College (again)

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I'm sorry for not updating my blog for a long time (again). I got bunch of assignments which were quiet difficult to finish. Among other were, we had to make a summary about the 1st chapter in Public Relations subject, making an advertisement in Advertising subject (whereas I'm not a good drawer and not really able to make persuasive remarks. Hihi..), and making presentations as well (most of assignments are making presentation, among other were in Civics and Marketing subject). D'oooohhhhh (-_-)

Btw, I've just finished doing my last assignment in Advertising subject. We had to make an opinion about the strengths and weaknesses of promotional mix in advertising. We also had to print an advertisement and make an opinion about the goods and bads of that advertisement. Well, in college, apparently we have to check our e-mail routinely because all materials are sometimes sent through e-mail. Unlike in high-school, where each subjects were usually told by the teachers directly to the students in every meeting.

Mmmmm.. About the student club, btw I got rejected by the TV club in my college (also known as LSPR TV). Yeah, I didn't pass the interview. When I ask my sophomore from Twitter, she told me that I got rejected due to my answer when they asked me whether I'm available to work until midnight. But I answered that I couldn't do it for Tuesday and Thursday because I have an English course. But it's okay. I also just finished joining the audition of choir club in my college. But I don't know whether I'll be accepted or not, because during the audition, we had to read a gamut, and adjust our voices with that gamut. But I couldn't do it, so I did it randomly, and it sounded so bad -_-". But above all, I have joined News Club in my campus, so at least I've got one of the student clubs. My next target is, if I get rejected by my campus' choir club, I'm gonna join English society or Radio club. English society is not a club actually. It is a batch of students in my campus, who are interested in doing anything using English as their language. They make a drama, travel, and so on. This club is made by English division in my campus. About the radio, I'm really interested with speaking. So I think it will be great for me (although I have to be tired of making a script for my radio announcing). Beside, I had seen many of my friends who have joined radio club, and when I saw their on-air, it was very interesting.

Above all, owing to the assignments, I had to sacrifice my sleeping and watching-movie time so much. I really had to be able to sleep only for 3 or 5 hours every night to finish my assignments. But I really enjoy it! Btw, thanks a lot for some of my classmates who had make me feel comfortable in my campus. I haven't considered them as my best friends actually, but luckily, I have been comfortable to share my stories, and so on. Fyi, if I can feel one day without any assignments, it's such a heavenly life for me hihihi.. :D. Sometimes, I also sometimes took a chance to meet and have a reunion with my best friends in high school, and share stories about our each campus life. It was utterly favorable ;D

Btw, tomorrow is Monday. It means that I have to do my obligations as a college student again. Ow, I also have a gathering for the members of News Club. It will be tiring, but KEEP SPIRIT!!!!! *cheering myself up by myself ;D

College

Mmmm.. I’m sorry for not updating my blog for a long time. Such a bad blogger huh? Actually, there’s nothing special in my life nowadays. Because technically, anything in my life recently has been my daily regimen. Haha.. lol.

Actually I’m confused which one I should tell, because there are lots of stories I haven’t got to tell you. Okay, how about my college. I’m gonna tell you about my first experience of becoming a college student :D

Well, in August 30th, it was my first time of becoming a college student in The London School of Public Relations (LSPR). Absolutely, everything is totally different than becoming a high school student. But luckily, college was not obnoxious as I thought. I thought it would be boring because the students’ attitude were more indifferent. Well, it really was! But, they still cared enough with the others. If we hadn’t got to note the lecturers’ teachings, they could have lent their notes to us. So I conclude that there won’t be a bad rivalry among my classmates and I in reaching high GPA. I mean, we compete for each other in reaching high GPA, but we compete well.

My class is in 14-12A. 14 means my batch (my generation is the 14th generation in my campus), and 12A means our class is number 12 and A means in the second shift of the morning class (there are 3 shifts in my campus schedule. Morning, afternoon, and evening shift. Each shifts are divided into 2 schedules. In the morning, the 1st schedule is started in 08-00 AM until 12.00 PM, and the 2nd schedule is started in 09.00 AM until 13.00 PM. I took the 2nd one :D with 24 credit units in the 1st semester). Actually in campus, especially in my campus, we mustn’t be arrogant with anyone. You can’t brag your intelligence because there are still many people who can speak 3 languages, or even knowledgeable. You can’t brag your wealth either, because there are also some people who go to campus using Porche, and so on. But fortunately, those smart and rich people are not arrogant to me. They are so indifferent about the trivial things (our wealth, our intelligence, and our physical appearance whether it’s too stylish or even not stylish at all), as long as we don’t show off our excellence openly and are not obnoxious, they are still willing to be our friend. And in my opinion, it’s better than becoming ‘too caring’ until talking about other people’s condition.

