F1: Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel

Vettel was born on July 3^rd 1987, the same year when the first bottle of Red Bull was sold. He is the third child from four children in his family. One day, Vettel’s father, Norbert introduced the young Vettel and his mother, Heike, to Michael Schumacher. At that time, Schumacher thought Vettel would have bright future in race. He is right. In fact, Vettel has won his championship title in Formula 1 twice, 2010 and 2012.

Vettel’s hobbies are playing video games, listening to music and reading books. He often borrows books from, or lends to another racer in F1, Nico Rosberg. He lives in Walchwil, Switzerland, but once in a while he visits his hometown, Heppenheim, Germany.

He ever said “When I was a child, my idol is Three Michael- Michael Schumacher, Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson. I even wanted to be like them. I can’t play basketball, neither does sing a song. So, I become a racer like Schumi”.  He even got compliment from his idol, Schumi, when he won his second world champion title. Schumi gave his congrats to him right after the race.

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Proses Pemerolehan Bahasa

“Manusia berbahasa ibarat burung bersayap”, demikian kata George H. Lewis. Bahasa tak terlepas dari hakikat keberadaan manusia karena itulah yang menjadi piranti komunikasi antar manusia. Pada ungkapan di atas nampak bahwa manusia tanpa bahasa sama seperti burung tanpa sayap, karena sayaplah yang mecirikan burung dan bahasalah yang mencirikan manusia.

Noam Chomsky, bapak Linguistik dunia, menyebutkan bahwa jika kita mempelajari bahasa maka pada hakikatnya kita sedang mempelajari esensi manusia, yang menjadikan keunikan manusia itu sendiri. Manusia dirancang untuk berjalan, tetapi tidak diajari agar bisa berjalan. Demikian pula dalam berbahasa, tidak seorangpun bisa diajari bahasa karena manusia diciptakan untuk berbahasa. Dalam artian bahwa pada kenyataannya manusia akan berbahasa tanpa bisa dicegah agar dia tidak memperoleh bahasa.

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The Mark of Athena

Like usual, after reading a book in Percy Jackson series, I would post amazing sentences that I got there. This time in The Book 4 of Second Series: The Mark of Athena.

Here they are:

1. No matter how amazing you were, you couldn’t go around insulting the gods. The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn’t get a big head. (Anabeth Chase)
2. Great success comes with great sacrifice. (Nemesis)

 

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