Fiuhhhhh . . . finishing my travelling journal sure was time consuming. And now I’m already back to fairy tail u all on what has happened after that one week of adventure.
Nggg…ok…one thing that was obvious….i was struck with jetlag…and I mean quite severe. With a 5 hour difference between Perth and NZ, it all summed up to irregular sleeping time and quantity. My eating quantity also exploded, causing a rise in scale in just some couple of days later. Despite my jetlag, I still forced my self out to refresh my mind and get all things were it was supposed to be. As for work, well . . . I was planning on working all day till my day back to Indonesia, but things turned quite difficult for me . . .
It turned out that my friends were all at Perth and demanded working shifts. With the sales on a low, we ended up having to compromise and arrange our schedules among ourselves. And so . . . while I was dreaming of working my ass and gaining dollars all went to ashes . . .with just working almost the same hours when uni is in motion. It all just felt . . . like . . . not supposed to be like this . . .
With less working time, I ended up struggling on what to do to fill the days. It’s not like I didn’t have nothing to do completely, but the things that I was doing was really trivial and I thought that I ought to be doing something serious. Just walking around the city and other malls on my free time during summer, though it might seem cool and refreshing . . .but in fact it hurts me due to those things burning a hole on my wallet . . .surely but sure. . .
Oh yeah . . . did I mention that I was offered a chance to do an internship by my father. Ok . . .here’s the story. Still in my jetlag and tiredness, I was given a call by my dad. HE said that he would to contact his colleagues and see If there are any positions for internship for me to do. He offered me this since this would be my time to gain some experience before finding a job. It would help on my CV eventually. The offer . . . honestly was something good . . . but really surprising as it would one way or another flip my vacation plans 180 degrees.
After giving it some considerations . . . I decided to accept it. Even though it meant that I would be meeting my love for just a week. Just making this was really hard on me, as I thought that why one week for all the six months I’ve longed for? You think that it all ended there?NO!!!suddenly my dear called and notify me that her vacation would be advanced and for only 10 days….and that ten days would end rite when I would just arrived in Indonesia. Again . . . I had to think of something to see her . . . even if it just meant a couple of days. So . . .there was one solution . . . advance my date to go home. After some shopping around . . .my feasible time was to advance it a week. Honestly it wasn’t enough, but it was the best out of the worst.
So . . . with my departing advanced, and little working shifts to do, all I could do was to wait. . .wait . . . and wait. . . something that I obviously don’t like, especially in my circumstances rite now. Also, the thoughts of where I would end up working was starting to linger in my mind, slowly consuming my spirit. Though now it has been in someway healed and starting myself to grow some new spirit, it did in some way caused myself to feel down and over anxious.
But hey . . . all the troubles done . . . and now I’m in Indonesia. The story??well….i’ll make it separate . . . still . . . got lots of writing to do. But its okay. Writing for me is on way to keep my sanity and creativeness. Jya ne ;)
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Getting Lost.... (Part 5)
Final trip....I packed and checked all my belongings in my backpack. I made sure nothing was left over asides the souvenirs that I deliberately left behind for Erwin to give it to my family back home. It was early morning when I had to go to the airport. After saying my gratitudes to Erwin’s family, there I was out to Sydney, my final destination. The whole process in the airport was quick and smooth. But my only worry was when I touched down at Auckland. The time difference of only an hour or so to my connecting flight to Sydney made rushing to the international terminal. Luckily all seemed fine and I just had to lay back and wait for my flight back to ozzy.
In the plane, I made sure this time I’ld enjoy the inflight entertainment to its most. So rather than falling asleep as usual, I ended up watching a couple of movies. Not too bad eh ;). I was so enjoying it that I didn’t notice it was almost time to touch down at Sydney. On the ground, first thing for me to do was to get a pee as I had no chance of doing so since it was so crowded in the plane. Pass the immigrations and customs, I had to immidiately fine a transportation. Of all the choices, I opted for the shuttle bus as it sounded cheaper than the rest. And it wasn’t a bad choice after all as it dropped me right in front of the hotel .
Done with the checking in and lying down for some while, I was off out on the streets of Sydney...this time...completely on my own B-). I didn’t waste any time but to head straight to the Opera house. On my way, I walked pass hyde park and the botanical garden. It sure was a hot and long walk as i didn’t realize it took me more than an hour to finally reach the opera house by walking. But i did take my time by taking photos of the place and the surrounding sceneries. Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that i did stop by to get some lunch for myself in the main streets of Sydney. Just a simple fish and chips ;).
The walk back was tiresomen, courtesy of the hot weather. But I tried to enjoy things as i had no time to be tired since its my only chance in Sydney. At the house, I took a shower, prayed and then took a short nap. Having no ideas on what to do during the night, I thought going to the movies would be a good idea. Luckily 2012 was till n screens so I didn’t waste any chance to watch it. Before doing so, I didn’t forget to have my dinner of kebab before landing myself in front of the big screen. Done with the watching, I was thinking of heading back as I really felt tired, but i suddenly remembered to find a mosque. Alhamdulillah i found one close to the hotel. Done with the prayers, there I was back to my room and taking a rest after one hell of walking and travelling.
Last day, I woke up early, had a simple breakfast and kicked out the streets. This time, i thought going to Bondi wasn’t a bad idea, so i walked to the central railway and purchased a city sightseeing bus ticket. During my wait for the bus, I managed to get some short videos of the passing trains there for Nandar. In the bus, i enjoyed the sightseeing till i was done back again after 1.5 hours. From there on, it was a hellish walk for me as I dragged myself along Georges St to find The famous Apple store and the Kinokuniya Bookstore. At Kinokuniya, I was again mezmerized by the large choice of artbooks there. But, rather than going for Gundam’s, I chose Macross for a change. Done with it, I headed for the wildlife parkm just for a glimpse of a Koala and kangaroo ^^;. And though it wasn’t face to face and without the touching, I finally managed to see one rite in front of me for the first time ^_^.
After that, it was really a tiresome walk to the Circular Quay. Why i chose to get there was so that I can get a ride on the sights seeing bus rite along Geroges St once again. Eventhough i had an Ice Cream, the heat really worn me out quickly. The bus came and I hopped of at the street for my last destination...the Sydney tower. Though expensive, I would say the view and scenery from a couple of hundred meters above was astonishing. Of course, I didn’t forget to take pictures of the 360 degrees view from above. And after doing so, i walked and rushed for the nearest kebab store for lunch. Eating it at Hyde Park, I can say i was really hungry and tired from that neverending walk this day.
