Who would have thought that I experienced fire in the building. This is my first time living in an appartement. Of course I never chose appartement when living in Indonesia because it’s a real high risk when the earthquake happen. But here we are placed in an appartement. What got me relieved the first time that we are in the lowest floor so if something happen we will be quickly evacuated. That’s what I thought. Until it really happened. We slept around midnight and abruptly woken up by the noise outside. I thought it was the drunk people just got back from night club or the restaurant next door was doing some deep cleaning. So loud that I had to wake up. My husband peeked outside and immediately said “fire brigade outside, you wait here!” I was just “am I dreaming or what?” I put on clothes, checked outside and saw a few of fire trucks. I checked the other side of the appartement and saw a few of police cars and ambulances. “Oh no, something serious...
Tanyakan kepada banyak siswa siswi di seluruh Indonesia, apakah mereka menyukai matematika? Saya yakin akan lebih banyak yang menyatakan "kurang menyukai matematika" daripada "menyukai matematika". Layaknya sudah menjadi hal yang umum dan wajar kalau mengatakan matematika itu sulit. Bahkan setelah saya menjadi mahasiswa matematika dan lulus dari jurusan matematikapun saya juga merasa kalau matematika itu memang sulit. Bukan bermaksud membesar-besarkan kalau memilih jurusan matematika itu pasti akan mengalami masa sulit karena sulitnya matematika. Bukan. Setiap jurusan pasti memiliki tingkat kesulitan tersendiri. Nah, dulu saya sering bertanya-tanya kenapa kita belajar matematika sesulit ini di sekolah ?Fungsinya apa??? Apakah integral bisa diterapkan orang awam dalam proses membeli barang di supermarket ? Apakah differensial bisa juga digunakan orang awam untuk menghitung hutang ? Selalu bertanya-tanya seperti itu. Bagi beberapa teman, matematika memang momok terbe...