Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Padjadjaran Fair 2012 Present: EYEGASMIC

Starbucks Tokyo

Wah, Starbucks yang ada di Jepang ini memang beda dengan Starbucks lainnya! Coba liat dari depannya, desain tempatnya unik banget, dan ini adalah hasil karya dari Kengo Kuma and Associates. Mereka bilang, project terbaru ini mengusung konsep ‘contemporary chicness’, dan kita bisa merasakan suasana yang berbeda lho ketika singgah ke Starbucks yang berada di daerah Fukuoka, Tokyo. Uniknya, kenapa Starbucks ini dibuat berbeda dengan Starbucks lainnya? Yup, dikarenakan lokasinya yang memang terletak dekat kuil Shinto, yaitu salah satu kuil paling besar di Jepang (yang berada di area Dazaifu Tenman-g?).

Dan agar terlihat harmonis dengan kuil yang dikunjungi 2 juta pengunjung setiap tahunnya, dibuatlah Starbucks dengan wood style, yang akan membuat kita serasa berada di alam terbuka. Tebak? Bangunan ini terdiri dari 2000 balok kayu yang menutupi hampir seluruh dinding dan langit-langitnya. Menariknya lagi, anatomi kayu diseluruh bangunan ini bisa di daur ulang! Dan Kuma juga bilang, karena bisa di daur ulang, bangunan ini bisa dibongkar kapan aja dengan mudah, dan dipindahkan ke lokasi yang lain. Hmm, looks like a great place to enjoy a Mocha Frappuccino!

Forming Friendships the First Week of College: What to Know and Expect

As you start freshman year and settle into campus life, aim to meet classmates who share your interests and values.

If you're like most incoming college freshmen, it's been a while since you started from scratch and made new friends. Rest assured: almost everyone's in the same position as you. The classic rules to making new friends certainly apply—be open-minded, friendly, and make sure to smile! But you can also use the unique social situations on college campuses to your advantage by joining student groups and meeting people who share your major. Remember that it takes time to settle into campus life, and the students you meet during orientation probably won't comprise your friend group for the next four years. We asked the experts about what you should keep in mind as you meet your classmates.

Look for friends with common interests.

"Figure out what you like and what you want to achieve at college; after that, seek out the communities that are involved in those kinds of activities and have similar values," says Kelci Lucier, an education writer for About.com and US News & World Report. "You can meet people through a sports team, club, and your major's department. Head to programs, speakers, or events. If your community doesn't exist, go ahead and make one! College campuses are always open to new groups—chances are, if you're feeling a lack of community around something, other students are too."

Aim for variety.

"One nice thing about college is that you can have different friends who play different roles in your life," says Lucier. "You can have your studious friends with whom you know you can cram for a midterm and as well as more social friends with whom you know you can go out with on weekends."

Step outside of your comfort zone.

"Stay open to meeting new friends, even if you already know people from high school going to your college," says Jenny Blake, author of Life After College. "Challenge yourself. Think about the quote, 'do one thing each day that scares you.' Talk to one new person each day and try to expand beyond that initial comfort zone of a clique."

Try to avoid cliques.

"Cliques in college are very different from high school," says Lucier. "Because people travel in so many different circles—for example, people who live in your residence hall, chemistry majors, students in the organic farming club—cliques in college are pretty fluid. So, it's important to always be open to meeting new people. Each semester will bring changes to the groups you belong to, so you'll always have a chance to break out and meet new people if you feel stuck. The challenge is really figuring out which community to join, not finding one!"

Prioritize quality over quantity.

"There's a window when new students will be much more open to connections, and that window stays open for about the first six weeks of school," says Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out. "There are positives and negatives to that. The good part is that you can connect easily and quickly with a lot of people. The bad part is you can go overboard and read too much into the connections you're making."

Don't be afraid to distance yourself.

"You may wake up one day and ask, what am I doing with these people? This is not me," says Simmons. "It's important to spin that in a positive way. It means that you're getting more confident about your life at college and what you want. That's exciting! It doesn't mean that everything's a mess. You don't want to burn any bridges, but it's important to start scheduling time to be in situations without those friends. If you're in a pack of friends, you probably don't look like someone who wants to make new ones."

Realize that some of your friendships are fleeting.

"It's important to remember that some friendships may last, and others may not, and that's totally normal," says Simmons. "You're in a new place, and you're going to get overwhelmed by a very large social community. It takes time to find your tribe. It doesn't mean you're bad at making friends."

The World's First Cupcake ATM!

Cupcakes are wonderful and still a tasty treat. Bentuknya yang bermacam-macam, bikin kita selalu jatuh hati dengan cupcake. Nah, tapi percaya nggak kalo ada mesin ATM di Los Angeles yang bukan mengeluarkan uang, tapi justru mengeluarkan cupcake. Yup, mesin bernama “The Sprinkles Cupcake ATM” ini berada diluar café bernama ‘Sprinkles Cupcakes’ di Beverly Hills, tepatnya di Santa Monica Boulevard. The cupcake ATM is a rock star! Kabarnya sih, cupcake ATM ini cukup fenomenal disana.

Cupcake ATM yang dibuat dari ide sang pemilik Sprinkles, yakni Candace Nelson, dapat diisi hingga 600 cupcakes. Dan bahkan mereka udah siap membuka cabang di New York. Jadi kalo berasa laper tengah malam atau butuh dessert, langsung aja lari ke cupcake ATM.

Katanya sih dalam waktu dekat bakal dibuat atap diatas mesin ini. Biar orang-orang yang ngantri nggak kepanasan. Tapi jangan salah, cupcakes yang dikeluarkan dari mesin ini selalu fresh from the oven lho, karena dibuat langsung di dalam tokonya.

