That day was late of autumn and the scenery was awesome, the trees re brown no every plant almost all in brown. Then, with this condition we played around Daejeon city, we took subway, then walked, no actually I preferred to walk because the weather was chilly and the air was refreshing. I wished I had bicycle that time hahaha. Soon we arrived, we walked more than 500 meters from the the National Government Complex Station ‘the station where we stopped from Daedong Station’.  Generally, every season is different, so Hanbat Arboretum has 4 different looks along the year, because it was autumn so the scenery was like this picture below :

more than 1 km walking, I guess ?

In Daejeon there is a bridge called MCDonald Bridge, because its shape is like M. From the back area of Hanbat Arboretum we could easily see that bridge because it’s connected each other, on this kind of weather there re many people riding bicycle around.

MCDonald Bridge

I saw a friend was knitting something, and I ask her to teach me how to knit. Soon, I found out many videos on youtube that explain clearly step by step about knitting. It does not look simple, it’s actually difficult but when you find something is interesting you finally could say it’s easy , that’s how I feel, but still I need to watch the video while making one haha.

Just by looking the yarn I was amazed that there re so many types of them, color combination, thick – thin, single color, etc. Yet, the material is not kidding, they are expensive tho, that’s why knitted products are expensive due to the price of material, how difficult it is to make and how long it takes to make.

After I bought several material, I made my HDD external pouch with pale purple yarn, stilll lack of skill, yet this is the picture of my first try :

HDD External Pouch

Right after I finished this one I had another idea to make a pouch for my ipod nano, yeap I tried different pattern and different technique and I produce this one :

Ipod nano pouch

Here it is, I involved in a project about HIV/AIDS collaborating AIESEC (UI and BINUS) and Unilever. It started on Feb 13 and finished on March 19 (5 weeks). Unexpectedly because some reasons, the preparation was almost 6 months, that’s long and hard to coordinate actually but well, thanks to all the organizing committees and people who got involved did the best to run this project : IndonesiaBisa STOP HIV/AIDS Project.

Overall, the project was great, well prepared, hectic, tired, well delivered, impactful, influenced, meaningful,  concluded : awesome !

There are eight External Participants who are coming from Netherlands, China, Philippine, Brazil, Japan, and Pakistan. So, it’s new friends new network new knowledge and new experience. Externally, in this project we tried to spread news about HIV/AIDS and build awareness in society especially to young people because according to the information from NGO, the most people get infected by HIV is at the age range 15 – 19. It is so crucial if the young people don’t have awareness about this knowledge and don’t even have healthy life, that’s the aim of this project. Our activities were to approach several high school, did the presentation about the basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS, and also taught the high schoolers to make a project about it that could spread the information and awareness to other friends in the school. Some schools made videos and post it on facebook or in youtube, there is also a school made a talk show, another made magazine wall and so on.

Interestingly, we picked the best project among those schools to be a first winner, second winner and lastly third winner. We prepared prizes for the winners while EPs prepared small gifts which would be given to each student. We had Global Village Day, generally it is a event where each country presents their cultures, they re given a booth for each to put their country’s foods, handicraft, or anything they want to show. And this time, our global village was also the winner announcement day. The next day we had Fund Raising on Car Free Day at Bundaran HI, it was so fun and gosh we raised much money which later would be delivered to HIV.AIDS NGO, we were selling flowers and mineral water, spreading ribbon, booklets which designed by the EPs and booklets from the sponsor. Finally the project was officially closed  on 19 of March after five weeks and after EP had gone to Tidung Island for relaxing and we had gone to Green Canyon Pangandaran (EPs, Organizing Committees and other AIESECers) for our day out.

Green Canyon trip was amazing although we spent about 20 hours in the bus, it’s tiring but when we saw and swam in the green canyon our spirit had came back and enjoyed the green and nature. Well, on the closing day , every country prepared their own food, no exception for Indonesia. Every EP gave short speech about what do they feel about running this project, and I just love them . We watched the project’s video and farewell video. Then, that’s how our farewell done because the next day EPs would be going to Bali and directly going back home to their countries.

Well,  I got to learn so many things like really deeper understanding about their cultures, I believe I can meet them again someday so that this network will not end just until when we parted, I feel I gained more knowledge from them. Overally I am thankful that I could get involved in this project, that was wonderful memory that will not be forgotten.

Let’s have another challenge !

