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 […]

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 […]

[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 […]

[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 […]

What Photography Has Taught Me

My dearest Adia, As normal human being, Abah do have hobbies. Photography has become one of my “main” hobby, beside cooking, computers and audio, collecting diecasts, etc. I started to have interests in photography for more than 20 years ago, and of course it has taught me many things as well along the way. A […]

Run, Make Progress!!

Dear Adia, We do realize that it’s impossible to excel at all things, especially for us, in sport. I know that you are good in some (swimming for sure, boxing..maybe?), and bad (really really bad) at some, like, er.. running. Running is the one thing I have most avoided since elementary school. I didn’t find […]