The Cupcake ATM is really more of a vending machine. Touchscreen dan mesinnya pun berwarna pink!

Dibanding milih dan pesan langsung di dalam tokonya, orang-orang lebih suka dan penasaran untuk beli cupcake dari mesin ini (gue juga penasaraaan), walauuu harus memasukkan credit card ke dalam mesin ATM.

Omnomnom! Cupcakes yang keluar dari mesin ATM sudah dimasukkan ke dalam little box. Cute!

Dan selain cupcakes, mesin ATM ini juga menyediakan red velvet, carrot cake sampai chocolate marshmallow. So, for cupcakes addicts on the go, 24 Hour Sprinkles debuts as the world's first cupcake automat. Wohoo!

The Social Network

Last winter, Gabriela, now fourteen, was expecting to attend her friend Sarah's* thirteenth-birthday weekend in New York City. "In front of my whole family, she said that it'd be so fun and we'd have a blast if I came," recalls Gabriela, a high school freshman in Newark, Delaware. But the official invite never arrived, and Gabriela promptly forgot about it—until the Monday in February when a group of her friends returned to school after spending the weekend in the Big Apple. Gabriela was shocked and hurt that she'd been excluded. "What happened? You told me straight up I was coming. This isn't right," she told Sarah. "Sarah said, 'We took a vote. I wanted you to come, but everybody else didn't,'" Gabriela says. "I didn't want to cry in front of her, so I waited until I got home."

While periodically dealing with exclusion is a part of life, to many teens, certain public slights feel overwhelmingly painful. "It's heartbreaking to not feel included," says John Duffy, Psy.D., a clinical psychologist. "It makes you feel like you don't have a place and you don't really know who you are."

When all of your friends have been included except you, it can seem extremely isolating, notes eighteen-year-old Nicole, from Marlboro, New Jersey. "When you hear that a friend is having a party and you realize you weren't invited, it's a slap in the face," she says. "It makes you feel not wanted."

But why does exclusion suddenly feel like a huge issue when you reach middle school and high school—and why does it hurt so much? "When we hit the teen years," Duffy explains, "we define ourselves far more in a social context instead of a family context and look to friends instead of relatives for approval. Our self-worth is derived in large part from how we fit in with our peer group. We think a lot about what other people think of us; our big fear is that they don't."

Olivia, a nineteen-year-old in Alpharetta, Georgia, faced that fear one Friday afternoon this past spring. "I was on Facebook when my news feed updated, and I saw a picture of my good friend Amanda* and everyone I hang out with celebrating Amanda's birthday at a restaurant," the college freshman recalls. "I was in shock. Why didn't she just text me? These are the people I see all the time," she says.

She commented "Why wasn't I invited?" on the photo, and Amanda immediately responded that it was an accident; the birthday dinner had spontaneously come together earlier that day. It was cold comfort to Olivia. "When I saw that on Facebook, I felt like a loser," she says. "By commenting on that party photo, I was announcing to every one of my friends who were tagged: 'I wasn't there, and I want to know why.'"

Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media can make these experiences of exclusion immeasurably worse: You can see exactly what your friends are doing at all times, with or without you. "Past generations of teens have experienced this—rejection, feeling like an outsider," says Georgia Michalopoulou, Ph.D., chief of staff of the Child Psychiatry and Psychology division of the Children's Hospital of Michigan. "But it's much more of a problem now. Before, if a friend betrayed your trust, only that one friend knew about it. Now a whole group of people knows." Adds Olivia: "On Facebook, you want everyone to know that you're out and about doing something—you're not home alone updating your Facebook status."

Social self-worth is, for some girls, a public numbers game, Duffy says. "The more people we are approved by, the better we feel about ourselves." So seeing how much fun others are having via your Facebook feed could easily make you think that you're left out of everything—even things you don't necessarily care about.

But it's definitely worse if you're close friends with the person who excluded you, says Katie, a fourteen-year-old high school freshman. After a big eighth-grade dance last year, the Louisville, Kentucky, native went home and immediately logged on to Facebook. "I saw tons of pictures of my friends getting ready for the dance together," she says. "They had a little predance party and didn't tell me. It was so upsetting because I was good friends with [the host], and I saw people there who don't really talk to her. It's like, OK, she's not going to invite me, but she'll invite people she doesn't really know? It made me feel really bad, like there was something wrong with me."

Olivia admits to experiencing a similar sense of paranoia: "I worried at the beginning that I'd been excluded on purpose," she says. "I thought, Was this planned? Did I do something? I even went back and checked my text messages to see what we'd talked about in the last week."

The best way to deal with feeling left out, say Duffy and Michalopoulou, is to try to modify your reaction to exclusion—since many teens experience it so often and it's impossible to be invited to everything. That's what helped Nicole. "At first I felt like, Oh, poor me, my life sucks," she says. "But then I heard stories from different friends about not being invited somewhere, and I thought, OK, these things just happen. As upset as I was, I know in a few years it won't mean anything to me. And for now I'll hang out with my other friends who care about me and wouldn't exclude me."

Another way to protect yourself from serious postexclusion hurt: Focus on the quality of your friendships. For one thing, having hundreds of Facebook friends or tons of real-life acquaintances isn't as fulfilling as fostering close friendships with people you can trust, Duffy says. "You can be hanging out with 50 people on a Friday night, online or otherwise, and feel lonely," he says, "or be with two and feel great." Michalopoulou adds that it's good to have friends in different groups too: "Develop friendships that aren't just based on status," she suggests. Instead, "form relationships with other kids who have similar interests and hobbies."

