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"eropa,wah pengennnnnnnnnn"
"ya Tuhan aku pengen ke eropa.. pengen ke paris.."
oke, everyone has a dream, and coming to europe is one of their biggest dream ever comes true.
So did i.
Pertama kali dikasih tau kalo gue bakal bisa ke eropa juni ini, ya Tuhan.. rasanya hati ini cenat cenut, kayak kesiram aer comberan rasa coca cola men.. blessssss.. nylepppp... ahhh.. ga kekira deh bangganya gimana.
Bangga.Excited.Degdegan.
Bahkan saking noraknya, every single day to the D-day, i did count 'em !
haha

Mulai lah gue rempong rempong bikin visa. ini nih yg bikin males ama negara sendiri.
liat negara tetangga.
ke utara, beh.. malaysia, singapur, brunei, mana ada yang ngurus visa ke eropa?
ke selatan.. ya ilah.. australi mah keliling dunia kaga apply visa
cuma Indonesia.. negara besar yang katanya "global set", eh ke eropa aja pake visa. banyak yang ditolak pula. bleh.

Singkat cerita, Visa Schengen gue diterima dan pelitnya, cuma dikasih 21 hari. Ga lebih.

Urusan visa beres, packing beres, semua beres. Lega. Tinggal anyer anyer aja nih ulu hati nunggu nyampe eropa, degdegannya bener bener sweet feeling.

Dan jeng jeng jeng....
here i come.
The most visited city in the world.
The most dreamed city in the world.
The city of love.
The city of Light.
Paris.


PERANCIS

Nyampe paris waktu itu masih siang. Sebelumnya gue udah cek cuaca, katanya perancis awal juni udah mulai masuk summer.
okelah, ekspektasi gue bakal anget kayak bogor.
Ternyata gue salah.
begitu keluar bandara, brrrrrrr... dingin coiiiiiiiiii kayak bawa AC keluar ruangan.
di Imigrasi juga ga ada masalah apa apa. ga pake ditanya2. langsung cop. and "bon vacance" kata mas mas imigrasinya.

Perancis, so far menurut gue adalah negara yang paling baik dan ramah. Berbeda 180derajat dari kata orang orang kebanyakan, penduduk paris (parisien) adalah orang yang sangattttt ramah buat gua..
Baru buka peta dikit, mereka langsung nyamperin ngasih tau direction.
Bahkan, ada nenek nenek baik banget naik turun lantai 8 cuma buat nyariin Landlord gue di apartemen paris.
Their english juga ga jelek jelek amat dibandingin negara eropa lain.
Tapi ada juga sih yang at all ga bs inggris, gue sempet nanya pas lg di stasiun RER Antoine, kalo mau ke Cite universitaire naik apa ya? ternyata dia ga ngerti.. pas diajak ngmg prancis, dia baru ngasi tau cas cis cus..
eh pas gue mau nanya "mesti transit dimana gitu gak?" kan gue gatau bahasa prancisnya transit apa, yaudah gue blg "transit?" eh dia ngmg "anglais pas" yg artinya "i dont understand english"..
yaampun padahal cuma 1 kata..

Begitu masuk RER, wiiiih.. langsung disambut sama...... PENGAMEN!
yak, pengamen bule. bau. gabut pooool.
masa dia ngamen maen akordeon, eh dia ngobrol. gak nyanyi pula.
udah gitu, gaada orang yg ngasih duit. hahahaa..

kalo kata orang METRO di prancis ribet? ah ga juga.. lebay. cuma ya itu, namanya turis ya pasti berpatokan ama metro, padahal kadang2 dari 1 stasiun di jalur x ke stasiun di jalur y bisa jalan kaki 5 menit, tapi krna terpaku ama stasiun metro, jadilah dibawa muter2 transit setengah jam.
emang harus pinter2 cek rute.

metro di paris juga jelek kok, stasiunnya kotor, jalanannya pun di grafity semua.. jorok deh.
cuma ya rapih aja dan teratur.
pokonya semua yang jelek2 dijakarta, ada di paris dan eropa.
dari tukang ngamen, tukang minta2 di lampu merah, tukang minta minta yang pake amplop, tukang teh panas di taman eiffel, tukang buah di stasiun yg sampingan ama tukang dvd bajakan, dsb.. hahahaha..

to be continued.
untuk foto, bisa diliat di facebook gue ya :'D


Sometimes, I think..
I think that I can make my own decision.
Taking the right one, or even the wrong one.
I pick it, I enjoy it, and I still the one who takes the responsibilty to all of my decisions.
I sometimes want to express the deepest thing I want to share about,
To make 'em understand, to feel the way they feel, or at least, to adore one that I want without trying to hide it..
I push myself to go on the right path, even the dangers are the thing that I can see enough, I will die happy but will make someone die becomes a nightmare.
I float my wants in the middle path hence I won't fall to the path untrue.
But still, I have consequences.
The biggest thread remains always.

