Lake and Underwater in north ....

 

When I write this, it is happened 2 years ago. It was not fresh story anymore, but I believe not much place is changed. Oops maybe there is. Yes, Tinoor just had a landslide on January. So the condition is perhaps not good as 2 years ago. Well, at least I just wanna share some happiness n spirit to see our beautiful scenery of our lovely, is it??, lovely Indonesia.

 

THE STORY BEGINS

I had limited time and I chosed to go to north celebes.  I stayed at hotel and have fun for a while. Forgave me not to contact my relatives as I need to have some privacy n did not want to be bothered for a second as I told you before I had limited time. I had big families thus I had to have much time to come and visit them.

 

I was ready to fly at about 8 from my hometown n took 3 hours to arrive the airport. Lucky the flight provided a great meal so I can keep energy for a second till I found expected restaurant. After taking some pictures, I went to hotel first, close to boulevard, put them there n went out by car to Tondano lake through Tomohon, a cool, fresh air and clean city.

 

Went through big statue of Jesus in Citraland housing then stopped by to took a picture then went to Tinoor to have lunch. By noon I arrived Tondano lake. Day was so beautiful, sun shone but not too hot. It was very good for, again, to take a picture. After that I went to some restaurant to have a small snack, fried nike and cakalang noodle. It was so delicious.

 

Back to city, stopped by sovenir store to buy some then back to hotel to take a rest. It was tiredful. It was needed to energize the power to go fun all day tomorrow.

 

Hired a boat to reach bunaken island n be ready to go snorkling. It was my first experience and I was extremely happy. Everything was run well except I got some scratch on my leg n my hand n leg became burned to be dark, I meant red as I had white skin.

 

I was so happy. I was so tired. I slept tight at night and woke up in hurry in the day after today. I had to catch morning flight back to my hometown. But I did not forget to have breakfast first. Hotel facility off course. As it was 5 star hotel so the menu was great. Could get manado porridge, known as bubur manado (local food) n brought some klappertart I bought yesterday n put at refrigerator till I went home.

 

Thank you Bunaken. You gave me great experience. See you at second chance

 

THE STORY ENDS

Hi,
am back after almost been absent for 2 years. There are so many things happened that made me being lazy to tell a story while so many great experiences I had done in bad and happy moment. My mood was very bad at those moment...

I am still learning to write it down from my gadget, it is easily n quick instead of opening PC since this 2 years I was seldom in front of office PC. Yes, my previous job was going around the street as I seldom comunicate with people by email. Even so, my new office blocked the internet facility. Poor me.

So, just stay tune....

How are you??

It was such a long time I don't write story in my blog. Am really sorry. So many things happened lately, started by my office lappy was broken thus it had to be hospitalized, and it took a long time, thus I was working manually without my lappy and sometimes I borrowed my friend PC just to work my office daily work. Poor me. 2nd things is I did not find "warnet" close to my home. This day, in gadget technology I could not find it easily....

Then I was very busy and hectic preparing my time to go Yogya with my friend Deb, Jakarta to meet my cousin and friends, Menokad to refresh for a while, Tretes to have farewell party with workmates then coming to new office. It was so quick until I forgot my body resistant is not good as before. I am not young anymore. To keep healthy is a must. I just recovered from paratypus a week ago. Lucky I just took a rest at home, no need to have bedrest at hospital.

So many story I have and I need to share here but I am still having no time. Hopefully I can have gadget very soon to update all season of sad, joy and happiness.

See U.....*sounds like brand of my product, hihihihi*

BB is not BlackBerry but Balekambang Beach

Thanks for GPS, The Global Positioning System. Wikipedia said it is a space based satelite navigation system that provides location anywhere. Why I need to say thank you, it is help me to go to the beach which is in remote area. This system support some information like how far it is, and how to get there, turn right, turn left, Even the beach is famous, according to local people and already registered in website, but in the reality, I seldom find many street bilboard which mention the direction of this beach. Less information. How we can promote our beautiful beach if we do not add as much information.

Started from Malang city. It was informed that it would take 2 hours. Tried to browse and had info that it was 65 km far away to south direction, at Bantur area. It was my willing to go there since I never and always cancelled to go there. Just curious as I heard and read from internet this beach has small island and there was a Hinduism temple on it. We could reach the island as there were bridge connecting the land and island. Ok then, based on that information, I was eager to start travelling.

I was succeed influencing my friend to take me there by car. Also, brought GPS as our assistant. As no plan at first to go there, we do not wear beach custome but it was enough to represent our casual dress. On the way there, we were also looking for SPF lotion at small store to protect us from hot shine of sun. We went around 10 o'clock so you can imagine what time we would arrive there. At noon, when sun shone extremely hot. Just expecting cloudy without rain. Since I was on cough condition, I also looked for drugstore who sold that drug. A bit hard to find as it was not local brand.

Finally, after getting through Kepanjen, Gondanglegi, Bantur, small cities, villages, hills, paddy rice fields, forests, with streets like walking snake, turn right, turn left, turn around, we arrived on the entrance gate, paid about ten thousand rupiahs, got ticket then went through. We were still not seeing the beach, we had to go through forest with very tall trees. Omaigod, many times I said OMG. I was very impressed with that trees. Sound it was old trees. I did not see coconut threes as symbol of beach. Amazing. Then after 5 minutes being surprised I could see the beach. White sand and big waves decorated that beach. And I could see the small island at far

Not much visitor on Saturday. No idea why. Maybe they would come on Sunday. It was holiday. Saturday was still school day. Or it would be crowd on school holiday on the mid of year, or on moslem Holy Day vacation or Xmas n New Year holiday. But I did not care because it was advantage for me to be able to take some pictures without being annoyed but somebody else. I did not like to have unknown person came up in my background picture unless I knew that person, my friends, my relatives or else that being permitted to show on it. Hahahaha. So selvish!