And if it's your BFF who excluded you, like in Katie's story? Talk it out with an adult you trust, and if your relationship with your friend has been good so far, ask her—offline—why she excluded you, Michalopoulou says. "Address it face-to-face, not over the Internet." Gabriela says that in her situation, Sarah, who had the New York birthday weekend, apologized to her a few different times after everything happened. Though Gabriela was hesitant to trust her again, she eventually believed Sarah's feelings of remorse were honest. "I forgave her and the other girls, and I felt like the bigger person," she says.

While being left out can be devastating, girls say there's often an upside—the experience makes you more compassionate toward and understanding of others. Olivia doesn't post her whereabouts on Facebook if she's going somewhere that's not an open invite; Gabriela says that she's now much more inclusive. "There are times when there's that one person you don't want to invite—but I still do," she says.

It's also worth remembering that your social circle shouldn't dictate how you feel about yourself. "Don't internalize negative comments. Try to make your own decisions about things," says Michalopoulou. "It's important to remember that you can't change how people behave, but you can change the way you deal with these situations."

Exclusion can surely lay bare the cracks in your friendship—but it can also make it clear who your true allies are. Being left out, Nicole says, "made me realize that the girls who've excluded me aren't my good friends. It's kind of like a blessing in disguise. It helps you let go of people who aren't healthy for you."

*Name has been changed.

PROM: Who Are You Going With?

Class president Nova (Aimee Teegarden) has been planning the school's prom. She and her friends, Mei (Yin Chang), Ali (Janelle Ortiz), Brandon (Jonathan Keltz), and Rolo (Joe Adler) have created the perfect decorations, which they store in the school's shed. Nova, who has a crush on Brandon, hopes he will drive her to prom, no plot but he wants to carpool instead.

Meanwhile, Lloyd (Nicholas Braun), the "invisible" guy at school, is complaining about prom to his stepsister, Tess (Raini Rodriguez) because he has no date but she responds by telling him he should just ask somebody. Elsewhere at the school, Tyler (De'Vaughn Nixon) is confronted by his girlfriend, Jordan (Kylie Bunbury), who assumes he is cheating on her due to the single gold earring she finds in his car. He assures her this is not the case, and Jordan believes him.

"Bad boy" Jesse Richter (Thomas McDonell) has been missing school lately and showing other "unacceptable" behavior, such as riding his motorcycle on school grounds. Principal Dunnan (Jere Burns) has a talk with him, but is not satisfied with Jesse's attitude. Mei learns she has been accepted into Parsons, which conflicts with the plans she made with her boyfriend, Justin (Jared Kusnitz), of going to the University of Michigan together. She is stressed about this and becomes irritable as prom approaches, which she agrees to go with Justin.

Sophomore Lucas (Nolan Sotillo) is attracted to Simone (Danielle Campbell), his lab partner, who he tries to get with the help of his friend Corey (Cameron Monaghan). Ali asks Rolo who he is taking to prom, which he responds by telling her he is taking his girlfriend, who she doubts exists.

That night, Tyler takes to Jordan to the school's shed, which he has decorated with many candles, to ask her to prom, and she agrees. When they leave the shed, however, they forget to put out a single candle. The shed promptly catches fire and burns down. The next day, a devastated Nova, with no decorations and only three weeks to prom, asks her friends for extra help to pull the dance off, which they all back out of, each listing their own reason.

Principal Dunnan, seeing her dilemma, has an idea, and forces Jesse to help her, or he cannot graduate. Although Nova and Jesse both are unhappy with this situation, they comply anyway. At school, Lloyd is having trouble finding a date, even with the help of his sister. At one point Lloyd scares his friend Alice (Ivy Malone) and her best friend Lea (Blair Fowler). As one thing goes wrong after another, Lloyd loses confidence and becomes frustrated.

Later at home, Nova complains to her parents about her having to work with Jesse, when Brandon shows up and tells her he cannot take her to prom, and that she will have to find another date. As the date becomes closer to prom, Nova and Jesse grow closer while working together. Jesse also tells Nova the reason he is always late to help is because he has to help pick up his brother from school, as his mother is unable to.

During lacrosse practice, Tyler invites Lucas to the team barbecue, and tells him to invite a girl. Lucas decides to ask Simone, which she agrees to. After school, Nova is growing frustrated because Jesse is late to helping her work on prom. Finally, he shows up, and there is tension right away. They have several arguments, one of which leads to Jesse apologizing.

One night, Nova finds out that the neighboring high school has the same theme for their prom as her own. Jesse suggests they take his motorcycle to go check out the other school's decorations, and she agrees. However, they are caught by the police, who call Nova's parents. Nova's father is infuriated with Jesse and insults him.

At Tyler's barbecue, Tyler tries to make a move on Simone, only to be rejected by her. It is made clear they have a history. Simone tells Lucas that if she had known it was Tyler's barbecue, she would not have come. Mei's attitude is becoming worse and worse, and Justin believes she does not want to go to prom. He calls the date off, and Mei is left feeling very uncomfortable.

At school, Lucas is blowing off Corey to spend more time with Simone, and asks her to study for the upcoming test with him, to which she agrees. However, as she is about to go to library, Simone is stopped by Tyler, who convinces her to talk with him. He tells her about his feelings for her. Jordan sees the two talking and immediately grasps the situation.

After school, Nova walks to Jesse's brother's school so she can talk to Jesse and apologize for her dad's behavior. Later, she takes him dress shopping. Back at school, Simone apologizes to Lucas for having ditched him. She has a surprise, tickets to a concert, where Stick Hippo (his and Corey's favorite band) is opening.