A film taught me a thing.
Life is always give you a start over after you learn from your failure.

And now, I am taking my chance back..
I want to start 'em over, again..
I don't want to fall to deep..
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Happy Birthday, Dear the Most Gracious Woman in My Life.

One told me that however grand your money you've built, you'll never
be able to repay even the little thing your mother has sacrificed for
you.

And It's true..

Mama..
You are the woman that i could hang on when my fear came out..
You are the one that i spent my tears on when i broke my hand in fighting..
You are the one that i yell-ed on when i got nothing from the thing i wanted..

Mama, you are always there.
Even when i rejected your decision..
Even when i push hard the door when we fought,
even when i undeniable said "ARGHHHH" to every single thing you
demanded me to do..
you are always there however i was..
you not even fought me back..
you not even slap your hand at my body..
you not even asked me to go out from home..

You just kept silent and went to your room.. you cried..
you kept thinking that you are a failure in my growing up even you ARE NOT..
you cried even i stupidly did nothing to you to stop you crying..

Mama..
for every single tears you spent to grow me up... but i just forget..
for money you've spent for me.. but i just cheat to get more..
for every yell i threw at you..
you just always there..
you just did all that i wanted as if all my commands were yours to do.
you never told me "kid.. i'm tired.."
but you always put a big smile and tell "kid... i will..."

Mama..
I know you've spent many pain to grow me up..
i know you've delayed all your needs only to provide my wanted thingy..
i know you've always tried to give me something even when you didn't
think it suited me..

Mama.. I just want you to know..
You are never Failed..
You are the winner in my Life..
You are my angel..
You are my reason why i am now the real ' i am.."
you are the reason why i always try to stop to dream the biggest thing i want..
it's all just because i love you and i honour you, mama..
I'll from now on try to make you happy , no matter what..
i wont let you fight with your pain..
i wont let anyone tells something bad about you,
and i will never ever give up on my life before i show you "mama..
this is me.. you make me I AM"..


Happy 50th Birthday My Big Big Precious Woman In my Life..

I love you , never less.

Uan
(Edwar Andiko Heri)


What should I ask God for?

I thank God I was given a very wonderful moments in my senior high.
I had bestfriends and we went all along, we laughed together, we joked from one to another, we hated, we cried, and we boom-ed each others..

We always spent days together. We went to Bubu almost everyday. We ate mie ayam and es kelapa, we shared soekarno thingy, we talked politic, we saw porn..

We went hanging out together.. Marked 26 June 2011 as our returning day.. We shared yell together, we hysteria, we hugged...

We went clubbing without a permit, we dressed like we are an adult, they got into but as always, I was prohibited to enter so I had to pay, we shared a pot of alcohol and we drank it without feeling sorry.. And yes, we breathed a smoke from our mouth and made it a laugh.

We always made a promise to catch up, and we ended coming 3hours late, we angry to each others but in the end, we left laughes everyday we met.

We are priority to each other, when we say "temen sma gue" it refers to them.

When we say "besties" it refers to them.

When we say "we missed old school" we mean them.

When we say "they are my family" we can't not to agree that it is them.

We hate a goodbye. We even picked and sent wiena to airport.. We shared cry.. We sang "kamu sangat berarti..istimewa dihati slamanya rasa ini..jika tua nanti kita tlah hidup masing masing, ingatlah hari ini..." But our life doesn't end there.

We continue making a blog, we keep contacting via message in facebook, we talk, we share, we joke..

We introduced our own girl/boyfriend. We tested them, we share laughes and we stop being fren if they are broke up.

I love them..
I love my past even I once regretted.

I might hate being the only guy besides the 8 girls.
I might hate when I should be the one who asked, who be the "tester" when we accross the fast way street, or who be the one who does something.
But I love it. I love them, my family.

I might feeling worry to introduce them to my girlfriend. I am in between. I don't want her to think me silly, or even don't want my friends to make a laugh on my gf.
But they are my priority, whenever my gf disagree and don't like them, it means that she doesn't like me. My friends stand forever, even if it means we have to break up.
That's what i always say (said) to my girlfriend whom now ex(es).

I always love starting a new year with them. Once, we booked a hotel and we drank alcohol, we smoke, and ended up eating nasi goreng while fireflies in the sky.
The other year, we spent new years eve sitting in front of the sea with a hardcore music sang to the fireflies.
Once we slept in a comfy bed, the other day, we slept till the bed broke. Yes.. We slept in 2 single beds for 6 person(s) :)

I never had a bad moment walking with them or hanging out with them.
Maybe someone seeing me weird walking with 8girls. But I don't care what they thinking. All I can care is I am happy with them and I feel happiness with my girls :)

God, I love them. They are my priority, they are my family :)
Please keep us together and make us a legendary family.
I sacrifice everything even if in I have to have a kid, I will do.