We also took some picture, because one of my friend, Adit (whose high school was same with mine), is a photographer. And coincidentally, he brought his camera. Here they are..

These are the pictures when we were waiting for our class started. In Thursday, our schedule was supposed to be started in 11.00 AM, but we came as usual in 09.00 AM. Haha.. Lol..

And these are the pictures of my classmates (look at the second one. In that picture there were 2 cameras, that's why some of us look at the right side, and some of us look at the left side. Haha..)

At the first time, it was sort of difficult for me in socializing. Because in my class, there are only 7 boys among 36 students, including myself, and the class is very narrow (I didn’t even feel like attending a college, I felt like attending a course haha..). Moreover, I’m not a kind of sociable person, so it was kinda difficult for me in socializing. I also have promised that I don’t wanna show my womanliness in college. I have to be more mature, unlike in high school where I was still childish, and I was more quiet at the first time of attending college. So, like I’ve said, it was pretty hard for me to socialize owing to the lack of the guys, my quietness, and my classmates’ nonchalance.

The hardest part of becoming student here, are the lecturers and the subjects. In my college, English has an important role (maybe because English is an international language, so they use English and Indonesian as the intermediate language). Perhaps, because this college is an institute of communication which plans to bear communicators who have a good quality in communicating. That's why most of lecturers here are native lecturers and the local lecturers who really emphasize English. Most of local lecturers here explain their courses using English (except for Indonesian subject). But luckily, not all of native lecturers are from 'English country' like USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and so on. But there are some of them who came from Philipine, Singapore, India, and the other Asian countries. The can speak Indonesian as well, and 40% curricula in here are local (from Indonesia), and the other 60% curricula are international (from UK). Oh, speaking about native lecturers who can speak Indonesian, at the first time in here, there were 2 women, one Indian and another one is Canadian, they offered student exchange program registration to abroad, which will be beneficial for our 7th semester (we can be sent abroad for the internship in 7th semester), but they had offerred it from the 1st semester. Those woman spoke Indonesian a little, and in my opinion, it was quiet funny because it was the first time of me seeing foreigners speak Indonesian. Haha.. But I wasn't interested to join it, because it needs 15.000 S$ or about 90 million Rupiahs. Geeezzz..!!!

Apparently, 4 days from August 30th to September 2nd (in one week, my college schedule is only 4 days from Monday to Thursday. How exciting it is!) was only the ‘pre-colllege’. So we just learned some general knowledge of communication. The most subjects I like were Communication Skills, English writing skills (of which lecturer is from Philippine, Mrs. Giselle, and luckily her English speaking is still understandable) and Indonesian writing skills. The lecturer of Communication Skills is Ms. Renata Tirta. She is such a beautiful lecturer and also still young. I like the way of her in teaching us. In this Communication Skills subject, we learn how to communicate with the others well, including communicating in the smallest thing. In order to communicate with the others well, we have to be able to ‘manipulate’ them first, especially if we want to lie other people haha.. lol. I mean how to use our gesture and body language in communicating in order not to be boring while presenting or talking in front of many people. We also learned how to apply communication in business field. Oh yeah, about lying, in order to know whether someone we ask to converse is lying or not, we have to see his/her eyes sharply first. If he/she cannot look our eyes sharply back or cannot stop playing his/her hands, he/she might lie to us. The other subjects which I like as well are English and Indonesian writing skills. In these subject, we learn how to make an article in the newspaper. I mean about the use of punctuation mark, how to develop our sentences to be a good paragraph, and so on. In my opinion, they are very important for me who wants to be presenter and journalist (AMIN). And about the student club, I will choose TV club and Choir club. TV club is a club which discusses how to work in broadcasting world, both behind the camera and in front of the camera (and I will choose in front of the camera as a presenter or news anchor. Hihi..), and Choir because I like singing as well.

Then, we go to the most important post of this post, about GETTING THE ALMA MATER JACKET hihihi. Well, I had been waiting for this for a long time. BTW, at the first time after getting that jacket, I was pretty freak because I was kinda proud of becoming LSPR student. So I went home soon after my class finished, and since I hadn’t prayed Dzuhur, so I went to the mosque close to my high school and wore that jacket. Badly, it didn’t fit well in my body. I mean it was kinda tight in my body. But since I didn’t care with that, so I kept wearing it, and I went to the rest room and took some pictures through my cellphone hihihihihi..

