Waterfall~

I really need to stop hanging out with my hang out buddy...
He’s a bad influence.

Last Friday (26 June 2009), a day after our block 18 exam, he asked me to go to Solo with him. I said ok. I’m bored, and the ride only took 1 hour from Jogja. But since I’m kinda broke, I told him that he’ll have to pay for the fuel, and I’ll pay for the food. So, okayla… Not much spending on my part.

The last time we went to Solo, he told me that he wants to visit a place called Tawangmangu, only at that time I heard it as Taman Mangu (okay… they sound similar). What’s in Taman Mangu, I asked. He said that it’s similar to Kaliurang (it’s kinda like Cameron Highland, minus the veggies and flowers). Oh, then there’s ride to the top without any walking needed. I don’t mind much, if there’s no walking involve. My calves ached from 2-hour straight swimming. Besides, I’m not the one who’s driving my trusted blue Suzuki Spin 125 cc whim I called Ken. He’s the one. I just had to sit at the back and enjoy the scenery, and singing along to my mp3 player.

Or so I thought.

Not only the ride took around 2 hours, which was when we arrived to TaWANGmangu (I figured out what it called after reading the signboards), plus he didn’t know where the hell is that place. We had to rely on signboards (that’s like chipsmore cookies, now it’s there, now it’s gone…) and instinct. Then suddenly he said he wanted to go to a waterfall that’s there. I was like, okaayyy…

Waterfall = walking

NOOOO!! I didn’t agree to this!

After Friday prayer (my first Friday prayer ever), we went to that waterfall, Grojongan Sewu (that name is so Javanese, there’s no mistaking where the hell are we).

First thought, HELL! It's gonna be a long walk down...

and I'm correct.

It was a long, winding road, infested with MONKEYS!!! Do becareful, don't ever, ever do anything stupid like feeding the monkeys....

Then we saw the waterfall... suddenly I think, it was worth the walk... (it's not that far, really, around 5 minutes walk.. XD)

We spend some time exploring the area...

yeah, yeah.. pose bajet cute...

monkey-infested bridge...

I took this picture behind a professional photographer.. kira aku curik angle dia la neh.. XD

kalau tengok betul-betul, ada orang dating kat situ.. hahaha~

let's go home...

After the waterfall, we went to Solo Square.. then dinner at Sego Penyetan near Depok Sports Center with JERN!!! (three of us... there's no way Jern's going to have dinner with only me... haihh..)

Arrived home around 9pm... so much for being able to be back before maghrib la kann~

Jom pegi Jakarta lagi!!!

i went to jakarta again.
this time with aisyah and intan.

from left: aisyah and intan

the best part about this jakarta trip was we had a very cute driver which is Intan's younger brother.

the brother, aka the driver: Arlingga

which we bully kinda mercilessly with our gay jokes, and my insensitive comments.

anyway, if you come to jakarta, again i said, you must visit the malls.

Intan and her obsession, cat

latest mall open was the Grand Indonesia.
and we went there.

it was a picture heaven!!!
there's theme at each area; victorian, china town, old japanese, london street... cool giler!!

victorian highway...with love..ngahahhaha!!

oh, aisyah bought a prada.

and i just love salvatore ferragamo shoes!! by the way, i don't understand why the sales girl thought i could afford to buy a rp7.9 mil shoes even after 30% discount. hermm...

and yeah, ate JCo three days in a row sampai rasa muak.

mangga dua is THE place to be to buy pirated dvds and imitation handbags. a dvd costs around rp5000, which is around rm1.80, dirt cheap. basically mangga dua is 4 malls interconnected with each other via several bridges. it's something similar to the low yatt, sungei wang and time square area. but bigger and better. muahahaha!! you can find everything in mangga dua, or, like intan said,

you can go to mangga dua naked and came back fully clothed, accessoried and with a car.

i even went to jakarta fair.
correction, i went to jakarta this time to go to the jakarta fair.
but it was B.O.R.I.N.G.
dahla we have to pay for the entrance.
thank god we went with Intan's family, and gratefully, her dad paid for our entrance tickets. THANK YOU INTAN'S PARENTS!!!