Thank you for giving me such a best in my life.
I love my high school, and I love everyday with them :)
They are reason why I smile..
They are place where I could share and got no solution, haha..
They are place where I could hear a bad solution when I'm in confuse :)
They are the ones who know how to treat me and put a smile on me..


I love you my girls, always have always will.

I love you my clan, my foreverness family.

Me and...
Riery,cc,ode,wiena,babat,popi,feron,vera..

Jakarta, 07-12-10

After picnic kebun raya
Anw, indo-thai 2-1 :)
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Last nite, we took LRT from bukit jalil (apartment of kadek) to Hang Tuah.
Whew, sooo expensive. We spent about 3.2 MYR for one trip.

Our destination was Bukit Bintang. But we decided to walk than spending more money for the monorail.

To spare our dead foot, we visited Berjaya Times Square.
I've been dreaming to try their indoor roller coaster but noone wanted to.
So we continued to eat in one of hawker in bukit bintang and I ate (again) nasi hainan and ice tea for 8.2 MYR.

Afterthat, we continued walking. We saw that petronas was pretty close from our place therefore we decided to walk again.
Later we found out, it wasn't walk-able and soo far far far away.
Reaching petronas, odonk wanted to buy some shoes vincci there,but bad, vincci store was closed permanently, the store's replaced by topman.
Then, we took some photos.. Ya.. We asked japanese who wasn't english speaker to take us photo(s).
Knowing that all of us superly tired of walking, we returned to kadek apartment on bukit jalil. Whewww.. It took about 3.5 MYR for one trip.
Can't wait to explore KL tommorow :)
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I just can't count how many times I've been here, Kuala Lumpur.
Yea.. I feel like am licking my own yuck, I hate this place, but, this is the most place I've visited in my passport (haha..blame on AirAsia, I need to transit in here).

But what makes different is, I'm here with my super bestfriends.
Yeay! This is the very first time we go abroad together :D
Started by the very unthinkable idea to explore malaysia and thailand (its crazy yoo, we decided to go here only two weeks before. No preparation, no knowledge about hatyai,thailand.

However, here we are.
Eating in the medan selera LCCT, one of the very well known place for me.
I'm eating Nasi Goreng CitaRasa China for 6 MYR and drinking Teh Tarik Sejuk for 2.5MYR.
One of my friends, odonk, made some funny.
She asked the waitress "I need to buy aqua" hahaha.. Its silly, but thank God. It's danone, without being asked twice, the waitress went directly to search for mineral water.

To be continued

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Hari kedua, kami memutuskan buat nyewa tuk-tuk buat keliling kota seharian.

lumayan murah, cuma 800B. coba bandingin sama van yang harganya 1800B per hari..
all include loh :)

kami di pick up dari depan hotel jam 8, tujuan pertama yaitu pantai Songkhla, tempat lady mermelaid statue.
tadinya kami pikir dekt, gataunya lumayan jauh.. ampir 40menit euy.
pantainya pun sepi, tenang bgt.. alhasil kami gajadi berenang, cukup foto foto dan menikmati pemandangan laut cina selatan :)

balik dari sana, kami menuju Songkhla Hill Top. Untuk kesana, kami naik lift yg miring 90 derajat. wew.. baru pertama nih, curam dan menakutkan.
harganya murah, cuma 30B doang..
disana ada patung budha gitu, dan kamipun foto foto sambil menikmati pemandangan songkhla dari atas..

darisana, kami langsung berangkat ke hatyai aquarium (sejenis seaworld), karna mahal jadinya kami putusin buat langsung ke HatYai Nai aja, liat lying budha statue terbesar ketiga didunia. Di Big statue ini, seperti biasa, cewe cewe pada belanja. dan euhh.. patungnya bener bener gede euyyy..

darisana, kami didrop di ASIAN market, karna belom makan, saya putuskan buat beli nasi goreng di 711 dan ice chocolate. nasi gorengnya lebih enak, tapi ice chocolatenya manis bgt.. huekk.. dipasar ini, saya belanja 3 baju. 2 buat saya, 1 buat daffa. harganya murah, cuma 30rb :D
trus juga beli tas titipan mama harganya 150rb kalo dirupiahin.

karna kita baru dijemput jam 5, kami pun beli sosis super gede pinggir jalan, kebetulan yang jualan berjilbab, jadi insyaallah halal.
harganya murah, cuma 10B per tusuk :D trus minumnya es kelapa, 20B per buah :D
abis dijemput supir tuktuk, kamipun beli tiket buat nonton.. jengjengjeng.. cabaret show yang sebenernya lebih tepat disebut SEX SHOW!.
harganya 450B, tapi karna supir tuktuknya baik, kami dikasih diskon jadi cukup bayar 350B saja. hohhoo..

