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Day 1 Thursday Date : February 27th 2020 Time: 19.08-19 25
First Person	Maudy Ayunda
His/Her biography	Faza Ayunda Maudia or used to call Maudy Ayunda was born on December 19, 1994. Her hobbies are swimming, singing, writing, and playing piano. Her idols are Agnes Monica, Tompi, Nidji, Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars. She is able to speak English, Mandarin and Spanish.  Maudy Ayunda is an Indonesian artist and singer who have many talents. She has been an artist since 11th years old. She began her career by being one of the actresses in a movie entitled “Untuk Rena”. In 2010 there were three films that casted by her. Furthermore, in 2011 Maudy re-appear in the musical dramas entitled “Rumah Tanpa Jendela and Tendangan dari Langit”. The following year, she casted in the films “Malaikat Tanpa Sayap and Perahu Kertas.”  Not only being cast in films, she is also a singer. She released an album entitled "Panggil aku: Maudy Ayunda". In the album, she put one of her songs titled Tetap Bersama. Her first album consists of 10 songs. Although she has been fairly successful artist since she was a young girl, but she does not rule out her academic. She could manage her time, she could undergo her career and academic in balanced way. Not only have achievements in her career, she also have many achievements in her academic. She had been a runner up speech competition in her school. In 2016 she finished her college in Oxford University. She graduated with cum laude grade. And now she is continuing her study in Stanford University.
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Sources	http://hikmaningtyas.blogspot.com/2013/06/biography-maudy-ayunda.html
The amount of words on text	446 words
What makes you interested in this person	I choose Maudy Ayunda because she is a smart girl. Not only that she also has many talents such as she able to sing, act, write songs and book, etc. She executes her career and her academic in balance way, and I am so inspired by her.
Comment after reading	This text is good enough, the information is almost complete, the sentences of this text are simple, so it makes easy to be understood.
New Vocabularies found	Postpone, re-apear, execute.
Time:	20.13-20.24
Second Person	Chelsea Islan
His/Her biography	Chelsea Elizabeth Islan or known as Chelsea Islan was born in Washington DC on June 2nd 1995. Her mother is American, and her father is an Indonesian. She is a tall girl with 167 cm height. Her hobby is photography. Chelsea Islan began her career as a model in a video clip created by Peterpan band. In that time Peterpan is a big band so it makes Chelsea more and more recognized by the public.  She was starting a career in the film industry through the film entitled "Refrain" along with Maudy Ayunda and Afgan. Although she was not the main character in that film, but her acting as a photographer girl got praised by many people. Because of that, her name skyrocketed and in 2014 she casted as the main character in the film titled "Merry Riana" along with Dion Wiyoko. She feels proud, her latest film entitled "Merry Riana: Million Dollar Dream" watched by one of important people in Indonesia, former Indonesian President BJ Habibie.  According to Chelsea Islan, it becomes a most wonderful Christmas gift for her. In 2015 she also became the cast in the film "Dibalik 98" and "Master of the nation: Tjokroaminoto (2015)" She prefers to postpone her study and choose to focus on her career in. But she still considers that education is important, so she will continue her study after she has been finished her latest film titled " Behind the wall palace. Street Society"
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Sources	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Islan
The amount of words on text	318 words
What makes you interested in this person	She is an ambitious girl, and young Indonesian artist who had many achievements. She is always try to be professional on her career and always totality when she is doing her job. Because of that people always like the work that have been done by her.
Comment after reading	The text biography of Chelsea Islan gives me an implicit message that if we want something with maximal result, we should do something with our best, and totality.
New Vocabularies found	skyrocketed, Undertaken, bid, refrain.

Day 2 Friday Date : February 28th , 2020 Time: 10.31 - 10-38
First Person	Niall Horan
His/Her biography	Niall James Horan was born on September 13rd, 1993, in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. Niall grew up in Mullingar and attended St. Kenny National School, where he performed in school plays and sang in the school choir. He attended secondary school at Coláiste Mhuire (Mary's College), also in Mullingar. As a teenager he performed at the Mullingar Arts Centre (in a fund-raiser for the local football team, the Shamrocks) and at The Academy in Dublin. In 2016 when he was 16 years old, he became one of the contestants of talent competition (X Factor). Although he was eliminated as a solo contestant after the semifinals, the judges combined him with Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson to form the boy band named One Direction. He is the only One Direction member who was born outside England, he is enjoyed tremendous success with his bandmates. In the first year of their career Niall ever cried on the stage because when he sang his part of the song, several audiences shout to him that “he is ugly, his voice is not good, and he is not deserve to be a part of One Direction”. But time by time he could proof that all of they said is not true. After they work together in 5 years, they have 5 albums, those are "Take Me Home" (2012), "Midnight Memories" (2013), "Four" (2014). In 2015, one of the members named Zayn malik decided to not be a part of One Direction anymore.    After Zayn out from 1D, they were releasing a new Album titled "Made in the A.M" in November 2015. Not long after they released their 5th album, Horan, Payne, Styles and Tomlinson decided to vacuum and do solo career.  Horan dropped his debut solo single, "This Town," in September 2016 Niall Horan releasing his debut solo single titled “This Town” Followed with two more singles, "Slow Hands" and "Too Much to Ask," before finally delivering the chart-topping album Flicker in October 2017. After spending much of 2018 on tour, Horan unveiled the singles "Nice to Meet Ya" and "Put a Little Love on Me" in the latter stages of 2019, ahead of the planned release of his second solo album.
