Curtwit

Beberapa waktu lalu di Twitter muncul ungkapan, “Kalau guru saja tidak menguasai semua mata pelajaran, mengapa murid harus?” Tweet ini segera menuai RT alias diamini oleh banyak teman-temannya. Saya, yang seringkali iseng, menimpali agak serius. “What makes the difference between the common and the specialist […]

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Membuka Payung

Ada saat-saat di mana remaja tidak klop dengan orangtuanya. Terutama soal pikiran dan pemikiran. Karena saat ini saya sudah menjalani keduanya, saya dapat bicara tentang keduanya. Dan terkadang dimintai pendapat oleh murid-murid saya. “Bagaimana ya supaya orangtua saya mengerti bahwa saya sebetulnya tidak ingin sekolah […]

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Bottle neck

Being silent for too long can be ill for health. It’s when you have to withhold everything within. Takes a great force to keep them intact. Bottlenecking is even better…

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When to Shut Up

Love a quote when I glanced at my Twitter timeline. “Some people speak from experience. Some people, from experience, don’t speak.” The latter might bring collateral ‘damage’, too. Other people could think that there’s no (more) problem while it still happens underneath the surface, eating […]

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Dealing with PMS

Double kill is when a woman is having a PMS (pre-menstruation syndrome) yet her certain colleague(s) failed to read her gesture and put even more pressure on her. Snap, snap! Some of my friends in university could tell when if their female colleagues were having […]

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Dress to kill (who?)

As a woman, I am more easily intimidated by my own gender. A woman’s appearance appeals much to me. Shoes, skirts, shawl, headscarf, makeup. Basically, what other women wear that looks good. If you asked me, whom I dressed up for, I dress up for […]

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Terjaga

Belakangan ini sering terbangun lewat tengah malam. Tanpa apa-apa, jauh sebelum alarm berbunyi. Bukan mimpi buruk, bukan suara aneh. Hanya mata yang terbuka, indera yang terjaga dan pikiran yang awas. Melelahkan, jika terbangun begini beberapa kali dalam semalam. Karena istirahat berkurang, kadang jadi pusing atau […]

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