]]> http://zulfanahrielly.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/so-much-to-learn/feed/ 0 zulfanahrielly project competition FUN Fund Raising closing http://zulfanahrielly.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/did-best-deserves-best/ http://zulfanahrielly.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/did-best-deserves-best/#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:36:58 +0000 zulfanahrielly http://zulfanahrielly.wordpress.com/?p=626 ]]> Refer to what I felt recently, I was down about everything I have.  If there is a sentence about ”Don’t let failure gets you down”, it is actually hurting me to think about that, and also that time being was really hard to accept that what I really strived to achieve finally failed. I was so sad and tired of thinking about what I had done which made me in this kind of frustration because of that failure things. I keep trying to say ‘I am strong woman’ but still the way I feel about that made me about to cry, hhmm no, made me crying just without any reason.

Those time was awful that I just want to run from this life, but I finally came to think that God knows the best, just keep trying and keep praying.  So many things happened and God shows what the fact is, ‘there are another plan prepared beyond those plans which failed’. My believe came back, believe I will have another chance and belive there are lots of opportunities waiting.

I remember I have dreams to be achieved and I strive for that so good luck !

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.

As I read on http://www.ciputra.com, ‘Citraland Surabaya is designed to be a self-contained city, offering a perfect combination of style and excellence. This first-class living environment is equipped with business, entertainment, sports and shopping facilities, including a commercial district, shopping area, water park, and 27-hole golf course that meets international standards’.

‘A self-contained city with a “clean, green and modern” theme, it is more than just physical development that transformed Citraland into a Singapore-like city. Solid city management played a substantial role in supporting Citraland’s development. In acknowledgement of its ongoing improvement and stellar city management, Citraland received the Certificate ISO 9001:2000 City Management.’

I was mesmerized by CitraLand, and I believe Rissa and Sangjin felt the same way too. So we stopped by at some  beautiful view spots to take some memorable pictures. Actually the beauty comes from the green view, as I wrote above that CitraLand was developed with green theme which makes CitraLand becomes a good environtment for living, but I am sure the houses and the land are expensive guys.

Did I tell you that inside Citraland there is Waterpark? yes, there is Waterpark, and right in front of that, Universitas Ciputra (UC) was built, University where Septian Edbert and Edward are studying, right beside UC there are UCWalk and apartment.

Edbert (call him as Ebet) finally joined us on second day, our Food Culinary was starting from this point . We had lunch at ‘Mang Engking’, a sundanese-like restaurant with green park and lake view, because it is surrounded by trees the wind that blows make a cool atmosphere in a very hot day.

Satisfied with our lunch, we directly went to Grand City, one of big malls in Surabaya located in the center of the city. There, we met with other SolBridge Exchange Students batch spring after us, they also had their own reunion in Bali, but they visited Surabaya first because most of them originally are from Surabaya. Anyway, back to our story, Ebet and Edu (a.k.a Edward) wanted to play thus we headed to Kids Station, they bought some coins and started to dance on the DDR floor, the game’s name was ‘Pump it Up’. hhhmm, they are eventually great in dancing haha, I mean better than us as women (me, Feli and Rissa) who can not dance at all.

After that, we went to Nore Bang for one hour, surprisingly, our Korean friend, Sangjin was really good at singing  Indonesian-dangdut and Indian songs.

Actually Ebet kept saying about Lontong Kupang and asking whether we wanted to try it or not,  but we were really full at that time felt like we would not eating anymore.  After singing finally I felt hungry and curious about Lontong Kupang, we went up to food court and ordered Lontong Kupang and Sate Kerang at ‘Dapur Mbok’. Originally those food are culinary surabaya foods which must be tried by local even international tourists.

As I know, Lontong Kupang is only provided in Surabaya (East Java), I’ve never heard about it before while in Jakarta. Kupang is kind of clam or shell, at first I tried Lontong Kupang was half sugarly half salty that’s why I did not really like it, but Ebet and Edu like it alot (Edu even ordered two plates). I prefer Sate Kerang (Kerang  = shell ), this was also my first time tried Sate Kerang, and I think it is much much much more delicious than any other kinds of Sate. :p.

