The Hat Attack!

Januari 21, 2012 Mierza Miranti

BEWARE OF THE INVASION!

Say What???

No worries, this kind of invasion only happens once a year and the impact is only for the good laugh for creativity made by the community in the school units.

So, what is the hat attack? Um… originally named Creative Hat in on of the thematic Fridays in the Sugar Group Schools – a group of schools unit owned by the Sugar Group Companies. This post will review on the uniqueness of hat creations, ideas, even up to the interpretation of ‘creative hat’ itself. (Eh?)

Most of the students come up with creative ideas. Some student come up with an idea of creating hats using newspaper…

Hat Attack Papers — Marvelous Paper Hats

Not enough? Maybe adding some balloons will make it have a sense of.. um.. art? 😛

Construction and thick papers will work the beauty. Check these ones:

Rainbow and Lady — Need a Rainbow, Ma'am?

Or… if you have more time… maybe you can try the idea of this great spider straw hat (I gave two thumbs up for this one :D)

Some others have great ideas with flannel fabric…

Flannel Hats — Flannel hat that beautifies the owners ;P

See how it beautifies them? :P.

Ow… and check these cool hat ideas:

And there are also some ‘interpretations’ of what hats should be… like these ones 😀

Hat Attack 018 — A reinterpretation of a hat (or a mask) ;P

Phew… actually, I haven’t shown you all but I guess the tour has shown you the bottom line that creative ideas really do need creative (and crazy) people to apply it. I really enjoy the sight in every corner of the school though!

Hope that I will see crazier ideas in the next thematic friday!

My Reflection

Ketika Kematian Itu Dekat

Januari 16, 2012 Mierza Miranti

Sungguh, aku terhenyak mendengarnya. Ibuku yang rela mencucurkan seluruh keringat dan air matanya untuk membuatku sebesar ini kini sendiri.

Aku yang katanya tahu bagaimana membalas budi hanya diam… diam… diam… Ia sendiri harus berjuang dengan sel-sel kanker yang menggerogoti tubuhnya. Sendiri…. dalam diam…

Omong kosong jika kukatakan aku pandai membalas budi! Dimana aku sekarang dan dimana wanita itu? Wanita yang rela melakukan nyaris apapun untuk membuatku seperti sekarang?

Kematian yang mendekat sedekat helaan napas yang memburunya telah membuatnya rela digerogoti keputus asaan. Ketiadaan orang-orang yang dicintanya membuatnya tak sanggup melangkah… tak berani bermimpi…

Ah Mama…

Semoga aku masih diberi waktu untuk bersamamu. Memelukmu. Mengingatkanmu bahwa ada aku…. yang mencintaimu…

My Reflection

A Case Against Ranked School Report

Oktober 5, 2011Januari 7, 2012 Mierza Miranti

Reading Pak Marsudi W. Kisworo’s blog (he’s the Head of Perbanas) entitled “Guru yang Melahirkan Kehebatan (dari Rhenald Kasali)” reminds me to a national event held a couple of month ago: The Independence Day of Indonesia on 17 August 2011…

In this site, we celebrated it by starting the day with a flag ceremony. All employees of the companies – I live in a sugar cane site where all employees are provided housings and free education (How lucky we are!) – as well as the school communities gathered in a field.

One of the agenda is to announce the students with the best achievements. The first rank students- as they would call them literally translated. And there you go, one by one students were called by the announcers…

At a glance, I saw a wishful face of my students… wishing that they would be called as well. But that would not happen since the number of students called were even less that one percent. Some students might think that it would be such a fantasy to be appreciated like that. To be known to be the best… the best that they can be however.

It has been far too long that we put exaggerated priority on the cognitive level of the students. I professionally think – as an educator – instead of encouraging them, it would be the other way around. How about some students who are improved their interpersonal skill who do not face any difficulties in mingling with anyone. Or the ones who have a strong character that they could be the a promising leader. Why don’t we also put them in the “rank”?

How long will we be trapped in this “ranking system” that only creates more and more problems in maintaining characters? We have been through some years in which cheating is considered not special anymore in facing the national exam. How could we build better generations if this continues to happen?

The questions.. I bet… should be answered by myself. I should continue my fight to put forward this case… against the ranked school report. So that the future generations can be well acknowledged more than their brain to be the best in the class room, but to be the best that they can be.