City Tour

Ir. H. Djuanda Forest Park

Talking about places to visit in Bandung is not complete if you have not visiting the Ir. H. Djuanda Forest Park . You can feel the atmosphere of nature , and know some of the history of Indonesia. In 1965 the forest park was inaugurated by the Governor of West Java that time, Brig. H. Mashudi , as the Botanical Gardens or Forest Recreation . It was not until January 14, 1985 forest park was inaugurated by President Soeharto as Forest Park Ir . H. Juanda . The inauguration date does coincide with the birthday one of Indonesian hero, Ir . H. Juanda Kartawidjaja , a national figure who held 18 ministerial posts in the period between 1946-1983 .

Last Sunday, me and my father went to Ir. H. Djuanda Forest Park. It is at Jl. Ir. H. Juanda, Lembang, Jawa Barat 40391. Forest Park Ir. H. Juanda is a conservation area which is integrated between the secondary nature with forest plants located in Bandung, Indonesia. The extent of 590 hectares stretching from Dago Pakar until Maribaya. The price of ticket is Rp27.000,00 for two of us. When we entered the park, we could see a map of that park included the direction and the distance of visitors object and the fresh air will be felt once we entered the park. I think we must come here once a week to replace the existing air in the lungs with fresh air. After reading the map, we continued our journey. We passed the bridge. Under the bridge we could see water lines from top to bottom to be filtered and cleaned.

 Our first destination is Japanese Cave. Called Gua jepang/Japanese Cave because the cave was made during the Japanese occupation in 1942. The cave was made after the Dutch surrendered and served as the defense of allied attacks. There are four large caves which is connected with each other hallways. During the Japanese occupation , the cave functions as a storage warehouse of weapons and ammunition was continued while adding other new caves nearby (1943-1944) which was later known as the Cave of Japan . To build this cave , Japan imposed forced labor ( romusha ) in the population at that time. These caves then also be a last defense of Japan in Bandung . After independence these caverns unnoticed and only rediscovered in 1965 by a closed condition of the plants reeds and dense . It was in the ammunition found in the cave many former Japanese soldiers during World War II . Since the discovery , the Cave of Japan is still in its original condition while the Cave of the Netherlands has experienced three times improvement. After we arrived, we rented a flashlight. I asked my father to wait for other visitors who will go into the cave as well. Finally there are 3 visitors and a tour guide who explain the cave. In the cave there are two vents and a few places to rest. The places for rest was commonly used by Japan generals. The atmosphere inside the cave is quite cold and dark of course. In the cave there are also some bats. Japanese cave floor like a stone small rocks, and the tour guide said that the cave floor has never been renovated, so the cave is still the same as it was first built.

After visiting the Japanese cave, we continue the journey to the Dutch cave. Dutch cave was built in 1912 by breaking into a hill on the side of the river flow Ci Kapundung . Initial function is as tapping channel streams for the purposes of generating electricity. 1918 seems to be no changes or additional functionality in the cave because the cave was added spaces and hallways branch to the overall length of the cave reaches 547 meters . 3.2 meter high cave entrance hallway and a number of branches 15 pieces . Some space looks like a detention room . After the change of function , then made a new water lines using large pipes planted underground Tahura region . Dutch possibility also makes this cave as a store of gunpowder. When the entry of Japanese troops , the Dutch had used this cave as Central Military Telecommunications Dutch East Indies for the army. From gua jepang/japanese cave to gua Belanda/Dutch cave can be reached by walking less than 15 minutes. You can also go directly to the Dutch Goa by car. Cave has also become the pass towards Maribaya sights in Lembang. Distance from Goa to Maribaya approximately 5 KM. It's just could not ride because of special vehicles for pedestrian through the beautiful forest. The cave floor is made of cement with the rails for transporting goods.

 After passing the cave Dutch, we had rest first , many stalls selling food , ranging from beverages , instant noodles , until roasted corn are available. When we were in that park, we met some kind of animal. We saw two squirrels on a tree near the bridge, and then we also saw some monkeys in the tree. When the road has begun crowded with visitors, the monkeys come down from the tree and make some visitors fear, including me. Visitors feared that his luggage would be stolen by monkeys. Fortunately, the monkeys did not disturb visitors . I think , a lot of monkeys that have been contaminated by humans , so the monkeys down from their habitat and be close to humans without fear of humans. Maybe the monkeys once fed by visitors so it becomes a habit.We also met a few dogs and the dogs were not disturb us. We also see a wide variety of plants in the park. Every tree named tied to the tree trunk using springs, so that when these trees grow bigger nameplate these plants will not break.

There are the view of Forest Park Ir. H. Djuanda:

The last sentence , I would like to thank my father, who had accompanied me to visit the park. It is a fairly tiring journey because we had to walk, but we are happy with our journey.

My School Life

I will tell you about my school life.

