Nanny McPhee Can Cathartic Bored

According to Wikipedia, bored is the past tense of the verb to bore; meaning either to cause boredom, or to drill a hole or passage through something. While boredom is an emotional state experienced during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in the opportunities surrounding them.
It is contrasted to Wikipedia’s definition of bored, bored is the biggest enemy of mine. That is my own opinion of bored. I hate it at the most. The reason is that whenever it approaches me the bad day ever will come to me. Unfortunately, bored is a new best friend of me during this semester. It is because of the bigger number of the task given to me as a student. It is just like I dedicate almost the whole of my life to do the tasks. It really makes me bored. In addition, I also join some other activities outside, which makes me at a loss what to do. Then, I have no time for myself as usual.
I feel bored because I have so many things to think and to do. Most of them are the new things for me. So I was surprised and had no idea at all. I know that it is not good to be long draw out of boredom. If we are in the same condition, it is better to find a way to solve the problem. One way is to think about our hobby. We can do our hobby not only in our spare time, but also whenever we need. Just start to think about our simple hobby. Simple here means that we don’t need to spend so much money and wasting our time more. This simple alternative of our hobby should be fun and entertaining enough.
Those simple hobbies can be listening to music, reading books, making something from second, keeping and caring animals, or watching movies. I am sure that it will make us no longer bored because these are the very simple things which are usually done by most people in the world. At this time, I would like to share one of those alternative hobbies. That is about watching movies. This one is better than the other alternatives I think. I don’t state that the others are the bad choice, but it is just a matter of efficiency and effectiveness. We will need more preparation to do the others than to watch movie. Here are the details of the movie: the movie’s identity and what the story is about.
In my opinion, the best movie to watch is Nanny McPhee. Nanny McPhee is a 2005 fantasy film. This movie is directed by Kirk Jones and Lindsay Doran. Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are the producers. The interesting fact is that this movie is written by Emma Thompson, the main character. Another stars are Colin Firth, Thomas Sangster, Eliza Bennett, Jennifer Rae Daykin, Raphael Coleman, Sam Honywood, Holly Gibbs, Hebe Barnes, and Zinnia Barnes. This movie is followed by Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang which is due for release in 2010.
I love this movie very much because it the story is good. The story is about family and education in home. The whole story is about the life of a widower who has seven children. The children are cared by a scullery maid named Evangeline, and Mrs. Blatherwick as the cook. Having no caring from a mother, those seven children are becoming very naughty. They try to get their father’s attention all the time while their father is busy with his job. Then, the family decides to ask assistance from a nanny. Unfortunately, so many nannies don’t want to be there. But then, there is a mysterious nanny came to their house. Everything about her is so strange.
The peculiarities of Nanny McPhee are the panacea of those children’s delinquency. Nanny McPhee can solve this problem by teaching them five lessons by showing some magic actions. The lessons are: to go to bed when they are told (and say please, to get up when they are told, to get dressed when they are told, to listen (and say thank you), and to do as they are told. The most interesting and entertaining part of this movie is on the face of Nanny McPhee. Her face will change every time those children do every single lesson given. The upper and lower warts, the unibrow, the shape of her body, the tooth, and the ear are change.
This story goes to the deeper problem; the family is in a crisis. Lady Adelaide, who is the supporter of the family’s financial, cannot help them anymore. There is only one way out of this problem for the widower that is by marrying a rich woman, named Mrs. Selma Quickly. Later, the marriage is cancelled by the children. It is because they don’t like the woman and that the widower doesn’t love her.
The end of the story is the most touching part. This is ended by a marriage between the widower and the scullery maid. All of them are happy. But then Nanny McPhee goes away from the family. It is just the same as what she always says on staying and going, “When you need me, but do not want me, then I will stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go. It's rather sad, really, but there it is.” Another good thing of this movie is that there are so many moral values in this movie. Those moral values can be summarized as “we need to listen and respect others“. This simple lesson will bring a very big effect in social life.
As what the movie teach us, simple thing can make something bigger than ever. We can cathartic bored by doing something simple. The simple thing is to watch a movie. It can really release us from the boredom, it is very useful, and in addition we still get some new lessons of life.