Back to the hotel to pick up my luggage, I stopped by at the mosque to pray before walking to the train station. There, I managed toget some train related gifts to Nandar before getting myself on the airport line. For a journey that short, $15 was surely expensive >_>. But there wasn’t much choice as the other methods were fairly the same price too. Arriving at the airport, I quickly checked in, pass the x-rays and quietly waited at the gate while muching an apple pie and fries from McD. I didn’t forget to have Alfian to help pick me up once arriving at Perth.
During the flight, i wanted to sleep, but i just couldn’t get myself to do so soundly. This eventually would cause me problems the next couple of days later on. On Perth, it was dusk and Luckily i wasted no time going back home as Alfian was there to pick me up. Back home, nothing much was done asides web browsing before getting to bed. In the end, It was really one exiting week, full of new experiences for me. It also forced myself to face new and sudden environments and to adapt to it. Will I ever get lost again in the future??why not :D . . .it’s not a bad idea and Is surely would do it given I have the time and funds insya Allah.
Owari :D
In the plane, I made sure this time I’ld enjoy the inflight entertainment to its most. So rather than falling asleep as usual, I ended up watching a couple of movies. Not too bad eh ;). I was so enjoying it that I didn’t notice it was almost time to touch down at Sydney. On the ground, first thing for me to do was to get a pee as I had no chance of doing so since it was so crowded in the plane. Pass the immigrations and customs, I had to immidiately fine a transportation. Of all the choices, I opted for the shuttle bus as it sounded cheaper than the rest. And it wasn’t a bad choice after all as it dropped me right in front of the hotel .
Done with the checking in and lying down for some while, I was off out on the streets of Sydney...this time...completely on my own B-). I didn’t waste any time but to head straight to the Opera house. On my way, I walked pass hyde park and the botanical garden. It sure was a hot and long walk as i didn’t realize it took me more than an hour to finally reach the opera house by walking. But i did take my time by taking photos of the place and the surrounding sceneries. Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that i did stop by to get some lunch for myself in the main streets of Sydney. Just a simple fish and chips ;).
The walk back was tiresomen, courtesy of the hot weather. But I tried to enjoy things as i had no time to be tired since its my only chance in Sydney. At the house, I took a shower, prayed and then took a short nap. Having no ideas on what to do during the night, I thought going to the movies would be a good idea. Luckily 2012 was till n screens so I didn’t waste any chance to watch it. Before doing so, I didn’t forget to have my dinner of kebab before landing myself in front of the big screen. Done with the watching, I was thinking of heading back as I really felt tired, but i suddenly remembered to find a mosque. Alhamdulillah i found one close to the hotel. Done with the prayers, there I was back to my room and taking a rest after one hell of walking and travelling.
Last day, I woke up early, had a simple breakfast and kicked out the streets. This time, i thought going to Bondi wasn’t a bad idea, so i walked to the central railway and purchased a city sightseeing bus ticket. During my wait for the bus, I managed to get some short videos of the passing trains there for Nandar. In the bus, i enjoyed the sightseeing till i was done back again after 1.5 hours. From there on, it was a hellish walk for me as I dragged myself along Georges St to find The famous Apple store and the Kinokuniya Bookstore. At Kinokuniya, I was again mezmerized by the large choice of artbooks there. But, rather than going for Gundam’s, I chose Macross for a change. Done with it, I headed for the wildlife parkm just for a glimpse of a Koala and kangaroo ^^;. And though it wasn’t face to face and without the touching, I finally managed to see one rite in front of me for the first time ^_^.
After that, it was really a tiresome walk to the Circular Quay. Why i chose to get there was so that I can get a ride on the sights seeing bus rite along Geroges St once again. Eventhough i had an Ice Cream, the heat really worn me out quickly. The bus came and I hopped of at the street for my last destination...the Sydney tower. Though expensive, I would say the view and scenery from a couple of hundred meters above was astonishing. Of course, I didn’t forget to take pictures of the 360 degrees view from above. And after doing so, i walked and rushed for the nearest kebab store for lunch. Eating it at Hyde Park, I can say i was really hungry and tired from that neverending walk this day.
Back to the hotel to pick up my luggage, I stopped by at the mosque to pray before walking to the train station. There, I managed toget some train related gifts to Nandar before getting myself on the airport line. For a journey that short, $15 was surely expensive >_>. But there wasn’t much choice as the other methods were fairly the same price too. Arriving at the airport, I quickly checked in, pass the x-rays and quietly waited at the gate while muching an apple pie and fries from McD. I didn’t forget to have Alfian to help pick me up once arriving at Perth.
During the flight, i wanted to sleep, but i just couldn’t get myself to do so soundly. This eventually would cause me problems the next couple of days later on. On Perth, it was dusk and Luckily i wasted no time going back home as Alfian was there to pick me up. Back home, nothing much was done asides web browsing before getting to bed. In the end, It was really one exiting week, full of new experiences for me. It also forced myself to face new and sudden environments and to adapt to it. Will I ever get lost again in the future??why not :D . . .it’s not a bad idea and Is surely would do it given I have the time and funds insya Allah.
Owari :D
Getting Lost…. (Part 4)
Last two days . . . still loads to enjoy and finish off ;). The nite was normal, nothing strange happened. We woke up on our intended schedules, took a bath and made some simple breakfast before checking out early from the hostel. Still, the morning was cloudy as before, it even started to develop into a light drizzle as the morning passed by. It did make us a bit disheartened as we thought we wouldn’t enjoy the scenery in the midst of this weather. But then…why the gloomy ideas…just enjoy things as they are.
So…we just drove to Mt.Managnui, a neighbouring town of Tauranga. Here, the main scene was the beaches with a hill (or mountain they say) right besides the beach. Had it been bright, I’m sure the scenery would be nothing less than awesome ;). At the beach, we only took a stroll along the beach line. We intended on hiking up the hill, but the increased rain drops held us back on doing so as we had no idea how bad the weather would be for us. Hence, the only thing to kill in time was to walk pass the streets of the town. We did so also to wait for a certain ice crea shop that Erwin recommended. Once we had a taste of the ice cream when they opened, it sure felt delicious despite the weather.
Next stop was the Waitomo caves . . . approximately 3-4 hours driving I remembered. But our problem there was we hadn’t made any reservations for the night there. Luckily we got one at the Mt Manganui i-site. With this in mind, it made us relieved that we just had to go there. Before hitting the place, we had a stop at Hamilton city for lunch. This city, turned out to be more crowdy than Rotorua. Here, Nandos was our choice and it was also a first time for Erwin :P. Had we not have booked a place in Waitomo, we would have opted to spend the nite in this city.