orang durian at Jakata Fair

oh yeah.... ada doraemon kat plaza semanggi!! not only doraemon, the whole gang were present! ngehehehe! jangan jeles...XD

giant, sinyu, doraemon, nobita and shizuka

by the way, i didn't write about the places we went in chronological orders. har har har har.

for more pictures and the other side of the story, boleh la visit blog aisyah here...

bandung trip with aisyah

i did this just to spite raje.
hahahaha.

i went to bandung with aisyah on the 5th of June 2008. on the day she arrived at Adisucipto airport of Jogjakarta.
we took a 9pm train to bandung, and arrived there around 6 am. early.

and then we took a cab that cost us around rp120k to Jatinangor to see

a. my ex-classmates whom i haven't saw for nearly two years (especially fairuz and ali)
b. adib murshidee, aisyah wants to see him.

since Jatinangor was hell far from the town bandung, we decided to go back to bandung and rent a room at a hotel, Puri Gardenia Hotel (rp220k per night). and that trip back also cost around rp120k.

the friday, first day we arrived, was boring. i was even thinking about buying a ticket back on saturday night, which thank god i didn't do.

first day activities:

1. jatinangor
2. buy train ticket
3. went to totally lame factory outlet
4. went to BIP mall, okaylaa kot.
5. went back to hotel and slept

second day was much better. we went to pasar baru, a place a lot like pasar payang in terengganu or pasar siti khadijah in kelantan. lots and lots and lots of textile, kain batik (aisyah bought a few), baju, kain kebaya (aisyah bought a few too), kain buat seluar (i did buy enough to make two pair of slacks), kain alas meja (i bought one for my mum), etc.

third day we went to jalan dago, pegi factory outlet...
bought myself a vivienne westwood imitation t-shirt. wohoo!! jangan jeles raje!!

now i'm writing this blog from my friend's house in jakarta.
ngahahahahha!!

(seriously evil mode on).

ps: entry tak best langsung sbb penat and takde idea. nntilaa upload pictures.
pps: raje nak datang tak lama lagi...yay!!

mari makan!

pegi International Day food festival today. with Ida and other classmates (including Jern, he's worth mentioning, due to several reasons XD)

really feels like i'm going all over the world in just one day.i ate food from stands that caught my attention, except from Indonesia,Thailand, Columbia, Romania, Madagascar, Italy,Japan, Netherland and Saudi Arabia.

reasons?

1. Indonesia = currently living here. haha.
2. Thailand = Tom Yam and roti panggang. i want the roti panggang, but i was running late for class. isk.
3. Columbia = I came too early and too late. too early because they just giving out sample first, and too late because they've finished their food (come on!it's just one hour interval!!) tapi sample batter with coffee bean tu, sedap giler!!!
4. Romania = no food sold. isk. i want that interesting Greek food!!!
5. Madagascar = why are they selling lunch? isk...too heavy for my food adventure! sebab if i ate that, i can't eat anything else!
6. Italy = pasta? spaghetti? give me something else man! at least give us pasta ala trapanese, not the usual spaghetti and cheese..tak menarik sungguh!i want italian sweets!!
7. Japan = they're just selling bubur kacang merah style Jepun. saya tidak suka bubur kacang, tak kesahla dari negara mana pun...berikan saya YAKISOBA!! XD
8. Netherland = i didn't see any food...where's the food??
9. Saudi Arabia = they don't look like Arabs. in fact, aren't they Indonesian???
   

the most interesting food i ate at the foodfest were:

1. from Papua New Guinea = "bakar batu" , chicken, tapioca, banana, and chinese cabbage wrapped in foil and baked. delicious!with all the raw and fresh flavour, and sangat tidak menggemukkan sungguh! XD
2. from Vietnam = popiah (sangat lupa nama apa) and Ba Ba Soup. ba ba soup is a type of dessert, dalam ada kacang kuda (i think..or was it kacang dhal? tapi yang pasti bukan kacang tanah, kacang merah, atau kacang hijau), cendawan telinga kera, jelly and pemanis makanan (gula..wahahha).
3. from Australia = MEAT PIE! aku pau dari Firdaus sbb habis time aku nak beli..2 kali tau aku pegi food fest and tak dapat pie tu!! isk.(nak pau Jern punya sebenarnya, tapi segan tahap max XD)
4. from German = some sort of food. since the name is in German language, i couldn't understand a thing. yang pastinya, ia adalah kentang yang digoreng (macam cekodok, tapi leper) with cold apple sauce. SEDAP!!

