My Best Friend

Everyone has a best friend, they can be their mothers, fathers, family, and may be someone else who close to them. I have a best friend, her name is Rahmi Yuwan, and everyone calls her Amy.

Now, she is studying at ITB ( Institut Teknologi Bandung), she is smart, beautiful and calm girl but, sometimes she becomes fussy and talkative if she find something wrong and she does not like it. She was a popular girl in my senior high school, Diniyyah Puteri Padang Panjang; I was very envy with her because most of our teacher gave her more attention than us.

Amy can make everyone proud of her, and they want to be her friend. She is never arrogant; she can be close to everyone. I learn more from her, because she can accept someone’s lack, she also tough me about life and done the best thing in my school as a student.

She is very diligent and never gives up if she got bad mark but I think she almost never got bad mark, although those tests made our class become crazy. When I asked some question to her, she always smile and said ‘you can, but you lazy to try’, that is true, lately I knew that Amy always think that I am her rival, it is surprising for me because I think I am not clever and never got rank in my class.

She always became an icon of my school because she has complication of superiority, she is an achiever, the most beautiful, she could memorize a half of Qur’an and she always got scholarship in my school. She is also a kind girl; she likes to help the others. In other sides, some of my friends always gossiped her and hunt for her weakness, she often told me that she did not like someone gossiped, sometimes I found her cried but I just asked her to be patient.

That are little about my best friend, I hope you all can learn from her, you can do as Amy does for her life and you can make your parents proud of you, Amiin.

My Dream and Myself

My name is Weni Mayendri; I am a first child from my parent. I have one sister and two brothers. My parent put ‘Mayendri’ in my last name; it is mean Ermaini and Lendri, my parent’s name. I was born in Pariaman at March 27 1992.

I join elementary school in 1998, I graduate from this school when I was 12, and then my parent asked me to school at boarding school, Diniyyah Puteri Padang Panjang, there I studied science, languages, include, Arabic, English and Indonesian; religion, and attitude. There are I also began to wear veil and learned to be independent girl.

My parent always asked me to be a doctor and they also asked me to follow SNMPTN this year, but, I know what I want to be, I do not want to be a doctor because I hate hospital’s smell and I can not to be a patient person. Allah gave me another chance to reach my dream, I passed PMDK and then I studying at UNP, now. I just want to be a translator, so that I can know the famous author and read a lot of English books or novels.

I like reading very much, I can spend a lot of time when I read a book, and I do not care about someone who wants to disturb me, I almost always forget to eat when I crazy about a book, I like reading many books, such as novels, comics, and non-fiction books.

Therefore, whatever I am and what I want to do, I just want to be a good Muslim and make my parent proud of me; I also can be a success woman in my future, have a good life and good talent.

Spending Holiday at Home or Going Vacation

Holiday is a time for fun, when you are free from your study, boring job, or your dangerous boss and be together with your family. People have many ways to spend it likes going vacation or stay at home with their families. Both of these ways are different, but both of them offer many advantages and variety activities. The purpose of this essay is to contras the cost, types of activities, and the experience when you spend the holiday at home or go vacation.

The difference between these ways is the cost to spend. Stay at home will save your money; you can cook your foods in your own house. Hhowever, go vacation will spend much money, you have to buy a ticket, you need to eat at a restaurant, stay at hotel and spend your time at the long trip that is make you feel tired so that you must prepare your holiday a year or two years before.

The other difference is the types of activities. The activities are limited, but sometimes become fun likes reading romantic novels, watching funny movies with you family, cleaning up your house together, and having dinner with your friends, it is exciting. Besides that, going vacation offer many activities. You can go to another country, see the amazing places and enjoy the nature.

Spending your holiday at home will not give you a big experience because it is almost same with your daily activity and little bit same with your friends.In other sides when you go vacation to other cities or countries you have an unforgettable experience and perhaps it will different from the other people in the world.

Everyone can choose how to spend his or her holiday. There are so many options to spend a holiday.If you have much money, go vacation is a great and fun choice, but if you are a student and have not much money, you can make an exciting holiday in your home with your family or your friends.

Muhammad, the Great Idol

He is the super power person. He (saw) as born in Mecca, 570 CE. His father, Abdullah Bin Abdul Muthalib, passed away before he born and his mother, Aminah, passed away when he was six after he and his mother visited his father’s grave. Then, he lived with his grandfather, Abdul Muthalib (ra) until he was ten years old; he rose in Mecca as a shepherd. After his grandfather passed away, his uncle, Abu Talib, tough him to sell.