Jengjengg.. tujuan utama kami kehatyai ada didepan mata. Baca review orang orang yg pernah nonton dan skrg adegan sex itu ada didepan mata.. Godddddd...

adegan pertama, masih sama kayak cabaret show dibangkok. transeksual itu pada nari lagu welcome to thailand. masi berbaju lah ya..
setelah itu, mulailah keluar penari striptis. masih biasa..
nah setelah itu, ada adegan salah satu "waria" tersebut diperkosa sama gorilla. awalnya tereak tereak.. eh udah ditusuk, malah keasikan. ampe ganti 4 style. wkwkwk..

adegan selanjutnya, ini ngilu banget.. ada 2 "cewe" keluar sambil ngeluarin petasan dari vaginanya. damn.. meledaknya pas di "bulu"nya. kalo kebakar gimana itu.. ckckk..
belom kelar dibikin tegang, tiba tiba keluar 2 cowok cowboy. keker dan kayaknya normal. dia cuma pake kaen dipinggulnya.
sehabis itu dia telanjang, nunjukin tititnya yang gigan, dan you know? dia maen drum dan maen piano pake tititnya coi!!
udah gitu, pake adegan ngegerek tititnya dari tuts ke tuts dengan cepat. aduhhh bener bener ngiluuuuuuuuuu..
adegan selanjutnya lebih parah, mereka dipaksa mengstabilkan timbangan yang berisi 2 durian dan 1 liter coca cola pake titit mereka. euuuhhh..

adegan selanjutnya lebih keren lagi, ada adegan cewe buka tutup botol cocacola pake vaginanya. adoooh tambah ngilu.
udah gitu, mereka mecahin balon pake hembusan pake yg ditiup dari vaginanya. 
bener bener no sensor. fullllll.. tegang tegang deh. hahahaa...

selain itu masih banyak adegan adegan vulgar laen. hehehe..

btw, bisa nebak berapa gue habis di thailand+malaysia selama 5 hari?
cuma 1jt passs :P
itupun termasuk oleh oleh 250rb. 
jd total bersih tanpa oleh oleh cuma 750rb. hehehehe :P



Kami berangkat menuju HatYai Thailand dari Kuala Lumpur Malaysia naik AirAsia.

Cukup tercengang juga penerbangan yang dijadwalkan jam 11.45, jam 11.15 kita udah diijinin masuk ke pesawat.
Dan yang lebih mengherankan lagi, tadinya kami berpikir kalau penerbangan ke hatYai bakal sepi, selain karna jaraknya yang cukup dekat dari Kuala Lumpur (8 Jam lewat darat), HatYai juga bukan daerah yang tourist-spot.
ternyata kami salah, satu pesawat bangkunya FULL. Yah, walo kebanyakan yang kesana itu warga malaysia sih..

Penerbangan KL-Hatyai cuma 45 menit. Bandaranya minimalis bgt. bahkan jam 5 sore bandaranya tutup. hahaha..
sehabis clearence immigration, kami clingak clinguk nyari jemputan kami dari hotel. Ternyata gaada, terpaksa kami sewa taksi airport-hotel (100B).
karna kami ber-6, terpaksa jadi sewa 2 taksi. huh..

Hotel yang kami pilih ternyata bagus. Resepsionisnya bisa sedikit dikit bahasa melayu, tapi so bad in english.
kamarnya pun superrr murah. cuma 690B untuk triple room. Kamarnya luas, ada bath tub, bener bener kayak hotel bintang 3.
Setelah sedikit beristirahat, kami berjalan dari hotel ke Lee garden (meeting spot hatyai, mungkin kyk danau hoa kiem-hanoi).
fariska mau tuker uang, ternyata money changernya ga kayak money changer dijakarta. money changernya itu tukang mas, dan cuma nerima uang ringgit.
sehabis itu kami makan siang didepan McD, lupa namanya apa. Yang jelas, kalo kita makan tapi ga beli minum, kita dikasih air putih+es gratis looh..
Pulangnya kami keliling pasar, wowww.. cukup terkejut, ternyata banyak DVD bajakan dan know what?
DVD porno bahkan GAY dijual bebas. mennn, yang jual pun adapula anak SMP yang masih make seragam. krezey.

malemnya, karna udah bener2 pengen nonton film "bokep" thailand di coliseum theatre (mungkin kayak 21 cineplexnya indonesia), kami beli tiket ntn film eternity. Harganya 90B. cukup mahal.. udah gitu, kami dateng telat 15menit.huh..
Padahal nih ya, bannernya itu super porno, cewe cowo telanjang diatas kasur, tapi 1 1/2 jam film berlalu, adegan ciuman pun gaada.
parahnya lagi, trnyata filmnya gaada sub-titles. terpaksa sepanjang film kami nebak2 alurnya. dan ikut ikut ketawa kalo penontonnya pada ketawa.

