Biography Hendra Stevanus Immanuel

Biography Hendra Stefanus Immanuel

            Hendra Stefanus Immanuel was born on 21 September 1985. He was born in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. He is the first child of four siblings. He has been fat since he was a kid. His favourite food is pig meat. He usually ask his mother to cook it for him. He is smart and religious. When he was around three or four years old he got a burns because he was playing with his aunt that time and he ran without looking. Fortunately he was safe, but the marks were big and it still cover half of his chest.

            He attended elementary school in Surabaya in 1992. It was located in Rajawali Street. He got a high rank there. He also spent his three years of Junior High School there. When he was in second grade, his teacher told him to buy him a lunch in front of school building. So he followed his teacher order and went there, but unfortunately he met someone. That someone was a man who liked to dress as a woman but his manly side still dominance. When Hendra ordered the lunch for his teacher, suddenly this man appeared and tried to tease him by said that Hendra was really young. Hendra was really scared and he ran immediately and left what he had ordered before. Until now, He is still have a Goosebumps when he met a men who dressed like a women. Usually he hide when the men who liked to dress as a women came to his direction.

            After graduated from Junior High School in 2002, He attended Senior High School in different place, named SMAK Stella Maris. SMAK Stella Maris was located in Indrapura Street. When he studied there, he also joined The Student Association for two years straight. He also became a coordinator of secretarial field in divinity. He retired from there in the third year because he prepared for his National Exam. He chose social as his major at that time. He did not like sport, but was good at civic education and economy. He had many friends and some of them have already had a kids.

            He worked after he had finished his senior high school in 2005. He got a scholar ship from Bank Central Asia and he worked there as a teller for three years. While he was working, he took a class in a college, named Sekolah Tinggi Teologia Didaskalia Surabaya. Actually, he wanted to be a lawyer but he changed his mind and he came to theology school. He said that he wanted to know more about his religion and about his life saviour. His God. He worked from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. and after that he took the class from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. and he went to his work place and college by public transportation. After two years of working, he could buy his own motorcycle, so he went to his work place and college more easily and he would not be late.

            After his scholar ship ended, he applied for another job. He applied in Prima Master Bank as a teller also in 2008. He found out that his new work place was more enjoyable than his work place before. He enjoyed work there, but the salary was not too high and he confused how to pay for his tuition. So, he moved to another bank which offered a higher position and bigger salary, and of course bigger responsibility. He took the job as a head teller and he has worked there since 2011 until now. He also completed his degree and had S1 title.

            Hendra has not given up on his dream yet. He still want to be a pastor but maybe not now. He always goes to church on Sunday and he took a part of being an usher, singer, song leader, and Sunday schooler teacher. Hendra liked to be around children. He found them really cute and they could bring smile to other people. He still learn about theology with senior pastor in all over Indonesia. He actively asked them and every day he became more know and more understand about God’s love. When someone asked him what would be happen after human death, he answered that every people should be in heaven with God beside them because of God’s love and God’s grace which was bigger than our sins.

This year he will be celebrating his thirty one birthday. Usually, his family will give him a birthday cake in the midnight and he will have a dinner together with the main family. His parents always suggested him to get married. His parents also knew that he liked children. His age was not young anymore they said. But, Hendra has not even had a girlfriend and his parents always complained about that. Hendra said that he wanted to take his time and became success first so that he could make his beloved family happy.

            Now he is still working in Mayapada Bank as a head teller and usually he walk to his work place because now his house is near there. On Mondays night, he goes to Grace Life Cell. On Thursdays night he goes to Grace Prayer Fellowship in Church and he goes to Sunday fellowship every Sunday morning and afternoon. On Saturdays, he usually spare his time for his family by goes to mall and shopping because on Saturdays he is free from work. He likes to watch a movie too so sometimes he watches movie in cinema when he have some spare time. He rarely going out with his friends but it does not mean that he does not have a friend or something. He has many friends but he choose to stay at home, gaming, and sleeping. Because his free time is really minimize and he want to enjoy it as much as possible without disturbance. He usually wake up late on Saturdays because he does not have anything to do and he is free from his work.

