7 ALASAN MENGAPA PEREMPUAN SUKA MENDAKI GUNUNG (JANGAN DI SIA-SIA KAN!)

Punya teman cewek yang hobi naik gunung? Atau kamu malah salah satu cewek yang suka menaklukkan puncak-puncak tinggi? Betapa beruntungnya dirimu, karena tidak banyak kaum perempuan yang mau bersusah payah mendaki gunung. Bagaimana tidak? Di gunung tidak ada toilet, tidak ada sinyal telepon apalagi internet, jika ingin makan harus masak sendiri, badan dan pakaian kotor penuh debu, seluruh tubuh pegal-pegal, kepanasan di siang hari dan menggigil di malam hari. Kuat banget kan, pendaki cewek itu? Jika kamu punya stigma negatif tentang pendaki cewek, segera singkirkan hal itu dari benakmu. Mungkin kamu berpikiran bahwa pendaki berjenis kelamin cewek itu cenderung tomboy, dekil dan jarang mandi, serta cuek. Stop! 7 alasan berikut akan membuatmu kagum pada pendaki cewek karena mereka spesies langka yang tidak boleh disia-siakan. 1. Kuat dan Tidak Manja Berjalan selama berjam-jam, bahkan 5-7 jam dengan tas ransel atau carrier yang membebani punggung saja pendaki cewek mampu melakukannya. Bekal minum dan makanan hanya seadanya, menunya terbatas pada mie instan dan kopi. Buang hajat di rerumputan dengan berbekal tissue basah. Itu semua harus ditanggung oleh cewek-cewek yang hobi naik gunung. Capek? Tentu. Mengeluh? Itu adalah pantangan. Seorang pendaki berjenis kelamin cewek ditempa untuk menjadi sosok yang kuat dan tidak manja. Mereka berburu dengan waktu, sehingga harus bisa mengalahkan pesimisme yang muncul dalam diri masing-masing. 2. Pejuang Sejati Mendaki gunung yang tingginya ribuan meter di atas permukaan laut bukan persoalan yang mudah. Diperlukan fisik yang kuat dan mental yang mantap bagi seorang cewek yang ingin melakukan pendakian. Sudah kodrat jika cowok dan cewek memiliki kekuatan yang berbeda, cewek biasanya lebih lemah dari cowok. Tapi saat naik gunung, cewek harus bisa mengimbangi para pendaki cowok agar tidak ketinggalan di tengah jalan. Lihat, kan? Seorang pendaki cewek memiliki semangat berjuang yang besar. 3. Ramah dan Supel Saat melakukan pendakian, tentu di perjalanan banyak bertemu dengan pendaki-pendaki lain. Entah itu pendaki cowok atau cewek. Bagi kamu yang sering naik gunung, tentu hafal dengan kebiasaan menyapa pendaki lain. Bahkan mereka bisa menjadi teman perjalananmu selama mendaki gunung. Pendaki cewek juga sering menyapa sesama teman pendaki lain, bahkan walaupun mereka tidak saling mengenal. Dari sekedar basa-basi, “Mari, Mas/Mbak.” sampai menanyakan asal atau memberi semangat. Bahkan tidak jarang, berawal dari saling berbagi makanan atau foto bersama bisa membentuk sebuah persahabatan. 4. Bukan Orang yang Eksklusif Tidur hanya beralas matras dan sleeping bag di tengah alam terbuka saja mau. Makan seadanya, bahkan kadang makanan yang disajikan tidak higienis karena terkena debu saja tidak mengeluh. Capek dan pegal-pegal, tetap berjalan bersama. Pendaki cewek tidak suka menuntut macam-macam. Jangan cemas jika kamu adalah cowok yang enggak kaya, pendaki cewek bukan orang yang matrealistis. Mereka hanya menginginkan pasangannya mau menerima apa adanya dirinya, seperti halnya mereka menerima apa adanya pasangannya. 5. Sederhana dan Apa Adanya Siapa bilang pendaki cewek itu tomboy, sehingga mereka cenderung cuek? Tentu saja tidak! Para pendaki cewek hanya sedikit lebih istimewa daripada cewek-cewek kebanyakan. Pendaki cewek tidak terlalu mempermasalahkan seperti apa mereka di hadapan orang lain. Mereka tidak suka terlihat cantik dengan make up tebal atau perawatan di salon-salon terkenal. Untuk apa? Toh, make up akan luntur saat terkena panasnya matahari di atas gunung. Begitu pun muka akan terlihat coreng moreng karena debu di sepanjang trek pendakian. 6. Romantis Abis Cewek itu gampang tersentuh perasaannya. Tapi, tidak banyak cewek yang mau bersusah payah menunjukkan sisi romantismenya. Kebanyakan malah menuntut cowoknya senantiasa romantis, sedangkan dia sendiri enggan jika harus bersikap romantis. Alasannya: cowok memberi, cewek menerima. Beda halnya dengan cewek yang suka mendaki gunung, dia tidak akan ragu menggandeng tangan pasangannya sambil menikmati matahari terbit di puncak gunung. 7. Cantiknya Tersembunyi Setiap orang tahu, edelweis adalah bunga abadi yang cantik. Tapi orang jarang memperhatikan dandelion yang tak kalah indah, tersembunyi di rerumputan. Seperti halnya para cewek yang suka mendaki gunung, mereka bagaikan dandelion yang keindahannya kalah oleh edelweis yang terlihat di permukaan. Oleh karena itu, hanya orang-orang yang jeli yang bisa melihat kecantikan cewek-cewek titisan Srikandi yang berbeda dari yang lain ini.