Not enough until that, Ebet brought Gei Dan Jai (read : kai tan cai) to us. Gei Dan Jai is local street snacks from Hongkong check this snacks on http://www.geidanjai.com/flashversion.html, so unfortunate that Gei Dan Ji has no store in Jakarta yet. GDJ shape is like bumpy eggs-like balls, the taste is according to the flavors, there are cheese, chocolate, green tea, strawberry and many others, it’s so yummy and chewy. Oh no ! I am missing it now already, wanna try it again !

Next is Cincau, Ebet recommended us to try Cincau Hijau at ‘Cincau Station’ on the same floor with ‘Dapur Mbok’. Once again, this Cincau Station is only in Surabaya, T_T. There are several flavors, Cincau Syrup (Sangjin’s favourite), Cincau Santan, Cincau Soya, and others. Those what I tried were worth, so if you come to Surabaya make sure that you try those !

Our biggest plan for today was actually cooking, Sangjin’s Curry and Birani rice. After having lunch at Mang Engking we went shopping at Hokky Supermarket to buy the ingredient for curry and birani, that time was before we went to Grand city. We arrived at Edu’s house at 7.30 pm and soon Sangjin started to cook, Ebet and I helped him. This was our second time ate Sangjin’s curry, the first time was when we were in Korea at Mr.Ony’s place. Miss it !.

After more than an hour, finally we had our dinner, the curry was alright and the taste was really wonderful, but the birani rice was opposite because the rice was uncooked (there was problem with the rice cooker). Well, the important was we were eating together, together is better than being alone, also we had jokes and laugh so whatever we had for eating would not disturb our togetherness yet it would be very memorable moment. Thank You Sangjin for Dinner you have made !

What would our third day be?

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.

One and half hours later, finally we arrived at Juanda International Airport, Surabaya. Got surprise because our baggages went out from Business class line, and got bad news from Edward, the one who should be picking us up, yesterday he expected that the time would be perfect , leaving Jember around 3 and arrive Surabaya 4 hours later, the plan was perfect but there re always unexpected things happened ! After a half journey he was trapped of traffic jam, which made him looked for another alternative way, decided to take longer trip through south beach “Pantai Selatan”. Same situation with Edbert, planned to go to Surabaya on the same day at 5 am, but because of the news from radio saying that unexpected heavy traffic jam was happening which he was listening to that morning, had no choice other than cancelled the trip and leaving for Surabaya the day after.

‘Lost in Airtport’ ? no, we didn’t get lost, we followed Edward’s guide to go to his house by taxi. Taxi driver was funny, he was talk-active joking, well at least our nervousness went down. Finally arrived at Edward’s house, we waited 30 minutes outside because no one responsed from inside when we were pressing the bell. the garage was open and there was Sunny, Edward’s dog, watching us. The fact, we were pressing the wrong bell, the real bell was actually inside.

Hunger, hunger, while Edward was still on the way, we decided to eat wherever the nearest place, we ate at Bu Rudy, one of a famous resto in Surabaya with its menu ‘Nasi Udang’ – ‘Shrimp Rice’. That day was really hot, hotter and sunnier than Jakarta, even I could not stand standing outside while waiting for taxi to go Ciputra World, one of Department Stores in Surabaya. Department stores are actually just same with Jakarta, but as we observed, there were some stores that re only in Surabaya, not available in Jakarta (How can it be possible?). Still, we didn’t have anything to do so we were wasting our time shopping inside Ciputra World. As we walked, entered from one store to another one, Rissa almost spent one million rupiah on clothes and body shop while me spent 1/3 of Rissa’s. Anyway, Rissa yelled at herself making promise that she will not shop for the next 6 months on clothes. Let see then !

Hours by hours finally our legs got tired but Edward had not arrived yet, fiuh. We bought a hot chocolate at The Coffee Bean, and sitting at relax while waiting for Edward coming to pick us up, yeay ! After about 11 hours driving like crazy, Edward finnaly showed up, met us. Thus, we needed to go to airport again ,we picked Sangjin up, a Korean friend who is currently doing student exchange in UGM – Jogjakarta, was also coming to our reunion in Surabaya. Soon we had dinner  Soto, Bakso and Kebab near Edward’s house, finished our eating we talked about what were we going to do the next day.

Sadly saying, Septian, Tarry and Adi were not coming along with us in this reunion. They had something uncancellable business to work on.

This was the first day in Surabaya. I am unable to write everything on same post right now because of having another work to do. But believe me, the days after will be so much fun and memorable, wait for that !

Love, Elly.