Journal 4

Times flies! Exam week will be coming soon. Maybe it will be the last journal that I write, and because of the busy days I will not write too often. So far, this writing class really helps me to improve my writing and improve my skill on English language. My friend and my lecturer feedback are helping me to improve better too.

Last time, I told you that I was writing an opening of my own narrative story. The story is completed now and the title is the dark forest. Some of my friends read it and it was nice to know that someone out there is reading your story and want to know more about it. I also read some of my friends work and they have different topic and different style of writing the story. For me I used past tense to write narrative and some of past perfect. I also used direct, indirect speech on my story so that my writing looks interesting. I have learned how to make a narrative and I want to make another one sometime.

The last assignment of this class is writing a biography. Different from autobiography, biography is telling about someone life. The lecturer has already given some of article about how to write a biography.  We should write in third person and use present tense, and also we should interview one of a person that worth to tell to people. I still searching for that person, so yeah, I have not interviewed any.

Okay then I better thinking about who will be the one I write, better see you soon guys. God bless you.

The Dead Forest. Chapter 3 (End)

When Jung family woke up they became really big and there was a hair all over their body. They really confused and when their neighbour saw them, they became afraid and they sent Jung family away. Jung family was sad and they decided to live in the forest until they found a way to turning back into a human. Jung remembered about the poison that we had drunk before, then he decided to go to Abra’s place. When he arrived, Abra was in front of her home like she was waiting for someone to come. Jung asked about the poison to her, and she was just laugh. “hahaha.. Young man. Why did you think that human can live more than one hundred years? Did you found it strange?” and Jung answered that he had not known about that. Then Abra explained that she had been a witch and she had cursed all the people who drink her poison. She said that the only way to break the cursed was finding a person who had a beautiful face and a beautiful heart and he told him to wait that person with his family.

            On the other side of mountain there lived a bright person. Her name was Spring. Spring was a beautiful girl and she was a warm person like her name. Spring had a fiancé and in one month they would get married. Her fiancé’s name was Bruno. Bruno was not a good guy. He wanted to become a hire of Spring market because Sping’s father was the one who made Spring market. Because Spring was an innocent girl he did not know Bruno motive. Even though spring was innocent but she was not stupid. She heard Bruno talked to his cousin about took up the market, so on the wedding day she did not go to the church, instead she went to the forest. People said that inside the forest there was a breath taking waterfall and she decided to go there to calm her mind and after that she will break up with Bruno.

            After a long way to get there, She found the waterfall. No one there so she decided to take a bath there. The water was clean and refreshing and not so cold. When she finished, she sat In the corner and think about what Bruno had done to her until the sun was set. She forgot about the time and it had already night to get back to the village. She confused and scared because she could not see anything and there were a lot of strange voice. The voice became clearer and clearer and she heard the same voice saying that it was not safe there and then she saw a giant. The giant invited her to spend the night at his place and she did not know, why she believed the giant and followed him to his place.

            She was in awe when she arrived at the giant house. It was so huge and there was not only one giant but there were three giants. She should be scared right, but she found it really amazing because she thought that giants only lived In a story book that her mother usually read her when she was a kid. Not like the story told her about that giants were all mean, the giants here was not mean. They were friendly and polite. She liked being around them because they treated her like a family. Spring asked them where they were from and she found out that they were from another village that she knew because she usually bought a dress there. And she asked again “well, why do you move then? The village you used to live was nice.” And the Jung told her the story behind.