I studied at SMA 3 Bandung. What is SMA 3? SMA 3 Bandung is known as the Belitung  School. It is located on Jalan Belitung 8 Bandung. This is one favorite school among Bandung.There are around  99%  each year of  the graduates successfully continued to many leading universities in Indonesia, especially Technology Bandung Institute ( ITB), Indonesia University (UI) and Padjadjaran University ( UNPAD) and other reputable universities and colleges in Indonesia or overseas. Some Alumni of SMAN 3  Bandung  have occupied the  important positions in the government, enterprises, universities and private companies. 

Ok, let’s begin from my expectation of my school. My expectation is I have friends who fanatic about studying, and such a serious people. And I thought I will have a difficult lesson from my school. But the reality is I have friends who like joking around and laughing. But they are smart too. My friends always help me when I strugling with the lesson. And talk about the lesson, yeah it is a little bit more difficult, I mean it is more difficult to be understood fast. Especially math. I must study more harder at school and at home to understanding it. But, I like this school because the teacher is always punctual, and always give support to us. They teach us very well. I have a lot of homework now. Sometimes I sleep late at night due to finish my homework. The school is begin start at 06.30 a.m. When I was in Junior High School, it start at 06.45 a.m. and I usually came to school punctual at 06.45 or one, two or five minute late. And now, I am very thank you because I can woke up more earlier, even though it’s very difficult at first because I usually came to school at 06.45 am. We start the study with pray to the God together and sing Indonesia Raya. We have two break time. It is at 09.30 a.m. and 12.15 p.m. We have cafeteria that usually called “bazar” and school cooperation. We can eat variety of food, like batagor, fried fries, porridge, juices, fried rice, fried chicken, waffle, doughnut, and many more. If we want to pray, for Muslim there are one mushola for woman and one mosque. We shared mosque with SMA 5. Because SMA 3 and 5 a long time ago is one school called SMA Belitung. Now it is separated become two school. SMA 3 and SMA 5 is in the same building. It was build during the reign of the Dutch East Indies in 1916. Because it is an old building so there are a lot of rumors about ghosts. That picture is an old building of SMA 3 and 5.

 In front of my school is TNI office. And in that office there is a mosque too. The students in my school sometimes have pray in that mosque. Facilities in my school are a library, laboratory, a BK’s room, toilets, orchid’s garden, a pond, hall school, etc. I like the library in my school, because it is very comfortable and complete. I can borrow books from there. The official library is humble too. I like the laboratory too. There are technology and communication lab, physics lab, biology lab, etc. 



Now let’s talk about the extracurricular. There are a lot of extracurricular in my school. There are cabaret, vocal group, classic music, traditional music, photography, Movie Project, Band, PMR, Pramuka, DKM, speech, badminton, football, and many more. I have joined PMR. I choose PMR for my extracurricular because it is interesting. I can know about safety first and how to escape from disaster or war, yeah something like that. I can learn how to help people who injured with variety causes. Another extracurricular are interesting too. We can learn what we want to and we can find our passion. About bell in my school. I like the bell that ring at 3 p.m. because the bell is not sound like common bell but it is a song of Michael Buble “Let Me Go Home”, I like the song and it is very touching because at 3 p.m. everyone wants to go home. Our school will make an event the name is “Gamarvani” it is arts and cultural festival that has become an annual event for SMA 3. Another event in my school is Classic Music Concert. It is a concert that MK3(Musik Klasik 3) is organize the event. We usually hold scientific work fair in corridor SMA 3 and SMA 5. We also have a programme, it is GPS (Gerakan Pungut Sampah). It is a program that is picking up trash around the school. 

Describe Someone

 I will describe someone who famous in Indonesia. He is a host in his own talk show. He has his own talk show in Metro TV. He has mustache. He is bald. He wears eye glasses. He has pointed nose. He has white skin. He has around 175 cm tall. He is a half Dutch and half Ambonesse. He was born on November 6th 1960 in Surabaya. He has three childrens. They are Mario, Marco and Marlo. His boys are famous in instagram. 

Dialog (Compliment)

Dialog About Compliment

At the street.

Sherina              : “ Hi Rifasya!”

Rifasya               : “ Hello Sherin!”

Sherina              : “ You look so beautiful today.”

Rifasya               : “ Really? Thankyou Sher.”

Sherina              : “ By the way, where are you going?”

Rifasya               : “ I want to go to departement store, to buy equipment for new year party at my house.”

Sherina              : “ Oh, I see.”

Rifasya               : “ You’ll come right?”

Sherina              : “Of course I will.”

Rifasya               : “ Okay, I have to go now. See you tomorrow, bye!”

Sherina              : “ See you, bye!”.

Tomorrow at the party.

Rifasya               : “ Hi Sherin, you look great with your dress.”

Sherina              : “ Hello Rifa, don’t flattering me.”

Rifasya               : “ No, I am serious.”

Sherina              : “ Then thankyou. And you look so fresh today, I think you’re really excited about this new year.”

Rifasya               : “ Of course, I am. I will join cooking academy this new year.”

