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Individual Reflections

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Greetings, my awesome blog readers! In this spectacular and uncommon blog post,  I will not share any particular stories that I've read. However, I will share with you guys my journey from the beginning of the semester until now. Be ready! Because this is going to be a wild ride! So, ladies and gentlemen. I can confirm that I, myself, like to read a lot. And yes, when I learned that ICC class is all about reading books, I felt so jolly. Because of this class, I have improved my reading skills. I have honed my speed, precision, and accuracy while reading a long story or an extensive article. Also, I have met some extraordinary friends that gave me competition and a decent challenge. They all are as skilled as I am. So, by learning and studying together with them, I believe that I have made some progress in learning English. Oh, my adored blog readers. After all of these months of learning English, making blogs, and reading epic articles, now I am able to comprehend how important rea...
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ICC Project #4: An Interview With...

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   (by: Dimas Purnama Adi Wicaksono, an UKSW student).       Hi everyone! Welcome back to my pretentious blog page! I, the one and only Dimas Purnama Adi Wicaksono shall guide and be your host on this page. So, Libra Mikhael Putra and I had decided to choose this amazing book to be the material of our glorious project. You might be thinking, why did Dimas and Libra work together? Won't that make them unstoppable? But, we will get to that part later. So, Libra found this book titled: " A Taste Of Murder ",  it is a book with B2+ Intermediate level of literacy and contains 5484 and 814 unique words included, it's also written by Sue Arengo, an extremely skillful writer. And most beautiful of all, it has a detective genre, which is my most favorite.      So ladies and gentlemen, here come the part when your favorite blogger summarizes the story for his beloved readers.  Private Nursing Agency sent a nurse Anne Harrison to a house of a famou...
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ICC Individual Report #5: Sketch It!

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(by: Dimas Purnama Adi Wicaksono, an UKSW student) Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I, Dimas Purnama Adi, shall share and tell you about the splendid story I read from  English-E-Reader , which is titled " The Monkey King ". It is a story that was written by Wu Cheng, and it has 28610 words and 1694 unique words. Also, it has a "B2 Intermeddiate+" level, so I will not recommend you to read this if you're still new to English. I also would like to show you my gorgeous drawing from one of the scenes of the story. So, without any further ado, let's advance forward. So, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to explain the story to you briefly. It is a story about the legend of The Monkey King. It tells you a lot of his origin, his mission, his journey, and his struggles. In this story, he has to fight demons, anomalies, even gods themselves. So, if you're a fan of the fantasy + adventure genre, I highly recommend you this fine book. Ladies and gentlemen, we have...
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Additional Individual Report: Happy Prince

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  (by: Dimas Purnama Adi Wicaksono, an UKSW student) Image Source      What's poppin', everyone? On this unmatched day, I will present and tell you about an awesome story called " Happy Prince ". It's written by the legendary Oscar Wilde himself, and it has 250 words, and it's a starter-level story, so it's an easy story to read and understand.     So, my beloved blog readers, I would like to share this amazing story briefly. This story is about a swallow bird who's about to go to Egypt right before the summer almost came to an end, And then, the bird noticed that the golden statue of the Happy Prince was crying, and the swallow decided to help the prince to assist the poor civilians in the town. After all the deeds that the swallow did, he finally passed away due to him overworking himself in winter, and fell down died at the statue's feet. Due to the extreme weather and cold, the Happy Prince statue's lead heart cracked and broke into two pie...
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Individual Report #4 The Perfect Song: Listening

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(by: Dimas Purnama Adi Wicaksono, an UKSW student).      Hi, Dimas here. As usual, I would like to share and tell you a story. It is a story about a couple breaking up. What a sad story isn't it? Well, it's published by ELLO, it has a 15.75 level of literacy, contains 342 words and the genre is Love and Relationship. The title is: " The Break Up ".     Well, let me share the story with you briefly. So it's a story of Crystal. She feels like she cannot see the future of her relationship with her boyfriend, Joe. She's consulting this problem to her dearest friend, George. They discuss the most appropriate way to tell Joe about Crystal's thoughts.      What a neat story, right? Anyway, I think that " 2004 Breakup " would be a neat match up too. You may ask, why? Well, it's because; 1. Both of the story and song are about couples breaking up, 2. This one particular lyric ( " Falling in love, I wish that I didn't" )  has made up my m...
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Individual Report #4 The Perfect Song: Reading

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  (by: Dimas Purnama Adi Wicaksono, an UKSW student).      Hi awesome people, Dimas is here once again. In this unflawed opportunity, I will share an amazing story in this episode of my blog. Well, it's not really a story, but it is a biography. So it is a biography of  Stamford Raffles . It is a biography with an 8.00 level of literacy, it has 551 words, and was published by Paul Nation.     So, allow me to explain and tell this article briefly. Stamford Raffles was an Englishman who helped to make Singapore. He was born in Jamaica in 1718. Raffles did his work well in British East India Company and soon began to get promoted to higher positions in the company. He was sent to other places and he became very interested in foreign countries. He became the ruler of Java in 1817 and wrote a book called " The History of Java ". Raffles did many other remarkable things in his life. He was interested in the history of Malay people so he learned their languag...
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Bookmark with Quotations: Listening

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  (by: Dimas Purnama Adi Wicaksono, an UKSW student) Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog. Today, I made a quotation bookmark from listening literature titled:  Football Culture  that I picked from  ER-Central . This story has a level 6.00 of literacy and has 422 words. And also, it's written by ELLO. Before we continue to our bookmark showcase, I would like to briefly tell you about the storyline. So it's Daniel and Valeria's story. They talk about how football is such an important part of their culture. Quite interesting, right? Well, here is the bookmark that I've made of it. So, this is a quote that was said by Valeria to Daniel, when he asked about why can you only support 1 team. I chose this because it has a deep meaning behind it. And also, I thought that this would be great material for my reflection for this week. It's like, teaching us about loyalty and constancy while maintaining your honor as a human being as well. On the other hand, it also sparks a co...
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