My family working in computer

My name is farhan. I have three computers. My brother is playing in one computer. My dad is working in one computer too. I am working in my mum’s computer. My dad is making a computer for me.

Respecting Pinguins

During the Easter holiday, we went to Philip island. It takes around two hours from the city of Melbourne to Philip island. There is a 2 km brigde which connect Melbourne to philip island. The island is small and located southern part of Victoria. Philip island beaches are not so special for swimmers and surfers. Big waves rom the ocean have been impeded by Tasmania, left small waves to hit these beaches. At least it is very safe for children to play in the beaches.

Before we crossed the bridge to the Philip island, we went to a farm that breeds typical Australian animals: crocodiles, caccatoos, wombats, koalas, emus, sheeps, and, of course, kangaroos.

We and a wombat.

In the farm, kangaroos are the most favourite animals. Children loved to feed kangaroos. And they are friendly too. Other animals are quite friendly, but we could not stand with them. Emus and sheeps are smell bad; koalas sleep allmost 22 hours in a day on ecalypus trees. And no one wanted to be friend with crocodiles, for sure.

Farhan and giant koala. .. Feeding kanggurus.

We continued our journey to philip island. I almost got boring with the island until we saw pinguins. Yes! Philip island is famous with its pinguins. When it is dark, thousands of pinguins swim from the sea to philip island to stay a night. This tradition started from around thousand years ago and now becomes a one of favourite tourist attractions. For sure, you do not need to be freezing to see these Philip island's pinguins.

However, in this Philip island visitors are required to respect pinguins because this island is their home. As good visitors, we are required to be as quite as possible so these pinguins do not afraid. Visitors are not allowed to take pictures, not even to speak loadly. I did not imagine before, that around a thousand of visitors sit down on the sand, waiting quitely in the cold, sometimes in the rain, for about an hour, only to watch these small species of pinguins swim to the island in the dark.

Respecting pinguins is very special message to us. Many times we forget that animals are also God's creatures that have rights to live with their own ways. Human tends to torture, make use of, and exploit animals. Giving respects to pinguins -- for various reasons -- teach visitors about respecting other humans. If we can respects rights of animals, we must have respected rights of other humans.

Me and the Kangaroos

Story by Farhan, written by Mum

I went to the farm in Philip Island. I saw kangaroos. After that I got some grass to give the kangaroos. After I fed some more kangaroos. I got some grass. I came back to the kangaroo and I fed him. I saw a little kangaroo in the big kangaroo's pauch. I fed one more kangaroo and we went some where else. We went to the pinguins that time. We waited for the pinguins and it was cold.

A school

by Farhan

me and my family

by Farhan

this day is close and it is friday . My name is farhan and i like to go to my mums school. my dad is home i like my dads school too. my mum like my dad and my dad like my mum. I like this day and my mum like this day too.

Be happy

Elka's Blog!

Elkana asked me what does "create blog" means when he watched me opening the blogspot page and writing my email address to sign in. I wanted to put Elkana's drawing and writing in the blog. When I explained to Elka about creating one own's blog, he really liked that idea and wanted to have his own blog. I helped him to set up what he wanted including creating his own email address. Its done! His email address is elkanaalifi@gmail.com and his blog address is http://elkanaalifi.blogspot.com! Wow I was so happy because I did not expect him wanted to create his own blog in this stage. He followed all procedures with patient and antusiastic including when signing up the email. He chose a picture he wanted to post in his blog and wrote what was about. His first posting is about respect. See http://elkanaalifi.blogspot.com/2007/04/about-respect.html

Weldone Elkana,
I am very poud of you

TMNT

Anak-anak jadi korban iklan televisi. Akhir-akhir ini ada iklan film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, disingkat TMNT. Elka dan Farhan antusias sekali ingin menonton. Setelah seminggu kami mengemukakan banyak alasan untuk tidak nonton, akhirnya Sabtu kemarin mereka bersama Rifqi diantar Amir pergi nonton TMNT ini.

Pulangnya, Elka antusias sekali bercerita mengenai film yang menurutnya bagus. "The ninja saved the world from the bad monsters," begitu katanya. Ah itu sih tema biasa. Saya sering mengintip nonton film ini sekitar jam 7 pagi dan memang tema kura-kura ninja ya hero itu. Sama halnya dengan superman, batman, spiderman, dan power rangers itu. Tapi setelah saya pikir, kura-kura ninja ini agak spesial.

Asia hero vs amerika hero
Semua super hero diatas tidak menunjukkan jati dirinya. Kecuali kemudian superman dan batman yang menyukai pujian dan penghargaan formal, walaupun jati diri mereka tetap disembunyikan. Saya pikir ada bedanya antara kisah-kisah pahlawan Amerika ini dengan Kura-kura Ninja dan Power Rangers yang menganut unsur ketimuran. yang pertama adalah para single fighter sedangkan yang kedua teamwork fighter.

Power ranger berbeda dengan kura-kura ninja. Walaupun power rangers berasal dari jepang dan juga memperlihatkan teamwork fighter, power ranger ini lebih banyak meniru dan mengidealkan barat, yaitu penggunaan teknologi, status sosial yang bagus (ketika menjadi orang biasa dan menjadi super hero), dan tema percintaan --seperti yang diperlihatkan dalam cerita superman dan spiderman. Tema multikultur ada di power ranger yang mewakili latar belakang asia, afrika, dan sebut saja barat. Tapi akhir-akhir ini terlihat superioritas barat.

Kura-kura ninja berbeda bahwa mereka adalah komunitas yang tidak memiliki status sosial. Mereka undergound heroes, yang tidak akan mungkin membuka identitas mereka ke publik. Mereka adalah orang-orang buangan yang tidak dianggap manusia oleh manusia kebanyakan, apalagi oleh penduduk kota metropolitan New York yang menjadi setting cerita. Tapi semangat membantu sesama kura-kura ninja ini sangat besar.

Selain tema teamwork dalam memberantas kejahatan yang selalu diusung kura-kura ninja ini, rupanya film kemarin mengangkat tema persaudaraan, begitu kata Amir yang menemani anak-anak nonton. Hmm, not bad. Mudah-mudahan tema itu juga terekam oleh anak-anak.