Fabulous week ends 2011. (Part 2)

Our second day trip started with breakfast ‘Nasi Campur’ – ‘Mixed Rice’ near Edward’s house, he said this meal is one of the must – eaten – meal in Surabaya.

We finally went to Citraland, CitraLand Surabaya is also known as “The Singapore of Surabaya”, there is also a Merlion, which symbolizes it as a Singapore, inside the 2,000 beautifully landscaped hectares located in West Surabaya, Surabaya currently is the second largest city in Indonesia and West Surabaya currently is the most developed state comparing to the south, north and east of Surabaya.

 

Fabulous week ends 2011. (Part 1)

We had been planning to get together after our memorable times in Korea, “SolBridgers Fall 2010″.But, as we understood that our schedule didn’t match each other. But we made a quick plan and soon bought our ticket to Surabaya (old times : Soe-roe-bo-yo), a city where Edbert, Edward and Septian are living.

Holiday was only 10 days that’s why I needed to finish my own things before going anywhere,  on Dec 27 at 07.40 with Citilink Airline we flew to Surabaya. Question, why did it delay about 30 minutes when we were sitting already in cabin? Answer : there was a document left inside the waiting room so the passenger asked the permission to take it before taking off.

 

A blessed year , Welcome 2012 !

Happy New Year !

Gladly saying that last year, 2011, is one of my sophisticated year in my life. Having another way of thinking or I can say I nearly realize that I became more mature because of age 20. Having another thought about friendship,  family and also love. That year is about to give me a big touch,

Friendship is not about you like the one and become friends, and you don’t like the one and you don’t wanna be friends. Friendship is about helping, understand, and respect each other. That came to mind and finally I got many friends, enemies turned to friends and friends turned to closer friends.

Family, this brother-sister relationship is more like friendship, my brothers are my soulmate. This is also because of my turning age into 20 that I feel brothers are the best men I have beside my Father in the world.

Love, sometimes I feel this kinda thing would never come to my mind seriously. But, the edge of my brain finally succeeded to bring up some matters about love. At least I know this heart will be pointing at someone. Ah, sweet !

WELCOME 2012. This year will be another year to chase our dreams !

 

Visiting Busan ! (part 2)

Hello again Busan !

After eating at Jagalchi Fish Market, we moved to Seomyeon area, we entered Seomyeon First Street then Seomyeon Daehyeon Underground Shopping Center and I met my friend .

Meeting friend at the underground shopping market !

With map I brought, we found a way to Busan Tower from here, It was perfect because we arrived at night so we can see the whole Busan city with colorful light from the top of the tower. We paid 7000 won (around Rp 56.000) each person and went up using elevator. Right, and guess what I found? I found Monas picture hanged on the wall inside the tower, there were lots of tower pictures from other countries also.

Busan Tower at night, awesome right?

Busan City from top of the tower

Monas in Busan Tower

 

Visiting Busan ! (part 1)

Hello Autumn !,

So, next schedule is going to Busan in two days and one night. We found a guest house named ‘Indy House’ – you can search on Mr.Google. Well, we booked the room via internet, the guest house was surprisingly friendly and comfortable, it actually a small apartment with some rooms and they offer 3 kinds of room which are single, double and dorm-room. They provide computer and internet, serve meals by ourselves in the kitchen, the most important was we could meet another group of foreign people who were currently traveling in Busan also staying in this house for few days. Ah ya, Indy House was located near Kyungsung University & Pukyong university in Busan, and fortunately I could meet my friends who is studying in this university. NICE !

Inside the Indy House

November 13, 2010 with KTX – 07.20 am tickets on our hands, we tried to wake up early in the morning and soon went to Daejeon Yeok. We arrived in Busan Yeok after two hours trip, we went to Indy House put our things and started our journey in Busan by having breakfast in McDonalds near that house.

First, we went to Taejongdae area, took Taejongdae Excursion Ship Marina through Pebble Beach which has big rocks around then through Taejongdae Observatory and finally stopped by at Sinseon Rocks then we walked up till Yeongdo Marine Cultural Space, by seeing the blue sea with strong wave I missed Indonesia at that time and started thinking that Indonesia has more than this . Anyway, as long as we walked we took pictures as well.

this was on our way through Pebble Beach, on the ship !

birds flying over the big rocks !!

 

Going to Lotte World : Largest Theme Park

One of our weekend in Autumn Season was filled by playing in Lotte World. I remember it was a year ago, November 6, 2010. Although it’s school trip, we needed to pay 20.000 won (Rp 160.000), it was quite cheap because it’s included transportation from Daejeon to Seoul and the fee to enter Lotte World and play all the games.

Lotte World is the world’s largest indoor theme park, and one of Seoul’s main theme park and its attracts about 8 million visitors annually. The park is divided into an indoor and outdoor linked by a monorail. The indoor includes the ‘Adventure Land’ with acres of streets representing different countries and are filled with hundreds of activities, entertainments, shops, restaurants and ongoing parades. There is also an ice-rink and a fascinating Folk Museum complete with miniature villages.

Lotte World is like a small city with an amusement park, folk museum, sports center, skating rink, water slide park, shopping center and the hotel. Lotte Department Store is one of Korea’s leading department store. The shopping center with dozens of small specialty shops surrounds a large, open central area that has a large food court. Lotte World is one of favourite Theme park Tourist destination besides Everland and Waterpia.

