Category: Berita Sekolah

SPEECH CONTEST OF NATIONAL HANG TUAH OLYMPIAD 2020

            Hi! I’m Kristian from, 11^th grade student in Hang Tuah 5 SHS. It’s an honor for me to share and tell my experience again, right now like usual I’ll write about my story experiencing two speech competition. The first one is my competition in Hang Tuah Foundation, I take first runner up as my achievement. Actually it’s a great experience due to the limit of the time. That was a very busy and challenging moment. My school chosen me to compete in that competition a week before the day, I was shock hearing that announcement but I think it’s a great opportunity for me to take that challenge, at least it’ll make my skill better if I serious in this chance.

            Actually my school have so much experienced student in many field. I always have a hope for them to get an opportunity from school to be chosen in any competition, I think it’s pity if school not give any opportunity for them. That’s all just about pressure, no matter how much people give a burden to you, if you just trying even if just a little try. I believe that pressure from the burden will trained you to become a better person.

            That time I only have 3 or 4 occasion to practice with my teacher (Ms. Shinta and Mr. Bachrudin) it was fun to practice with them, we just have a few times to make the practice become useful because the limit of the time increase the pressure to make a good performance. I was take that practice seriously because I always remember the lesson from one of my inspirational person for not underestimate all of the thing in our life, even if it just a small thing and don’t have value for us, we have to believe everything have their own reason to be exist and that reason make everything have a value if we take it seriously and sincerely. That’s why I assume this competition like a national competition that I must won. Not being ambitious but wary, I believe all of the challenge that I take have their own reason and I can’t waste that just like that.

            Eventually I meet the day, it was tense remembering I wasn’t practice long enough to make myself truly get ready. I know we all never ready when comes to the time, what I do is just praying and make the hand of God work on my body. I just wanna say thank you to all of the 12 grade that accompany and supporting me that time, that was a great vibes from all of you that made my spirit burned awake. When I see the other competitor performance, it was make me nervous. They all are good and fluent to deliver their speech. Suddenly the judges already waiting for me to tell my speech, before that, all of my friend deliver their yell-yell first for supporting me. Actually this competition is an Indonesian speech competition, but I slipped some English word for strengthen my opinion. It also the first time I deliver an Indonesian speech in the competition, I slip my tongue in some words but I keep trying to stay focus and smiling. I wasn’t satisfy for my performance that time, but again all of my friends make me confident by keep supporting me and say that I have been done a great job

            Finally the time for announcement has come. In the last second I always convincing myself what matter the result is, I have to remember that I already done a good job and God already worked in my body. I keep praying for the best, not to become a number one, not to become a winner, but become a better me. No matter how good you are, if we can’t take a small thing wisely it will just become a small thing. But if we widen our glasses and see the other side, we can find that everything big was start from a very small thing. Thank you.

SMANISDA CUP HERENCIA

            This is my story when experiencing about how the power of pray really work. That day my school has chosen me to participate in Province English Speech Competition (SMANISDA CUP HERENCIA) it was my first time participate in Province Competition. I join this competition with my friend Anjar from XI IPS 1, we both are the member of OSIS or Student Organization in school. The thing is, the date of Herencia is very close enough to Youth Festival of my school, certainly as a member of Student organization we have to prepare and make sure all of the piece of this Festival have been good enough. Due to the preparation of this Event and remembering how we are really take a serious innovation to make this festival really work, we don’t have time to take a moment preparing the text, etc.

            I’m not blaming the situation that time, I have a fault too for not making a commitment in the beginning to manage my time doing this preparation. Someday we must meet this situation right? When the time not become friendly to us, or when you can’t expect how fast clock is ticking and suddenly it comes to the deadline. Of course I never blaming the time and situation, otherwise we can think and remember our mistake to introspect our self to become a better one right? Actually I have enough time to prepare the text one month before the competition, but there will always be a trap when you not aware. I felling down and set in the trap, I was careless and delay my preparation. I was thought that I still have so much time to prepare this and I can do it in the last minute, but in the end I never think about how much obstacle that I meet in the middle of the preparation, whether I have to go all the way to Surabaya by motorcycle with my organization to hunting for event preparation until I got sick because I have to get rained on the way home. It was a challenging experience and I feel grateful to have passed it, all of it make me know how difficult the obstacle that we have to meet when we want a great result. There are nothing in this world, the priceless pristine result without a pain in it, like a wise men say right “no pain, no gain”.

