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).

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.