WHY KIDS TODAY GROWING UP TOO FAST?

Marketers call them "tweens": kids between eight and 12, midway between childhood and adolescence. But tweens are becoming more like teens, leaning more and more toward teen styles, teen attitudes and teen behavior at its most troubling. "The 12- to 14-year-olds of yesterday are the 10- to 12-'s of today," says Bruce Friend, a vice president of the kids' cable channel Nickelodeon. The Nickelodeon-Yankelovicht Youth Monitor found that by the time they are 12, children describe themselves as "flirtatious, sexy, trendy, athletic, cool." Among the products targeted at this age group is the Sweet Georgia Brown line from AM Cosmetics. It includes body paints and scented body oils with names like Vanilla Vibe and Follow Me Boy. Soon, thanks to the Cincinnati design firm Libby Peszyk Kattiman, your little darling will be able to slip into some tween-sized bikini panties. The tweening of childhood is more than just a matter of fashion. Tweens are demonstrating many of the deviant behaviors we usually associate with adolescence. "Ninth and 10th grade used to be the starting point for a lot of what we call risk behaviors," says Henry Trevor, who heads a middle school in Brooklyn, N.Y. "Fifteen years ago they moved into the eighth grade. Now it's seventh grade." The data supporting this trend are sketchy, since most studies of risk behavior begin with 15-year-olds. But the clearest evidence is found in crime statistics. Although children under 15 still represent a minority of juvenile arrests, their numbers have grown disproportionately in the past 20 years. According to a report by the office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, "offenders under age 15 represent the leading edge of the juvenile crime problem, and their numbers are growing." The crimes committed by younger teens and preteens are growing in severity, too: "Person offenses, which once constituted 16 percent of the total court cases for this age group now constitute 25 percent." Tweens are also becoming more sexually active. Between 1988 and 1995, the proportion of girls saying they had sexual intercourse before 15 rose to 19% from 11%. (Boys remained stable at 21%.) "We're beginning to see a few pregnant sixth-graders, "says Christy Hogan, a recently retired middle-school counselor in Louisville, Ky. Equally striking, though less easily tabulated, is the increasing prevalence of sexual contact short of intercourse. Michael Thompson, co-author of the forthcoming "Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys," says he hears from seventh- and eighth- graders a lot of talk about oral sex, which they, like a certain prominent role model, don't think of as sex. "For them, it's just fooling around," Mr. Thompson says. Drugs and alcohol are also seeping into tween culture. The past decade has seen more than a doubling of the proportion of eighth-graders who have smoked marijuana (10% today) and of those who no longer see it as dangerous. "The stigma isn't there the way it was 10 years ago," says Dan Kindlon, Mr. Thompson's co-author. "Then, it was the fringe group smoking pot.... Now the fringe group is using LSD. " Other troubling trends: Although the numbers remain small, suicide among tweens more than doubled between 1979 and 1995. Therapists say they are seeing a growth in eating disorders — anorexia and obsessive dieting—even among girls in late elementary school, doubtless an outgrowth of a premature fashion-consciousness. What change in our social ecology has led to the emergence of tweens? In my