What's for Lunch ?

    "Crack..*#%$" rasanya otak ini seperti mengeluarkan suara yang sedikit creepy. Saat mata tertuju pada jam dinding warna putih diatas pintu kamarku, I was shock , kaget beneerrr sudah hampir jam 2 siang. Oh, no... belum sarapan dan jam makan siang sudah hampir meninggalkan.

    Sudah dua hari ini fokus kejar deadline terjemahan English-Indonesia, sampai 200 halaman untuk selesai dalam tiga hari saja. hari ini ingin kuselesaikan lebih awal, karena hawatir tertinggal kelas Belajar Menulis nanti malam, yep, TGIF. its D'Day. Perut keroncongan mulai membuat naga naga menari di dalamnya. Ku sempatkan dulu melirik jumlah pesan yang masuk di jutaan grup Whatsapp yang tak sempat kubuka sedari pagi.

    Group pertama yang kulihat adalah WAG kantor , siapa tau ada kerjaan yang terlewat. lalu kulanjutkan membuka pesan yang berangka puluhan di group Belajar Menulis, ku sempatkan juga sebentar untuk surfing sambil comment di beberapa laporan resume kawan seperjuangan yang baru masuk.

    Jreng Jreeeng, aku melihat pesan baru di group, saat ku buka foto berisi menu makan siang lengkap, tanpa nasi, hehehe. Membuat perutku tambah terasa menderita ha -ha ..Om jay The Master of Blog . mengirimkan foro menu makan siangnya hari ini. dari mulai tumisan wortel dkk, ikan goreng, tempe goreng sambal kecap dan sambal oncom , mengguggah selera. Aaaaah aku ingin makan sekarang.

    Apalah daya saat sebuah gambar yang menyulut emosi perutku dan melambai mengajakku mendekat itu tampak siap untuk dinikmati, aku hanya bisa menatap kosong pada meja makan yang terisi barisan mangkuk keramik kosong tak berteman.

    Aku belum masak...ingin rasanya menangis , atau langsung cabut menuju rumah Om jay yang menyediakan hidangan yang bikin air liurku mengalir . lagi lagi tak sanggup. Foto yang dikirimkan hanya menambah besar harapanku untuk menguatkan diri memasak sayuran dan sisa tempe di kulkas sekarang..

    AAAAAH ingin rasanya saat selesai satu pekerjaan yang menyita waktu ini aku berjalan ke dapur dan bertanya, Hey What's For Lunch??.

Sukabumi, 30 Juli 2021

Salam ODOW

 

THE AUTHOR'S CORONAL ESTUARY

Resume        : 8th (Ke-8)

Date          : Wednesday, July 28th,2021

Topic         : Buku Mahkota Penulis, Buku Muara Tulisan

                "The Author's Coronal Estuary"

Speaker       : Thamrin Dahlan., SKM.,M.Pd

Moderator    : Mr.Bams

It is Not a Good Book if No One Read it, There will not be a Book If there is No Author, And No Author Will Be If there is Not a Single Book Published.

Ms.Phia

        Eighth Meeting viewers, at exactly seventeen hundred Hours, Mr bam's the moderator today, came to my surprised, close the group as the que that the class is about to start. What? yes. it started earlier. The Moderator then shared 30 slides to be explained. 

        Mr bam's informed us that the slides are shared earlier due to optimizing the meeting tonight so that we can be focused on the discussion session more. more time to discuss and ask. Our Keynote speaker tonight is Bapak  Thamrin Dahlan., SKM.,M.Pd. It looks like we will have someone fabulous tonight. As always, with this class (I thought to Myself).

        When I started to read one slide that caught my eyes, I read the speaker's Biography slide, and I just can not stop my brain to say. WOW. What is the tremendous world am I reading ? a Resume of an expert, now this is what I call a Good catch. I am blessed, people. Let me share with you a picture of his resume slide.

        

           When the class started he started to explain how easy and cheap it is to publish books nowadays, YPTD since September 19th, 2020. Has published about 232 books with ISBN( International Standard Book Number), most of the books published were authored by Indonesian teachers.

        Now that I have read some of the slides, I am ready to ask loads of questions. I can not stop looking at another slide that caught my eyes. The slide is about 3 Secrets wonder of Journalism 

1. There is a spirit in every writing. He explained what spirit means. when you start to write then your writing is published on media, then someone read it moreover comment on it, your writing is alive.
2. Your writing can defend itself. Buya Hamka once said "Let your Book go to its destiny"
3. Your Writing Gives you Surprises.

        For Bapak H.Thamrin Dahlan as the owner of Yayasan Pusaka Thamrin Dahlan (YPTD) Publishing Company, A teacher is the architect of civilization., that teaches with heart. They who became a role model instead of only doing knowledge transfer, they who give a good example and become that living samples of what teaching really means.

          Great Teachers in his terms are teachers who:

• Can change their paradigm, have the critical thinking, open-minded and progressing a seld development better.
• can meet the demands of timeless requests due to enhancing the quality of education in a country.

        I just love his quote about teachers as the civilization architect, I am comprehending it like this; teachers are not only designing the civilization, they are also the ones who ensure that the civilization-building is functioning properly and that they are preparedly ready to do the maintenance themselves. It fascinates me more than I can handle.

       Nelson Black, in his book entitled "When a Nation Died" complied that moral values, humanity, economic prosperity, and cultural strength are a series of factors of excellence in a humanist society. That clarifies the fact that education gives the biggest impact on human civilization.

         My questions were asked via Mr Bams, since the class today is held on Gelombang 19 WAG, I was taking his quote about teacher as the civilization architect, I asked whether Authors or writers can also be considered as the same function, and as I expected both teacher and writer have the same role within the society, both are strengthening the civilization and even create the civilization. 

        As every question roled out from the participants I found a question from ibu Helwiyah, she is in gelombang 20, with me and the smart lady also act as The class secretary. She asked about how would Books compete with electronic books since nowadays technology is getting developed.

       Our Speaker replied diplomatically and factually, he explained that the national library also facilitated E-Books publishing with another type of ISBN, while paper books are also very competitive due to the weakness of E-Books still on electricity and internet problems. Paper books are still leading in comfort reading.

        Wrapping up the class today is as thrilling as previous classes but to me, this one is more intriguing the mind to write and publish. I believe writing a good book is as noble as teaching students at schools. When we write we can even teach more people, including people we have not met in foreign and faraway places.