Natural Phenomena: Watermelon Snow

Greetings

In this post, I will share about a natural phenomena that catches my interest. I was actually leaning toward Aurora Borealis or Meteor Shower, but I figure that it's too... common? I don't know. 

Anyway, okay, Watermelon Snow. What in the world is that.

Well, it's a snow that looks like this:

Or this:

Or this:

As you can see, Watermelon snow are snow that looks either pink-ish, or white with a strike of blood-like red substances. Hence, other names like pink snow or blood snow. If you're wondering about where did "Watermelon" snow comes from, there's a rumor that the snow actually smells like watermelon. Oh, and there are a lot of pictures that the snow really, really looks like it was from a horror movies because the reds looks so much like blood that it's creepy. I decided not to put it in my blog. Feel free to search for it if you want though.

Anyway, how does this natural phenomenon happens?

Watermelon Snow is actually a nickname for a snow algae called Chlamydomonas nivalis, a species of green algae that contains secondary red pigments in addition to chlorophyll, It's cold-loving and thrives in freezing water.

What the Algae looks like

Watermelon Snow is not exactly rare. It is pretty common during the summer in alpine and coastal polar regions worldwide, such as the Sierra Nevada of California. Here, at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet (3,000–3,600 m), the temperature is cold throughout the year, and so the snow has lingered from winter storms. Compressing the snow by stepping on it or making snowballs leaves it looking red.

Lastly, if the phenomenon is called "Watermelon" Snow, and it even has that faint smell of watermelon, then is it edible?

Well, it's not exactly appetizing for me, since I've seen enough blood-like watermelon snow to even wonder how does it taste like. But in case you're wondering, scientists had said that most algae are considered as edible. However, it is possible that snow algae might be contaminated by bacteria and toxic algae that are harmful to humans. Eating large quantities of watermelon snow has been known to cause digestive ailments, although the tolerance level of each person’s digestive system might be different. So, I wouldn't exactly recommend it to be your evening snack.

Anyway, this natural phenomenon has a beauty of itself. I couldn't exactly pinpoint what's the bad point of this phenomena though, other than potential diarrhea if you eat it to fulfill your daily ice cream dosage.

I really hope I could see it one day!

This is not even a Watermelon Snow. And I don't care whether it's photoshopped or not. It's cute.

Bye!!

-Dian

Holiday Vacation Report?

Greetings.

I decide that’s the new hello for my blog. I could’ve told you why, but I already typed that out in my now-vanished-post and I have zero intention to write it all over again. If you haven’t catch up yet, yes, I’m still mad.

So, this is my holiday vacation report, with no actual vacation to report.

Because I did have a holiday, but I can’t exactly say I had a vacation. Unless you called “staying in bed until noon and read online novels on my phone and/or watching movies on my laptop with occasional trip to the fridge because I’m hungry or bored and to the bathroom so I don’t smell like a beggar” a vacation. Then yes, I did have a vacation.

Wow, I just wrote the whole post right there. Splendid.

Thing is, this report thing is a task, which added to my english score, and I don’t do well on tests, which means I need to step up my tasks. So I can’t exactly do my report in one amazingly long sentence. Not so splendid.

Well, if I need to go into details...

Holiday officially started on Monday, 23rd December 2013, if I recalled correctly. I was estatic. I had passed all the remedials and my report card was not all that bad. So I rewarded myself with the things I couldn’t do when I had school. Being an extreme couch-potato. Or rather, a bed-potato.

I’d admit that was lame.

Anyway, I wasn’t kidding when I told you that the “amazingly long sentence” was the whole story. Because it was, and it is. I did exactly that for like, 4 days, before my mom reminded that I apparently had a life. Surprise.