Pas film selesai, saya coba nego ibu yang punya bioskop, saya bilang kalo kami ingin melihat prosesi penghormatan rakyat Thai di bioskop (kebetulan saya sudah pernah, tapi yang lain belum). Dan yang wow, begitu video ttg king and queen of thai diputar, semua orang berdiri tegap. bahkan tukang sobek tiketnya pun ikut berdiri tegap.
bener bener dihormati sang raja tersebut.. ya iyalah.. fotonya aja dimana mana :P

malamnya, kesal karna film yang kita harapkan tidak sesuai harapan, kamipun nonton tv. jengjeng.. tiba tiba Cece nemuin film porno di chanel 14. wowwww.. rame deh kamar sebelah pada pindah buat ntn film. parahnya lagi, pas mega sholat depan kita, kita tetep loh ntn bokep.wkwkwk..

Bener bener hari yang melelahkan but so sweet :)


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Selalu pisahkan benda benda penting dan pakaian selama berpergian. Misalnya, letakkan baju,celana, alat alat toilettries, parfum, charger, dan fotokopi ktp,passport didalam koper atau backpack. Dan masukkan kamera, pulpen, kertas, passport, kedalam tas kecil yang nantinya akan selalu kita tenteng kemanapun kita pergi.

Jangan lupa untuk nge-print jalur MRT, bus, dan catat dengan jelas alamat hotel. Beberapa negara terkadang menyediakan website ttg how to go to x to y, seperti di singapura sehingga kita dengan jelas bisa pergi dari bandara ke hotel dengan bus nomer berapa dan transit MRT di stasiun apa.

Kalau kamu pergi sendiri, usahakan berkenalan dengan penumpang pesawat yang duduk disebelah kamu, apalagi kalo bule, jangan malu untuk mengajak share taxi bareng karna biasanya hotel hotel untuk turis terkonsentrasi dititik yang sama

Jangan segan segan untuk bertanya kepada officer. Walaupun tampang mereka dingin dan bahasa mereka aksennya terkadang sangat sulit dimengerti, beranilah untuk tetap bertanya. Ada ribuan bule bule yg juga berliburan, so go ahead, ask them, mereka sangat ramah.

Sekarang jamannya google.translator . Misal kamu ingin ke laos where laotian speaks laotian, kamu bisa gunakan translator untuk kalimat2 penting seperti "would you drive us to our hotel at ...." Or "thank you", "hello", "goodbye" dan mungkin menerjemahkan kata kata seperti "pork, chicken, beef, noodle" agar tidak terlalu sulit menemukan makanan.

Jangan takut pergi sendirian, karna ada ribuan backpackers dari seluruh dunia. Selalu ucapkan hello ketika pertama bertemu mereka dan jangan segan segan berbincang bincang dengan mereka, siapa tahu malah jadi teman baik dan kalian diajak ikut serta dalam itinerary mereka.
Biasanya bule yang berkeliaran adalah bule australia (the very nice one), amerika (yang ini sangat dibutuhkan untuk protes2 karna mereka selalu protes terhadap ssuatu, apalagi untuk yang menjauhkan mereka dgn passport mereka seperti ketika tour leader kami meminta passport selama di halong bay, vietnam), bule jepang dan perancis sebenarnya sangat ramah namun kebanyakan mereka sulit berbicara inggris sehingga terkesan tidak ramah dan jarang bicara.

Ingat, biarpun kita cuma ke negara tetangga, itungan kita masuk kedalam "turis dan bule" loh, jadi perhatikan dan tanya harga sebelum membeli.

Kalau kamu pergi sendiri, pilihlah hostel untuk menghemat biaya, harganya variatif berkisar 5-10 usd sudah termasuk breakfast. Jangan segan untuk nongkrong bareng dengan resepsionisnya, mereka sangat ramah dan kalau beruntung, kamu bakal dapet diskon lumayan loh

Ini yang penting namun kadang dilupakan, bawa kantong teh, gula sachet, kopi sachet kedalam tas kamu. Ini penting loh sebagai teman minum dihotel, karna kadang2 harga secangkir kopi atau teh bisa sangat mahal.

Yang gemar blackberry-an, tenang aja.. Selama BIS kamu aktif di indonesia, kamu tetep bisa BBM-an ato twitteran dgn jaringan wifi yang tersedia. Gratis.

Nah kalo udah temenan sama bule, jangan lupa basa basi "do you have facebook?" Dan catat alamat email mereka, dikemudian hari kamu pasti butuh mereka, dan bahkan bisa rencanain liburan bareng, its fun.

Oh iya, bagi yang kesulitan ngmg inggris, udah.. Hajar aja ngmg. Gausah menye menye bingung masalah past tense, future, dsb. Mereka tetep ngerti kok. Banyak juga kok orang asing yang susah ngmg inggris, trmasuk bule perancis. Itung itung les bahasa inggris gratis.

Males pergi sendiri karna takut nyasar? Don't worry.. Banyak local tour kok dinegara yang kamu tuju, nanti didalam tour tersebut jg bakal banyak bule yang pergi sendirian. Grab 'em and talk to 'em. Lumayan jadi teman baru dan bisa diminta tolong buat foto bareng :D

Untuk ngebuka percakapan dengan bule, biasanya mereka nanya "where's indonesia?" Ato kl yg udah tau, biasanya mereka mreka akan muji indonesia. Jangan sumringah, puji balik negara mereka. Kalo kamu ngga tau apa apa ttg negara mereka, cukup blg "I really want to go to your country,turkmenistan" atau "wow.. I actually supported for japan in the world cup!!" . Ato paling ngga, blg aja.. "What is thank you, hello, dsb in your country?" Dan pura2 aja niruin, it works loh buat mencairkan suasana.

