How to Use Water Wisely

By : Hikmah Lestari

Water is the foundation of food and life. Next to air, water is our most precious resource. We cannot live without water. We use water for many different things like making electricity, cleaning, cooking, irrigating, etc. With an increase in world population more water will be needed. It is therefore important how this resource is used and preserved. Factory farming is a major consumer of water and also a major contributor to environmental degradation.

We must conserve our water so that it will be available to people for years to come. It is important that we save water because it is essential to sustain life. We need to conserve water so that our trees and plants can have life. Water conservation is a big thing, but every little bit helps, so don't think that what you do doesn't matter.

Water conservation means using our water wisely and caring for it properly. Since each of us depends on water for life, it is our responsibility to learn more about water conservation and how we can help keep our water pure and safe for generations to come. Since we all enjoy the benefits of having pure, clean water, we must help conserve water so that we may continue to enjoy these benefits.

Water conservation is not a job that is just for the technician, soil scientist, hydrologist, forester, wildlife manager, plant scientist, city planner, park manager, farmer, rancher, or mine owner alone. It is a job for the every person. We must all recognize that water conservation really is our personal responsibility and not just leave it up to other people. We all enjoy the many ways that we use water, so why not do our part in caring for our water?

We can start to use water wisely in the kitchen, in the bathroom, and in the garden. In the bathroom by shorten your shower by a minute or two and you'll save up to 150 gallons per month. When running a bath, plug the tub before turning the water on then adjust the temperature as the tub fills up. Bathe your young children together. To save water and time, consider washing your face

or brushing your teeth in the shower. Turn off the water while brushing your teeth and save 25 gallons a month. Turn off the water while you wash your hair to save up to 150 gallons a month. Keep a bucket in the shower to catch water as it warms up or runs. Use this water to flush toilets or water plants. Listen for dripping faucets and running toilets. Fixing a leak can save 300 gallons a month or more.

We can use water wisely in the kitchen by wash our fruits and vegetables in a pan of water instead of running water from the tap. Then when washing dishes by hand, don't let the water run while rinsing. Fill one sink with wash water and the other with rinse water. Wash our clothes only when they are full. We can save up to 1,000 gallons a month. When doing laundry, match the water level to the size of the load.

We can also use water wisely in the garden by watering our plants deeply but less frequently to encourage deep root growth and drought tolerance don't water our lawn on windy days when most of the water blows away or evaporates. Plant with finished compost to add water-holding and nutrient-rich organic matter to the soil. If we accidentally drop ice cubes when filling our glass from the freezer, don't throw them in the sink. Drop them in a house plant instead. Use sprinklers that deliver big drops of water close to the ground. Smaller water drops and mist often evaporate before they hit the ground.

Saving water helps to preserve our environment. It reduces the energy required to process and deliver water, which helps in reducing pollution and in conserving fuel resources. Saving water now means having water available in the future for recreational purposes, too. Conserving the water we have minimizes the effects of water shortages and helps build a better defense against future drought years. If we save water now, we are helping to ensure a water supply adequate for future generations. Saving water saves money.

We must save water today so that it will be available to us in the future. We need to think of future generations, people who will not have a sufficient supply of water unless we become more concerned with how we use our water today. There are many things that we can do to help preserve water. These are not things that are hard. All it takes is a little bit of extra effort, and soon it will be second nature. Save the water, it’s all we've got!

Source: http://www.wateruseitwisely.com/way-to-conserve-water.html

HOW TO SHOP WISELY

By : Juwita Purnama Sari

OH MY GOD, SALE!!! 50 %? 70 %?

I want to buy this? Or this?? Or ... Oh, I buy anything!!!

Have you look many people crowded to shopping when SALE in the mall? Have you look people fighting over because SALE items? Have you regret because you spend all your money to buy something useless?

Yes, they are like shopping! I like shopping and I know you like shopping too.

Nowadays shopping becomes a life style for some people. Shopping is not as a necessity, but shopping becomes a hobby. We use money to buy what we need in this world. We do our shopping in various places. Sometimes we are satisfied with what we buy. Sometimes we regret because we use much money to shopping.

To avoid being consumptive and extravagant, we have to know how to shop wisely.  Shop wisely means not wasting our money on useless goods. We have to be careful with what we buy. We don’t make absolutely sure that what we buy are really worth our money, we can reduce our risks of buying faulty goods to a minimum. Here are some suggestions on how to do it.

First, you should check the price of the goods. It will be better if you know the price of the goods clearly. Shops usually display price tags for all items. We should be avoiding the goods that have no price tags. It is better if we compare the prices of the goods at various places and adapt to our budget. Then, calculate roughly how much this will cost, and subtract that total from how much money you will be taking. You can decide on what you will be able to afford to buy. When paying for things at the counter, it is good practice to make sure that the prices are correctly entered or scanned.

Second, the condition of the goods that we intend to buy should be checked. Checking the conditions of the goods that we want to buy is very important, so that we don’t buy things useless. For example we should examine the material of clothes and stitching the goods that we want to buy. Next, the expiry date of perishable foods also should be checked. Food without expiry dates should not be bought. Third, you should only buy what we need.  You should focus look for the items that you want  to buy.

The key to shop wisely is think before you buy. Ask yourself with old question: "Do I need this or do I want this?” “How many times will you use/wear it?” Think and have a plan what would you buy when you shopping. Don’t be greedy and be sure you not regret after shopping because the items that you buy is useless. Always try on clothes before you buy them, and don’t buy something just because it's a "cool" brand name. Next, you should make a list of all of the items that you want to buy. Buy ONLY the things on your list. It is would be better if you focus to the goods that you want to buy. This is a good idea for monthly expenditure or shopping in a high number. Then, other tips is bring a cash money and don’t use credit card. Then, the last is doing gullible to a sale.

