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Drama Performance of English Department Andalas University

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Padang (8/12) – Drama is a genre or type of literary works that describing human life with motion. Drama describes the reality of life, character, and human behaviour through roles and dialogues that are staged. Drama which is one of the compulsory subjects for literary students especially English literature students. English Department students of Andalas University always held drama performances every year, which appearance will be played by the fifth semester students. In this occasion, me and Rian Habill Hamdani as my partner, Interviewed one of the students that involved in the drama performance for this year. In this year, the drama was took place at Nan Jombang Company, and it was hold in two days, from seventh to eighth December.   Source: Me David as our interviewee is one of the participants of drama in this year. David is a member of the family 2.0 group. His role on his drama is as a father. The reason David and his friends chose Family 2.0 as the theme ...

Kyoto Modern Iconic Landmark - Kyoto Tower

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Kyoto Tower at night. Source: me Almost every city in this world has a landmark as the icon of their city. Jakarta with  Monumen Nasional (Monas), Paris with the Eiffel Tower, and New York with the Liberty Statue. In Kyoto, they also has a unique landmark of their city, the name is Kyoto Tower. On September 2016, me and my family got a chance to visit this city. After we had a dinner with a bowl of Ramen, we went to this building. Kyoto Tower is located just across Kyoto Station, so that's mean this building is located in the heart of this city. The first time I saw this landmark, it was illuminated with some lights, then I speak to my self "This building is amazing".  Chicken Ramen, yummy. Source: me After I read the information about this building in the tourist brochure, I found out that Kyoto Tower was completed in 1964, the same year as the opening of the Shinkansen (high speed train in Japan) and the Tokyo Olympics. The height of this building is ...

Open Recruitment Extracurricular Pandekar Andalas University

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Padang (23/10) - Me and Rian Habill Hamdani as my partner are going to interview one of the member from Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa (UKM) or extracurricular Pandekar Andalas University ( Unand) , about the recruitment of this extracurricular .  Our interviewee is Suheltya, she is the committee of Pandekar open recruitment (OR). Source: Suheltya Before we talking about the OR it self, we need to know what is extracurricular Pandekar . Suhetlya or as known as tya, explained that Pandekar  is not just an extracurricular, but also an organization who focused on martial arts. She added that as like any other organization, this extracurricular also do a recruitment to keep the organization alive, and that is the purpose for this OR. The grand opening of the open recruitment was held on October 14, and it will take time around five weeks. During that OR, tya said that the participants will do some exercises, learn about the organization, and also physics training. The parti...

Several Ways to Interview Someone Like a Journalist.

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Interview Have you ever seen a journalist doing an  interview? Do you know how to do a good interview? This post will help you to do that, because I’m  gonna talk about Several Ways to Interview Someone Like a Journalist. Before we get in to the main menu, I’m gonna explain what is interview just in brief. Basically, an interview means a private meeting between people when questions are asked and answered. The main purpose to do an interview is to support your argument by gaining some information from other perspectives. There are many ways that you can do to do an interview. Some ways are effective, but not with the other. I’m going to give you some ways that at least you need to pay an attention when doing an interview: 1.  Be sure you are ready Always prepare on what are your purpose to do an interview, who is your interviewee (the people that you are going to ask), what you are going to ask, and the tools that will you use. 2.  Make an ap...

The Most Expensive Video Game Ever Made

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Just like in movie industry, creating a video game is also need a large amount of money. In the movie, the money or the budget will be use for the artist, producer, visual effect, marketing, and etc. It is almost the same with gaming industry. The game creator or the game developer use that money to do some research of the gameplay mechanic, write a good story, coding, marketing and etc. But do you know what is the most expensive video game ever made? GTA V - The most expensive video game ever made. source: https://techbeasts.com/gta-5-hd-wide-wallpapers-for-your-desktop/ The answer is Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V). Published in September 17, 2013 by Rockstar Games, and developed by Rockstar North. This game was cost around $265 million! That was higher than Avengers: Age of Ultron budget ($250 million). That cost was divided into $137 million to develop, and $128 million for marketing. This game is also the third best-selling video game of all time with over 95 million copies...

What is "When Journalism Meets Tech"?

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Hello friends, how are you today? Fine? Fine It's okay if you are fine, because I'm fine too. This is my first post in this blog. Before we talk about what my blog is, let me introduce my self first. My name is Idham Agung, people usually call me Idham or Agung. I'm just a normal student in Andalas University, Padang, West Sumatra. Well I think that's enough for the introduction, let's jump in to the main topic of this post, what is the content of my blog? As you can see in the main menu and the title of this post, my blog is concern on combining the journalism and technology. Why would I do that? Its so simple. Because I want to learn how to write a news report, documentation, reviews, and anything related to journalism. Then, because I love with all about technology, including gaming. So I think, combining both of them will be an interesting topic to write. Journalism with tech? Why not? Well, I think that's it all about my blog. Please keep support ...