For those of you who haven't known me yet, I have a short story to tell.
I was born 18 years ago, then raised in a small city named Banyuwangi. This city is located in Indonesia, to the west of Bali. I have my mom, my dad as well as my sister who have always been supporting me since the time I was born. I am the youngest of two, and my sister and I had always been enjoying our time fighting as kids.
Talking about my education life, I started it in kindergarten. However, my parent was planning not to give me my kindergarten life, but instead directly sent me to elementary school. "It costs too much, and you don't really need it," that's what they said. At that time, I didn't really care anyway. Nevertheless, God might has a different plan. My parents met a very kind-hearted person who owns a kindergarten. She told my parent to send me to her school with an agreement that she will reduce the price. "Diamond should be polished as early as possible," that's what she said. As the result, the school management didn't charge my parent with entrance fee and only 15,000 Rupiah (equal to US$ 1.50 at that time) that my parent had to pay monthly as the school fee.
Moving to elementary school, I started getting motivation to achieve more. Thorough out 6 years of my elementary school journey I barely left my position on the top 5 rank among my classmates. Also, I tried to join some competitions, and won several of them. However, I realized that having only academic achievements is not an enough fertilizer for my future. Therefore, I tried to join some of non-academic activities, including basketball. I was in the team for my elementary school. I only got chance to join two matches, but my team won both of those matches.
Going to middle school is another story. Beside keeping up good scores and achievements, I was demanded to cope with a new condition: being a minority. Private elementary school was a safe place for me as I was being around other minorities. My middle school was a public school and full of majority, but it's free. At that time, public schools got subsidized by government so that parents didn't have to pay school fee. Scary at first, but I got a lot of friends there. I was a little bullied in my first month at school, but at the time of graduation we cried together. My friends loved me as much as I love them. That was my first time being a part of diversity.
Apparently life gets more challenging. In order to help my parents financially, I decided to look for a scholarship opportunity, and I found one. I knew that by getting this scholarship I would have to be out of my hometown, away from my parents, but this fact didn't stop me to apply. After getting through many stages of selection, finally I got accepted into this school. Lot of feelings got mixed, starting from proud, excited, as well as worried. Worried might be one of God-feeling that no one knows. I had to let go my beloved 85-years-old grandmother during my first year of high school who has taken a lot of part on my character development. This is life, no body will be forever-lasting.
There shouldn't be only happiness or only sadness in our life. My first year of high school got very colorful. Beside living 'physically' far away from my parents and letting go my grandmother, I got a big chance to apply for a foreign exchange program. This kind of opportunities has always been one of big dreams in my family as my parent kept motivating me to get my education abroad. I knew that the chance was one out of hundreds and I would have to study one year longer than my friends did, finishing my high school career as I would leave classes for the whole year, but I kept on trying. Passing many stages of selection for about a year, from local to international, was not an easy thing, but yielded many smiles.
Being an exchange students was another fun part of my life. I was living with the Rickhoff in Neenah, Wisconsin, United States of America. I went to an awesome public school named Neenah High School that 'Rocket' up. Adjusting in a new family that was not yours could not be as easy as if you live with the Rickhoff. I felt like they really treated me as a part of their family; that had been a big blessing for me. Celebrating Halloween, thanksgiving (including Black Friday) and Christmas with them was a bonus. My friends and teachers at school were also nice. They welcomed me with excitement, and I am really glad that I am still keeping contact with many of them.
One year had taught me a lot, and I really want to come back to the United States to get my higher education. I am planning to apply for scholarships and loans in order to pay my tuition and my living costs.
However, before even applying, I really need to do some preparation that will be needed by colleges, such as SAT, ACT, TOEFL, or even paying for the college application fee. Therefore, I will need your help to support me and donate some of your money so that everything can happen. My goal is to raise US$ 555, hopefully it can be fulfilled before November ends. Every dollar counts! I will really appreciate your help on donating, or even just promoting this fundraising to your acquaintances who might be willing to donate. Thank you very much.
Any further question? Don't hesitate to ask.
