akan bagaimana disana nanti, benar-benar tidak tahu. Tak ada satu gambaran pun muncul dalam benakku. Ini seperti menebak langit abu-abu. Namun keinginanku lebih kuat dari pada kata TIDAK TAHU yang selalu menghantuiku. Saya tak mau berdiam diri saja disini, saya ingin berpetualang lagi. Entah nanti bagaimana hasilnya, yang saya tahu, saya ingin mencoba saja. Dengan begitu, saya bisa meruntuhkan dinding-dinding KetidakTahuanku tentang segala Kemungkinan.

‘’Bagaimana kita TAHU sesuatu yang TAK MUNGKIN bisa berubah menjadi MUNGKIN jika kita tak punya Nyali untuk mencoba’’

Let’s begin this Trip with BismiLLAHIrahmaanirrahiim ^_^

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