Education and Learning

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Fable Short Stories of Semester I 2011

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A long years ago, story teller used fable to present the moral teaching. It still happens today. To teach moral, some people use fable in education.

Read, enjoy, and learn from Fable Flash Fictions, written by Y.W.Purnomosidhi.



- Bottle in Desert

- Fable Story: Painter, Bird, Sun and Rain

- Escape from Dizzy Area

- Black Battery and His Role

- Little Capuchin Crossing The Road

- Fable of Seed in Dirty Soil


If you love to read other fables, read Fable Flash Fiction 2010

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Social Media : Is It the Place To Get New Friends?

Nowadays, interaction via online social media becomes trend. According to Wikipedia, the definition of social media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue.

Well, I have used many providers of social media and my motivation to use them is not only to meet my old friend but also to have new friends. Unfortunately, some of them have strict rule as if the user can only make friend with people they have known before. It seems that they support the idea of 'never talk to stranger.' This idea makes me hard to have new friend online and I have also experence of being suspended because I add or send messeage to stranger, whom I want to be friend with.

Some of my friends also have the same exparience of being suspended because they try to make new friends. So, is it true that social media is only for interaction with old friends? Is it true that social media is not for those who are looking for new friends?

We need friends because we are social beings. Some of us are too busy at work or other activities. Some of us are trapped in our routine activities. Some of us have only small opportunity to meet new people in real life. That's why online media which fasilitate us to meet new people becomes new hope and I am happy I have found some of them.

Making friends and chatting online are fun and some of my online friends have met me in real life. Nowadays, some sites like imeetzu.com, chatroulette, and omegle provide great way of meeting new friends. Not only can you have text chat with stranger but also webchat with them. However, iMeetzu.com also adds a social network to enable you to save your favorite new friends.

Monday, June 20, 2011

When You Decide Bankruptcy, You Should Manage It Well

Bankruptcy is condition in which person or organization is judged by a law court to be unable to pay the debt in full.

To decide bankruptcy can be risky if you do not manage well and previously evaluate comprehensively your situation and goals.

Glazer, a Sacramento bankruptcy attorney, says,” It is not good to wait until creditors are knocking on your door.” You need planning and preparation for a bankruptcy that causes the least amount of financial disruption.

Sacramento bankruptcy attorney

Friday, June 3, 2011

Exit Difficult Situation

Humanizing Human Beings, To Be Little Candles for Others

Have you ever been in difficult time?
Do you want to quit and overcome the obstacles quickly?

Have you ever wanted to quick the math class quickly when you think it's difficult for you? Have you ever rushed to finish unpleasant work quickly but you did many mistake in the end?

Everyone wants to overcome obstacles.
Life is also learning process. It needs time to overcome obstacle no matter how super you are.

To force yourself to rush when facing problems may exhaust your power and raise your stress. Patience is necessary.

Read the fable short story of Escape from Dizzy Area written by Y.W. Purnomosidhi.

P.S.: You can enjoy other fable stories by Y.W. Purnomosidhi

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Non-Animal Fable Stories

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Many modern fables tell stories about non-animal characters. Their characters are personification of toys, cars, appliances, or modern/ futurisctic things as if they talked, felt, acted like human.

Brave Little Toaster is an example of Appliance's story. According to Wikipedia, The Brave Little Toaster is written by Thomas M. Disch intended for children, A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances. The story was written in the style of a children's fable.

Another examples of non-animal fable story are Wall-E, Toy Story, Cars, and Black Battery and His Role. Fable stories give motivation and inspiration to the readers or audiences.

Black Battery and His Role, written by Purnomosidhi AKA Mas Didik, is presented in one of Short Stories with morals.

Read Fable Story: Black Battery and His Role

Friday, April 8, 2011

Modern Lovecraftian Works on Horror Fictions

Lovecraftian horror is a kind of horror fiction which presents the cosmic horror of the unknown over gore, life, trouble or other elements of shock. It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) in which supernatural and horror colors Lovecraft stories.