Along the road to Waitomo was weird. The sky suddenly became bright and clear. Hmmm….i wish this had happened days before >.< . Too bad eihh…Eniwei…the trip had to go on and we didn’t have time to regret it. The good side of it was that I was able to get clear shots finally from my phone of the sceneries that we passed by ^_^. This weather continued as we approached the Kiwi House just before Waitomo. This place was kinda like a zoo, only just having Kiwi’s and some local animals to NZ. Being an “aussie”, the fact that I did see a Kiwi bird here meant an irony for me as I haven’t seen a Koala till that moment >_>.
Done with the flightless birds, we then headed to our final destination. The place turned out to be quite remote. The signs to this were evident along the roads as we encountered less place of crowdiness. At Waitomo, it turned out that our hostel wasn’t far from the i-site and the caves. But the remoteness prompted us to find some ransom quickly before sunlight ceased itself. So, we headed back to the closest town before Waitomo and bought the stuffs we needed for dinner and breakfast. Our choice of meal….pasta…just simple pasta. The nite at the hostel was quite plain. Nothin much could be done due to the remoteness of the place. In the end, we only played pool and watched some film. I personally did my laundry and browsed the places at Sydney that I would be visiting. Erwin himself played his PSP in the room. We did watch a movie, but again I had to sleep early as I felt tired.
The next day….the last day finally. This time…things started of brightly in the sky and we hoped this would last for quite some while. Doing all the basic morning routines, we then took a detour to find a certain waterfall. The distance was quite far, being aroung 30 kms. And the road was sure up and downs with its share of left and rights thru the hills. But the reward once we got there was astonishing. Utterly breathtaking to make it simple. The falls were high…something that a fall should be. And the water flow was really rapid and clear. We obviously took some photos of the place. Due to time constraint, we couldn’t go done and get closer to the falls. But just observing the place was really exhilarating .
The way back was still breathtaking. We encountered endless views and scenery that really seemed like an eternity. But during the journey to the caves, we did encounter some sort of mishap which was when I speeded at the hills, we drifted coz we hit a hole that caused the car to go right and left uncontrolled. Damn lucky we were as there was no damage to the car nor ourselves were injured. Our luck was also due to the fact that there were no traffic on the road. . . .pheww…thank god we ended up fine.
The first cave was the Aranui cave. A simple cave with its share of stalaktits and stalagmites (did I get the spellings rite here?). The difference with the caves in Indo that it still retains its originality. Not to mention the authorities here still maintain the cave as it was despite putting in all the technology it needs for tourism. Indonesia should learn man. Next cave was the gloworm cave. The coolest part of this cave was that it had these glowworms that glowed in the dark. The view was at its best when we took a short ride on a boat to observed how these tiney creatures shined the dark cave with their bodily light.
Fiuuuhhh…done with all the touring and fun for the past 4 days, and now it was time for us to head back to Palmy. The 5 hour journey was tiresome and somewhat boring as there weren’t much scenery to observe. Erwin did most of the driving till Wanganui when I took over there. We only stopped once for a cup of coffee at a small town (forgot the name ^^;). We finally arrived at Palmy around 5 pm. Before heading home, we washed the car at a selfc cleaning station and returned it to the rental store.
My last nite at Palmy was intended to be simple and quite, just heading to sleep. But I suddenly thought of having one last snack outside. And there I was, eating a kebab in the coldness of summer Palmy. In the end, we got back as soon as we finished my last meal in NZ. Overall, the whole trip was splendid and marvellous. Though the whole journey didn’t go as planned due to the weather, we still managed to get the most out of things. I would never forget the places, sites and especially the view and scenery that will be in my mind forever. May one day I have the chance to come here once more to savor the moments .
So…we just drove to Mt.Managnui, a neighbouring town of Tauranga. Here, the main scene was the beaches with a hill (or mountain they say) right besides the beach. Had it been bright, I’m sure the scenery would be nothing less than awesome ;). At the beach, we only took a stroll along the beach line. We intended on hiking up the hill, but the increased rain drops held us back on doing so as we had no idea how bad the weather would be for us. Hence, the only thing to kill in time was to walk pass the streets of the town. We did so also to wait for a certain ice crea shop that Erwin recommended. Once we had a taste of the ice cream when they opened, it sure felt delicious despite the weather.
Next stop was the Waitomo caves . . . approximately 3-4 hours driving I remembered. But our problem there was we hadn’t made any reservations for the night there. Luckily we got one at the Mt Manganui i-site. With this in mind, it made us relieved that we just had to go there. Before hitting the place, we had a stop at Hamilton city for lunch. This city, turned out to be more crowdy than Rotorua. Here, Nandos was our choice and it was also a first time for Erwin :P. Had we not have booked a place in Waitomo, we would have opted to spend the nite in this city.
Along the road to Waitomo was weird. The sky suddenly became bright and clear. Hmmm….i wish this had happened days before >.< . Too bad eihh…Eniwei…the trip had to go on and we didn’t have time to regret it. The good side of it was that I was able to get clear shots finally from my phone of the sceneries that we passed by ^_^. This weather continued as we approached the Kiwi House just before Waitomo. This place was kinda like a zoo, only just having Kiwi’s and some local animals to NZ. Being an “aussie”, the fact that I did see a Kiwi bird here meant an irony for me as I haven’t seen a Koala till that moment >_>.
Done with the flightless birds, we then headed to our final destination. The place turned out to be quite remote. The signs to this were evident along the roads as we encountered less place of crowdiness. At Waitomo, it turned out that our hostel wasn’t far from the i-site and the caves. But the remoteness prompted us to find some ransom quickly before sunlight ceased itself. So, we headed back to the closest town before Waitomo and bought the stuffs we needed for dinner and breakfast. Our choice of meal….pasta…just simple pasta. The nite at the hostel was quite plain. Nothin much could be done due to the remoteness of the place. In the end, we only played pool and watched some film. I personally did my laundry and browsed the places at Sydney that I would be visiting. Erwin himself played his PSP in the room. We did watch a movie, but again I had to sleep early as I felt tired.