Even the weather was very hot but show had to go on. Just brought water to have enough drink, wearing sun glasses, sandals, pour lotion under the skins, then walking along the beach. White sands covered our feet. I was wearing half short pant with long hand tshirt, enough to cover my hands from attacking of hot sun but not my legs. It was OK, beach sign had to be in my body as a proof. .

Next walk were crossing the bridge to the island, with sea below, with small wave, because of ebb tide. It was so bright, we could see the water was very clear n clean. We could also see the difference between deep sea and shallow sea by seeing the color of the sea. Dark sea meants deep sea and on the contrary. It was so beautiful. The ocean was so gorgeous. It was south ocean, well known by big waves and deep depth, we felt small inside. When crossed the bridge and stood at the small island, felt a bit scare that wave would reach us and brought to the ocean.

Took some pictures as much as we could and satisfied with the result. Thanked to digital camera, we could take a picture and could retake when we found the result was not good enough. Enough to be narcism, we had a lunch. Ordered simple meal. Instant noodle. Why? we did not want to try local food there, mostly was sea food and local meal like nasi rawon, nasi rames, nasi campur, to avoid stomachache as we were still having far way home. About 3 hours to Surabaya. And to close this beach journey, we did not forget to drink young coconut. So fresh actually but it was not really young. And, they add some sugar on the coconut water which was not supposed to do that, for me, it would reduce the taste of natural coconut itself.

Sad but happy, happy but sad

Life is running, everybody has own destiny in life, in their daily life, education, personal life and work.

Again, one of my workmate was resigned and we celebrated it by taking some pictures at office and also gave farewell party at next day by having dinner together at Puang Oca, sea food restorant after office hour.

Laughing, smilling, screaming decorated session of taking picture. Gift was given to her as souvenir to remember us as her ex workmates. It is a good idea to give some as it is the first time for me to know there will be souvenir. Some friends were resigned before and I do not see any gift for them, or maybe I was lack of info??



Small review about Puang Oca. It is a sea food resto from Makassar, capital city of South Sulawesi. They are famous of sea food wealth, ikan kakaktua (sparrow fish), "sukang" fish (kind of sea fish), kepiting asap (smoked crab) are one of their menus.

But you can find traditional dessert like Palu Butung Ice or Pisang Ijo Ice (Ice of green banana, banana is covered by green flour). Both are almost same, use banana as main item, adding coconut sauce, red syrup actually, but I think it is a bit different in this restaurant, they did some modification on these ices.

Very happy for eating together, chit chatting about office matter, funny, sad, anger, mixed into one story. 16 persons joined, from purchasing dept, marketing dept, even our boss secretary. I liked to come and sit together. Forgot about tiredness for a while till the time to go home was remind us. It has been late, and my home was very far now. The venue was in the downtown and my place location was in suburb. It was the 1st time for me to go out far away from home since I moved to suburb. Never mind, I was still enjoying it.

Lunch together

This was the 1st time for me to treat my fam, having lunch together at my new place. It would be more than happy to cheer them up. But, forgave me as I think I forgot that the participants were a bit fat and able to eat much, thus the portions that I served were still less.

The menus were Ayam penyet (It is a fried chicken, lightly smashed using a pestle in a mortar laced with sambal (spicy mixed blended a lot of chilly, tomato,garlic,coriander,salt,palm sugar) and adding basil and cucumber as additional dishes. It is one of the popular foods in Indonesia, especially in East of Java. It was introduced by local footstall (warung) in the street, then finally it’s getting more popular and now it's become one of menu in Indonesian restaurants. I bought at famous traditional resto. It was delicious, lately my sister in law admitted. Thanks sis!), Oseng toge ikan asin is called for sauteing bean sprouts and salty dry fish, Fried calamary in flour, Fried tempe (fermented soybean cake-javanese) and tofu, Baby mango sambal, Salty duck egg, Cheese roll tart as a dessert, and Fruit juices

At the end, for dinner, I bought meatball for them and they were very full. Great! I could compesate for something imperfect. But, still I need to prepare more. Since I did not have furniture, all had to sit in floor, just sitting in mat, with cross legged. Poor my daddy as he was old already, it was a bit hard for old man to get up after sitting so long. Need help, Gee...next time he should sit on chair. Pray me to have enough money to buy chair for my guest room and my eating room.

Anyway, thanks for coming. See you at next program guys.

HecTic DayS

Left end of 2011 by attending my best friend wedding again and opened the 2012 by attending another best friend wedding again. Oops, it made me bought a new dress and a new shoes for that ceremony. Gee...4 friends are almost in one year actually, and 2 friends before, now is pregnant!


Another hectic was attending lunch gathering with workmates twice, one session was to close 2011 and one session was to open 2012. Location is at our own office. Then we also had small dinner gathering at Pisa cafe, outside in the downtown, still with workmates, about 20 persons.

More hectic by moving to new house that I am hiring for 2 years. Small house, homy, still, quite, I think. The environment is good, still having fresh air too. Location is in suburb out of my hometown but not too far. I was very busy and tired for packing all stuffs, then moving and unpacking the stuffs again, and still not finish till now...