Refrain (Saat Cinta Selalu Pulang)

            Waktu pertama kali aku lihat bentuk sampul nya, Aku kira itu bukan amplop beneran... ehh ternyata tu emang amplop, di dalam nya ada kertas bertulis kan It's always been you. Nah loo.. apa nihh maksud nya. Lalu aku baca sinopsis di belakang nya,,, aku asumsikan it's just a ordinary teenage story ... Jadi hari itu aku enggak beli novel ini. Lalu beberapa hari setelah itu, aku lihat temen ku bawa novel ini ke sekolah. Akhir nya aku pinjam novel ini dari teman ku.

Behhh, abis baca ternyata apa yang tertulis di dalam nya bener - bener extraordinary..

Novel ini yang bikin aku tak henti - hentinya bedecak kagum pada Winna Efendi. Novel ini  . Kisah tentang sepasang remaja Nata dan Niki, yang sedari kecil bersahabat baik, namun tiba-tiba dihadapkan pada satu konflik percintaan – Nata jatuh cinta pada Niki. Nata merasa perasaannya ke Niki bisa merusak persahabatan yang mereka jalin selama ini, sehingga ia pun mengurungkan niatnya untuk mengutarakan isi hatinya. Alhasil Niki yang tak tahu apa-apa malah pacaran dengan Oliver, kapten Tim Basket SMU Pelita yang pernah menjadi lawan tanding sekolah Nata dan Niki, sosok pemuda yang menjadi idaman gadis-gadis di sekolah Niki dengan face-nya yang ganteng, kaya dan charming. Sebenarnya Nata sempat bertekad mengungkapkan perasaannya ke Niki karena dorongan Anna—sosok gadis indo yang telah menjadi sahabat baru Nata dan Niki, namun Nata mengurungkan niatnya kembali karena Niki sudah memutuskan menjalin hubungan dengan Oliver. 

          Novel ini sebenarnya juga menyuguhkan konflik cinta segitiga dalam persahabatan Nata, Niki, dan Anna. Sebagai murid pindahan, Anna diam-diam menaruh hati pada Nata sejak pertama kali menginjakkan kaki di sekolah. Tetapi Anna tahu bahwa posisi Niki di hati Nata tak bisa digeser olehnya. Konflik-konflik seperti ini yang menjadi kan buku ini gurih untuk dikonsumsi. Banyak nilai yang bisa dipetik dari cerita ini mulai dari kasih sayang, persahabatan, kesetiaan, ketulusan, hingga pengorbanan.

Folk Music

           Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that. Certain types of folk music are also called world music.
Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers; another is music that has been transmitted and evolved by a process of oral transmission or performed by custom over a long period of time.
         Starting in the mid-20th century a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. The most common name for this new form of music is also "folk music", but is often called "contemporary folk music" or "folk revival music" to make the distinction. This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, electric folk, and others. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music. Even individual songs may be a blend of the two.

Folk Music is.....
A consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive. The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions. They are extensions of the term folk lore, which was coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe "the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes." The term is further derived from the German expression Volk, in the sense of "the people as a whole" as applied to popular and national music by Johann Gottfried Herder and the German Romantics over half a century earlier. Traditional folk music also includes most indigenous music

          However, despite the assembly of an enormous body of work over some two centuries, there is still no certain definition of what folk music (or folklore, or the folk) is. Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms. One meaning often given is that of "old songs, with no known composers", another is that of music that has been submitted to an evolutionary "process of oral transmission.... the fashioning and re-fashioning of the music by the community that give it its folk character."Such definitions depend upon "(cultural) processes rather than abstract musical types...", upon "continuity and oral transmission...seen as characterizing one side of a cultural dichotomy, the other side of which is found not only in the lower layers of feudal, capitalist and some oriental societies but also in 'primitive' societies and in parts of 'popular cultures'." One widely used definition is simply "Folk music is what the people sing".
          For Scholes, as well as for Cecil Sharp and Béla Bartók, there was a sense of the music of the country as distinct from that of the town. Folk music was already "seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear (or in some cases, to be preserved or somehow revived)," particularly in "a community uninfluenced by art music"  and by commercial and printed song. Lloyd rejected this in favour of a simple distinction of economic class yet for him true folk music was, in Charles Seeger's words, "associated with a lower class" in culturally and socially stratified societies. In these terms folk music may be seen as part of a "schema comprising four musical types: 'primitive' or 'tribal'; 'elite' or 'art'; 'folk'; and 'popular'."
           Music in this genre is also often called traditional music. Although the term is usually only descriptive, in some cases people use it as the name of a genre. For example, the Grammy Award previously used "traditional music" for folk music that is not contemporary folk music.

Pariwasata Perancis

VOILA!!! BONJOUR A TOUS!!! 


