Basketball Match

Today after school, we had a match between our school and the Tunas Harapan. We won the game (but unfortunately I forgot the score). I had fun today playing the game because I had the chance to play a lot today. However, I still can't do well on defending and rebounding. I keep on backing off because one, I was afraid to hurt the opponent and two, I was afraid of the ball coming back. So for the next game, I will try to get better in defending and rebounding. 

Archery

Yesterday, I had archery. My result wasn't that bad but it is not improving either. This was my best result for yesterday. For the first shot, I had it inside the circle. But as I keep on shooting, the arrows got further and further... I really need to focus more...

Tennis

Yesterday, I couldn't play tennis because I had a project due today... So I will either do archery, dance or galaxy band practice to fill in my time that I couldn't use yesterday.

Touch of Jazz December 2009

I had a big performance on Saturday (5 December 2009) for the Galaxy big band jazz. The location was set on Jakarta's one of the most famous malls called Pondok Indah Mall (the new one). Since the Jak Jazz event was going to be postponed, the sponsors decided to make the mini performance in Pondok Indah Mall at 7pm. The name of the even was called Touch of Jazz. We played around 7-9 songs. I really liked the songs we played in the performance. It felt really good while performing because it really expresses my feelings and also we were successful in attracting the audiences to come and watch our performance and by the end of the show there were crowd in front of us applauding. 

November 23-29

23 November 2009

Today, luckily I was able to play tennis because it wa

sn't raining. However I couldn't do well because the court was somehow wet so I couldn't run as fast as I could. I played tennis for one hour today.

24 November 2009

I had archery today. My supervisor was away so we had a substitute. My result for today I wasn't that bad. At least I was able to aim the middle part of the board. I did archery for around one hour today. These were the results:

29 November 2009

I went to Yamaha Studio at Gatot Subroto today for the Galaxy practice. Today's practice was fine, although I didn't really like the new songs we practiced today... One of the worst news is that the schedule of Jak Jazz concert was cancelled. So I'm still waiting for the next performance to be announced. 

Bad week....

This week, I couldn't do CAS properly because of some reasons:

Monday - I couldn't join tennis club because of the transportation issue.

Tuesday - I had to meet my father at Jakarta so I missed archery lesson.

Thursday - On Thursday I finally joined basketball again because the drama production is over. I practiced for one hour. We did lots and lots of lay ups and free throws. Although we didn't run much, it was very tiring for our arms because we've been using arms more than legs.

Friday - Since I haven't done much for CAS, I played badminton for around 30 minutes to keep my stamina good. I did pretty ok in badminton (I won doing doubles with my friend!)

Saturday - I joined the Big Band Jazz Galaxy practice again this week. The next performance will be for Jak Jazz (One of the famous music events in Jakarta) on December 5th. I am really excited and willing to join this performance. I practiced for one hour and thirty minutes this day. We got new songs to play. I really like it because it's very cool and jazzy.

DRAMA PRODUCTION ROBIN HOOD 2009

On Friday, we have finally finished the drama production! I feel proud of myself because I have achieved my goal and finished my task. My very first task was to create the ROBIN HOOD poster for promoting the drama production. Next was to design the t-shirt and also giving ideas for the ticket. On Thursday night (12 November) I was making snacks (brownies and cookies) for the VIP with my friends (Sam, Sakura, Joo Eun and Devi) until 3 in the morning! And finally, last Friday (13 November) I was in charge with the entrance gate for the drama show. Sam and I were checking each audiences whether they have their hands stamped or not (to prove that they have tickets). Also to help their way to go to their seats. These are the pictures my friends and I took during the ROBIN HOOD night:

Picture of our final T-shirts design

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Preparing the snacks to be served for the VIPs

Archery and fitness last week

Last week on Thursday (5 November) I did fitness for around 30 minutes. I ran and walk around the pool. After that, I did archery for around 15 minutes because there were not much participants at that time. So I was able to do around three trials. The results were really bad because I haven't been doing archery for few weeks. Tomorrow I will try to get my skills back (since I didn't do archery on Tuesday, I changed my schedule)

On Tuesday, I was doing dance instead of archery. This week, mostly all of the members were able to come to discuss about the competition for the Sports festival. We spent 1 hour for our dance activity. 

Wet court...

Today, I was supposed to have tennis lesson for my after school CAS. However it was raining again so the court was wet. I didn't have a proper shoes so I decided not to join the tennis lesson today since the floor was terribly wet. 