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Sources	https://www.biography.com/musician/niall-horan
The amount of words on text	1003 words
What makes you interested in this person	The things that make me Interested to him are he is handsome, smart, he is the only one member in his group who doesn’t have even a tattoo, not a smoker, humble, and never give up on his dream.
Comment after reading	The text of Nial Horan biography is so completely tell us about His career journey.
New Vocabularies found	shamrocks, preliminary, culminating, tremendous, relentles,  hiatus, appeal, unveiled, settling in, households.
Time:	14.43-14.51
Second Person	Bradly Simpson
His/Her biography	Bradly Simpson was born in Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom on jully 28th 1995. He is a singer and guitarist from British. He was raised in the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, UK. Details about his early life and educational background are not known to the media. He has an elder sister, Natalie Simpson, also has a dog named Jesse. He is interested in music since he was a little boy. In his early age he dreamed to become one of the most renowned musicians and singers in the world.  In 2012 he has opportunity to show his talent to the world after becoming a part of the band The Vamps that consist of lead guitarist James McVey, Connor Ball as the bassist, and drummer Tristan Evans. The band soon released their debut single "Can We Dance" followed by another single that song reached top ten in the UK Singles Charts. Simpson and his band released their second single "Wild Heart" on January 19, 2014. This track peaked at No 3 on the UK Singles Chart. After that, their third single "Last Night" was released which debuted at No 2 in the UK. In April 2014, they released their debut studio album, "Meet the Vamps" which proved to be a massive success. It featured their super-hit single "Somebody to You" among others. In May 2014, a new version of the song "Somebody to You" was released as Simpsons band’s first official single in the US, followed by an EP of the same name in August 2014. Then, the singer in collaboration with his band released their second studio album titled "Wake Up" in November 2015. The following year, Simpson and his team recorded a track for the animated flick "Kung Fu Panda 3". They also released the first single from their 3rd album "All Night" that year. Their second single from the upcoming album, "Middle of the Night" came out in April 2017. In May 2017, the band was featured on "Hands" alongside Sabrina Carpenter and Mike Perry. In 2013, Brad Simpson and his band won 4 Music Video Honours Award in the category Your Best Breakthrough, The Hot Hits Awards in the categories Favorite New Artist, Best Group’ respectively, and the band also won two ‘Melty Future Awards’ for ‘Prix Special International’ and ‘UK Favorite Breakthrough’ that year.
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Sources	https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/brad-simpson-32787.php
The amount of words on text	827 words
What makes you interested in this person	His Cute face and lovely smile, also his unique voice.
Comment after reading	The sentences of the text are easy to understand but the sequences of the years are not chronological.
New Vocabularies found	Renowned, aspiring, emerged, earned,  massive, Breakthrough, Prix.

Day 3 Monday Date : February 29th 2020 Time: 7.51-08.02
First Person	Isyana Sarasvati
His/Her biography	Isyana Sarasvati was born in Bandung on May 2nd 1993. She is an Indonesian talented singer.  She spent her childhood in various locations, because of her parents worked & continued their studies in Belgium. However, at the age of 7 her family moved to Bandung, Indonesia. Isyana is the youngest daughter, she has an older sister named Rara Sekar Larasati. Raised in a family of educators, Isyana was introduced to music at the age of 4 by her mother. Isyana has mastered a number of instruments, including piano, electron, flute, violin, and saxophone. When she was 16 years old, she received a scholarship from the Singaporean Government to study Music Performance at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore. On September 26, 2015, she graduated from NAFA with "Bachelor of Music" (B.Mus) title and received the Best Graduate Award & Embassy of Peru Award. Before many peoples knew her, she is a pop singer and songwriter, she built a reputation as a soloist and recitalist in classical music. She participated in several music competition that made her became a talented girl as right now. When she was 15 years old, she's created a composition titled "Wings of Your Shadow". In 2014 She was releasing 2 singles titled “keep being you” and “Tetap Dalam Jiwa” and then people begin to know her.  She has released 3 albums. Her albums get positive reviews and commercial success. Isyana met Doctor Rayhan Maditra Indrayanto in Junior High School, in 2007. She began dating with him. After being in a relationship for 12 years, they became engaged on December 29, 2019.  They were married on February 02 2020 in Bandung.
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Sources	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isyana_Sarasvati
The amount of words on text	842 words
What makes you  interested in this person	I interested to read her biography because she is so beautiful, smart, humble, and also multitalented in music. She is famous because of her performance not bad issue. She gives high quality in Indonesian music.
Comment after reading	The text is gives us information about Isyana Sarasvati completely especially in her career and her performance, so that make the reader be more amazed to her and motivated by her.
New Vocabularies found	Recitalist, numerous, accomplishments, graphologist, embassy.
