Health is Wealth (a short moral story)

Health is Wealth

Once upon a time, there lived a generous and kind-hearted king. But, the people weren’t happy with their king. Because, the king was too lazy and would not do anything other than eating and sleeping.        He spent days and weeks and months in his bed either eating something or sleeping. He almost became inactive. The king became a potato couch and the people started to worry about the king. One day he realized that he couldn’t even move his body, unable to move his foot. He became very fat and his enemies made fun of him ‘fatty king’, ‘bulky king’ etc.        He invited specialized doctors from various parts of his country and offered them generous rewards to make him fit. Unfortunately, none could help the king gain his health and fitness. Since the king was very cordial to his fellow people, many suggested renowned doctors to help him. He spent enormously but everything went in vain.        One fine morning, a holy man, (Rishi) visited the region of the King. He heard about the ill-health of the king and told the minister to meet him at his place. When the minister met him, he informed the minister that he could easily cure the king. Hearing these promising words, the minister became very happy. He requested the king to meet the holy man to get rid of the ill health.        The holy man resided at a distant place. Since the king could not move his body, the fatty king asked the minister to bring the holy man to the palace, but the holy man refused and ordered to come to meet him.        After strenuous efforts, the king met the holy man. The holy man encouraged him and said he was good and very soon the king would gain his health. He asked the king to come for treatment every day from the next day of visit. Also the holy man told the king that he would treat the king only if he came on foot to his place.        The King was unable to walk even a few steps on the road, but accompanied by his followers, he reached the holy man’s place. Unfortunately, the holy man was not available there and his devotee requested the king to come and meet him the next day for treatment.        This was repeated for two weeks and the king never met the holy man, never had any treatment. Suddenly, the king realized that he felt a lot lighter, lost considerable amount of weight and felt more active than before. He realized the reason why the holy man asked him to reach his place by walking.        Very soon, the king regained his health, and the people were very happy in his kingdom.        The King had a lot of wealth, but no amount of wealth could make him healthy.        Health is Wealth!

Source : http://www.kidsworldfun.com/shortstories.php

Amazing Stucture (in my opinion)

Amazing stucture (in my opinion)

In my opinion, there was many thought about amazing stucture in the world. But, I choose the amazing one, that is University of Glasgow in Scotland. Why do I choose University of Glasgow? My explaination will answer that question.

University of Glasgow is located in Glasgow, Scotland,  UK. This University has motto, that is Via, Veritas, Vita which means “The Way, The Truth, The life”. Establised in 1451 which means it is over five hundred and fifty years old. Wow!

University of Glasgow by Google map

Map of University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest English speaking university in the world. It is currently one of the top 100 universities in the world. The University of Glasgow is a top research university.  It is currently has 16000 undergraduate students from over 80 countries and 400 American students at any one time.

Gilmorehill Campus

The University is currently spread over a number of different campuses such as Gilmorehill campus, Garscube campus, and Dumfries campus. The main one is the Gilmorehill campus, in Hillhead. Gilmorehill campus was influenced by historical building in Europe. This Campus is really like Hogwarts in Harry Potter. Did you see?

 

University of Glasgow's Library

University of Glasgow

Student's dorminotory

Some of University of Glasgow’s graduate was become inspiring person such as Lord Kelvin, Adam Smith, and many more.

Well, now you know why I choosed University of Glasgow :)

Art and Culture Festival (MATSWAPATI)

Art and culture festival

(matswapati)

                It has been very long time I didn’t posting something here. I got a lot of work and assignments, so I can’t post often anymore. Okay, let me tell you about the festival that I just involved in it.

                That day was 27^th September 2014, two days after the anniversary of Bandung City. In order to celebrate the anniversary of Bandung City, my school held a festival of art and culture titled Matswapati. Matswapati is the king of all the wayang. Wayang is a puppet of the native culture of Indonesia.

                About Matswapati, there were so many amazing performers and most of the performers who showed the genuine cultural of West Java Province. There are Komunitas Hong who showed traditional games which popular in West Java on ancient times, Wayang Golek Giriharja who showed a story with his Wayang and they succeed to entertain the audience, Orkestra Semi Dangdut ITB who sang dangdut songs with distinctive traits and made us laughter, there are Calung show, Benjang show, Reog show, Pencak Silat, Debus, Sambasunda Junior, Indonesian Bamboo Community, and Saung Angklung Udjo.

                Beside of that performers, there were some performers from my school also helped enliven this festival such as MK (Classical Music), KV (Vocal Group), LSS (Sundanese Art Community), KPA (Angklung Performance), and TsT (Tiloe’s Theater).

                Now I will explain about TsT. Have you ever watched a theatrical performance? How do you feel? TsT is an extension of Tiloe’s Theater (Read: Tiloe=3). TsT is one of the most preferred extracuriccular in my school because TsT always shows a slick and entertaining story. So we were always waiting for the next performance of TsT.

Tiloe's Theater's performance entertained us.

 

 

 

                In Matswapati, TST performed by bringing the story of Kabayan and Nyi Iteung (original story of West Java). Kabayan would go to the city looking for jobs and left Iteung, his sweetheart in the village. Kabayan turned into a people who lived in big city because of the influence and brought him to cheat on Iteung. Then when Iteung saw him with another woman, Iteung felt betrayed and left Kabayan, but with all his resources and efforts, Kabayan apologized to iteung and he felt very sorry to have left iteung then they got back together. The story sounds serious but when played by TsT looks so funny and attractive.

Try to holding the archery

Matswapati top event is in the afternoon when the main guest star appeared to entertain the visitors such as Barsena and Glenn Fredly. Barsena is a new musician as a winner of NEZ ACADEMY last year. While Glenn Fredly is a famous musician who has many years of work in Music Indonesia.

Glenn Fredly in Matswapati

Matswapati’s visitors at the festival is not only SMAN 3 Bandung residents but also visitors from outside the school generally. This event held in Bali Court at Bali street number 8 Bandung. The event started at 7 am until 8 pm opened with a parade contest around the city and was opened by the mayor of Bandung Ridwan Kamil.

The Major of Bandung simbolically opened Matswapati

               This festival is considered successful because for approximately 7 years, my school doesn’t hold a big event like this. Therefore this festival was in waiting. In addition, each class must have a booth at the festival and each class is required to decorating as attractive as possible and the the most fun of pra event Matswapati is to decorate our own booth.
             Overall, Matswapati was very pleasant and gave me a lot of lessons and I am happy to wait for an event like this wil be held again.