conversations with educators and child psychologists who work primarily with middle-class kids nationwide, two major and fairly predictable themes emerged: absentee parents and a sexualized and glitzy media-driven marketplace. What has been less commonly recognized is the way these two influences combine to augment the authority of the peer group. With their parents working long hours away from home, many youngsters are leaving for school from an empty house after eating breakfast alone, then picking up fast food or frozen meals for dinner. Almost without exception, the principals and teachers I spoke with describe a pervasive loneliness among tweens. "The most common complaint I hear," says Ms. Hogan, "is, 'My mom doesn't care what I do. She's never home. She doesn't even know what I do.' " The loss of family life invariably expands the power of the peer group. By late elementary school, according to "Peer Power: Culture and Identity," a recent study by Patricia Adler with Peter Adler, boys understand that their popularity depends on "toughness, troublemaking, domination, coolness, and interpersonal bragging and sparring skills." Girls derive status from "success at grooming, clothes, and other appearance-related variables; . . . [their] romantic success as measured through popularity and going with boys; affluence and its correlates of material possessions and leisure pursuits." Both parental absence and the powerful peer group are intricately connected to the rise of a burgeoning tween market. Tweens began to catch the eye of marketers around the mid-1980s, when research found that more and more children this age were shopping for their own clothes, shoes, accessories, drugstore items—even for the family groceries. Today's tween ads reflect this sensibility: Kids are on their own, goes the premise; flatter them as hip and aware almost-teens rather than out-of-it little kids—as independent, sophisticated consumers with their own language, music and fashion. Anyone who remembers high school will recall many of these dynamics. But it is important to recognize that the combination of isolation from adults, peer cruelty and fantasies of sophistication, though always a danger to the alienated teenager, is especially taxing to the fragile ego of the preadolescent. With less life experience and less self-awareness, preadolescents have fewer internal resources to fall back on. "These kids have two years less time to become a firm person," says Helen Colvin, a middle-school science teacher from Harrisburg, Pa. "That's two years less time to discover what they are, what they believe, to experiment with identity. Instead, they want to be like their friends." Tweens, far from being simply a marketing niche group, are the vanguard of a new, decultured generation, isolated from family and neighborhood, shrugged at by parents, dominated by peers, and delivered into the hands of a sexualized and status- and fad-crazed marketplace.

Between Us Perfume Launch

Psst, One Direction have been keeping a secret and it’s time for us to exclusively reveal it. The guys’ latest fragrance, Between US is coming to a store near you soon. Louis, Niall, Harry and Liam have been hard at work making the perfect scent to share with all of you, and it’s finally here! Want to find out when you can get your hands on Between Us? Head over to www.onedirectionfragrance.com and find out when it hits the shelves where you are. Are you as excited as we are? Share your thoughts with us using hashtag #1DFragrance.

Zayn Malik Rumor Round-Up: Which Ones Do You Believe?

