Thoughts on Obama's Speech on Education

Read President Obama's speech to K - HS students here:

Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama

Back to School Event

Here are my thoughts ---


The statement that struck me the most:

"But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities." (Obama, 2009)

I agree with him on this. Sometimes we always think that good education = good teachers/ schools. Thus, people blame the institution for failures. But most of failures come from ourselves and our failing desire to be educated, to take responsibility of our own education. If there's no will, there's no way. No matter what force we exert to other people to be educated, if they just have no acceptance to it. In other words, to succeed in education does not rely only on the external establishment but also on our will to be educated and to take full responsibility of it.



Another statement:

"What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country." (Obama, 2009)

Education will take us far. Education is not only to land on good jobs. Education is both for ourselves but importantly on giving back to our country. Which also means that if education is just to fulfill our needs to survive, it will be a short and unfulfilling life we will have. Thinking about what we can do for others is part of our responsibility and what we can look forward to in our education.



Reference:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/

Random Things

Pictures are sort of better than words.
Depends whether you're a visual or descriptive person.

smiling chair in playhouse

the truth about shopping

no more of this for me =p

featured in random writing haha!!!!

unconditional love

just some thoughts i have lately.

so grateful for the unconditional love given.

at the point of my lowest
you picked me up
at the peak of my worry
you calm me down

i know you'll never leave
so my fear has been long gone
knowing i can trust you

in this life
no one else i desire
to spend my forever
but you
because you gave everything
the unconditional love

2009 - Adelene Tjoandi

Video Skyping 101

Skype is probably one of the finest invention.

Could be better with non-laggy video call.
Free is real good through =p

My first Skype conversation with my brother who is in Canada now.

Along with the the featured appearance by my cousins.

The coin trick

The card trick

Yay it's them!

Hey little cousins!

RT @Justin Facebook Note: Earthquake Story

A true story by my brother from his Facebook Note.
Love him and my cousin too much =p

Earthquake Story: September 2, 2009 (2:55 P.M)

Yesterday at 7:39pm

So here we are, arrived in Pola Bugar for our badminton practice. (we as in Stesha, the driver, and me) We just stepped down of the car and climbed the stairs up to where the courts were. Stesha and I didn't see any sign of the coach. We headed for a bench, sat there, and took out our hps to sms (I was smsing the coach; Stesha was smsing unknown people. =P)

"Message sent," read the screen of my phone. I felt my head moving in a wavy motion. In my mind I was thinking, "Stesha, stop moving the bench." But then I saw the hanging lights were shaking too. I still dunno why but I looked back to my phone, ignoring what I saw. But then Stesha said, "Wow, kok goyang?" (This next thing is really dumb.) I just replied, "Earthquake kali," and went back staring at my phone waiting for a reply. Stesha was already panicking, "What!? What!? Earthquake??"

Then after a few seconds, I finally said, "Iy, gempa kayakny. Kebawah yuk." I still wonder why I didn't panic. Maybe it's because the people playing in the courts were just acting normally and resuming their game.

Anyway, we went down and out. Weird thing is, I saw the coach already outside. We went to him and paid the lesson fee. We were then told to go back home. After I got in the car, I saw my phone. It was a reply from the coach. "Masi ada latian. Ini siapa?" --"


My Comment:
"classic stesha... your coach is one unique person.. HAHAHAHA..."