            Morning came and she still did not believe what she had heard the day before. She found out that all of the giant she saw, was a human before. She curious about the giants and she decided to stay for two or three more days with them. Then she asked the giants “Can I stay for two or three more days please? I do not want to meet my father yet. I confused how to explain about Bruno to him.” Not only the giants, Spring also told her story about her runaway, Surprisingly they said that they would protect her from Bruno. While she was in giants place, she helped the giants all with all of her heart. She did not complained but she was happy because in the village, her father did not allowed him to do the house work. She learned a lot of new things there and she could forget about Bruno when she was with Johnny

            She thought that Johnny was a good companions. He listened to her every time and he always smile. He was not handsome but his smile looked so sincere. Before she knew it, it has been five days since she got there. She became anxious because her father must be searched for her yet she did not want to go home. And then there was a loud voice came out from outside. She found her father with a gun in his arm that ready to shoot Johnny.  She was screaming no but her father had already shoot Johnny. Johnny feel and lost his unconsciousness. Her father told her that if he did not want to back with him, he would kill the giant. Spring was confused because she wanted to take care of Johnny but he did not want to see Johnny die, so she followed her father with a lot of tears.

            The tears fell in Johnny face. It was a sincere tears and the giants back to human again. Jung back to his home with a joy, he thought he could see his son originally face, but he only found Johnny body with some blood. He took him to the nearest medic and he waited there. The medic said that Johnny was safe. It made Jung happy to hear that.

            One week later, Johnny was discarded from the medic and he missed spring a lot. He went to spring village and he saw a church. He went there to pray but he found the weeding there. He looked around and he saw the bride. The bride was spring. He is sad but he wanted to congratulate her.  He went to her and smiled. She felt like she had seen him somewhere but she forgot. She recalled but she was thinking about Johnny every day. And she mumbled his name. Johnny heard it and said “Do you remembered me now?” Spring was dumbfounded but she saw another smile from Johnny. Now she sure that the man who stand in front of her was Johnny. She ran to her father and told him about Bruno. She has not told him yet because she was confused, but this time she sure that Bruno was not the right man for her. 

The Dead Forest. Chapter 2

Jung confused and asked “Seventy years? How old are you then?” and the old woman said that he had lived for one hundred twenty three years and it was really shocking him. The old woman said to him that it was acceptable to call her grandma and Jung did so. “Grandma  ... Can I sleepover here for just one night? Tomorrow, I will be back to my village.” Said Jung to her. Grandma gladly showed him his room and Jung slept there right after. He did not know what would happen tomorrow and he did not want to over think it. He just wanted to rest that night.

            When the sun was rising, Jung woke up and saw grandma in the backyard. He went to her and then she smiled to him. Grandma invited Jung to come to the dining room and had a breakfast. While he was eating, he was looking around. He found out that Grandma had a lot of potion. After he had eaten his breakfast he said goodbye to grandma and grandma brought him her potion. She said that it would be useful for his health. Grandma brought him three potion and he thought it would be suitable for him because he could drink one and gave the other two for his wife and his only son.

            On the way home, the sun has already high so he could see the path better and he found the way to his village easily. When he arrived, Sarah embrace him tight because she could not sleep at night thinking about him. She was pleased to see her husband came back safely. They were waiting Johnny while they were talking. Not long after, His son came back from the river with two fish. The fish supposed to be their lunch so Sarah cooked the fish so they could eat it. After eating their lunch, they became thirsty and Jung remembered about grandma potion. He thought it will be good if they drink it, so he opened his bag and took three glass of potion. He gave it to his wife and son and they drank it. The potion was refreshing, however it made them sleepy so they went to their room and sleep. They woke up the day after and found out a big problem.

The Dead Forest. Chapter 1

                Once upon a time, there was a farmer named Jung. Every day he planted rice and collected wood to warm his body and his wife body. Jung lived happily in the village with his wife. His wife name was Sarah. After two years married, his wife got pregnant. Jung could not be happier. He worked harder for supporting his family from that day. Not so long after, their baby was born. They were so grateful to have a baby boy and they named him Johnny. When Johnny grew up he became handsome and also smart. He liked to help his father to go hunting or collected woods. Everyone loved him.