Under the guardianship of Abu Talib, Muhammad (saw) began to earn a living as a businessman and a trader. At the age of twelve, he accompanied Abu Talib with a merchant caravan as far as Bostra in Syiria. The Makkans and visitors alike popularly knew Muhammad (saw) as ‘AL-AMIN’ for his unimpeachable character. The title Al-Amin means the honest and faithful.

Muhammad (saw) got married in 25 years old; he was marrying with Khadijah (ra) at the time Khadijah (ra) was twice widowed and forty years old. They have six children, four daughters and two sons. His first son is Qosim, died at the age two. His second son is Abdullah, died in infancy. Abdullah was also called affectionately as “Tayyab” and “Thahir” because he was born after Muhammad’s prophet hoot. The four daughterswere Zainab, Ruqayah, Ummu Kalthum and Fatimah (ra). When he was 40 years old, Muhammad (saw)during his one of many retreats of Mount Hira for meditation during Ramadhan, he receives the first revelation from the Archangel Jibril. Jibril said to Muhammad “Iqra” meaning read. Muhammad replied,” I cannot read”, he did not know how to read or wrote. The Archangel Jibril then embraced him until he reached the limit of his endurance and after releasing said”Iqra.” Muhammad answer was the same as before. Jibril repeated the embrace for third time, asked him to repeat after him and said:

“Recited in the name of your Lord who creates man from that which clings. Recite: and the Lord is most bountiful, He who has taught by the first five verses of Surah 96 of the Al-Qur’an.

Muhammad (saw) passed away when he 63 years old in Medina and leave guidance Al-Qur’an and Sunnah to keep our life and become a good Moslem in this world. He also taught good behavior for praying to Allah, keep our ukhuah islamiah, and always help each other, even though to non-Moslem.

Allah promise that someone who always loyal to the islam, they will be entred to the heaven, so we shuld do what is Allah wants and avoid that He hates.

Maantaan Tando Ceremony

Maantaan Tando is a procession pre-wedding in Sumatera Barat, especially in Pariaman. Wedding system in Pariaman is different with the other regions in Sumatera Barat. In Pariaman, there is a tradition that people in Pariaman call it ‘Bajapuik’, whereas that tradition never findin other region.

In ‘Bajapuik’ tradition, the bridegroom ‘is bought’ by the bride with ‘uang japuik’, uang japuik mean some money to buy the bridegroom, the nominal is given by someone status, if his status low, the nominal will small, and when someone status is high the nominal will be big, sometimes, someone who has high position in a big instance, working as a public servant or has a big company or store will be bought by the groom until 50 million.

One of ‘Bajapuik’ procession is ‘Maantaan Tando’. This procession is a form of surrender the money to the bridegroom. In this procession, the brides will be represented by niniak mamak, kapalo mudo and mamak from the brides’ families. They will discussion about how much ‘Uang Japuik’ is, and determine when the party will be hold.

It is just a theory; in fact uang japuik is depending on the bride and groom family. Maanataan tando is an event to get the agreement between bride and groom family. In this event both of the families makes, some debate with special speech it called sambah manyambah.Finally, they will get an agreement.

This pocession is a good event to be eternaled by the people and goverment because it will be damaged by western culture.

Pariaman Is a Beautiful City

West Sumatera has so many beautiful tourism objects, especially Pariaman city. This city has many different things from another city in West Sumatera such as the foods, beaches and cultures.

The tourists can find the unique foods in Pariaman, they are “sala lauak”, the shape is oval, and so crispy. The tourists also can enjoy “gulai kapalo lauak” in every restaurants near to the beach, while they enjoy the beach scenery, those foods have cheap price and so delicious.

The beaches in Pariaman cleaner than the beaches in other city because the governments of Pariaman have been cleaned up all of the beaches in Pariaman since 1980, so most of beaches in Pariaman became a favorite tourism object, it increase the Pariaman people is economic and reduce the joblessness.

Pariaman also has moreinteresting culture from the other city in West Sumatera likes the bridges must give some money to the groom’s family, they call it ‘pitih japuik’, and Pariaman also has some culture ritual “maarak tabuik” every years on 1st Muharram, this ritual held for commemorate “Hasan And Husain” history and “manjapuik marapulai” at night when the wedding party held.Pariaman also has unique bridge costume in wedding party, they are use a hair bun at the top of the bridge’s head and a big thing likes a diameterof radian that consist of beads, and they also wear the big dress wich consist of the beads, too.

Pariaman’s community is so friendly and always keep their courtessy and custom.So, in t
his city the visitor will comfortable in this city and find the different sensation and unforgettable experience and as a visitor you must keep your attitude in this city.
So, if you want to go on vacation, you must choose my city, it will make your vacation become an unforgotable vacation in your live and you can give a special present to your family.