Time:	21.29-21.37
Second Person	Taylor Swift
His/Her biography	Taylor Swift is an American pop and country singer. She was born in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania on December 13, 1989. she loves to sing since 10 years old, and began to learn guitar since eleven, she practiced and practiced until she could write songs and play the guitar effortlessly. And She ever took a demo tape to Nashville, but rejected by every record label in her town but she was not given up. And in 2006 she released her first single "Tim McGraw" and a self-title debut album. Both of them were very successful. The album reached number 1 on the Top Country Albums and become the top of the charts for 24 out of the next 91 weeks.  Her second album was more booming than before, it was the most downloaded country album. And from that time, she began becoming winer received of many awards. And day by day her career getting rise until now.
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Sources	https://www.ducksters.com/biography/taylor_swift.php
The amount of words on text	495 words
What makes you interested in this person	She is brilliant, she could make the songs and the other opus based on happily or sadness and everything that happened to her.
Comment after reading	Because the text that I read was the old post, so the biography is short enough. The text just tells us about her career in several years ago, and not tell her career until now.
New Vocabularies found	Repairman, Nashville, Tennessee.

Day 4 Sunday Date : march 1st 2020 Time: 10.37 -10.37
First Person	Najwa Shihab
His/Her biography	Najwa Shihab or used to call Nana, she is a presenter who interviewed almost all national political figures through "Mata Najwa" program broadcast on Metro TV. She was born in Makassar on 16 september 1977. She is the second daughter of Prof. Dr. Quraish Shihab who is an Indonesian Muslim scholar. Najwa had a husband named Ibrahim Assegaf and has a son named Izzat. When she was in senior high school, she was elected as a student who went to America for a year in a program called AFS Intercultural Programs managed by the Foundation. Then when entering college, she attended the University of Indonesia majoring in Legal Studies and graduated in 2000. Despite graduating as a Bachelor of Law, but she prefers to be a part of journalism than a lawyer. She was beginning her career in journalism by began becoming a presenter in Metro TV Indonesia. She was the first reporter who report about Tsunami Aceh. In 2006 she received an award of the best of journalist metro TV, and nominated as The Best News Reader Panasonic Awards. In the same year, along with a number of journalists from many countries, she elected as one of the Senior participants Journalist Seminar held in several cities in the US, and she also is a guest speaker at the convention Asian American Journalist Association. In Asian Television Award she become the nomination in the category Best Current Affairs / talk show presenter.     In 2008 she continued her college in Melbourne Australia taking the concentration of Media Law, there she won the Full Scholarship for Australian Leadership Awards.
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Sources	http://jenmuchan.blogspot.com/2016/11/biography-about-najwa-shihab.html
The amount of words on text	520 words
What makes you interested in this person	The things that make me interest to her because she is clever, courageous, and professional.
Comment after reading	The text is a little bit difficult to understand, and there are several words that using Indonesian language.
New Vocabularies found	Plunge, Current, attracted, inauguration, hone, ill-equipped,
Time:	11.18 - 11.33
Second Person	Merry Riana
His/Her biography	Merry Riana is an Inspirational woman. She was born on May 29, 1980 in Jakarta. She Raised in Jakarta, her parents are a businessman and a home maker, she was the eldest of three brothers. Merry began studying at college in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in 1998. The reason Merry joined to that Department is because she wants to learn to help her father in business. She borrowed the funds a scholarship Government Singapore Bank for $ 40000 and is to be repaid after graduation and work. Early months of her college in Singapore was become the difficult times for her. She only eating instant noodles in the morning, lunch with 2 pieces of bread without jam, participating seminars and gatherings in the evenings for the sake of a free meal, and she drink took from tap water on campus. It fades almost daily in his first year of college. And she realizes that she should change. She began plunging into the business world without knowledge in business that make she failed. Merry lost all her money for investments. And she rose up and tried hard to become an entrepreneur. she started to try from the beginning by studying in earnest about the ins and outs of the market. After she finished her study, she met with Alva he was Merry’s husband now. They work together to be entrepreneurial. Then she started from the sales sector in the field of financial services. When she began her career as a financial advisor, she must grapple with a host of challenges and obstacles. She always tries, learns, and never gives up that make her be success.  Then she got a New Advisor Award for top line many people working in the profession of financial advisers in 2003. In 2004, the brilliant achievements of the Merry making it promoted as Manager. Until the end she success as Financial Consultant selling financial products, and now her mission is to give positive impact to Asian people especially in Indonesia.
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Sources	http://intisaribiografi.blogspot.com/2015/12/biography-of-merry-riana-most.html
The amount of words on text	1697 words
What makes you interested in this person	I interested to her because she is a good motivator, inspirational person, she gives positive impact to many people, and she never give up on her dream.
Comment after reading	The text is so long, a little bit difficult to understand, many mistake like several words use Indonesian language, and the other incorrect words. But the text completely tells the reader about her career that give the reader motivation.
New Vocabularies found	Engineering, adequate, prompted,  immerse, slumped, burdened, utilizing, swayed, circumstances, guilty.