The Advantages of Taking A Tutorial Course

Education in this era becomes more challenging than it used to be. Why do I say so? Because students nowadays have higher demands to reach their realistic goals, and not to mention about the obstacles they should face. Let me take one obstacle as example which is technology. As we all know that technology has some benefits, but here I will focus on one of them which is as the entertain for people, such as games. That’s the reason why most students prefer technology to books and why most students’ academic performance become worse. Due to that, parents are sure to be worried, they will find the way how to make their children’s academic performance better. Based on the survey that I did, the first thing coming to most parents’ minds to overcome the problem is tutorial course, since it is very mushrooming nowadays, right? According to a web in internet, tutorial course is a class conducted by a tutor for one student or a small number of students and this way of study results in good effects. Taking a tutorial course causes the students to have scheduled study hours, improve their academic performance, and be goal-oriented.

            Having scheduled study hours is the first advantage of taking a tutorial course. Many students say that it is an utterly hard thing to study after school. They would play game or go to somewhere else before going home rather than study, review the lessons they just got that day, or do their homeworks. Consequently, they just study in school. However, with nowadays challenges and demands, studying only in school is not always effective, is it? Remembering how hard to get successful in the future when present education is challenging. Therefore, I can say that studying after school is needed, and tutorial course has the answer for it. Tutorial course makes the students have scheduled study hours. Having scheduled study hours definitely will make students easier to pursue their dreams. They have to get used to struggle and manage time well, which are the keys to success.

            The academic performance of students who take a tutorial course is different. It seems better indeed, proven by a research called “Private Supplementary Tutoring: Comparative Perspectives on Patterns and Implications” which was conducted by Professor Bray in Hong Kong University. The research says that “Students' academic results are improved after attending tutorial class.” Let me explain more about this. Students who take a tutorial course will get additional scores from teachers more often because they become more active in class ever since they take a tutorial course. They often raise hands to answer teacher’s questions since they have already learned the lessons first in the course. The lessons in class are understood fast by them, so when they have tests, their scores will be good and oftentimes, be the best in class. Most of the students who take a tutorial course then get the first rank and will be easier to be accepted in their favorite colleges. Therefore, improving their academic performance is the second advantage.

            The third, taking a tutorial course causes the students to be goal-oriented. Their self-confidences become higher since they know their academic potentials are good. Their frequent study and their study hours are enough to make them believe that they surely can be accepted in their favorite colleges. As a result, they enjoy studying and automatically will concentrate more while studying in order to pursue their realistic goals in the future. They focus their efforts on achieving them until they get what they want.

            All in all, taking a tutorial course has 3 advantages, which are having scheduled study hours, improving students’ academic performance, and being goal-oriented. When students’ study hours have been scheduled well, they can automatically improve their academic performance in class. At last, it can mold new good personality that is goal-oriented for students so that they can focus their efforts on achieving their realistic goals. If you want to get those advantages, then just take a tutorial course and I’ll make sure you will get them.

Created by Elsa Tamara Shalsabila

Movie Review: Wolverine

Wolverine tells us about a mutant names Logan who is immortal. He has lived many years and has powerful power to help people. His immunity is really strong, I mean he is bulletproof and his injury can be cured by itself so that he won't need any doctor to cure his injuries.
The story begins in Nagasaki, Japan, when America let atomic bomb fall to the area. There is one of Japanese soldiers names Yashida who is hiding inside something strong, and Logan protects him from the bomb. Yashida then thanks Logan for it. He gives samurai to Logan and teaches him how to hold the samurai well. Nonetheless, Logan ignores it and asks Yashida to keep it safe for him because he will come back someday. Yashida agrees.
Some years later, Logan lives in a forest with a bear which is actually his bestfriend. But then one day, the bear is killed and Logan searches for them who have killed it, until there is Yukio, a Japanese girl who is very good at using samurai. She asks Logan to go with her to Tokyo since her boss who is actually Yashida, asks her to do that. At first, Logan doesn't want to, but then he agrees. They go to Tokyo and Logan meets Yashida eventually.
Yashida is going to die, and his last wish is that he wants Logan to protect his granddaughter, Mariko, since he gives the throne to her. Mariko's father couldn't agree less about the idea because he really wants to be the next leader who can have the throne.
But when Logan protects Mariko from groups of criminals, slowly but sure, Logan becomes weak. He loses his power since there is something sticking to his heart. His injuries cannot be cured by itself anymore. One thing he knows that actually he is going to be human if he can't get that something sticking to his heart out. The problem is if he becomes a human, he surely will die. Someday.
And then Logan and Mariko escapes from Tokyo to Nagasaki, but then the groups of criminals kidnappes Mariko and then Logan tries to find her with Yukio's help. Before finding Mariko, Yukio says that she sees Logan will dia with much blood around (Yukio can foresee actually). Logan doesn't believe it. However, he tries to get that something sticking out of his heart and he successfully does it at last. He is still alive.
The ond of the movie tells us that actually Yashida hasn't died. He actually wants the immortality of Logan. He and his friend, Viper, makes a very powerful robot from metal to fight against Logan, and Yashida is inside of the robot. He cuts Logan's claws and tries to take power of Logan into his body. But fortunately, Marioko comes in the correct time, bringing the cut of Logan's claws and immediately sticks them to Yashida's neck and Yashida dies eventually. Logan is still and will always be alive.

