ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES (STORY)

Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter was in the forest when he saw forty thieves stop in front of a cave.

The leader said “Open Sesame!” and before Ali Baba’s amazed eyes the sealed mouth of the cave magically opened and the men disappeared inside. To come out and close the entrance, the leader said “Close Sesame” and the cave sealed itself once more. Trembling with excitement Ali Baba waited till the thieves had left and then entered the cave after saying the magic words. To his delight he found lots of treasure.

Ali Baba told his brother Kasim about the wondrous cave. Kasim set off to get some treasure for himself too. Sadly, he forgot the words to leave the cave and the thieves killed him. Ali Baba discovered his brother’s body in the cave. With the help of a slave girl called Morgiana, he was able to take Kasim’s body back home and bury it.

Realising that someone else knew about their cave the thieves tracked Ali Baba down. The leader, disguised as an oil seller stayed with Ali Baba. He had brought along mules loaded with forty oil jars containing the other thieves. Clever Morgiana knew who the oil seller really was and poured boiling oil into the jars killing the other thieves. While dancing in front of the leader of the thieves Morgiana stabbed him. Ali Baba was saved and lived happily ever after.

From http://shortstoriesshort.com/story/ali-baba-and-the-forty-thieves/

Harpy Eagle

The Harpy Eagle, or Harpia harpyja, a neotropical eagle, is the most powerful raptor in the Americas.

It is first described in the taxonomy in 1758. It is a member of the Accipitridae family, the Order of Accipitriformes, the Aves Class, the Chordata Phylum, and the Kingdom of Animalia.

The upper side of the harpy eagle is covered with slate-black feathers, and the underside is mostly white, except for the feathered tarsi, which are striped black. A broad black band across the upper breast separates the gray head from the white belly. The head is pale grey, and is crowned with a double crest. The upper side of the tail is black with three gray bands, while the underside of it is black with three white bands. The iris is gray or brown or red, the cere and bill are black or blackish and the tarsi and toes are yellow. The plumage of males and females are identical. The tarsus is up to 13 cm (5.1 in) long.

Despite its enormous size, the Harpy Eagle is not the biggest eagle species ever nown. The title currently hold by the Phillipne Eagle, but pale in size to the extict haas’t eagle in New Zealand

Rare throughout its range, the harpy eagle is found from Mexico (almost extinct), through Central America and into South America to as far south as Argentina. The eagle is most common in Brazil, where it is found across the entire national territory. With the exception of some areas of Panama, the species is almost extinct in Central America, subsequent to the logging of much of the rainforest there.

The harpy eagle is an actively hunting carnivore and is an apex predator. Adults are near the top of a food chain but are preyed upon by ocelots and jaguars. Its main prey are tree-dwelling mammals and a majority of the diet has been shown to focus on sloths and monkeys. 

No display is known between pairs of eagles, and they are believed to mate for life. A pair of harpy eagles usually only raises one chick every 2–3 years. After the first chick hatches, the second egg is ignored and normally fails to hatch unless the first egg perishes. The egg is incubated around 56 days. When the chick is 36 days old, it can stand and walk awkwardly. The chick fledges at the age of 6 months, but the parents continue to feed it for another 6 to 10 months. The male captures much of the food for the incubating female and later the eaglet, but also takes an incubating shift while the female forages and also brings prey back to the nest. Breeding maturity is not reached until birds are 4 to 6 years of age. Adults can be aggressive toward humans who disturb the nesting site or appear to be a threat to its young.s
Although the harpy eagle still occurs over a considerable range, its distribution and populations have dwindled considerably. It is threatened primarily by habitat loss due to the expansion of logging, cattle ranching, agriculture, and prospecting. Secondarily, it is threatened by being hunted as an actual threat to livestock and/or a supposed one to human life, due to its great size.

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Questions
1. What are the physical characteristic of the Harpy Eagle?
(A).Grey head, black tail, reddish eye, yellow toes
B. Black head, black tail, black eye, black toes
C. White head, white head, black eye, brown toes
D. Golden head, black tail, blue eye, white toe

2. Where do the Harpy Eagle lives?
A. Philppines
(B). South America
C. North America
D. Europe

3. How many child does the Harpy Eagle usually raise?
(A). 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

4. Why is the Harpy Eagle rare?
A. Because they can't adapt to the modern climate
B. Because of rising temperature
(C). Because of deforestation and habitat loss
D. Because of an invasive species

5. What differ the Harpy Eagle from the other eagles?
A. It is the smallest eagle
B. It is a carnivore
C. It lives in the jungle
(D). It is one of the largest

LDKS EXPERIENCE

MY EXPERIENCE AT THE STUDENT BASIC LEADERSHIP TRAINING

On Thursday, 21st of September, every student on the tenth class of SMAN 3 Bandung came to PUSENIF (Central Infantry Weaponry) to join the LDKS (Student Basic Leadership Training). We arrived in the morning at the training field on 7 am. After putting our luggage away, we lined up in the field on the opening ceremony. Then, we entered a building to watched movies and presentations about the army, nationalism, propagandas, fighting for the country, and leadership. We went to the barracks and I got my hair cut. We ate our dinner and watched the presentations again. After that, we slept only to be woken up again two hours later. We slept again to be woken up four hours later, and then we did a lot of exercise. We learned about marching in the fields. We went to the Friday Praying, where we almost unanimously slept in the middle of the teachings due to the unprecedented exhaustion. After a lot of activities, we went to the Cikutra Heroes' Cemetry to do the night activities. We toured the cemetry and arrived back to the barracks at 1 am. In the final day we do outbond activities, and then watch the movie " G30S/PKI ". We attended the closing ceremony and went home.