Please visit gofundme.com/joevandi
Minggu, 19 Oktober 2014
College Preparation Fundraising
Selasa, 25 Juni 2013
Masa Lalu, Masaku Kini dan Masa Depannya Nanti
Sabtu, 17 November 2012
Butuh Mental Sebelum Tindakan
http://lombablogkpk.tempo.co/index/tanggal/838/Joevandi%20Dewantara.html
Senin, 12 November 2012
Guruku Tak Pernah Duduk Tenang
Minggu, 11 November 2012
Mutiara di Tengah Ilalang
“Itulah yang kusaksikan, siluet wibawa beliau yang terkibas di depan kelasku. Setiap hari. Ya, mungkin dua kali sehari. Seakan karpet wibawa beliau telah digelar di seluruh penjuru sekolah, jejak langkah beliau terlihat anggun bersama langkah tegap. Dan kurindukan beliau pada hari Jumat, sesaat sebelum bel sekolah memulangkan siswa-siswiya. Beliau rutin berdiri tegak di hadapan kami, saya dan teman sekelas, meyakinkan kami akan bayang-bayang masa depan cemerlang. Satu kata, ‘proaktif!’.”
Kamis, 01 Maret 2012
Information pollution
Causes and sources
Cultural factors
The role of information technology
How to prevent this?
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_pollution#Causes_and_sources
- Make sure that the author of the information is believable
- Take the information from the legal domain or extension; example : *.go.id*, *.sch.id*, etc.
- See the date of information being updated.
Spamming
Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email (UBE), is a subset of electronic spam involving nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk.[1][2][3][4][5] One subset of UBE is UCE (unsolicited commercial email). The opposite of "spam", email which one wants, is called "ham", usually when referring to a message's automated analysis (such as Bayesian filtering).[6] Like other forms of unwanted bulk messaging, it is named for Spam luncheon meat by way of a Monty Python sketch in which Spam is depicted as ubiquitous and unavoidable.
Email spam has steadily grown since the early 1990s. Botnets, networks of virus-infected computers, are used to send about 80% of spam. Since the expense of the spam is borne mostly by the recipient,[7] it is effectively postage due advertising.
The legal status of spam varies from one jurisdiction to another. In the United States, spam was declared to be legal by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 provided the message adheres to certain specifications. ISPs have attempted to recover the cost of spam through lawsuits against spammers, although they have been mostly unsuccessful in collecting damages despite winning in court.[8][9]
Spammers collect email addresses from chatrooms, websites, customer lists, newsgroups, and viruses which harvest users' address books, and are sold to other spammers. They also use a practice known as "email appending" or "epending" in which they use known information about their target (such as a postal address) to search for the target's email address. Much of spam is sent to invalid email addresses. Spam averages 78% of all email sent.[10] According to the Message Anti-Abuse Working Group, the amount of spam email was between 88–92% of email messages sent in the first half of 2010.[11]
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam
Minggu, 15 Mei 2011
Bangga banget deh rasanya , waktu baca di koran dan web nya Sampoerna Foundation + SMA Negeri 10 Malang. Namaku termasuk salah satu pemenang beasiswa Sampoerna Academy . Pengumuman yang aku dan temen-temenku nantikan selama ini akhirnya datang juga. Dari urutan abjad , aku berada di urutan 69 . Selain bangga sendiri , aku juga dapat membanggakan sekolah . Karena ternyata dari kabupaten Banyuwangi yang terjaring hanya aku dan salah satu temanku dari sekolah yang sama . Semoga saja ini bisa bermanfaat bagi semua yang mendapatkannya . Dan , bagi yang belum dapat , jangan berkecil hati . Pasti Tuhan punya jalan terbaik kok untuk kalian . SEMANGAT !
Buat semua temen-temen ku yang belum tahu mengenai informasi pasca pengumuman , bisa mendownload file-file di bawah ini :
1. Paper Based Announcement SA Malang 2011
2. Pengumuman bagi siswa SA
3. Surat Pernyataan Penerimaan Beasiswa SA Malang 2011.
4. Dari arah Barat atau dari arah Utara dan Timur atau dari arah Selatan.
Sampai jumpa di sana !