The next day….the last day finally. This time…things started of brightly in the sky and we hoped this would last for quite some while. Doing all the basic morning routines, we then took a detour to find a certain waterfall. The distance was quite far, being aroung 30 kms. And the road was sure up and downs with its share of left and rights thru the hills. But the reward once we got there was astonishing. Utterly breathtaking to make it simple. The falls were high…something that a fall should be. And the water flow was really rapid and clear. We obviously took some photos of the place. Due to time constraint, we couldn’t go done and get closer to the falls. But just observing the place was really exhilarating .
The way back was still breathtaking. We encountered endless views and scenery that really seemed like an eternity. But during the journey to the caves, we did encounter some sort of mishap which was when I speeded at the hills, we drifted coz we hit a hole that caused the car to go right and left uncontrolled. Damn lucky we were as there was no damage to the car nor ourselves were injured. Our luck was also due to the fact that there were no traffic on the road. . . .pheww…thank god we ended up fine.
The first cave was the Aranui cave. A simple cave with its share of stalaktits and stalagmites (did I get the spellings rite here?). The difference with the caves in Indo that it still retains its originality. Not to mention the authorities here still maintain the cave as it was despite putting in all the technology it needs for tourism. Indonesia should learn man. Next cave was the gloworm cave. The coolest part of this cave was that it had these glowworms that glowed in the dark. The view was at its best when we took a short ride on a boat to observed how these tiney creatures shined the dark cave with their bodily light.
Fiuuuhhh…done with all the touring and fun for the past 4 days, and now it was time for us to head back to Palmy. The 5 hour journey was tiresome and somewhat boring as there weren’t much scenery to observe. Erwin did most of the driving till Wanganui when I took over there. We only stopped once for a cup of coffee at a small town (forgot the name ^^;). We finally arrived at Palmy around 5 pm. Before heading home, we washed the car at a selfc cleaning station and returned it to the rental store.
My last nite at Palmy was intended to be simple and quite, just heading to sleep. But I suddenly thought of having one last snack outside. And there I was, eating a kebab in the coldness of summer Palmy. In the end, we got back as soon as we finished my last meal in NZ. Overall, the whole trip was splendid and marvellous. Though the whole journey didn’t go as planned due to the weather, we still managed to get the most out of things. I would never forget the places, sites and especially the view and scenery that will be in my mind forever. May one day I have the chance to come here once more to savor the moments .
Getting Lost…. (Part 3)
The main tour….originally pplanned to start right away once I arrived in NZ, but got postpones due to my friend’s hectic schedule. Though cut short, the journey I can tell you was none less short than . . . breathtaking .
Okay, we woke up early that day, had some simple breakfast than headed out. But first of all, we picked up our rented car, had my ozzy dollar exchanged for kiwi money, filled the gas and of we were on the roads. Our estimation to the first town which was Lake Taupo, was around 4 hours. Our first stop was around 2 hours after driving, stopping for some peeing and a grab at a KFC. Next was at an army museum which we wanted to visit, but eventually turned out to cost $12. Did we enter?hell no mate :D….we’re only looking for free grabs here xD.
After that supposed visit on the museum, we hit the road. At first, it was all deserts and nothing but complete sand and dust. It wasn’t until ½ hour later on that we finally started to encounter some breathtaking views of this country. And it all started with the landscape of Lake Taupo. What really made me startled was the fact that Erwin mentioned about this lake being as large as Singapore. Though I doubted it for a moment, it waned away once I took a look at the real deal. The scenery was like endless, as if you were actually looking at an ocean not a lake. Once we encountered a stopping place, we briefly took some photos and rest before heading on to the town.
As we entered the town, another awesome scenery came in, pine trees side by side on the road. It all felt fantastic and serene, luckily the sky was blue, so I would say that moment passing thru the trees was like an eternity. At the town, it suddenly went a bit cloudy, but the scenery of the lake from the town was still fabulous, and endless landscape of waters. Once we parked our car, we headed on to the i-site, some sort of information center that NZ has in most of its town tourist related. There, we got an idea on what place we would be visiting at oru short visit of the town. Next stop…was obviously lunch :P.
Having enough of fast foods, we thought of having a fancy meal. So we went shopping around in the main bistro streets to search for some fancy but affordable food. Our hunger landed ourselves at a decent café rite in front of the lake. I myself ordered a lamb rack with some sort of Lebanese sauce. The taste was delicous :D. After the meal, we took some photos of ourselves at the edge of the lake before heading to the town’s tourist attractions.
The first was a place called Huka Falls. At first, I was expecting some water falls the scale of Coban Rondo. But hey…it just ended as a mere imagination with fact that the falls were only 5 meters high >_>. And they called it a fall???luckily, despite the unmatching name, the water was just clear blue, blue enough that it was almost clean and clear. The water speeds were said to be suitable for rafting. Next and last place was a Glass making store. At first, we intended to just take a look at the glass product exhibited. But we ended up paying to see how the glasses were made. Not to bad, the experience was cool as we had a first eye view on how glass was made and coloured to make those fabulous masterpieces. Too bad I had little money as I wanted to buy one small item. But the prices itself were way beyond my reach >.< .
The next town was called Rotorua, and for the first time, I had the chance to drive the car there. Handling an automatic car, I had to really pay attention to not use my left foot as I’m accustomed on using manual cars that require the use of both foot. Luckily the trip went easily without any sudden use of my left foot. The shortcoming of the journey was that it started to drizzle and the view was all road breaking hills . The journey to Rotorua lasted around 1.5 hours, so it was a good start for me to get to know the roads in Kiwi here.
At Rotorua, the weather developed itself to become a full fledged rain <_<. Hence, we headed straight to the nearest supermarket, bought some food for us to make (face it…we had to do so being a backpacker tourist) and then checked in to the hotel. The room itself was quite decent…except the bathroom….which turned out to be for the disabled…So…the interior of the bathroom was pretty much filled with aids and grips intended for disabled use. Eniwei…we took a short rest and shower before finding ourseleves some dinner.
As for dinner, well, same as like in Taupo, no fast food mate. Hence we had to roam for some classy yet cheap stuff. Our choice this time was an Italian bistro. Nothing much was ordered besides our personal dishes and pizza. Our journey back to the hotel was a bit postponed as we took a strool to the lake and browsed the inet for some fresh ideas on where to head off the next day. On the journey home, I had to handle the car as Erwin drank and I possible couldn’t let him behind the wheel :P. The nite was only spent by watching Hangover at Asep’s lappie. But I had to go to bed early as I really felt tired. Asep stayed up a bit later despite being a little drunk.
