Logo Visit Indonesia Year 2008

Branding Concept:

1) The figure of Visit Indonesian Year 2008 branding took the concept of Garuda Pancasila as the Indonesian way of life, but it was performed by perfectly modern approach.
2) The 5 (five) norms draw by 5 different colored lines and symbolized the Indonesian the Unity Diversity.
3) This logo brand formulated into dynamic figure and colors as the implementation of Indonesian Dynamic which is developing.
4) The types of letters of logo brand is driven from the Indonesian elements which perfectly by modern approach.

The Legend of Sangkuriang

One day, when he was hunting, Sangkuriang accidentally killed his beautiful black dog (Si TUMANG). This dog is actually Sangkuriang's father who had been condemned to live the life of a dog by his GURU. However, Sangkuriang never knew it.
Sangkuriang had been separated by his mother since childhood. Yet, he was destined to meet his mother again. When on his way home, he stopped at a small village and met and fell in love with a beautiful girl. He didn't realised that the village was his homeland nor that the beautiful girl was his own sacred mother (remain young & pretty).
Their love grew naturally and one day, when they were discussing their wedding plans, Dayang Sumbi suddenly realised that the profile of Sangkuriang's head matched that of her only son's who had left twenty years earlier. How could shee marry her own son? But she did not wish to dissapoint him by cancelling the wedding. So, although she agreed to marry Sangkuriang, she would do so only on the condition that he provide her with a lake and a boat with which they could sail on the dawn of their wedding day.
Sangkuriang accepted this condition and built a lake by damming the Citarum river. Wiath a dawn just moment away and the boat almost complete, Dayang Sumbi realised that Sangkuriang would fulfill the condition she had set. With a wave of her supernatural shawl, she lit up the eastern horizon with flashes of light. Deceived by false dawn, the cock crowed and farmers rose for the new day.
With his work not yet complete, Sangkurinag realised that his endeavour were lost. With all his anger, he kicked the boat that he himself had built. The boat fell over and, in so doing become the mountain TANGKUBAN PARAHU (in Sundanese, TANGKUBAN means upturned or upside down, and PARAHU means boat). With the dam torn assunder, the water drained from the lake becoming a wide plain and nowaday became a city called BANDUNG (from the word BENDUNG, which means Dam).

My Lovely Home

My house is only a twenty minutes from my school.

It is not very big, but very comfortable and quiet. This is the place where we can relax and find our own space. In our home, we really enjoy our relaxing time from the pressure of school and work.

It has a nice and warm living room. There is a beautiful scenery hanging and calligraphy on the wall. My father likes gardening. He puts some plants in garden. On the wall you will see picture of my family.

I am lucky to have a room for myself. I paint the wall light orange. It’s my favorite color. There is a wardrobe. There is the desk I do my homework there. I also put the radio tape there.

The kitchen is my mother’s domain. My mother keeps it clean all day. They is a grey wall cabinet in it. It harmonizes with the white wall tiles.

However, only few will give my home a second glance. We are very proud of it. It may not be a perfect one but, all the same, it is home sweet home.

Why was she angry?

A woman in blue jeans stood at the window of fashion shop. She hesitated for a moment. Finally, she went in.

That woman asked to see a nice dress that was in the window. The shop-assistant did not like the way she dressed. Then, he told her that the dress was sold. The woman walked out of the shop angrily. She decided to punish the shop-assistant next day.

She returned to the following morning. She dresses in a beautiful dress. She had an expensive handbag in her hand. She sought out the rude shop-assistant. Then, she asked for the same dress. The shop-assistant did not know who was. He was eager to serve her this time. With great difficulty, he climbed into the shop window to get the dress. As soon as he saw it, the woman said she did not like it.

That woman enjoyed herself making the shop-assistant bring almost everything in the window. Finally, she bought the dress she had first asked for.

A Foolish Donkey

A donkey hears some thrushes singing. He admires and also wants to posses their lovely voices.
He asks, “Why do you have beautiful voices? What food do you eat?” They reply, “Because of the dew.”
Then, the donkey decided that he will eat dew. In a short time, he dies because of hunger.

My Dog does not bite

Jimmy is afraid of dogs. One day, he walked to gate. A big dog was sleeping. He asked the gatekeeper, “Does your dog bite?”

The gatekeeper said, “No, my dog does not bite.” Then Jimmy went while walking. The big dog saw him and ran up to him. The big dog bit him.