Sejelek jeleknya bule, mereka pasti cakep :D kyk marian (baca: marion) bule swiss yang mirip barbie ato si lucas, bule spanyol yang mirip iker casillas. Ajak aja foto bareng, lumayan kan buat nampang di prof.picture.

Untuk masalah money changer, kalo kamu ngga punya persediaan dollar, lebih baik ambil tunai di atm negara lain yang berlogo cirrus. (Misal pgen ambil dong vietnam). Tapi paling aman minimal sediain 50usd dikantong, ato biar ngga mau repot, tuker aja di money changer jakarta. Untuk negara negara yang mata uangnya ngga mungkin didapat dimoney changer jakarta, siapkan dollar untuk ditukar dgn mata uang lokal. Dan usahakan ketika meninggalkan negara tsb, uang lokal yang kalian punya sudah habis karna takutnya malah tidak laku ketika dibawa ke indonesia.

Ngga semua backpacker itu pasti orang miskin!! Beuh, kalo beruntung, kadang lo bisa ketemu dosen di university of perth ato bahkan manager honda di jepang loh.. Lumayan memperluas koneksi.

Jangan pikir kenalan cuma basa basi, inget nama mereka baik baik. Sifat natural orang indonesia adalah warm dan ramah, so show them. Pernah waktu gue ke laos, I met my friend whom I also met in singapore. And they still recognize me and hug me while meeting. Kalo udah lumayan deket tapi lupa nama, gampang..pura2 aja minta alamat email mereka, biasanya mereka pake nama asli.

Jangan sembarangan manggil bule "ibu ibu" dgn nama "ma'am" . Kdang suka ada yang tersinggung, sok asik aja, panggil dengan nama kecil or nama depan mereka.

Taking a long trip and noone else to talk to? Ambil ipod kamu ato coba buat nulis ttg pengalaman kamu. Kalo kamu ngga bisa nulis panjang kayak diary, tulis aja point per point, jadi lebih mudah.

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Ironi Pariwisata di Indonesia

Jaman sekarang, keluar negeri jauh lebih murah daripada jelajah dalam negeri. Ga percaya? Silahkan cek website website Airlines yang menyediakan penerbangan ke Singapura, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam. Harga tiket pulang- pergi bisa kurang dari 500 ribu rupiah bahkan tak jarang bisa gratis.

Coba sekarang kita liat ke sebelahnya. Ke rute Domestik dalam negeri.
Dari Jakarta ke Padang saja, yang jaraknya hampir sama dengan Jakarta- Kuala Lumpur, harga tiket one way saja sudah mencapai 700ribu keatas! Kalo ingin mendapatkan tiket pulang pergi, siapkan saja kocek 1,5 juta. Itu pun belum termasuk bekal hidup dan uang jajan disana. Tak heran wisatawan lokal lebih tertarik menghabiskan weekend di Malaysia yang lagi lagi, kalau beruntung, cukup membayar 75ribu rupiah maka tiket Pulang Pergi sudah di tangan.

Ironi memang. Masyarakat (termasuk saya pribadi) berlomba lomba memperbanyak cap di passport ketimbang berlomba lomba sejauh mana perjalanan ke timur Indonesia yang pernah kita kunjungi. Ke Singapura, Malaysia, Thailand bisa setahun 5x, tapi ke Indonesia, paling banter cuma ke Bali dan Lombok. Itupun terkadang masih jarang karena tingginya harga tiket.
Bisa dikatakan, keluar negeri pun, saya terpaksa. Terpaksa karena keterbatasan dana untuk menikmati yang namanya liburan. Terpaksa mencintai keindahan negara lain yang bahkan negara kita saya yakin jauh lebih indah

Ketika ditanya "tahu Raja Ampat atau lembah Baliem?" jawabannya kebanyakan hanya geleng geleng kepala. Padahal ketika pertanyaan itu diajukan, program Visit Indonesia Year sedang dikumandangkan.
Ya, Pariwisata di Indonesia hanya identik dengan Bali.
Itupun tidak semua masyarakat menjadikan Bali destinasi. Seringkali weekend mereka habiskan di puncak, Bandung, yang lagi lagi, seperti transmigrasi, macet pun jadi ikut ikutan ada di tempat tersebut karna hampir sebagian besar masyarakat Jakarta berlibur kesana. Solusinya? Lagi lagi, mereka memilih menghabiskan weekend di luar negeri. Selain dianggap "lebih murah", stress karna macet pun bisa terlupakan sejenak.
Tak sedikit loh masyarakat kita yang keluar dari kota mereka untuk mengunjungi kota lain di Indonesia, paling paling pas mudik lebaran mereka mau keluar kota. Itupun ke kota kelahiran.

