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MY FAVORITE PART

            There are two parts that I like more from this biography book. These two parts were told about the figure’s education, where the figure was so spirit in his education even the surrounding was not support him. When heard this, I tried to compare with myslef in my education, and absolutely I am nothing to compare with him. Hahaha. Below are my favorite parts. These parts are on the third chapter page 15 to 16.  

“They worried  my heel would getting longer, but the distance would never make my spirit down”

The level of education at that time was known as the people's school (SR). The Usman School itself is located in Sei Buluh, opposite the village of Tanjung Haloban. Entering the third year the school changed its name to this primary school (elementary) around 1964/1965. The distance between the school and Usman's house was approximately five kilometers, this distance was quite far and far to the size of an eight-year-old child. At the beginning of entering school Usman is usually escorted by his father, but not long after, he must be able to get used to leaving for a distance of five kilometers to go to school. In the same time Usman also entered the islamic school for elementary in Sei Cina that was three kilometers from his house. In the morning he wake up and went to elemntary school and would back to house in the mid day to take lunch and preparing himself to the go to islamic school, and he would back to house in the evening. So, Usman walked around sixteen kilometers each day of school, and he did it for three years. And moreover Usman usually did not take breakfast in the morning.

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A BIOGRAPHICAL BOOK IMPLICATION

Whatever we are doing, we will get something of it. We might get a good thing or even bad thing, it depends on what type of activity itself. Recently, I have just finished my biographical book. This task as the final task of Creative Writing course with Mam. Rahma, Ph.D. In my own opinion this was not not just a common task but it had so many benefits and contains many good things, it can create a good relation between the figure and the author, build of the ability of communication to others, increasing self confidence, train the writing skills, train to think imaginatively, and so on.

I chose my father as the figure, so automatically I have to communicate actively with him, asking his childhood, his adulthood, his educational and career, his achievement, and his obstacles and solution as long as his life. It was so interested, I still remember when we were talking together through WA application, sometimes we laughed together for funny moments of his life, sometimes take a heavy breath when he talked about his obstacles, sometimes felt like to cry when he told about his mother and father when they had struggled at my father, and many things that could be written on this reflective essay. 

Besides that good implication I also can know and more recognize about my family because of this task, this will benefit to understand about their selves. When we recognize our own family so well they would recognize us too, then the family would be bounded well.

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How is your technique? 

During the process of writing biography book there was many experiences, feeling, lessons, and new knowledge that can be taken. And this task benefits to build up or refresh our memory about the past. Actually we should not forget our past story because the past is the reason why present comes. By understanding and knowing about our past story we will know our self and family better and that as the way to respect them. I myself took my father as the figure and automatically because of this biography book I knew him far better than others this related to feeling side of the advantages of making biography book. In terms of experience, I know that to write some written in a good form and result we need to find out and determine our own way to increase our imagination and feeling of what we are written. At the first I didn't know this, I just wrote the biography without any musics. But, somehow I hearing a Koran recitation during wrote the biography, and suddenly I can feel more emotional in my imagination as well as my feelings about the figure, in turn it was appeared my ideas to arrange the words in making a good emotional sentences. Sometimes, I stopped just to hearing the recitation, this benefits to re-create the ideas and imagination. After this experience, I usually will hear Koran recitation when writing biography book. 

And the second technique that usually used on completing the biography book was about the time. Time that I meant is determine the best time to write the biography book. It can not be denied that time is one of the important thing to create a good written. Basically, you can write in anytime and anywhere but the result would not as good as you if you find your best time to write, because you should not write a sad part of story when your feeling was happy, you should not write a happy part when you were crying, and there are so many things that should be consider and pay attention to it in writing biography.

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Flashback 

Hemm, this was never imagined before. I didn't expect that this task "Biography Book" will take me into a memorable moments and very touch full in heart. When in the process of writing biography, the story that told by father will take me into years past and re-remind me while me and my father were visiting his mother and his family. How was incredible that moments!. That makes me almost crying. I stopped for the time being in writing the biography and let myself felt that feeling, it's very touching. I suddenly prayed in my heart may Allah give her His Jannah and forgive her mistakes. At that time I was aware that how far away she has been forgotten by me, whereas she was very kind and love me as one of her grandchildren, please forgive me Unyang. 

