News Item "Petik Laut, offerings for a bigger haul"

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Sendangbiru is a fishing village in Tambakrejo in Sumbermanjing, East Java, about 70 kilometers away from Malang, the nearest big city.
Apart from the charms of the southern sea, Sendangbiru has an annual event called petik laut, when residents have a four-day beach party, featuring music performances, a dusk-to-dawn shadow puppet show and, to cap things off, the floating of offerings into the sea in a ritual called the labuh semboyo. 

“The activity has been held since 1983,” said Sumaji, chairman of the organizing committee for this year’s event. The ritual is performed to express thanks to God for abundant fish catches and to pray for safety on the water in the year ahead. During the petik laut, fishermen show respect for the sea, halting work temporarily to allow for the restoration of polluted waters and marine resources, which have been cleanly managed to date. 
      

For the petik laut, ritual offerings were prepared in the house of Haji Atmo Usmail, a local elder. The preparations crossed ethnic boundaries, as those from Javanese families with a long history in Sendangbiru mixed with more recent arrivals from Bali, Madura and Makassar to decorate a giant tumpeng rice cone and a small gitik sesajen boat.



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How Rain Occurs

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Some mountains are so high that its peak is hidden behind clouds. Enormous mountain weather turnsaffects. When the moving air hit the slopes, the air forced upward. At the time that the temperature risedown, and the clouds are formed. Hot air is forced to rise up to the top of the mountain side. At some level,a lower temperature causes the water to form clouds.

Virga occurs when rainfall reaches a layer of dry air. Water droplets rain turns back into water vapor in the air, and disappeared. Most rainwater never reaches the ground. Droplets of rain water vapor turns back into water due to hit a layer of very dry air towards justice. You can actually see the grains that fell like a curtain of clouds, but stopped in mid-air, this type of weather is called virga.

Swallow hot clouds and the earth's temperature to maintain order. Of every 2 square meters of land, the cloud is able to move the same amount of energy as that generated by the powerful 60 watt light bulb. Clouds appear in all shapes and sizes. To help recognize, scientists divide the clouds into ten basic types. Types of clouds depends on the form of clouds and where the clouds formed in the sky. Cirrus clouds looked like a wisp of smoke. These clouds are formed high in the troposphere and rarely produce rain, clouds sratus form in flat layers and produce drizzle and the rain snow. Cumulus clouds bring heavy rain and storms. clouds that look like a huge cauliflower looks soft and smooth, but it will feel wet to the touch.

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How to Make Tissue Box

Materials :

1.       Scissors

2.       Glue

3.       Ruler

4.       Cutter

5.       Double tape

6.       Cardboard box

7.       Accesories ( ribbon, we can use something for accesories like cinnamon, or anything what you like )

Steps :

a.       Draw a pattern in cardboard box, length = 20cm , width =12cm, and height = 10cm

And make sure that when you make cover for the tissue box you choose the cardboard box that have fold in order to make it easier in making cover

b.      if you already draw the pattern, then cut the pattern  

c.       glue the pattern together until form a box

      

d.      then glue the pattern for the cover and

 

e.       glue the ribbon in order between box and cover have a connector

     

f.        the box is ready, then we can decorate the box

       

description text " My Little Bruno"

 

I have a pet. My pet is a fish. His name is Bruno. I gave him that name because I think that is a unique name. bruno’s color was golden but he grow up and his color changes into yellow. His body is not a big. His eyes is small and his color scales is smooth. He lives in the little aquarium in my room. He always entertain me when I bored. Sometimes I talk to  him. I feed him with “pellet” . he do not like if the water in aquarium dirty so I have to change the water twice a week.

report text FISH

        Fish comes in an amazing variety of shapes and colours. All of it live in water, have fins, and use gills to get oxygen from the water. Fish take in water all the time. The water flows in through the mouth, over the gills, and out through the sides of the head. When a fish takes in water, it is not drinking but breathing, and the gills absorb oxygen from the water. The body of a fish is made up of the head, the trunk, and the tail fins.

narative "The Legend of Semarang"

Long time ago in Central Java there lived a King from Demak, his name was Made Pandan. He had a son called Prince Pandan Aran. One day, Made Pandan invited Pandan Aran and his fellows to left Kingdom of Demak. They went to the west to find another place. After seveal days, Made Pandan found a forest that he thought was suitable,and comfortable to living. Then he opened the forest and made a school for ,moslem learning. Made Pandan taught his fellows to learn about islam. From that many people wanted to learn toward him. He lived happily with his son in there, he hoped that someday his son want to continue became a moslem teacher.

Before Made Pandan died, he noticed to his son in order to continue his aspiration and spread the moslem religion. Prince Pandan Aran was fulfill his promise to his father, he became a moslem teacher and he manage the agriculture land. One day when he and his fellows farmed up the land suddenly there was a strange thing. He found an area which was full of tamarine tree and they grew very rare, so from what have done he give name for that place is SEMARANG which meant asem or tamarine that grew arang or very rare. Because he opened Semarang area, he became a leader and had a titled  “Ki Ageng Pandanarang I”

spoof " ooops! "

One day when I opened my group MKU Bahasa Indonesia, one of the lecturer Mr. Pyu posted a story about his holiday, he said that we have to be carefull when we visit Taman Safari Indonesia (TSI), this is story for us to learn. Last week Mr. Pyu went to TSI with his family by a car. Finally he arrived in the TSI. He and his family looked at the tame animal but suddenly his car was strike and his uncle out from the car to check the machine. He and his family thought that the situation was secured so they let the uncle to check the machine. When the uncle open the roof of car, Mr. Pyu looked at the surrounding looked for the help but no one employee at there. After a while, Mr. Pyu chatted with his uncle and suddenly his family whispered at him that there were a lion and came closer to the uncle. All of family afraid and did not know to do. Mr. Pyu could not say anything, he just stared at the lion. He thought why lion in this zone, because this zone is for tame animal, he speechless. His uncle did not realized the lion yet, until the lion came closer and at his back exactly. His uncle surprised and stared at the lion when the lion said “ don’t forget to choose in general election sir!”