Prducing Tabloid

I want to tell the step in producing a tabloid and its problems which was faced:

The things that should be considered:
1. First we have to decided several topics based on rubric that are going to produce: how many words, about what, title, photos, resources

2. division of task. It deals with who write what, layout-er, editor, illustrator, the one who write the short stories and poems, etc

3. when the interview had been conducted, just write it immediately without postponing coz it will affect your mood, then you will be a deadline-er

4. please consider a deadline

5. talk about revising or editing; don't wait till all the writing was collected, just brought anything available to the editor "NYICIL"

6. while waiting for all writing was collected, we have to make a proposal to be submitted to the faculty and consult with the chosen printing house's owner. Before it was given to faculty we have to complete it with Ketua HMJ's signature, Bendahara HMJ, Sekretaris HMJ, Kejur's signature, and PD3's signature (in surat penghantar). After that we have to stamp it with Department's stamp and the faculty's stamp on the left side of the signature.

7. When all signature had been collected, it is time asking for Dean's and PD2 permission (acc). When both of them gave their permission, thus brought it to TU. Asked for SPJ then.

8. Brought the SPJ to prasasti where you will print the tabloid out, asked for signature

9. Make LPJ and prepare one piece of tabloid which will be collected to TU

10. Asking for SSP  at TU which is related to tax

Writing's Reflection

I have to motivate myself to write anything in my blog minimal two paragraph and contains of one photo everyday

Thus, I will know my own strength and weaknesses 

Just now, I consider some strength and weaknesses of mine. My strength is that I'm not shy publishing my writing even though there are many mistakes perhaps. If I'm shy thus I won't produce any writing then.

My weaknesses, I usually write something without drafting thus sometimes I got confused what do I want to write first, second, and the following 

My another weaknesses is my grammar and my writing fluency is not good yet, sometimes I still use Indonesian style which means Bahasa Indonesia which was directly translated into English. Thus, I have to read more.

To make the writing can be read smoothly by the reader is also another weaknesses of mine.

One thing that I remember from one of my favorite lecture, that is able to reflect our writing skill is "Jika kamu masih bertanya 'apakah tulisan saya benar/ enggakya?'maka itu artinya kamu masih belum paham akan beberapa hal yang membuat kamu tidak PD akan tulisan  mu sendiri" Thus means we have to practice more. 

Stay Up Late

The day was shining

It had been morning

Early morning

The moon shine brightly in the early morning

The sky was beautiful 

I was in campus

It was the first time for me to stay up late till 01.30 am at campus

Awesome

I didn't feel sleepy

My eyes were on

Hopefully, AB period will pass successfully

Spent The Night Together

Yesterday, we had dinner together
We laugh, told story one another
Ang, Tan, Cik, Din, Jun, Mir, and I were having good time yesterday
Our togetherness was continued
But at first we had to take a bath at our own boarding house
We met again at certain place spending the night together
Unfortunately, Jun, Mir and Din didn't join us
Thus only four of us made our semantic assignment together
Assignment was done
We were sleepy
Our eyes screamed that they wanna go bed earlier
We couldn't hold it anymore
I was the one who slept first
Lusi and Ang followed then
Surprisingly Intan was the one who sleep at 3.00am
It was just because she hooked on of  "The Moon Embrace The Sun Drama"
This is the first time for us to spend the night together since times ago.

Today Experience

Bright afternoon was spent to watch some awesome movies; Divergent and Epic

I did enjoyed it

I fell head over heels in love with these movies

I felt satisfied. Unfortunately my stomach was hungry since I didn't have my breakfast yet

Thus I decided to full fill my stomach's desire then

I had my late brunch at Lovina beach

When I opened my brunch box, some of dogs were approaching me

I decided to closed my brunch box and would open it later on

Since the dogs did not move yet,  I read a novel entitle Long Way Round while waiting for the sunset appeared

