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“Hiatus” – Return to The World Where I Belong
I don’t know how I got here…but this song is the first one I wrote after my 12 years “hiatus”. I’ve been away too long from writing music…after all is said, scratched, created and done in car design…I realized that the music is still where I belong. This song is an awakening from my long…
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Old Habits Die Hard
More than 23 years ago, I was a member of a few bands in Bandung – Jawa Barat, a small city with many creative citizens and their activities from arts to musics. I used to be a vocalist, drummer, rhythm guitarist and ended up as a lead guitarist. Played anything from pop to thrash metal,…
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Pulling Your Strings, Idea is Coming
As we knew, we are blessed with tremendous mysteries of our brains. Some researchers have spoken that each side of the brain has different tendencies, right side is for linguistic & art while left side is for logical thinking & calculation. During an idea exploration, sometimes I reached a dead end where all ideas seems…
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When a Dream Comes True…
Finally, my long awaited dream guitar comes to my hands! Thanks to my lovely wife for this awesome birthday present!After 23 years, I finally have a Jackson guitar! Jaman SMA tahun 1992-1995, saking tergila-gilanya dengan musik rock, saya ikutan trend yang lagi hype di masa itu, anak Bandung itu pasti bisa memainkan alat musik. Setelah…
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Good Night Doodle
I know, I know…The original McLaren F1 Hyper GT is far better than my skecth, I just can’t resist to redraw it and give some enhancements..or maybe some reductions instead. My daughter can’t hardly sleep, so I have to impress her by doodle this sketch using my iPad, and guess what? It works!!! She’s fall…
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Ibu Ulat
Kamera Olympus Ultra Zoom C-740 (2003) di pohon jeruk pekarangan rumah di Bandung. Setiap kali saya melihat foto ini, saya selalu teringat almarhumah Ibu saya, waktu itu pagi hari di pekarangan rumah Ibu saya di Bandung, setelah malamnya hari ditengah guyuran hujan bermotor dari Depok pulang ke Bandung. Ulat yang sedang memakan daun ini mengusik perhatian…
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Good Old Times in TAB Japan
Year 2006-2007 is the turning point of my life, things happened during Intra Company Transfer assignment in Toyota Auto Body Co. Ltd. Japan. Working as a real designer in big design team and transforming myself to be a new father…it all started here. It was the first minor change of Toyota Innova, and it’s became…
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Presentation to Mr. Saleh Husin – Minister of Industries
Bagi saya, ungkapan “Saya Pancasila” atau “Saya Indonesia”, tidak ada artinya bila hanya jadi status di media sosial. Itu hanyalah ungkapan klise kalau kita masih buang sampah sembarangan, berkendara serampangan, beragama tapi tidak toleran. Jangan bertanya apa yang negara berikan pada saya, tapi berikan apa yang kau bisa untuk negara! Itu ungkapan yang sering saya dengar dan diam-diam tertanam…
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An Introduction to Mr. Akio Toyoda
Six years ago, I got an honor to meet and greet Mr. Akio Toyoda, I had a small presentation about what we are doing in TMMIN. I was introduced to him, as one of young generation of Toyota Indonesia with some breakthrough ideas and new functions in TMMIN. We were instructed to bow to him…
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Mobilmu SUV, Crossover atau Crossover make-up?
Di Indonesia bahkan mungkin di dunia sepertinya saat ini sedang demam SUV, atau setidaknya mobil yang kelihatannya seperti SUV. Sampai-sampai mobil dengan platform sedan ceper pun bisa di- SUV kan (meskipun kadangkala justru kebalikannya, platform SUV dijadikan mobil penyapu jalan alias ceper abiss..). Pokoknya apapun mobilnya, asal dia pakai over fender, ground clearance sedikit lebih tinggi, di atapnya ada nemplok roof…
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Doodling on tablet…because why not?
I am an old school designer, I trust hand sketch more than hyperealistic picture created using high technology computer softwares, I believe in elaborated clay model much more than megarealistic 3D CAD rendering. But then the time has come for me to realize that I can’t bring all of my weapons a.k.a pencils, papers and…
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Press Releases & Interviews