            One day, Jung went to the forest alone to go hunting. He spotted a bear and shot it. The bear was dead and Jung took it home for dinner. Sun started to go down and the forest became silent. The forest was dark and Jung went too far for hunting. Jung was lost. He could not find a way to his village. It became darker and Jung was exhausted but he did not want to die there so he walked again. After a while he found a hut. He wanted to ask a permission to stay there for a night and came back to the village the day after so he knocked the door. “Hello, anyone is there? Excuse me. Please help me.”   He said. And suddenly the door opened by itself. Felling confused and little scary Jung entered the hut. The hut looked so old yet neat. Inside the hut, Jung found an old woman sitting in the single sofa. The old woman was wearing a black dress and black hat. Wrinkles were all around her face and she had an unusual pointed nose. Suddenly a voice broke Jung’s thought. The old woman said “Hello, young man. It has been years since I had a visit. My name is Abra and I have lived here for seventy years.” 

Journal 3

Hello, I am back again. The good news is I have already passed the exam week and the result is not that bad. This time I write another Journal. I hope you are not bored to read it.

I wrote about Cultural event that my campus held in my last post. Well of course it improved my ability to writing a recount. Last time I learned about recount and the task is we should retell the event in time order.

My friends gave a comment about my writing and corrected some of my mistake like the spelling and so on. I think I have not written a good writing so far and I want to improve that.

After I wrote about recount, the lecturer taught us about narrative. We made our own fairytale story and we made it as a draft. We should write the theme, plot , characters and so on before we made the story. At first I was confused so I did not make it and after that I asked the lecturer again and I made it yesterday. I had something in mind yesterday and I wrote the opening of the story. It was first to me to write a story for kids like narrative but I think it is challenging and I enjoy it.

I think that is all that I want to share with you guys. I should do my other assignments. Thank you for reading my post.

International Culture Festival and Celebration at Widya Mandala University

International Culture Festival and Celebration at Widya Mandala University

                Hi, it has been a while. This time I will share my experience from last week. My University made a huge event last Friday and it was really good. Can you guess what event is that? It was an event that let the students knew about other country language and background. Not only college students, high school students were also invited. The Auditorium of our university is full of people and there was a reporter from local television also.

                The event opened with a traditional dance from Indonesia and after that there was a speech from our rector, the head of faculty, and chief executive. After the beautiful speech, the event went to the first presentation from China. The representative from China showed and wanted to teach us how to make a calligraphy. The Calligraphy was so lovely. The next presentation was from France. The representative told us about her experience in there and taught us some of French. It was really interesting because it was new for us.

                There was eight presentation in total. The most interesting presentation was from Spain. The representative from Spain contacted two person who could dance salsa. The teacher showed us some salsa move and told us to follow her. Some of us came to the stage and dance there and the other half were enjoy the dance. We danced two songs and everyone were really happy that time. Some of the lecturers danced really well in the stage and some of them looked confused, but it is okay. Practice makes better right? Yeah there is another performance. It were my friends who danced. They danced traditional dance. Let me share the picture.

                That was the event. Although it took a lot of time but it was gun. We played a lot of games during presentation and everyone were excited to get the gift. I think this kind of event should we do again next year. It will give us knowledge and we can know a lot of people too. Okay I think that is all I want to share with you guys. Thank you for reading and I will be back soon. Bye bye..