The time was coming, I lifted my camera on my eyes and captured my lovely sunset

I got several beautiful pictures of sunset

The day was going darker

I decided to go to my boarding house immediately

I wore my helmet, I turned my motorbike's key on

Suddenly I decided staying there for any longer

It just because there was a volleyball competition at 7.30 pm in which that means I could see some macho volleyball players...hihi :)

I put my helmet at its place as before

I park my motorcycle

I was thirsty, then I decided to buy a bottle of water 

I waited for its competition at the small shop where I bought the water

40 minutes was gone, the competition was inappropriate with its schedule 

I was impatient to see the volley ball players to hit the ball 

It would be so sexy ...hihihi.... uups

The first section was Padang Bulia's volley ball team vs Jineng Mas's team

I did enjoyed its competition. Jineng Mas's team won the competition 3-1

Since the day was going darker and the clock showed 21.30 pm

I decided to go to my boarding house
I enjoyed the way home
I saw the moon was so closed
I wanna stop for awhile to capture its reflection but I decided not to do so
Thus I rode my motorcycle slowly 

I bought three breads to safe my stomach before arrived at the destination

Fortunately I arrived at my boarding house safely 

So Melodious

Ehmm, I wanna say something beb..
I do love a song, a song entitled "rude" by Magic
I love its music, I love its lyric, I love the voice of the singer, I do love it wholly
To say the truth, my love was increased toward its song just because of one of my friends turn it on through his laptop
Also, one of western guy sang this song beautifully in which followed by guitar only
huh...
So lovely...
So melodious ... :*

Self Introspection

Have you ever felt that you didn't do your responsibility well?

Yup, perhaps you have felt what do I feel just now

Am I lazy?

Am I too tired?

Am I weak?

Am I not experienced?

Am I under pressure?

I don't really know

One thing that I know, I have to make a change of my behavior; make a decision of self introspection

Do task or anything immediately without delaying (WITHOUT DELAYING)

Don't use most of time for pleasure rather than doing the duties

I have to think for my best effort for the best result and improvement

Please motivate yourself that if your friends are able to do their best, for sure, so you are (I am)

Don't afraid to rise your hands up at class, don't afraid to express your opinion

Or you'll regret not to express it

Be active, Be positive, Be industrious without delaying, Be hardworking, Be nimble

"Budayakan Budaya Malu"
When you have chose some additional duties, you have to be responsible toward the things that you have chosen
You have to be shy whenever you can't do well for something that you have chosen
You have to think first whether you are able to do it or not
Thus "TAKE IT or LEAVE IT at all"

Romantic Dream

Even though it was a dream
I do enjoy that moment
Moment in which you hold my hand tightly
So warm, so calm, so peaceful
Unfortunately I felt confused at that time, it seems it's too good to be true
But what I know, I do love the way you hold my hand
I do
I want its dream entering my another's following dream
I could feel that you has the same feeling as what I feel through the way you hold my hand
Even though I couldn't say anything even a word when my hand in your hand
My mind wanna say something that I really know
I know that a lot of butterflies were flied in my stomach
I'm so glad having its romantic dream with you
I'm impatient having such the same dream, I'm impatient dreaming tonight