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 !

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

After a full day trip today, we were not satisfied if we did not go to the beach, we felt exhausted but really refreshing. Going to the beach at night? we walked to the nearer beach, Gwangalli beach, on the way there we bought 2 packs of chicken for our dinner at one of the chicken shop, then we entered Family Store for buying instant rice and chopsticks. Fortunately, we had a plastic carpet which my friend got as a prize from random quiz in Seomyeon shopping center before, so we used it for having dinner on the beach, seemed like family picnic huh? the scenery was awesome exactly ! What makes Gwangalli beach beautiful at night is, a Gangan Bridge in front of this beach which links Nam-gu and Haeundae-gu with full of light, so imagine how shining this city would be at night !

the Gangan Bridge means Diamond

Yey after having dinner, time to take pictures

It’s late already, about 11 pm and we need to rest before another walk for tomorrow. This day was completely fun despite our body were really tired. Relieved, our stay was not far from this beach which was 20 minutes walking .

The day after we went to Haeundae Beach to meet Mr.Ony’s friend, I did not take many pictures here because it was really hot morning till noon but I found something interesting, there was a quite big screen beside Busan Aquarium, when I came nearer to that thing and looked it enthusiastically, a Korean couple talked to me in English and told me about that thing, so it is kind of touchscreen which shows map around that area and allows us to take picture and also edit it and then it can send the picture through our email, interesting isn’t it? I tried and the result :

picture with Korean students. I guess the name of this thing is U TOURPIA GUESSBOOK. There was also a picture in front of Busan Tower :

Yey Dynamic Busan !

finally time for going back to Daejeon, our KTX schedule was at 13.00, so we had lunch first and soon went to Busan train station.

Good Bye Busan ! Will come again later on, InsyaAllah.

]]> http://zulfanahrielly.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/visiting-busan-part-2/feed/ 2 zulfanahrielly Meeting friend at the underground shopping market ! Busan Tower Busan City from top of the tower Monas in Busan Tower the gangam Bridge means Diamond Yey after having dinner, time to take pictures ;) Busan ! Fun in Busan Fun Busan http://zulfanahrielly.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/visiting-busan-part-1/ http://zulfanahrielly.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/visiting-busan-part-1/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:43:19 +0000 zulfanahrielly http://zulfanahrielly.wordpress.com/?p=498 ]]> 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 !!

stopped by at Sinseon Rocks near Yeongdo Marine Cultural Space

walking through the rocks to the marine cultural space area

Still taking picture, how long should we walk again to reach Marine Cultural Space? looking from the map that I brought, it seemed quite near to reach but it was not a big problem because as long as we walked we found many good places for taking pictures and the scenery was really awesome guys. I brought my autumn jacket because it was in autumn but it was not cold at all in Busan and I regretted to bring it.

family recreation on the Sinseon Rocks. WOW !!!

Finally arrived ! Behind us is Yeongdo Marine Cultural Space. Fiuh.

where to go ? 전시갤러리 가자…!!

So, these are some of the statues at the exhibition gallery, we did not stay long in here because we were so hungry and planned to eat seafood at Jagalchi market. We took super mini bus (not really bus actually, it was mini train like in the amusement park) to the entrance of Taejongdae Reservoir until we found public parking lot ( Taejongdae Reservoir is surrounded by Taejongdae Pebble Beach, Taejongdae Observatory, and Yeongdo marine Cultural Space ) and then we took bus to Nampo-dong, Gwang-bok area, which Jagalchi Market is located.

we ate many kinds of seafood, and once again I missed Indonesia at that time when I could eat those everyday in Indonesia with cheap price, but in here those re expensive and we re not full at all.

Jagalchi Market

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.

The outdoor Magic Island with its fairy-tale looking castle, offers visitors thrilling high-altitude rides, laser shows and pleasant walking trails around a lake.

Remember Korean Drama ‘Stairway to Heaven’, Lotter World is the setting place for that drama.

]]> http://zulfanahrielly.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/lotte-world-the-worlds-largest-indoor-theme-park-by-gwr/feed/ 0 zulfanahrielly Lotte World Ice Rink inside Lotte World Over Excited playing in Lotte World and took this photo with crazy pose :D Indoor Theme Park outdoor of Lotte World Outdoor, in from of the castle ;) See the monorail in the air? setting place for Stairway to Heaven Korean series