1. Zayn and Perrie have broken up: Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 4.21.03 PM Let’s start with the base rumor. When Zayn was photographed holding hands with a girl who wasn’t fiance Perrie Edwards, people started speculating over whether Zayn was cheating on the Little Mix singer. He dropped out of the rest of the Asian dates on 1D’s tour to fly home to Perrie. Shortly after, he announced he was leaving the group. After meeting up, she was seen leaving their house with a weekend bag. But no worries, the pictures posted from the vacation that followed make it look like everything’s OK. 2. Zayn and Perrie got married Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 4.26.37 PM On the other end of the Zerrie relationship spectrum, some people are saying that the lovebirds are already married. I’m not sure about this one, but some tabloids claim they have evidence in the form of Facebook posts where Perrie’s friend is congratulating her on her big day. The post was liked by members of One Direction, apparently. 3. Zayn is on drugs Screen Shot 2015-05-11 at 2.09.47 PM After Zayn left, many people scrambled to make sense of why he would quit One Direction. For some, his own explanation simply wasn’t enough. The drugs rumor is a classic one, and it spread in late March, but we haven’t really seen it since. It’s not the first time Zayn has been accused of doing drugs. Zayn missed Four’s release day in November due to illness, but when they were on the “Today” show, host Matt Lauer alluded that his absence meant that he was dealing with substance abuse. 4. Zayn has a sex tape Some click-hungry sites published stories about Zayn’s rumored sex tape. And although many fans probably wish this were true, it’s not. Blame this rumor (and everything else) on internet culture, where websites can just write “report” in a headline, source the story back to someone else and bury the fact that the whole story is fake. 5. Zayn will present at the Movie Awards The MTV Movie Awards were just a few weeks after the 1D news broke and the wound was still fresh. So why not combine two major events into one big rumor? Rumor had it that One Direction would reunite at the show. If only 6. Zayn has a solo career OK, so this one might be true. After all, Naughty Boy and Zayn have been causing a ruckus online. The British producer had retweeted the joint moniker “Zaughty” just days after Zayn’s 1D departure (which got Louis Tomlinson really upset). Shortly after, a Zaughty track surfaced online, including some speculation that it was a ditched One Direction demo. Tomlinson quickly struck the speculation down, therefore confirming that this was all Zayn — solo. 7.One Direction will have a Zayn diss track Diss songs aren’t uncommon, but this one just seems immature. A “source” told Hollywood Life that “Louis helps write a lot of their songs so these feelings will end up in their music. Louis will write a diss son. [sic] He’s angry and he can’t hold it in.” Mhmm… we’ll see about that.

Louis Tomlinson: Zayn Malik Is Being Used By Naughty Boy

“The main problem Louis has with Naughty Boy is that he believes he’s using Zayn to gain notoriety and fame,” a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. “Louis genuinely does not believe Naughty Boy has Zayn’s best interests at heart, and in the end will do more damage than good.” 1D fans will remember that Zayn was quick to jump into the studio with Naughty Boy soon after leaving the group. It’s left Louis thinking that Naughty Boy is taking advantage of a lost and confused Zayn, according to the insider. “You must remember, Naughty Boy took Zayn under his wing when he was vulnerable and lost after quitting 1D,” the source continued. “And that’s just how Louis sees it, and hopes that Zayn realizes he’s being taken advantage of and quits ties with the rapper.” Oh, no! We hope for Zayn’s well-being that’s not the case. It’s worth noting he had worked with Naughty Boy before he walked out on his bandmates when they were in middle of their huge world tour.

Zayn Malik 'signed off' One Direction world tour to recover from stress.

The pressures of boyband notoriety and endless media hounding appear to have conquered One Direction’s Zayn Malik, who has been signed off the band’s current world tour with stress. According to One Direction’s publicist, the singer is returning home despite having three dates in Asia scheduled for this week. “Zayn has signed off with stress and is flying back to the UK to recuperate,” says the group’s spokesperson. “The band wish him well and will continue with their performances in Manila and Jakarta.” Aside from the obvious pressures of being part of the biggest boyband in the world, Malik was the subject of two news stories which surfaced this week. The first concerned matters regarding his relationship with Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards, after he was pictured holding hands with another woman while in Thailand. On 18 March, Malik publicly apologised to his fiancée: "i'm 22 years old... I love a girl named Perrie Edwards. And there's a lot of jealous fucks in this world I'm sorry for what it looks like x" on his twitter account.

