The Fisherman and His Wife

There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish. But the fish said, ’Pray let me live! I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince: put me in the water again, and let me go!’ ’Oh, ho!’ said the man, ’you need not make so many words about the matter; I will have nothing to do with a fish that can talk: so swim away, sir, as soon as you please!’ Then he put him back into the water, and the fish darted straight down to the bottom, and left a long streak of blood behind him on the wave.
When the fisherman went home to his wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again. ’Did not you ask it for anything?’ said the wife, ’we live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty pigsty; do go back and tell the fish we want a snug little cottage.’
The fisherman did not much like the business: however, he went to the seashore; and when he came back there the water looked all yellow and green. And he stood at the water’s edge, and said:
 ’O man of the sea!
  Hearken to me!
  My wife Ilsabill
  Will have her own will,
  And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!’
Then the fish came swimming to him, and said, ’Well, what is her will? What does your wife want?’ ’Ah!’ said the fisherman, ’she says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before I let you go; she does not like living any longer in the pigsty, and wants a snug little cottage.’ ’Go home, then,’ said the fish; ’she is in the cottage already!’ So the man went home, and saw his wife standing at the door of a nice trim little cottage. ’Come in, come in!’ said she; ’is not this much better than the filthy pigsty we had?’ And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was a little garden, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits; and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens. ’Ah!’ said the fisherman, ’how happily we shall live now!’ ’We will try to do so, at least,’ said his wife.
Everything went right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilsabill said, ’Husband, there is not near room enough for us in this cottage; the courtyard and the garden are a great deal too small; I should like to have a large stone castle to live in: go to the fish again and tell him to give us a castle.’ ’Wife,’ said the fisherman, ’I don’t like to go to him again, for perhaps he will be angry; we ought to be easy with this pretty cottage to live in.’ ’Nonsense!’ said the wife; ’he will do it very willingly, I know; go along and try!’
The fisherman went, but his heart was very heavy: and when he came to the sea, it looked blue and gloomy, though it was very calm; and he went close to the edge of the waves, and said:
 ’O man of the sea!
  Hearken to me!
  My wife Ilsabill
  Will have her own will,
  And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!’
’Well, what does she want now?’ said the fish. ’Ah!’ said the man, dolefully, ’my wife wants to live in a stone castle.’ ’Go home, then,’ said the fish; ’she is standing at the gate of it already.’ So away went the fisherman, and found his wife standing before the gate of a great castle. ’See,’ said she, ’is not this grand?’ With that they went into the castle together, and found a great many servants there, and the rooms all richly furnished, and full of golden chairs and tables; and behind the castle was a garden, and around it was a park half a mile long, full of sheep, and goats, and hares, and deer; and in the courtyard were stables and cow-houses. ’Well,’ said the man, ’now we will live cheerful and happy in this beautiful castle for the rest of our lives.’ ’Perhaps we may,’ said the wife; ’but let us sleep upon it, before we make up our minds to that.’ So they went to bed.
The next morning when Dame Ilsabill awoke it was broad daylight, and she jogged the fisherman with her elbow, and said, ’Get up, husband, and bestir yourself, for we must be king of all the land.’ ’Wife, wife,’ said the man, ’why should we wish to be the king? I will not be king.’ ’Then I will,’ said she. ’But, wife,’ said the fisherman, ’how can you be king–the fish cannot make you a king?’ ’Husband,’ said she, ’say no more about it, but go and try! I will be king.’ So the man went away quite sorrowful to think that his wife should want to be king. This time the sea looked a dark grey colour, and was overspread with curling waves and the ridges of foam as he cried out:
 ’O man of the sea!
  Hearken to me!
  My wife Ilsabill
  Will have her own will,
  And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!’
’Well, what would she have now?’ said the fish. ’Alas!’ said the poor man, ’my wife wants to be king.’ ’Go home,’ said the fish; ’she is king already.’
