EDSA Undip

2016 seems to be a busy year for superhero movies. Now it’s the mutants in X-Men universe whotake the turn in their newest movie, X-Men: Apocalypse. This time, the story revolves around Apocalypse, who was believed as the first mutant on Earth, and was worshipped as a god back then. When he returned after being buried for thousands of years, he found out that the world had changed so much that he decided to change the world back to what he believed it should be. As a result, Raven, Professor X, and the young X-Men all had to fight him back in order to defeat his plan.

Although I’m not an avid fan of Marvel, especially the X-Men universe, I can say that this movie is amazing. The storyline is great: a balanced mix of myth, cultural life, fantasy, and technology. You can feel the Ancient Egypt atmosphere at one scene, then get into Professor Xavier’s well-known gadget, Cerebro, in the other scene, and eventually sense the suspense in the final fight between X-Men and Apocalypse.

The casts also give incredible performances, like James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, and Jennifer Lawrence as Raven/Mystique. Along with that,the new mutants like Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Scott Summers/Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), and Jean Grey/Phoenix (Sophie Turner) are great and add something new and fresh tothe X-Men franchise. I have to say that they picked the right casts to play their respective roles—especially Oscar Isaac as En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse, who portrayed the character brilliantly. Meanwhile, Bryan Singer as the director indeed delivers breathtaking aspects that will make you unable to leave your seat: the emotions, the visual effects, the fight scenes, every little details are amazing. It’s a complete package: action, drama, and a little bit touch of humor that will be fun to watch.

Probably the only flaw I felt while watching this movie was the pace of the story itself. It’s actually great, I’m not gonna lie, but sometimes the switch of scenes between each character confused me. But it’s actually normal since this movie has a lot of characters and it’s almost impossible to give each character the same screen time. As the time goes by, you’ll get used to it and start tounderstand the story. With the duration of 2 hours and 24 minutes, I’m sure you sure won’t takeyour eyes off this movie and enjoy every minute of it.

In the end, I highly recommend this movie for those who enjoy superhero movies. If you’re going to spend your weekend at the cinema, make sure you grab a seat for this movie!

This time, this annual event was held by TID (Talent and Interest Development). CCU stands for Cross Cultural Understanding. CCU is aimed for everyone, not only the students from English Department. What can we get from CCU? Well, we will gain more knowledge about the other culture. Not only that, we will be more tolerance to others.

The writer would like to tell this year’s CCU. So, this event started at 16.47 on Thursday, May 26th, 2016.. The hosts were Tere and Bobi. Tere was wearing a red kimono and Bobi was wearing Minang traditional hat. Their clothes quite represented the culture, right?

This year, the project leader, Maureen Adhiba chose Japanese culture and Minang culture. She said that her team chose Japan as the foreign culture because they had got recommendation from the ICT center. She said that they got native speaker from Japan and Tunisia, but they chose Japan based on the decoration idea. At the beginning, she had already wanted to decorate the Theater Room in Japan atmosphere. She also shared her first experience about being the project leader in EDSA.

We asked her if there is any difficulty in holding this CCU. “Yes, there was a problem. We should cut the event because UNDIP needs to be sterilized for the SBMPTN. And it was too sudden, I think, like a couple hours before this event started, my team was told by the faculty”, Maureen said. When we asked about the budget, turned out the budget was quite affordable, Rp500,000,00 for the whole event.

Emmy Moria, our native speaker from Japan taught us some Japanese words. She also told us about seasons in Japan. “In Japan, summer ends every year, in Indonesia, it is never end”, she said and all the audience spontaneously laughed.

What about Minang culture? We had Asep as our speaker. He also shared a lot of Minang culture and habits. There was a main problem from Minangnese people. Sometimes, they are considered the same as Padang people. No, in fact, they are not. So, Asep tried to tell the general differences and tell us the general information about the tribe.

This year CCU was quite different. Different in a good way, of course. The decoration was better than the last year CCU, even though the event started 15 minutes later than the time scheduled. The speakers were also communicative in giving the information.

Well done, TID! Keep up the good work!

After SA with E-Care, now it’s time for Human Resources Development or HRD to hold their own event! Last Saturday on May 14th 2016, HRD held an event called Achievement Motivation Training (AMT).

What is AMT? It’s an annual event held by HRD, targeted on all EDSA committees. It aims to give training and motivation for EDSA committees, so that they will work better in the organization.  For this year’s AMT, HRD invited seven speakers to give a talk on each department: Finance and Governance (FG), Social Activist (SA), Talent and Interest Development (TID), Media and Communication (Medcom), and Economy and Business (Ecobis).

The event started around 09.20 AM in the room A.3.9, Building A FIB Undip Tembalang. It was hosted by Bagas Dwi Pramono and Theresia Sitinjak from HRD. After some opening speeches by M. Farid Salma Husna as President of EDSA and Ijhar Naufal Furqan as the project leader, the committees were asked to form a group based on their own departments. Each group was accompanied by one or two speakers who are experts in their fields, and they gave a talk on things related to each department’s expertise. Afterwards, each group was given time to discuss and review things that they had learned before.

Then Bagas and There asked each group to share what they had learned to other departments, starting with SA. They told us that they had learned about how to analyze real social problems and how it is different from our daily life in campus. Next, Medcom was taught on how to create EDSA’s identity through medias like photography, design, and publication.  TID in academic was given tips and tricks to make good and successful research paper for PKM (Program Kreativitas Mahasiswa). Meanwhile, TID in non-academic discussed about how to create and organize events and how to make it different than usual. FG learned about how to organize EDSA’s finance, how to be accountable for their job, and how to coordinate with other departments. Lastly, Ecobis told us that they had learned about how to keep business values in their department, and how to create business strategies that is different from others.

In the end, all of EDSA committees sure got a lot of things to learn about from this event. Hopefully, after AMT, they can work better in the organization based on their expertises and thus helping EDSA become a better organization as well.

Great job, HRD, and keep up the good work!

E-Care 2016 #YourBloodMeansLifeForOthers

As we all know, EDSA committee are divided into many departments, one of them is Social Activist or we usually call them as SA. Social Activist works not only in social field but also in serving people and t. Therefore, they held this event called E-Care. E-Care stands for EDSA Care. Wanna know more? Here we go!

E-Care is an annual event held by SA. It targeted people not only from English Department but also outside it. If you are a student from another faculty, you can join this event too! This event targeted people generally.

What is new on this year E-Care? Recalling on the previous year, which held in the lobby, E-Care this year was held in Joglo FIB Undip Tembalang (the large one). This one too, is a factor that makes a lot of people join this event. People can see this event from the outside. In addition, this event also raised fund for charity. The money was contributed to an orphanage named Bhakti Asih. For your information, Bhakti Asih is an orphanage for people who have multiple disabilities, located in Jalan Ismangil, near Ahmad Yani Airport.

One of our member, Irene Heni, had interviewed the project leader, Yolanda A. She is an EDSA committee from batch 2014. She told us that she was chosen to be this project leader by the rest of the department. It was the first event for her! She said that this she didn’t target how many people should come to the event, but it all depended on how many blood bags that are provided by Indonesian Red Cross. Indonesian Red Cross only provided 50 blood bags. Thus, when they run out of the blood bags, they will finish the blood donation.

What about the budgets? Turned out the budget on this event was quite affordable. They budgeted Rp150.000,00 for the snacks, the pamflets, and proposal copies. Great event with good money? Well done, Social Activist!

Thank you, Social Activist for making this event!

EDSA

EXIST!

 

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