“Ouch!” He said, “You said your dog didn’t bite, but he bit me!”

The gatekeeper said, “That is not my dog.”

Pull The Moon

One night a little boy looks down a well. The water at the bottom of the well is like a mirror. The boy sees the moon in the water. “The moon has fallen down into the well,: he says himself. “ I must get it out.”
In hurry he goes to get a hook and a rope. He ties the hook to the rope. Then, he holds the rope and lets the hook go down into the well. In this way he tries to pull up the moon. But, the hook catches a big stone under the water. The boy pulls and pulls. But, he can’t pull up the hook.
Suddenly, the stone turns. The boy loses his balance and fells on to his back.
Lying on the ground, he sees the moon in the sky.
“Great!” he says to himself happily. “I have put the moon back in the sky!”

A silly Girl

Jane comes to see Mary after lunch. When they are talking, it begins to rain. Mary looks out of the window and says, “It’s raining hard”. Jane, “You must stay here for a long time.”

“Ok,” says Jane. But a few minutes later, she goes out. When she returns, her body is wet.

“Where have you been?” asks Mary. “I’ve been from my home.” says Jane. “I went to tell my mother that I must stay at your home because of the rain.”

The Houses of the Toraja

The ethnic groups in the mountain regions of southwest and central Sulawesi (Celebes) are known by the name of Toraja, which has come to mean "those who live upstream" or "those who live in the mountains". Their name is in fact derived from Raja, which in Sanskrit means "king". The society is hierarchically structured: the noblemen are called rengnge, the ordinary people to makaka, and the slaves to kaunan; birth determines which rank a person will occupy.
The distinctive features of the traditional houses (tongkonan) of the Toraja are the "buffalo horns", the roof design and the rich decoration on the walls. The buffalo is a symbol of status, courage, strength and fighting spirit.
Designed as a representation of the universe, the tongkonan is constructed in three parts: the upper world (the roof), the world of humans (the middle of the building), and the underworld (the space under the floor). The highly distinctive roofs constructed by the Toraja have given rise to various ingenious interpretations. Certainly the roof is something of deep significance for the Toraja, and even today they build "modern" (in other words houses built with cement) houses with such roofs.

The Houses of the Minangkabau (Rumah Gadang)

The Minangkabau are the Malaysian people who lives in the Padang highlands of Sumatra (west of Sumatra). Typical of the houses of the Minangkabau are the distinctive roofs, which look like buffalo horns. The word "Minangkabau" can actually be interpreted as a compound of the words menang (win) and kerbau (buffalo). This derives from a local legends that people relates that a buffalo fight was arranged by the locals and the people of the influential kingdom of Majapahit (eastern Java). The loacls'buffalo was the winner and since that time they have called themselves the "buffalo winners", Minangkabau, as a proud testament to their strength and courage. The houses are called rumah gadang (large house) and are not inhabited by differents families, but by three or four generations who come from one ancestor and thus a rumah gadang is also a family unit, and each of the Minangkabau identifies completely with his or her own rumah gadang.
The rumah gadang has three main areas: immediately after the entrance comes a middle ares (rumah tongah), where there is normally a central post; adjoining this the anjuang, and the bedrooms (biliak). Opposite the anjuang is the kitchen and in front of that a large space (pangkalan), where visitors are received. While the long house is a meeting place for all, the rumah gadang is essentially a women's area; none of the men spends much time in the house with his mother or his wife, and the biliak (bedrooms) are seen as room of the house reflects a woman's life cycle, and forms a journey from the central post to the anjuang, then the biliak, and lastly to the kitchen.

Rice store - Minangkabau architecture, Pagaruyung near Bukit Tinggi, Sumatra.