Zayn Malik Leave From 1D

After five incredible years Zayn Malik has decided to leave One Direction. Niall, Harry, Liam and Louis will continue as a four-piece and look forward to the forthcoming concerts of their world tour and recording their fifth album, due to be released later this year. Zayn says: "My life with One Direction has been more than I could ever have imagined. But, after five years, I feel like it is now the right time for me to leave the band. I'd like to apologise to the fans if I've let anyone down, but I have to do what feels right in my heart. I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight. I know I have four friends for life in Louis, Liam, Harry and Niall. I know they will continue to be the best band in the world." One Direction say: "We're really sad to see Zayn go, but we totally respect his decision and send him all our love for the future. The past five years have been beyond amazing, we've gone through so much together, so we will always be friends. The four of us will now continue. We're looking forward to recording the new album and seeing all the fans on the next stage of the world tour." Simon Cowell says: "I would like to say thank you to Zayn for everything he has done for One Direction. Since I first met Zayn in 2010, I have grown very, very fond - and immensely proud - of him. I have seen him grow in confidence and I am truly sorry to see him leave. As for One Direction, fans can rest assured that Niall, Liam, Harry and Louis are hugely excited about the future of the band."

Lirik Lagu Fool's Gold by 1D

I'm like a crow on a wire
You’re the shining distraction that makes me fly home
I’m like a boat on the water
You’re the raise on the waves that calm my mind
Oh, every time
And I know in my heart, you’re not a constant star
And, yeah I’ve let you use me from the day that we first met
But I’m not done yet
Falling for your fool’s gold
And I knew that you turn it on for everyone you met
But I don’t regret
Falling for your fool’s gold
I’m the first to admit that I’m reckless
I get lost in your beauty and I can’t see two feet in front of me
And I know in my heart, you’re just a moving part
And, yeah, I’ve let you use me from the day that we first met
But I’m not done yet
Falling for your fool’s gold
And I knew that you turn it on for everyone you met
But I don’t regret
Falling for your fool’s gold
Yeah, I know your love’s not real
That’s not the way it feels
That’s not the way you feel
And, yes, I’ve let you use me from the day that we first met
But I’m not done yet
Falling for your fool’s gold
And I knew that you turn it on for everyone you met
But I don’t regret
Falling for your fool’s gold

Lirik Lagu Fireproof by 1D

I think I’m gonna lose my mind
Something deep inside me, I can’t give up
I think I’m gonna lose my mind
I roll and I roll ’til I’m out of luck, yeah
I roll and I roll ’til I’m out of luck
I’m feeling something deep inside
Hotter than a jet stream burning up
I got a feeling deep inside
It’s taking, it’s taking all I got, yeah
It’s taking, it’s taking all I got
‘Cause nobody knows you, baby, the way I do
And nobody loves you, baby, the way I do
It’s been so long, it’s been so long, maybe you are fireproof’
Cause nobody saves me, baby, the way you do
I think I’m gonna win this time
Riding on the wind and I won’t give up
I think I’m gonna win this timeI roll and I roll, ’til I change my luck, yeah
I roll and I roll, ’til I change my luck
‘Cause nobody knows you, baby, the way I do
And nobody loves you, baby, the way I do
It’s been so long, it’s been so long, you must be fireproof
‘Cause nobody saves me, baby, the way you do
‘Cause nobody knows you, baby, the way I do
And nobody loves you, baby, the way I do
It’s been so long, it’s been so long, maybe you were fireproof
‘Cause nobody saves me, baby, the way you do

Lirik Lagu I wish By 1D

Na na na na na na
Na na na na na naHe takes your hand
I die a littleI watch your eyes
And I’m in riddles
Why can’t you look at me like that
When you walk by
I try to say it
But then I freeze
And never do it
My tongue gets tied
The words gets trapped
I hear the beat of my heart getting louder
Whenever I’m near you
But I see you with him slow dancing
Tearing me apart
Cause you don’t see
Whenever you kiss him
I’m breaking,Oh how I wish that was me
He looks at you
The way that I would
Does all the things, I know that I could
If only time, could just turn back
Cause I got three little words
That I’ve always been dying to tell you
But I see you with him slow dancing
Tearing me apart
Cause you don’t see
Whenever you kiss him
I’m breaking,Oh how I wish that was me
With my hands on your waist
While we dance in the moonlight
I wish it was me
That you call later on
Cause you wanna say good night
Cause I see you with him slow dancing
Tearing me apart
Cause you don’t see
But I see you with him slow dancing
Tearing me apart
Cause you don’t see
Whenever you kiss him
I’m breaking,Oh how I wish
Oh how I wish
Oh how I wish, that was me
Oh how I wish, that was me