Monday, November 21, 2011

VCAA 2010 Indonesian Second Language Essay

There are plans to build a large five star resort on a remote island in Indonesia. This area is currently in the process of being listed as a World Heritage Marine Park. Write an article for an Indonesian publication about the environment, persuading readers not to support the plan because of the damaging environmental impact.

 Title: Selamatkanlah Taman Laut!

Tidak bisa disangkal bahwa Indonesia dianggap sebagai Negara yang mempunyai batu karang yang memanjang di lautan cukup baik dan sangat indah. Batu karang tersebut adalah habitat untuk binatang yang menarik termasuk bermacam-macam ikan, ikan paus dan penyu. Sayang sekali tiga jenis ikan paus, beberapa jenis ikan dan penyu terancam punah akibat ulah manusia seperti merusakan habitatnya, memancing yang kelebihan dan perdagangan ilegal. Kalau daerah itu akan diakui sebagai Taman Laut Warisan Dunia, kita harus melindungi binatang yang terancam punah.

Para wisatawan berkunjung ke Indonesia supaya bisa melihat pemandangan yang indah di pantai, dalam hutan hujan dan di gunung-gunung. Pembangunan ‘resort’ yang berbintang lima di sebuah pulau terpencil di Indonesia akan mengganggu suasana di tempat itu! Walaupun membangun ‘resort’ yang berbintang lima akan meningkatkan jumlah wisatawan yang mengunjungi pulau terpencil itu, ada banyak orang Indonesia yang ramah sekali. Kalau ada ‘resort’ yang berbintang lima, tidak ada kesempatan untuk wisatawan menyaksikan kehidupan sehari-hari orang Indonesia di tempat itu. Menurut pendapat saya, kalau Anda ingin menyaksikan kehidupan sehari-hari Indonesia dan mengunjungi pulau terpencil, Anda bisa tinggal dengan penduduk di masyarakat itu karena mereka tertarik akan orang dari luar negeri!

Mengapa melakukan itu? Kapan para wisatwan berkunjung ke daerah terpencil, mereka ingin melihat kehidupan desa. Kalau ‘resort’ yang berbintang lima dibangun, gedung itu akan menganggu pengalaman para wisatwan yang ke daerah itu. Saya berpikir bahwa para wisatawan seharusnya mengalami baik kehidupan di desa, maupun kehidupan di kota besar. Kalau ada banyak macam-macam tempat yang bisa dinikmati, Indonesia menjadi tempat sangat populer dikunjungi.

Jelas ternyata bahwa membangun ‘resort’ yang berbintang lima akan merusakan daerah itu dan tempat itu tidak akan diakui sebagai Taman Laut Warisan Dunia. Saya berpikir bahwa Taman Laut Warisan Dunia di Indonesia akan menarik lebih wisatawan daripada Hotel. Kita bisa melindungi tempat itu dan binatang terancam punah kalau tempat itu akan diakui sebagai Taman Laut Warisan Dunia, yang penting sekali untuk lingkungan di Indonesia.

VCAA 2010 Indonesian Second Language Essay

You are sitting at the summit of Indonesia's highest and most active volcano. You are exhausted after the climb but the view is breathtaking. As you sit there in awe of nature you write in your personal journal of your experience, feelings and impressions.

17 Juni, 2011
Puncak Gunung Kerinci, Sumatera
Buku Harian,

Aku sedang duduk di puncak gunung api yang paling aktif dan tinggi di Indonesia. Apa yang bisa aku lihat? Dari disini aku bisa melihat hutan hujan yang indah sekali yang berisi banyak binatang dan di kejauhan disana ada desa kecil. Aku akan kembali ke desa tersebut sesudah mendaki gunung itu. Aku menjelajahi Indonesia dengan para wisatawan dari luar negeri dan kami tinggal di desa itu selama dua hari.


Cuaca kemarin baik dan kami jalan-jalan di hutan hujan di dekat desa dengan harap kami bisa melihat binatang Indonesia. Kesan aku Indonesia adalah lahan yang indah sekali. Di mana-mana di hutan hujan ada pohon-pohon yang tua, bunga berwarna-warni dan pemandangan sangat indah.


Aku tidak merasa takut gunung api yang paling aktif karena dengan para wisatawan kami ada pemandu wisatawan dan ahli gunung api. Tidak takut, daripada tenang dirasa aku. Aku bisa merasa kepanasan dari gunung api… Bau apa itu? Tempat ini berbau aneh.. itu mirip dengan belerang. Selain daripada bercakap antara wisatawan lain, tidak ada suara di tempat ini. Wah! Sangat tenteram, aku merasa aman dari sini. Alangkah indahnya pemandangan dari tempat suci ini! Aku merasa duduk di atas dunia!


