Photograph of the month: april 2012

I'm tired of apologizing for every late posts and I guess the readers (if there's any) feel the same too. The photograph was taken in June when my parents, my sis and I went to Australia for holiday. I haven't posted about the vacation too. Again my apology.

spore trip

that was a mad idea when mega and i finally decided to book a flight to spore. we'd been talking about this trip many times, but we only "talked" until we really made it. we didn't really plan out this trip, not like the one we had. we only named the place where we'd meet. arrival hall, that's all. fyi, i've never been to changi airport before, and if you have been to medan, you can imagine how "big" our airport is. so when mega said that we met up at arrival hall, i imagined that mega would wait for me at the one big arrival door (like what polonia airport has). stupid me for underestimating one of the most sophisticated airports in the world, we waited for each other for like an hour in different areas of arrival hall. we did finally meet up after mega got out of the arrival hall. this whole one hour, i was waiting outside and she was inside the arrival hall. duh!

we slept for like three-four hours only and unwillingly we got ourselves up and began the trip. mega yearned for mamak food for breakfast, so we went to little india and found ourselves mamak stall. we ordered cane and prata. having some space unfilled in our stomach, we called for martabak. to our surprise, it's a super martabak!

stuffed with the super martabak, we walked around little india and bugis. while taking a rest in bugis, we met this group of college students who took a movie scene in the center of bugis. while looking how they worked with those cool stuffs, i missed my college time. i missed the spirit and the excitement of youth! ha, i'm still young, but i missed my youth. T.T

eating this delicious ramen cooked by a korean woman, who can't speak english, but extremely friendly

we met up with evelyn at mrt station. this the another thing i miss living overseas-waiting for friends at station. we don't have one here in medan, so i do miss it. we then headed to evelyn's apartment and again missed the moment where i could see city's night view-the lights, the cars, the road.

my super lux dinner

after dinner photo ^^

the next day we went to uss! so great to be there!

passport pic in uss

hmm.. mega, what are you doing?!?

a hug pic!

love shrek's house

high expectation, low satisfaction

show me your kungfu

oh, c'mon.. smile charlie!

with elton john

goodbye spore, will visit you again someday ^^ and thanks eve for your hospitality <3

world trip 2! (day1)

after crossing out so many exciting destinations, we fell to this option. it fit our time and budget perfectly. our second world trip destination is malaysia! ahha!

it's great that we could meet up again. and it's the real point of making 'world trip', to make a little time just for ourselves, catching up with each other and just have fun. that is not easy to do in today's world.

but, i made a big stupid mistake by not charging my cellphone on my arrival day, which made chan and pak had difficult time finding me. luckily it's only lcct :p chan's parents picked me up and drove us home safely. thanks and sorry aunty and uncle!

our first hit the next morning was bagan lalang. it's a family beach, i guess. we didn't really prepare ourselves coming to the beach. my tips for future reference for anyone who wanna go there are bring your family as many as you can (coz the more, the merrier!), bring food and mat, and don't forget to bring hats or sun block (very important!).

what day is today? it's malaysian's independence day! :)

sort of a 'must' pic on beach a declaration that we've been here :ptugs of war (fun game to play on beach) :)chan was forced to take every shell that pak saw :p

in indonesia, we have this mitos that if we gush our breath toward the shell, it eventually will come out. but when we tried, it didn't work. chan thought that i fooled her. perhaps only indonesia shells do that.

we saw this family (dad, mom and son) was busy looking for shells. but this mom definitely took my attentiontoward afternoon, we saw many stands selling windmills and kites. i didn't have chance to shoot the kites ;(

sepang gold coastwe waited for minutes to get visitor pass to enter the resort. it's worth waiting.

my dream pic, yatta! (should practice more though)

toward the lunch time, we headed to a very famous restaurant around the area. and the problem with a very famous restaurant is there are lots of tables and hungry mouths to be served. so it takes lots of time. after waiting for few minutes, we went to another place to eat. we could see several people whom we also met at previous restaurant. the result was the same, we waited so long...

finally the food came! bon appetite :)seafood and a glass of beer, what else could i ask for more?

recharged after taking lunch, we went to the famous love/ couple bridge. what can you see there? of course, couples, lots of them. making me jealous? hmm... a bit. actually i wanted to see some dead fish on the bridge, but couldn't find one :p i think the biggest question is "what's there at the end of the bridge? a pot of love? a magic love wand? love powder? cupid? lover claim station?"

NOPE! the answer was a fisherman! (enjoying his time fishing and ignoring every lovey dovey things going on around him. so proud of him!we reached the love/ coupld bridge! look at our hair! like these :)

throwing all of the lovey dovey behind, we went to this mushroom house. you can see many mushrooms and mushroom products you've never ever imagined. love their drink products.

i love this mushroom. they look like a dorayaki, don't they?

outbound@kampoengladang (7th july 2011)

it was our closing event for the end of academic year 2010/2011, where the teachers could gather and showed their 'true color'. we chose something different by getting closer to the nature, normally we would end up in karaoke box :p

the gang! (most of them couldn't make it because of personal affair or health problem)the owner showed off a vintage bicycle and "electronic bicycle?" in the evening,
then out came our narcisstic naturei played this trampolin and hurt my arm :(

the outbound itself offers few options to play, they have atv, trampolin, high rope, boats, wall climbing, big balloon (not sure what its real name) and flying fox. but it is a nice place to go. it is so evergreen, a great place to gather with family and to take pictures. many couples actually take their pre-wed pictures here.

see ya in next outbound

a visit of pakcik and makciks from malaysia

finally the day came! we'd been communicating few weeks. thanks to the technology, everything can be simple and cheap :p although i didn't give what i promised (which is picking them up at the airport, i'm terribly sorry), i'm super duper happy to see them again.

day 1: to straight to parapat
after a lunch at uda sayang, which amazed them a lot with the many side-dish food served on the table, we began a long journey straight to parapat. i admit i'm not a good passenger. i got wasted easily, and thank goodness i didn't throw up.

taking a ferry to the island...

when we reached parapat, it's dark. so we decided to have dinner at the restaurant and enjoyed a star-full night sky. truly gorgeous!

day 2: seriously crazy day
we purposely woke up early to catch these pictures! and fortunately we did!

amazing root huh?

while busily taking pictures, we met these guys who were taking pre-wed pictures. though i didn't see the results, i believe the pictures must be amazing!

their pre-wed picturemy pre-wed picture

a high jump for a beautiful day with a beautiful view

carolina hotel - a recommended stay in parapat

thanks to the man (who came from Spore) for taking us a picture. we seldom have full team picture :)

we found this crazy board which sent us to the deep endless bottom of the lake. edmond, jo, and weiway tried it. i wish i had more gut to try it. i had this crazy imagination that my leg would get trapped by the seaweed. haiks... now, yes i regret it.

it's a long way back to medan...

then we dropped a while to brastagi and we found what jo wanted! tamarillo = terong belanda (= dutch's eggplant, literally translated).

day 3: binjai's rafting

watch out people! here we come!

fill up your bellly before rafting, very crucial coz you gonna spend lotsa energy there...pre-jumpperson 1: edmondperson 2: joperson 3: weiwayperson 4: yentyperson 5: suryantipersons 6: bang gembul and megapersons 7: weiway and metaking a break before the damthe famous damafter the dam, excitedly relieved :)

day 3 was filled with water, water, and water... and saying goodbye! happy to serve you guys here ;) hopefully you did have a great trip here :)