BELLAMYBUDIMAN

Myself

I was born in Jakarta on March 12, 1983, and grew up here. I am a Visual Communication Design graduate from Universitas Pelita Harapan in Karawaci. I spent 3 semesters in Informatics Engineering, before turning into a design student. My life usually rotates around the campus, the south of Jakarta, my comfortable home office, Cinere, and the church.

I have two younger sisters which are identical twins, Beatrix (Trixie) and Benigna (Ninay). Both are now graduates from UPH, which also happens to be my alma mater. Trixie is very fashion-oriented while Ninay is an exceptional classic guitar player.

I once took English lessons at ILP. After a few years, I decided not to continue the lessons, as it is not that helpful after all. Afterwards I practiced English wherever and whenever I could, and I'm lucky enough to be able to speak and write fluent English. I always wanted to learn Japanese, so I'm quite disappointed because I never took any other language lessons beside English.

I was born in a quite technology-conscious family. My dad worked on tech jobs since I was born, so I got the chance to get my hands on computers when I was only 4 years old. I consider myself quite luckily to be able to become a computer-literate person, although I don't do complex programmings. I don't even know how to write in Basic when everybody seems to know how. This is why I chose Informatics Engineering as my major when I went to college, until I was "enlightened". I never took any computer lessons, except that useless one when I was in elementary. I usually learn everything by myself, mostly with help files or articles on the internet. So if you ask me from which book I learned to do this or that, or which book is good as a tutorial, don't bother as I don't have the answer.

Design has been my passion since I was still in high-school, but I never knew what was the turning point. I started out as an amateur web designer back in 1995, using only Netscape Composer to create my very first site in Tripod. And no, I never liked Frontpage. I learned HTML and got myself serious with it by 1997. By 1999, I decided to have this small design studio called Neuro-Designs which still works on various projects even until now. On 2002, I am officially a design student when I decided to transfer myself to Visual Communication Design. Graduated on 2007, I now work full-time in my own company, still named Neuro-Designs. I then started teaching as a guest lecturer in my alma mater in 2008.

I am a geek. I have this interest with gadgets, robots, computers, technology, automotive, and many more. I read Popular Mechanics if I got the chance to do so, I watch Discovery Channel or NGC everytime or so, and I enjoy science-fiction, and I could spend hours reading technical documentations and theories of science-fiction technologies. One thing I hate is that I sometimes feel like a public tech-support guy.

I am an Apple user. From my experience I stand by the fact that Apple is, at most times, better than Microsoft. Macs are fantastic, iPods kick ass, and the iPhone is the best cellphone I ever owned to date. And oh yeah, for years I've used PCs, XP is bloated, Vista sucks monkey balls, and the Zune obviously zucked, but I do give credits when they are due. Windows 7 is okay, Windows Phone 7 is a solid platform, and I look forward to see what Windows 8 is like. Don't get me wrong, I started my life as a PC user but I'm not a PC guy anymore.

I am also a loyal Star Wars fan. I collect them since I was 4 years old and wore a Jedi robe when I watched Attack of the Clones. Star Trek and Transformers come second. More than that, I love collecting toys, just like a normal person born in the eighties would do. I am also a die-cast collector. I collect 1/64 scaled die-casts since I was a kid. That has become a legacy from my dad, which I consider to pass on to my kids one day.

I also don't like motorcyclists in general. Not that I brag because I own a car, but because most of them lack of obedience to the road rules and more than often caused a lot of trouble, not to mention incidents with other road users. In my opinion, violence against this kind of motorcyclists should be legal.

This Site

I've had several other personal sites before this one, mostly because I never could decide what name should I use. After cyber-netstat, WEB PORTfolio, and container., I decided to use my own name for my personal site.

In the beginning, cyber-netsat served the purpose of having my own personal site, as simple as can be. That was when I'm still that new kid on the block who thought having high-tech panels on all my designs are cool. But really, having too many panels in one place is not cool.

Then there was WEB PORTfolio, which is my attempt of creating my dedicated online personal portfolio, using DHTML animation scripts that can only be opened in the ill-fated Internet Explorer, which ironically, leaving ugliness all over the place on better browsers. I decided to have it put off.

A new personal website was born, container. serves a higher purpose in my life as I tried to share so many things in a such small website. Using Movable Type as its blog engine, and after a few bandages here and there, it turned out that the design outdates itself after a not-so-long period.

With all that hassle and constant renamings, and the switch to Wordpress, I have decided that this site will no longer be renamed. BELLAMYBUDIMAN will be the last name for my personal website. And what you're looking at right now is its second iteration.

Press Coverage

Some magazines, websites, and other medias where I'm lucky enough to be featured:

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