Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Bandung & Jakarta

I came back last week from a great holiday with a few of my classmates to Indonesia. Stayed with my classmate, Theresia. Blessed by her family. Her driver drove us around during the trip. Her maids cooked for us. Yes, maidS. She has 4 maids & 3 drivers. The weather in Bandung is cooling. Really nice and comfortable. But the traffic there is really terrible. Jam everywhere. And language is a problem. They dont understand our BM and we dont understand their Indon. English they also dont understand. So we had to bring my indon friend, TJ everywhere whenever we wanna buy anything. Besides that, everything is good. Especially SHOPPING! The goods there are super cheap. Factory outlets everywhere. Wish we had more time to shop. Hehe. 

Our itinerary :

2nd July 09
I flew from KK to KL to meet up with the rest then fly to Bandung. We arrived at night. Checked into Theresia's home then rested.

3rd July 09
Woke up early. had breakfast at home. Then started our journey to Rumah Mode, a factory outlet for shopping. After lunch, we head up to a hill. There're a lot of hills there. We went up to one of them, called Gunung Tangkuban Parahu. It was so cold up there. We were all freezing even though we had our jackets on.
the volcano
Me, Nelvin, Ray, Sin Sien, Theresia, Jovin & Marvin

After that, they brought us to another hill for dinner. Its Bandung look out point. Way better than our Little Genting. A fine dining restaurant, western food.
4th July 09
We woke up at 7am and headed down to Jakarta after breakfast. Arrived at Jakarta at lunch time. Stayed over in Theresia's uncle's place. The uncle's driver drove us around Jakarta. Went for shopping again. Bought lots of things. 
Then we headed to central Jakarta to see the National Monument, aka MONAS. Ketara tourism students, need to see these kind of thing. Haha! Drove almost 3 hours there including the jam and we only stayed there for less than half an hour. -.-
Then we had dinner at a hawker stall. Food in Jakarta are expensive. About RM7 per plate of mee goreng. We went home to shower and then at 11pm, headed down to town to X2. Meet up with David & Edu, culinary students. They say its the best club in Indonesia, but no. It sucks. The DJ sucks. Still Malaysia's the best.
Met a random Korean guy

5th July 09
Arrived home at 3am. Showered and slept at 4 plus. Dead tired. All 10 of us slept in the conference room. Jovin & I woke up the earliest. The rest woke up at 3pm. *faints* Ate and headed back to Bandung.
Theresia's mom was so nice. She cooked us a really nice dinner. Chinese Teo Chew cooking.
After dinner, we hang around in the room waiting for time to past. 
Then about 11pm, we packed our clothes and left home to another hill. To the hot spring. It was frigging cold up there until we're in the pool. The water was really hot. 42 degrees! We left that place at 1am.
6th July 09
We had lunch with Theresia's mom in Bandung Indah. Then went to buy Banana Cakes. We were all waiting for this. Whenever Theresia comes back to KL from Bandung, she'll buy this for us. We all bought more than 6 boxes each.

After that went for last minute shopping in Blossom, another factory outlet. Then dinner with Theresia's family. It was her nephew's bday.
Dinner was good. Then her sis brought us to another hill, called the Kampung Daun. The place was So beautiful. So romantic. So comfortable. So cooling. The pictures are too dark. Cant show you. 



Went home, packed. Then we chit chat till 3.30am and it was time to leave to the airport. 

7th July 09
Flew back to KL then back again to KK.

Awesome time! =)

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