Last Saturday (7 Nov) I started to join the Galaxy band again (it's a big band jazz that I used to join when I was 12 years old). Galaxy is a band where we volunteer to participate practice and perform. The great part about this band is that we don't have to pay or anything to join. But it is like a lesson because whenever we have performance coming up we would have to play as a team. So we can also improve so much in our skills. I practiced from 2pm to 6pm (4 hours). This could be my CAS activities too for creativity (increasing skills) and service (volunteer). 

Dance meeting

Last Thursday, there were another meeting for the dance. I met my other two dance members, Rully and Z to talk about the competitions, music, movements and costumes. We decided to have our first performance for the upcoming sport festival in our school later on  February. We can have around three months to prepare, so that we can perform well, to motivate the school and to be school representatives. We had our meeting for 1 hour.

Dancing with Joo Eun

Yesterday after school, I danced with Joo Eun for 30 minutes. We covered one of our dance songs, WILD (we made around 16 beats of movements). Today, since I still don't have basketball hopefully my friends could join me doing dance again so that we can finish the movements early. We are also thinking of making the costume soon. Now, I am busy editing songs to use for our first performance (we will try either for the Christmas celebration or the December competition). I will try to ask the student council whether we could have the opportunity to perform or not for the Christmas celebration (*v*)

Dance dance dance

Today, instead of doing archery, I had dance practice. The reason why I chose to do dance today was because three of the members could join and dance together today. So I practiced with Joo Eun, Sakura and Sam today after school and did ok with it (we covered around 30% of the song!) We had fun today. Also, the other competition is coming up soon on December I heard, but we're still not sure whether we can participate on that one or not. We are planning to perform at least once this year so that we could achieve our goal in dancing which is to motivate the school internally and externally. 

Tennis

This week, I couldn't have tennis lesson again. Today I was prepared and was ready to play but my teacher, Pak Cahya was absent. So we couldn't play tennis. Irene and I decided to walk around the school campus and did squats for 100 times. We were trying our best to keep our stamina good. Since I couldn't have my tennis lesson again, I would have to add another hour this week by either doing dance or archery more than one hour. This week there will be no basketball practice because the gym will be occupied for the drama production. So there will be no practice until 13th of November. 

Today, the bad news I heard from my friend, was that the registering is not available anymore for this month (dance) So we will find another competition/ dance event . Besides we're not ready yet, we need more practice for the final. This week I'm planning to dance with my friends to cover up my remained CAS hour.

This week's CAS

This Monday, I had the last basketball competition. We won against the SPH B team from Karawaci! I had fun playing because at least I had the chance to play. It was pretty tiring and I also felt dizzy after the game because I've been sprinting the whole time without warming up much. 

This Tuesday, there were no basketball practice, and I also couldn't join the archery club because I had an art project due the next day. I had to rush because I haven't started anything yet because I was away for almost a week! (CB camp and basketball tournament) So I had to focus on my art project.

On Thursday, I was supposed to have basketball practice, however, the gym was occupied because there was a match for the MYP girls basketball team. So I did my own fitness program. I jogged around the swimming pool with the boys basketball team outside so that my stamina wouldn't go down. I also did archery for around 15 minutes. The result wasn't good because I haven't been practicing for few weeks (because I was joining the basketball practice for the SPH cup).

During lunch on Friday, Sam and I brought Joo Eun and Sakura to teach them our dance movements (the one that we made before the CB camp) Later on after school,I ran around the swimming pool for two laps and did sit ups, back ups, push ups and so much more to train myself and to keep my stamina while waiting my sisters playing soccer. I also met my friend Sherwood, so I invited him to come and we did so much crazy activities (for exercising) such as pretending doing yoga, playing slow motion kung-fu, practicing cartwheel, the robotic dance, mission impossible and so on. After doing these activities I felt very tired, all sweaty but I felt healthy.

Back from CB camp ----> Basket ball SPH cup

Finally,,, I'm back from three days of CB camp... This is what I did since after CB camp:

Friday - Left Via Renata early at around 1pm. Arrive at SPH Karawaci. Hang out for few hours. Played at 6 o'clock against IPEKA Tomang Girls' basketball team, ended at 7 o'clock. 

Saturday - Gather in SPH Sentul at 7am and left to UPH Karawaci. Hang out for four hours and started the game against the East Girls' basketball team and ended after an hour. 

I've been disappointed with the games because we lost both games. For the first game, I played for 2 minutes on the court. For the second game, I didn't play at all. It was very hurtful that I couldn't play much. I feel bad about myself as if I'm not good enough to play for the team... 