Perihal Asa dan Kematian

Datu...
Bukankah 'tuk menggenggam asa,
dimensi dan detik hanyalah omong kosong belaka?
Lalu katakan padaku,
mengapa detik ini semakin terasa jua, Datu?
Jiwa ragaku 'kan berpisah tak lama lagi!
Bibirku pun takkan pernah mengulum senyum lagi!
Betapa penyakit ini seperti bisa, Datu...
Ia tak peduli akan peluhku.
Tak juga ia mengerti akan keluku.

Datu...
Gemeresik daun itu dulunya simfoniku.
Gemercik air itu pun dulunya simfoniku.
Sinar bulan temaram itu pun dulunya senantiasa menaungiku,
saat aku menulis.
Aku menorehkan segala asa dalam benak, Datu!
Namun kini aku hanya tepekur,
menunggu waktuku.
Tiada peduli, detik teruslah berpacu.
Tiada peduli, dimensi teruslah bisu.
Dan asa tiada jua bersua...
Yang memang takkan pernah.
Takkan pernah, Datu..
--ets070114

"Thrush Can Speak?!"

Hi. I’m Everest O'Neall, just call me Eve. Yes, that simple.

            I’m still 16. I am an easy-going person and I don’t feel stressed too much the way others feel due to tasks—well, at least I haven’t felt it for even once. And honestly I don’t know whether I am too stupid or… crazy or whatever, since I talked to a thrush and the thrush talked to me back!!! Yes, I myself still don’t believe this but I really experienced it! It happened when I was on my trip to Colorado, United States, some weeks ago. I went there when I was having my school vacation with some of my classmates. I mean, my crazy classmates. They always laugh everywhere at every little thing which is actually not funny at all, and they are sassy as well. And due to that, I turned to be kind of the personalities ever since I knew them. Ugh.

            We went to a mini beautiful forest in Colorado by bus. We left home at 9 o’clock in the morning and the trip took us for about an hour, until we arrived there. “WELCOME, MY TWINS!” with a picture of a smiling gorilla beside it, welcomed us warmly—well, it was annoying me actually. I’m too beautiful to be called “my twin” by gorilla, for God's sake.

After entering the forest, we saw various animals such as big elephants near a small pond, small ants which were standing in rows on big leaves, wild tigers in their cage, and many more. None of them hadn’t been taken their pictures by me.

I love taking picture indeed.

I’ll even do weird things only to take picture.

Yes, I have ever done.

And that time I did it again—the weird thing.

We were still a bit normal—I mean, not too crazy like laughing and sass—until Suzanna, one of my friends who’s a bit sassy said, “Hey Eve, I’d be very happy to buy you a new camera if you could draw the thrush’s attention and take a picture of it at the same second.” She appointed towards a very beautiful bird with combination of yellow, red, and orange feather which was perching on a high tree calmly.

I saw it.

But then I wondered, thrush should have black and white feather, shouldn’t it? Then why that thrush’s feather is yellow, orange, and red…?

“If you don’t want to, then you have a yellow streak, Eve.”

“Don’t underestimate me, Anna.” Then I walked arrogantly approaching the thrush (burung kutilang), but perhaps I walked so fast that made the thrush fly away. I heard my friends started laughing—again—and it made me really fed up. I followed the thrush immediately and left my friends behind with camera hung on my neck.

Haha, the thrush perched on a high tree eventually. I prepared to take a picture of it and stood underneath the tree, then 1… 2… 3…

Click.

My friends were walking towards me.

“Yeaaah, I succeeded, klutz! Remember you’ve to buy me a new camera, Anna, hahaha!” I laughed loudly, felt satisfied. “I don’t believe you’re that silly to ask me to do such a very easy thing, Anna.”

Anna sighed, then she said, “I wonder if you’re deaf, or you just forget, or you're very stupid, Eve. I said draw the thrush’s attention and take a picture of it at the same second, didn’t I?” She looked askance.

I looked aside and just realized that she really said that, but I forgot. “It means you have to make the thrush look at you while you're taking its picture. Got it?” Suzanna said.

Without answering Suzanna’s question, I reached for the thrush and found it still perching on the high tree.

No prior thought.

I climbed up the tree.

My friends laughed at me, but whatever. I didn’t give a damn.

I kept climbing up, climbing up, climbing up, until the beautiful thrush was right in front of me and fortunately, it didn’t fly away again and it looked right at me. I took my camera and said “Cheers!” to the thrush and… “Cheers.” Click.

“Wait, what?!” I asked to myself. “What?” I looked at it. I didn’t say cheers for twice.

“What?”

“Oh my God!?” I was very surprised when knowing the thrush could speak! Thrush just talked to me! I never heard that thrush could speak with humans before. “This is unbelievable, I want to run, I want to shout, oh my God you can speak, YOU JUST SPOKE TO ME, DIDN’T YOU, THRUSH?” Well, I forgot that I was still on top of the tree.

“I am not thrush.” The bird replied.

I was made really confused by it. “Not a thrush?”

“I am not thrush.” The bird replied the same answer. “I am not thrush. I am not thrush. I am myna (burung beo).”

“Myna? Oh your name is Myna?” Yes, to be honest, I was really stupid that time.

“No, you silly! Silly girl. I am myna. Myna.” The myna flew away and left me confused on top of the tree.

I still hadn’t noticed what the bird meant until I arrived home at 5 pm. I searched for Myna Birds in the internet immediately after arriving and… ugh.

“Why didn’t I think that myna is actually a kind of bird which is capable of speaking?! Of course it was not thrush, no thrush has ever been capable of speaking in this world!”

And now please don’t tell me I’m stupid or crazy or… what. The one who is so is actually Suzanna. She was the one who said first that it was thrush, not me. Heh. The end. --ets110913