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3 Facts You Don’t Know About the Month of April
Humans on A New Planet?
The Dark Side of Harajuku’s Style: Yami Kawaii
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Volume 17 | April 2018
contents: page 1 3 Facts You Don’t Know About the Month of April page 2
Yami Kawaii
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Earth Day 2018
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Stop Striving for Perfection
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Humans on A New Planet?
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Book Review
editor’s note— April. Avril. Aprilis. It’s suddenly April 2018. It means you are in the middle of your semester and about to face your midterm tests. Having that said, Glides also has been gliding for some time now, rooting and growing branches. In this edition, the team offer you many interesting fun facts and a book review you don’t want to miss out on. We also have two articles revolving around planets and an article stressing on Stress Awareness Month. We really hope that this edition will soothe your mind and keep your spirit up; it’s not even halfway through 2018! Before I end this note, since in the middle of next month will be the start of Ramadhan, on behalf of Journalism Club, I would like to express sincere greetings and wish you who celebrate all the very best. Happy reading. PS. Don’t forget to follow our instagram @sastrainggris_binus for your English daily feeds; of course, run by our beloved Journalism Club! Criscentia Jessica Setiadi S.S., M.A.
GLIDES Manager I Gde Swastika Arya Advisor Criscentia Jessica Setiadi S.S., M.A. Editor I Gde Swastika Arya Designer Feliana Njowito
Reporters / Writers Stefanny Puspita Ayu Alifah Zubenubiana Bisri I Gde Swastika Arya Sherenna Aurafani Rumaiza
—the team
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April is Named After Aphrodite
April is named after the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. In the Roman calendar, the fourth month April is spelled Aprilis, meaning "to open."
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Facts That You Don’t Know About the Month of
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April’s Zodiac Signs Are Four-Legged Hooved Creatures
Two signs in the traditional Zodiac calendar fall in April, both of which are domestic animals, quadrupeds with cloven hoofs. People born in the first part of the month between March 21st and April 19th are said to be born under the sign of Aries the Ram, a Sun sign which is ruled by the planet and the Roman god of war, Mars. Those who were born from April 20th to May 20th were born under Taurus the Bull, an Earth sign who is ruled by the planet and the Roman goddess of love, Venus
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April’s Honorary Flowers are Daisies and Sweet Peas
The daisy symbolizes innocence, loyal love, and purity. The oldest daisy on record is the Bellis perennis, known as Daeges eage (or Day's eye) in the Middle Age because its petals close at night to cover the
April
yellow center. The sweet pea signifies bliss-
by Stefanny
are also one of the oldest food crops on
ful pleasure and are used to say goodbye. Sweet Peas may be a pretty flower, but they our planet, domesticated by humans about 11,000 years ago.
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The Dark Side of Harajuku’s Style:
Yami Kawaii 病み
かわいい
by Stefanny
It is well-known that ‘suicide’ topic in Japan is very taboo. Perhaps it’s in part of a backlash against the death obsession of premodern Bushido, the “way of the warrior”. So, what happens when people finally speak up and fashion becomes their weapon? Tokyo's Harajuku street might be most well-known for cartoon characters, sparkles, & rainbows — the hallmark of its “kawaii,”or cute, aesthetic — but recently, a darker subculture has emerged, a new look that challenges Japan’s deepest taboos; depression and mental illness. The style is called “Yami Kawaii” and it means “sick cute”. On the surface it’s your average cute, girly style with some twisted humour. But deep down it’s a heavy beast with disturbing imagery of syringes and bandages that live alongside baby pink lace and anime characters. The pioneer of the look is an artist named Bisuko with the character that he illustrates named Menhera-chan, the heroine of the Yami Kawaii comic that he created. The name itself, “Menhera”, is a term that refers to people who suffer from mental illness. Bisuko believes that when talking is not an option, perhaps fashion could be the answer. He wants to change the negative image of mental health issues in Japan and perhaps all around the world. He wants people to use this fashion as an outlet to express their feelings and as a way of therapy.
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Y A D H T R EA 8 1 0 2 by Puspita Ayu Alifah
Every year, April 22 is marked as the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement which began in 1970, the day that we know as “Earth Day”.
Proposed by Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, he wanted Earth Day as a way to finally put environmental issues to the forefront of national political agenda in the U.S. Now, it is a global event involving more than 1 billion people taking part in one of the largest day of action in the world. Mobilizing the world to end plastic pollution will be the main focus for Earth Day this year. Through this action, millions of people will broaden their knowledge about health and other risks associated with the use and disposal of plastics, including pollution of our oceans, water and wildlife. The “End Plastic Pollution” campaign consists of four major components such as: Educating citizens across the globe to demand that governments and corporations control and clean up plastic solution; educating people worldwide to take personal responsibility
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for plastic solution by choosing to reject, reduce, reuse, and recycle plastics; work with universities, school teachers, and students to end plastic pollution; work with other organizations and networks to make Earth Day 2018 as a platform to end plastic pollution by developing resources that others can use and build partnerships on. So, don’t forget to support Earth Day this year by using less plastic materials and start recycling the ones that you have, guys! No matter how small our action is, the future of this earth depends on all of us. And of course, Happy Earth Day 2018!
