Pertama kali gw ke Singapore waktu itu bulan Oktober. Somehow gw pindah kerja ke Singapore di bulan February tahun berikut nya (ampe saat gw bercerita). Ada kemajuan sih untuk traveling dokumen gw, terisi beberapa halaman sebelon gw ke kedutaan Indo untuk untuk perpanjang passport kedua gw hehehe .. Sejak disini mata gw serasa celik. Gw jadi pengen traveling terus2an. Pertama-tama ada temen yang ngajakin gw ke Melaka, trus gw jalan Ke Bangkok, terus ke Kota Kinabalu, Ho Chi Minh, terus keterusan .. Gw jadi rajin mantau tiket promosinya budget airlines, dan biasanya hunting tiket mulai di bulan Agustus untuk perjalanan sepanjang taon depan. Ada beberapa faktor yang bikin gw giat…
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For the sake of my passport
Suatu hari gw diajak adik gw maen ke Singapore. Gw bilang bahwa gw lagi ada project di kantor, gak bisa kemana-mana. Dia tetep aja cerita tentang bagus, bersih, aman dan teraturnya Singapore. Tentang tempat-tempat cultural India, atopun jalan yang bebas macet. Hmmm .. so what? Gw lebih suka nerusin tidur gw di zona nyaman gw. Sampe satu hari istri adik gw itu bilang ke gw : “Ci, udah pergi sono, jangan sampe itu passport expired dalam keadaan blank lagi”. Gw pun untuk kedua kalinya ngecek kapan passport gw expired. Ternyata gw masih punya 10 bulan sebelum gw harus ganti passport lagi. Pas di imigrasi biasanya orang bakal ditanyain tuh, tujuan…
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Mr. Kekaha
My last day in Bali started a bit early. I told my mom the night before that I will return by 8AM for breakfast. Kuta beach at 6am was quiet. Some people jogging and some cute dogs playing and swimming. The sun was still hiding and the sea breeze rather strong. It’s totally different view of Kuta beach. I walked in cold water along the coast line to the eastern side until I reach the cultural market that I can no longer walk. When I return to my starting point (just in front of our hotel) i sat on the sand reviewing pictures in my camera. I still have half…
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Bali wishes
I’ve heard about Bali before I was 7 years young. I was not visited Bali until 2004. I know nothing about Bali nor how to organize a trip. All that I knew was my budget, my leave balance and that I want to bring my mother with me to Bali. I started my research about Bali tour packages from best tour agents in the country. This including visiting agent website, collecting recent promotion brochures for updated price and get some feedbacks from forums in regard of the packages. I was not the first human being who did not use agency service, so I believe there are plenty of information I can…
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Bali came alive
Pertama kali gw alami bahwa Bali itu nyata yaitu waktu gw belon genap 10 taon. Pas bokap temen gw buka bagasi mobilnya, di dalamnya ada nyembul hiasan kepala penari Bali. Trus happily and proudly dia bilang bahwa mereka baru aja pulang dari Bali. The hiasan kepala Bali was so real to me! Until that day I only heard Bali and the Kecak dance from others or TV news presenter .. or popping up in my Social Science exam papers. One day I will go to the paradise, I promised myself. Sebelon itu tentunya gw pernah denger tentang Bali lewat guru kelas gw di pelajaran IPS. Beliau bilang bahwa orang bule…
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Cita-cita jaman dulu
Dahulu kala, di kantor bokap gw ada lukisan warna biru-ijo-coklat segede meja makan, yang bentuk nya kayak buah pala kena keprek. Dia bilang itu “peta dunia”, dan dia bilang kita ada di “Java”. Trus di rumah gw ada “bola dunia” didominasi warna biru yang biasanya gw dan adik gw suka puter-puterin kalo lagi pas bosen ato bete. (Waktu itu sempet bingung juga sih, napa juga itu kedudukan bola miring, tapi ini gak penting sih buat gw, jadi gak sempet ditanyain). Alkisah, bokap gw punya banyak temen bule. They just look so different from us and smell different, too! Menurut bokap gw, temen2 nya itu orang Amerika. Amerika itu ada di…
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Self Discovery
The more I understand myself the more easy for me to treat myself serving my purpose. “Treat myself” in a sense of : I know what I want (people call it dreams, purposes, goals), I know exactly what I’m looking for, I know what’s good for me and what will bring me into trouble. And the most important is I know what I’m doing and why. Self discovery also bring me confidence and provides answers even to the most “weird” questions. The bad news is, when a person turns 17 or 21 or whatever age, the number of years does not guarantee us that we’re succesfully completed the subject of…
