Jero Wacik Kumpulkan Testimoni 100 Tokoh dalam Sebuah Buku

Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral Jero Wacik meluncurkan buku berjudul "Jero Wacik di Mata 100 Tokoh", Minggu (7/7/2013) malam di Hotel Darmawangsa, Jakarta Selatan.

Buku itu merupakan wujud instrospeksinya di usianya yang ke-64 melalui testimoni dari para sahabatnya. Saat peluncuran, Jero menyampaikan bahwa buku tersebut juga berisi filosofi berpikir positif yang dianutnya sejak usia anak-anak sampai saat ini. Ia sangat terkejut karena tanggapan dari para sahabat yang dimintanya menulis sangat di luar dugaan.

"Saya surprise, ada yang menulis lima halaman bahwa ternyata persahabatan sangat tinggi dan saya akan menjaga persahabatan yang baik sampai ke depan," kata Jero.

Dalam buku setebal 322 halaman itu, sederet nama tokoh nasional ikut memberi pendapatnya mengenai Jero dalam bentuk tulisan. Tak terkecuali Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono dan Wakil Presiden Boediono.

Selain pimpinan negara, tokoh lain yang ikut menulis di buku itu antara lain almarhum Taufiq Kiemas, Ketua DPR RI Marzuki Alie, mantan Wakil Presiden Jusuf Kalla, Menteri Keuangan Chatib Basri, dan Menteri Perdagangan Gita Wirjawan

Mengenal Lebih Jauh, "NOUN" dalam istilah bahasa Inggris

A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn. A noun can function in a sentence as a subject, a direct object, an indirect object, a subject complement, an object complement, an appositive, an adjective or an adverb.

Nouns can be further classified as countable nouns (which name everything that can be counted (four books, two continents, a few dishes, a dozen buildings), mass nouns or non-countable nouns) (which name everything that can't be counted (water, air, energy, blood)), and collective nouns (which can take a singular form but are composed of more than one individual person or items (jury, team, class, committee, herd)).

Below are given several brief facts about the use of singuar and plural nouns in English:

Generally, countable nouns have characteristic of being able to be preceded by a/an article in their singular forms and be ended with -s/-es in their plural forms. In the contrary, such rule is not applicable to the uncountable nouns. Most of uncountable nouns include abstract noun which simply has no physical form, untouchable, and apparently, uncountable.Some of the uncountable nouns are stated below:

1. mass/collective noun;

(baggage, clothing, equipment, food, fruit, furniture, garbage, hardware, jewelry, junk, luggage, machinery, mail, makeup, money/cash/change, postage, scenery, traffic)

2. fluid;

(water, coffee, tea, milk, oil, soup, gasoline, blood)

3. solid things;

(ice, bread, butter, cheese, meat, gold, iron, silver, glass, paper, wood, cotton, wool)

4. gas;

(steam, air, oxygen, nitrogen, smoke, smog, pollution)

5. particle;

(rice, chalk, corn, dirt, dust, flour, grass, hair, pepper, salt, sand, sugar, wheat)

6. abstract noun;

(beauty, confidence, courage, education, enjoyment, fun, happiness, health, help, honesty, hospitality, importance, intelligence, justice, knowledge, laughter, luck, music, patience, peace, pride, progress, recreation, significance, sleep, truth, violence, wealth, advice, information, news, evidence, proof, time, space, energy, homework, work, grammar, slang, vocabulary)

7. language;

(Arabic, Chinese, English, Spanish)

8. academic subject;

(chemistry, engineering, history, literature, mathematics, psychology)

9. recreation;

(baseball, soccer, tennis, chess, bridge, poker)

10. some activities;

(driving, st

11. natural phenomena

(weather, dew, fog, hail, heat, humidity, lightning, rain, sleet, snow, thunder, wind, darkness, light, sunshine, electricity, fire, gravity)