The other day a friend of mine, Prananda Luffiansyah, who happened to be a lecturer in the Product Design Department of ITB, sort of invited me to give a lecture on Engineering for Designers. It was such an honour for me, mainly because there have always been things I was thinking about, but have Read More …
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Status of Women in Islam
“The present book attempts to elucidate in one volume the rights and liabilities of women as a daughter, wife or mother, as a member of an Islamic society and as a citizen of Islamic State. She is as useful a that as her counterpart, man, and is his equal except that as the Holy Qur’an Read More …
My Room
This is a little story about my room and the house I’m living in. My father was an architect, and even though he worked more as a photographer than an architect, the house I live in was still designed by him. He also loved wood, so all the windows, doors and even furniture inside this Read More …
5 Best Personal Development Books
There are two types of people in the world, the ones who read personal development books, and the ones who don’t. I am obviously part of the former one. Ever since I read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People back in high school, I’ve been on a lookout on the next book that can Read More …
My Favourite Books in 2017
This is my second year to be wrapping up the year in books, and I have found that looking back on the books I have read in a year really does help me remember the ideas, emotions and journey I went through. I do hope that I will keep the habit for many years to Read More …
Colour Village Malang
Ever since I read about the Kampong Warna-Warni Project (a.k.a Colour Village) in Jodipan, Malang on the news, I have been quite interested in it. So when I visited Malang in at the end of October 2016, it was one of the places I wanted to go to the most. My first short visit there Read More …
My Favourite Books in 2016
This is my first ever Favourite Books of the Year List! I am so excited because I will get to look back on my year through my reading list. On the list, I have my typical pick from my favourite genre of economy and philosophy. But also this year I have expanded my reading interest into the Read More …
How to Make A Beautiful Website, the Easy Way
Actually, I am no expert. I just thought I gathered some of the most helpful links or information I know about making a website/blog in one place, to share with you, and for my own organisational purposes. Firstly, before we start building the website, you need to decide if you want to pay or not for Read More …
Entrepreneurship 101
Recently I’ve been asked to give short introduction classes on enterpreneurship to young undergraduates in the engineering field. Thought I’d share the slides here, in case anyone wants to access the. However I have tailored the slides to include mainly study cases that are relevant for environmental engineering majors, if anyone is interested in other type of Read More …
Silence and Me: a journey inside myself
Disclaimer: all written below is based on my own limited experience. I have no intention to argue that I have full knowledge on anything. Not unlike Jon Snow, I also know nothing. Before everything started or how I didn’t know what I was getting into So there I was with my huge “backpacking” back pack filled to Read More …