Ouch

"Cinta itu cuma ilusi belaka.

Kita selalu mencari suatu tempat untuk jatuh dan selalu mencari orang yang menarik*"

*Translated: "Love is just an illusion. We're always looking for a place to fall in and always find the attractive one"


That is my favourites quote from BiBi, a Korean comic serial wrote by Choi Kyung-ah, volume 2. The male main character Han Je Hoo said a thing when the main female character Lee Na Bie reveal her disbelief about love at the first sight.

The first time I read it, it’s like a slap in the face. Yes, people do believe about love at the first sight. But I agree with Je Hoo, there’s no such a thing in love. Things we called love at the first sight is just a kinda attracted feeling. You see a charming man, beautiful ladies, who won’t feel attracted?  If you let it go, it will go. But if you keep it, it should be a true love someday.

I don’t know what makes me write about it. It might because i’m currently umm..dating? Well not that far, just said I have someone who texting me everyday, remembering about lunch, say sweet things about me, out together in a special occasion, yeah you get it all. I was wondering if he in love with me and plan to reveal it soon haha.. 

Anyway the point is, I’m scared. I am scared that he just see the illusion of me, the attractive side of me, and of course I don’t want that happen.. I’m trying to make him see the whole side of me. I have no idea if he already saw it or not.. But sometimes I feel like he appreciate me too much..Like I’m all okay, get it? Is it because he hasn’t see the not-very-good side of me? Or he already see it but he found that it works for him? I hope for the second option.. Despite of it, it is true that at least we should have something we hate in someone even we’re in love with him/her, isn’t? So why till now I feel that everything I do, even the yucky one, is so acceptable on him? :(

But anywaaaayyy, it could be only a mind trick. Say it, I could be just misunderstood about his feeling to me hihi.. Is that so, I wouldn’t bother about these things hahaha..

Have a very cool Thursday people! :) I'll write soon!

Hello Bandung! Part 1: I Feel It, Man!

Hello people! Thanks for waiting anyway. Okay I’d like to share some stories abut my first and also last trip to Bandung :). It gonna be the longest posting I've ever made *surprise* that's why I decided to divide the whole posting into some parts. What are you reading now, of course, is the first chapter :)

I remember Tanadi Santoso ever said that we should be a childlike, not childish, to be successful entrepreneur. What he tried to say is as being a childlike, we see everything with same curiosity, same enthusiasm like it is the first time we see it. Well, I’m not going to post more about how to be successful entrepreneur or what... The point is, I saw Bandung as it is. I got the feeling, man… Yes, it was the first time for me stepping my feet in Bandung land! I felt so passionate, happy; just like I would boom in thousand parts, and everything about Bandung attracted me most. Geez, that was the best feeling in the world, I bet you. I just felt I couldn’t wait to see everything, I mean! :)

I took the business train Mutiara Selatan on Thursday afternoon from Surabaya. That was a rainy day and I almost late. I met my travel mate Dila in Gubeng Train Station and soon found another group of my colleagues. Along our way to Bandung I can’t stop myself babbling how wonderful Bandung will be and how I was so thrilled about my first trip. Dila seems like a lil bored after few hours but she tried her best after all hahaha…  I can be so annoyed sometimes, sorry :3

We almost arrived. It’s already morning, around 6 AM. I could feel the fresh air since the sun rose. I and Dila fight over about is it mount or hill that we saw over the window.

Me: “What is that?”

Dila: “Mount, of course”

Me: “What mount?”

Dila: “I don’t know. But I’m sure that is a mount”

Me: ”What mount? Pangrango? (Readers, I’m sorry for my lack of geographical knowledge :0 )

Dila: “I’m not sure about it” (Geez, we were both moron twins)

Me: (hate it when I don’t know about something and nobody can tell me about it) “So it isn’t a mount. Look, there are some of them. So those were hills”

Dila: “No it was a mount”

Later my uncle said that was a mountain. Yeah, Bandung was surrounded by mountain. Dila, it was plural; mountain. And for me, those were too big to be any hill; gosh, you should’ve guessed that..

After being late around 30 minutes, the train stopped eventually. Finally I saw Bandung for the first time!!! Hahaha.. I called myself katrok which in English means act like perfect stranger :p. I mean, oh God, the first thing attracted my eye was the Hoka Hoka Bento* stall in Bandung Train Station. How cool we have Hokben in our train station! That what I was thinking.  Haha.. we didn’t get something like that in Gubeng train station, Surabaya :p 

haha.. the signature style..peace.. :p 

We went by our own 'cause the other group will stay in Widi’s aunt home and we will stay in a hotel. Out from the station we lost of direction and have no idea how should we did to be in Dago**, where the hotel we wanna stay located. We ask people and soon we found that we took the wrong exit door which made us in wrong direction to take any angkot**** to Dago hehe...So we back to inside of the station to find the right exit door, which located in south side.