Lucas wants to take Simone instead of Corey, much to Corey's dismay. Jordan dumps Tyler for his unfaithfulness, and decides to go to prom alone. This prompts him to ask Simone to prom, which is the same night as the concert, and she agrees. Simone tells Lucas that she is sorry, but she cannot go to the concert.

Mei apologizes to Justin for her behavior and tells him the truth, but instead of feeling hurt that she is going to a different college, he tells her he is proud of her. They agree that they should still go to prom together.

Lloyd spots Lucas sitting outside the school, looking dejected. He learns his situation, and tells Lucas his own mistake with girls and high school. Lloyd tells Lucas that if he really loves Simone, he should tell her.

Two nights before the prom, Nova, Ali, and Mei are in Nova's room, talking. Nova confesses to them that she has feelings for Jesse, which her dad unfortunately overhears. The next day, Nova's father tells Jesse he cannot ask Nova to prom, because he is "bringing her down". That afternoon, Jesse is unusually hostile towards Nova and deserts her.

On prom night, Lucas climbs a tree to reach Simone's window. He tells her how he feels and begs her not to go to prom, but she goes anyway. Disappointed, Lucas realizes what a bad friend he has been to Corey, and offers him the other concert ticket. The two head off to see their favorite band happily.

At her house, Nova is heartbroken, and refuses to pose for the camera in her prom dress. Her father, worried, explains that he was the one who told Jesse not to ask her to prom. Angered, Nova storms out of the house. Meanwhile, at Lloyd's house, it is revealed that he is taking his sister to prom. At Jesse's house, his mother has a talk with him, and he realizes that he should still take Nova to prom.

At the school, Tyler leads Simone into the building, and almost immediately abandons her. Simone finds out from a couple of girls that it was actually Jordan who dumped Tyler, and Tyler had gone to her with no other option. When Tyler asks her to dance (He was crowned prom king and Jordan queen) she refuses and leaves. She goes to the concert parking lot, where she waits for Lucas, and they share a dance.

Rolo comes in with his friend, Athena, much to Ali's surprise. She is also surprised that all he said about her was true. Nova is having an awful time at prom, and when Mei tells her the centerpiece, the fountain, is broken, she cannot take it anymore. As she is about to leave, she hears the fountain work again, and knows the only person who could have fixed it was Jesse. He walks up to her and asks her to prom. She agrees, and they dance and share a kiss.

4DramaQueen

Okay, I'll tell you about 4DramaQueen from A to Z. I'll tell you everythings happen on this way. So, don't mess with this post!

4DramaQueen adalah singkatan dari 4: kelompok 4, Drama: drama project untuk kelas Bahasa Indonesia, Queen: utama atau yang terbaik. Well, singkatnya 4DramaQueen adalah kelompok drama gue untuk kelas Bahasa Indonesia. Sebenarnya tidak diharuskan untuk membuat nama seperti itu, well, hanya ingin.

6 Mei 2011: H-5 4DramaQueen

Hari ini kami bersepuluh sepakat untuk menyusun atau tepatnya membuat naskah di rumah Sarah. Bayangkan, H 5 kami sama sekali belum membuat naskah. Jangankan latihan, naskahnya saja belum kami pastikan. Yah, walaupun sebenarnya plot cerita sudah di selesaikan oleh Sarah. Rencananya hari ini kami akan menyusun naskah dari cerita tersebut. Hari ini Ghanu, Angga, dan Widya tidak hadir untuk menyusun naskah bersama. Aku lupa apa alasan mereka tidaj bisa ikut membuat naskah. Ya sudahlah.

Sepulang sekolah renacanya kami akan langsung pergi ke rumah Sarah. By the way, aku tidak dapat ikut langsung menuju rumah Sarah. Karena aku harus solat Jumat dulu. Baru setelah selesai solat Jumat, aku pergi menyusul ke rumah Sarah.

Anyway, ternyata selama menuju rumah Sarah, ada kejadian yang bisa dibilang 'hot gossip'. Jadi ceritanya (di ceritain sama Elsa)  mereka pergi ke rumah Sarah dengan mobil Putri. Sarah duduk di depan buat nunjukin arah jalan sama Mang Aso (supir pribadi Putri). Well, di pos satpam itu ternyata ada sekumpulan anak grade 12 yang lagi pada ngumpul dan salah satunya tuh ada Adam, cowok anak grade 12 yang ganteng banget lebih tepatnya manis atau seksi atau terserah deh mau bilang apa, pokoknya dia HOT (secara gitu ya anak basket). Banyak banget yang ngeceng. Nggak emang otomatis atau refleks, Sarah ngedadahin dia (kenal aja enggak deh sama cowok itu). Dikirain Sarah kaca mobil Putri itu vikool, itu loh kaca mobil yang kalo dari luar nggak keliatan tapi dari dalem keliatan. Dan kalian tau apa yang terjadi setelah itu?! Cowok itu langsung kaget plus ngeliatin Sarah dan senyum dengan senyuman yang menggoda. Well, mungkin maksudnya bukan senyum juga kali ya, lebih tepatnya ngetawain!

Dasar deh ya si Sarah lagi ada-ada aja ngedadahin cowok itu. Okay, back to the main topic. Waktu aku samapau di rumah Sarah, sudah menunggu Lulu, Putri, Elsa, dan Sarah. Kalo nggak salah naskah baru seperempat. Tapi waktu itu aku yakin banget kalo misalnya kita bisa nyelesein tepat waktu. Pasa saat berlangsungnya pembuatan naskah drama, yang namanya remping sudah tidak terhindarkan lagi. Jadi capek duluan. Well, pembuatan naskah belum selesai tapi kami sudah harus pulang. Akhirnya penyusunan naskah pun dilanjutkan besok.

