Thursday, 21 September 2017

Tugas 1 Kepariwisataan #2

Bandung

It’s late 2016… my colleagues have this plan on having a road trip where they go very far from where they live… so in the early 2017… in January to be precise, they plan on leaving to Bandung and oh joy! I was on their list to be one of the participants. I’ve been to Bandung before, but this place we went to is another level (well… for me) we went to a place called “The Lodge Maribaya” it’s a holiday destination for people who likes nature or pine trees… because there are loads of them, in fact the whole place is actually a wood filled with palm trees, they thought it was a good idea to built a place where people can take photographs, sit around while eating and to just admire the nature and they did it, it was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. We took a lot of photographs and by “we” I meant “me” of my friends, because I’m a more behind-the-camera type of guy. After all the walking up and down (by the way the place was built on a hill, so phew!) we decided that our tummy needs re-fueling, so we decided to go to a cafe called “Orofi” it’s a 2-hour drive from our current location so better get cracking! When we arrived at the cafe the place was still closed, so we have to wait like an hour before the whole place was open! (there goes our appetite!) while we’re waiting I decided to fire up my camera and take some more pictures! 50 photographs later the place finally open, the cafe was beautiful, it had this open top balcony style, where we eat at the top of the building and in front of us is this beautiful view of the city which almost over the whole of Bandung, so I fire up my camera (again) and took more pictures! Oh and let’s not forget that the food is also delicious (either that or we’re just starving). So that conclude the adventure of me and my friends! Also I highly recommend this two places if you ever wanted to visit Bandung and the cost of all this “adventure” is somewhat fair, the cafe was a “little” expensive but what do you expect, cafe’s are always expensive… in my mind. 

Saturday, 6 May 2017

Tugas Kewirausahaan #2



Robert Kearns

Robert William Kearns (March 10, 1927 – February 9, 2005) was an American inventor who invented the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. He earned his engineering degrees from the University of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State University and a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. His first patent for the invention was filed on December 1, 1964.


Kearns claimed that the inspiration for his invention stems from an incident on his wedding night in 1953, when an errant champagne cork shot into his left eye, leaving him legally blind in that eye. Nearly a decade later in 1963, Kearns was driving his Ford Galaxie through a light rain, and the constant movement of the wiper blades irritated his already troubled vision. He modelled his mechanism on the human eye, which blinks every few seconds, rather than continuously. 

Kearns won one of the best known patent infringement cases against Ford Motor Company (1978–1990) and a case against Chrysler Corporation (1982–1992). Having invented and patented the intermittent windshield wiper mechanism, which was useful in light rain or mist, he tried to interest the "Big Three" auto makers in licensing the technology. They all rejected his proposal, yet began to install intermittent wipers in their cars, beginning in 1969. 

Robert Kearns is one of those inventors that was forgotten. Actually the original inventor of the device was Raymond Anderson (1923), but Kearns is the one who’s brave enough to show it to the automakers and made it big. You may think his invention is not important, but it was revolutionary in the automotive industry and it also teaches us that you can’t do big things if you don’t start with the smaller stuffs. 

Photo credit: Google images


Saturday, 22 April 2017

Tugas Kewirausahaan #1

Taryn Croucher

I like automotive. Especially cars, since I was a kid the first word that comes out of my mouth when I was like 2 years old is ‘tires’ not ‘mommy’ or ‘daddy’ but ‘tires’ and when I was in senior high school, my love of cars grew even more, I started reading about cars on the internet and discover that Japanese car culture is probably the most bonkers out there.

Japanese car culture or Japanese culture in general influence me to the automotive world. When I was 12 years old my dad bought me a PlayStation 2 and a video game called ‘GT4’ or Gran Turismo 4, which is a Japanese made racing game, that game kick-start my love of cars even more, I started to recognize many cars from the game.

And today I thought when I want to have a job I wanted it to be something that I love, because there’s no better feeling than getting paid while doing something you love.
Like I said earlier, I love cars and when I have a spare time, which I always had, I like to open up Google chrome and went this website called “SpeedHunters” and on that website there are a lot of young entrepreneur who travels the world to take pictures of cars and write an article about them, but among all of them there’s only one person that really stands out to me, her name is Taryn Croucher, yep you heard it, she’s a women. 

You may think “how did she inspire you?” Well it’s pretty straightforward really, she’s a women and she likes cars, but more than that I love to read her articles, it’s so enjoyable. So hopefully in the near future I can become an entrepreneur like her too, travelling around the globe to shoot and write stuff about cars and most importantly met a lot people while doing it. 
Photo credit: speedhunters.com