Jumble Grumble A Note from Thought

Mau punya Galaxy Tab dan Blackberry baru? Daripada susah-susah mengumpulkan uang dan memecah celengan, lebih baik mencoba mencari yang gratisan. Ada banyak loh kuis yang menawarkan hadiah Galaxy Tab baru sampai Blackerry brand new. Salah satunya ya kuis dari Epson ini.

Untuk merayakan 20 tahun Epson Micro Piezo, perusahaan mesin cetak besar ini mengadakan kuis undian. Bagi yang beruntung bisa mendapatkan Printer canggih model terbaru keluaran Epson, Galaxy Tab, Ponsel Android, sampai Blackberry model baru.

Bagi yang mau coba, silahkan cek di halaman Facebooknya.

Buruan dicoba sebelum tanggal 10 Maret 2013. Siapa tahu kita beruntung :)

Mengetahui bahwa kau gagal sebagai seorang kakak dan seorang anak sungguh menyakitkan, sobat.

Apalagi ketika usaha yang kau bangun untuk memperbaikinya tak kunjung menyelesaikan masalah; alih-alih malah menambah masalah baru.

Curse you, silly me.

Got a job as a Business Consultant in a gold investment company this Monday. The job desk, however, is quite far from the usual business consultant, as far as I know at least. This job requires me to find new clients and then give suggestions regarding their investment.

It pays well once I have a client. Meanwhile, however, I still have no luck in finding one so my payment will not be that much :(

Let's hope next week will be better!

How many languages do you speak? One? Two? Are you one of the multilingual speakers who can talk more than two languages?

If you speak more than one language, then you must notice the expanse of the world that you can see through language. How une and un describe the object; how kaniktshaq, anijo, and ivuneq are used to picture a simple snow; or simply how the language itself brings you closer to people you could proudly call as friend.

Language is fascinating. For me language is the closest thing that we human have to magic. How's not? Language bears culture. Language could be a mirror of one's personality or emotion. Plus, do you see how great authors like J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and J.K. Rowling created a new magical universe through their words? Word, language, magic.

Thus, wouldn't it be a pity if one language is endangered?

Before anyone asks, no, the title above does not mean happy birthday at all in Elvish. I took it from a Sindarin song, Evenstar, voiced by Fiona McNeal. It means "It's not the end, it's the beginning". Sounds fancy, right?

Apparently Florida, US, has a plan to give discount on tuition each year for any university or college students who want to change their major to engineering.

Now if the question is asked to me: Will you, as an English Literature student, change your major to engineering if the discount is offered to you? Note in here please that engineering students usually have wider prospects in different field of job than my current major. So, will you?

Any amateur writer and scholars will know the basic procedure in describing something: take a look at the object (if you can), take a note of its notable features and distinctions, and then start picturing it in detail. Descriptive writing usually requires the writer to describe a person, a thing, an event—anything to make the said subject looks vivid to the reader through detail. That is the basic as I know anyway.

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However, for my part-time writing job, I ought to write about a product without knowing the real product. Usually, my boss sends me the kind of text that the clients want or what kind of products that I have to review or describe about. I usually write about home and design, health, home appliances, make-up, etc. For example I have to write about the latest dishwasher from a company, and I have to describe its quality, functions, the plus-minus, and so on. But for today special job: nothing.

The instruction is actually quite clear: I need to write about a product—may it home appliances, make-up, electronics, or furniture—but I do not need to know the product that I need to write about.

At first, I thought this will be simple. I'm sad to tell you that it's not as simple as I thought before.

I mean, how do you tell that the product that I write about is pink? What about if it is blue? What if it is not made of natural products? How about it uses animal testing while I write none of that cruel process? How should I know?

To make things worse, I have to write 3 texts with 400 words each. And I only have 1 hour left until the deadline. That's awesome, thankyouverymuch.