Flying Elephant

A new kind of zodiac is flying elephant. The elephant fly by flapping its ears. The elephant does not have wings. People who have this zodiac, usually really confident and proud of himself because it is impossible to find an elephant who can fly by using his ears. That is why he is so proud of himself. Other attitude he has is wise and leadership. The oldest female of elephant is the wisest. She usually lead the group of female elephant .Smart is also one of his personality. Elephant is known to be a clever animal. Although they eat herb they can be as strong as carnivore animal. Elephant is strong enough to protect their baby from hunter like lion and tiger. So, people who have this zodiac usually have a strong personality. They are not afraid with another people and hardly convince to do something he does not want to. Even though a flying elephant have many good personality, it has bad personality too. People who has this kind of zodiac is easily get angry. They have bad temper and sometimes people around them is annoyed by that. Another thing is they hardly understand what other people say. They must have several second to think what other say to them and after that they will respond. After all the flying elephant like to socialise with people. They do not like being alone so, never leave them alone if you do not want them to be sad.

Journal 2

It has been one month since I wrote the Journal. Now it is nearly the examination week. Time has flied really quick, hasn't it ? I learn new things of course. This writing class help me to know better about grammar, punctuation, and to organize the story well. After the last Journal that I had posted it, we learned about autobiography. 

When I wrote about my self and and about my life, I realised that I am still have a lot of weakness that I should improve. I am not doing really  good in article. I have some, I mean a lot of mistakes there. and also about the adjective. I am still a bit confused about that. I think I should read back my structure one book. 

The lecturer said that we should keep the feed back paper and fix the mistakes. I keep my feed back paper and read it. I have a lot of things, expecially the grammar that I want to remember. I remember it so I will not make the same mistakes ever again. I can use this information to write better and share it to my friends. 

Oh, right. The mid-term test is starting this monday. I think I should study from now on. About writing test of course we should be writing something, so I start to learn about all the weakness that I have told you. I must study really hard and try to make a story. I will check all my story and correcting them, so all the reader will be happy and my score will makes me satisfide. Thank you.

Important day of my life.

I was born on October 9th 1997. My parents take a good care of me and I am really grateful to have them. They give me love and knowledge. I try my best to make them proud. On August 2008 my sister was married and I was really happy to see her with a white dress and big smile. She looked so pretty. My brother and I sang a song on that day. We enjoyed the party and the food.

The next event is when I came to Junior High School. I had studied in Jakarta, and then moved to Surabaya. I studied at Stella Maris Junior High School and I was nervous because it had been three years since I came back to Surabaya. On the first day of MOS. MOS is the school activity to introduce the school system or building to a new students. I met a friend. Her name was Deborah. She did not know anyone too, so she made friend with me.

After graduating from Junior High School, I went to Stella Maris Senior High School. It turned out that I went to a different class with all my friends from Junior High, so I had to search for new friends, I found five people that really match for tastes and hobbies with me, their name were Meliana, Sonia, Angelia, Debra, and Lisa. We can communicate well and it made me happy to go anywhere with them. I am still in contact with them until now. We hang out together when he have a free time.

That is a picture of us when we went to Tunjungan Plaza a few months ago.

When I was in Junior High School, I used to be lazy and all of my friend is the same, that was why my score was not too good. In High School, I came out to a class which every student there is smart and diligent. It is hard at first and I almost be the last person in the class. When I was down, my friends helped me with my study. We studied together and we made a group in a social media to talk about all the assignment and homework. They taught me about a subject that I did not know and so did I. In the end I passed my final exam with good grades. That was all thanks to them who support and helped me. 

I think life could not get any better and my thought was right. In the second year I had to go to a different class. I think that two or one of my friend would be with me but I was wrong. They went to same class and I am all alone. I asked the academic adviser to moved me to their class, but she said that I would be really loud and it would distract my score and all of my friends score. I cried when she said that and Meliana said that it was okay and she said that she would go to my class in the break time. One day, two days until one week, she and I ate together in canteen but the other did not. I became really close with Meliana. I am getting used to it after some time and Meliana started to get close to Tirta because she thought that she was not really accepted in the group. I learned to be independent and responsible on doing my assignment and my studied. I realised that no one can help you except yourself.

People around me

People around me

Hi guys, now I will tell you about my family and my friends.

