Aria Rajasa Masna

Last week was such a lovely week, after being featured on detik.com, Gantibaju.com is also being featured in IndonesiaKreatif.com and e27.

Indonesiakreatif.com is a very reputable creative portal focusing on creative economy and it’s ecosystem. They wrote an awesome article regarding Gantibaju as a creative business. Here’s an quote that I love the most

Keunikan dari ide gantibaju.com adalah keberaniannya melawan trend. Dengan memajukan budaya-budaya Indonesia karya desainer lokal yang dikemas secara modern dan keren, gantibaju.com bercita-cita untuk menghasilkan produk Indonesia mampu ‘Go Internasional’, dengan tetap dikenal karena keunikannya yang merepresentasikan Indonesia.

Read the full article here (in Bahasa Indonesia)

Internationally, gantibaju.com is also being featured in e27, the one who organized echelon in singapore. Gantibaju is being compared to Threadless.com (not that we mind or anything). Here’s a little quote

Aria has plans to expand Gantibaju to Singapore, Malaysia and Australia due to the high concentration of Indonesians in these countries. His passion for the country and why he started Gantibaju is apparent when he says, ”I LOVE Indonesia, the people, the cultural heritage. I believe that there’s a lot that we can put on our designs from Indonesia. I’m proud of being an Indonesian and I want all Indonesian to be able to express that as open and as easily as I would.”

Read the full article here (in english).

Thank you for Indonesiakreatif and e27 for writing such a fine article, we are truly honored.

Itulah judul artikel yang dituliskan oleh Pak Karmin a.k.a @fanabis dari detik. Berikut adalah cuplikan artikelnya:

di era social media ini kata komunitas bak mantera. karena kekuatan teknologi yang begitu pesat perkembangannya ini memungkinkan informasi menyebar sangat cepat. sebuah brand yang mempunyai komunitas loyal bisa dengan efisien mempromosikan produknya. andai memang produk itu menarik, dengan suka rela sorang member komunitas akan meneruskan kabar itu ke temannya, temannya teman dan seterusnya.

selain itu, sebuah brand juga bisa melibatkan komunitas dalam menentukan produk terbarunya. seperti yang dilakukan oleh aria rajasa. salah satu owner gantibaju.com adalah contoh start up yang sukses melibatkan komunitas dalam bisnisnya. sesuai namanya, bisnis gantibaju.com memproduksi tshirt berkualitas.

keberadaan start up lokal ini adalah bentuk keprihatinan aria yang kesulitan mencari produk t-shirt lokal yang “awesome“. apalagi yang dengan bangga membawa-bawa nama indonesia. ia ingin membuat sebuah produk tshirt lokal yang sesuai dengan idenya. bertemulah ia dengan dua rekannya yang mendukung gagasannya tersebut.

Silahkan baca selengkapnya disini

Very well written :) Thx for the awesome writing!

A couple of months ago, I made a small business with some college friends called bebibobu.com. It’s a cute and adorable baby clothing business, yeah I know that’s soooo not me but my friends are all excited about it and I like their spirit, which is why I decided to help them.

A month after our first production, I find Bebibobu to be very interesting because I can meet new types of people like stay at home moms, career moms, other baby goods business managers and, well pretty much a lot of moms and babies actually. It’s quite a refreshing take on my daily meet-ups with geeks and the usual business owners. I believe that meeting different types of people is very important because it can give you different perspective of the same problem, it helps you to think something that you never thought before and best of all, it’s refreshing :)

So wish me luck with this new business, I never thought I’ll dive into the baby and mommy business since I don’t have a baby and not even married (as of this writing). But it sure is fun to do.

Been watching Glee Season 1 this whole week and I’m proud to say that I’m a new fan of it. I’m always a sucker when it comes to an underdog story and I do love almost all underdog movie like Karate Kid (the original and the new one), Dogdeball even Goal. The music is also super awesome, wonder why I didn’t watch it when it started. Too busy with The Big Bang Theory and How I met Your Mother I guess LOL

Yes, it’s officially out! Been trying out the beta and I like it, it still retains the sleek interface that I love. The features that I waited the most is Post Types which lets you define you’re own type of post by defining its fields. For example you can make a Portfolio / Picture Post type with a picture and caption parameter, heck you can make your own tumblr with WP :)

The Menu management and the new taxonomies system is pretty awesome as well!

You can download it now at Wordpress.org

From left to right: Bayu from PC Plus, Dendy from Unkl347, Djoko Hartanto from Concept, Me, Yuliandi, Gigih from Dagadu and the attendings

It’s quite an honor to be presenting Gantibaju.com along side of t-shirt distro legends like Dendy Darman of Unkl347, Gigih Budi from Dagadu and Djoko Hartanto from Concept magazine. Thank you for PC Plus for arranging this.

:)

*full story here

I stopped smoking starting from 30th of March and haven’t had a single smoke from then on. I stopped smoking that day because at that morning I woke up, I woke up breathless.. as in I can’t breath normally, my lungs is not working as expected and I gasped over and over again. It went on for about 5 minutes and it sure is painful! Maybe it was my ashtma getting worse or maybe I smoked too much the day before but one thing I know. I never wanted to experience that again.. ever.

So why do I say that smoking is financially stupid? Well, first of all I’m getting married this year and after marriage, even small expenses cannot be taken lightly. So there it was, smoking expenses, on my budget list. Here’s my count:

I smoke 2 pack a day, let’s say it cost Rp. 10.000,- each, so one day equals 2 x 10.000,- = Rp. 20.000,-
Multiply that by 30 for a month = Rp. 600.000,-. Ok, it’s bigger than I thought..
Now let’s multiply that by a year: 600.000,- x 12 = Rp. 7.200.000,-

Wow! With that money, I can upgrade my iPhone every year! or buy an iPad and still have a surplus :P Now let’s see I’ve quit for 2 months which means that in 10 months I can justify myself on buying a new iPhone that steve is announcing this June! Ahahaa :D

So yeah, smoking is financially stupid :)

*This post was made to commemorate No Tobacco Day

I started using Windows 7 yesterday and plays around with it, I gotta admit I was pretty confused when trying to get used to the overall system. Well, It’s been 5 years since I actually use Windows (XP) so I got a little clunky here and there. Details after the break.

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Just saw this article on urbanesia about having a quick escape to places not that far away from Jakarta. Definitely interested :D So, Tidung Island anyone?

*picture taken from urbanesia.com