Out from the right exit door, an amusing view welcoming us.

I love how they placed this monument right outside the exit door :)

Dila is camera-girls which means she love taking photos and, more of it, become the subject of the photo hihi... She said “Tiz,becaknya lucuu...****” and quickly took her camera out.

And this cool mural. Oh my, uber kewl. I wouldn’t miss it.

Along our way to Dago, my camera wasn’t stop capturing. Everything was just too awesome! But... there weren't many good picture. We took an angkot, so everything was moving fast :)

 

         Even the sidewalk looked so nice.. How come simply things like painting this into blue made such a sense? How couldn’t we have such a thing in Surabaya? I mean yellow will looked cute, I’m sure about that!:)

Dila insisted that we should memorize this bluey sidewalk with the 45 degree angle shoot..ahaha, alay*****.. :p

Ok now the annoying part. I’ve told you that we took angkot to Dago. Yeah, at first we planned to stay at Royal Dago hotel. A friend of us said the price was reasonable and the room was okay. But when the angkot driver said that he knew other hotel which have a better price, we took that idea of stayed at that hotel. Patra Jasa Hotel was cool outside but poor for us, the room was fully booked till next week.

I and Dila then took a walk till we catch the Royal Dago, which located just some meters from Patra Jasa. Dila and I had just realized what was we faced when the receptionist said the room was full. The one who will check out will stay at the hotel till 12 PM. It was 8 AM in the morning! We were sleepy, tired after long journey, already dreaming about take a warm bath and changing clothes but this receptionist said that we should wait 4 hours more to take off our dirty clothes and jump to lazy bed. She should be joking. I and Dila desperately made a call to every hotel around Dago and ITB just to found that every hotel we called was full or fully booked. Geez.

Ok you must be questioning why we didn't make any hotel reservation before. I told you, we planned to stay at Royal Dago, and they didn't receive such a reservation or what. You should come, take your room, pay ahead. Actually that didn’t mean they have no room right for us, but I prefer sleep at the near mosque than pay Rp 400.000,00 a night. I mean, come on, we were student, for the God sake. We even can’t pay our own food! How come we supposed to spend that much only to sleep?

Well, at the end we took that standard room that would available at 12 PM. The receptionist quite nice after all. She said we can wait at the lobby and use the toilet. Hell yeah, that won’t works for Dila which immediately called her friend to ask him whether he can help her or not. But I use the toilet, no bath just washed my face, brushing teeth and changing clothes to a clean one. I won’t spent my precious time here only fight over about hygienic issue. 

Dila finally decided would take a bath in her friend’s friend bathroom, and I would go somewhere. We planned to meet up in the hotel around hours later. I’m breathing deeply, ready to face everything ahead that I’m sure, will be more than just wonderful :)

To be continued..

*a famous Japanese fast food franchise. Simply called Hokben. For us, student, Hokben was popular among its reasonable price haha..

** Dago is one of the coolest road in Bandung. Along this road we can found many factory outlet, boutique and cafe with cool interior. It is also located near ITB. 
***public transportation used in most of cities in Indonesia.The one we have in Bandung was Suzuki Carry-look alike

****translated to English: "Tiz, how cute is the pedicab!"

*****alay, stands for 'anak layangan' is a slang language. It was commonly used to make a fun of people who act 'lebay' or overacting 

So where will I go? Will I lose direction again? And how will a hungry-traveler eat in her first time visit in Bandung? Whatever it was, one thing she would never forget was her visit to ITB. How cool is that? I’ll write again, so stay tuned, peeps!

xoxo

Officially, I'm in Bandung Now :)

Okay, here is my confession, dear. I never been to Bandung before. Yes, it's true! even I was so thrilled about visiting this city, I never get any chance to be there. So when ITB guys held Pasar Seni ITB 2010, I know that won't be any better moment visiting Bandung from this :)

Yayyy, I am so happy!! I'll stay here from 8 till 11 of October 2010, left one of my class, but I got a feeling everything will be worth it :D

Stay tuned pals!:))

Dear God,

I’m not a holly person, even I’m not that always-try-to-be-nice-to-everyone girl. But most of the time, when I’m in good mood, i try my best to help everybody around me. And sometimes, when I’m under pressure, I still try to help others. Sometimes.

Anyway, I found myself couple months ago try to help my friends fixing things. In Your Name, I had no other reason for myself except help him. But who will guess everything turn out not very good lately. Just name it, me, who try to help at first, ended need any help too.

God,

I know i don’t need to write this all cause I know, You always know what hidden in the deepest of my heart. But let me say clearly, I really need your help. I can’t handle it, I don’t know how longer I can stand. I try my best, You know I really am. But now I found myself needed more help that the one I try to help.



Thank you for listening me always.