            Suddenly 2 days before the-day. I just started to write my text, I almost give up because I have to make two text in one night. Even 1 day before the competition I just finish my first text, the challenge not stop there. In the technical meeting of that competition I have choose second theme when picking the lottery which is the text that I haven’t finish yet. I feel confuse and doesn’t know what will I do there, but there are still a magical work from God if we surrender to God and still have a hope even just a little. The committee of the competition make a transformation in the technical rules, the implementation day has been change to Sunday and it was Saturday before. It means that I have one day more to prepare my other text. But again, God always give me pressure to train me. In Saturday, my illness appear again that make me can’t wake up from my bed. I was so weak, I even can’t thinking to arrange my text. So I just resting in my bed all the day and hoping there are still any change I can come to the place for competing.

            Come to the day, it was 7 am and my mother wake me up asking me if I join this competition or not. I was thinking very hardly how I can make this success, I haven’t even start to write my text yet but I decided to not give up and try to start. The clock pointing at 8 am and I start typing on my laptop, I just have 1 hour before the competition begin. I arrived at the place in 9 am and still trying to remembering my text, it was stressful and again I just give up all of my problem to God and let Him work on my body and my mouth. Finally the announcement of grand finalist, and guess what? Unbelievably I pass the semifinal round, I was in the last position. I realized a little hope still exist in this condition, I try my best in the grand finale.

            The final round is making an impromptu speech, that time I just tell my experience about the weapon that we have throughout life of us, the weapon that make us strong in every situation, the weapon which make us overcome all of the obstacle that occur in our life, that weapon is God. Actually I did give up in the very last time, I just lost my hope to win in this competition. But my teacher Ms. Shinta always remind me to pray before the announcement, make me realized there are nothing impossible when it comes to the God plan. When the MC say my name for the second runner up, I was shock with that result. I was very grateful that all of my pain did produce a result, it was a happiness experience in my life, an unforgettable experience. From this long story I just want to say to you all guys, there are nothing impossible when we give it all to God. God plan will always surprise us if we believes, like I said before there isn’t a pristine priceless result if we not let ourselves in “pain” first. Hope you all have a great day! Thank you!

ENGLISH COMPETITION? I’M THE WINNER!

Hi spliters Emerald English Competition is comeback, have you know about it??.

          Buat yang belum tahu tentang Emerald English Competition, ini adalah ajang kompetisi bergengsi di Sidoarjo yang diselenggarakan oleh kampus Emerald Sidoarjo yang berisikan lomba speech, writing, singing, caricature, dan debate. Kompetisi ini bertujuan untuk menunjukkan kemampuan siswa dalam berbahasa inggris sesuai bidang yang akan diikuti. Dengan dibimbing oleh pembina, setiap siswa dapat memperoleh berbagai hal yang akan disiapkan untuk mengikuti lomba tersebut.

          Oh ya spliters, untuk di sekolah kita, mengirim beberapa siswa untuk mengikuti ajang bergengsi ini, diantaranya Fiona Pawitra (XI IPS 2, writing), Bima Pancara (XI MIPA 2, writing), M. Putra Rian (XII MIPA 1, singing), Ignatius Pramudya (XI MIPA 1, singing), Ayu Widya (XI IPS 1, singing), M. Alfin (X MIPA 3, singing), Jason Vincent . E. (X MIPA 3, speech), Kristian Abdiel Risky (XI MIPA 2, speech) dengan Pembina Rifaatul A, S.Pd.

          Tidak hanya sekadar mengikuti saja loh, mereka nyatanya telah berhasil menyabet juara 2 dan juara harapan 2 untuk writing competition yang dimenangkan oleh Bima Pancara (XI MIPA 2) dan Fiona Pawitra (XI IPS 2), kemenangan ini juga meliputi juara 2 singing competition oleh M. Putra Rian (XII MIPA 1), Ignatius Pramudya (XI MIPA 1), Ayu Widya (XI IPS 1), dan M. Alfin (X MIPA 3) dan memasuki 10 besar untuk kategori kontes speech dengan tema ‘’The Challenges Of The Younger Generation In The Millenial Era’’ oleh Jason Vincent. E (X MIPA 3).

          Mereka yang mengikuti kompetisi ini pastinya mempersiapkan dengan sangat matang hal hal yang akan ditampilkan sesuai kategori masing-masing, seperti berlatih di sela-sela waktu pelajaran selama 2 minggu serta menampilkan kemampuan mereka sebagai Pembina apel di lapangan sekolah dengan disaksikan oleh seluruh siswa SMA Hang Tuah 5. Hal ini bertujuan untuk melatih mental agar siap tampil secara maksimal di depan para juri dan kontestan yang lain.

          Wah ternyata banyak yah yang harus dikorbankan untuk melatih diri agar siap mengikuti kompetisi ini.  Dengan mencontoh semangat yang ditunjukkan dari siswa-siswa ini, semoga di tahun selanjutnya kembali melahirkan juara-juara baik di bidang ini maupun bidang yang lain. SEMANGAT the next champion of SMAHATMA!

(EZ, Silvi, BK)