Pemandu wisatawan kami adalah orang Indonesia dan dia terkenal di desa. Kemarin dan hari ini, ada banyak lebih berjalan-jalan daripada besok, di Indonesia supaya kami bisa melihat tempat yang sangat menarik. Karena aku merasa sangat lelah, aku hamper tergelincir pada pagi hari! Aduh, hampir celaka tadi!


Aku harap pejalanan kembali ke desa adalah aman. Di sini aku merasa terpesona dengan keindahan alam. Sayang sekali, akan hujan kemudian dan kami harus meninggalkan sebelumnya ada cuaca buruk.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Loving someone is dangerous business

I'm not heartbroken - my thinking is crystal clear. I am not a cynic, I have no reason to doubt the wonder and mystery of human emotions and indeed their might but loving someone is just so dangerous.
It gets to the point where you're crazy about them, all you can think about is them and all the songs on the radio make you smile and it hits you with sudden realisation that there is a good reason so many songs are written about love. Or heartbreak.

The dangerous thing about love is that by loving someone deeply and them being intimately intertwined with your thoughts that they know you better than you know yourself and they can call all your bluffs and read you better than you yourself realise. They have this wondrous power over you and they seem romantic by the smallest of gestures and you can't help but feel happy when your with them and at ease and relaxed. When you are the mot true to yourself and you show your true colours and character to them and you're mystified why they haven't left than you can become afraid. Afraid that they might one day take all this wonderful feeling away or that you've overstayed your welcome as it were. They suddenly change on you and don't want you. I feel afraid, but I remember all the happiness I feel from this relationship and I just keep on going with it. Try not to jinx it and rock the boat. I pray my bad luck runs out. I have a certain curse, I wear out people's nerves and after a year or two they get bored of me and hate me. Not even just apart and drift away from me but they decide I am not a worthy human being. It hurts so much to know that I have never had a long and fruitful relationship with peers. The only people who stay are my family, those who are without a choice. Would everyone run away in fear of what a monster I am internally?

Friday, September 23, 2011

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Leather sling handbag
$520 - cultstatus.com.au

Bullet jewelry
$205 - openingceremony.us

American Apparel hair clip accessory
$10 - americanapparel.net

Friday, September 9, 2011

The heart of fear

After some reassurance about an incident two weeks ago I feel as if a small part of myself which I had sewn off, cut-off, excluded and exiled from the very core of me has been revealed to live again.
I had a panic attack two weeks ago, at work, as a basketball referee and felt I had no grounds to report either team; as if I had done something wrong and that they had merely fed off my insecurity and used it to abuse me and mistreat me as a human being. 

When I was twelve, thirteen and fourteen for roughly two years I was depressed and had fantasies, I used them to make me happy about dreaming about killing myself, as a petty way of taking revenge on all the shitheads I had to deal with. But it felt like I had no grounds to feel that way, I had been made an outcast but the social reclusion and bullying after already being bullied at age ten made me feel worse. It was a secret, and mental health issues are so often are taboo and not discussed. I felt so ashamed about this horribleness inside me that I didn't tell my parents and to this day some nearly five years later they don't really comprehend it. I drifted, I kept tight lipped about it at home, would use the facade of having a normal day at school and spending hours with my pet rabbits stroking warm. furry bodies while sobbing uncpntrollably. And no one found me. I felt ashamed and horrible about my sickness, I made myself feel ashamed.

A year maybe half a year went past and I had a panic attack before going on stage for my school porduction. An older woman not associated with the school was helping out by letting her dogs be a part of the show, Annie. I had a panic attack and had to be taken aside to be consoled by a teacher. When I got back, in front of more than sixty people the older woman said:
Don't let other people's bad moods bring you down."

And I felt SHAME. I felt horrible again. I know that you are supposed to show respect to your elders but respect is a two way street. If I respect you and am considerate and treat you nicely I expect to be treated with the same dignity and respect. If you are old, that doesn't give you the right to be a shit head.


Because of this one lady I felt incapacitated and unable to have the courage to take action when I had another panic attack. So fuck you. "Fuck you" to all the lousy fuckers in the world who put people down, who cause insecurity and generally fuck people over. Every action you make on everyone around you has the capacity to change someone's life. You may be the best thing they will ever have in their lives; or you may cause them terrible mental trauma. 

Please, just be careful and kind to everyong in this world.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Welcome to Chanel

Exciting news everyone, I have a Christmas casual job. This is a proper, retail job that I have to pay taxes for and also have Sunday rates for. This is a world first and all of you must hear of my success, since not a lot of that seems to be coming my way.
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It took, roughly about thirty applications, mostly through the career's site SEEK to find something suitable before I go to America to earn a little extra dosh.