However, I learned that playing was not everything. Being in 

the team was more important than anything. I thought it was useless for me to go yesterday because I didn't play at all and that I could've done my art project instead. I learned how game could be unfair. I wasn't happy because our team lost two games, but I learned that how teamwork is very important. Just being there and supporting my friends were important. Also, I know better about my coach Ms.Terri. She is not pressuring and she is very supportive. She doesn't care whether we win or not, as long as we have fun. And I really like that because even after the game we were not sad or emotional because Ms.Terri told us that she's very proud of us. 

Tomorrow, there will be one more game in SPH Karawaci. We will be leaving school at 11am. Hopefully we will win the game tomorrow. 

This picture above is the picture of me and my friends Melissa and Frida after the game and while waiting for the bus to come ^^

Robin Hood poster design

Today during PE class (period 3&4) the drama publication group when to Ms.Mandy's class to discuss about pricing and also the poster. Ms. Mandy said that she wasn't satisfied where I drew Mariam because it seemed like Robin is pointing his arrow to her. So I have to crop the picture and delete the Mariam part and write the information of the play instead. I will have to finish it tonight.

Robin Hood poster and Tennis

Yesterday night, I finally finished the robin hood poster. I will post the picture soon after I take the picture of it. I spent around two hours working on it. I showed it to my friends today and they seemed pretty satisfied about it. I just need to edit it (probably using photoshop) to make it look better for small details and the information of the play. 

Today, finally the rain stopped and it was sunny. It was hot since the morning... until now (It's 9:25pm right now). So I played tennis for 1 hour and 30 minutes at school. Now I could hit the ball better but when it gets to game, I get nervous and I become bad at serving the ball... So I really need to focus more during the game.

Poster design for Drama Production

This year, the drama production is going to perform "Robbin Hood". Now Joo Eun, Deviana and I are in charge of poster designing. For the poster design, Sam and I had the same idea which was to create a silhouette of Robin and Mariam. The story is romantic, but in this drama, I heard that there may be some funny lines in it. So I am trying to create a poster that is romantic and classical but also somehow funny. I have to finish it by Monday next week (19 October)!

Dance!

Yesterday, I had lots of fun doing dance with one of the members, Sam. We went to the student lounge after school and started to create some dance movements. We used the song "CAN'T SLEEP, CAN'T EAT, I'M SICK" by Amuro Namie. We chose this song because it's really catchy, good and not too fast, not too slow. We covered around 30 beats of the song with the movement we created/ modified. We wanted to record it but we both didn't have a camera to record. So probably on Monday, we would try to record it and post it on this blog. 

Also, one of my friends, Rully said that there might be a dance competition somewhere in November. So we might want to participate on this competition to represent our school name.

Basketball practice

Yesterday, I had basketball practice for around one and a half hour. We also did "sweet sixteen" run again and it was awful. However, it wasn't as bad as before. On the previous lesson, I couldn't run properly because I kept on forcing my self all the time to run fast. But yesterday, I changed a bit by running with my pace. I learned that it is much better to run in my pace because I wouldn't need to stop and I wouldn't feel really tired. So it was interesting that I learned my OWN technique and skills of exercising and for basketball yesterday. I also found out that I'm not doing good in shooting the ball into the ring. I really need more practice. The worst part was defending and rebounding. I really dislike these two methods in playing the basketball. Maybe I could ask someone else to exchange positions with me (I'm on the bottom right part). 

report card day...

Today, I couldn't have dance practice again... I just realized that it was the report card day today so most of the rooms were occupied. We were planning to first, do it in the drama room, and if its not available, then we would go to the music room. But we couldn't use any of the rooms. Also, my mom suddenly changed the schedule for my piano lesson from Saturday to today. So I had no chance at all to practice... Tomorrow, I'm having basketball practice (the competition is coming up soon!!!) Hopefully, I would improve my stamina and my skills better tomorrow!

Drama Design

I totally forgot that I'm actually in the Drama production for this year. Although I believe that my job could be called minority (as in not really deep) but still I think it is an important job. I've never planned about joining the drama production this year because I decided to do something new because I joined drama last year for the whole entire year. 

Last time before the break starts (the Lebaran holiday) on Wednesday, I was waiting for my friends Sam and Joo Eun in Pak Benny's class (they were having meeting for the drama production because they were in charge of the publication and art stuffs). When I was just sitting there and listening to people, Mrs.Mandy, the drama teacher just put me in her list and told me to do create the design for the Drama production (this year we're having Robin Hood). So I thought why not? I believe this would help the drama club and also could be a good experience for me since I am also interested in designing products and also illustrating. 

Today I checked my facebook mail and the drama publication and arts team created a thread so that we could chat in that one thread about the plans. It is very helpful because I can understand and keep track of the condition. All I need to do is making an action. Starting thinking and designing the designs that could be used for the ticket, t-shirt, posters and so on.

