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 (where my girlfriend's house is), and the church, where I do most of my pro-bono works along with most of my co-workers.

I have two younger sisters which are identical twins, Beatrix (Trixie) and Benigna (Ninay). Both are now UPH undergraduate students, which also happens to be my almamater. 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 luckly to be able to become a computer-literate person, although I don't do complex programmings and stuff... Heck! 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.

I love design, it has been my passion since I was still in high-school. 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 Neuro-Designs, together with 6 other people including my parents, in the effort of reducing visual disease around us every each of given day.

I am a workaholic and perfectionist by nature, I always tried to keep things done on time. With my kind of work, I consider that as an added value. I am also generally a cynic, especially when it comes to the nature of our country. You know what I mean.

I am a natural born techno-geek. I have this thing with gadgets, robots, computers, tech, automotive, and stuff. I read Popular Mechanics if I got the chance to do so, I watch Discovery Channel or NGC everytime or so, and I like to watch sci-fi movies or read its stories (not those cheap B-movie ones, though). Call me a geek, but 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.

Although I put Apple in a high regard, I am not a fanboy. 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. Don't get me wrong, I started my life as a PC user but I'm not a PC guy anymore, and I've put most of all those complicated workarounds in Windows somewhere there in my head as an archive.

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 toys and I love them a lot! Just like a normal person born in the eighties would do. I am also a die-cast nut. I collect 1/64 scaled die-casts since I was a kid. That has become a sort-of-legacy from my dad, which I consider to pass on to my kids one day. Right now, I'm starting to worry where I should put my collection which is starting to pile itself up. If I done my calculations correctly, my die-cast collection is somewhere between 1200 to 1500 cars.

I dislike and loathe riceboys, and I share the same principles with Jeremy Clarkson, and my friends at Add More Horsepower!. Riceboys thought they are creative and know a thing or two about cars. To me, riceboys are nothing but mindless idiots. But I do thank them for being around, they made me laugh their asses off whenever I see them on the road. Maybe I'll live longer.

I have a somewhat low-tolerance with gays. By "gays" I mean those who converted from their normal sexuality, not those who were unfortunate and born biologically different. Call me a sexist, but I believe that it is wrong religiously and biologically, and I stand by my principals. And if the reason for them to convert is because of a rough love life or life in general... Give me a break, we've all gone through hell in some parts of our lives. I do know several gay friends and by low-tolerance, it doesn't mean that I can't stand them. It's those who brag about their sexual life that are disturbing.

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 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. And that was also the time when I said "DOH!" to myself.

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:

BusinessWeek's Asia's Best Entrepreneurs Under 25

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Sampoerna Foundation Magazine 18th Edition (AJAR): The Emergence of Young Entrepreneurs

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AmbitionWise, February 28, 2007

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Intisari, March 2008

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