8 Mei 2011: H-3 4DramaQueen

Karena kemarin semua anggota dipastikan sibuk. Misalnya saja Putri sedang pergi ke Jakarta. Aku, Lulu, dan Angga, pergi untuk menonton konser yang diadakan oleh SMAN 5 di Braga (latter I'll tell you on other post). Baru hari ini lagi kami dapat memulai menyusun naskah dan latihan. Itupun setelah aku menghadiri pernikahan kakak sepupuku. Aku baru datang pada pukul 1 siang setelah semua anggota sudah berkumpul.

Dalam pertemuan atau latihan kali ini, kami mulai untuk latihan dance yang akan dipakai dalam drama musikal kami. Lagu Playboy dari 7icons menjadi bahan dance untuk Trozz'n dan lagu I Heart You dari SM*SH menjadi bahan untuk ZM*SH. Mulai dari mengulang-ulang video dari masing-masing panutan sampai dance itu sendiri menjadi kesibukan kami hari ini. Bahkan kami sampai mengabaikan naskah!

Oh ya, untuk kostum, kami tidah terlalu mengambil pusing. Cukup dengan baju-baju berwarnah cerah untuk Trozz'n dan bajubaju cowok metroseksual untuk ZM*SH. Dan untuk seragam sekolah aku sudah meng-SMS temanku untuk memunjamkan 9 rompi. Rompi-rompi tersebut sudah tidak dia pakai. Bekas film untuk kelas Bahasa juga. Tapi ini belum pasti waktu itu. Makanya aku tidak berani gembar-gembor dulu sama anak-anak 4DramaQueen.

Playboy by 7icons

I Heart You by SM*SH

9 Mei 2011: H-2 4DramaQueen

Wow! Nggak kerasa sudah H-2 untuk kami tampil pada kelas Bahasa Indonesia! Dan kabar buruknya adalah naskah belum selesai! Great! By the way, kami memang leboh memfokuskan pada dance daripada naskah itu sendiri. Yah, mau bagaimana lagi? Dance memang lebih susah daripada naskah. Jika naskah, kami bisa berimprovisasi. Sedangkan dance? I don't think so.

Hari ini kami sepakat untuk latihan di belakang aula. Kenapa di belakang aula? Karena di rumah Sarah tidak bisa. Di kelas tidak mungkin. Karena jika kami latihan di kelas, drama kami tidak akan menjadi kejutan bagi anak-anak kelas. Dan lagi-lagi kami lebih memfokuskan dance pada latihan kali ini. Oh ya, naskah belum selesai!

Hari ini juga kami mendapatkan kabar gembira! Sebelum H-1 atau tepatnya besok, kami diliburkan! Karena beberapa kelas akan dipakai untuk OSN atau Olimpiade Sains Nasional. Kebetulan Elsa juga mengokiti OSN ini.

10 Mei 2011: H-1 4DramaQueen

GAWD! Hari ini sudah H-1! Berarti besok adalah hari dimana kami akan perform! Hari ini juga kami libur! Maka dari itu kami bisa latihan di rumah Sarah. Kami sepakat untuk berkumpul pada pukul 10. Asalnya sih mau pukul 8, tapi karena beberapa dari kami harus latihan aerobik dulu maka jadilah pukul 10. Tetap saja sih ada yang terlambat. Well, terlambat sedikit sih. Jadi kami mulai sekitar pukul 11. Kami mulai dengan latihan dance kocarkacir, lalu latihan naskah, baru kami gabung jadi satu!

11 Mei 2011: The Day of 4DramaQueen

Today is the DAY, everyone!!! Ya! Hari ini adalah hari dimana kami akan tampil di kelas Bahasa Indonesia! Kami sepakat untuk berkumpul pada pukul 5.30, walaupun pada dateng pukul 6. Kami berkumpul di belakang aula. Ceritanya gladi bersih gitu. Hari ini harusnya ada aerobik di kelas Olahraga tapi nggak jadi lantaran ada TO dari Neutron. Mulai dari pukul 6.45 sampai pukul 9. Try out plus pembahasan. Tapi pada waktu pembahasan kami kabur untuk gladi bersih lagi yang tadi sempat tertunda. And IT SHOW TIME!!!

Oh ya, kami juga memakai theme song buat penutup. Lagu We're All in This Together dari High School Musical.

High School Musical by We're All in This Together

P.S.

• Belom nge upload foto foto dan video dari drama tersebut
• Belom masukin naskah dramanya

Lifehouse Bookstore

Mencari spot yang cozy di Plaza Indonesia? Coba deh kunjungi toko buku yang satu ini. Lifehouse Bookstore terletak di lantai dasar persis di sebelah kiri lift. Begitu memasuki toko buku ini, gue langsung merasakan suasana homey dan tenang. Dengan dekorasi warna putih dan warna-warna pastel, café kecil di dalam Lifehouse emang pas banget untuk bersantai sejenak. Kamu bisa memesan cappuccino atau teh bersama cookies. Nah, karena fungsi utamanya adalah sebagai bookstore, sebagian besar dinding Lifehouse tertutup buku-buku, dan kebanyakan buku impor.

