Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Response Paper : Haiku By Basho

This is a response paper for my Translation subject assignment. Not an expert opinion though. Just want to share... :)

With a Buddhist background, Basho created a beautiful bouquet of Japanese language and be translated more than 30 translations by several translators. Three of them are Shinkokai NG, Lindley Williams and James Kirkup Hobbell who tried to interpret Basho poem into three English translated versions in very different structure, sense and shape.

First version is written by Shinkokai. In terms of structure, we should note the diction, rhyme, rhythm, tone, and the poet attitude toward the reader and to convey the message. Shinkokai in his translation using no more than 3-4 words in each line that may indicates he is a translator who prefer simple styles. In first line, the diction selected is "old" rather than "ancient" while the last,according to me, may have a deeper meaning. He choose to mention the objects of this poetry that is a frog which is jumping into the water and creates a sound of water. He did not show any rhyme or rhythm excessively. The imagination (he used visual imagination) is presented fairly short so it does not need a hard effort to understand the meaning of the translation.

Second version, in my opinion, is the most beautiful translation among these three versions because Hobbell tried to translate it into a full imagination poetry. Words such as “thou” in first line indicates the old era of the translator and gave deeper meaning for me. As a reader, I could directly imagine the beauty of nature that shows in second and third line. He also played with the rhyme in the end of each line. “Shimmering surface, like tears” gave a visual imagination plus an emphasis of auditory imagination at the last line in the phrase "the while aquatic sounds assails our ears".

The last version is the most simple translation. It consists only of three words, very short but has the most difficult sense to understand because I have to think more about what the poet desired to convey. The less said, the more difficult to understand. Based on the shape, this poetry can be classified into contemporary poetry which indicated by verses that written in indented way.

In conclusion, the poetry will be translated depends on the era of the translator, the meaning to be conveyed and the writing style of the translator. Analyzing the era can be done by noticing the diction that is used, while the shape can classify the type of poetry and depends on the readers ability to understand.


Thursday, February 9, 2012

(News) B2ST Will Visit Indonesia!


First, I can hardly believe this news spreads on twitter!
But now, I almost cry every time I remember it!
It's trully that they will visit Indonesia on 17 March this years.
I have to save many to meet my Doojoon! ><

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Quotes

" Time is so stubborn. insist you to move away n doesn't care about your feeling now. But, it is able to heal all your pain. " -- Riza Chacha

"People change, people leave away, people start something new, but life still goes on no matter what." -- Riza Chacha

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Happy 200th Bday Charles Dickens!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLES DICKENS!

If you don not familiar with his name, you must know A Christmas Carol animaton that's adapted from his book :)
And google is celebrating his 200th bday!

(Random) !

JUST EDITED MY BLOG SIZE

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Tuhan Dengar Aku

Tuhan aku lemah.
Aku ingin mendengar Firman dan janjiMu sebagai kuat hatiku.
Kakiku lemah lunglai dan aku tak mampu.
Tuhan lihatlah duniaku berduka.
Aku berdosa dan congkak hati. Namun kasihMu menegurku. Tuhan jangan berpaling dariku. Gundah gulana jiwaku menangis tanpaMu. Bagai benang yg basah tulangku tak bertopang. Hanya janji setiaMu yg mmpu kuatkan aku. Tuhan ini aku anakMu. Penuh lumpur kemunafikan dan ikhtiar palsu. Ampuni aku Tuhan. Terima sujud dan persembahan hatiku. Tak sanggup kujauh dariMu. Matilah jiwaku memanggil namaMu.

(Tutorial) How To Make Kimchi Easily

Indonesian Tutorial

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I watched a movie called City Hunter where Lee Minho from Boys Over Flower played again as the main character. In some scene they ate Kimchi soup, but because I live so far from Korea and it's kinda hard to find Korean Restaurant here *I think it's very expensive too* so I browsed the internet and find this video.
Now, you can make your own kimchi easly. Maybe the taste is not exactly the same as the original, but you can make it as your own taste.

Ingredients :
Napa Cabbage
Carrot
Salt
Anchovy Sauce (or you can change it with fish sauce)
Green onion
Onion and garlic
sugar
chili powder

You can follow the steps on video above.
Hope it helps!