Lessons from the Sunflowers (part 1)

My dearest Adia, Remember last month (about 2-3 weeks ago) when I started planting the sunflower seeds? It has grown a bit now. As usual, some notes are taken and also another lessons to be learned. I planted the seeds in different medium (types of soil) and places. I planted about 20-30 seeds in total. […]

Envy

en.vy (n) /painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage My dearest Adia, Envy is one of the deadly/major sins in many religions & beliefs. It is dangerous and easily be done / convicted (unlike other sins like pride which required some achievements or exclusivities […]

[Project] DIY Chromebook & Android Desktop

My dearest Adia, You may have heard of Chromebook. Yes, you can tell by the name, it’s the low cost web-oriented notebook from Google, running mainly on its web browser, Chrome. Chromebook is powered by Chrome OS (now called Cr OS), “a chrome plated OS because it’s stable and shiny” that’s what they said (um, […]

Notes from Tahura Trail Run 2019 – Life Lessons with Fun

To My Dearest Adia, I just finished the “Tahura Trail Run 2019” half marathon (21k) race. It’s an annual event held in Tahura (Taman Hutan Rakyat, Dago Pakar, Bandung) all the way up to Maribaya and back, through a quite extreme track (that’s why it’s called trail run). It was my first time attending a […]

Introduction to Gardening

My dearest Adia, Today let’s talk about.. gardening or planting (plants of course). You already know that your Andung (my mother) is a botanist, and she is very good and experienced with many kinds of plants. She taught me a thing or two about gardening, and it’s a really good thing to do. I’ll give […]

[Review] the Search for Best Quality “Cheap” Speakers (less than $10)

My dearest Adia, We sure do appreciate good music, and good music should be played with a decent audio system. Some top quality speakers can cost a fortune, yeah it would be good, but you know it’s just not my style (as a cheapo) :p (but wait, being cheap doesn’t mean have to put the […]

[Review] Cheap LightBox for TableTop Photography

My dearest Adia, Abah just got a new “toy”. You know I just loved photography and diecasts (cars & motorbikes), so I have done photographing diecasts on my table top setup. So, I saw this product, a “mini lightbox” intended to table top product photography (for smaller products). It sells for merely $4 (yes, you […]

[Project] Experimenting with RasPi

My dearest Adia, I see you have successed in assembling yourself a Raspi (Raspberry Pi) mini-PC. As you can see, the Raspi is powered by Raspbian OS (Operating System). Raspbian is a very capable OS to do many “general” tasks such as web surfing, playing digital media, playing games, word processing, spread sheet, etc (basically […]

[Project] Build yourself a Mini-PC

My dearest Adia, Now you have a free time during your school holiday, it would be a good time to start a project (yaaay!!). If you read this, it means you have received my package for your “build-a-PC-kit” (PC stands for Personal Computer). After you assemble it, you can have a mini-PC capable of doing […]