Soeharto dead

by. Adianto P. Simamora The Jakarta Post Jakarta

The father of development is dead. Venerated for much of his 32-year tenure as the liberator he appeared to be after more than two decades of authoritarian rule under his predecessor, Sukarno, and vilified near its end for his authoritarian rule and for the corruption he appeared to condone in his later years in office, Indonesia's second president, Soeharto, died quietly on Sunday aged 86 at Pertamina Hospital in Jakarta.
A variety of illnesses had sapped the former military strongman of his vitality during the last years of his life. He leaves behind the partially grown seeds of an ambitious industrial modernization plan and a legacy of sectarian strife and unbridled corruption.
Doctors said Soeharto died at about 1:10 p.m. after suffering multiple organ failure, following 23 days in the hospital's intensive care unit.
The medical team treating Soeharto said his health dramatically deteriorated early Sunday.
They said Soeharto fell unconscious for the first time since his arrival at the hospital on Jan. 4, after his blood pressure fell sharply. The doctors then placed him on a ventilator to allow him to breathe.
"From 3 a.m. on Sunday, his blood pressure declined sharply," said Joko Raharjo, a member of the medical team.
"We tried to increase his blood pressure but it did not work. He was not in a coma, but was unconscious."
Accompanied by Soeharto's daughter, Siti Hardiyanti "Tutut" Rukmana, the team of doctors addressed a press conference, declaring that Soeharto had "peacefully" passed away at 1:10 p.m.
Tutut, Soeharto's eldest daughter, asked the public to forgive her father.
"We, on behalf of the whole family, thank everyone who has prayed for our father," a tearful Tutut said at the media conference. "Please, forgive my farther for all his mistakes."
The former general was admitted to the hospital on Jan. 4. due to anemia and severe edema.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed deep sympathy to Soeharto's family and announced seven days of national mourning, which began Sunday.
Yudhoyono, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Cabinet ministers and other high-ranking officials paid their last respects to Soeharto at his private residence on Jl. Cendana, Central Jakarta, where he was laid in state.
The news of Soeharto's death drew people from across the city to Cendana, forcing the police to close the street.
Outside Soeharto's residence, around 100 troops from the Army's Special Forces and Strategic Reserve Command guarded the area as thousands of people came to express their condolences.
Mourners wept while others chanted laa ilaha illallah (there is no God but Allah) as the ambulance carrying Soeharto's body arrived at the home.
Heavy rain fell around Jl. Cendana at about 8 p.m., while the rest of Jakarta was dry.
President Yudhoyono is slated to lead the state funeral for Soeharto at the Astana Giribangun family cemetery in Karanganyar, Central Java, on Monday, at about 11 a.m.
Yudhoyono canceled a trip to Bali to attend a UN conference against corruption which opens Monday, sparking criticism from graft watchdogs who said the cancellation was a sign of the President's ambivalent commitment to the anti-corruption drive.
Soeharto's remains will be laid in state at the At-Tien Mosque at Taman Mini Indonesia in East Jakarta before being flown to Surakarta, Central Java.
A number of foreign dignitaries are expected to attend the funeral. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong joined mourners who paid homage to Soeharto on Sunday evening. Timor Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, who was jailed during Soeharto's rule, and former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohammad will pay their last respects to Soeharto on Monday morning.
Soeharto assumed power in 1966 after a counter movement against a coup attempt blamed on the communists in 1965. After 32 years of rule, which saw political and economical stability at the expense of freedom and human rights, he stepped down in 1998, following mass protests and rioting.
As he left office, calls rose for his successors to bring him to justice for corruption and human rights abuses, but to no avail.
State prosecutors are filing a civil lawsuit against Soeharto, demanding the return of about US$600 million in state money allegedly stolen by his foundations. During Soeharto's hospitalization, his children had asked for an out-of-court settlement.
The Attorney General's Office dropped corruption charges against Soeharto in May 2006 after his doctors said he was not healthy enough to stand trial.
Director of the Setara Institute rights group, Hendardi, said the final uncertain status of Soeharto served as a bad precedent for the country's law enforcement.
"We have witnessed bankruptcy and discriminatory law enforcement during Yudhoyono's presidency. It is due to the failure of the government to create a breakthrough when Soeharto was still alive," he said.

Rose

A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. There are more than a hundred species of wild roses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of generally prickly shrubs or climbers, and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2–5 metres tall, occasionally reaching as high as 20 metres by climbing over other plants.

The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Armenian vard, Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr).

Rose hips are sometimes eaten, mainly for their vitamin C content. They are usually pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup, as the fine hairs surrounding the seeds are unpleasant to eat (resembling itching powder). They can also be used to make herbal tea, jam, jelly and marmalade. A rose that has aged or gone rotten may not be particularly fragrant, but the rose's basic chemistry prevents it from producing a pungent odor of any kind. Notably, when balled and mashed together the fragrance of the rose is enhanced. The fragrance of particularly large balls of mashed roses is enhanced even further. Rose hips are also used to produce an oil used in skin products. Rose shrubs are often used by homeowners and landscape architects for home security purposes. The sharp thorns of many rose species deter unauthorized persons from entering private properties, and may prevent break-ins if planted under windows and near drainpipes. The aesthetic characteristics of rose shrubs, in conjunction with their home security qualities, makes them a considerable alternative to artificial fences and walls.

