The Ugly Duckling

This story was made by Hans Christian Andersen in November 11, 1843. It's been a long time ago right ? so I will share you  a one of classic story in the world, enjoy reading! :))

Once upon a time down on an old farm, lived a duck family, and Mother Duck had been sitting on a clutch of new eggs. One nice morning, the eggs hatched and out popped six chirpy ducklings. But one egg was bigger than the rest, and it didn't hatch. Mother Duck couldn't recall laying that seventh egg. How did it get there? TOCK! TOCK! The little prisoner was pecking inside his shell.

"Did I count the eggs wrongly?" Mother Duck wondered. But before she had time to think about it, the last egg finally hatched. A strange looking duckling with gray feathers that should have been yellow gazed at a worried mother. The ducklings grew quickly, but Mother Duck had a secret worry.

 "I can't understand how this ugly duckling can be one of mine!" she said to herself, shaking her head as she looked at her last born. Well, the gray duckling certainly wasn't pretty, and since he ate far more than his brothers, he was outgrowing them. As the days went by, the poor ugly duckling became more and more unhappy. His brothers didn't want to play with him, he was so clumsy,  and all the farmyard folks simply laughed at him. He felt sad and lonely, while Mother Duck did her best to console him.

 "Poor little ugly duckling!" she would say. "Why are you so different from the others?" And the ugly duckling felt worse than ever. He secretly wept at night. He felt nobody wanted him."Nobody loves me, they all tease me! Why am I different from my brothers?"

 

Then one day, at sunrise, he ran away from the farmyard. He stopped at a pond and began to question all the other birds. "Do you know of any ducklings with gray feathers like mine?" But everyone shook their heads in scorn.

"We don't know anyone as ugly as you." The ugly duckling did not lose heart, however, and kept on making inquiries. He went to another pond, where a pair of large geese gave him the same answer to his question. What's more, they warned him: "Don't stay here! Go away! It's dangerous. There are men with guns around here!" The duckling was sorry he had ever left the farmyard.

 Then one day, his travels took him near an old countrywoman's cottage. Thinking he was a stray goose, she caught him.

"I'll put this in a hutch. I hope it's a female and lays plenty of eggs!" said the old woman, whose eyesight was poor. But the ugly duckling laid not a single egg. The hen kept frightening him.

"Just wait! If you don't lay eggs, the old woman will wring your neck and pop you into the pot!" And the cat chipped in: "Hee! Hee! I hope the woman cooks you, then I can gnaw at your bones!" The poor ugly duckling was so scared that he lost his appetite, though the old woman kept stuffing him with food and grumbling: "If you won't lay eggs, at least hurry up and  get plump!"

"Oh, dear me!" moaned the now terrified duckling. "I'll die of fright first! And I did so hope someone would love me!"

Then one night, finding the hutch door ajar, he escaped. Once again he was all alone. He fled as far away as he could, and at dawn, he found himself in a thick bed of reeds. "If nobody wants me, I'll hid here forever." There was plenty a food, and the duckling began to feel a little happier, though he was lonely. One day at sunrise, he saw a flight of beautiful birds wing overhead. White, with long slender necks, yellow beaks and large wings, they were migrating south.

 "If only I could look like them, just for a day!" said the duckling, admiringly. Winter came and the water in the reed bed froze. The poor duckling left home to seek food in the snow. He dropped exhausted to the ground.

However, by springtime and when the duckling saw himself mirrored in the water.

"Goodness! How I've changed! I hardly recognize myself!" The flight of swans winged north again and glided on to the pond. When the duckling saw them, he realized he was one of their kind, and soon made friends."We're swans like you!" they said, warmly. "Where have you been hiding?"

 

"It's a long story," replied the young swan, still astounded. Now, he swam majestically with his fellow swans. 


One day, he heard children on the river bank exclaim: "Look at that young swan! He's the finest of them all!" And he almost burst with happiness.

                                                     - THE END -

Amazing Structure

Hello! I'm gonna tell you about the one of seven wonders in the world, it's Eiffel Tower!! I think almost everyone knows this building, so I just explains a little bit and the beauty of it.

The Eiffel Tower (French: La tour Eiffel) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticized by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.98 million people ascended it in 2011.The tower received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010.

The tower received some criticism from the public when it was built, calling it disturbing eyes. Daily newspapers are filled with angry letters from the arts community of Paris. One of them entered the United States Government Printing Office William Watson Paris Universal Exposition: Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Architecture 1892 "And during twenty years we shall see, stretching over the entire city, still lived by the genius of the centuries , we shall see stretching out like a black shadow of the odious column built up of riveted iron plates. " Signers of this letter included Messonier, Gounod, Garnier, Gerome, Bougeureau, and Dumas.