O la la!! I will tell you about French. Negara yang pada setiap hari jum'at aku pelajari bahasa nya ini ternyata pernah jadi The Number One Tourist Destination lhoo... aku lupa tahun kapan yaa..... But, forget about it, Because you must read this. 
(^_^)

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            Perancis menarik lebih dari 60 juta wisatawan setiap tahun (sama banyak dengan populasinya), membuatnya sebuah tempat tujuan wisata paling populer di dunia. Namun belakangan ini kepopulerannya mulai berkurang dengan meningkatnya kepraktisan negara-negara di Eropa Timur yang lebih murah.
            Perancis merupakan negara wisata klasik. Tempat ini menawarkan barisan gunung, pesisir seperti Brittany atau sepanjang Laut Mediterania, kota-kota yang kaya akan warisan budaya, château (kastil) seperti Versailles, pedesaan, "vineyard" di Burgundy, dan kota Paris dengan Louvre, boulevard, menara Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe dan katedral Notre-Dame.
           Perancis juga terkenal dengan minuman anggur (Wine) nya yang berkualitas tinggi serta seni memasak/ kuliner nya.Salah satu makanan populer dari perancis adalah Escargot.
Di bagian timurnya ada beberapa tempat resort ski di Alps. Kota terkenal lainnya adalah Avignon dengan istana Paus, Arles, Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Orléans di Sungai Loire, Toulouse di Garonne, Strasbourg di perbatasan dengan Jerman, and Lyon.
          Wisatawan dari Inggris banyak menghabiskan musim panas mereka di Lembah Dordogne, orang Spanyol berwisata di Biarritz dan St Jean de Luz di pesisir Basque, dan orang Irlandia sering mengunjungi Lourdes.
            Perancis juga memiliki kereta kecepatan tinggi yang disebut TGV (train à grande vitesse) dan juga pelayanan kereta untuk regional yang dioperasikan oleh SNCF (jawatan kereta api Perancis).
          Banyak yang berspekulasi bahwa bila wisata sampai berhenti ekonomi akan menderita besar dengan kemungkinan kehancuran ekonomi. Hal yang sama juga mungkin dialami Spanyol dan Italia di mana ekonomi mereka banyak tergantung pada wisata dan jumlah uang yang dibawa per tahunnya.

Pariwisata: Apaan tuh?

                  Kali ini kalian akan kubawa ke dunia ku. That's right! Pariwisata.! Just so you know.. Aku bersekolah di sekolah pariwisata, bermimpi masuk fakultas ilmu budaya dan pariwisata, bermimpi jadi tour guide dan tour planner, dan aku juga bermimpi bisa keliling dunia.  hahahaha... (pray for me dong...!!)

     

              Pariwisata atau turisme adalah suatu perjalanan yang dilakukan untuk rekreasi atau liburan, dan juga persiapan yang dilakukan untuk aktivitas ini. Seorang wisatawan atau turis adalah seseorang yang melakukan perjalanan paling tidak sejauh 80 km (50 mil) dari rumahnya dengan tujuan rekreasi, merupakan definisi oleh Organisasi Pariwisata Dunia.

              Definisi yang lebih lengkap, turisme adalah industri jasa. Mereka menangani jasa mulai dari transportasi, jasa keramahan, tempat tinggal, makanan, minuman, dan jasa bersangkutan lainnya seperti bank, asuransi, keamanan, dll. Dan juga menawarkan tempat istrihat, budaya, pelarian, petualangan, dan pengalaman baru dan berbeda lainnya.

              Banyak negara, bergantung banyak dari industri pariwisata ini sebagai sumber pajak dan pendapatan untuk perusahaan yang menjual jasa kepada wisatawan. Oleh karena itu pengembangan industri pariwisata ini adalah salah satu strategi yang dipakai oleh Organisasi Non-Pemerintah untuk mempromosikan wilayah tertentu sebagai daerah wisata untuk meningkatkan perdagangan melalui penjualan barang dan jasa kepada orang non-lokal.

           

                 Menurut Undang Undang No. 10/2009 tentang Kepariwisataan, yang dimaksud dengan pariwisata adalah 

"Berbagai macam kegiatan wisata yang didukung oleh 

berbagai fasilitas serta layanan yang disediakan masyarakat, pengusaha, Pemerintah dan Pemerintah Daerah"

New York City

I  can't remember what I planned tomorrow
I can't remember when it's time to go
When I look in the mirror
Tracing lines with a pencil
I remember what came before
I wanted to think there was endless love
Until I saw the light dim in your eyes
In the dead of the night I found out
Sometimes there's love that won't survive
New York City
Such a beautiful disease
New York City
Such a beautiful, 
Such a beautiful disease


Laura kept all her disappointments
Locked up in a box behind her closet door
She pulled the blinds and listened to the thunder
With no way out from the family store
We all told her things could get better
When you just say goodbye
I'll lay awake one more night
Caught in a vision I want to deny
And did I mention the note that I found
Taped to my locked front door
It talked about no regrets
As it slipped from my hand to the scuffed tile floor
I rode the train for hours on end
And watched the people pass me by
It could be that it has no end
Just an action junkie's lullaby
New York City


We were full of the stuff that every dream rested
As if floating on a lumpy pillow sky
Caught up in the whole illusion
That dreams never pass us by
Came to a tattoed conclusion
That the big one was knocking on the door
What started as a mass delusion
Would take me far from the place I adore
New York City

Be My Somebody

I'm too foggy today,
To know what you're sayin',
Your lips are moving so fast,
And I just keep praying,
For them to slow down,
So I can make some sense,
Of the words that are pouring out,
Of your crooked spout.


Last night was a record to be broken,
It broke all over the kitchen floor,
Oh no don't you go,
I'm coming back with a rag,
To wipe away the haze from the days,
We've forgotten all about.


So be my somebody tonight,
Be the one who'll hold me tight,
Honey, please, please,
Cuz I've been so all alone,
And no one will pick up the phone,
So honey, please stay.


I held your head up, do you remember?
When you wanted to make a blanket outta me,
Oh I can't lie ... I been keeping score,
And it's your turn to wring me out,
And lay me down to dry.


So be my somebody tonight,
Be the one who'll hold me tight,
Honey, please, please,
Cuz I've been so all alone,
And no one will pick up the phone,
So honey, please stay,
Honey, please stay,
Honey, please stay.