The next day, he did indeed wake up a little late due to the drukness :P. But we managed to head out in time. The only bad thing was that that morning started of with quite the rain. We intended to head of to a place called Skyride, but postponed it till the weather got a little reasonable. So as starters, we went to a local Maori village called Whakarewarewa. The place here was all about how Maori’s lived there lives and their cultures. Even though under the umbrella, the tour around the village was quite cool. Not only we managed to see the geysers and the process of making some sort of Maori dress, we also had the chance to eat corn cooked in an oven that was heated by earth heat. And surely…it did taste delicious :D .
Too bad, even after the tour, rain still poured heavily. Nevertheless, we were still eminent on going to skyride. At the site, we bought the combo package. But then, it turned out that we wouldn’t hop on the sky swing as it would cause us some heart attack ). Despite so, we still enjoyed the luge ride twice in the midst of the drizzle. The view of Rotorua from the top of the hill was also spectacular even though covered with heavy clouds ;).
Our last stop was supposed to ride the famous Zorbit. But being costed at $50 above, we surely hadn’t had that much money just for one ride upside down inside a giant ball down thru a hill. Not to mention the need to wear a wet clothes sort of thing. So, of we went to the Bay of Plenty, in particular…Tauranga city.
The whole journey was still covered in rain. And we didn’t have our lunch until we finally reached the city. In terms of crowdiness, this was the second crowded one after Welly…minus any tall buildings though. After filling our tummies, we booked into our designated hostel. The place was quite decent despite being a bit cramped. Well…there’s always first times for things and this first timey on hostel was not that bad ;). The rest of the was intended for sight seeing. But since the rain didn’t seem to cease itself, we just cruised down the roads with the car. Finished with the cruising, we browsed the inet on an inet café than headed out for dinner.
Ah yeah…I forgot to mention one thing, we encountered a mosque rite on the outer parts of Tauranga before we checked in. Hence, we tried locating the place, which did took us some time. After some attempts, we finally found it and had our Zhuhur and Asar prayers. To fill in time in the middle of the rain barren times in this city, we also decided to have Maghrib and Isya here when night came that day. But surely we had a dinner first before having our prayers ;). The nite at the hostel wasn’t to bad, except by the fact that the girl that slept below me wobbled all night long, making me think that there was an earth quake or something :P. But in short, the sleep was sound and we were ready for our next day.
Okay, we woke up early that day, had some simple breakfast than headed out. But first of all, we picked up our rented car, had my ozzy dollar exchanged for kiwi money, filled the gas and of we were on the roads. Our estimation to the first town which was Lake Taupo, was around 4 hours. Our first stop was around 2 hours after driving, stopping for some peeing and a grab at a KFC. Next was at an army museum which we wanted to visit, but eventually turned out to cost $12. Did we enter?hell no mate :D….we’re only looking for free grabs here xD.
After that supposed visit on the museum, we hit the road. At first, it was all deserts and nothing but complete sand and dust. It wasn’t until ½ hour later on that we finally started to encounter some breathtaking views of this country. And it all started with the landscape of Lake Taupo. What really made me startled was the fact that Erwin mentioned about this lake being as large as Singapore. Though I doubted it for a moment, it waned away once I took a look at the real deal. The scenery was like endless, as if you were actually looking at an ocean not a lake. Once we encountered a stopping place, we briefly took some photos and rest before heading on to the town.
As we entered the town, another awesome scenery came in, pine trees side by side on the road. It all felt fantastic and serene, luckily the sky was blue, so I would say that moment passing thru the trees was like an eternity. At the town, it suddenly went a bit cloudy, but the scenery of the lake from the town was still fabulous, and endless landscape of waters. Once we parked our car, we headed on to the i-site, some sort of information center that NZ has in most of its town tourist related. There, we got an idea on what place we would be visiting at oru short visit of the town. Next stop…was obviously lunch :P.
Having enough of fast foods, we thought of having a fancy meal. So we went shopping around in the main bistro streets to search for some fancy but affordable food. Our hunger landed ourselves at a decent café rite in front of the lake. I myself ordered a lamb rack with some sort of Lebanese sauce. The taste was delicous :D. After the meal, we took some photos of ourselves at the edge of the lake before heading to the town’s tourist attractions.
The first was a place called Huka Falls. At first, I was expecting some water falls the scale of Coban Rondo. But hey…it just ended as a mere imagination with fact that the falls were only 5 meters high >_>. And they called it a fall???luckily, despite the unmatching name, the water was just clear blue, blue enough that it was almost clean and clear. The water speeds were said to be suitable for rafting. Next and last place was a Glass making store. At first, we intended to just take a look at the glass product exhibited. But we ended up paying to see how the glasses were made. Not to bad, the experience was cool as we had a first eye view on how glass was made and coloured to make those fabulous masterpieces. Too bad I had little money as I wanted to buy one small item. But the prices itself were way beyond my reach >.< .
The next town was called Rotorua, and for the first time, I had the chance to drive the car there. Handling an automatic car, I had to really pay attention to not use my left foot as I’m accustomed on using manual cars that require the use of both foot. Luckily the trip went easily without any sudden use of my left foot. The shortcoming of the journey was that it started to drizzle and the view was all road breaking hills . The journey to Rotorua lasted around 1.5 hours, so it was a good start for me to get to know the roads in Kiwi here.
At Rotorua, the weather developed itself to become a full fledged rain <_<. Hence, we headed straight to the nearest supermarket, bought some food for us to make (face it…we had to do so being a backpacker tourist) and then checked in to the hotel. The room itself was quite decent…except the bathroom….which turned out to be for the disabled…So…the interior of the bathroom was pretty much filled with aids and grips intended for disabled use. Eniwei…we took a short rest and shower before finding ourseleves some dinner.
As for dinner, well, same as like in Taupo, no fast food mate. Hence we had to roam for some classy yet cheap stuff. Our choice this time was an Italian bistro. Nothing much was ordered besides our personal dishes and pizza. Our journey back to the hotel was a bit postponed as we took a strool to the lake and browsed the inet for some fresh ideas on where to head off the next day. On the journey home, I had to handle the car as Erwin drank and I possible couldn’t let him behind the wheel :P. The nite was only spent by watching Hangover at Asep’s lappie. But I had to go to bed early as I really felt tired. Asep stayed up a bit later despite being a little drunk.
The next day, he did indeed wake up a little late due to the drukness :P. But we managed to head out in time. The only bad thing was that that morning started of with quite the rain. We intended to head of to a place called Skyride, but postponed it till the weather got a little reasonable. So as starters, we went to a local Maori village called Whakarewarewa. The place here was all about how Maori’s lived there lives and their cultures. Even though under the umbrella, the tour around the village was quite cool. Not only we managed to see the geysers and the process of making some sort of Maori dress, we also had the chance to eat corn cooked in an oven that was heated by earth heat. And surely…it did taste delicious :D .