My grandmother’s birthday was on the 26th of December, which falls on Thursday. So my mom asked me if I wanted to go to Jakarta to visit her, and I said yes, because I was afraid I’d grow a root on my bed, but I said that I have a livestream show I want to watch on Thursday evening and I can’t watch in Jakarta because my grandparent’s house don’t have  any kind of internet related things – as lame as that sounds – and my mom said Okay, since my grandmother didn’t have a party or anything, we could go on Friday, besides, my father was still busy in his office and the driver was only available on Friday anyway. I’m not that bad of a granddaughter.

So we left on Friday instead. We arrived at Jakarta at like, 6 or 7 pm. I greeted my grandmother, gave my birthday greetings, greeted my grandfather, and my other grandmother who had paid my grandmother a visit. We talked until almost midnight.

The next day, we went to Senayan City. Though, I don’t know why. My grandparents had always preferred PIM over basically any kind of mall. No complaints though. We had lunch, and my parents were being extra nice for whatever reasons and let me buy a whole bunch of clothes and jeans. Oh, and I bought these puddings which tasted extra nice. But I left it in my grandmother's fridge. Not amused.

Well, on Sunday we head back to Bandung, because my father had to work on Monday, with my other grandmother (the one who didn’t have a birthday). She spent the rest of the holiday in my house. In Bandung, I resumed my bed-potato habits. Only that I stepped out of my room more often to accompany my Grandma. She cooked me her best meals, meatball soup and puddings (to amend my broken heart for I had left my precious puddings in Jakarta. Cries.). We also went to TSM, we didn't do much, though. She and my mother also went to  some furniture shops or something, I didn’t go.

And soooo yeah, that’s basically it.

Funny notes, I had always stayed up very late during the whole holiday. I literally could only sleep after 2 am, my mother had even gave up on scolding me. But for unknown reason, on New Year’s Eve, I fell asleep at freaking 9.30 pm. Like, are you kidding me. Even my Grandma was still up at that time. Maybe it’s the fact that I stayed at home during New Year’s Eve, only accompanied by televisions and occasional fireworks from the houses behind my home. Pathetic, pathetic, I know. You don't have to re-point it.

So that’s it! I don’t post any picture, because really, I don’t have any. Firstly, I’m way far from being photogenic and secondly, I couldn’t see the art of taking a pic with my laptop. My grandmother and my mom took a few though, maybe I’d update this post with those pics sometimes later.

Until then, Bye!!

-Dian

Blog, you disappointed me.

I’m mad. Like, seriously mad, you have no idea.

Okay, so basically, I was writing this whole vacation holiday report thingy, right in the blog. Online. I was writing with glee and I had actually enjoyed writing and I had like these long sentences, and suddenly I pressed backspace, and guess what.

POOF. BOOM. SWISH. However you call it.

My post went out the drain, vanished like smoke, and the site was once again blank. LIKE SERIOUSLY, WHAT. CAN’T I BACKSPACE MY WRITING IN PEACE?

So I’m making a new post. In Microsoft Word, because I don’t trust the site anymore. Seriously people, remind me to never, ever, write right in the blog. 

"If" Forms

1. I'll be happy if I can have a long holiday.

    I would be happy if I could have a long holiday.

    I would've been happy if I could have had a long holiday.

2. She'll be happy if you visit her house.

    She would be happy if you visited her house.

    She would have been happy if you had visited her house.

3. She will call you if you apologize to her.

    She would call you if you apologized to her.

    She would have called you if you had apologized to her.

4. He will study harder if you cheer for him.

    He would study harder if you cheered for him.

    He would have studied harder if you had cheered for him.

5. I will leave if you keep doing that.

    I would leave if you kept doing that.

    I would have left if you had kept doing that.

6. You will be fine if you forgive her.

    You would be fine if you forgave her.

    You would have been fine if you had forgiven her.

7. I will let you know if you promise not to tell anyone.

    I would let you know if you promised not to tell anyone.

    I would have let you know if you had promised not to tell anyone.

8. She will help you if you give her money.

    She would help you if you gave her money.

    She would have helped you if you had given her money.

9. He will pay his rent if you remind him.

    He would pay his rent if you reminded him.

    He would have paid his rent if you had reminded him.