Uploading PKM is so WOW

I wanna tell my experience when uploading PKM to DIKTI's site. Its activities was always being a problem since we uploaded it two days before deadline. Yup, I faced it one year ago. Since I had been too tired of staying up late just because of uploading its file during rush days last year, thus I tried to upload it earlier before the rush days in 2014. Actually the deadline was on 28th of September 2014. I had uploaded my PKM on 25th of September in which POKJAKIM UNDIKSHA suggested us have to upload it on 24th of September 2014. On 24th of September I scanned the things that should be scanned. Then I sent it to my friends Adit thus he could arranged it in right order in form of PDF. How obliging person he is! Thank you so much Adit for your kindness. Yup, immediately after that I opened my laptop, turned it on, and typed simlitabmas.dikti.go.id on my new tab. It's about two hundred visitors at that time. When I had arrived at its first page, I did a mistake. Suddenly, since I don't think that two previous data was important thus I decided to delete it. Unfortunately, plus (+) sign was disappeared. I could not save the title and click the edit icon. Thus I asked my friend's help to fix it at HMJ's room. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Thus I rode my motorcycle to PUSKOM with my friend, Lusi but unfortunately I went to wrong place. Then I directed my motorcycle to Rektorat Building to meet bagian kemahasiswaan. Fortunately, Lord still gave me a chance. Bagian kemahasiswaan could solve my problem in which allowed me to upload my PKM. I uploaded my PKM outside bagian kemahasiswaan's room. I was happy. I succeeded to upload it without any problem or distractions. No burden appeared in my mind anymore. To celebrate my happiness, I entertained myself by tasting a glass of es teler. I feel blessed that I don't need to stay up late in uploading its PKM. Hopefully best effort will come with the best result.

Letter to My Blog

Dear my lovely blog
How's your day?
Hopefully you will be my best listener as always
Well, I want to confess my deepest heart just now to you
Are you ready to be a faithful listener for me?
Hope so
Yups, I want you to know that I am just attracted by someone
But I don't think that I love him
Why so?
Because I don't wanna let my heart loving the one who doesn't love me in return
I just afraid of broken heart
It would hurt me so much
I have to keep my feeling as his friend only
I may not let feeling of love flows deeper
I have to cut it off whenever it grows
Thus, loving him will be avoided
Just remember a day when my tears fell down just because of the one that I love doesn't love me in return
How measurable it was!

Strengthen belief that I ever doubted

Have you ever heard about a destiny?

Do you believe it?

At first I believe it

Now, I doubt

But I have to convince myself again that I have to believe a destiny

Should I believe it?

I doubt again. It's hard to believe

Fiuhhh.... I must believe it... 

Since I believe it, hopefully one day, my belief will be answered

No worry

No wonder

No doubt

I hope I could strengthen my believe that I ever doubted

Trust Myself

listen to my heart
listen to my favorites
what I've done is all about my convenience
what I've done is all about my stability
just trust and believe myself
I do trust myself for the shake of my Lord

Thank You

I met someone that I must be known
I met him coincidentally
He was approaching me who enjoyed capturing something that attracted my attention
He called my nickname and asked my complete name
Suddenly, he gave me something which is cheap but for me it's precious and sweet
How sweet he is by asking me whether I like it or not
Sure, I like it
I took it from him as my appreciation and my respect for his kindness
How kind he is
I just wanna say thank you to him

All I Want is You

Babe, I'm waiting here just for your sincere love
Nothing I wish but only you
You who loves me as huge as I feel
I feel blessed, feel respected, feel owned just side to side with you
I do love you just the way you are
You don't need to whiten your skin
Cause I love dark skin
You don't need to style your hair
Cause I love your untidy hair
You don't need pretending as a rich man
Cause I love a hard working guy
Just loving you as the way you are
All I want is only you

My Fifth Semester's Planning and Target

Target for this fifth semester:

1. I have to enjoy all lessons: scientific writing, advanced reading, semantic, language assessment, cross cultural understanding, statistics, classroom management, literature, and discourse analysis.

2. I have to do my best for all assignments, prepare for middle and final examination well (summarize and read it for many times)

3. Search for additional resources  and make a well prepared presentation, think about questions which will be possibly asked by other friends

4. After finishing all assignments, I have to appreciate myself by doing my hobbies; reading novel, eating rujak, wathcing movies, singing while listening to my favorite songs

Statistics Class's First Meeting

          We know everything that we supposed to be considered about statistics class through the first meeting. One thing that should be considered is all students have coming to class in time. The latest is five minutes before the class begin. If we don't obey the rule thus we have to out from the class immediately. Yup, to say the truth it's quite difficult to change my bad habit which is usually wake up late. Fortunately, for the first meeting I tried to prepare my self one hour and a half before the class. Thus, I was the second student who arrived at class earliest after Anggita. The other things that should be fulfilled are we have to bring statistic's handbook, its syllabus, its lesson plan, scientific calculator, and should attend the class minimal 90% in which we may absent entering the class one time only with certain reason. I do appreciate my lecturer's time management. I just know today that my statistic's lecturer spent his week in three different places; two days in Denpasar, two other days in Singaraja, two days else in Jakarta and only one quality day with his wife. How cool he is in managing his time. I hope I can manage my time better than he is. Hopefully.