In addition to changing your habits about where you shop, a little experimentation with what you buy can help to save your money. Don't blow all your money on just one thing, remember buy just one thing useless with a lot of money and you may regret it. I hope this article can inspired anyone and help you to shop wisely. Shopping anything you have to remember, something that so much is not good and it is would be better if we thinking to the future so as not to create something that is detrimental to the future.

Have a shop wisely!

Source:

http://abangijobiru.blogspot.com/2012/03/shopping-wisely-buying.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Shop-Wisely

http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Shop-Wisely&id=417893

http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Smart-Shopper-%28Teen-Girls%29

ATTENDING A SCHOLARSHIP INTERVIEW

“The best interviews -- like the best biographies -- should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.”

- Barber, Lynn -

Are you feeling nervous when you are attending an interview? If you are feeling nervous, why can it be? Some people may already be familiar with the interview. However, it does not establish that they are not nervous attending interview, even less; they do not have any preparation. Some of you maybe have ever experienced some kinds of interview, for example, a student’s exchange interview, a job interview, and other interviews. You need preparation, Right? Especially if you will use a foreign language on your interview stage, for instance, English. And now, I want to share you about how to attend a scholarship interview. Let’s check it out!

When we want to get a scholarship, the first thing to do is looking for detail information about the scholarship and then filling out an application form. After your application form was accepted, you will go to the next selection stage. That is interview stage. You will talk about your strangeness. Interview stage will determine whether you are a recipient of the scholarship or not. It also determines how far your knowledge, achievements, and your conviction to obtain the scholarship.

Interview is a process to match your answer session on the application form with your answer in the interview stage. (I Can Get a Scholarship, Why Can not You?” by Aan Satriani, 2011). In the job interview, interviewer will match between your curriculum vitae and your answer in the interview stage. It is not different with the process in the scholarship interview stage. The difference is the interviewer will match the application form that you have applied. Actually interviewer want to make sure that it is really completely filled by you. So, remember the answer of your application form. Make it for your answer references.

After the interviewers were sure that you filled your application by yourself, you will go to the next session of the interview. You will get some questions related to the faith you follow the scholarship program, whether you are worthy to be recipient or not, what achievements have you accomplished, what your prospects in the future, and many more.  You might also get an unexpected question. Don’t forget to answer these questions honestly and not making it up because dishonesty will let fall you into badness. Just be calm in answering the questions. If you feel nervous, you should be able to make yourself still cool and looks calm in front of interviewer. Take a good eye contact with interviewer because it can convince them. If you can not focus on the interviewer and you even look into unimportant things, it will show that you are not serious.

One of the other keys to pass the interview is confident. Believe to yourself that you deserve a scholarship. Feel free to answer the questions that interviewer asked and think creatively in answering those questions. Being confident makes opportunities to get successes. However, you must control your confident not to be excessive because that will cause unfavourable impression.

Having simulation is one of the ways to further stabilize, try to simulate with your friends or relatives who can act as an interviewer. So that, you can answer the questions spontaneous and you also can be more creative to answer it. After that you can have an evaluation of what you practiced. You can ask for some critique and corrections to her or him, so that you can learn from your mistakes that you have done. You will be more ready to go to the stage because it makes you confident.

Another thing that we have to pay attention is our appearance. Appearance usually leads to the first impression in front of the interviewer. If you are required to look appropriate for what has been determined, so take a good looking based the provisions. Even if there is no provision, take a good looking by wearing formal clothes, polite, and neat. You can take a simple style, but still looks interesting and not to be excessive.

Besides the appearance, there are things that must be maintained and care for your health. Make sure that your health will be good when you are in the interview stage because that will affect your concentration. If you are healthy, your concentration will be good. But if you’re physically deteriorated, your concentration will be decline. So that, keep your physical health by having exercise frequently or you can go walking to refresh your mind. In addition, keep food intake. Do not think interview too much because it will leads to stress and forget to load your food intake. If it is necessary, take supplements or vitamin C.

After you finished having preparation, do not forget to pray to God and hopes everything gets easier. You can also ask for prayers to your parents, friends, and those people who close to you.

Thus in summary, attending an interview scholarship takes some preparations. The first thing to do is make sure your application form. You might be confident in answering question, having simulation before go to the interview stage, think creatively when answering the question, keep your health, and do not forget to pray.

Sources :

http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21417/. Quotation Books.

Satriani, Aan. I Can Get a Scholarship, Why Can not You? Bandung : Grafindo, 2011.

Musik Klasik dan Perahu Kertas

Mendengar musik klasik, perasaan jadi terbayang-bayang suasana dalam novel Perahu Kertas. Apalagi kali ini kegalauan sedang menghampiriku. Jadi cocok kan?  Haha...Padahal lusa itu UAS. *Nah lho? Ada hubungannya gitu ya?* ^Ya jelas ada^.

Dulu adalah waktu pertama kali aku benar-benar merasakan jatuh cinta kepada musik itu. I think this music is really beautiful, can bring me into a peaceful heart. Deepest. Dan musik ini yang dulu menemaniku membaca novel Perahu Kertas itu. Ia begitu setia menemaniku membaca sampai pada akhir dari novel tersebut. *Sampe setianya sih da gak diganti-ganti sama musik lain. Haha*

Sampai saat ini aku masih mengingat kisah Kugy dan Keenan. Hmmmm.... dengan itu dan dengan perpaduan musik klasik, setidaknya bisa mengurangi apa yang sedang kurasakan saat ini.

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