A Home For My Thoughts

Selamat hari kemerdekaan negeriku. Meskipun usiamu baru (sudah) 73 tahun, tetaplah berjuang melawan kebobrokan yang dilakukan para oknum bangsa ini.

Kalau dilihat kebelakang, usia 73 tahun ini usia pensiun buat manusia. Tapi hell no untuk sebuah bangsa. Ini usia mateng-matengnya, produktif-produktifnya untuk menghasilkan sesuatu yang keren. Meskipun pula di usia yang sama, Korea Selatan udah super maju sedangkan kita gini-gini aja masih banyak koruptornya, saya percaya tiap bangsa juga punya timeline nya masing-masing. Ibarat kata temen kamu usia 23 udah punya 2 anak sedangkan kamu usia 27 belum juga nikah, so what? Hidup bukan balapan 😂

Disaat Korea Selatan udah bisa impor Kpopnya ke seluruh dunia, hape Samsungnya yang menguasai sebagian besar pasar dunia, internet super cepat yang bahkan belum diklik aja udah jalan, kita gimana? Masih berkutat berkelut dengan yang namanya isu politik agama dan ras. ternyata kita cukup rasis ya? 😐

Bahkan seringkali gw tengkar sama suami gw karena …

Ubud
Masa aktif paspor lama gw bakal abis bulan Februari tahun depan. Secara otomatis perpanjangnya harus 6 bulan sebelumnya yaitu bulan Agustus ini. Akhirnya setelah cek antrian online, dapet tanggal 3 Agustus.

Kenapa perpanjang ke epaspor? Ya karena udah jamannya aja kan. Orang ketemu temen Singapore aja diece-ece gara-gara paspor gw masih yang biasa. Dibilangnya "Lu idup taun brapa sih? paspor aja masih yang biasa!" Hemm kampret!

Gw agak ragu soal perpanjangan paspor ini. Kalau perpanjangan kan cuma bawa paspor lama sama eKTP aja. Tapi ragunya itu hanya berlaku antar paspor biasa atau antar epaspor atau gimana? Karena gw perpanjang dari paspor biasa ke epaspor. Kabarnya kalau dari paspor biasa itu mau ke epaspor harus proses bikin lagi dari awal. Karena kegalauan itu, akhirnya gw bawa semua data fotokopi dan asli buat paspor baru, dengan harapan sih ga bakal ngulang proses. Sampai lupa naro akta lahir dimana dan inget kalo ijazah bisa dipake juga, yaudah lah pasrah aja k…

It's the third week of my class with this special student. Basically the third meeting with him. My first impression is written here if you haven't read it yet. I am trying to keep update about teaching him here because he is so special for me. Definitely, he is.

So when we had our second meeting, I hoped that he got something surprising for me. And he had one. At the first meeting, he couldn't even differentiate between negative and positive integers, that positive integers always bigger than the negative ones. I had to tell him like 10 times (it's not exaggerating) But at the second meeting, he could! Can you imagine how happy I am?

But he can't understand the comparison between negative integers like negative 3 is bigger than negative 5 because he still thinks that 3 is smaller than 5 in any conditions including negative integers. That is okay, he showed me the progress of being able to say that negative integers are always smaller than positive ones.

I can see…

Born as Indonesian makes you having a naturally tanned skin, right? Maybe a long time ago you weren't happy about being born with a tanned skin, or maybe you still don't?

A long time ago, I don't like my skin colour. A lot of my friends having their bright white skin colour, supported by whitening advertisements, this made me feel ugly. Even though some people said that beautiful isn't caused by your skin colour but your characters and attitude (and some more cliche things that can't be seen).

Really? But apparently, whitening cream doesn't work for me, at all. It never works. Just never works. So I start to feel that why don't I embrace my natural skin colour? I don't really hate it but people kept saying that 'Hmmm you are a girl, your skin should be bright and white so that boys will consider you as a beautiful girl'. When I think about that, make me laugh now. How crazy that thought was.

Slowly but sure, am happy with my skin colour. It mak…

Bosen kali ya gw sering nulis soal beginian. Tapi kali ini (lagi-lagi) gw  liat sendiri kalo ternyata  minat generasi muda menguasai Bahasa Inggris masih jauh dari harapan. Jujur gw mulai demen Bahasa Inggris sejak SMP. SD gw ga bisa sama sekali, tapi masuk SMP semacem gw dapet ilham gitu. Belajarnya lebih gampang dan lebih nyantol aja. Karena gw juga mikir, banyak keluarga gw yang bisa Bahasa Inggris dan sebagian tinggal di Belanda sana, masa iya ntar kalo ketemu nggak bisa ngobrol kan nggak asik.

Tantangannya simple ketika kita bisa ngobrol (atau berusaha) ngobrol Bahasa Inggris, mereka yang nggak bisa dan nggak mau bicara Bahasa Inggris bakal nyinyir dan bilang kalau kamu nggak nasionalis karena nggak pakai Bahasa Indonesia. Atau kalau nggak gitu, emang Bahasa Indonesia kamu udah bagus sampai kamu belajar bahasa asing?? Screw em.

Gw sendiri levelnya masih level intermediate (6 dari 16, based on EF placement test) tapi gw masih dan tetep belajar karena target gw bisa nembus media i…

I am back. Teaching mathematics classes and handling home-schooling students. And one of my students is having a mental retardation. His IQ is only 64. For standard normal IQ will be at range 90-120.

I was warned by the owner not to teach things too fast. Because he will not be able to follow what you say. Just do it slowly and get his attention first. To be honest I was nervous because this will be my first time having this kind of student. It will be a big challenge for me. I didn't even know how to start the class or what should I prepare.

But, I consider myself as a lucky one because he is so sweet, friendly and showed me enthusiasm even though when I asked what did he remember about previous mathematics he only remembers KPK, FPB, multiplication table, and a few of math formulas.

It's for the 7th grade student, I had to teach him integers (negative and positive). It's definitely his first time learning about negative integers. A challenge came when I tried to tell …