Gagal Tes TOEFL

Siang ini seharusnya aku mengikuti simulasi Tes TOEFL. Dua puluh menit sebelum tes dimulai, aku mencoba menyalakan laptop. Biasanya laptopku hanya error mengetik satu huruf atau karakter tertentu tanpa henti, dan itu bisa diakali dengan keyboard portable. Yah, meskipun kadang tetap error. Kali ini berbeda. Laptopku membuka aplikasi kalkulator tanpa henti. Setelah berhasil menghentikan aplikasi kalkulator, aku pun bergabung di zoom meeting untuk mengikuti tes. Selesai masalahnya? Sayangnya belum. Setelah masuk breakout room, laptopku bolak-balik mengaktifkan dan menonaktifkan mikrofon di zoom. Saat mau menulis pesan menanyakan tautan untuk soal, entah kenapa yang terketik pesan tak beraturan seperti terpencet tombol enter tanpa henti. Bukan cuma itu masalahku. Setiap mengeklik icon Firefox di toolbar, aku jadi membuka jendela baru, bukannya membuka kembali jendela yang sudah dibuka sebelumnya.

"Fat"

I don't remember most of my relatives' faces. When I said that, somebody told me, "That's why you need to meet them when they come to our house." Nuh. Nope nope nope. I don't want to meet people who are not close to me. Not because I hate them. But sometimes they said something that I don't like. You look fat. That's what they said. I know not everyone said that to me. But when I tried to be a nice person who welcome our guests, somebody said that sentence. In the past I will just give them bitter smile. Then I went on a diet and loose few kilograms. When I met another relative, she said, "You got fatter." Then I remember all my effort to cut sugar, to stop eating all my favorite snacks, only to get "fat" comments.