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Hi Abu Dhabi, it seems like I have not finish exploring you, so I have to go back. Hopefully I will stay for 2 months to attend OS-stim school. Its quite tough tho, I have to survive from this kinda working training thingy. Or just say I have to study instead of chatting all over jajajjaa. I live in Blue tower, Slb rental apartment, in room number 1002A. I live with my classmate, Alma, she comes from Texas, US, but she is mexican. We get along very close to each other, share gossip, silly thing, and even we do have “fracturing” jokes for God sake. Here is a view from our “lame” apartment. It is surrounding by rocks houses just like the old flinstone houses jajajaja. They have a nice car, you can see lamborghini is parked on the street. I wonder how could they be so rich after all.
Since our lovely duppy Blue Tower apartment is miles away from MLC, we have to get up early, and always save by the adzan, I always got up early. We have to take for approximately one hour to MLC, we call it, our high quality nap time. Just bring your up to date-brand new style- sun glasses, neck pillow, and ipod, you will be save for one hour. After 3 turn, 18 traffic lights, high way, and 80 km/hour riding a bus, I finally arrive at MLC. First thing to do is go to your class room, lock your laptop if you dont wanna get trouble, and go to canteen yipppieee. The food is not too bad actually, I just confused why people hate it so much. They have a croissant which is my favorite, orange juice which is also my favorite hahhaa, so I know now why I dont mind with the food.
In our first day, there was a silly thing happened. We went to MLC by NTC taxi, special order for us since there was no enough bus. I went there with my class mate who is Alma, Ylide from Mexico, and Daniel from Mexico. We arrived early -coz we took taxi-, we went through all the hall, our class is 226 which is on the backside af the MLC, and suddenly the fire alarm rang. riiing…riiiing..riiing.. We were shocked and yet laugh because our class like 1 meter away. We had no idea where to go, we just followed an old man walked through MLC. We arrived at the muster point and found out place to stand. Then, someone said it just a fire drill, oooh holly crap now we have to walk all over again jajjajajja. It was silly tho 
And I found two my indonesian friend yippie, I could speak bahasa then .
finally, we made it, BALIIIII..After a loooong looong exhausted life lately, I got 5 days off..I spent 3 days only to go to Bali, woohooo..
We went to zoo early morning, by MRT followed by Taxi. We spent there about half day baby sitting. It was fun tho, even the sun was too hot out there. We went through the mammal, snakes, zebras, girraffes, monkeys, bears, and birds. After that we went to the hotel and got ready for Singapore flyer. Spore flyer were just ready to ride last year. We could see Indonesia and Malaysia from up above. It took half an hour to make 1 cycle. Just take a look this shots.
Well, here comes the shopping day. We went to IKEA at Alexandra road by bus. It was like a heaven for room decorating. I dream of having all of IKEA furniture someday and hope IKEA will be in Indonesia soon. Then we went to Vivo city, a mall near harbour front. There was a blue whale exibition there held by national geography. It was big big big whale even if it was just a baby. What so interesting about Vivo city was the marina view since it is near the harbour. They also have a playground for kids where kids could play in fountain and the rest is just like other mall. After lunch we were heading to Esplanade to meet my parents. We took picture every where trough the bay and merlion statue (cliche). It was a long journey, so we decided to have a supper at orchard road.
My family and I arrived at the Changi airport (not to mention that we arrived at budget terminal) at 7 pm. We used tiger airways to go to Spore, it is a cheap airplane similar to airasia. I have no experience in using airasia, but in my opinion the tiger is way much better, cause we got the seat number. The airplane ticket cost only +/- IDR 1.000.000 (two ways), it is cheaper then the ticket to Bali. Then we went to the hotel on the Balestier road, Value Hotel Balestier (Sing. $109/night/3 persons). It was already night when we got there, so I got a lil rest then went to Mustafa centre. Four of us went there since the taxi in SPore only could accomodate 4 persons. We ate Prata (indian curry lamb), it was delicious, I never like lamb in my life, but the cooking was good enough so I could not smell the lamb. You should try plain prata and prata with egg. Then we did a lil shopping at Mustafa Shopping Centre (24 hours). It was chaos there, the stuff was everywhere from groceries to chocolate, shoes to chlotes, games to electronic, it was damned complete. About at midnight we went home coz tomorrow we will do another shopping spree.