Sherina              : “ Really? How interesting.”

Rifasya               : “ Yeah, do you want to eat something?”

Sherina              : “ Sure.”

Rifasya               : “ Here you are.”

Sherina              : “ What a delicious food, do you make it by your self?

Rifasya               : “ Thats very kind of you. Yes, I make it by my self.”

Sherina              : “ You are so talented of cooking, I hope you can be a chef someday.”

Rifasya               : “ Thankyou so much Sherin.”

All About My Friend

I will tell you about my new friend.

          Her name is Indyra Puteri Zein.It is reminds me of Zayn Malik :) . She was born in Bogor, 20th January 2000. She moved to Bandung since she was graduated from her elementary school. She has 2 younger sisters. Her sisters are so cute. I never met them before, but I saw it in Indyra's blog. They are born on 2006 and 2011. 

She is my classmate, and we are from the same junior high school. When junior high school, I am not in the same class with her, so I knew her when we are in senior high school. She got the biggest score when we are graduated from our junior high school. I really proud of her, she is so smart.

 Her hobbies are playing her hand phone, laptop and everything about technology. She likes to read too. She likes everything about makeup and style. She usually learn about that things in YouTube. Her favorite channels are makeupbymandy24 and madisenrosebeauty1. I think she really like about that things. Maybe you can make over me, sometimes? Hehe .

Her favorite colors are black and white, but she prefer black than white. Her favorite movie is Divergent. She is very addicted by that movie, she like it a lot. It is a fiction movie, who has a lot of moral value and this movie is very popular. She like Theo James the actor in that movie. Yes, he is so handsome, haha. And about food, she likes nugget.

She wears hijab like me. She is such a kind person. She is cute and funny, and she usually make jokes. Her favorite subject is math. Her inspiring people is Nabi Muhammad SAW. She wants to continue her study in ITB after graduated from senior high school and she wants to make her family proud of her. I hope you can get what you wants, and I hope we can know each other very well. I am happy to be your friend, Indyra..

That’s all about my new friend, thank you!

Me, My Self, and I

Hello everyone!

My name is Sherina Zahran Tiara, you can call me Sherin. I was born in Bandung 8th July 2000. I live at Padasuka Bandung. I am 15th years old. I am first grade in 3 Senior High School and I am from 7 Junior High School. I have one older brother, he was born in 1995. Now he is a college student in Telkom University. I usually ask my brother when I feel confused about my study. My parents are civil servants. My grandparents have 12 grandchildren. And I am number 8. There are 4 boys and 8 girls. When holiday, I usually go to my grandparent's house in Bogor.  Here is a picture of me and my family.

My hobbies are listening to music, reading, and playing badminton. Honestly my hobbies always different every single time but right now I like that activities. I like to listening pop music, especially Korean pop music. I like Kpop when I am 9th grader. It start when I interested of Akdong Musician. I like their voice, I think they sing very well. My favorite song of AKMU is 200%. When I listening music I don’t feel bored anymore. I like reading teen’s book because I am teenagers. I like "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" books. Talk about sport, I start to play badminton when I was 6th years old. I joined a badminton club BM 77. I quit from that club when I was 11 years old. And I joined Taekwondo when I was 3th grade in elementary school. I like to try something new, but I usually get bored fast. I know that is a bad habit, so I want to fix it. 

It is a picture of Lee Chanhyuk and Lee Suhyun. If you want to see music video 200%, just click video bellow. 

I don’t have any phobia but I don’t like cockroach and house lizards. I am not hate them but I feel uncomfortable when cockroach is flying or house lizard stay at ceiling on the top of my head. My favorite food is noodle. But I don’t like spicy noodle or another spicy food, because I have ulcer since I am 9 years old. I don't usually eat spicy food but once I tried to eat it and unfortunately I got ulcer. My favorite subject are math and science. Although both of them sometimes make me confused, but I still like them.

When I was 5th years old I had DBD, I stay in the hospital for 2 weeks. I missed my friends a lot. I like my kindergarten memories because I don’t have to do such a difficult homework and I can play all the time. Of course everyone like it :). I've joined traditional dance club near my house, my grandma joined traditional dance club too when she was young. I like watch Korean drama like Who Are You, Hello Monster, Let’s Eat, etc. I like watch variety show too like Running Man, The Genius Black Garnet, I Can See Your Voice and The Return of Superman. And my favorite cartoon is Phineas and Ferb. I want to tell a little bit about Hello Monster drama, it is a drama with mysterious genre, it's about psychopath. I like that drama because it's make me so curious, I feel like I am a detective in that drama. I rarely watch them now, because I start to focus on my study. I hope I can study well.

Yeah, I had holiday for almost 2 months and I usually stay at home. Few weeks ago I start to go to school again. I met new friends and it is so exciting. About my future jobs, I want to be a doctor, because I want to cure people. I want to be a better person and make my parents proud of me. That’s all about myself thank you so much.