Walaupun toko buku ini berbasis religi, Lifehouse juga melengkapi koleksi bukunya dengan tema-temalife improvement, parenting, relationship, business dan juga social. Selain itu ada juga frame, cd lagu-lagu rohani, birthday card dan juga handy craft. Karena konsep toko buku ini didirikan untuk charity, makanya harga buku-buku disini baik impor maupun lokal, harganya sangat terjangkau. Mulai Rp 25.000 hingga Rp 300.000. Ohya, kamu juga bisa loh menggunakan ruangan café di Lifehouse untuk klub buku atau acara lainnya. Tinggal hubungi pihak Lifehouse untuk mengatur jadwal dengan mereka. Asik banget kan?

Lifehouse “Books, Gifts, Café, Music”

Plaza Indonesia 1st Floor #006A, JL. MH. Thamrin Kav. 28 – 30 Jakarta

(021) 299 23 626

Buka: 10.00 – 22.00

Mean Girls

The 16-year-old home-schooled daughter of zoologist parents (Ana Gasteyer and Neil Flynn) living in Africa, Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), is unprepared for her first day of public high school at North Shore High School in Evanston, Illinois. With the help of social outcasts Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damien (Daniel Franzese), Cady learns about the various cliques. She is warned to avoid the school's most exclusive clique, the Plastics, the reigning trio of girls led by the acid-tongued queen bee Regina George (Rachel McAdams). Regina was once Janis's best friend but they have grown to despise each other since Regina started a rumor about Janis's sexuality in 8th grade. However, the Plastics take a shine to Cady and invite her to sit with them at lunch and go shopping with them after school. Upon realizing that Cady has been accepted into the Plastics, Janis hatches a plan to get revenge on Regina for what she did to her, using Cady as a pawn in order to infiltrate the Plastics.

Having ingratiated herself with the Plastics per Janis's plan, Cady learns about the "Burn Book," a top secret notebook of Regina's filled with slandering rumors, secrets, and gossip about all the other girls (and teachers) in their class. Cady soon falls in love with Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), whom Regina successfully steals back from Cady in a fit of jealousy during a Halloween party. Cady, who now hates Regina, goes ahead with Janis' plan which involves cutting off Regina's "resources", which include separating her from her boyfriend Aaron, destroying her beauty, and turning Regina's fellow Plastics against her: insecure rich girl Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert) and sweet but dimwitted Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried). Cady then starts pretending failure at math to get Aaron's attention and soon choreographs Aaron's breakup with Regina by confessing Regina's infidelity with another boy. Cady also convinces Regina to eat high-calorie nutrition bars (called Kalteen) by claiming that they actually help one lose weight. She also turns Gretchen against Regina by making her think Regina thinks of Cady as a better friend instead of her.

In her efforts to get revenge on Regina, Cady gradually loses her individual personality and remakes herself in the image of Regina. Her act soon becomes reality, and she becomes as spiteful as Regina, abandoning Janis and Damien in the process and focusing more on her image. Regina, now slightly overweight due to Cady's diet sabotage, is excluded from the Plastics and Cady becomes the new Queen Bee. In celebration of her newfound status, Cady throws a party with the Plastics and does not invite Janis or Damien. Janis and Damien then renounce Cady as a friend. During the party, she also alienates Aaron with her unsavory new personality.

Regina discovers the truth about the bars she has been eating and strikes back by spreading the entire contents of her Burn Book around the school, inciting a riot; to avoid suspicion, Regina also inserts fake slander of herself in the book, in order to focus blame on Cady, Gretchen, and Karen. The riot is eventually quelled by Principal Duvall (Tim Meadows). Math teacher Ms. Norbury (Tina Fey)—who also appeared in the Burn Book, where Cady slandered her by saying that she sold drugs—makes the girls realize that all of them are guilty of hurting their peers. She has each girl confess and apologize to the rest of the girls. Janis confesses her plan to destroy Regina with Cady's help, and openly mocks Regina with the support of the entire school. Regina storms out, pursued by an apologetic Cady, and gets hit by a school bus in her haste; rumors circulate that Cady intentionally pushed Regina in front of the bus.

Now without friends, shunned by Aaron, and distrusted by everyone at school, Cady decides to make amends by taking full blame for the Burn Book. Though severely punished by her confession, her guilt dissolves and she returns to her old personality. As punishment for her part, Ms. Norbury has Cady join the Mathletes—which Damien and Regina both described earlier as "social suicide"—in their competition. There, Cady has an epiphany competing against a very unattractive girl, realizing that even if she made fun of the girl's appearance, it would not stop the girl from beating her. Cady wins the tournament and returns to school for the Spring Fling.

At the Spring Fling dance, Cady is elected Spring Fling Queen and gives a speech to her class that her victory is meaningless; they are all wonderful in their own way and thus the victory belongs to everyone. As a symbolic gesture, she breaks her tiara and distributes the pieces to her fellow classmates. Cady makes up with Janis and Damien, reconciles with Aaron, and reaches a truce with the Plastics.

The film ends with the Plastics disbanding by the start of the new school year: Regina joins the lacrosse team as a way to channel her anger positively, Karen becomes the school weather girl (claiming that her breasts can always tell when it's raining), Gretchen joins the "Cool Asians" clique and is their biggest follower, and Cady dates Aaron as well as hanging out with Janis and Damien. Now reasonably well-liked, Cady reflects that the "Girl World" she lives in is at peace.

Mean Girls 2

Johanna “Jo” Mitchell is a 17-year-old tomboy who lives with her father, a race car driver for NASCAR. On her first day at North Shore High School, she encounters the school’s most popular and snobbish clique, “The Plastics”, which consists of Amanda “Mandi” Weatherly, a girly girl from a wealthy family, Chastity Meyer, a seemingly slow-witted blond with a raging libido who is known for casual relationships with guys, and Hope Plotkin, a germophobe.