Finally, we made it! I went to Spore for vacation with my nephews. They are so adorable. It was a “baby sitting” vacation coz I have to accompany them everywhere. It was fun tho, we went to IKEA (yippieee), Spore zoo for sure, Spore flyer, and of course orchard road for shopping spree. Thanks to the dollar kurs, it was up to IDR7000, I was broke by then, hence shopping in Spore was no longer cheap.
Last weekend when it was supposed to be an election day, I went to Karawaci to visit my nephews. It was an 1 hour car trip from Slipi. By the time I got there I was very very shocked, because I felt like I was in lil Singapore Not because the people HAHAHAA but because the view. The building and the environment were friendly 
and they have their own Debenhams OMG. My family and I also went to UPH. There were a student election for miss UPH, so the banner were everywhere. They also have a swimming pool at the roof top, isnt it cool!! I hadnt look building by building because the weather was hot! and I wore a stupid jacket. We also visited the bookstore called times, it was such a lil Border (again). Here some best shots at UPH’s garden and bookstore. Believe me that school was amazing but yet expensive (no wonder)
PS: My nephew (aka Kanya) and I plan to go to Spore this April IKEA here we come
Yippieee this holiday, I went to Solo and Jogja, thanks to chinese Nu Year.. My family and I went there for 3 days. 20 hours driving, 30 hours sleeping, and 40 hours SHOPPING. And of course Batik, since Solo and Jogja had produced those cool clothes decades ago. Years by years the design had become very very fasionable and up to date. I just figured it out this year that Batik not always about Batik Keris, Batik Semar, or Danar Hadi. In Kecamatan Laweyan, there are many shops along the street. I did my shopping thingy in this shop about 2 hours non stop, trying almost each of its products (lebay mode: HIDUP)
This one is for formal occasion, loose tshirt is my favorite meng
or this type: kebaya encim, so oldies but catchy. Also another innovation, kebaya-kimono model, I do not really like the color tho, i prefere to be shocking purple or pink, that purple is too soft.
Kemudian berlanjutlah perjalanan saya dan geng ke kota tua. Rencananya kami akan mengunjungi dua museum lagi yaitu museum fatahillah dan wayang. Tetapi dalam perjalanan menuju sana, terlihatlah sebuah bangunan putih warisan belanda, klasik sekali. Dengan rasa penasaran kami berjalan menuju pintu utama, dan ternyata itu adalah museum.. Yang terlintas dibenak saya : Waaaah ini mah kaya Spore Sci Center, rapi dan mendidik sekali, dan yang palin utama adalah boloh menggunakan kamera. Huuuhuuuy..
Museum itu didirikan di bekas gedung pusat BI atau De Javasche Bank yang terletak di bilangan Jakarta Kota. Gedung tempat museum itu berdiri mempunyai nilai sejarah tinggi yang terancam kerusakan apabila tidak dimanfaatkan dan dilestarikan. Pemerintah telah menetapkan bangunan tersebut sebagai bangunan cagar budaya (museumkita.net).
Pertama masuk, kita dihadapkan dengan peta wilayah nusantara yang begitu futuristik dan megah. Dan kami memutuskan itu merupakan spot berfoto paling happening pada pemberhentian kali ini..hehhehehe
Di sana diperlihatkan transformasi lambang Bank Indonesia dari tahun ke tahun. Sejarah krisis moneter di Indonesia sampai dengan lelucon-lelucon mengenai masyarakat sekarang yang mata duitan. Di sana ada suatu ruangan khusus yang berisi cetakan uang kertas dan receh dari zaman kompeni dulu. Ternyata dulu ukuran uangnya besar sekali, ga kebayang deh orang tua dulu dompetnya segede apa..hehhehe Ada juga uang dengan cetakan khusus pada zaman orde baru dulu dengan muka pak harto di pecahan Rp. 50.000. Dengan mengunjungi museum ini, saya jadi yakin kalau bangsa kita mampu berbuat baik dalam mendidik anak cucu nanti..hehhehehhe
