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“KODE HIJAU! KODE HIJAU!” Begitu perintah dari pengeras suara yang ada di tempat kerja saya: sebuah supermarket di Evanston, Illinois, Amerika Serikat. Beberapa pelanggan tampak kebingungan, beberapa bahkan tampak panik. “Apa itu kode hijau?” tanya satu dari mereka dengan tampang tengang. “Oh, jangan khawatir. Kode hijau itu cuma tanda untuk kita mengeluarkan sampah,” kataku meyakinkan. …
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One day in the EGL 102 class, Prof. Sloan challenges the students to decide: Which one is the most crucial for communication and human interaction, our sight or our hearing. He continued to ask, “Which ability would you rather not have?”. This question was intriguing to me. I gathered my confidence and raised my hand. …
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The first time I listened to Rage Against the Machine (RATM) was around early 2000. By that time, my brother usually played their song when he was picking me up from school. Listening to RATM inside the comfort of my father’s car, I never really understand the meaning of their lyric. I overheard “Sleep Now …
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EGL 102 is the first class that ever asked me to reflect on my learning style. I am familiar with the concept of “everybody learning differently,” but I have never contemplated this concept to myself. When I first saw this assignment, I immediately thought that I was a visual learner. I watched a lot of …
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It started in 1992, Aang Buhori was a 22 year-old-man. Along with his friends, Aang visited a nearby waterfall around their home in Cianjur, West Jawa. On his way home, Aang was sure a dark being with evil intention was following him. When the night came, he burst out from his modest wooden house, tried …
Thanks to internet that circulates informations about scholarships widely, more Indonesians are studying abroad nowadays, many are going to the United States. It is no wonder if young Indonesian parents who received their Master’s or Ph.D from the United States would also love to send their kids to study in the United States. However, if …
In an evening, my brother Acoh requested me to write a review of his band’s new album. I politely refused because the only music that I listen to right now is Johnny-Johnny Yes Papa and your usual grocery store playlist (because I am working at one). To redeem my guilty feeling to my brother, I contacted some …
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“Before I turned to Islam, I was living in a life of suicide.” This what my friend, James (not his real name), said when I asked him about how important Islam was to him. I have been living in the United States, near Chicago in Illinois since 2014. I work in the grocery store while …
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Setelah mendapat surel perpanjangan langganan untuk lapak ini, saya pun kembali terpacu untuk menulis. Satu tahun penuh saya membawa anak saya untuk mengikuti suami yang sedang riset lapangan. Di mulai dari beberapa kota di Indonesia, Singapura, Belanda, Inggris sampai akhirnya kembali ke tanah tumpah darah anak saya. Banyak sekali pengalaman baru yang menempa kami selama …
Beberapa hari lalu saya cicicuit di media sosial soal ini: alih-alih cerita bahagia, kisah apek selalu lebih menjadi pemantik tulisan saya di sini. Saya yakin, pemilihan waktu menulis berperan penting dalam sendunya kisah-kisah dalam laman ini. Pasalnya, saya selalu terpacu untuk menulis ketika periode datang bulan saya mendekat. Saat-saat itu biasanya saya tidak bisa tidur …
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