Also because I have an insatiable thirst to buy new cameras and generally buy silver jewellery and clothes. Lily Allen has the best description for my sickness:
"I am a weapon of massive consumption"
Muppet eating Pictures, Images and Photos

I will be promoting fragrance for CHANEL at Myer in the suburban shopping centre.
I had my induction and training for all the fragrances and I think they broke my nose, or as they call it, nose fatigue. I like to think they broke it though, just very gently and expensively as they sprayed liquid gold onto paper cards for us to whiff, sniff and appreciate.

I may not get a staff discount but I know what I'll at least be trying to get mother for Christmas, even if she does put me in a massive raging mood and whinges about someone stealing her shoe. This was just misplaced.

At least she wakes me up in the morning and makes things a little more interesting.


There were so many different samples that I smelt and notes to write down, but they gave out two bookmark cards that will help my cheat my way through actually learning anything about the product.
The smell is still on my hands, and my hair is all done up and proper with hair spray.
Never in my life had I felt the need to use and apply hair spray without anyone having to do it for me.

It's too unnatural.
I was afraid I would mistake it for me deodorant and then apply it to my under-arms, which I thankfully did not do this morning. But it's going to happen one day.
My favourite is Coco Mademoiselle, it's just so soft and feminine and floral :)

Turn Me on Design

Since the boyfriend is not only sick but not online, my dear blog readers have my undivided attention for the next how-many hours! Lucky you.

I know I have been really negligent lately, to this blog and also to my "photography" (if it is of a good enough standard to be called photography). I'm stressed with all the holiday homework I have to do within the next month, working as a 'traveller' shilling expensive and prestige brands, refereeing on top of making time for my friends and seeing my boyfriend.

I don't really think I'll have enough time, but I will try to give a slice of that to you at this moment, dear reader.

Turn Me On Design (TMOD)
If you have been reading my most recent blogposts on Tonguekisses & Tyranny, then maybe you'll have noticed my appreciation of certain brands, in particular those who make amazing cult/ pop cult jewellery in silver. I simply adore silver.

I wish it came from the moon, just as the ancient civilisations of old used to think. The moon, after all, is a symbol of women's sexuality and the natural world of cycles and seasons.
But enough of the history class.


Turn Me On Design belongs to that class of designers making silver jewellery; darker and more sinister and simplistic than Karen Walker, whose pieces tend more to tell a story, of that ilk of Deadly Ponies Precious and the jewellery famous jeans brand Ksubi rarely made.

I'm only really into their most recent ranges, 'Long Lost Secrets' and 'Poetry in Braille'.

The first two ranges 'TMOD Classics' and 'Smoke & Mirrors' don't really appeal to me at all. There's not enough within the range, and although there are the distinct and different styles I don't like them. They're all too simple and similar to one another. I just think that they could have been more original in their design.

TMOD Classics:






Smoke & Mirrors:








You can decide for yourself whether you greatly admire these extracts of each range, but I know I wasn't. However as I mentioned earlier, the more recent pieces are to die for in my opinion.

TMOD have only just recently been established and are still settling down into their design style, it's either that, or alternatively, they keep going through different designers and fire them.

I found the latest two ranges to be more unique, 'Poetry in Braille' focuses more on the kind of pyramids designed by the Mayans, thimbles strung on silver necklaces and road sign posts. These are all beautifully crafted and different, hence why I love them. The ring's on necklaces are seized for either women or men, so if you did want to wear it as a ring I suggest you get the right ring and save yourself having to haggle a stockist for a refund to get the correct size or having to resize the rings. They are beautiful as they are, and it pains me to think of altering something that is perfect.

Poetry in Braille:










And introducing my favourite, 'Long Lost Secrets'.
I know I can tend to be a little reckless with money, I may impulse buy over eBay just a little too much, but I know it is a part of modern human nature to be impulsive and reckless when it comes to money. ( I was brainwashed at my induction, but more about that later). If I was so reckless and had enough money to back it, I would buy every piece in the Long Lost Secrets range. There is nothing I dislike about it.

I love the use of oxidised silver in pieces, and the way it has been implemented in TMOD's jewellery ensures that this temporary effect lasts as long as possible and sets your jewellery apart from anyone else's. There are two different types of crystal's hanging in claw set, in either white agate and smoky quartz and all the other pieces, be it rings, bangles or necklaces can be used to stamp letters with wax.


Jewellery that can create wax seals, and help me to make fake and imitation letters from Hogwarts!? To die for.


The range of pieces 'Long Lost Secrets' has to offer has branched out from just necklaces, there are those, beautiful statement pendants, spinner rings with wax seal indents, bangles and sea shells in silver. Enough ranting, you guys have to see ALL of these pieces for yourself.

Long Lost Secrets:


























For more information on TMOD, check them out at:
http://www.thegrandsocial.com.au/tmod