Love to Write Love Letter

I do love to make a love letter
My inspiration flows smoothly writing it
Yup, my sister asked me to write two love letters today
I do my best and with pleasure
Actually I hope I can write it for my boyfriend soon
Sent it to him, and I'll get the reply
I miss to do a small thing that's romantic
Since there is nobody I'll sent to
God, please let me sent a love letter to someone that I really love and love me in return
I trust you
You'll give this chance to me
I do trust you

Conversation that Motivates

hey you, you like reading novel, don't you?
why don't you write a novel?
I love to sing
that is why I try to make the lyrics of a song
thus, I don't cover anybody's song anymore
in which possibly I'll cause that song more famous than before, I mean the song that I covered
in this case, as the conclusion I motivate you to try writing a novel
will you try to write it then?
what did you say?
you love reading but never think to write it?
oh, such a loser you are

Sincere Spirit

Time flies, it is the beginning of the fifth semester for me

Many things challenge me to do my best

Not only for the lecture during the class but also the two student organizations that I joined

I have to manage my time thus I can do my duties well

To say the truth, I am a lazy person who wake up late sometimes
I want to make a change, a little change of myself

 I was inspired by one of my lecturers who is pretty busy but fortunately she can manage everything well
No matter what her busyness, she always comes to class on time

I'm also motivated by one of my friend who keep listening and doing what is being a good thing and inspiring for her
It brings a good influence for me
I do respect both of them

Sincerely

Crowded Holiday

Holiday seems as not holiday for me. It's crowded day enough. I have to prepare for several things and finish doing my duties as A class captain of fourth semester. Fortunately, I have secretary and friends who is willing to help me. Some activities that I have done with my secretary, we had submitted lecture journal along fourth semester, present list, berita acara, and so forth. We do it with pleasure. Another thing, a week before, I had interviewed the rector of my university and two of his vise in order to make a campus magazine. Also, I had uploaded my PKM-K progress report at the deadline day on 27th of June 2014, had full filled the log book, had uploaded the proof of expenditure, and etc. Moreover, on Monday 7th July 2014 I had monev internal which is held by POKJAKIM UNDIKSHA. The next day, I went to my hometown. I made potato donuts with my sister, brother and my nephews. In the evening, I went to Art Center with my sister, my cousin and his wife. I spent the night at Dalung. The following day, in the morning my sister, my cousin's wife and I were gardening. In the afternoon, I was asked to teach my another cousin how to make potato donuts on 11th of July. On the same day in the evening, I went to Puri Bunda Hospital with Mox Geg Ade to do influenza immunization for her daughter. On 12th of July, I went to Griya Tegal for nguopin nyamuh. I learned to memorize some jaja samuh's name and how to make it. Also, I learned how to make jaja samuh's dough and tried to make it by myself. The only one requirement is how to make it smooth when we shaped it. Actually, there is so many other interesting things that I have done. I do love and enjoy every single moment.

My Future Husband

This is the fist time for me to confess criteria of someone who I like through my blog account. I have a target, target for who is eligible as my future husband. I just wanna keep it by myself in my blog account only.

Sweetheart

By Dayu Puspa

Hey you …

You …. The one who always walks around in my head..

The one who wakes me up from my bed..

The one who draw me in into your attraction..

The only one who is able to pluck up my feeling into one direction..

How dare you are..

You steal my heart..

Cause you are the salt of the earth..

How dare you are…

You make me blind as blind as ignorance..