10. I will go to your party if I have time.

      I would go to your party if I had time.

      I would have gone to your party if I had had time.

If I.........................

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HURRAY FOR DOUBLE BLOG UPDATE MATES, HURRAY!!

This is only a simple update honestly. Only a list of some... things.

FIRST LIST

I Would be Happy If I........

• Have unlimited amount of cash. Cha-ching!
• Can have like, an eraser of memory, to erase some... things I prefer not to talk about.
• Have teleportation as my super power. Telekinesis might work too.... but naaahh, teleportation is more awesome.
• Can turn back time for once.
• Can eat everything without getting fat.
• Am thinner.
• Can actually do sports.
• Can travel to places that I want to with my family. Then re-visit them with whole bunch of my closest friends.
• Have an extremely long holidays without homework.
• Can rant about pretty much every single rant-able things with my friends.
• Can meet some of my old friends again.
• Can find a wide, open, quite place, and scream at the top of my lungs, just for the sake of it.
• Can play in the rain without getting sick.
• Everyone around me is happy and is in good health :)
• Am a genius without having to study at all.
• Am assured that me, and my family, and my friends, and my teachers, and basically everyone I know exist, have a secured place in heaven :)
• Can make a day longer than 24 hours.
• Have a genie with unlimited wish? I don't know
• Et cetera. Because I'm running out of ideas

SECOND LIST

If I Have A Billion Rupiah, I will.........

• Go with my family to do Hajj :D
• Give some to people in need.
• Save some, for future needs.
• Buy a house with big bedrooms and wooden tiles. I like wooden tiles.
• Buy some newest gadgets.
• Probably ended up buying a lot of clothes.
• Go to Paris, or England, or Germany, or US, or New Zealand, or Australia, or Hongkong, or Korea, or Japan... if there are no those nuclear thingy, 
• Buy a lot of books.
• Buy a lot of games that need cash in appworld or google play or something, lol.
• Buy gaming consoles that I missed. Like 3DS, or Wii, or WiiU, or PS3, or Xbox. And probably a PS4 too, and buy a whole bunch of games with them. Don't judge. A girl can play Playstation too, thank you.
• Buy a nice car.
• Buy another violin. My current one is sadly full of scars :(
• Buy a new television, the one in my room sucks pretty badly.
• Shop till I drop?
• I will..... stop. Because I am sure I exceed one billion rupiah for the things in the list above.

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This marks the end of this post!

Why, don't I look like an ultimate materialistic girl here? I'm not this chronic in real life though. These are just my "If"s aren't they?

Anyway. thank you for reading!

BYE!!

-Dian

Dissolving "Bobotoh" Persib?

Ahoy, Mates!

We meet again, apparently. How are you? In all honesty, I don't feel as grand at the moment, but here's hoping you are doing better than me!

This is an analytical post. Which obviously means I am going to analyze something. So, the topic I am going to analyze is "Dissolving 'Bobotoh' Persib". Like, is it necessary, or not?

Enough rambling, and let's start analyzing.

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Dissolving "Bobotoh" Persib.

First thing first, what exactly is "Bobotoh"?

Bobotoh

Well, Bobotoh is a fanclub who dedicated themselves to support Persib. And if you're a foreigner and wondering what is Persib, it's an abbreviation for Persatuan Sepak Bola Indonesia Bandung. Or in other word, a soccer team from Bandung, Indonesia.

Even if Persib originated from Bandung, there are a lot of Bobotoh members who reside outside of Bandung. Such as in Bekasi, Cirebon, even from Singapore! That's quite a shock.

So, what's so bad about Bobotoh that I need to analyze about dissolving them?

For one, they are loyal. 

Are loyalties bad? No, they're not. Being over-loyal-nearing-the-level-of-fanaticism, however, is a whole different story.

They love Persib, and they make sure that every single Indonesian people knows it. They ensured that the stadium is packed whenever Persib has a match, even if the match is outside of Bandung. They wear uniforms, they cheers, they watch until the end, basically what every fans do.... Except they turn into these crazy criminals when Persib lost.

