Monthly Archives: April 2026

Bekasi di Hati

Senin 27 April 2026

Telah terjadi sebuah kecelakaan di jalur kereta api di kota Bekasi yang bermula dari mogoknya sebuah taksi di pintu perlintasan kereta. Taksi itu kemudian tertabrak sebuah KRL yang melaju dari Cikarang ke arah Jakarta. Nampaknya kerusakan tidak terlalu berarti sebab KRL tersebut sudah lebih dulu memperlambat laju keretanya. Kebetulan memang perlintasan tersebut berada tidak jauh dari stasiun.

Namun, nahas justru menimpa KRL yang berada di jalur berlawanan yang sedang tertahan di stasiun karena gangguan lalu lintas kereta yang terjadi di depannya. Pada saat sedang menunggu tersebut, datanglah sebuah kereta jarak jauh Argo Bromo dari arah belakang kereta, dan langsung menghantam KRL. Yang membuat paling miris adalah, gerbong paling belakang KRL justru adalah gerbong khusus perempuan. Sehingga puluhan orang yang meninggal di dalam gerbong tersebut dipastikan berjenis kelamin perempuan.

Pekan ini kota tempat tinggalku berduka. Para perempuan hebat tersebut adalah pejuang keluarga yang kepulangannya tentu dinanti oleh keluarga di rumah. Namun yang datang Senin malam kemarin justru kabar duka.

Saya turut menyampaikan belasungkawa terdalam bagi para korban dan keluarganya. Semoga arwah para pejuang keluarga mendapat tempat terbaik di rumah Tuhan, dan yang ditinggalkan diberi kesabaran. Terutama sekali untuk anak-anak yang ditinggal ibunya, saya turut berduka ya, nak. Semoga kalian tumbuh sehat, belajar yang baik, dan kelak akan membanggakan ibumu.

Amin.

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Tuesday’s Training

Today started as usual: meeting the teachers for training. The topic is Grammar: Tenses, Aspects, Voices.

From the 2 terms of grammar, something new that all of us discover is the existence of aspects as a proper term to define active and passive voices.

OK, that was an article opening I could muster while sitting in a cafe and I only had 5 minutes.. Now let’s see how ChatGPT offers a better version:

Today began like many others—with a teacher training session. This time, however, the focus was on a topic that feels both familiar and surprisingly layered: grammar, specifically tenses, aspects, and voices.

What started as a routine discussion soon turned into an eye-opening exploration. While most of us were comfortable with the traditional division of grammar into tenses and voices, we encountered something that reframed our understanding—the role of aspects as a distinct and meaningful category. Even more intriguing was how this concept helped us look at active and passive voices from a fresh perspective, giving us a more precise way to describe how actions unfold in language.

By the end of the session, what once seemed like fixed grammatical categories had evolved into a more dynamic and interconnected system. Understanding aspect as its own lens not only deepened our grasp of how time and action are expressed, but also reshaped how we interpret voice and meaning in sentences. It was a reminder that even the most familiar topics can reveal new insights when viewed from a different angle—and that as educators, our own learning is never truly complete.

Boy, I still got a lot to learn.

Quill

Definition: a stiff shaft of a bird feather, used as a writing pen. The writer reaches for the quill, dips the tip into an ink bottle then proceeds to write with the tip.

A man with his quill (image generated from Gemini AI)

The first time I encountered this word, however, was from a Japanese movie about a faithful guide dog. Quill (that’s his name) didn’t come from an expensive breed but the first owner insisted on giving her puppy for the visually impaired community.