As foolish as a calf I admire your plain appearance

I do admire you with your perfect and imperfection..

On no account I’ll keep my feeling to you on the quiet

Thus, nobody know what I feel in my deepest heart

Only you who I’ll call as my sweetheart

Language Learning Games, Song and Rhymes

LANGUAGE LEARNING GAMES

This afternoon I've studied several techniques how to teach students using games and songs.This material was delivered by Dinda's group which consist of Dinda herself, Yoga, Wana, and Ngurah in which Dinda as the simulator.

Fail to Save Face

Oh my hand phone, why don't you wake me up this afternoon? And why did you keep silent? Aren't you my best pal? How come you betray me by keeping your mouth locked and let me lying on my bed so wakeless? Yea, this afternoon I couldn't save my face. I was late. I fell asleep when I suppose to attend class at IJ session, TEFL class. You know what? I found myself looking to the watch and unfortunately watch showed

Between Two Tough Choices

What will you do, if you are placed between two choices? Which one will you prefer? Will you choose study for midterm test or entertain your self by watching MGS, the mean agenda of your university's anniversary which is once in a year? It will be tough decision since you don't study enough yet for the midterm subject material. In addition, it will be harder, since one of your favorite music group will perform at that occasion and we can enter the gate of spectacular entertainment for free. It makes us think harder and wiser. Let's think twice. 

Complete Each Other

Yesterday, I went somewhere to buy something to eat. There, I found a cooperative work between a husband and his wife. The husband was cooking and the wife was helping the husband. They seem to complete each other. I just imagine that they were doing it since afternoon till evening almost everyday, what a tiring day it is. Fortunately, they don't show their tiring face. They always serve the customers with smile and friendly face. Perhaps, that is one of reason why many customers are coming. While waiting for my order, my eyes couldn't stare to the others object. I keep paying attention to them. They were so sweet, I thought. How if, one day I and my future husband in that situation? Will we complete each other as what I've seen that day? No wonder and no doubt, I hope, yes we will. 

I like you. As simple as that.

I admire you a lot. More than you know. I always think about you. Morning, noon, evening, night, I just think of you.Whenever and where ever I go especially when I have leisure time. Oh damn, you are so romantic. You are so sweet. I do love the way you express your feeling to me through words, phrase and clause which you generate. I do. I love the way you make me smile. The way you make me laugh. The way you turn around in my head. Even, I love the way you make me cry. I love everything about you. You, you are such a thick papers with lovely nuance. So colorful. So attractive. So romantic. Could I get into you? I love you, Roman Novel. No reason. I like you as simple as that.

Lovely Experience with SMFBS

@dayupuspa

              Hi.. Hi.. my dearest blog. I do miss you. Blogish, I wanna tell you my yesterday experience. Blogish is the name of my blog. Hehe. I went to Journalistic Workshop yesterday. It was held by Senat Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni at theater room.

The One Who Deserves Pure Love

@dayupuspa

Let me see it in black and white. I just wanna closed my eyes for awhile. I wanna closed my eyes and imagine a sweet guy approach me and make a bee line to me. What I need is not An Adonis or An Apollo or even An Admirable Crichton. The one who I need is a guy who loves me just the way I am and I do the same. So he and I don’t have to make believe to be somebody else. My endless love was given only for him. He refers to the one who deserves for my pure love without end. Everlasting.

"Silent" Birthday

@dayupuspa

I used to get a birthday cake on my birthday. I used to get a direct happy birthday utterance on my birthday. But I didn’t get them today. Yea, this is the first time for me celebrating my birthday exactly on Nyepi Day, where Hindus people celebrated this sacred day with Catur Bhrata Penyepian, no working, no going anywhere, no having party, and no lighting. Do you know what do I feel? I feel it is so memorable and special moment even though a bit disappointment in my deepest heart. Yea despite there is no cake and there is no any present from others, it isn't a big deal for me. To say the truth, I just feel great accepting so many unique birthday utterance from my friends and relatives through short message or through my facebook account. You know what, the most I like today is I even got double utterance in the same time, happy Nyepi Day utterance and happy birthday utterance. I do really appreciate all people who had said it to me. A billion of thanks I want to express to you all. Thank you so much and have a great Nyepi Day yea. I won’t forget my "silent" birthday. I will tell it to my children someday.