Too bad, even after the tour, rain still poured heavily. Nevertheless, we were still eminent on going to skyride. At the site, we bought the combo package. But then, it turned out that we wouldn’t hop on the sky swing as it would cause us some heart attack ). Despite so, we still enjoyed the luge ride twice in the midst of the drizzle. The view of Rotorua from the top of the hill was also spectacular even though covered with heavy clouds ;).
Our last stop was supposed to ride the famous Zorbit. But being costed at $50 above, we surely hadn’t had that much money just for one ride upside down inside a giant ball down thru a hill. Not to mention the need to wear a wet clothes sort of thing. So, of we went to the Bay of Plenty, in particular…Tauranga city.
The whole journey was still covered in rain. And we didn’t have our lunch until we finally reached the city. In terms of crowdiness, this was the second crowded one after Welly…minus any tall buildings though. After filling our tummies, we booked into our designated hostel. The place was quite decent despite being a bit cramped. Well…there’s always first times for things and this first timey on hostel was not that bad ;). The rest of the was intended for sight seeing. But since the rain didn’t seem to cease itself, we just cruised down the roads with the car. Finished with the cruising, we browsed the inet on an inet café than headed out for dinner.
Ah yeah…I forgot to mention one thing, we encountered a mosque rite on the outer parts of Tauranga before we checked in. Hence, we tried locating the place, which did took us some time. After some attempts, we finally found it and had our Zhuhur and Asar prayers. To fill in time in the middle of the rain barren times in this city, we also decided to have Maghrib and Isya here when night came that day. But surely we had a dinner first before having our prayers ;). The nite at the hostel wasn’t to bad, except by the fact that the girl that slept below me wobbled all night long, making me think that there was an earth quake or something :P. But in short, the sleep was sound and we were ready for our next day.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Getting Lost…. (Part 2)
Fiuuuhhh . . . next day eh . . . well…I started of quite lazy. The jetlag and tiredness of the flight really ached my body. But it’s not as bad when u travel west. But anyway, i introduced myself to asep’s bro. It turned out he was a lecturer at FEUB too. After the small chit chat, I took a bath, breakfast and headed out with Asep to his campus. The reason so was that he had to finish of some errands. As I waited for him, I was given his inet access at the campus’s library. For the next 2.5 hours using the inet, I just browsed and surfed what ever was on my mind. Too bad I wasn’t allowed to download anything. But it was still a bliss since it was free to me after all :P.
It was around noon when I finished my session and we went to the city’s (the only one though :P) mall. There we had lunch and I brought myself a local number so that I can contact others with a local rate. Out to the streets, it still cloudy and it showed that rain would drop by any moment. But we just walked on the streets. I finally found one store that sold quite cheap NZ souvenirs. Hence I brought myself a couple of shirt for those back home. Done with that, we planned to head back to his campus since Asep still hadn’t finished his work, but it turned out to rain again. But we just ran thru it and made it to his car. Arriving on his office, I still just browsed the inet as there wasn’t much thing for me to do.
As night came, we still had dinner at his place. But since we had little to do, we ended up roaming the city for some fresh air. As we parked at the city, we walked thru the city square and I asked him to make me some solo photo’s for future memories. Too bad I didn’t have a pocket camera with me as I was too reliant on my cellphone. But luckily Asep brought his camera with hime. Finished with the photo, we turned out to be still hungry. This was normal as the weather at Palmy that night was almost like as if it was winter despite the fact that it’s supposed to be summer.But eniwei, we ended up having a drink and snack at a place called Mao’s bar. Though it was just a cup of moccacino and some fries, we did have a good chat and went nostalgic on some of our high school days.
Back at home, we were supposed to sleep early as tomorrow we planned to head for Wellington. But our night again turned out ot be full of chat. This time…it was all bout anime . . . specially gundam !! of course we added some other stuffs like macros and code geass . . . jeezzz…that’s what u get when two anime lover collide…endless nights of anime talks and chit chat :)).
And as expected…we did woke up late the next morning. We planned to wake up on 7…but we overshot it to half an hour later. We got out aroung a 10 minutes after 8. But before we hit the roads to Wellington, we stoped by to Asep’s office for some minor things to him. On the road to Wellington, it was all fine and breezy, not to mention the view and scenery that this country had to offer. It only turned worst when we reached the last third of our journey as rain started to pour heavily to the earth.
As we entered Welly, we kick started by finding the first place that we would visit. It was decided to be Weta cave, some sort of movie company that took care of special effects and animations. Their portfolio of works includes some prolific movies such as LOTR and the Narnia Chronicle’s. But when we arrived there, it turned to be just a small museum that had all their works in glass displays -_-. Oh well….forget the hyperbolism of NZ tourism (which I would further experience for the next couple of days), we stopped by to a souvenir shop. Here, the prices were cheaper than the one in Palmy and also more choices. Hence, I didn’t hesitate to buy the needed souvenirs for families and friends back at ozzy and Indo.
Done with the shopping, we headed to down town Welly. The rain still dropped down, but just in small intervals. Our choice of lunch was an Indian restaurant. But again, our choice kinda backfired as the dish turned out to be small despite the normal price we paid >_>. Jeezz….this did eventually cause us to starve again a couple of hours later especially in the rainy and cool weather. Nevertheless, we continued to walk down the streets of Welly for sightseeing. However, we did drop by to their national museum. In here, honestly I was amazed by how they concept ed and made the entire museum to be so damn modern yet trendy. It didn’t even look like the typical museum that you would think of :P. Inside, we looked on the geographical part of NZ, their Maori heritage and some history on the migration into NZ.
The later part of our time in Welly was spent by visiting one of the crowded streets in Welly which was called Lambton Place (if I’m not wrong :P). Here, we dropped by to enjoy a cup of coffee at Starbucks before we decided to head back home. The hotness of the coffee surely did ease the coldness in our body due to the cool weather outside. After the last sluurrpp….we headed back home to Palmy. Along the trip back, nothing much happened. We only stopped as a certain bay to get a catch and photo of its scenery. On the last half of our trip, I swapped place by driving the car. Not to bad though, just a little bit nervous due to my first experience driving something on unknown road. But luckily nothing bad happened on the way.