Then the fisherman went home; and as he came close to the palace he saw a troop of soldiers, and heard the sound of drums and trumpets. And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a golden crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six fair maidens, each a head taller than the other. ’Well, wife,’ said the fisherman, ’are you king?’ ’Yes,’ said she, ’I am king.’ And when he had looked at her for a long time, he said, ’Ah, wife! what a fine thing it is to be king! Now we shall never have anything more to wish for as long as we live.’ ’I don’t know how that may be,’ said she; ’never is a long time. I am king, it is true; but I begin to be tired of that, and I think I should like to be emperor.’ ’Alas, wife! why should you wish to be emperor?’ said the fisherman. ’Husband,’ said she, ’go to the fish! I say I will be emperor.’ ’Ah, wife!’ replied the fisherman, ’the fish cannot make an emperor, I am sure, and I should not like to ask him for such a thing.’ ’I am king,’ said Ilsabill, ’and you are my slave; so go at once!’
So the fisherman was forced to go; and he muttered as he went along, ’This will come to no good, it is too much to ask; the fish will be tired at last, and then we shall be sorry for what we have done.’ He soon came to the seashore; and the water was quite black and muddy, and a mighty whirlwind blew over the waves and rolled them about, but he went as near as he could to the water’s brink, and said:
 ’O man of the sea!
  Hearken to me!
  My wife Ilsabill
  Will have her own will,
  And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!’
’What would she have now?’ said the fish. ’Ah!’ said the fisherman, ’she wants to be emperor.’ ’Go home,’ said the fish; ’she is emperor already.’
So he went home again; and as he came near he saw his wife Ilsabill sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high; and on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row, each one smaller than the other, from the tallest giant down to a little dwarf no bigger than my finger. And before her stood princes, and dukes, and earls: and the fisherman went up to her and said, ’Wife, are you emperor?’ ’Yes,’ said she, ’I am emperor.’ ’Ah!’ said the man, as he gazed upon her, ’what a fine thing it is to be emperor!’ ’Husband,’ said she, ’why should we stop at being emperor? I will be pope next.’ ’O wife, wife!’ said he, ’how can you be pope? there is but one pope at a time in Christendom.’ ’Husband,’ said she, ’I will be pope this very day.’ ’But,’ replied the husband, ’the fish cannot make you pope.’ ’What nonsense!’ said she; ’if he can make an emperor, he can make a pope: go and try him.’
So the fisherman went. But when he came to the shore the wind was raging and the sea was tossed up and down in boiling waves, and the ships were in trouble, and rolled fearfully upon the tops of the billows. In the middle of the heavens there was a little piece of blue sky, but towards the south all was red, as if a dreadful storm was rising. At this sight the fisherman was dreadfully frightened, and he trembled so that his knees knocked together: but still he went down near to the shore, and said:
 ’O man of the sea!
  Hearken to me!
  My wife Ilsabill
  Will have her own will,
  And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!’
’What does she want now?’ said the fish. ’Ah!’ said the fisherman, ’my wife wants to be pope.’ ’Go home,’ said the fish; ’she is pope already.’
Then the fisherman went home, and found Ilsabill sitting on a throne that was two miles high. And she had three great crowns on her head, and around her stood all the pomp and power of the Church. And on each side of her were two rows of burning lights, of all sizes, the greatest as large as the highest and biggest tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rushlight. ’Wife,’ said the fisherman, as he looked at all this greatness, ’are you pope?’ ’Yes,’ said she, ’I am pope.’ ’Well, wife,’ replied he, ’it is a grand thing to be pope; and now you must be easy, for you can be nothing greater.’ ’I will think about that,’ said the wife. Then they went to bed: but Dame Ilsabill could not sleep all night for thinking what she should be next. At last, as she was dropping asleep, morning broke, and the sun rose. ’Ha!’ thought she, as she woke up and looked at it through the window, ’after all I cannot prevent the sun rising.’ At this thought she was very angry, and wakened her husband, and said, ’Husband, go to the fish and tell him I must be lord of the sun and moon.’ The fisherman was half asleep, but the thought frightened him so much that he started and fell out of bed. ’Alas, wife!’ said he, ’cannot you be easy with being pope?’ ’No,’ said she, ’I am very uneasy as long as the sun and moon rise without my leave. Go to the fish at once!’
Then the man went shivering with fear; and as he was going down to the shore a dreadful storm arose, so that the trees and the very rocks shook. And all the heavens became black with stormy clouds, and the lightnings played, and the thunders rolled; and you might have seen in the sea great black waves, swelling up like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads. And the fisherman crept towards the sea, and cried out, as well as he could:
 ’O man of the sea!
  Hearken to me!
  My wife Ilsabill
  Will have her own will,
  And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!’
’What does she want now?’ said the fish. ’Ah!’ said he, ’she wants to be lord of the sun and moon.’ ’Go home,’ said the fish, ’to your pigsty again.’
And there they live to this very day.