Play Role as Teacher with Audio Lingual Method

"Dayoe Pushpa"

"@dayupuspa"

Ayuade. Opit. Mursita. Cok Lan.

Simulator: Ayuade

               Well babe, what’s up? It has been too long I haven’t communicated with my dearest blog. Well today I want to share my previous experience in my TEFL class. Actually when we didn’t have any camera with, to record the classroom interaction, we still have another way to record it by our writing. Am I right? Absolutely yes. Hahaha. Beside to record what had happened at my previous TEFL class, this is also a way for me to learn and remind what had discussed before.

Direct Instruction Method in TEFL Class

"dayoe pushpa"

"@dayupuspa"

Hi babe, my fingers can’t stop writing and typing. My brain couldn’t stop reminding. I wanna share so many previous experiences of mine which I haven’t shared yet. By the way, have you learned about EFL vs ESL? Or have you found the characteristic of good teacher and presented it at class? Or learned for the definition of approach, method, technique and then compared two opinions of different experts about those? Yea, I have learned all of them in my Teaching English as Foreign Language (TEFL) class.  And the latest one is talking about some methods. The first is Grammar Translation Method. And the recent one is Direct Instruction Method.

Values in The Power of Authentic Literacy’s Seminar

 "dayoe pushpa"
"@dayupuspa"

               Hi… readers. What’s up? Are you healthy and glad today? I hope so. Anyway I have a question to you, have you ever attended a seminar? I think most of you would say yes and perhaps some of you would say never. What is your interpretation toward a seminar? I guess most of you will say it is boring activity, make sleepy easily, and wasting time. Is it true or not? Haha. Exactly it is false. Because I just attend a seminar which is fun and very useful to broaden our knowledge. Do you wanna know more? Check it out then.

Weekend Routines

   "dayoe pushpa"

@dayupuspa              

             Hi.. to tell you the truth, I’m impatient to share something tonight. Anyway, what do you like to do when you are hometown? I guess that might be there are several special things that each of you like to do which is different one another. Is that right? Well, here we go with several things which I love to do when I’m hometown.

When I Haven't Got My Late Breakfast Yet

"dayoe pushpa"
@dayupuspa

            Hello, I wanna share something. Before I tell what had happened to me today, I wanna ask a question. What will you do if you are hungry? Most of you probably will answer going somewhere to find any food to eat or cooking by yourself. Am I right?  But today, I didn’t do the same. I went to Language and Art Faculty seminar room when I haven’t got my brunch yet. Do you know what happened next? My desire for having my late breakfast disappeared. It is just because I had listened an interesting topic. It is about “Program Pertukaran Pemuda Antar Negara (PPAN) and Kapal Pemuda Nusantara (KPN) Provinsi Bali 2014” where people talk about going abroad and what they got through their experience. They talked through many photos and also videos. So interesting. Inspiring.

Singing in A Heavy Downpour

"dapus"

"dayoe pushpa, @dayupuspa"

                Is there anything which is interesting to do when a downpour fell down heavily to The Earth? Nothing is interesting to do. I just didn’t wanna go anywhere. But, something said different. It was a must for me to go to my friend’s boarding house finishing the literature project that we had. In a drizzle night, I passed the road without wearing any raincoat. In the end, my cloth was a bit wet when arrived there. 