References:
Boredom. May 25, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored.
Bored (disambiguation). May 25, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored_%28disambiguation%29
Nanny McPhee. March 24, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanny_McPhee

Good Maintenance, Good Sounds

by: Kinanthi Renaningtyas
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Guitar is one of the most popular musical instruments around the world. Guitar is easily played by anyone, anywhere, anytime to produce such melodies which are beautiful and easy-listening. Playing guitar can be considered as a hobby, but some people make their job from their skill of playing guitar. Melodious harmony which comes from a guitar performance not only produced by the skill of the player, but also comes from the quality of the guitar itself.

This article leads on how you maintain your guitar, especially the acoustic one. There are two types of guitar, the acoustic and the electric. The main difference of both things is the electrical support which helps to produce the sound in electric guitar, while the acoustic one comes from the air resonance through its sound hole.

As you know, guitar made from wood. Usually the body and the fret board made from maple or mahogany woods. Meanwhile, for the nut and the bridge made from real tusk or artificial tusk as strings pedestal.

Here are few steps on how to maintain your guitar to preserve its sounds quality:

· Cleaning (keywords: duster, wooden body cleaner, string cleaner fluid)

You need extra care to clean your guitar, especially on its string. Firstly, you have to spray the wooden body cleaner on the surface of the body and then rub it until the dirt is removed completely. After that, you can continue to clean its neck and its strings. For the strings, you have to wet the duster first by the string cleaner fluid, and then you wiped the strings carefully and slowly from end to end while occasionally the strings are drawn-drag to vertical direction from the neck. (See the picture below)

· Tuning (keywords: tuning forks)

Each string of the guitar has it standard tone, E-G-B-D-A-E. But, the strings also suffered from looseness, so you have to tune it up occasionally. The trick to tune your guitar using tuning forks is quite simple. All you need to do is tap your tuning fork softly to produce its resonance, and then put the tip of the tuning fork inside your ear. The sound heard is the A, B, C, D or G sound depends on the type of the tuning forks. From the resonance that you hear, you can adjust the tone on the strings required.

· Putting (keywords: guitar stand)

You cannot put your guitar randomly if you want your guitar stay longer with you. You need guitar stand to hang your guitar instead of laying it randomly that can cause damage. Your guitar can be trampled or can be kicked as the results of your carelessness. And also you have to notice the temperature of where you put your guitar. The temperature suggested is the room temperature which is approximately 20-25⁰ C.

· Storing (keywords: hard case, soft case)

Hard case is very important if you want to store your guitar quite longer. The shape of the hard case is made as the same curve of the body. So, your guitar will be protected from mold, dust, and dirt. Soft case has the same purpose, but usually the soft case is used to store your guitar when you want to bring it outside because it’s lighter than if you bring the hard case.

As an old saying goes “you don’t know what you get till it’s gone”. You should love your gadget and take care about it. Good maintenance of every gadget that you have will preserve its use longer than it used to be.

Guitar amateurs usually only care about its tuning rather than caring about the whole parts of the guitar, so sometimes their guitars cannot produce a good sound, because a good sound created from the support of all parts.

Preserving our gadget needs our extra time, extra care, and extra money, but that’s the part of our responsibility of having the gadget. It would be better if we maintain our gadget well than let it ruins earlier than it should instead of buying the new one.

I hope that this article will guide you to keep your guitar well. The older guitar, the more it produces good sounds when you do a good maintenance for it. And usually an old guitar with a great performance will have a high price to be reselling.

Source:
# direct interview with band personnel, the guitarist of Pedhe Rock Indonesia, Itok Rachmat Wijaya

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# pictures downloaded from http://www.google.com