Pekalongan, More Than A Batik City

As an archipelago land, we absolutely know Indonesia has many tourist destinations. From the islands spread around Indonesia, there are so many famous places. Unfortunately, there are also many unreachable ones, or to be exactly not well-known by domestic or foreign tourists. They mostly know about some common tourist destinations in Java island like Bandung, Jogjakarta, Solo, Tangkuban Perahu, Bromo, etc.

Some tourist destinations might be not well-recognized but exactly have very strong potential to show Indonesia’s origin in some ways. Therefore as we know them well, this could be a simple way to promote a place by the place itself has offered us what it has.

A place known well as The Batik City, people might be don’t know much about it than just a city where Batik is made. Pekalongan, a city in the north part of Java has so many attractive places people should visit, food and meal people should taste and things people should buy (if they are interested in).

Pekalongan, usually called ‘Kota Santri’ has several tourist destinations such as Linggo Asri, where there are a playground, pinery, mini zoo, cottage and swimming pool. We also could find a special culinary there called Soto Kebo which tastes good. Besides, there is also a beach called Pantai Slamaran or the natives call it Ngebum where people usually get there in the weekend to have a good time. Even though the beach has a myth of ‘Dewi Lanjar’ who known as the ruler of the northern coast, but still people get curious instead. Not only those, there are also Pasir Kencana, the beach which has pure white sand, Watu Ireng also could be a great destination, because as its name, there is a huge black stone which has a hole inside. The newest place people should visit is The International Batik Centre in Wiradesa, Pekalongan. It sells many kind of batik with various price and we could buy it as handicraft.

In Wiradesa, Pekalongan, we can find many home industries producing batik fabrics. We can see directly how employees apply malam (ink for coloring fabrics into batik pattern) on the fabric and the process of making batik pattern itself. It is a great chance for people who wonder how such that excellent batik is made.

As I told before, there are also foods and meal people should taste. I have tasted a special culinary of Pekalongan, called sego megono and pindang tetel and they were extremely delicious and so tasteful. The most famous one is Sego megono usually served on a piece of banana leaf with chopped jackfruit, rice, boiled egg, ikan asin or gereh (salted fish) and sambal. For those people who are vegetarians, they may choose kluban, or known as urap in West Java (it looks like salad without mayonnaise but with grated coconut on it).

There is also a  good menu for breakfast in Pekalongan, it is tauto. It consists of lontong (steamed rice wrapped inside banana leaf), noodle, tauco and meat. Different from tauto, pindang tetel is sort of soup which has meat, noodle and cassava’s leaf inside, we can add sambel to make it spicy and also kerupuk pasir. Pindang tetel is appropriate to be enjoyed in the afternoon. People should taste these foods because the foods are really deal with Indonesian’s taste.

Pekalogan has incredible things offered to people around Indonesia, and the world. This city where Batik has become the symbol of it, actually has a variety of valuable and attractive destinations. We could more love a city by knowing its quality and superiority. Therefore, people also need to know about Pekalongan to break their curiosity of Indonesian’s destinations around Java Island. Visit Pekalongan, and feel the atmosphere of the artistic Java’s culture.

An Example of Thesis Background

UNIT I

1.1 Background of Research

Language is something that should exist in human life, because language is one of the most important tools for communicating and interacting in social life. In terms of linguistics structural, language is a symbol of arbitrary sounds which is used by society to relate and interact each other. Therefore, language is a system, then the language has rules that are interdependent and contains elements that are analyzed separately. People speak producing sequential sounds, that form a particular structure. The sounds are a symbol that represents the hidden meaning.

To facilitate interpretation in the hidden meaning, then language in realization is always in the context. The context is meant in this case is socio-cultural context. As a tool of communication, language evidently consists of two aspects. The first is the linguistic aspect, which is the form of element that directly shape the structure, called sounds, words, sentences, or texts and teachings. The second aspect is non-linguistic or paralinguistic aspects. These aspects include: a person's speech patterns, supra-segmental elements, distance and body gestures.

