The definition of universal behavior, cultural behavior and personal behavior

Universal behavior is behavior which is shared by human around the world. It is based in human biological inheritance passed on through the generations of all mankind. For examples we will smile when we’re happy, seeking intimacy or body when contact to express love or affection, and we will wave our hands to say goodbye.

Cultural behavior is the totally of the formed social significant characteristics of the personality. It is based on the moral norms, principles, and ideals. Cultural behavior includes rules of religion, traditional culture, and the codes. For example, Young men in China are faced with the reality that if they want to have a good chance of finding an educated wife, they must secure a well paying job and have enough money to buy her a car and a new condo. In addition, they must be prepared to cook, wash dishes, and do other home maintenance jobs traditionally done by wives, and then couples are only allowed to have one child without paying stiff penalties. Because of the traditional pressures on parents to have one child, it’s because of the populations are too much. Another example is in traditional regions of Latin America, men should be more macho. They should be overtly masculine, confident, strong, brave, always control their emotions, and sexually demanding. Women should be emotional, nurturing, faithful, and passive in response to the demands of their husbands. In other words, men and women should have opposite character but complementary personalities because there is no room in this ideal Latin American perception in passive man and aggressive woman.

Personal behavior is a person action or reaction which is different to the other person. For examples there’s a person who likes to come or wake up late, a person who has a tendency to judge people at the first time they just met and a person who likes to talk much or talkative.

SOMETHING THAT CAN BE ABSORBED IN WATCHING SPONTANEOUS / SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION OF WAYANG

I watched spontaneous / simultaneous translation of wayang at fib on October 19^th 2009. Kathryn Emerson translated Javanese language into English spontaneously. It was interesting because she’s the only American woman in the world who can translate Javanese language into English spontaneously.

Kathryn Emerson mentioned some things that she might not to do in translating. For examples if wayang was still moving in the kelir, don’t type a lot. Just type the point of view or the main idea if it’s possible. The most difficult thing in translating Javanese language into English is when the dalang used some terms in Javanese. She could understand what the dalang was saying but if she tried to translate what the dalang said in English it might be so weird. People who speak English as their first language will think that it doesn’t make sense. So, she just translated the main idea of the story. It was proved when the dalang said, “bali kampung terus derep wae”, she translated, “just got back to the village”. Actually it was a joke if the viewer could understand Javanese language but it didn’t seem like a joke when she translated into English. No foreigner laughed at all. Something that surprised me is when the dalang was complimenting her that she was good, wonderful woman and so on; she didn’t type what the dalang said. She just typed “blah…blah…blah…” It was interesting. She just laughed and tried to deny what the dalang said.

At that time the show was very fantastic. Some foreigners came in to enjoy the show, but I just a little bit disappointed with them because most of them had left the show before the show ended. They missed some parts where the dalang told some jokes like when the dalang realized that most of English department students who came in were feeling so bored, so he hinted the students by saying “the students don’t pay attention to the show instead of sending messages to their friends. They were just forced to watch wayang by the lecture because of the task.” Apparently that was the reality. Before the dalang told some jokes, the students had kept talking to their friends or doing something else which could entertain them. But after that they concentrated to pay attention because the dalang kept telling jokes. If we watched the whole show we can have some good advises. The dalang gave some advises for the students. He said that we have to save our culture by studying English and then tell to the world that Indonesia has a lot of things to be proud, shared and enjoyed. It’s not enough if we just study English and not do anything with our knowledge to this country, so we have to explore our ability by learning traditional languages, dances and so on to introduce our country to the world.

"maybe"

i just finished doing my homework. It's about non-verbal communication. And my Australian friend named Mira said that my homework is so weird.. yah! i do i agree..!! anyway..
i'm still happy today..i found some news about that person. And seems God gives me some way to get involve with that person.. i don't have to worry about anything right now! yah,,,maybe i'll just do some simple things like .... i don't wanna tell lol..
well, just wait and see.. i hope it would be happened!
yah..maybe someday..but i'll wait... :)

some pics from semarang

"me and mba riska ( ratih sister ). we look like a duo girls lol"

"at the kota tua (regina, ardana and me)"

"at the sam poo kong Chinese temple (widi, regina, hadid, me, and ratih)"

"at the kota tua while waiting for ratih and ardana drank es tebu"

"kissing time.."