ahhh...
nak makan lagi...
isk.

and oh, forgot to tell, for Malaysian food, we were selling nasi lemak, vadey, hainan chicken rice, kungpao chicken rice, egg tart, kuih cara (and others, i forgot what)

(okayla, since i mentioned Ida, Jern and Firdaus, here's are the list of friends who went together with me and whom we met at the fest:

1. Merayang
2. Mad
3. Afiq
4. Nad
5. Paan
6. Ummi
7. Farina
8. Azimah
9. Karen
10. Kiashor

okay, top ten je. anyone i missed out, sorry, sbb mcm banyak sangatlaa pulak after i listed down..)
ps: the bad guy in Ghost Rider hensem giler. kenapa bad guys sekarang selalu kacak bergaya?

rean's great jakartan adventure (PART II)

5 April 2008.

since Anne ada klas dari pkul 11 sampai pkul 1, so aku pun bercadang nak rayau jakarta sensorang. nek bas. fuh. kagum giler dgn keberanian aku sendiri. so, bila nak nek bas sensorang, kena laa ada maklumat nak pegi mana. kat sini, Rizal is my savior. dialaa yang kasi tau nak amik bas cenggana, nak amik route mana, etc.

firs stop, Reformation Monument kat Universiti Trisakti. monumen yang dibuat untuk memperingati kematian 4 orang mahasiswa ditembak polis. tinggi jugaklaa monumen tu. ada 4 tower. one representing each student kot. ntah.
(note to self: jakarta PANAS giler)

Monumen Reformasi kat Universitas Trisakti. aku amik satu tiang je.

pastu aku amik bas pegi ke stop Harmoni (mcm kl sentral arr stop neh) untuk tukar bas ke monumen nasional. sampai je stop monumen nasional (atau monas, orang kat indonesia suka buat short form. sumer pun ada short form), aku turun. ingat boleh pegi monas dari sini, rupanya takleh. oleh kerana seberang jalan ada Muzium Nasional, aku pun pegilaa sana..

Muzium Nasional Indonesia : penuh ngan patung. especially patung2 dewa dewi hindu and patung buddha. batu bersurat takyahla kata.. banyak giler. Muzium dia lagi best kot dari Muzium Nasional kat Malaysia. pastu ada satu bahagian muzium neh, bahagian entomologi. where they display the differences of cultures in Indonesia, and i dunno what's with their obsession with erect penises. there's a lot of idols with humongous erect penises. and there's even one with a head, torso, legs, big dick but no hands. what the heck???

tabung babi time kerajaan Majapahit dlu. woha!!

ah well. then i took the bus, and went to Gambir station to change my train ticket. instead of going back on sunday 0815, i changed it to sunday 2045. sebab Rizal janji nak bawak aku jalan2 jalan jakarta. dari stesen Gambir tu, aku pegi Monas. sebab sebelah je pintu masuk dia. my impression of monas? tinggi, besar. dengan pembaziran duit rakyat. ada "flame" at the top of Monas, and it's painted with real gold. they renew the paint every year.

Monumen Nasional

polis yang banyak kat MoNas

tapi jakarta seriously cantik. i mean, jakarta pusat. really. lawa giler. and the malls, obviously malaysia kalah.

view Jakarta Pusat dari MoNas

aritu most of my days spent on buses. sebab salah planning. hehe. last stop aku ngan bas, pegi plaza senayan. jumpa Anne and Qamar. lepas lepak makan yoghurt, kitorang balik. sebab penat.XD

and that night, aku melepaskan rindu aku pada ramen...setahun setengah tak dapat makan ooo!!!