This pictures of the Eiffel Tower structure during construction

 7 December 1887: Construction of the legs with scaffolding.

20 March 1888: Completion of 1st level.

15 May 1888: Start of construction of second stage.

21 August 1888: Completion to 2nd level

 26 December 1888: Construction of upper stage

 15 March 1889: Construction of cupola

I very love this tower, and I hope someday that I can go to this place with my family while traveling around europe.Aamiin.

source : 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower

A Great Day Of Matswapati

(poster of matswapati event)

Last Sunday, 27^th September 2014 was held an event called “Matswapati” in Lapangan Bali at Jalan Bali in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. This event was presented by 3 Senior High School Bandung my lovely school^^v. In this event present everything about traditional art culture of West Java. The price of the ticket was only 25k, is it cheap right? we can saw benjang (traditional martial arts of West Java), cepot show (skinned-red, like a puppet show but the story is very funny), merak dance (traditional dance, the costumes like peacock bird), angklung show (traditional musical instruments of West Java) and the guest star is Barsena whose the winner of nez academy and indonesian jazz singer Glenn Fredly! 

Actually this event begins in 7 am with parade activity around Bali Field followed by many participants from elementery school students with unique traditional costumes like traditional clothes of Jawa Barat (kebaya), merak tranditional dance costumes, and many more.

(taken from @matswapati3 intasgram)

Unfortunately, I can't come on time. I was sick and felt not good in the morning so I just can saw the merry of parade from instagram matswapati account from my handphone.

After that the opening of the event or open gate with mayor of Bandung city is Mr. Ridwan Kamil who graduated from 3 Senior High School Bandung with his wife Mrs.Athalia.

(opening gate ceremony with mayor of Bandung city)

At 11 am I arrived at venue with my mom by ride motorcycle. It was very hot and sunny it make us thirsty, so we came to food area (basketball field). We bought a cup of cendol (traditional drinks of Bandung/West Java, sweet taste mixed with extract of suji leaf jelly) very delicious! because it's very tasty when we drink during a hot day.

Then we visited the main venue (football field), we can see there is so many stand who sell traditional arts and games of Jawa Barat cultures. Very interesting right? :)

(taken by panorama mode from my phone)

Do not miss my class have own stand that have themed Arjuna, we sell postcard, arrows exercise (arjuna mascot carries the arrows right?) and brain teasers/iq games. 

(I took a photo with my mom in front of my class stand)

Then I saw a show of calung (traditional music instrument of West Java) those people are not play in the stage, but in the field while walking around.

Then a show of benjang (traditional martial arts of West Java)

I took a screenshot from video if that video it's not too clear to see :)

After take a look around, we had to pray dzuhur in Al- Kaustar Mosque at Jalan Sumbawa and cameback to the venue and watched MK, (not mahkamah konstitusi =)) but Musik Klasik is an extra curricular in 3 shs it's about classic music and it's gonna be my extracurricular, it has 3 section such as : guitar, drum, violin and bass. That's cool right? ;) )

And I still have the video of them if you want to hear how cool they are!

Around 1 pm I can go outside to ate lunch with mom, I decided not ate in food area because there is no food that we wanted, so we went to Nasi Bakar 15 at Jalan Cimandiri.

Then we came back to the venue, I was so curious why the gate is being a little bit crowded when we came back to the venue. Besides the weather it's not too hot while afternoon, after it I immediately watched cepot show from Wayang Golek Giriharja, the show is very exclaimed. The controller of puppets said silly word in sundanese. I was laughing because the puppets acted so silly.

And I record a little bit part of all the funniest part =))

After watched cepot show, I had ashr pray then came back to the field, I was astonished because there's so many people here, now we are waited for the guest star, but before it we were watched Indonesia Bamboo Community and KV (kelompok vokal 3 of shs)

 (picture of Indonesian Bamboo Community show)

(picture of KV grade 2016 show)

(picture of KV grade 2015 show)

While waited the guest star I took a selfie with my friends to kept the mood haha =))

there so many people came to this venue, it's means this event is success!

Finally one of the guest star came, he is Barsena. We were very happy to hear he sang a song, because his voice is very amazing, we dazzled with his show, he also sing with KV 2015.

(Barsena sang with a band called Panorama)

(And he also sang with KV 2015)

After Barsena show we had a maghrib pray, then the real guest star came to Matswapati stage, yeah it's Glenn Fredly. We screamed when he reveal themselves to us, then we sang together until 8pm.

There was the one that make me eyed-dazzled, that's the saxophone player, he is very expert to play that instrument. It's remind me with a legendary saxophone player, Kenny G is my idol, I love all his songs.

And this is another cool video !

At the end I took selfie with my classmate, what a great moment. Thank god I had a great day, that why I named my post "A Great Day Of Matswapati" :)))))))))).

Hahahaaa I posted so many picture as you know I love all about Photography *camera*

because I think it's very interesting that we can keep the moment with capture it and wherever and whenever we want to remember it we can easily see this picture again right ?

 Thanks for your time to read all this post, I hope you can feel too how awesome this event!! ;)