Botany

The leaves of most species are 5–15 centimetres long, pinnate, with (3–) 5–9 (–13) leaflets and basal stipules; the leaflets usually have a serrated margin, and often a few small prickles on the underside of the stem. The vast majority of roses are deciduous, but a few (particularly in Southeast Asia) are evergreen or nearly so.

The flowers of most species roses have five petals, with the exception of Rosa sericea, which usually has only four. Each petal is divided into two distinct lobes and is usually white or pink, though in a few species yellow or red. Beneath the petals are five sepals (or in the case of some Rosa sericea, four). These may be long enough to be visible when viewed from above and appear as green points alternating with the rounded petals. The ovary is inferior, developing below the petals and sepals.

The aggregate fruit of the rose is a berry-like structure called a rose hip. Rose species that produce open-faced flowers are attractive to pollinating bees and other insects, thus more apt to produce hips. Many of the domestic cultivars are so tightly petalled that they do not provide access for pollination. The hips of most species are red, but a few (e.g. Rosa pimpinellifolia) have dark purple to black hips. Each hip comprises an outer fleshy layer, the hypanthium, which contains 5–160 "seeds" (technically dry single-seeded fruits called achenes) embedded in a matrix of fine, but stiff, hairs. Rose hips of some species, especially the Dog Rose (Rosa canina) and Rugosa Rose (Rosa rugosa), are very rich in vitamin C, among the richest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit-eating birds such as thrushes and waxwings, which then disperse the seeds in their droppings. Some birds, particularly finches, also eat the seeds.

While the sharp objects along a rose stem are commonly called "thorns", they are actually prickles — outgrowths of the epidermis (the outer layer of tissue of the stem). True thorns, as produced by e.g. Citrus or Pyracantha, are modified stems, which always originate at a node and which have nodes and internodes along the length of the thorn itself. Rose prickles are typically sickle-shaped hooks, which aid the rose in hanging onto other vegetation when growing over it. Some species such as Rosa rugosa and R. pimpinellifolia have densely packed straight spines, probably an adaptation to reduce browsing by animals, but also possibly an adaptation to trap wind-blown sand and so reduce erosion and protect their roots (both of these species grow naturally on coastal sand dunes). Despite the presence of prickles, roses are frequently browsed by deer. A few species of roses only have vestigial prickles that have no points.

Species

Some representative rose species

• Rosa canina — Dog Rose, Briar Bush
• Rosa chinensis — China Rose
• Rosa dumalis — Glaucous Dog Rose
• Rosa gallica — Gallic Rose, French Rose
• Rosa gigantea (syn. R. x odorata gigantea)
• Rosa glauca (syn. R. rubrifolia) — Redleaf Rose
• Rosa laevigata (syn. R. sinica) — Cherokee Rose, Camellia Rose, Mardan Rose
• Rosa multiflora — Multiflora Rose
• Rosa persica (syn. Hulthemia persica, R. simplicifolia)
• Rosa roxburghii — Chestnut Rose, Burr Rose
• Rosa rubiginosa (syn. R. eglanteria) — Eglantine, Sweet Brier
• Rosa rugosa — Rugosa Rose, Japanese Rose
• Rosa spinosissima — Scotch Rose
• Rosa stellata — Gooseberry Rose, Sacramento Rose
• Rosa virginiana (syn. R. lucida) — Virginia Rose

Fried Chicken

Recipe courtesy Alton Brown

Things You'll Need

1 broiler/fryer chicken, cut into 8 pieces
2 cups low fat buttermilk
2 tablespoons kosher salt
2 tablespoons Hungarian paprika
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Flour, for dredging
Vegetable shortening, for frying.
Steps

Place chicken pieces into a plastic container and cover with buttermilk. Cover and refrigerate for 12 to 24 hours.

Melt enough shortening (over low heat) to come just 1/8-inch up the side of a 12-inch cast iron skillet or heavy fry pan. Once shortening liquefies raise heat to 325 degrees F. Do not allow oil to go over 325 degrees F.

Drain chicken in a colander. Combine salt, paprika, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper. Liberally season chicken with this mixture. Dredge chicken in flour and shake off excess.

