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Friend! Gue lagi baca sebuah buku tentang metode berpikir. Katanya, di jaman serba edan dan penuh kompetisi kayak gini yang dibutuhin adalah orang- orang yang berani berpikir terbalik. Maksudnya, bukan terbalik- balik lho. Tapi lebih pada mikirin sesuatu dengan cara yang berkebalikan sama yang dipikirin orang kebanyakan.
Misalnya orang lain nanya, kenapa musti gitu? Kita jawabnya, kenapa nggak? Atau sesimpelnya. Ketika orang sibuk mikirin rencana, kita justru mikirin resiko dari rencana itu.
Menurut gue, selain rencana- rencana yang indah dan muluk- muluk (kayak milih pakaian yang pas, nyari restoran yang oke, sampe nentuin baju yang oke dan kado yang paten), yang harus diperhitungkan adalah juga segala resiko yang bisa bikin semuanya bubar jalan.
Bukan maksudnya biar lo pesimis. Melainkan justru supaya kita bisa jadi lebih aware. Terhadap apa? Ya terhadap segala kemungkinan lah! Hari gini, nggak ada yang pasti sob! Dan kalo kita nggak siap- siap, ujung- ujungnya bisa kecewa. Nggak mau dong jadi kecewa? (Kid -oest News)

IT’S NOT EASY TO BE… HIM

Jujur, gue emang ngembat judul diatas dari lirik lagu Superman- nya Five For Fighting. Bukan gara- gara nggak kreatif. Tapi lantaran apa yang dibilang sama John Ondrasik lewat liriknya tuh bener adanya. Apalagi setelah- gue baca- baca lagi sejarah pahlawan berkolor merah itu.

Di komik, selalu ada aja yang menghambat laju terbang superman.

Contoh aja, sesakti apaun dia, tapi tetap aja tidurnya nggak tenang. Bukan lantaran tempat tidurnya dibeli dari uang haram kayak para koruptor itu. Melainkan karena rasa tanggung jawabnya yang kelewat gede pada keselamatan orang- orang yang dicintainya. Dia takut nggak mampu melindungi mereka. Itu yang bikin superman nggak bisa tidur tenang.

Begitu pun didunia nyata. Serial komiknya sempet mengalami masa- masa suram. Saat popularitasnya kelindas sama hero –hero lain yang jauh lebih tega dari mereka. Maklumlah biar pun sekuat baja, jagoan kita ini udah bersumpah nggak mau ngebunuh musuh- musuhnya. Sementara, hero lain cuek aja bunuh sana bunuh sini, dan itu justru yang disukai pembaca.

Segitu suramnya sikon saat itu. Sampe- sampe para kreatornya tega ngebunuh karakter bikinan mereka itu. Walau akhirnya dihidupkan lagi. Jalan yang ditempuh itu tetap aja bukan satu hal yang mudah.

Hal itu berlaku juga buat filmnya. Susaaah banget kayaknya nemu ramuan yang pas untuk kembali menerbangkan superman di layar lebar. Perlu sekian kali pecat memecat. Dan sekian kali revisi skrip ditambah 19 tahun menunggu. Baru deh dia nongol lagi.

See? It’s not easy to be him. Apalagi kita? (Kid –oest News)

Khayal

Gue bukan orang yang resik. Tapi gue juga bukan tergolong orang jorok. Standar lah. Kalo gue rasa butuh mandi, ya mandi lah. Gue pun nggak terlalu rewel kalo misalnya meja kamar gue berantakan penuh kertas sampe sekian lama, misalnya. (tapi kalo gue rasa semua udah bikin sepet mata, dan kebetulan lagi rajin, pastinya gue akan beberes).

Intinya, gue nggak termasuk orang yang sangat rewel akan kebersihan. Cuma, jujur aja, setiap kali gue liat Negara lain, gue selalu sirik sama kebersihan lingkungannya. Ya okelah. Bersihnya sih nggak kayak di rumah sakit. Tapi lebih bersih dari kebayakan kota disini.

Gue juga sirik ngeliat gimana pemerintah sana bisa nerapin aturan yang yang diterima dan dijalanin sama rakyatnya.

“kok disini nggak bisa ya?”