We finally entered home around 7. Again, we dropped by at his office for his little errands. After supper and a warm chat with his family, we decided it was a day. This time, we made sure we slept early. We couldn’t affor to be late the next day as we planned to visit 2 towns all together.
Tsuzuku . . .
It was around noon when I finished my session and we went to the city’s (the only one though :P) mall. There we had lunch and I brought myself a local number so that I can contact others with a local rate. Out to the streets, it still cloudy and it showed that rain would drop by any moment. But we just walked on the streets. I finally found one store that sold quite cheap NZ souvenirs. Hence I brought myself a couple of shirt for those back home. Done with that, we planned to head back to his campus since Asep still hadn’t finished his work, but it turned out to rain again. But we just ran thru it and made it to his car. Arriving on his office, I still just browsed the inet as there wasn’t much thing for me to do.
As night came, we still had dinner at his place. But since we had little to do, we ended up roaming the city for some fresh air. As we parked at the city, we walked thru the city square and I asked him to make me some solo photo’s for future memories. Too bad I didn’t have a pocket camera with me as I was too reliant on my cellphone. But luckily Asep brought his camera with hime. Finished with the photo, we turned out to be still hungry. This was normal as the weather at Palmy that night was almost like as if it was winter despite the fact that it’s supposed to be summer.But eniwei, we ended up having a drink and snack at a place called Mao’s bar. Though it was just a cup of moccacino and some fries, we did have a good chat and went nostalgic on some of our high school days.
Back at home, we were supposed to sleep early as tomorrow we planned to head for Wellington. But our night again turned out ot be full of chat. This time…it was all bout anime . . . specially gundam !! of course we added some other stuffs like macros and code geass . . . jeezzz…that’s what u get when two anime lover collide…endless nights of anime talks and chit chat :)).
And as expected…we did woke up late the next morning. We planned to wake up on 7…but we overshot it to half an hour later. We got out aroung a 10 minutes after 8. But before we hit the roads to Wellington, we stoped by to Asep’s office for some minor things to him. On the road to Wellington, it was all fine and breezy, not to mention the view and scenery that this country had to offer. It only turned worst when we reached the last third of our journey as rain started to pour heavily to the earth.
As we entered Welly, we kick started by finding the first place that we would visit. It was decided to be Weta cave, some sort of movie company that took care of special effects and animations. Their portfolio of works includes some prolific movies such as LOTR and the Narnia Chronicle’s. But when we arrived there, it turned to be just a small museum that had all their works in glass displays -_-. Oh well….forget the hyperbolism of NZ tourism (which I would further experience for the next couple of days), we stopped by to a souvenir shop. Here, the prices were cheaper than the one in Palmy and also more choices. Hence, I didn’t hesitate to buy the needed souvenirs for families and friends back at ozzy and Indo.
Done with the shopping, we headed to down town Welly. The rain still dropped down, but just in small intervals. Our choice of lunch was an Indian restaurant. But again, our choice kinda backfired as the dish turned out to be small despite the normal price we paid >_>. Jeezz….this did eventually cause us to starve again a couple of hours later especially in the rainy and cool weather. Nevertheless, we continued to walk down the streets of Welly for sightseeing. However, we did drop by to their national museum. In here, honestly I was amazed by how they concept ed and made the entire museum to be so damn modern yet trendy. It didn’t even look like the typical museum that you would think of :P. Inside, we looked on the geographical part of NZ, their Maori heritage and some history on the migration into NZ.
The later part of our time in Welly was spent by visiting one of the crowded streets in Welly which was called Lambton Place (if I’m not wrong :P). Here, we dropped by to enjoy a cup of coffee at Starbucks before we decided to head back home. The hotness of the coffee surely did ease the coldness in our body due to the cool weather outside. After the last sluurrpp….we headed back home to Palmy. Along the trip back, nothing much happened. We only stopped as a certain bay to get a catch and photo of its scenery. On the last half of our trip, I swapped place by driving the car. Not to bad though, just a little bit nervous due to my first experience driving something on unknown road. But luckily nothing bad happened on the way.
We finally entered home around 7. Again, we dropped by at his office for his little errands. After supper and a warm chat with his family, we decided it was a day. This time, we made sure we slept early. We couldn’t affor to be late the next day as we planned to visit 2 towns all together.
Tsuzuku . . .
Monday, December 14, 2009
Getting Lost…. (Part 1)
Ok…ok…I know it’s late….but the jetlag in me has just gone away which mean I can hopefully get back to my normal daily schedules. After getting back from NZ…things have been tough especially on regaining my usual biological timetable stable.....courtesy of the five hours difference….>.<
Rite….i wanted to write things as I experience the trip…but the lack of time….energy and proper equipment (laptop/PC) hindered me from doing so. But don’t worry….I still have all those wonderful memories and times in my head….besides….it’s still a week ago…I can’t just forget it that easily rite ;)
WHoaaahh….it all started on the night of 30th November. As I counted down all the things that I had to bring….i was picked up by Roy who would drive me to the domestic airport. Having thinking that I had not forgot anything, it turned out later on when I boarded the plane that I had forgot to bring 1 essential thing….mineral waterrr !!! damn….you just cannot forget this when your on a budget airline that doesn’t provide meals and drinks on flight >.<….Nevertheless…the ride on air wasn’t that much of a problem….I mostly slept there till I almost arrived to Sydney. This really saved me from the thirst that really itched my throat.
However…things got worst when I touched down and I was dying to grab a bottle of water. Coincidently, I had to have a small change for the shuttle bus to the international terminal, so there I went searching for a kiosk that sold water. Problem done and I had some change to ride the bus. At the international terminal, I directly checked myself in for the flight to Auckland and to Palmerston North. After that, I roamed around the place in search for some decent and halal food….again and finally….it went down to eating …..kebabs….:P Oh well….had no choice….honestly…the kebab wasn’t that delicious….but since I was starving…I just enjoyed it.
Finished eating…I originally wanted to go to the observation deck….but I ended up getting lost…so I just headed to the immigrations part….after that…the most dreaded part….X-Ray scans T_T….why I dread this section is due to the need to put off everything that has metal in it…that means watches, keys, belts and everything….damn….so tedious….>.<….but u gotta do it…so I had to after taking a long queue to do so.
Passing the x-ray…I was free…but having nothing do do…I just walked myself straight to the designated gate. To kill time..i phoned my honey. Having a 5 hours difference…it really felt strange as when I phoned her, it was still early morning whilst it was already at around 9 at Sydney. But then….we just chatted out anything we could till I was called inside the plane.