                In my friends’ boarding house, Intan, Trik and I were singing a beautiful poem which is written by Robert Frost. Unfortunately, one of my friends, Ucik has backed to her boarding house picking up by her boyfriend. All of us sang the poem with spirit. We felt satisfied with our practice. Even though there was no live music followed our practice, we enjoyed it so much. Again and again we repeated to sing the poem. Bit by bit we began to memorize it. We were able to sing the poem without take a look on the note. Finally, there was an interesting thing to do in a heavy downpour day, singing a marvelous poem of a well-known poet. ^Dapus

Crying while Doing Assignment

"dayoe pushpa"
   

@dayupuspa

           What’s going on with us? Why did we cry while doing an assignment yesterday night? It wasn’t because of the assignment was too difficult or we can’t answer the question. It was because when we did it, we also shared a touching story about O’s and A’s father.  Yesterday 19^th of February 2014, O, A and I did our pragmatic assignment at O’s house. 

            We felt different nuance yesterday. We talked about a struggle of a father in a particular foreign country. We were talking about a father who sacrifices his smile, thought and energy for their son, daughter, and his wife. He is willing to adapt with four seasons which are too difficult for us, Indonesian adapt with that kinds of situation. The most touching thing is the father send his family some photos of him while doing some activities in winter with full of smile. Behind of all photos was written different touching message that one of them asked “Does the photos show a joyful smile?” It succeed make our tears fall down heavily. Through this story I learn much about how to appreciate our parents’ effort. We should appreciate the entire thing that our parents have done to full fill our needed. Never be ashamed to say “I love you father, I love you mother” to our parents before it is too late to say so.  ^Dapus

Fifth Semester is Ending 2013 and Welcoming 2014 with Full of Joy

"dayoe pushpa"

                A warm and high appreciation should be given to all classes of fifth semester, English Education Department. They have done the amazing drama performances. Five scripts written by Kadek Sonia Piscayanti were performed. Those five scripts were My Dearest Sister; Because I Am Who I Am; Story of A Tree; A Mother and A Monster; and Schizophrenia. The performance was held in Wantilan Kampus Bawah UNDIKSHA from 24^th of December 2013 to January 6, 2014.

Topsy- Turvy Lady (Metropop Novel)

"dayoe pushpa"

Topsy- Turvy Lady

By Tria Barmawi

                Topsy- Turvy Lady tells about a girl whose name is Gladys, a daughter of rich man. She lives in hedonic lifestyle. Gladys is in loves with Sandi, a guy with rootless family background. She was blinded by her love toward that guy. She prefers to choose Sandi than her family. Unfortunately, her life isn’t going better even getting worse. She was crossed out from the families list. The worst one, that guy leaves her when he succeeds draining Gladys’s savings and leaving so much debt in her credit card. 

                Finally, she realized that she is gullible. She was panicked and confused. She has to downsizing, lowers the standard living of her and tried looking for a job. Gladys is a university student and doesn’t have any skill enough yet for seeking a job. In the end, she decided being a babysitter. 

                In fact, Gladys is the youngest child in her family who is always spoiled by her parents. At first she doesn’t know how to treat a child. In the end, she enjoys that job moreover she loves it. She has planned to continue her study on early childhood education and eventually open a kindergarten or preschool at the end of her study. 

What have I learned through this novel?

We have to listen our family’s opinion when they gave advice about our future husband. Almost all of their prediction is right. Don’t ignore theirs. You have to think theirs as a consideration. In the end, decision is in our hand.

Some parts of this novel persuade us to treat maids as family. 

Just choose whether you change your environment or you are changed by the environment. In this novel, the girl who lives in hedonic lifestyle finally almost succeeds downsizing her lifestyle. She leaves branded bag, cloth and other branded things. In addition, she also influences her rich family to care with other poorer people and treats their house maids as a human rather to slave.

A true friend won’t leave us when we are facing the hardest moment in our life. For instance, a fake friend just stays beside us when we are rich and leave us when we faced bankruptcy. It's true, proverb of a friend in need is a friend indeed. In hard times we will know which ones is a true friend and which ones is pretending as our friend.

Don’t trust a guy easily especially a guy with rootless family background. Probably he just pretends as an employee in a company but in fact he is a jobless guy. Don’t let yourself is blinded by love too much.