Lalu, apa Dampaknya? Tidak lain ke nasionalisme masyarakat itu sendiri.
Sering saya dengar keluh kesah masyarakat kita yang terbiasa ke Singapura. Melihat bagaimana negara yang hanya seukuran Jakarta itu, namun mampu memiliki 23% hutan di negaranya. Bagaimana hebohnya negara itu ketika Orchard road dihadang banjir dan macet. Bagaimana mati lampu disana yang cuma beberapa jam sampai disebut dengan "The Great Black Out". Di negara kita, macet, banjir, mati lampu, sudah seperti teman sehari hari. Tagline "Serahkan pada ahlinya.." mungkin hanya janji palsu kampanye semata. Selebihnya, "akan kami usahakan..".
Kalau dibeginikan seperti ini terus, bukan tidak mungkin gejala "ingin pindah kewarganegaraan" yang ada didalam benak masyarakat semakin timbul. Memang terdengar seperti apatis dan pengkhianat bangsa, namun, gejala ini real dan ada didepan mata, teman teman!

Mungkin teman teman yang sering jelajah Indonesia bisa dengan mudah membantah pernyataan saya. Tapi saya menulis ini bukan karena saya benci Indonesia, bukan karena saya bangga suka jalan jalan keluar negeri. Tapi karna saya Malu ngaku sebagai anak Indonesia tapi belum pernah menapakkan kaki di Papua. Saya malu ketika ada turis asing bertanya dalam perjalanan saya di Laos "I believe your country has many beautiful temples beside Borobudur and Prambanan". Yeah, we do. Tapi jujur, saya ngga tau candi candi lain selain Borobudur dan Prambanan.

Saya juga sedih, mengunjungi Singapura hanya untuk menikmati Chinese Garden untuk sekedar berolahraga. Saya sedih kenapa di Jakarta taman kota pun sangat tidak public-friendly.
Miris! Coba liat bagaimana mesranya keluarga di hanoi. Setiap malem satu keluarga, muda mudi, kakek nenek, smua ngumpul di pinggiran danau hoa kiem. nge-bir, makan kuaci, ngemil es krim, curhat, arisan, pacaran..
rasanya "kekeluargaannya" sangat terasa.. Pinggiran danau bener bener dijadiin taman rakyat sama pemerintahannya..
di Indonesia, orang orang yang maen ke taman sering disalah artikan sbg org yg pengen mesum. duh..

Saya malu ada puluhan mal besar di Jakarta namun taman kota hanya sedikit. Bukan hanya tidak nyaman, tapi perasaan aman pun kadang sering menghantui. Tidak jarang tukang palak, jambret, dan copet mengintai.

Semoga saja ada Dinas Pariwisata yang tergerak membaca tulisan ini untuk menyadarkan dan mengembangkan kembali pariwisata kita. Munculkan tarif murah untuk rute nasional agar masyarakat Indonesia barat mengenal masyarakat Indonesia timur. Saya yakin, Pariwisata, jika dikelola dengan baik, akan mampu menghasilkan devisa bagi negara. Saya yakin, Indonesia kita, bisa!

p.s : adakah saran teman teman untuk memajukan pariwisata di Indonesia?


Last night, I had a deep conversation to my bestfriend about the similiarities between me and her brother. She told me that it caused by our same horoscope, pisces. Yeah.. Nico and me were given birth under the pisces zone.
Speaking of which, I personally never paid attention to what the horoscope said but that night, it changed my thought..
There so much similiarities, both characters and preferences, even to my-super-basic-hated-hobbies : playing games and doing soccer.
Wow.. It was amazing..
Afterthat, I asked her more and more about her brother to know more and find the diffrence, but the similiarities are too much. We are way to close .

These are the similiarities between me and him, and I think most pisces men do it so.
So, bon regarder. Then leave comment if is it true or false :D


1. Pisceans are unreliable, they change their mind in the very last minute.
2. Pisceans need more time for themselves than others sign.
3. Pisceans are sensitive, they can excuse people easily but in the back, they are preparing for revenge, in sweet :)
4. Pisceans are creative, visionaire, and well prepared. But subject to number two, they (still) are unriable on decision making.
5. Pisceans tend to be the man behind the show.
6. Pisceans are selfish and noone couldn't agree no more to it!
7. Pisceans deeply romantic, they just don't know how to express it so others judge them rude. No guys, they are romantic in timing, not in coincidental moment.
8. Pisceans are simple, they take anything slow.
9. Pisceans are between YES or NO, they make you clearly choose between each so you can't say "I don't know" or "whatever" to them.
10. Pisceans are good in writing, but too bad in speaking out. So why the #7 happens.
11. Pisceans are good absorbing the new language and cultural, but can't afford to remember math well
12. Pisceans are introvert, they rarely show what they are feeling.
13. Pisceans choose people whom they decide to be friends. They don't care to people who will not have deep connection to them.
14. Pisceans have two personalities, the homy calmy and the funny laughter in friendship.
15. Pisceans judge people from what they see, and mostly they are wrong.
16. Pisceans are good listeners, even to the unnecessary topic. They give advise to problems.
17. Pisceans speak to their alter ego while they are alone. Their connection are really good.
18. Pisceans are able to hide their feeling. People hardly judge their smile beneath the hate. Their "its ok" doesn't mean it is OK at all.
19. Pisceans don't care to their social environment, its why they don't like joining social club.
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For the first time since I've been blogging for 8 years (?), I've finally changed my template.
Why didn't I change before? Haha.. I'm so dumb, I even didn't know how to.. Hahahaha..