Inside the plane….my usual tendency came…falling asleep just after I sat on my seat. This really was such a pity coz there was a plentifull amount of on flight entertainment…for free!!!Though I did browse the options before take off…I only finally did enjoy and watched a film when I was already 1.5 hours airborne. This made me unable to finish of the movie that I watched .
Touchdown to Auckland….i quickly put myself out of the immigration section and checked in my continuing flight to Palmy. Needing to go to the domestic terminal…I wanted to go there viz shuttle bus…but since it was still empty…I ended up walking 10 minutes there in the midst of the windy weather aroung the airport. At the domestic airport….i was quite confused by the simplicity of the check-in sections where they only had machines to do it whereas humans were only used to take care of any passengers that had luggage….jeeezzz…when would Indonesian Airport be this simple…hope soon ;). Till kill time….i just roamed myself inside the domestic terminal…not forgetting to open the internet whilst there was free inet access there
Boarding time…I was still amazed that they where using state of the art boarding machines that enabled us to just scan our boarding pass on to the machine without the use of any human assistance. But my amazement stoped rite after I passed the boarding gate. It suddenly went from high tech to just……primitive!!I mean…the celings suddenly became mere metals…no cement nor brick used for the walls…and it was directly right in front of the planes…not the jet planes…but the self propelled one…now…speaking of a flight with these kinds of planes…it sure is a first time. Luckily the interior was decent enough. So there I went…riding the “baling2 bambu” :D .
The flight itself was just for an hour. Nothing weird or special so I just played my NDS to fill in time. Arriving at Palmy…I was further made surprised that the airport was small….approximately just 4x the size of Malang’s local airport. Entering the building, I was greeted with Asep who was already waiting for me. He did look a bit chubby since my last encounter with hime around 3 years ago. Save the memories…we straightly headed for his house. Before arriving, we stopped by to by some dinner at a Thai resto. Arriving at his house, I was greeted by his brother and sister in law with their child. After some little introduction and chit chat, we had dinner together. After the platter….I still chatted with Asep’s sista before I finally ended up sleeping. A journey of 8 hours is really tiring. Not to mention the jetlag and time difference that really puzzle up my body. But the excitement and adventure was waiting me, so I couldn’t afford to feel tired, for there were many things that awaited me for the next couple of days…..
Rite….i wanted to write things as I experience the trip…but the lack of time….energy and proper equipment (laptop/PC) hindered me from doing so. But don’t worry….I still have all those wonderful memories and times in my head….besides….it’s still a week ago…I can’t just forget it that easily rite ;)
WHoaaahh….it all started on the night of 30th November. As I counted down all the things that I had to bring….i was picked up by Roy who would drive me to the domestic airport. Having thinking that I had not forgot anything, it turned out later on when I boarded the plane that I had forgot to bring 1 essential thing….mineral waterrr !!! damn….you just cannot forget this when your on a budget airline that doesn’t provide meals and drinks on flight >.<….Nevertheless…the ride on air wasn’t that much of a problem….I mostly slept there till I almost arrived to Sydney. This really saved me from the thirst that really itched my throat.
However…things got worst when I touched down and I was dying to grab a bottle of water. Coincidently, I had to have a small change for the shuttle bus to the international terminal, so there I went searching for a kiosk that sold water. Problem done and I had some change to ride the bus. At the international terminal, I directly checked myself in for the flight to Auckland and to Palmerston North. After that, I roamed around the place in search for some decent and halal food….again and finally….it went down to eating …..kebabs….:P Oh well….had no choice….honestly…the kebab wasn’t that delicious….but since I was starving…I just enjoyed it.
Finished eating…I originally wanted to go to the observation deck….but I ended up getting lost…so I just headed to the immigrations part….after that…the most dreaded part….X-Ray scans T_T….why I dread this section is due to the need to put off everything that has metal in it…that means watches, keys, belts and everything….damn….so tedious….>.<….but u gotta do it…so I had to after taking a long queue to do so.
Passing the x-ray…I was free…but having nothing do do…I just walked myself straight to the designated gate. To kill time..i phoned my honey. Having a 5 hours difference…it really felt strange as when I phoned her, it was still early morning whilst it was already at around 9 at Sydney. But then….we just chatted out anything we could till I was called inside the plane.
Inside the plane….my usual tendency came…falling asleep just after I sat on my seat. This really was such a pity coz there was a plentifull amount of on flight entertainment…for free!!!Though I did browse the options before take off…I only finally did enjoy and watched a film when I was already 1.5 hours airborne. This made me unable to finish of the movie that I watched .
Touchdown to Auckland….i quickly put myself out of the immigration section and checked in my continuing flight to Palmy. Needing to go to the domestic terminal…I wanted to go there viz shuttle bus…but since it was still empty…I ended up walking 10 minutes there in the midst of the windy weather aroung the airport. At the domestic airport….i was quite confused by the simplicity of the check-in sections where they only had machines to do it whereas humans were only used to take care of any passengers that had luggage….jeeezzz…when would Indonesian Airport be this simple…hope soon ;). Till kill time….i just roamed myself inside the domestic terminal…not forgetting to open the internet whilst there was free inet access there
Boarding time…I was still amazed that they where using state of the art boarding machines that enabled us to just scan our boarding pass on to the machine without the use of any human assistance. But my amazement stoped rite after I passed the boarding gate. It suddenly went from high tech to just……primitive!!I mean…the celings suddenly became mere metals…no cement nor brick used for the walls…and it was directly right in front of the planes…not the jet planes…but the self propelled one…now…speaking of a flight with these kinds of planes…it sure is a first time. Luckily the interior was decent enough. So there I went…riding the “baling2 bambu” :D .
The flight itself was just for an hour. Nothing weird or special so I just played my NDS to fill in time. Arriving at Palmy…I was further made surprised that the airport was small….approximately just 4x the size of Malang’s local airport. Entering the building, I was greeted with Asep who was already waiting for me. He did look a bit chubby since my last encounter with hime around 3 years ago. Save the memories…we straightly headed for his house. Before arriving, we stopped by to by some dinner at a Thai resto. Arriving at his house, I was greeted by his brother and sister in law with their child. After some little introduction and chit chat, we had dinner together. After the platter….I still chatted with Asep’s sista before I finally ended up sleeping. A journey of 8 hours is really tiring. Not to mention the jetlag and time difference that really puzzle up my body. But the excitement and adventure was waiting me, so I couldn’t afford to feel tired, for there were many things that awaited me for the next couple of days…..
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