Surabaya, My Perfect Hometown

Hi, Readers! In my third post, I want to explain about my Hometown, Surabaya. I hope you can enjoy reading it.

First of all, I want to retell the history of Surabaya as known as Heroes City. Why it is called Surabaya? Based on a fable, the word ‘Surabaya’ is from a Shark (in Indonesia: Hiu; Sura) and a Crocodile (in Indonesia: Buaya; Baya) who lived together in Java Sea. They were arrogant and strong. One day, they fought because of food until they died. To remember them, people named the place where they died as Surabaya. How about the history of the name ‘Heroes City’? In November, 10^th 1945, there was a big war in Surabaya. Bung Tomo led Surabaya’s teenagers (in Indonesia: arek-arek Suroboyo) to resist foreign invaders and keep Indonesia’s independence. Many people of them, who became heroes for Surabaya, died in that war. As a result, Indonesia celebrates Heroes Day in November, 10^th and that’s why people have known Surabaya as Heroes City.

Surabaya, which is the capital city of Java East, is the second biggest city in Indonesia after Jakarta. It is divided by five areas; Central Surabaya, North Surabaya, East Surabaya, South Surabaya, and West Surabaya. Usually, its temperature is 32 degrees Celsius, so it is not cool city. On the other hand, Surabaya is crowded and modern city with busy people everyday. The view of Surabaya is different from Malang, because we can not see mountains. However, we can see many modern architecture buildings and some colonial architecture buildings. It also has Asian architecture buildings in Chinatown.

Surabaya, where I was born, has some popular monuments and buildings, such as Shark and Crocodile monument, Heroes obelisk, Tunjungan Plaza mall, Surabaya’s zoo and Suramadu bridge that connected Surabaya and Madura. Besides Tunjungan Plaza mall, people can find many other malls in here. For instance, City of Tomorrow, Royal Plaza, Galaxy Mall, Marvel City, EastCoast Center, Grand City Surabaya, Ciputra World, etc. Surabaya also provides gorgeous parks, like ‘Ekowisata Mangrove’, ‘Kebun Bibit’, ‘Taman Hiburan Remaja (THR)’, and the others parks. The most popular park is Bungkul Park, which has a routine event in Sundays morning, Car Free Day.

How about the food? Surabaya has three special foods. For example, ‘Rujak Cingur’, ‘Lontong Balap’, and ‘Pecel Semanggi’. We can try lots of food in Food Festival, which is located in Pakuwon. Surabaya has salty and spicy food because the people prefer it than sweet food.

Last, about the transportation of Surabaya. Usually, people go by car, motorcycle, bicycle, bus, train, plan, or ship. Surabaya provides bus station, such as Bungurasih and Bratang. Also, train station, Juanda International Airport, and Tanjung Perak Port.

I love Surabaya very much, because it has many malls so that I can go shopping anytime. For me, Surabaya is the best place to spend our day with lots of delicious food. How perfect it is.

Funny Story

Based on our writing class, we learnt about funny stories in chapter two. Now, I will share a funny story. I am difficult to remember my own story. As a result, I will write about my friend’s story. I hope it can be funny for you.

Two years ago, I had a day trip with my friends. First, we went to Balekambang beach and then Kondang Merak Beach which are located in Malang Selatan. We were in seven, so we rented a car to go there. I was excited about this trip because it was the first time for us to spend our day in beach together. In that time, the beaches are not too crowded as usual. As results, we could do a lot of activities comfortably, like we made a video about our journey, took photos, sang together, and played volleyball.

At the afternoon, before going back to home, we cleaned our hands and legs. Suddenly, I had an idea. I took a bottle and filled it with water form a bathroom in there. I used it to wash my foot. If I had not washed my foot, it would have been dirty again because of the sand beach that I got when I walked out from the bathroom. I kept the rest of the water in my bag which I put in baggage car.

When we were in our way to home, one of my friends, whose name Iwan, asked for my drink, “Osa, can I ask for your drink?”

While I was playing my cellphone, I answered, “Yes Wan, I still have it. You can take it from my bag in the baggage car.”

After that, we arrived in the car rental to give the car back. We took all of our things out from the baggage and at the same time, I realized that my bottle with the water from the beach was empty. I was confused and asked to myself, “Where the rest of my water? I remembered that I kept it.”

“Wan, do you drink my water?” I asked Iwan quickly.

“Yes, why?” He replied.

“You drank it from my Tupperware, right?” I hoped he said yes, but not.

He answered, “No, I did not drink from your Tupperware. I drank it from your bottle.”

I was shocked. In the other hand, I could not hold my laugh. “Why do you laugh?” my other friends asked. “That is not my drink water. It is the water that I took from the bathroom in the beach. He should drink my water from my Tupperware and I forgot to tell Iwan about it.” I explained regretfully. I thought Iwan would be angry. In the fact, he was not. After they had heard it, they laughed loudly together.

That is the end of the story. Thank you for reading it. Do not forget to leave a commet, guys J See you in the next posts!

           

Netiquette

Hi Guys! I have read the article about Netiquette. What is Netiquette? Netiquette or network etiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. I have learnt about ten rules of Netiquette and I found three new things which I will discuss now.

First, Rule 1: Remember the human. “When you communicate through cyberspace – via email or discussion groups – your words are written. And chances are they’re stored somewhere where you have no control over them. In other words, there’s a good chance they can come back to haunt you.” That taught me to be careful when I write anything in cyberspace because the recipients of my message can save or forward it to another people. I do not have control over where it goes. Our words can kill us anytime if we are not careful.

Second, Rule 4: Respect other people’s time and bandwidth. We are not the center of cyberspace. Do not expect instant responses if you ask some questions to people, although you need them. Do not assume that all readers will agree or care about your arguments. Just wait or ask other people about your questions.

Last, Rule 10: Be forgiving of other people’s mistakes. People will make some mistakes in cyberspace. Maybe it’s a spelling error, a stupid question, or an unnecessarily long answer. It’s normal because everyone was a network newbie once. Respect it kindly. If it’s a minor error, you may no need to say anything. But, if you decided to inform someone of a mistake, point it out politely by private email. Do not do that in public and do not be arrogant or self-righteous about it.

That’s all I think. Netiquette is very useful for me. I hope, you can learn anything from here. Thank you for visiting my blog and reading it. Don’t forget to leave a comment for me because your comment can develop my writing skill. See you!

If you want to read all about the rules of Netiquette, you can visit this blog :

http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html