Btw yesterday was the final match of thomas cup. As we already knew, our uber team didn't get chance to final match, and korea won the cup *thanks god.
Yesterday, the final match of thomas was between Indonesia and China. At first match, Indonesia sent Taufik Hidayat who again met Lin Dan, the second world best Badminton Player.
It actually not the first time.. As the commentator spoke, they have met for 9 times and taufik 3 times won, but 5 times in a row lost from him.
I hate Lin Dan actually. He's so damn good playing badminton :(
But,like people thought before, Taufik Hidayat (again) lost the match. More, its his last match in Badminton because he's said that he'd retire from Badminton. Yeah we need re-generation, but thanks for all your contribution, monseur.
Because I've made appointment to go to TIS square with my friends Garti and Nanih Alay Vine, I didn't continue watching the matches. Plus my mom held "arisan" which truly I hate. Those made me didn't see my best player Simon Santoso playing.. I deeply believe that he'll be the next superstar badminton player.
Back to the appointment, I met garti first in the church pasar minggu. She said that my outlook today was soo badminton, yeah.. Its caused by my short pants I wore.I've never used a short pants before.
Then, we waited for nany to pick us up to TIS. Our first destination (and was the only destination) was sushi-ya. I'm not so much into sushi so I just ordered nama maki (?) Because I planned to buy pho in pho24 (which I badly wrong, I forgot if the delicious one is pho2000).
After getting our belly full, we moved to pho24. I've promised 'em to treat a bowl of bo vien (a meatball from vietnam).
Yeah.. Its a better choice food when raining :D. But my frens seem didn't like it and compared it to baso bloc and told that I was extra aggregated to the pho. Hahahaha..

Btw fellas, I gotta sleep now.. I'm now so tired and in addition, today is my final exam. You know what? My schedule is DDL, which I've only attended the class for 2times, which I've only done the tasks by copy it from my friends, which I've never written the lecturing, which bla bla bla that shows if I didn't pay attention to the subject for this semestre.
Oh I hope God bless and help me for this semestre.. Wish me luck, all :)

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These few days I saw people are doing happy. Couple of friends who celebrates their 60 months anniversary (crazy!), a bitter closer friendship, a drunken new happy couple. Some gigs who are stalking to their new admirable guys. And so fucking effin others.

I sometimes jealous to 'em. I wannabe like them. But seeing my life today, I'm now so terrific.
Yeah, I'm not even care to my life. I'm not seeking to girl. I started to think I'm not going to have fun with those stuffs.
Yeah whatever.

Back to my world, I finally bought my one terrabyte external hard disk. It costs 1,77 million rupiahs. I spent all my money to the highest byte HDD because I plan not to worry about running lower space in it. So why don't trash money extra to buy the highest one? Spent more to save more In the future.

Yeah.. I'm now ruining with ass-shit-ments from my college. So boring y'know. I have to do 8take home tests and 3 seat in class.
I have not even written anything in class. My absent for all class reached the highest limit. My passion to do excercise aint coming.. Oh screw this semestre.
I hope I could forward the date till june, so I can get myself be around the green canyon for this may vacation. Amin :D
I'll catch you again right after I end all those shit. Au revoir, fellas :D
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lambang kebanggaan dunia. Universal Studio :D

Gerbang masuk Universal Studio


pose bersama cleopatra dan lakinya.. gatau siapa, firaun kali..

gerbang farfar away..

kalo ga salah, belakangnya itu studio 4D Shrek deh..



yang dibelakang itu roller coaster tertinggi didunia.. sayang pas gue kesana ngga buka T.T



pose bersama joker :D he spoke english well laah..no singlish :D


people are watching dance street..

if i am correct, this is a galactica space

under water world.. damn cool!

bersama sang artis :D

bonsai raksasa..kyaa!!

kl gasalah itu toko suvenir..

betty boobs..



we dont call it cab, we call it taxi

with marylin monroe. Soekarno must be jealous to me!




tempat simulasi efek efek hollywood..

street dance





Ok.. Thanks God, the picture can be uploaded by email.. So I'm going to post all my posting with pictures too. Hihihi..