Jo also meets Abigail “Abby” Hanover, a tortured artist who lives across the street from Mandi. Mandi sees Abby as a rival, due to the greater wealth of Abby’s family. Jo also develops an attraction to Tyler Adams, a boy in her woodshop class, despite his somewhat sexist attitudes which spur her to excel in the class. Despite Jo’s attempts to avoid the Plastics, conflict develops between them and Abby, which includes personal confrontations and vandalism to Abby’s car.

When Jo meets Abby’s father, Sidney, a successful infomercial entrepreneur, he offers to pay Jo’s college tuition in gratitude for extending her friendship to his lonely daughter. After Jo accepts, she and Abby become closer. She also becomes closer to Tyler, but while on a date with him, a voice recorder placed in the car records her while she divulges some intimate personal details (such as the fact that she is a virgin) and the recording is later publicized. Despite Jo’s anger when she discovers this, a group of less popular girls tell Jo that they wish they had waited for sex as she had, making Jo feel better. Jo also learns from Abby that Tyler is Mandi’s stepbrother. Mandi also escalates her war of pranks by ruining Jo’s class project, thus ruining her acceptance into Carnegie Mellon University, and filling Jo’s father’s race car with coffee and sweetener.

To get revenge on Mandi, Jo plans a party at Abby’s house on the same night of Mandi’s birthday party, which harms the level of attendance at the latter. The Plastics retaliate by placing ipecac on the pizza delivered to Abby’s house, planning to make all the guests vomit after they consume a slice. Jo discovers that Hope had paid the delievery man to add the syrup, and decided to dispose of the tainted pizza. She and Abbey decide to serve a piece to serve a piece to Mandi’s boyfriend, who throws up on her pink dress whilst making up with her.

A week later, Jo, Abby and another outcast girl named Quinn (who is a nerd) start a new clique called the “Anti-Plastics” in order wage wars against the Plastics, but as they enact a series of pranks against Chastity and Hope, Jo develops a personality almost as shallow as Mandi, and their campaign threatens Tyler and Jo’s relationship. When Jo tries to give back the money Sidney Hanover gave her for her friendship with Abby, Mandi overhears the encounter, and reveals their transaction to the entire school, which leads to Jo’s estrangement from both Abby and Tyler. Quinn is also revealed to be a double agent for the Plastics who, along with Nick, frames Jo for theft by placing stolen charity money in Jo’s backyard shed.

Tyler and the other Anti-Plastics try to help Jo prove her innocence with the help of Elliott, a computer hacker who infiltrates the computer of Jo’s grouchy neighbor, who installed cameras to monitor what happens across the street. After beating the Plastics in a game of powderpuff football, Mandi and Nick are arrested after images of them planting the money in Jo’s shed are revealed (the images are found by Elliott, who hacks into Jo’s paranoid neighbor’s video cameras). At the school’s homecoming dance, Abby and Elliott are elected as king and queen, due to Jo rigging the voting.

The film’s epilogue indicates that Mandi and Nick were sentenced to community service, and that Mandi was allowed to graduate only because her mother donated a library to the school. Quinn became the new leader of the Plastics and agreed to end their war with the Anti-Plastics, who disbanded. Hope finally overcame her fear of germs and drank from a public water fountain. As a boy sneezes on her giving her the swine flu. Chastity ended up joining an abstinence club after learning the meaning of her name. Abby and Elliot begin a relationship as she goes off to college to major in art, while Jo, who remains close friends with Abby, rekindles her relationship with Tyler, who attends Penn State University to remain near her.

State of the Union

Massie’s all about QCT (Quality Clique Time), but the Pretty Committee knows that the holidays are a great time for QFT (Quality Family Time). In seventh grade, Massie and Claire’s families went to Aspen for the holidays, Alicia went to visit her family in Spain, and Dylan and her mom and sisters went to Tonga. So tell us, what’s your favorite family holiday tradition?

Queen Bee

A queen bee is the leader of a female group, a clique’s leader, usually a popular young lady. Characteristics often associated to her are a pleasant appearance, charisma, skill in manipulation, and monetary power. She is sometimes portrayed as the Head Cheerleader, Prom Queen, Homecoming Queen, Principal’s Daughter, etc. The queen bee has substantial influence and power over the clique, and is usually envied and/or looked upon as a role model by clique members and at times by outsiders to the clique. Her actions are closely followed and imitated, even though they may not be of a positive nature. They may appear to also be sex symbols to males.

The social role of the outcast is defined as anyone that the queen bee usually dislikes. Clique members may victimize the outcast in order to continue their membership in the clique, or to receive praise from the queen bee.

In most cliques there is, at least to some degree, a power struggle for the position of the queen bee. Hence, the clique’s leader might change from time to time, for example due to a member (or non-member) exceeding the queen bee’s abilities, or members getting fed up with the queen bee’s antics and thus attracting followers of the old clique leader. Outside influences may also act upon the social structure of the clique, such as changing interests or increasing maturity among clique members.

In a business environment, a “queen bee” may also refer to a woman in upper management who advanced in the ranks without the help of any type of affirmative action programs. Many of those executive women tend to be politically conservative and they choose not to publicly identify with feminism.They often see other, usually younger, women as competitors and will refuse to help them advance within a company, preferring to mentor a male over a female employee. Some ‘queen bees’ may actively take steps to hinder another woman’s advancement as they are seen as direct competitors. Such tactics are sometimes referred to as homophily or the “Queen Bee Syndrome”.

