Hey! Thinking to start cycling on a roadbike? Neat! With so many things to choose from and to start with, probably it’s a bit overwhelming for some you to start of your adventure on the road. Here are a few quick tips The bike

There are a lot of things that i don’t understand when it comes to the behaviour of my fellow indonesian friends, and one of them is their habit of making fun of names of people from different cultures / countries. A few years ago i got an email from this…

“My legs are not feeling it” “I think my tires are a bit flat” “Didn’t get enough sleep last night” “Went out drinking with the boys yesterday” “Didn’t manage to grab a breakfast before i go” “Must be the headwind” “Brakes are scrubbing” “Bike feels heavy for some reason” We…

Routine Trying to escape routine is a losing battle. You just can’t. To those who don’t know me long enough, i used to have my own design firm for 6 years, and then tried 2 years of building a startup, and then freelanced, and then worked for a startup, and…

A lot of it got to do with where you live. Singapore lies at the goldilocks zone for me being an Indonesian that can’t stand the stupidity of my own country but still can’t get too far from it. The city state island is great for someone that wants to…

Sometimes when some parts in your life doesn’t work, you then forgot that other than those things, everything else is just fine. You forgot that your life actually is not that bad, and some people would give anything to live your life. It’s never going to be perfect. Nothing is. You will never have the perfect family, nor the perfect job, nor the perfect partner, nor the perfect bicycle. But if you look closer, you might realize how close those things are to perfection and you just didn’t see it that way. So take a look around. And breathe. And be grateful.

“What’s your biggest fear in life?” “To become obsolete”, i answered. Yes, at the top of my list on things i fear is that one day my existence doesn’t add any value for anyone. …

If life is a race, then marriage is not the finish line, it is the start. It’s not the goal, it’s the beginning of you starting your own family with a person that you can trust with your life, and soon after, the life of a child. And what is life before the starting line, then? An athlete never comes to a race empty handed. One needs to get oneself prepared. Finding the right coach, the right team mate. Because like tango, you can’t do it by yourself. Years and years of self improvement, performance enhancement, endurance, trials, mistakes, perseverance, determination.