Apparently, I was let taking communication major (my chosen major since I was in junior high) because my parents had known about my skills which are more available in speaking, writing, and foreign languages proficiency (English and French, and I’m learning Chinese as well at the moment). Before going to college, my father wanted me to be an accountant so much because there are lots of job opportunities for accountant in Indonesia. But my mother really understood me. She had known that my ability is more available in speaking, writing, and foreign languages proficiency. I also kept adoring Prabu Revolusi, Tommy Tjokro, Indra Mulana, and Alfito Deannova (news anchors and journalists of Metro TV and TVone). Then, she persuaded my father to let me choose LSPR as my college and take mass media communication major. Moreover, when they knew that my college has Career Center (a facility to help LSPR’s graduates looking for a job), and job opportunities in communication field is getting wider recently. Also, there are lots of graduates from my college who have succeeded working in their field both domestic and abroad, since my college has been internationally recognized as an institute of communication in Indonesia. So, I wrote ‘MAKING PARENTS PROUD AS A SUCCESSFUL JOURNALIST’ on the top of my priority list, and then ‘BRIGHT FUTURE (JOURNALIST)’ as the second one.

Cheering Me Up ♥

At the last meeting in my English course (EF), I learnt about proverbs. Actually, I had been very impatient to learn about proverbs, because in my opinion there are lots of proverbs which can cheer me up well. Apparently, I was right. I got some proverbs which are really tranquilizing. There are some proverb that I just meant:

1. Every cloud has a silver lining: in every problems there must be positive sides (it inspires me so much to be more patient in facing my problems)
2. Look before you leap: means that you should think carefully about the possible results or consequences before doing something (it really inspires me not to decide anything hastily)
3. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth: means that if you are given something, a present or a chance, you should not waste it by being too critical or examining it too closely (so we have to be thankful with anything that people have given to us)
4. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today: means we have to be diligent in doing our obligations, even if we could, we have to do it all right now
5. The patient dog gets the bone: means we have to be patient in pursuing or dreams
6. Where there's a will there's a way: means if we intend to do something, there must be a path for you to do it, even for the negative deeds
7. Don't judge a book by its cover: means do not determine anything only based on its appearance
8. Let sleeping dogs lie: means we shouldn't disturb a situation as it would result in trouble or complications (so we mustn't start trouble if we don't need to)
9. Don't count your chicken before they hatch: means if we don't wait until things ready, we may have different result than we expect (same as the fifth one, that we have to be patient in pursuing our dreams)
10. Pretty is as pretty does: means if a good-looking person doesn't do good things, being good-looking has no value

Alhamdulillah, in my level of English now, I have started learning English in specific subjects, such as idioms (as I've said in my more previous post), adage, proverbs, and so on. Btw, my teacher got these proverbs and their meanings from the Internet, so don't call it as a plagiarism. Well above all, though this post might seem unimportant, but I wish there are several readers got this an inspiration too :)

Bye..

Freshmen Orientation Day

Couple days ago, I attended my campus freshmen orientation day. Actually the orientation was kinda boring and trashy, because all students were commanded to come to the venue (my campus) on 08.00 AM, but apparently it was started in 09.00 AM, and most of the events in that orientation were used for presenting presentations about my campus. All students were divided into 6 groups, if I wasn't mistaken. There were 4C, English Society, Modelling & Advertising Society, Sports, Public Speaking, and Marketing, and I was in Modelling & Advertising Society.

The orientation day was started by some presentations. All students were commanded to go to the auditorium which is veeeery wide and huge. Then we all had to sit on the floor. In my opinion this was the most tedious thing in this orientation. Because, just imagine if you are forced to sit on the floor with cross-legged legs for 5 hours?! Geeez..!! I couldn't straighten my legs because we all sat closely and tightly. After that, thank God! We had a break,, we had lunch :D

Another thing that I didn't really like from my campus' orientation was the 'fashion police'. Hehe.. Frankly, there was a woman, she wears eyeglasses, but I forgot what her name is (sorry for my carelessness, because at that time, I really wanted to go home. Huhhuu..). She always paid attention to all new students whether we wore a wrong costume or not. Badly, I was wearing jeans at that time. Whereas, we were prohibited to wear jeans. But I didn't really care about that because I thought it would be okay. But apparently, it wasn't okay. Rrrrrhhh.. When we were having lunch, that woman came to our room. I was a bit nervous because I thought I would be punished. The punished student had to make an essay about the inference of all presentations, d'ooohhh... Luckily, she mentioned name 'Michael'. It was so relieved actually, but in my opinion, there was nothing wrong with Michael's appearance. But it was okay, at least I didn't get punished. After that, we all had to gather in the auditorium again. I hid myself numerous times from person-in-charge (the sophomores and upperclassmen who were assigned as person-in-charge), because I was scared if they knew that I wore jeans. Fortunately, most of guys in my group had a big body. So I always walked next to them tightly. Hehe..

