Pernah dengar lagu Garbage berjudul “I’m only happy when it rains”? Lagu cukup lama, album pertama mereka yang dirilis akhir tahun 1995. Tentu saya tidak akan bicara tentang Garbage yang pernah menjadi grup musik favorit saya itu, melainkan tentang “I’m only happy when it rains”.  Read More →

Why you cry when slicing the onion? Is tears from it really good for your eyes? And how to slice onion without crying? All these questions can be answered if you know how the onion makes you cry when you are slicing them. Read the article: [Mengiris Bawang Tanpa Menangis](http://febdian.net/drupal/node/36) in Bahasa Indonesia.  Read More →

I remember last year (around March-April 04), when I took Solid State Physics class. I didn’t feel stress for that class, Prof Rudolf treated the course from semi classical approach, which made me easy to understand (I just passed the quantum mechanis and its application, the rest seems so easy once you understand the bra-ket formalism and the probability concept of an event, hahaha.) No wonder I can make the homework and pass the test with fun. But the terrible thing happened, my brother (who is the researcher in solid state thing) asked me, “so...