The Writings of A Stargazer

  Source: www.kompasiana.com Innovation is immensely pertinent nowadays especially in business field. Innovation is needed by entrepreneurs or executives. Innovative leaders will lead to successful companies. Innovative leaders must have the ability to generate innovative ideas. A research revealed that ability to generate innovative ideas is a function from both the mind and behaviors. There are five discovery skills that lead to innovative ideas; associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting. One of the innovative entrepreneurs is Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs is an innovative entrepreneur that built up Apple Inc. He has ability to think different from typical entrepreneurs. In running Apple, Jobs has done several innovative ideas that are useful and influential for his company. The first idea was creating a computer that does not need a fan. This idea came from questioning how to keep the computer cool without the fan since Jobs found that the noise of...

Dalam bayang waktu yang baru, Tanyaku menunggu untuk tahu Adakah kalian seperti dulu? Ataukah kalian jadi tak tentu? Kembali dalam waktu yang lalu, Rasaku melebur menjadi padu Naïf menunggu disaat itu, Kecewa ditinggal satu per satu Apa definisi dari menunggu? Menunggu kalian setiap waktu Mengorbit kalian dengan tertuju Mengandeng kalian tanpa meragu Frasa-frasa itu kalian lempar padaku Mengapa begini hasil menunggu? Kalian berlalu tanpa menunggu Kalian maju, lalu berlalu Melipirkanku, terdiam kaku Fakta-fakta itu merendengiku Menunggu hanya berlaku untukku

  Tell me that you turned down the man Who asked for your hand 'Cause you're waiting for me Itulah sepenggal lirik lagu One ciptaan salah satu musisi favorit saya, Ed Sheeran. Penggalan lirik itu adalah kalimat favorit sata dalam lagu ini. Entah bagaimana, lirik pembuka lagu ini membuat saya jatuh cinta. Terasa sangat personal mungkin. Dulu, ketika mendengar lagu ini untuk pertama kalinya, saya berpikir akankah ada seorang pria yang benar-benar merasa seperti ini terhadap saya? Saya pernah berpikir bahwa saya tak mampu membahagiakan pria manapun, bahwa saya terlalu “freak” untuk siapapun pasangan saya nanti. Bahwa saya menerima jika saya memang ditakdirkan sendirian. And I know, you're gonna be away a while But I've got no plans at all to leave And would you take away my hopes and dreams and just stay with me? Masuk kelirik tersebut. Saya sudah lama menyadari bahwa kesendirian sama sekali tak menganggu saya. Meskipun saya hidup sendirian, gak menutu...

    Most of us rather throw away the unwanted thoughts about death. We may cheat ourselves and usually deny the death although we know that all of us are going to die. Fear of pain, sickness and also distress at parting with loved ones are things that we would like to put off as long as possible. As we know that now people are more open to talk and discuss about death. What people think about death, how to shape attitudes towards the death and also what happen when people dying are interesting topic discuss.      There are so many opinions about death. Accepting the death is hard for most people. The hardest part of it is accepting the death of someone we love. Most of us would agree that there is no pain like that. According to the biologists, the death can be defined as a natural cycle. As we know that as human beings we are part of the continuity of life and nature. The death is the final destination of every species. Some people said tha...

INTRODUCTION             English learning and teaching is different all over the world. In Indonesia, English is considered as a foreign language. In English learning, students are assigned to learn both spoken and written form of English. As non native speakers, many students have difficulties in learning English. The problems are pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and also the influence of their first language. It becomes teacher’s responsibility to help their students to cope those problems. In teaching English in junior high school, teacher must take the curriculum as their guidance. Curriculum 2013 consists of guidelines about the competence that students should have. Based on curriculum 2013, one competence that students have to master is the writing ability. Students are expected to be able to produce texts in three different genres: descriptive text, recount text and procedure text. Each of these genres has diffe...