6 April 2008

Kuar ngan Rizal. dia janji nak kuar pkul 11, tapi alih-alih, nak kat pkul 12 gak kuar. lepas solat kat Citraland (yet another mall), kitorang amik bas pegi Senayan City. lepas lunch kat sana (cenggana Rizal leh tau aku tak kenyang lagi lak neh?) kitorang rayau-rayau mall tu, sebelum berangkat ke satu lagi mall kat blakang Hotel Ritz-Carlton yang baru buka. lepas puas rayau mall tu, we went to yet another mall, to buy pirated dvds. heh. jalan jakarta memang pegi mall je. takde tempat lain. nak pegi theme park dia tak sempat, sebab agak jauh dari area kawan-kawan aku tinggal.

masjid baru nak siap blakang hotel Ritz-Carlton

lepas rayau sana, pegi Taman Anggerik mall balik, untuk beli souvenir buat bebudak kat sini. hah.oleh sebab aku sengkek tahap max, so, aku beli 6 biji donat J.Co untuk orang yang paling aku sayang. wahahahahha!keji tak aku? n sempat lagi pau Rizal donat 2 bijik.

lepas tu kitorang balik umah. and i started packing for the night train back to jogja.

cermin train taksaka

arrived at jogja train station at 6am. class at 8. waaahh!!

rean's not so great jakartan adventure (PART I)

wohooo!!
guess where i am now??
yeah!
i'm in jakarta, specifically, in my friend's room Anne, using her laptop.

so, i'm just gonna rewrite what i wrote in my little green book..sebab malas nak fikir macam mana nak susun ayat balik.

3 April 2008

aaaaaahhh!!
TICKETS!!
alamak macam mana neh! tiket tak beli lagi! tayar Ken-chan bocor plak tu!!
isk.
thank god for the 3 hours break. just enough time to repair the tyre and buy train tickets. but why does it have to be soo hot???dang!
anyway. 10:30pm ticket. and 8:15 am. should be okay. now back to class for 3 hours of agonizing histology. ARGH.

10:00 pm.
1 love the train station!okay. this is my first time riding on a train. sorry if i sounded jakun. can't help it.
the train comes with whistle and of course the sound of engine. too bad it doesn't have "choo-choo" sound anymore. ahh..the good (not, i think) old days of steam engine....
and the uniform of the staff...that bellboy hat..so cute!!plus it's red! wahahahhaha!!making me feels like i'm one of the Great Five of Enid Blyton. all aboard now! and i'm off to sleep..zzz..

4 April 2008

arrived at the Gambir Station of Jakarta one and a half hour late. GREAT. and there's Wani waiting for me. YAY! alahai, manjanye dia... hehe.
anyway. the station was packed! well, at least when we get out of train and at the arrival hall. tempat lain semua kosong.
by the way, on the train i got to know a lecturer from Pontianak,Kalimantan. he's on his trip to visit his students doing practical all over Java Island.
when i arrived, we were rushing to find a taxi because of wani's 8 am class. and we're almost 10 minutes after 8. hehe. so tanpa tak mandinya, i joined wani's class until 11 am. which is suck really. because this was suppose to be my great escape. isk. haha

after class, we went back to wani's room. hell! is she living in a hotel??with hot water fascilities, air-cond, and that built in wardrobe. wohoo!jakarta is surely different. aihh..
lepas solat zohor, wani ajak aku pergi Plaza Indonesia. what so great about Plaza Indonesia? well, they have PRADA, JOHN PAUL GAULTIER, LOUIS VUITTON, KATE SPADE, YVES SAINT LAUREN, IGNER, and whatever other designers brand available. nasib baik takde VIVIENNE WESTWOOD. kalau tak, memang aku drool and rasa macam nak nangis on the spot. isk. tapi Anne kata ada VIVIENNE kat satu lagi mall, Pondok Indah. aaaaaaaaa!!!nakk!!

time to meet Anne. she told me to wait for her at Taman Anggerik, yet another mall. giler banyak mall kat Jakarta!anyway, on my way to TA, i took a cab. and got caught in Jakartan traffic jam. good thing it's the type of jam where you can still move. bukan yang total static jam tuh. reached TA, waited for 10 minutes or so, and there's Anne. went to her house, and for dinner, Qamar's house.
then off to bed.

5 April 2008.

here i am. sitting in front of Anne's laptop, writing me blog. lepas ni nak jalan-jalan Jakarta naik transJakarta. ehehehe..