Itu selalu yang gue pikirin setiap kali keluar rumah.

Lebih lagi ketika tau bahwa semua kondisi itu dimulai dari pemikiran yang simple aja: lingkungan bersih, hidup sehat, semua senang. Gitu doang. Sebuah pemikiran yang sebenarnya nggak perlu orang sepintar Einstein yang mikirin.

Abis itu, biasanya gue mulai ngayal- ngayal nggak penting, ngebayangin Jakarta bisa sebersih dan sedisiplin kota di Negara lain. Nggak banjir kalo hujan, atau nggak sangat berdebu kalo panas. Nyaman banget tuh!

Terus, begitu nyadar kalo khayalannya kelewatan, baru deh ngeluh lagi. Apalagi saat keesokan hari setelah ini harus bergulat lagi sama keruwetan yang sama. Hadeuhh. Capek.. sampai kapan ya kita berkutat sama masalah yang sama ini? (Kid oest News)

Subject - Verb Agreement

SUBJECT - VERB AGREEMENT

1: Basic Principle - Singular subjects need singular verbs; plural subjects need plural verbs.

My sisters is a hair stylist. My brothers are doctor.

2: The indefinite pronouns anyone, everyone, someone, no one, nobody are always singular and, therefore, require sigular verbs.

3 : Some indefinite pronouns — such as all, some — are singular or plural depending on what they’re referring to. (Is the thing referred to countable or not?) Be careful choosing a verb to accompany such pronouns.

Some of the nuts are missing.

Some of the coin is gone.

4 : On the other hand, there is one indefinite pronoun, none, that can be either singular or plural; it often doesn’t matter whether you use a singular or a plural verb — unless something else in the sentence determines its number.

None of you claims responsibility for this incident racism ?

None of you claim responsibility for this incident racism ?

None of the singer have done their training.

5 : Phrases such as together with, as well as, and along with are not the same as and. The phrase introduced by as well as or along with will modify the earlier word, but it does not compound the subjects.

6 : The pronouns neither and either are singular and require singular verbs even though they seem to be referring, in a sense, to two things.

7 : In informal writing, neither and either sometimes take a plural verb when these pronouns are followed by a prepositional phrase beginning with of. This is particularly true of interrogative constructions

8 : The conjunction or does not conjoin (as and does). When nor or or is used the subject closer to the verb determines the number of the verb.

9 : The words there and here are never subjects.

There are two reasons [plural subject] for this.

There is no reason for this.

Here are three manggoes.

10 : Verbs in the present tense for third-person, singular subjects (he, she, it and anything those words can stand for) have s-endings. Other verbs do not add s-endings.

He loves and she loves and they love. .

11 : Sometimes modifiers will get between a subject and its verb, but these modifiers must not confuse the agreement between the subject and its verb.

12 : Words such as glasses, pants, pliers, and scissors are regarded as plural (and require plural verbs) unless they’re preceded by the phrase pair of (in which case the word pair becomes the subject).

My keys were on the dining room.

My hat were torn.

13 : Some words end in -s and appear to be plural but are really singular and require singular verbs.

14 : On the other hand, some words ending in -s refer to a single thing but are nonetheless plural and require a plural verb.

15 : Fractional expressions such as half of, a part of, a percentage of, a majority of are sometimes singular and sometimes plural, depending on the meaning.

16 : If your sentence compounds a positive and a negative subject and one is plural, the other singular, the verb should agree with the positive subject.

Example:

- I do meditation quietly. [singular], You do meditation quietly. [sing/pl]

- She does meditation quietly. [singular], We do meditation quietly. [plural]

- I have coloured pencil. (singular), You have coloured pencil. (sing/pl)

- Evans has coloured pencil. (singular), We have coloured pencil. (plural)

- I am here wait you come. [singular], You are here wait you come. [sing/pl]

- He is here wait you come. [singular], We are here wait you come. [plural]

- I play Guitar on big grand stand. (singular), You play Guitar on big grand stand. (sing/pl)

- One plays Guitar on big grand stand.(singular), We play Guitar on big grand stand. (plural)

- I was fifth from five brothers. [singular], You were fifth from five brothers. [sing/pl]

- It was fifth from five brothers. [singular], We were fifth from five brothers. [plural]

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