Sometimes we are to busy to look forward our live, our goals, our relationship with others instead of flash back our live and experience where were gathering together and visiting family like parents as the reason why we are, grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, and etc.

I believe on the others story will be more touching and interested. And finally I can recognize and know my family's background better, at least knowing my father's story. 

That's all what I have felt, now let me continue to write this interesting task. 😊😊😊

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Unpredictable Figure

                When it was the meeting of discussing to determine the figure of biography book. I had no idea with my own figure. I was trying to think but that was the fact, I still could not find it until the meeting ended. I was stuck for a few days on thinking who would be my figure. As Mam says, “the figure should has something that we look up” this is the key of choosing the figure besides the figure must still alive, the figure should be possible to interview, and absolutely you have to ensure that you have not preceded by someone in written the figure’s biography. I was thinking by considering these requisites. I though about many people at that time just wanted to choose the figure, and finally after a few days I got the figure. I could not believe this man would be my figure, I did not know why my mind minded him. My figure is a man, he lives near my place, and also I have been associated with him almost two years. He comes from Aceh and he definitely able to speak aceh language. His name is Nasher, but people always call him by name “Pak Aceh”, Pak because he has been 50 years old the word “Pak” is to honor him as an old man and “Aceh” as you guess because he comes from aceh region. “Pak”, “Pak” I usually call him by these name. Aceh as we known as the “Serambi Makkah” and it proved by Pak Aceh, Pak Aceh is a religious and charitable man, here on the society he recognized as one of the Imams in prayer. And the things that I look up at him is he can maintain the pure relation with his wife from doing cheating. His wife lived in Aceh but he never doing cheating on her. And also he can control his desire of doing sin like for gambling, drunk, drug, and women yet he can do that because he is a rich man and has a good health. Instead of do those things he more prefer being a charitable and friendly to others and enjoy his life by joining the Islamic teaching (pengajian). I admire his strength of controlling the “syahwat and hawa nafsu” I hope I can take a lesson from him by this biography assignment. Aamiin

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No One can Replace Him

     There was an interesting story about choosing the figure for my biography book. The lecturer said that the figure should have the unique side to look up, the figure should near to us, and the figure should still live. When I heard these figure criteria my mind automatically chose an Aceh guy that near to my mosque. He has been lived there for 10 years. At his first coming, he was just an ordinary person. He who always called by the nickname Pak Aceh has a wife but they do not live together in one house. His wife is in Aceh but Pak Aceh lives in Medan. They just meet for days in a year. As I knew they did it because of a job. Now, Pak Aceh is not an ordinary person anymore but an extraordinary person, he reaches his success as ice cream reseller. Even he is a rich man but he is also a truly religious person. He is one of the imams in my mosque. And even his wife is very far away from him, he never doing cheating, and plays with any girls in Medan. His manner also quite good, charitable, humble, and friendly. I found all these his kindnesses and his good sides since 2 years ago and until now. These the reasons why my mind minded him as the figure. But a few minutes after it, I found the best figure more than him, the figure is my father. I think my father is not just a father but more than any father in this worlds. Finally, I chose my father as the figure of the biography book. 

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MY SOCIETY MY FAMILY

I start to write this story by thanking to Allah because He has placed me in a good surroundings where the people are so kind, the kids so cute, the teenagers have a good manner, and the managers of Mosque are humble, I am a Mosque guider. I have been lived here for two years it was since my first coming in Medan and that time I was in the first semester, and now I am in the sixth semester. During that time I can not count how much they helped me.

            From the deepest of my heart I am very proud and loved of them. This makes my feeling was in my own family. sometimes they give me some heavy food like food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and some food that just for snacking like porridge, soup, etc, moreover it not just about food but also about suggestion, advice, attention, support, pray, and and love, all these abstract things are definitely more precious than foods and money. In turn, the whole of these help are very helpful to me to study, to understand, to memorize, to work together, and to do all my campus activities even I lived in Mosque and also as a guider of mosque. I can not imagine how was my study if my surroundings and my society where I live in were full of hostility, ignorance, and others negative side, I thought I would fail on my education, my grade would so low, I could not focuss on my homework, could not work together in group, and could not do almost my campus activities, and the last I myself could be influenced by these negative society. How was live of the student like that? Thanks Allah for sending me a good society, they are my family here.