Then, we all gathered together in the auditorium, and our dean gave us games. First, there was random puzzle. All we had to to was matching that puzzle to the right form. The puzzle was an emblem of our campus. We had to match that puzzle in silence. We didn't have to speak at all while matching our group's puzzle. The second game was 'lingkaran ruwet' (complicated circle in English). We had to hold our hands for each other randomly, and then, we had to make a circle with our complicated hands to be normal circle, and we didn't have to release our hands with the other. But due to the complication, we cheated. We released our each hands and formed it to be a normal circle. Khikhikhikhikhikhik.. But we didn't win. But it was our luck, because if we had won, we had had to show our way in releasing our complicated hands to be a right circle in front of the stage. Also, we had to make a little drama. Since we all were in Modelling & Advertising Society group, we had to make a drama according to the advertisement. Because advertisement usually needs model, right? So they're really related. Our decision fell on Mie Sedap advertisement, where some of us were supposed to act like a model in Mie Sedap advertising. So we made a drama with a little action from Mie Sedap advertisement. But thank God I wasn't chosen to play the drama :D

After that, the orientation was closed (thank God). We closed it jointly by singing LSPR's almamater song, and giving ID Card and goodie bag. But my friend, Keisha, told me that she has got her almamater jacket, but why I haven't? Ggggrrrhhhh... :(

I really reeeaaallllyy wanna go to 'real' London, not London in Indonesia version *kidding. khikhikhikhikhik..

Sounds grumbling? I really did! Well, above all, there were some advantages I got from attending this orientation day.

1. I got a lot of new friends. Though some of them were arrogant and busy for BBMing (dang!), but at least, there are some people that I have known because we cooperated in playing games. So I wish I could socialize with the others easily


2. I got many information of becoming LSPR students. Like how to see our exam scores and our GPA through Internet, rules of dressing, student club in LSPR, and so on

The class will be started in August 30, 2010 (Geez, it is in fasting month! Can you imagine how it feels like if you have to go from Ciledug to Karet Tengsing using motorcycle while fasting? How tiresome it is!). And I'm so freakin' confused whether I sould choose News Club or LSPR Television Club. Because they both are teaching about my future. I want to be a news anchor (which is learned in LSPR Television Club), and I wanna be a journalist too (which is learned in News Club). If I choose both, Geez! I'm gonna be so freakin' tired. Besides, I still have EF as an activity outside campus.

That's all I think, Btw, I'm sorry for not installing the picture. Because I didn't get to capture anything because during the event (except for LSPR logo above. Khikhikhikhikhik..), we couldn't turn on electronic tools, such as camera, cellphone, and so on. So just enjoy reading these complicated and full-grumbling sentences. Khikhikhikhikhik... *I'm sorry for the wrong grammars and vocabularies. I have forgotten some things about English due to my laziness in learning it. Lol :)

Commentator and Sycophant in Social Networking

I ever asked @unfollowr in Twitter in order to know people who had unfollowed me secretly. Usually @unfollowr will give us direct message about people who have unfollowed us. So, in order to know it, I asked @unfollowr like this, "@unfollowr I need your DM". Suddenly, there was my friend, @herdaprabadipta, mentioned me like this, "@masmandaa do not ever mention @unfollowr and asked it people who have unfollowed us, because if your other followers know this, you would be insulted as @ABGJakarta." I didn't think that I was an ABGJakarta, so I didn't feel being alluded. But I was very curious about @ABGJakarta, so I opened its Twitter account.

Apparently, all @ABGJakarta's status are always about allusion to other people. I was angry when I knew that. Because actually, I really don't like people who always comment what other people do. It was such the worst thing! Helllooo... think twice before you do it!! Have you done anything well?! Do you think you're perfect?! I'm sure there is nobody perfect in this world, but how dare you comment what other people do! Beside @ABGJakarta, there is still another twitter account which comment what other people do. Oh! not commenting, but alluding. It is @TWEETSINDIR. If you opened its Twitter account, all posts in it are always about allusions. What do you thing about that?!

