To most of the world, I’m known as the “She Bangs” Guy, the man whose American Idol audition had news outlets dubbing...

I was born into a lower-middle class family in the late 1980s in a small town in West Java. Yes, like the coffee...

In fact, I was 16th in the rankings, including my father’s children from his two older wives, who each had six children before...

I fell on my face so many times I lost count, but the thing that made my life different was that I refused to stay down...

The sun flowing through the crack of the window was not able to warm up the icy cold that was invading me at every thought of my future...

My parents—my father especially—were very liberal for the society in which we lived. A retired army officer, my father was well-educated...

We were a short 10-minute drive away from the bustling capital city of Kuala Lumpur. Our backyard opened to lush green jungle that...

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