As I have noted above, aspects of linguistic and paralinguistic function as a communication tool, together with the context establishing a particular situation in the communication process, whether formal or informal. Furthermore, in a particular context we often find that people switching language in sudden when speaking. Changing the language is defined as the act of diverting or mixing a language with other languages. It happens because two or more languages ​​are coexist, inseparable and affect each other. Language’s influence emerges from the contact between human languages

The contact itself between languages often leads to the use of elements of other languages ​​when using a particular language in a conversation deliberately, called Code Mixing. Code Mixing occurs if speaker slips another language while using a certain language in conversation. Elements which are derived from other languages can be like words, phrases, group of words, word repetition, or idiomatic phrase or clause. They are prone elements which are easily affected by Code Mixing, especially in bicultural or multi-cultural society.

In a whole brief, the writer would like to reveal the phenomenon of Code Mixing in society, particularly in the border area such as East Bogor. This option as an object of research is according to the reality in life that writer encounters, likewise most people who are native or not usually speak using Code Mixing generally.

A Paragraph Related to Women

Women's Secrets

Do you have a secret? I bet you do. Everyone has a secret. It makes differences in life. Women are no exception. As you know, women have millions secrets which are more private about their personalities.

For women, keeping life secret can make life more comfortable and more fun, but if they treat it wrong, it would be fatal.

Talk about secrets, there are several things that women hide related to health problems. Discussing about what they are feeling about or being experienced to their nearest people or relatives, especially doctors can make a better treatment solution for their problems.

These are three women’s health problems which shouldn’t be kept secret. The most complained problem is menstruation period. There are more than ten million women in the world suffer and have cramps when they are in this period. Some women usually just share this to nearest friends or other women relatives. The second one is acne. It appears in adolescence or even adulthood. Those who have this problem usually solve it simply, by only using an acne medication. Thirty percents of women are shy or even lazy to consult this to dermatologist. The last problem is bladder leakage. This problem actually is general but for those who have this will keep it secret. About thirteen million women in the United States have this problem, which appears after giving birth.

From those problems above, women need to be more open to other people, especially their relatives, and also they need more concern from people around her to share information about problems they are having.

Opening Paragraph By Asking Question (Explanatory)

I Bet You Know This Case

Are you still in High School? Do you have some friends who often copy one's homework? Or are you including to them? We  know that some students who haven't get their homework done sometimes need 'shortcuts' to finish it. They usually don't understand about the subject they are studying at school and also worry about the teacher  who would get angry to them. This reasons take them to this illegal way of finishing homework. On the other hand, students who often do this usually don't know about the pattern of a subject because they just copy it, not make it by themselves. They will continue this, unless they build their own awareness of making homework.

SPOOF

I Am Sorry, Miss..

Once, a girl went for a window-shopping at a mall and she was alone.

As she was preoccupied with it, there was a man whose $100 was fell over. As the girl continued to walk, the man followed her. She went to the restaurant to have a lunch and still, the man did it. The girl was shaking in her shoes. She moved quickly and again, the man did so.

She thought the toilet would be the safe escape but the man didn't care at all. Finally she screamed while said, "Stop! Get away from me! What do you want, huh?!" With a straight face while pointed at the girl's shoe, the man answered, "I am sorry, Miss.. Could I get my $100 back? It was stuck under your shoe. Don't you realize a bubble gum has stuck under your shoe?"

Writing III : Recount Text

                                                 A Short Vacation

After two years I didn't visit my hometown, Pekalongan, finally in the latest a week of vacation, I went there with my Mom. Actually, we went there not to have a vacation, but we would buy some batik fabrics to be sold. But honestly, yeah... I miss my hometown so much. I felt so happy that my Mom allowed me join there. We went there by bus. We left at 07.30 a.m and arrived about 04.30 p.m. We had a night in my aunty's house at the city and two nights in my cousin's house in the greeny village. My aunty took us to Plaza Matahari, Pekalongan to buy some clothes. We also visited the International Batik Centre and bought some batik longdresses to be worn by ourselves. I love my hometown with its culture :)