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THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES



Hello again! In this post I'll inform you about my amazing place in the whole world. You're curious right? So let's get to the point! I t's a bout the Palace of Versailles. It's not about the architecture of this building, instead it's about the value of the histories in it. The Palace of Versailles or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French, it is known
as the Château de Versailles.

When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a wealthy suburb of Paris, some 20 kilometers southwest of the French capital. The court of Versailles was the center of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.


Let me tell you a little about the history behind these walls. The earliest mention of the name of Versailles is in a document dated 1038, relating to the village of Versailles. In 1575, the seigneury of Versailles was bought by Albert de Gondi, a naturalized Florentine, who invited Louis XIII on several hunting trips in the forests surrounding Versailles. Pleased with the location, Louis ordered the construction of a hunting lodge in 1624. Eight years later, Louis obtained the seigneury of Versailles from the Gondi family and began to make enlargements to the château. This structure would become the core of the new palace. Louis XIII's successor, Louis XIV, had it expanded into one of the largest palaces in the world. Following the Treaties of Nijmegen in 1678, he began to gradually move the court to Versailles. The court was officially established there on 6 May 1682.

After the disgrace of Nicolas Fouquet in 1661, Louis confiscated Fouquet's estate and employed the talents of Le Vau, Le Nôtre, and Le Brun, who all had worked on Fouquet's grand château Vaux-le-Vicomte, for his building campaigns at Versailles and elsewhere. For Versailles, there were four distinct building campaigns.

The four building campaigns (1664–1710)

View of the Palace from the garden

The first building campaign (1664–1668) commenced with the Plaisirs de l'Île enchantée (Pleasures of the Enchanted Island) of 1664, a fête that was held between 7 and 13 May 1664. The campaign involved alterations in the château and gardens to accommodate the 600 guests invited to the party.

The second building campaign (1669–1672) was inaugurated with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of Devolution. During this campaign, the château began to assume some of the appearance that it has today. The most important modification of the château was Le Vau's envelope of Louis XIII's hunting lodge. Significant to the design and construction of thegrands appartements is that the rooms of both apartments are of the same configuration and dimensions—a hitherto unprecedented feature in French palace design. Both the grand appartement du roi and the grand appartement de la reineformed a suite of seven enfilade rooms. The decoration of the rooms, which was conducted under Le Brun's direction, depicted the "heroic actions of the king" and were represented in allegorical form by the actions of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, Augustus, Cyrus, etc.).

With the signing of the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678, which ended the Dutch War, the third building campaign at Versailles began (1678–1684). Under the direction of the architect, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, the Palace of Versailles acquired much of the look that it has today. In addition to the Hall of Mirrors, Hardouin-Mansart designed the north and south wings and theOrangerie. Le Brun was occupied not only with the interior decoration of the new additions of the palace, but also collaborated with Le Nôtre's in landscaping the palace gardens.