That is a picture of them. In my opinion I have the most beautiful mom ever. Her name is Anna Inggawati Widjaya. She is fifty one years old now but she looks younger than her age. The photo was taken when we celebrated her fiftieth birthday. My Mom is smaller than me. It is nice to hug her anyway. My mother is a house wife. In front of my Mom is my father. He has light-brown skin and a cute smile. His name is Yoseph Taryadi. Actually his name is Ong Sien Kiat, but his father changed it to Indonesian name. He is fifty four years old. He has a beer belly but his body is not fat. He is love to listen the music especially Chinese song. He plays it loud and he repeats it over and over again. Sometimes I join him to sing but we do not know the lyrics so we just randomly say the words. My father work to support the family. He paid for all the study for me and my other three siblings. He does not like to drink water so, my mother usually make him a cup of tea or coffee. Every one say that I look like my father. My face is round and so does him. And also the eyes is similar. No matter how hard I deny that, I still look like him.

          My parents have four kids. The first one is Hendra, and then Vivi, after that Victor, and I am the last. Beside my mom is me and my two brothers. The one who is sitting next to me is the oldest of us. His name is Hendra Stefanus Immanuel. He is thirty years old now. He works in a bank as a head teller. Next, is my sister. She sits in front of my brothers. Her name is Vivi Susanti and next to her is her husband. Her husband is Immanuel Setyo Wibowo. My sister is twenty nine years old now and her husband is thirty six years old. He does not look that old, does he? My sister is a house wife and her husband works in a bank as a manager. The last but not least is my brother. His name is Victor Antonius Immanuel. He is twenty seven years old. He works as a salesman in one of insurance company.  My sister and her husband live in Jakarta. My brother, Victor stays with them. Sometimes I go to Jakarta when it is holiday. My aunt and her family also live there, so I can visit them too. My parents, ko hendra (I use to call my brother with ko) and I live in Surabaya. We usually spend the weekend together. We go to mall and eat out. Every Sunday we go to Church. Ohh.. I have a pet too. I have one Pomeranian dog. Her name is Chelsea. She is seven years old now. She is so adorable and she always sit or lay beside me or my mother.

  

          Next is my friends. I have a few friends in University. They help me with a lot of stuffs. I like being around them. They are really funny and sometimes their craziness is the one that I miss when I get home. Although I have some friends, I have one that I know from the first time I go to University. He was in my group of PPK. PPK is an activity to let the new students know more about University life. Actually, I hardly get close to other. I am afraid that they like me and talk good in front of me but everything they said is just in front of me. I am afraid that they will talk bad about me in front of other people. That is why I do not want to tell anything to a friend. It is not that I do not believe them. I am afraid that someone that I believe is two faces and it will destroy our friendship. However, I can tell my real feeling to my high school friend. I know her really well and she is always give me a good advice. She has the same opinion with me. I feel like she is my own sibling.

At first I did not know much about them and judge them with my own kind of view. But it is all different from what I thought. They are not as bad as I thought. They are like that because they do not know me well and so do I. I think that is why people said not to judge people by its cover. Everyone is kind in the way they are, they mean because we do not want to get close and know them more. Now. We have our own group in one of social media and almost every day we talk. There are nine people in the group and there are five girls and four boys. This semester we become one group in almost every team work assignment from the teacher. It is not like we cannot be with other, we just feel that it will become easier if the group stay like this. We will not be angry with each other and the assignment will have done by the time teacher ask for it. Sometimes we do the assignment in KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) in Basuki Rahmat.. We do our work and eat in the same time. It is kind of fun.

          When we are in holidays, sometimes we go to mall or many public places together. Not long ago, we go to Museum Angkut in Batu, Malang. But not nine of us went there. My three friends and I and three other friends. One of them is ours senior. We rent a car and we went there early in the morning and arrive at home at night. We had lunch together and bought a small gift for family. Before we went home we had had dinner in food festival near my house. No matter how tired we are, we still want to go together and make an unforgettable memory.