Jumat, 15 Maret 2013

Harajuku Girls Dancer

The Harajuku Girls are four Japanese and Japanise American backup Dancer featured in stage shows and music videos for Gwen Stefani during her solo pop/R&B/dance-record phase The women also act as an entourage at Stefani's public appearances.
The Harajuku Girls are Maya Chino ("Love"), Jennifer Kita ("Angel"), Rino Nakasone-Razalan ("Music") and Mayuko Kitayama ("Baby"). The name of the group is a reference to Harajuku, a neighborhood of Tokyo. The stage names of the women are derived from Stefani's Love. Angel. Music. Baby, which was the name of her first album as well as her clothing brand.

Maya Chino

Maya Chino ("Love") during a stage performance of Harajuku Girls
Maya Chino (stage name "Love") grew up in Tokyo. She started out doing ballet when she was three years old and also tap danced. Before dancing with Gwen Stefani, she was a backup dancer for South Korean singer BoA. She is now living in LA, and teaching Hip Hop lessons to kids at an academy called HORIPRO Music Academy. Also one of the Head Instructor/Choreographer for HMA's HIPHOP Team "RIZE".

Jennifer Kita
Jennifer Kita (stage name "Angel/Lil Angel"), is a Japanese-American from Torrance, California. After graduating from South High School, Jennifer moved to San Diego and studied hip-hop at Mesa College. She later joined the dance troupe Culture Shock San Diego, where she performed for two years, then joined the hip hop entertainment company Urban FX, where she danced for a year. Even though it is not yet properly confirmed, they say that Jennifer Kita's stage name of "Angel" may have changed to "Lil Angel" after Stefani mentioned "Lil Angel" in the new Harajuku Lovers Fragrance advert.

Rino Nakasone Razalan

Rino Nakasone Razalan (stage name "Music"), born June 11, 1979, grew up in Okinawa. She became interested in dance after watching music videos by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and mimicking their moves. At the age of nineteen, she went to Los Angeles to study dance. She later taught dance at a performing arts centers, and joined an all-female dance group "Beat Freaks", which competed and was runner-up in America's Best Dance Crew. She most recently appeared in the new dance multimedia production "Siren Assassins" as Queen Jade. She was formerly married to Lee-J Razalan, the manager of Beat Freaks and a fellow dancer. She is the choreographer for famous Korean boy band SHINee with their debut song, "Noona is so Pretty/Replay" and various others including "Love Like Oxygen", "Juliette", "Lucifer", and "Hello" as well as choreographing Girls' Generation's "Genie", "Oh!" and "Hoot", Super Junior's "No Other", and f(x)'s "Chu~♥", "NU ABO", "Gangsta Boy" and "Hot Summer".

Mayuko Kitayama

Mayuko Kitayama (stage name "Baby"), born February 14, 1984, grew up in Osaka. She eventually moved to New York, where she practiced in several dancing studios, after dancing in Japan for several years. During 2004, she appeared as one of the back up dancers for Britney Spears's Onyx Hotel tour.

Criticism

Asian-American entertainer Margaret Cho launched criticism of Stefani and the group for reinforcing negative stereotypes of Asian women. Nakasone-Razalan has responded that Stefani was inspired by the Japanese fashion culture and felt honored to have been in the group. In an interview in the January/February 2006 edition of Blender magazine, Cho called Stefani's Harajuku Girls a minstrel show that reinforces ethnic stereotypes of Asian women.
Writer Mihi Ahn of Salon.com said of Stefani's Harajuku Girls: "Stefani has taken the idea of Japanese street fashion and turned these women into modern-day geisha.

Kamis, 07 Maret 2013

Timun Mas

Orientation
Who/what  :A couple who lived happily but they don't have any children
Where        :Village near forest
When         : A long time ago


Complication
 A couple pray to God , and suddenly a giant through their house and hear about it . The giant gave them     cucumber seed . When that children was 17 years old , the giant will took her.

Resolution
The couple planted the cucumber seeds.A view Month later a golden cucumber grew in the yard , Carefully they found a beautiful baby girl. Her name was Timun Mas

Complication
When Timun Mas was seventeenth years old , the giant will took her , the couple gave her a bundle from sacred hermid who lived in mountain.

Resolution
The Giant chased her , and he was getting closer and closer .Then Timun Mas took a handful of salt form the bundle ,she spread out the salt . Suddenly a wide sea appeared between them. The Giant hat to swim to reach her.

Complication
Timun Mas was still running , but now the giant almost caught her .

Resolution
She took the chili seeds and threw them at the giant .The seeds suddenly grew into some trees and trapped the giant. The trees grem some throns as sharp as a knife. The Giant screamed painfully.

Complication
The Giant was very strong ,again he almost caught Timun Mas.

Resolution
Timun Mas took the cucumber seeds, she threw them into the ground and suddenly they became a wide cucumber field .
 

 Complication
Timun Mas kept on running as fast as she can .But soon she was very tired.And things were getting worse too .The Giant had woken up.

Resolution
Then she threw the last weapon ,the shrimp paste.The shrimp paste turned into a big swamp, he can't breath , finally he drowned . 


Re-Orientation
The end of the story :The Giant drowned and Timun Mas was save now ,From then on Timun Mas lived    happily ever after with her family and no fear anymore .
How is the ending :Timun Mas came back to her house and lived happily.
Happy or sad ending :Happy ending