Vandalism. Vandalism everywhere. They go from harmless shouting to the opponent's fans, to throwing rocks on every car that have the plate number from their opponent's area. And that, is apparently too much for people's liking. (Like seriously, the talks about dissolving them are everywhere in the internet)

SO

Advantages of Dissolving Bobotoh

Like I said, before. They are not harmless. They are in fact, inflict pain on people, which means they are harmful. And that's really dangerous.

They have this kind of an arch nemesis, which is The Jak. The supporter of Persija, a soccer team from Jakarta (which is almost as "loyal" as Persib, mind you). And every time, every single time, Persib has a match with Persija, it... doesn't end up good. Vandalism happens, no matter which team won. They can't accept the lost of their favorite team.

The rivalry now grow to hatred. They don't just fight when there's a match, they just simply hate each other. This is certainly not a healthy rivalry.

Bobotoh can be too much sometimes. They flood the road before and after the match, which results in traffic jam. Well, worse traffic jam than the usual jam, they make a riot, and most importantly, they scare people.

It is a bad thing when sport, which is supposed to be enjoyed, makes people anxious and scared instead. So maybe, dissolving the Bobotoh will bring more peace to the neighborhood and basically everyone...

Or not.

Disadvantages of Dissolving Bobotoh

Whether they behave or not, whether you like it or not, Bobotoh are fans. They love Persib, and they are certainly loyal to them. And so, let's talk from Persib's point of view here. They need fans. They need supports, they need people who will stick to them and love them even if they lost, they need someone cheering for them, they need that moral strength. And that is what Bobotoh gives. Cheers, supports and loyalty.

About them getting mad upon the lost of Persib. They are too much, yes. But wouldn't you be at least disappointed when something you're fond of, lost, or being humiliated?

I am NOT justifying their actions. Vandalism is a crime. But being a fan of something myself, I can relate to their anger. They just need to vent their anger in something less dangerous.

Beside, can anyone assure that dissolving them will make everything peaceful? NOPE. Do you really think that they will stay calm and composed when they are told to leave their beloved club? I don't think so. Imagine it as if you told Beliebers to never like Justin Bieber again and that Justin Bieber is ugly. BAM. Rabid fangirl attacks. I'm 87.75% sure that this will apply when you are trying to dissolve Bobotoh. Imagine the rage. They will probably ended up doing more damage then before they are dissolved. Scary much.

Conclusion

In my point of view, Bobotoh is dangerous. They harm people, they destroyed public properties, and all in all, they are scary and makes people restless around them. But members of Bobotoh are fans, an extremely fanatic one, but still, a fan.

So, if you ask me, then yes. We definitely need to do something about Bobotoh. But is dissolving them really the right thing to do? I'm not sure. But simply "disciplining" them is proven to be not enough. So what is the right thing to do? Honestly, I am not sure myself. I can only give my opinion, and that is, dissolving Bobotoh Persib is neither right or wrong.

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This marks the end of this post!

Thank you, and I really am sorry if anyone is offended by this post. You are free to agree or disagree with everything I just wrote.

Oh, and I actually feel a bit grander (I'm not sure that's even a word) after I wrote this lengthy post! Less than three you guys, less than three <3

BYE!!!!

- Dian

Princeton University

Applying for Admission

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QUESTIONS:

1. What should the applicants do if they have trouble paying the admission online?
2. Princeton only offered admissions to 20% of applicants in recent years. True or False?
3. How to apply using Common Application?
4. How to apply using Universal College Application?
5. Applicants are given two choices to apply to Princeton. What are they?
6. Applicants of Princeton will start their freshmen year in fall. True or False?
7. What kind of applicant is not eligible to apply for admission in Princeton?
8. In what conditions can an applicant apply for a free waiver?
9. How to apply for a Fee Waiver?
10. Students with disabilities are not allowed to join extracurricular activities. True or False?