Soon after the defeat of the War of the League of Augsburg (1688–1697), Louis XIV undertook his last building campaign at Versailles. The fourth building campaign (1699–1710) concentrated almost exclusively on construction of the royal chapel designed by Hardouin-Mansart and finished by Robert de Cotte. There were also some modifications in the appartement du roi, namely the construction of the Salon de l'Œil de Bœuf and the King's Bedchamber. With the completion of the chapel in 1710, virtually all construction at Versailles ceased; building would not be resumed at Versailles until some twenty one years later during the reign of Louis XV.


I believe this is the end of this post. Actually, there's many more about the palace of Versailles. But I yhink you can find out by yourself. Thank you for enjoying my post.
 




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JAIPONG DANCE IN MATSWAPATI

Recently, my school held a cultural festival on Saturday 27th 2014. Its name is 'MATSWAPATI'. It is to celebrate the anniversary of Bandung. The name of the festival was taken from the name one of the wayang (traditional perfomance in Indonesia) named Prabu Matswapati. Prabu Matswapati is the great king of the Wirata Country, a king who reigns of king.

In this cultural festival, there are many perfomance that shows Indonesia's culture especially sundanese culture like anglung, traditional dance, traditional martial arts and many others. But this time I'll tell you about the traditional sundanese dance, Jaipong.

But first I will tell you a little about the history of Jaipong dance. This dance was created by an artist from Bandung, Gugum Gumbira in 1960's, with the purpose to create a kind of music and social dances excavated from the wealth of folk art traditions of the archipelago, particularly in West Java. Even though Jaipong dance included relatively new, but this dance developed from the previous folk art Ketuk Tilu, Kliningan, and also Ronggeng.

In 1961, Indonesian President Soearno prohibited rock and roll and other western genres of music, and challenged Indonesian musicians to revive indigenous arts. The name jaipongan came from people mimicking of the sounds created by some of the drums in the ensemble. audiences were often heard shouting jaipong after specific sections of rhytmic music were played. Jaipongan debuted in 1974 when Gugum Gumbira and his gamelan and dancers first performed in public.

In the Matswapati, the dancer of the Jaipong dance was from jugala orchestra. Jugala orchestra is one of the famous dance troupe. They were 3 of them who dances on the stage. The Maybe you wondering why I choose Jaipong for this topic. This is because I think Jaipong is the most beautiful dance that I've ever seen cause I love the combination of the dance and some of the martial ats.

For their costumes, They are wearing kebaya. Usually, they are wearing the colorful kebaya because it is suitable with the jaipong's dance that is dinamic and energic. For the under outfit, they are wearing the legging pants combined with jarit. This costume is affected by the sundanese culture for the batik's motive, the Betawi's culture for the kebaya, and the last Tionghoa's culture in the bun's pattern. I think this is the end of this topic. Thanks for reading and see you in the next posting!!


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MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE

       

     Hello! We meet again in this post. Now, I'll tell you about my memorable experience. When I was in 7th grade at Junior High School, there was a student exchange program to Singapore held by my school. It was the first time my school held such a program. For a really long time, I really wished to go to abroad by my friends without parent's guide. And so, it was realized by joing the student exchange program. I took a part in the test. There were writing and listening test and also an interview.
     When it was the day my teacher announced the result. Everyone including me was in panicked mode. I was playing really hard. I was very happy when my teacher mentioned my name. There were 13 people who passed the test, 4 boys and 9 girls. In three month, we were trained intensively for preparing the farewell night party show. we were going to perform an angklung ensemble. 
     We took the morning flight to the Singapore. I was very excited, cause it was my first time going abroad with friends. There were 5 teachers who accompanied us. we stayed in the Singapore for a week in the hostel. After we arrived in the singapore, we directly go to hostel to prepare going to the school for the next day. Apparently, There was also one school who joined the student exchange program like us. They were from Palu. At night, we ate outside and sight seeing accompanied by the street lights. 
     The next day, I went to the school by bus with my whole fried. The school name's Juying Secondary School ( JYSS). We were going have buddy from JYSS who will guide and accompany us in the school. My buddy's name is Sammie. Sammie is a girl. It turned out that I was one class with one of my senior from my school. Their studies is very different from Indonesia. And the students in there were very nice to me. I learned many things from them. It was very precious to me.  I had a really nice time studying there for 5 days. Apart from going to school and study, we went to many places like Safari Night, China town, Universal Studios, and many others.
     When the farewell party, we performed the angklung ensemble that we've trained for months. Afterwards, there was a gift exchange session. I got a chocolate from Sammie. It was very delicious. The next morning, some of my friends from Juying went to the airport to say good bye to me and my friends. It was very dramatic moment and I can't bear it for a second. My trip to Singapore is a very unforgettable moments to me.

