Great Wall of China

Ever heard of "Great Wall of China"? well, maybe some people ever heard about it from the "World Seven Wonder" thingy, or somewhere else.

Great Wall of China (Chinese: 万里长城 "Great Wall") is made of stones, tamped earth, bricks, and many more. i was built from east to west in the northern border of China to protect the country. Some of the wall has built a very long time ago and continued to make more bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall, some of the wall also has been rebuilt, maintained, and enchanted.

The main Great Wall line stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. In April 2009, the wall has been investigated accurately, the wall length is about 8.850 km, consist 6.259 km of the actual wall, and 2.232 km of natural structure. Another archaeological survey found that the entire wall with all of its branches measure out to be 21,196 km.

Some parts on the north of the wall have been renovated and preserved for tourism. Some of the wall part are disrepair. Those parts might serve as a village playground or a source of stones to rebuild houses and roads.

Legend of Tangkuban Perahu

A long time ago, there was a daughter of a king in West Java, the princess named Dayang Sumbi, she is very beautiful. Many kings of the kingdoms fight just to make Dayang Sumbi as his wife. Feeling herself is the source of war, Dayang Sumbi decided to go into the woods and live there.

One day, when Dayang Sumbi weaving, the spun yarn that she use for weaving falls. She was lazy to take the spun yarn, she said "Who can get the spun yarn, if it was a male, he would be my husband, if it was a female, she will be my foster sister". Suddenly a dog taking the yarn spun and gave it to Dayang Sumbi. The dog was named Tumang, he not just an ordinary dog, he was a descendant of the god. To fulfill Dayang Sumbi's promise, she make the dog as her husband, and from the marriage they endowed a boy named Sangkuriang.

Sangkuriang grown become a good-looking man, he loves to hunt animals, one day his mother, Dayang Sumbi, ask him to find a deer heart, Sangkuriang with Tumang started their hunt. After a day of hunting, they can't even find any deer. Sangkuriang worried would make her mother upset, he got an idea, he shot Tumang with his bow and bring the Tumang's heart home. Dayang Sumbi realize that the heart isn't a deer's heart, it was Tuamng's heart, she was got mad and hit Sangkuriang with a big spoon, Sangkuriang run away from home.

After some years, Sangkuriang decided to come back to his former village. There he meets a beautiful woman who is actually his mother. They fall in love and got married. But Dayang Sumbi then realized that the man she loved was her son. She saw a scar in the head of Sangkuriang. To deter Sangkuriang marry her, Dayang Sumbi ask two things that impossible to do as a condition of marriage.

"If you want to marry me, make a lake and a very large boat in one night" asked Dayang Sumbi.
"Yes, if you want it. I will give what you ask." Sangkuriang agree.

With powerful strength and with the help of spirits, the requests were considered can be done in one night. Sangkuriang also create a lake by damming the river Citarum and make a boat. Worried that Sangkuriang will done the request, Dayang Sumbi try to fool Sangkuriang by make some chicken crow, Sangkuriang think that morning has come. Thinking that his efforts in vain. In anger he kicked the boat that overturned. Then boat turn into a mountain called Mount Tangkuban Perahu. Tangkuban Perahu means upside down boat.

My Friend, Rayza

This time, i'm going to tell you about one of my friend, his name is Rayza Mahendra Guntara Harsono, you can call him Rayza. His body height is about 160 centimeters and the weight is about 50 kilograms (see the date /eh). He is a funny guy (and cool guy lol).

His hobby is playing game, he likes playing a music/rhythm game and some action adventure. His favorite food is Rendang half cooked eggs and his favorite drink is milkshake... well i'm not really sure about the milkshake because sometimes he just drink an iced milk.

He is one class with me (read:classmate) both in the normal class and Lintas Minat, that's it about him.

About Me

Hello, this is my blog for "Lintas Minat Sastra dan Bahasa Inggris", My name is Algifari, just call me Gif, Gifa, Algif, or anything that doesn't annoy me. My birthday occur on first 1/3 of year, my favorite food is salty one and some fastfood. My hobby is drawing, watching anime, listening to music, sleep, and eat. I do sport a little, such as baseball, badminton, soccer (?). I lived in an average sized house with 2nd (3rd?) floor, located between city and mountain, with fresh air, cold air, lol not so important though.

About my hobbies that have mentioned above, i love watching Anime with comedy/ action (also military one)/ slice of life genre. I like all music genre, depends on the music itself.

I lived with my parents, some siblings, cats, mouses, birds, fictional characters, objects, etc. well my life ain't that crowded. I ever studied in some kindergartens, elementary schools, in some many places around Indonesia (not really, just a little few of them). I ever visited some awesome places and country too! And i'm forgot all of those experience because of something...

Okay that's it! C U Later ('-')/