The most confusing thing of them is the followers. I'm just confused why they got a lot of followers. Personally, I never intend to follow them. The worst thing is, they even ever mentioned people they considered bad openly, and that is the only thing that I extremely hate! Okay, back to the first topic, about the followers. I'm confused why they got a lot of followers even up to more than 20 thousand followers, and most of those followers are Indonesians. Due to many Indonesian followers, I reckon that most of Indonesian citizen like looking for trouble to other people. What are Indonesians going to be if they keep looking for trouble just because of the trivial thing?! If you intend to follow @ABGJakarta or @TWEETSINDIR, go ahead! As you're still able to take a risk, because if you have a mistake in writing your status, you would be alluded soon :( (but don't ever hesitate to follow me, @masmandaa khikhikhikhikhik..)

If there's something you don't like, why don't you try to make it as the trending topic in Twitter, right? Twitter has been kind to us by giving trending topic facility, but you still try to allude, insult, disparage, even vilify something you don't like by making a fake account on it and do something bad to something that you just don't like. Gggrrrhhh...

Another social networking that I regret because of making account on it is Formspring. I mean, I don't mean to hate Formspring, but I just don't really like people who try to harass people that you wanna ask. You know what? Ask me anything! Yes, you do ask me anything but I think you mustn't HARASS me at all!!! Even not only me, but also some of my friends had ever been harassed in Formspring. First, I was ever asked by someone whom I didn't know (he anonymously asked me), he asked me whether I'm GAY or not. It hurt me so much! Then my female friends in high school, Keisha and Nemon. There was ever someone asked me if there were only 2 girls in the world, Keisha and Nemon, which one I would choose. When I told Keisha, she was extremely angry. I could see what she felt at that time. She had to be angry so much, because of feeling being harassed. There was also another bizarre question. There was someone asked me which Aldo or Kurkur who's handsomer. Luckily when I told Kurkur about this, he wasn't mad because he such a kind boy, hehe..

Well above all, I conclude that many Indonesians like looking for trouble. Unlike people in the other country who always try to keep being indifferent with the trivial things. Whereas, those Indonesians who like looking for the trouble are so chicken-hearted. Because they use Internet as media for revenging and expressing their conscience. I even used to be like that. But when my friend told me not to do that any longer because that such a poltroon, I stopped doing that. Actually, in my opinion, using Internet as a media for expressing your offense is not such a poltroon as we use it in the right web site, like blog. You are allowed to express you conscience through blog because it is used by yourself, and you let other people read your posts. But I suggest you NOT TO DISPARAGE OR VILIFY anything through your blog. Ooookkkaaaayyyy...!!!

FWC’10, TOEIC, and Chain on My Wheel

Honestly, I feel pretty sad when I knew that FIFA World Cup 2010 was about to end. Because it had been my biggest fondness in 2010. FYI, I’m still in holiday and watching FIFA World Cup always became my consolation all night long (in Indonesia World Cup was always televised from the evening until midnight). Moreover, my laptop has been broken, so I lost one of my consolation, and I think, FIFA World Cup had entertained my life from my sadness (that laptop has been my ‘best friend’ since I graduated from my junior high, it’s no wonder if I feel sad if I cannot ‘keep in touch’ with it any longer). Sometimes I think, only for watching FIFA World Cup, I have to wait until 4 years. Another FYI, 2014 would be a year of my graduation from college (AMIN). But luckily, the last result made me happy so much.SPAIN WON!!! And I really like Xabi Alonso and David Villa in Spain due to their dexterity (actually I like all footballers from Spain, but I like them more than the other footballers. And I consider them as the stellar of Spain). So I keep installing and rebloging Spain’s pictures of their victory in my Tumblr (riskyramanda.tumblr.com). I also never stop listening World Cup’s official songs such as K’naan – Wavin’Flag, Akon & Keri Hilson – Oh Africa!, and the sexiest and most cheerful one is Shakira – Waka Waka, and I have downloaded those songs’ videos from YouTube to my computer as well. The greatest part is, I’m not only theone who supported Spain, but also all of my friends. Yiiippeee... Spain all the way..