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WHO IS SHE?(My New Friend)

     Last time I've told you all about my self. Now, I'll tell you a story or maybe an introduction (or whatever you call it) about my friend. When I first came to my class, there she is, sitting behind me. Her name is Almira. Her full name is Almira Mahira Noviani. She comes from SMP 13 Bandung. She was born in November 16th 1999. She has a B blood type. She lives at St. Kerang number 20, Buah Batu, Bandung. She is a moslem. When in the spare times, she likes to playing computer or listening musics. Her favorite foods are noodle and burger. The most favorite subject for her is english. She only has one sibling. She told me that one day she wants to be successful.

     She has visited few places around Java like Yogya and Bogor. One place she really wants to visit in the world is German. The favorite place she likes to hang out is her bed. Her favorite color is blue. She has many friends, but she only has one best friend, her name is Nabila Athifa. She likes pop(accoustic) music. Two of her favorite musics are 'Acapella' by Karmin and 'That XX' by G-Dragon. Besides playing computer and listening music, she loves to collect games. One thing she doen't like or one thing she really wants to change(if she was given chance) is her height.
     Everyone must have their beauty and beast side in them. And so Almira does. First I tell you about her good side, she can control her emotion and behaviourto other people (she really careful to keep her image in front of everybody), she also really calm when she faces many problem. the bad side of her are not very discipline and very lazy (so do I). Me and Almira share some similarity from hobbies to personality. I think we can get along very well in the future and I really wish that. Because, having many friend is better than being alone.

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My Identity (All About My Self)

     Hello, everyone!! Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude for all of you who visits  my blog. Here comes my introduction, my name is Rifanny Adelia Dewinasjah. My friends always called me Fanny. I'm in my 10th grade at SMAN 3 Bandung. Actually, I'm not from Bandung, I came from Cilegon, Banten. I go to SMAN 3 Bandung, because in my opinion SMAN 3 Bandung is the most favourite senior high school in Indonesia. Now, I stay in St. Bali/17. I was born in Probolinggo on September 9th 1999. My favourite food is spaghetti. My hobbies are reading novel mostly, see a movie in the movie theater. As a moslem, of course my most favourite idol is the Prophet Muhammad. The 2nd is the actor Tom Cruise. I love the way he acts in a movie.
     Now, I'll tell you about my family. My both parents live in Cilegon with my siblings. I have 1 youger brother and 1 younger sister. So, I'm the eldest. My brother is 7 years younger than me and my newborn sister is 14 years younger than me. My parents never tired to remind me to be the model for my siblings but, what I've done until now that I always have fight with my youger brother. we are never getting along but, strangely when we are apart we always miss each other.
     One thing I really hate about myself is that i can't expressing my thoughts to others that not my best friend. It's just I'm really bad at having any relationship with anyone. And the thing that I most proud of my self is that I'm happy that if one of my friends sometimes rely on me. I don't know why but, it's a one thing that is very important that we have to make everone happy and always be the one that friends need of. Even though, I have either good or bad side of mine but i'ts really good to be my self. That's all about my self, thanks for reading.

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