Place chicken skin side down into the pan. Put thighs in the center, and breast and legs around the edge of the pan. The oil should come half way up the pan. Cook chicken until golden brown on each side, approximately 10 to 12 minutes per side. More importantly, the internal temperature should be right around 180 degrees. (Be careful to monitor shortening temperature every few minutes.)

Drain chicken on a rack over a sheet pan. Don't drain by setting chicken directly on paper towels or brown paper bags. If you need to hold the chicken before serving, cover loosely with foil but avoid holding in a warm oven, especially if it?s a gas oven.

Fried Rice

Things You'll need

• Measuring spoons
• Rice cooker
• Groceries
• Measuring cups
• Large skillet
• Chef's knives
• Stirring spoon
• Cutting board
• 2 tablespoons peanut, sesame or other oil
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, minced
• 1/2 cup diced onion or 4 green onions, thinly sliced
• 1/3 cup diced carrot, cooked
• 1/4 cup frozen peas, thawed
• 4 cups cooked white rice, cooled completely
• 1 cup chopped, cooked shrimp, beef
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Steps

1. Heat the oil in a large skillet over high heat
2. Add the garlic, ginger and onion and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute.
3. Reduce the heat to medium, and add the carrot, peas, rice and meat and cook, stirring, for about 5 minutes.
4. Use your stirring spoon to make a well in the center of the rice and pour the eggs into it. Let the eggs cook for 1 minute, then slowly start to stir and incorporate the egg into the rice.
5. Add the soy sauce and cook for 2 minutes longer, stirring and tossing with the spoon.
6. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
7. Serve immediately.
   

Butterfly

A butterfly is an insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera, butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a larval caterpillar stage, an inactive pupal stage, and a spectacular metamorphosis into a familiar and colourful winged adult form. Most species are day-flying so they regularly attract attention. The diverse patterns formed by their brightly coloured wings and their erratic yet graceful flight have made butterfly watching a fairly popular hobby.

Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (Superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (Superfamily Hedyloidea). Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. Some are known to migrate over large distances. Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. Butterflies are important economically as one of the major agents of pollination. In addition, a number of species are pests, because they can damage domestic crops and trees.

Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts.

Origin and distribution

Butterflies are nested within the evolutionary tree of moths. Their origins may date back to the Cretaceous Period, ending 65 million years ago.^[1] Unfortunately, the fossil record is very limited. The oldest known fossil is an unnamed possible skipper butterfly from the Upper Palaeocene (around 57 million year old) of Fur, Denmark. One of the most beautifully preserved is a Metalmark butterfly (Voltinia dramba) from 25 million year old Dominican amber

Butterflies are today distributed throughout the world except in the very cold and arid regions. There are an estimated 17,500 species of butterflies (Papilionoidea) out of about 180,000 species of Lepidoptera.

Butterfly families

The five families of true butterflies usually recognized in the Papilionoidea are:-

• Family Papilionidae, the Swallowtails, Apollos and Birdwings
• Family Pieridae, the Whites and Yellows
• Family Lycaenidae, the Blues and Coppers, also called the Gossamer-Winged Butterflies
• Family Riodinidae, the Metalmark butterflies
• Family Nymphalidae, the Brush-footed butterflies

The superfamily Hesperioidea comprises one family only, albeit a large one, the skippers of family Hesperiidae, whereas the superfamily Hedyloidea also consists of a single family Hedylidae with about 40 species.

The four stages in the lifecycle of a butterfly

Unlike many insects, butterflies do not experience a nymph period, but instead go through a pupal stage which lies between the larva and the adult stage (the imago). Butterflies are termed as holometabolous insects, and go through complete metamorphosis.

• Egg
• Larva, known as a caterpillar
• Pupa (chrysalis)
• Adult butterfly (imago)

It is a popular belief that butterflies have very short life spans. However, butterflies in their adult stage can live from a week to nearly a year depending on the species. Many species have long larval life stages while others can remain dormant in their pupal or egg stages and thereby survive winters.

Butterflies may have one or more broods per year. The number of generations per year varies from temperate to tropical regions with tropical regions showing a trend towards multivoltinism.

Habits

Butterflies feed primarily on nectar from flowers. Some also derive nourishment from pollen, tree sap, rotting fruit, dung, and dissolved minerals in wet sand or dirt. Butterflies play an important ecological role as pollinators.