Lovecraft wrote with his story-telling style, manifested in his mythos that involved supernatural, pre-human, and extraterrestrial elements. Previous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Algernon Blackwood inpired him.


Lovecraaft used several themes found as the component of a "Lovecraftian" work, namely:
- Anti-anthropocentrism, misanthropy in general. Human is not central and not significant entities in the universe. Misanthropy is ascribed to a number of writers of satire.Misanthropy means to disgust with, distaste for, and general dislike of human beings. it can be also intrepreted as no interest in fellow man, distrust toward the intent and value of humanity.

- Antiquarian writing style. Although dealing with technology, Lovecraft used anachronisms as well as old-fashioned words to describe such things. Anachronism is an inconsistency in some chronological arrangement, especially a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other.

- Detachment. Lovecraftian heroes are usually isolated individuals.

- Heroes' victory is temporary and they ussualy pay back for it or there is possibility of problem or antagonist to raise.

- Forbidden knowledge. Characters in Lovecraft do not understand what happened to them. There us unanswered question and there is something beyond their mind capacity. It's about mystery.

Lovecraft quotes state:
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.


- Non-human influences on humanity

- Fate

- Civilization under threat

- Risks of a scientific era


His works ( in lovecraft books and short stories) has influenced to modern horror stories in literature (novel, shosrt stories), games (mystery games and horror games), and horror movie (lovecraft movies, and other horror movies list ).

Lovecraftians put fear, supernatural things, and mystery in their mysterious and scary short stories.




Modern Lovecraftian writers present 26 dark stories of tales of horror in The Anthology Historical Lovecraft: Tales of Horros Through Time by Innsmouth Free Press, 2011. This book put horror stories in historical setting. Stalin’s Russia, 10th century Rome, ancient Kingdom in Asia, and Neolithic Mesopotamia are just some of the backdrops before which madness and history collide.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Is Laughing Chicken a Hoax?

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Do you like cooking chicken? Do love to eat baked chicken? This article is not about fried chicken nor chicken recipes. It is the artcile about Laughing Chicken or Ayam Ketawa.



This kind of chicken is originated from Celebes, Indonesia. Laughing Chicken is not a hoax. This animal can really laugh like human laughter. I don't know whether Pet Finder has mantioned about Ayam Ketawa or Laughing Chicken but it really exist in animal world, and laughing chicken becomes popular in Indonesia.

See Video

However. human sometimes needs to train it. Human needs to make this chicken laugh.

Read more information about Laughing Chicken

Thursday, March 24, 2011

I love writing fable story

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Writing is one of my passion. It is the way for me to express my thought and feeling. It is the way for me to send message to many people.

Creative Writing is part of my life. I express my interest in creative writing by writing and earning some money in Triond and Wikinut.

As the part of creative writing, writing fiction is my favourite one. There is character and story creation process in writing fiction.

I love writing fable fiction because I express and share story, fun, and inspiration in it.

You can read some of my fable flash fictions and writing tips for fable short story.

Pre Easter

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It is mini article which I wrote during Pre-Easter.

What is Easter?

Easter refers to celebration of Pesakh or Passover. Gospels say Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. Some Christians celebrate Jesus's resurrection on Easter Sunday which is also called Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday, two days after Good Friday and three days after Maundy Thursday. The essense of easter is resurrection - resurrection of new life, resurrection which refers to salvation and freedom.

However, there is cultural modification among Pagan, Hebrew and Christian in Easter. Tradition about Easter Bunny and Easter Egg and various easter ideas are related to its cultural modification. You can know it from History of Easter and Origin of Easter.


In this Pre-Easter and to welcome Easter 2011, I present palm sunday story. It is semi hitorical fiction. It is fable short story with historical background. You may interpret it as Christian fiction. Read Lowly Donkey and The King of Peace.