Covid-19 Log: Day 40

It's been 40 days since the school closure. When the government first announced the school closure, it was planned only for 2 weeks. Unfortunately, the situation wasn't getting better yet, so the closure is extended until, hopefully, May 20, 2020. I really wish things will have been better by that time. The curve showing the cases will hopefully be flatten. Those who are sick will be cured. And, there won't be more death. This is the expected condition when the school will reopen, and our life will resume to normal. But, I don't want the life to be just back to normal. I want it better. 

This week is the fifth week we, teachers, send lesson and assignment home. Students have been staying and studying at home for five weeks. Parents have been supervising their kids studying at home for five weeks. Uneasy of five weeks. Staying at home order has been imposed in some cities including ours. Government insists citizens to work, study, and perform prayers at home. Social, sport, entertainment, and religious assembly has been banned. People are insisted to stay at home unless it's urgent. 

Not being able to leave home for five weeks isn't easy. Students could get bored with this kind of studying. They can't meet their friends, can't play outside with their friends, can't meet their teachers. Parents might as well desperate, tired, and hopeless in supervising their kids learning at home. They began to demand more action from school such as changing the learning strategy, doing some improvisation, conducting classroom conference, and many more. 

It hasn't been easy for teacher as well. In my opinion, teaching online for five weeks can be very frustrating.  Teachers spend more time in front of computer screen, sending lesson, correcting them, and sending feedback. It's not fun at all. Still, it needs to be done. We all know that. The kids are entitled to education, no matter what. 

In a normal day, I always get up early in the morning and get ready for school. Riding motor cycle, dealing with traffic, catching the train, being crammed into the train car are routines, which at that time, quite annoying. But now, I would trade anything to be able to experience all those thing every morning, Monday to Friday. 

Arriving at school, I will see students hopping from the car and school bus, or entered the school gate escorted by their parents with smiles on their face, or even sleepy fac. Nevertheless, it's a nice spirit to see in the morning. Teaching a bunch of kids in the classroom can be tiresome sometimes. However, the kids' laughter and their diverting behavior can erase all those tiresome feeling. Unfortunately, we can't experience all this through online teaching and learning. I guess, dealing with troubling preteen who doesn't give a damn about school values and conducting a restitution with them over and over again can be more exciting than sitting in front of the computer screen everyday for the whole weekdays. 

I really really hope that this pandemic will be over soon. We all hope that. Hearing the kids laughter, watching them play, run and laugh with each other in the school playground is a wonderful scene I've really missed. I wish that no more than two weeks I'll hear a news that the school can be reopen. Let's send out prayer, may Allah answer our prayer sooner that we know it. May this be the blessing of Ramadhan. Amiin. 

Spotify Just Stopped Playing the Song in Playlist

About two months ago, I began having this trouble with Spotify application on mobile devices, either phone or tab. When I played the playlist that I've been downloaded for some times, it stopped suddenly, and the app was closed.

This didn't happen every time I played. Some other time, it played all the songs just fine. But, most of the time the trouble occurred. With times, it got more frequent. I'd been searching for the solution all over the internet. I even visited the Spotify Community to find if there had been the case as mine. There were many. 

I tried all of the solution they suggested. Started from clear the caches to force stop the application. I even followed the instruction to uninstall the application and installed it back. I did them all. Unfortunately, non of them worked for my devices. I thought that my devices were experiencing a different kind of trouble than common ones. 

Until one day, I read a short post in a forum, which I can't remember where, it suggested to try to log out of the app. Then log back in. I followed this advice. And like magic, it worked until today. Nevertheless, I don't think it is permanent. After I logged out and logged back in, I can play all my playlist without interruption. I was so happy that I finally found the solution. Then, I closed the app. But when I played the playlist, the trouble occurred again. I gathered that I need to log out and log back in when I want to play the playlist. Though it doesn't always have to be done all the time. Sometimes, I don't need to log out for a few days, and the songs in the playlist are played non-stoppable.

Well, even if it isn't permanent, I'm quite happy that now I can play all my songs in the playlist without interrupted or abruptly stopped.