As adults, butterflies consume only liquids and these are sucked by means of their proboscis. They feed on nectar from flowers and also sip water from damp patches. This they do for water, for energy from sugars in nectar and for sodium and other minerals which are vital for their reproduction. Several species of butterflies need more sodium than provided by nectar. They are attracted to sodium in salt and they sometimes land on people, attracted by human sweat. Besides damp patches, some butterflies also visit dung, rotting fruit or carcasses to obtain minerals and nutrients. In many species, this Mud-puddling behaviour is restricted to the males and studies have suggested that the nutrients collected are provided as a nuptial gift along with the spermatophore during mating.

Butterflies sense the air for scents, wind and nectar using their antennae. The antennae come in various shapes and colours. The hesperids have a pointed angle or hook to the antennae, while most other families show knobbed antennae. The antennae are richly covered with sensillae. A butterfly's sense of taste is coordinated by chemoreceptors on the tarsi, which work only on contact, and are used to determine whether an egg-laying insect's offspring will be able to feed on a leaf before eggs are laid on it. Many butterflies use chemical signals, pheromones, and specialized scent scales (androconia) and other structures (coremata or 'Hair pencils' in the Danaidae) are developed in some species.

Antennae shape in the lepidoptera from C. T. Bingham (1905)

Vision is well developed in butterflies and most species are sensitive to the ultraviolet spectrum. Many species show sexual dimorphism in the patterns of UV reflective patches. Color vision may be widespread but has been demonstrated in only a few species.

Some butterflies have organs of hearing and some species are also known to make stridulatory and clicking sounds.

Many butterflies, such as the Monarch butterfly, are migratory and capable of long distance flights. They migrate during the day and use the sun to orient themselves. They also perceive polarized light and use it for orientation when the sun is hidden.

Many species of butterfly maintain territories and actively chase other species or individuals that may stray into them. Some species will bask or perch on chosen perches. The flight styles of butterflies are often characteristic and some species have courtship flight displays. Basking is an activity which is more common in the cooler hours of the morning. Many species will orient themselves to gather heat from the sun. Some species have evolved dark wingbases to help in gathering more heat and this is especially evident in alpine forms.

A Little Match Girl

It was snowing on the last evening of the old year. A poor girl on bare feet was selling the matches in the street. In the whole day, no one bought her a match. She was cold and hungry.

The little girl sat at the corner of a wall. To make herself warm, she struck a match. In the fire, the girl saw a nice home. There were very delicious foods on the table. They were fruits, eggs, meat and toast goose. The toast goose was approaching the girl. Suddenly, the fire was out. In front of her, there was only a thick and cold wall.

Then, the little girl struck another match. She saw a beautiful christmas tree. There many presents and candles on it. she wanted to pick them up. But the fire was out again.

The little girl struck another match again. She saw her grandmother. She cried happily, "Grand mom, please take me away!" Take me away!" She closed her eyes and forgot the cold, the hungry, the sadness. She walked to her grandmother happily.

The next morning, people found the little girl had been dead. She was holding the fired matches in the hand at that time


by. Fika Andina

Goldilocks and Three Bears

by Fika Andina

Once, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She lived with her parents near a big forest.

One day she played in the big forest. While walking, she felt tired and hungry. Suddenly, she saw a beautiful house.

She came to the house and looked inside but there was nobody in it. But there were three steaming bowls of porridge on the table. And three beds, big one, middle one, and small one.

Because she was so hungry, she entered the house so she forgot the manners. She ate the smallest bowl of porridge. After that, she wanted to sleep but the big bed and middle bed were so high for her. The smallest bed was suitable, Goldilocks covered herself up and fell a sleep quickly.

After that, the owners of the house came back. They were Dad Bear, Mom Bear, and Baby Bear. When they saw the baby bears porridge had been eaten up, they were very suprised. Baby Bear said "Who did eat my porridge up? I must find him out." Then he looked around.
Suddenly Baby Bear cried, "Mum, someone is lying on my bed." They approached the bed carefully. They saw a beauty girl sleeping. "What a beautiful girl!" said Baby Bear.
At that moment, Goldilocks woke up, when she saw the tree bears, she was scared. She begged, "Please don't hurt me. I don't know it's your home. Just now I was very hungry and tird. Please forgive me, mum!"
"Never mind little girl, are you ok?" asked Mum Bear. Goldilocks nodded,"Yes, thank you!" Baby bear asked,"What's your name? I want to be your friend." "I'm Goldilocks. My home is near from here. Would you like to play with me?" said Goldilocks. "Great!" said baby bear happily.
From the one, Goldilocks and The Bear's Family became good friends.