"jumping river"

"in front of the lawang sewu (it's an old building which has 1000 doors)"

"dinner with ardana at SS"

"regina, me, ardana and ratih"

"at the gedung semut"

saturday night's stories

I don't have anything to do right now so I'd better type my stories these days!
these are random stories..

1. i have to visit Bri, my Australian friend in the hospital cuz she's sick.. it's typhus. But i don't go..cuz it's raining here and i just finished ironing my clothes. Maybe if i am not busy I'll go to visit her..

2. yeah..it's still about school! i have lots of tasks and next week I'll be conducting mid term exam! i suppose to read some books right now, but I'm too lazy to sit and read. the language is using ancient English. so I'm forced to read them slowly and look at my dictionary over and over. it will drive me crazy!

3. i just ate Chinese noodle. Hmm..it's delicious.. i cooked it by myself.. lol ( is it important to be shared? )

4. I always listening to Taylor Swift's songs! OMG.. they are so touching and i like to read the lyrics. She's good in writing songs! her lyrics are experienced by girls our ages! the lyrics are simple, on the contrary it's natural and i like a person who can write good lyrics like her.

5. I was invisible with a person whom i don't want to mention the name and now i am not invisible anymore. Cuz time has proved and i realized that my prejudice about that person is totally wrong! instead of we're becoming friends and we hang out sometimes.

6. But the problem is i am stuck on my memory! it was happened when the last march.. i am stuck on that person whom i don't know how to say. That person is not good looking enough or bad, that person is in the middle. But i just can't ignore that person! and i found out that this world is very small. That person has a family here and some friends of mine know about his family who live here. OMG... is it a sign from God or something? i don't know.. some friends insist me to say hello to that person or just doing something to make that person remember me but i don't wanna to! I'm still having my pride though i have to control myself not to falling into deep. Here i convince that i like that person. though i realize that i don't have any reason to like that person! this thrill is like a streaming river which can't stop streaming. Just let the rain let it pour, what i have to do is just wish a miracle to bring that person back here to see me like it was.
there's a part of me saying that absolutely I'll be meeting that person someday! but i just don't know when.. :D

7. I went to Semarang to sight seeing with Ratih. I met some friends in Semarang. It was very hot there. and the pics are on the next page.. check it out..

my news recently

hey guys.. sorry i am so busy these days and i don't have much time to type! i have lots homework and they are confusing me! i always need my Australian friends to help me finishing my homework! and then one more thing! i wasn't as this fat right now! omg... i have to diet!

"what i do @ campus is just playing uno! lol"

my point of view in the reading "From Self-Reliance" by R.W Emerson

The reading “From Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson explains that we have to believe in our own thought. It’s genius if we believe that what is true for us in our private heart.

If there’s a term saying “the grass is always greener” is true. We don’t have to envy with what people have, but we have to offer thanks in everything that we have. It doesn’t mean ours is worse than the others; just believe that ours is better. We have to accept what are the worst and the better for ourselves. Because we have decided our own way to undergo our life. So, all the fortune is from our hard work. The most important things are we have to accept ourselves for better, for worse, for our portion.

Further on the reading tells us about how that person can be accepted in his place which full of bad things. He has trouble with his society; his society is different with his life at his time. He has to accept and adjust his society rather than doesn’t do anything to make his life better. Here, it is described that the society can change a person easily. Good person can be influenced by bad things if that person can’t control himself to keep walk straight in his own life which is better. The reading also tells us about the young people who can have their freedom to do anything that they want. They are still young and they need to try anything without being forbidden by their society. He just thinks that why his society tends to judge people without knowing himself deeper first. A person is forced to be someone else who is not himself.

I learn something from the reading. It asks us to think about what we must to do is all that concerns us, not what the people think. This life is difficult between actual and an intellectual life. They might be served by greatness and meanness. It is harder because we will always find those who think they know better than we know. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is a person who is in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. And the objection of conforming usage that is scatter our force is just wastes our time; blurs the impression of our character.