Basketball

Today, like what I said in the older post, I joined basketball activity instead of archery. I thought I was lucky today because it rained anyways so there were no archery (we had basketball practice in the gym). The practice was almost suicidal today. We did so much running. First, we had to run back and forth the gym floor. Later on, we practiced lay-ups (both left and right). After that, I learned new technique for the zone defense. It is very unique and interesting for me because it was my first time to learn such great way how to defend. It is called "chicken". When the person on the center of the court says "chicken" then we would run into different assigned positions to get the ball and to shoot the ring (as a team). At the end, we had to do the last running called "sweet sixteen" and yeah, it is very sarcastic. We had to run back and forth 16 times for three sets! But it was a good exercise and hopefully my stamina is better now. 

another rainy day...

Yesterday afternoon, I couldn't do tennis because it rained again. At first the rain wasn't that hard, later on, it stopped...but it starts raining again...even harder... So I couldn't join the tennis activity. This week, I would have to prepare another extra one hour to cover my tennis time. Maybe by either doing baskeball, dance or archery.

Karawaci Basketball Cup is coming up soon this October. Today, I might sacrifice my archery time to practice basketball. There will be practice this Tuesday, Thursday, next Tuesday and during the free time in CB camp.

Basketball!

Today, I was able to join the basketball practice for 1 hour and 15 minutes with Ms.Terri. I realized that I need so much practice because I haven't joined basketball practice for one year (I was in the team when I was in 9th grade). So I would have to take my stamina back. However, today, I had a bad time practicing basketball because I didn't do any warming ups. So I felt dizzy during the whole practice. Next time, I should do warming ups properly first before starting practice.

dance...

Today, I couldn't have dance practice because not all of the members were able to come. Besides, the drama room was occupied. So we decided to do our dance activity during this weekend maybe on Sunday at someone's house.

arhcery

Today, I was able to do archery because it wasn't raining. However, I couldn't do well today because I wasn't focused enough. I made 59 points out of three sets (three arrows/set) which is not really good. 

Rain

Yesterday, I couldn't do tennis because it was raining hard outside. The court was wet and slippery, so our supervisor cancelled the schedule. So this week, I would have to add extra one hour to cover the CAS hour I was supposed to do yesterday. 

Holiday

Starting from 17 to 29th of September, we had a Lebaran holiday. Meaning, I had 12 days off school so I couldn't do my CAS (tennis, archery, basketball). However, I did dancing activity because I could do it at home and it was easy. I didn't create movements but I found some ideas to create the movements later on with my friends. The bad part of doing CAS during the holiday was getting the signature from supervisors. Since there is no supervisors during the holiday, it is hard to get a proof or evidence. 

School started on the 30th, which was Wednesday. I couldn't do tennis and archery (Monday and Tuesday) so I spent so much time in dancing on Thursday night. I asked one of my dancing members, Joo Eun to sleep over at my house. We danced for two hours.  I was very busy this day because I had art project due the next day, English presentation and a math test. The reason why I didn't go to basketball club this day was because I didn't have a ride home so we had to take the public transportation. My sister needed to go back to Bogor as soon as possible because she needed to print her artwork paper and shop closes at 5pm. 

On Friday, I created some movements with Joo Eun for an hour after school. During the weekend, I danced a lot (around three hours in total) because I had to cover all of my CAS hours for this week. What I did was warming up and focusing on techniques. I collected all of the music videos that consists of dancing (usually hip-hop) and imitated the dancers in the TV so that we could move around our body and get started.  I also created some movements with my sister Sakura, which is also one of the members. 

Tennis

Yesterday, I had fun doing tennis. A new member, Jon joined the tennis club. He is a very challenging friend. So I believe I gained at least better skills in using power during tennis. I also learned better how to do slice!!

The Beginning

This week (Sept 7-11) I started my CAS program. 

Monday-I had tennis for an hour after school. I can see that I'm starting to develop my skills as I join tennis club every week.

Tuesday-I joined archery this day. I had so much fun during this lesson because I improved some areas. I learned that by stopping my breath while pulling back the rope on the bow could actually help from moving or vibrating (my hand). My score was 42 (second highest).

Thursday-On Thursday, I joined the basketball practice. Although my coach wasn't there because she was sick, I asked the boy basketball coach to let the girls practice with the boys so we could have a combined practice. I was proud of myself because I made a unique shot!

Friday-I had meeting with the dance group. We were supposed to meet on Wednesday but the drama room was occupied and the members couldn't make it. So we talked about the members, schedule, songs and so on. And we're planning to actually start on next Wednesday.

CAS

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