An indoor theme park connected with Lotte Hotel and Lotte Department Store, Lotte World is the Korean recreation center most frequently visited by foreigners. Lotte World consists of the indoor amusement park “Adventure” and an outdoor one as well, dubbed “Magic Island.” The outdoor Magic Island has numerous, thrill-packed attractions. Even the castle itself is an awesome background for photographs. At the indoor facility, “Adventure,” actually there are World Carnival Parade and Cosmos Circus Laser which are particularly eye-catching said my Korean friends, But I did not have a chance to see both of the Parades.

 

Book heals stress.

Book accompanies me when I feel stress out.

“Hot Chocolate”

 

Autumn Comes

Wow, has been long time almost 2 months I didn’t write about Korea-Experience. So, this is the next story when the season changed from summer to autumn… EXCITING !!!

You know, as almost everybody says the best season in Korea is Autumn, I started to think that I was lucky going exchange in that season. Imagine, the leaves changes color, but some remain green. This is the beauty, today maybe we can see the leaves are green, next few days it changes to red or orange, and few days later it changes to yellow, and the next week after when the heavy-cold wind comes, the leaves finally fall down and become brown. Then people are busy cleaning the road from the dead leaves which scattered around.

Well, although it’s not winter you will feel the coldness entering your bones. It’s true since this season has really heavy wind and low degree. Sometimes it’s 10 degree, or even until 0 degrees. Fortunately in the room we have heater, so we will not feel cold in the room. You know, we don’t need fridge for putting our milk, juice, yogurt, and vegetables because we have nature-fridge which is outside our window so they remain fresh . but of course there is an exception, we can’t put fast-food  and ready-food like soup, rice, cooked-meals because they will be frozen and not delicious to eat anymore.

The coat I have there should be thick enough to prevent wind touches my skin and coldness enters my body. It’s torturing when I walked alone on the way to dorm at night and suddenly the wind comes from no where, makes my step to stop then I tried to jump to make some heat for my body. Actually movement makes heat in our body, is it ?.

Now that I’m in Indonesia I really really miss this coldness and Korea <3.

 

Happy Graduation !

This time on Graduation day of my oldest brother takes me to the time when he first came to Jakarta to enter university of Indonesia, and reminds me about how he has survived from that time until now. He graduated in July but the Graduation Ceremony was in September and between that short time, he got a job and I can see the bright face on his.

first, I love to say CONGRATULATION after 4 years studying in UI, after all the experience you got, after all the dilemma you had, after all the problems came to you, and for our Allah who opens all the gates for your success. Alhamdulillah.

the story about you that makes me wants to cry. One day when I was at home with dad and were talking about your graduation and thesis, he was suddenly dropping his tears with full of satisfying and gratefulness. He mentioned to me :

“Elly, I remember how he smiled when he saw the announcement that he got accepted to UI, and how he confused and sad when he told me that amount we needed to pay. At that time, you were in Jakarta already, and because we didn’t have that amount so I angrily said to Adi about leaving UI and choose another university in Smd, I could see how hard it was for him, and I for the first time dropped my tears for how I couldn’t provide the best for my oldest son. BUT ALLAH is always beside us, the next day one of bank loaned us money with *with unexpected feeling because it is not easy to loan money from bank, need some time, but that time in one day everything got faster*. Finally with the spirit I told Adi to step forward to UI”

“This time also, when Adi phoned me the day he passed the final exam, I cried and felt guilty at that time I bravely said to set back. He is finally success with his ambition and dreams, Alhamdulillah. Let the story tells us about life”

I know how it feels about dad, i have never seen him crying wherever, whenever and in any condition, never !!! my dad is ambitious one, lovely, and has incredible spirit ever. Well, with his spirit also dad can reach his dream become a Professor, so grateful about this. Love you forever dad.

last but not the least. Good Luck for you bro !

 

Hiking at Gyerongsan National Park

What a wonderful day ! hope today will be enjoyable as we dream and imagine. Happy reading ^_^  !

At first I wanna tell ya, what was I thinking when I was hiking this mountain? well, yeah I realized Indonesia has more mountains and better mountains. But, they have more interesting mountain, the people are smart using it for hiking to see the invisible scenery inside the mountains or behind the mountains, even on the really top of mountains. Of course the mountains are high, but their government facilitate them place and road to walk and hike the mountains. And what can we see? the mountain stays as it should be with their real nature, but they design to make people enjoy the mountains without feeling any danger, well imagine what comes first when we talk about mountain : dangerous and animals .

Above all those, we can conclude it’s about culture. Their people love to hike the mountain as sport or just for family gathering, or for taking pictures, or maybe just for see the temples. It’s the problem, their government see their people’s habit, so they do facilitate this kind of mountains for hiking. Sometimes, I am being so jealous I don’t have this in my country while we have many mountains, but mountains are dangerous here.

Well, back to topic. As this was my first time hiking in Korea I was little bit nervous what could I see there, and how high the mountain would be. That was on Saturday September 25th, 2011, 15 days after my 19-birthday and Eid Mubarak. “Don’t forget to bring the camera with you because we will see really beautiful nature”, I remember this words that made me so curious about what would I see while hiking. We took public bus to get there because it’s so convenient and cheap. On the way there, there were also ahjumma (aunt in korean) and ahjoshi (uncle in Korean) in the same bus and ready to hike with hiking costumes and equipment, I was so surprise it’s something that I don’t usually see in Indonesia. Why many people were going for hiking today? well because this season, autumn, especially in the beginning of the season is the right time for hiking because it’s not too cold and not having heavy wind.

Of course what we could find in the middle of mountain, trees and waterfall. I enjoyed walking through the stones and found people were washing their feet and hands with the water falling from the top of mountains through the stones. But you gotta be careful to step, on our way down my friend fell down because the stones that we step on were so slippery. And his camera also fell down unfortunately the LCD was broken. So be Careful