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Anyway, yesterday I went to my mother’s office to attend their social event called as ‘How to Solve TOEIC’. It's free for all employees who have a child who joins EF from any EF's branch. It discussed about the methods of answering TOEIC queries, and since I was interested with that, so I noted those methods to my notebook. But I’m sorry, I can’t tell you what the methods are, hehe.. (call me smug, but there are some people who cannot share their knowledge of something in order not to be defeated, right? :P). But they told me that TOEIC queries could be easier or even more difficult that TOEFL. But I wish it wouldn’t be more difficult. I actually had ever tried the try-out test of TOEFL, but I only scored 525. It actually has been able to be mentioned as the high score (it has been enough if you want to work as the national employee), but it hasn’t been enough for you if you want to study abroad, especially USA and UK. They need score 550 minimum, as I know. But for TOEIC, I haven’t got a chance to join its try-out test, because there’s still few English course place in Jakarta which provides try-out test of TOEIC. Most of English courses in Jakarta provide try-out test for TOEFL and IELTS.

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I have a embarassing story as well. This afternoon, I went to ‘warnet’ (a place which provides and rents computer for using internet. That’s why its name is ‘warnet’ which means ‘warung-internet’ or ‘internet stall’). But then I went out for a while for praying Ashar in the mosque behind that warnet, but suddenly my motorcycle couldn’t be turned on. I got panicked so much! I even started crying (geez.. mama’s boy, as usual XP). So I called a guy who usually looks after the motorcycles, and he told me that he installed a chain on my motorcycle’s wheel due to too many motorcycle theft around that warnet’s circumstance. Well, I felt relieved, but I couldn’t hide my embarassment because of started crying (T_T). I felt so embarassed. Hahaha... XP

Idioms

As usual, every Tuesday and Thursday, I have en English course at EF (English First) Pesanggrahan. And yesterday’s lesson was about idioms. I was such a curious person in learning something new of English (I don’t mean to brag, but it’s true), so I was a bit excited to learn it. Apparently, it was very difficult. Every idioms must have meaning but its meaning can be very different with the idioms’ sentence.

I learned it by playing games. First, there are only 4 students in my class, then we were divided into 2 groups, so each groups had 2 members. I worked with Virra, and then our teacher, Mrs. Maya, gave us 20 small papers (for each groups). On those 20 papers, there were 10 idioms and 10 meanings of those idioms. All we had to do was matching those idioms into their each meanings. So Virra and I strove to match them correctly, but badly, all of our answers were wrong. Huhhuu.. T_T. Meanwhile, another group, Fitri and Deborah, got 2 answers correct. That was fun! And yet very impressive. Hahhaa.. XP. I mean, it was very creative, because we tried to learn English by playing games. Oh yeah, anyway, these are our idioms. They are about money.

• Pin money (I have a part-time job to get a pin money): A small amount of money that you earn and spend on things for yourself
• Pots of money (Bill Gates has pots of money): A lot of money
• Throw money around (my neighbour doesn’t work, but he has plenty of money to throw around): To spend money, especially in obvious and careless was on things that are not necessary
• Blood money (The assassin was paid with blood money): The money that has been gained from the death of another person
• Easy money (some people think that making a website for business can be easy money): Money earned with very little work or effort
• Funny money (she was caught because of paying something with funny money): Counterfeit money, or money from dishonest activity
• Go for broke (she really needs to pass the English exam, that’s why she goes for broke): To risk everything in order to achieve the result you want
• To be broke (I can’t go out tonight, because I’m broke): Having no money at all
• A cash cow (People magazine has 40% cash cow): A business or a part of business that always makes a lot of money
• Hard cash (we can’t pay it using credit card, we need a hard cash): Money in the form of coins or notes paper

The sentences inside the brackets are the examples of those idioms’ usage. Beside those idioms, my teacher also gave some additional idioms related to money. Among other are...

• Split the bill: it’s like you and your friend buy something, and you pay it half from your money, and the other half from your friend’s money (in Indonesia known as patungan)
• Foot the bill: it’s like you and your friend buy something, and all prices are paid by your money or your friend’s (same as treat, in Indonesia known as traktir)
• In the red: It’s used for your bank account, if there’s no money at all in it.

Well, actually there’s still the other idioms related to other things like color, preposition, and so on, but I still try to learn them deeper and memorize them included their meanings. Despite their difficulties, but I think it’s kinda worth to learn.

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By the way, yesterday was an obnoxious day. When I was on the way of going to EF, there was a deep flood in front of Joglo Police Headquarters. But I just went through it, because I didn’t know that that flood was deep. When I went through it slowly, there was 'angkot' (public transportation using car) in front of me, and suddenly it stopped. So I was forced to put my legs down and let it soaked into the flood. So I arrived at EF and joined its class without wearing footwear. The administrators and foreign teachers laughed at me. I felt so embarrassed! Well, above all, I wish I never experienced it anymore.