Fictional queen bees

• Courtney Alice Shay from Jawbreaker
• Joan Holloway from Mad Men
• Heather Chandler and Heather Duke from Heathers
• Quinn Fabray and Santana Lopez from Glee
• Blair Waldorf and Jenny Humphrey from Gossip Girl
• Sharpay Evans from High School Musical
• Tess Tyler from Camp Rock
• Aphrodite LaFont from House of Night
• Regina George and Cady Heron from the film Mean Girls
• Mandi Weatherly and Jo Mitchell from the film Mean Girls 2
• Sandi Griffin, presiarson from Daria (TV series)
• Stacey Larson from Odd Girl Out
• Tami from The Amazing Spiez!
• Mandy from Totally Spies
• Cleo de Nile from Monster High.
• Carla Cabrera from Growing Up Creepie
• Sierra McCool from The Replacements (TV series)
• Rhonda Wellington Lloyd from Hey Arnold!
• Dawn Swatsworthy from The Buzz on Maggie
• Ring-Ring from Pucca (TV series)
• Lisa Silver from American Dad!
• The Crust Cousins (Brit and Tiff) from My Life as a Teenage Robot
• Tricia from 6teen
• Muffy Crosswire from Arthur (TV series)
• Priscilla and Penelope Pinkpaws from Angelina Ballerina
• Paige Michalchuk, Heather Sinclair and Holly J. Sinclair from Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Connie D’Amico from Family Guy
• Chris Hargensen from Carrie
• Heather from the Total Drama series
• Reika Tamaki (Josie Huffington in the English dub) from Ojamajo Doremi
• Paige Logan from Grossology (TV series)
• Portia Gibbons from The Mighty B!
• Missy Meanie from Ned’s Disclassified School Survivor Guid
• Alison from Pretty Little Liars
• Shelby Cummings from A Cinderella Story
• Cher from Clueless
• Aphrodite from House of Night
• Mindy from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Paulina Sanchez from Danny Phantom
• Melissa O’Malley from The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
• Kimmy from Sym-Bionic Titan
• Massie Block from The Clique series
• Skye Hamilton, Allie A. Abott, Charlie Deery, and Shira Brazille from Alphas (book series)
• Nina Harper from Braceface
• Courtney Gripling from As Told by Ginger
• Jennifer Check from Jennifer’s Body
• Rona Berger from iCarly (She only appeared once in the iCarly episode iChristmas.)
• London Tipton from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and The Suite Life on Deck
• Cokie Mason from The Babysitters Club (film)
• Mindy Crenshaw and Megan Parker from Drake and Josh
• Cynthia Payne from The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog
• Cordelia Chase from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Britney Boviac from Lloyd in Space
• Ashley A. from Recess (TV series)
• Beebe Bluff from Doug (TV series) and Disney’s Doug
• Princess Morbucks from The Powerpuff Girls
• Cotilla from Zevo-3
• Kelly Kapowski from Saved by the Bell

You and Claire have the same glambition!

You value your friendships and know how to bring out the best in your clique. You don't collect friends like shoes or handbags, but treasure each friendship like it's one-of-a-kind couture. Like Claire, you're an ah-mazing listener, and you ask all the right questions when GLU need to talk. You've got what it takes to be the next Oprah!

Take Clique quizzes at jointheclique.com

State of the Union

MY LITTLE PHONY - First Sneak Peek

MY LITTLE PHONY hits shelves on August 3, and we’re counting down the days! It’s a given that you’re dying to get your perfectly manicured hands on a copy, so we’re releasing an exclusive sneak-peak! In fact, we’ll be posting new snippet one at a time until the book arrives. So, keep checking back to get your full PHONY fix.

Click here for a first look at MY LITTLE PHONY – and let us know what you think!

Via The Clique

God, You Really Are A ....

State of the Union

Your Summer Uniform

Remember how ah-nnoying it was when Principal Burns tried to create a school dress code in BEST FRIENDS FOR NEVER? What he aw-nestly didn’t realize is that Massie enforces a code all her own. And, this summer, for the Pretty Committee, bright-colored bathing suits and ah-dorable sundresses are pretty much the standard.

When it comes to footwear, the Pretty Committee is ga-ga for gladiator sandals. What are you and your clique wearing on your feet this summer?

Via The Clique.

Fadhil's Blah-g! said:
Me and my clique just wearing something that match with our style today. Like t-shirt, crocs, sneakers, overalls, poncho shirt, with handbag or back pack to go to the mall or times square. And sometimes we or me wearing leg warmer [I know if I wore leg warmer in summer is  something ridiculous], but we not live in a country which have 4 seasons, we live in Indonesia which have 2 seasons only. It that means we not feel the REAL SUMMER. Right???

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A All the Way.

"Find My Place"

I would rather be A, a Friendless loser. But, Now I'm in B, a person with tons of friends who secretly hates me...

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How did I end up here
One of the cool kids this year
What I surprise now
'Coz all that I am feelin' is kinda weird

Everyone's lookin' to me
Thinkin' how cool it must be to be popular

Oh oh oh

But I don't even know what that means
Am I supposed to feel like I belong
Like I'm king of the world and can do no wrong
I could just Play along, play along

I'm try to find my way, try to find my place
I'm try to find my way, try to find my place

I'm just as lost as you feel
Though hope is kinda so real
Don't know what comes next
'Coz all this growin' up is kinda weird

Am I supposed to feel like I belong
Like I'm king of the world and can do no wrong
I could just Play along, play along

I'm try to find my way, try to find my place
I'm try to find my way, try to find my place

I'm just tryin' to find my way, find my place
I'm gettin' skinned and I wanna fit in,

Like no one else, wanna know myself
Try to find my way, I'm gonna find my place, yeah
Gonna be away, gonna find a place

—Samantha Boscarino