Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Intro

Hi, my name is Arief. I got my bachelors degree in telecommunications engineering back in 2007 and work for an oilfield services company since then as a data management engineer. I was previously based in Jakarta, but starting from earlier this year got transferred to Balikpapan. I am married to my lovely wife, Sasha, and blessed with an adorable (now 15 months old) boy, Fuza.

In this blog, I intend to share anything that I found useful and/or interesting, hoping that someone else might find it that way as well. I'm planning to write about culinary (from places to eat in to simple recipes I tried), daily life tips & tricks, travel notes, my photography works, etc. Lately, I've been interested in car detailing; so even though I'm nowhere near a professional detailer, I might write stuff about car detailing that works for me as well.

Before moving out to Balikpapan, I lived in Bintaro, just at the outskirt of Jakarta; my parents live in Tangerang; and my parents-in-law live in Bandung, where I spent my college years, that's about 2-3 hours away from Jakarta. So you will also see things around these places.

Anyway, about the title of this blog: bincangacak... I was going to name it random talk, derived from "random walk", as it feels just right. (: Then when I tried to register it as the title of the blog, you guess it... it's not available. So I went on using a translation of it to bahasa Indonesia, my mother tongue: acak for random, and bincang for talk. Hence the name, bincangacak.

Cheers!