REUSING Bottle for Birdies
BEACH Polluted by Plastic Waste.
FUN FACTS: The date of Earth Day was specifically selected to mobilize college students.
RECYCLING Plastic Bottles
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STOP
PERFECTION:
STRIVING FOR
LET GO AND LET IT BE
by I Gde Swastika Arya & Sherenna Aurafani Rumaiza
In this Stress Awareness Month, Arya and Sheren try to take a look at one of the most common sources of stress: Perfection.
Perfection. A simple yet complicated word. A word that screams the impossible, that pushes you beyond the limit, that leaves you wanting even more, that demands too much out of you, that punishes you for every mistake you make, that kills you slowly in this never ending imperfect life. Wait a minute. Does that sound a bit too much? Punishing you? Killing you slowly? Well, maybe because it actually does all those things to you. Despite being like that, we all really love perfection, don’t we? After all, who doesn’t want this lovely life to be perfect, right? We always chase after it, strive for it, and even insist on it. I don’t know. It could be in your relationship, in your career, in your study, or even in a not-so-important matter like arranging your bookshelf. In my case, I was even trying to do it while typing this article with Sheren.
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Especially in this modern era where all the
because we tend to focus on reaching for that
things move too fast you can’t have even the
illusive perfection. We completely lose our
slightest chance to blink. All the things have to
minds over that meaningless pursuit that we
be done now and, most importantly, perfectly.
never try to let go of the less important things
You always live under pressure to deliver every
for what really matters in this life: Living the life
day. Day after day after day after day…
itself!
And boy did it all go wrong from here. Again, like I have mentioned before, this is a never ending imperfect life, in which you’re looking for the exact opposite to it: Perfection itself. It’s not gonna work, my friend. It’ll only bring you one thing: Stress. And of course, as you know, stress does kill you, like perfection. Stressful, isn’t it? We simply are not superhuman. We have many limitations. We have weaknesses. Sometimes, or maybe most of the times, we completely forget what’s important in this life. We prioritize things that are really not important
Yes, my friend. Start to live your life! Life is more than just about climbing the endless career ladder at work, or beating that straight-A you despise at campus, or finding the right someone out of your long list of requirements. It is about living in the simplest way possible. It is about accepting all the imperfections around us. It is about not being afraid to make mistakes. It is about devoting your time to people around you and yourself instead. It is about taking some times off from your daily dose of pressure. Well, that’s why, my friend. Stop striving for perfection. Let go. Let it be.
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Humans on a New Planet?
Puspita Ayu Alifah
If you haven’t heard already, the late theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, argued that our planet was getting increasingly dangerous because of climate change and overpopulation growth that humans needed to colonize a new planet soon in order to stay alive. Regarding this assertion, we asked some of our friends (and a lecturer) about their opinions.
Should we move to a new planet or not?
Andes
Alya
(English Literature, BINUS University)
(English Literature, BINUS University)
When humans move to a new planet, it won’t I think we should do everything we could do to fix last that long, because after the last day of the our planet first. If our very last chance is to inhabit earth, the galaxy won’t be balanced anymore. a new planet, then I think we should it! If scientist Eventually, the nature will vanish everything, in- really do their job, do every experiments that are cluding the galaxy, and then recreate it again.
necessary, and find a new planet that is proper for humans, or any organisms really, to live on, then I
Andhira
think it’s very possible.
(Accounting, Perbanas Institute) In my opinion, humans must populate a new Ms. Mita planet. They just need to think about how to get (BINUS English Department Lecturer) there.
I think yes, we should find a new planet to live on. Earth is overpopulated and we need to find more
Mona (English Literature, BINUS University) Yes. It’s just the matter how humans with all their knowledge could find out how we will get there.
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natural sources.
Book Review by Sherenna Aurafani Rumaiza
I first discovered Mark Manson on his blog where he started writing about finding the meaning of life, and quite some time ago I found out that he wrote a book titled The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck that came up as a New York Times Bestseller. And as what he always wants to aim to his reader about living a “good life”, the subtitle of this book
THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK
proclaims ‘a counterintuitive approach to living a good life.’
Mark Manson
Although the title sounds a little bit offen-
Periplus, IDR 256.000
sive, this book clearly isn’t trying to offend you at all. It is actually full of useful things for you to finally have a different perspective towards getting that “good life” It talks about how to prioritize things that needed to be prioritized and choose what matters you want to deal
With an extra filled with Manson real-life stories in between all those “counterintuitive approaches”, we definitely recommend this book.
with based on your own personal values. It
So, grab one now at your nearest favourite
also talks about how to embrace our imperfec-
book store, have a completely different per-
tions, because sometimes we lose, sometimes
spective in your life, and start to not give a f***
we win, and sometimes life f***s us up.
ever again!
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