Link video

https://youtu.be/YCYusUr3h30

Sultan's Program next holiday

Zhillan: Hi Sultan!
Sultan : Hi! How are you?
Zhillan: I'm fine, thank you.
Sultan: What are you doing?
Zhillan: I'm planning for my next holiday season.
Sultan: Really? What are you going to do next holiday?
Zhillan: I'm going to travel or explore around a city.
Sultan: Where is it?
Zhillan: In Paris, France!
Sultan: Wow, amazing! With whom will you travel with?
Zhillan: I will travel with my entire family.
Sultan: Are you going to the Eiffel tower?
Zhillan: Of course! You don't have to ask again.
Sultan: How are you going to get there?
Zhillan: By plane, the British Airways.
Sultan: Why would you go there?
Zhillan: Because it is my dream since I was little.
Sultan: When will you go?
Zhillan: This December.
Sultan: Isn't it winter?
Zhillan: I never see snow, so I want to go at winter.
Sultan:Amazing!
Zhillan: So what are you going to do at your holiday?
Sultan: I will go to Japan.
Zhillan: Wow! With whom will you go?
Sultan: With my Robotic Team.
Zhillan: What are you going to do there?
Sultan: I have a competition.
Zhillan: What competition?
Sultan: A Robotic competition.
Zhillan: Cool! Where will that competition takes?
Sultan: In Tokyo.
Zhillan: When will it take place?
Sultan: On December 7th.
Zhillan: How will you win it? Do you have a plan?
Sultan: Of course I have a plan, but its a secret.
Zhillan: Why would you want to join the competition?
Sultan: Because I am a master of robotics in Indonesia.
Zhillan: Great! I hope you win!
Sultan: Thank you!
Zhillan: Your welcome.

Someone who helped me

Thank you, Mr. Someone!

A few years ago, My friends and I planned a group work on one of my friend's house. His house is big, with access for internet and supplies. It also had a lot of facilities. There is only one problem: his house is located in the middle of Cimahi, and base from the map he sent to me, in the middle of a dense urban area in Cimahi. At that time, I only know the roads from my house to my school, and from my house to a supermarket.

I told my parents about this and they gave me some money for a taxi. They don;t have enough time to drive me to my friend's house. So I ordered a taxi. But neither I nor the driver has ever drive around to Cimahi, let alone its urban area. While looking at the google map, I realized that  my phone's battery is dying, with its color changed from green as leaf to red as blood. After a while, we found what seemingly looks like the place based on the map, The driver, probably a bit furious because he can't find the place, told me that the place should be right and I can drop here just fine. So I left the car (after paying, of course).

As soon as the car goes, the phone's battery ran out and cannot be turned on. I remembered the map said that the house is located on the street in front of me. But that street in front of me is a small alley, near a rice field. That didn't make sense. I knew that my friend's father is a director at Pertamina and his mother is a banker, and adding the facts he proclaimed at his house, none of which match my logic. And honestly, I was pretty scared to go into that dark space.

After a lot of walking in a circle, I stopped a a mini market. Luckily I brought my phone charger, before this  I wasn't able to charge it since I was going around in the asphalt of the streets. I was able to charge my phone and get a pinch of information. He said that his house has a black fence in the end of the street, at JL. Cangkuang. The name doesn't sound royal to me , so I braved myself and went to the alley.

There are no black-fenced house in the end of the street nor the end of the street next to the black-fenced house, although both are pretty common, there are no combination between black fence and street's end. There are no Jl. Cangkuang either. In fact, there are no named street on the alley complex.

Seeing me walking in circle for the second, third, fourth time, a man called me. "Hey, what are you looking for" I said the description of my friend's house. "Huh, there are no such place here, but your friend might live in that rich hedonist bourgeois community in that high fenced complex" Wait, after all of this time, there are a rich-people-only housing complex with barbed wire nearby? how did I don't notice it? I asked the man if he can show me the way, and he said yes.

So finally, I passed the complex's security guard with his scary eyes,and found Jl. Cangkuang. Turns out, the map my friend gave me was completely false and absurd. Looking back, that man might has saved me from running out of money, getting depressed, or even from the chance of thiefing or robbery. So thank you, Mr. someone-there!

Introduction

Introduction

One day on a library

Sultan: Hello, where did you get that book?

Zhillan: From bookshelf A3.

Sultan: Ah, thank you. By the way, I'm Sultan, what's your name?

Zhillan: My name is Zhillan, nice to meet you.

Sultan: Nice to meet you, too. Where do you live?

Zhillan: I live in Cigadung.

Sultan: Oh really? I live in Cigadung to! What is the addres?

Zhillan: At Pesantren Street. What about you?

Sultan: I live at Farmakologi Street.

Zhillan: Do you like playing football?

Sultan: Of course! Maybe we can join the extracurricular together.

Zhillan: What class did you get?

Sultan: It's X-MIPA-3

Zhillan: Wow, I'm that class to!

Sultan: Let's go to our class.

Zhillan: Sure!