Hey guys!!! I just got back from my trip and it wasn't pleasant... ~_~ OK there's a lot to complain about here... first there's the overcrowded car... I could tell you how many of us are actually on board the vehicle... there's 5 of my aunties and us 3 the kids (2 cousins came also) so... when u think about it this way... oh yeah plus the driver it would be 9 people on board... luckily i was on the front... he he he... so... 4 of my aunties were on the middle section of the car plus one aunty and the 2 cousins I mentioned on the last section so... if we were in Australia that would be an illegal thing to do... he he he... well... at least there's still room to move a bit of the leg... did you know that they have established a new law stating that you have to put your seat belts on (well... only the front passenger and the driver) still... to me that is a bit weird... *sigh a lot has changed since I'm gone (=_=;)... ok second complain would be the looooong drive (about 4 hour trip) and basically I spent most of the trip micro sleeping.... but the thing that is irritating the most is even though I'm on holiday I have to get up at 6 in the morn coz my aunty wanted to go early so we can avoid the traffic jams (for those of you who don't know Indonesia is very prone to have traffic jams almost at every corner of a small city eg. Jakarta...) so... we had to go early to avoid it... I'll say... it was a long and snaky drive... (we had to go through mountains ~_~) ok after that we arrived, had a little drive around town (......) actually... make that a long ride... none of us knows the city so we end up literally driving through every corner of the city... well... that wasn't really that bad... coz we end up at factory outlets (Bandung is well known in Java as the city with the most factory outlets especially if you actually know where to go there's a lot of 'em) so... after that long drive we got the hotel... ok I got to tell you all about this trip... heck I'll take the next paragraph...
First... when we arrived and didn't know where to go we... sorta... went to a very far away place away from the hustle and bustle of Bandung CBD... and we sorta... by accident discovered where our hotel was gonna be... so... we thought heck... we'll just go there after we go to our relatives' place... we have relatives in Bandung... so... we went and then... after that we wanted to get back to the hotel.. instead (......) we kinda lost our way and didn't know where to go.... so... we ended up driving around the city again for another 2 hours before we found the hotel and by the time we got back to the hotel it was nearly 6 pm and we arrived at the city at about 11 am... and basically... we drove around the city for about a quarter of a day with no indication of where to go and no signs to tell us the directions except the occassional people we have to ask.... (......) it was a VERY long drive... and you can't imagine how many times we actually went through the same street and ending up at the same dead end.... *sigh.... it was fun though.... ^_^ anyways that was just the adventure of one day the next was another big adventure....
But... fourth complaint would be the hotel itself... it was dreadful.... it was brown all over the bathroom... all the wall the shower even the toilet seats are brown in colour with ants everywhere (luckily no cockroaches) and even the carpet is brown... it was dreadful but it was fine I don't think it was that bad but... it's only for a day and a night... so it's a temporary residence... one of my aunt who booked the hotel said she couldn't find any more hotel coz all of 'em were fully booked (-_-) anyways we went becoz a relative (which I have no idea I even have this relative) has their wedding day on this date and on the same place was the partying thingy, with lots of food usually so my aunty booked the rooms *sigh if only I could experienced The Valley... they said it's the best hotel in this town....
Anyway... our relatives invited us to dinner at this restaurant (on our first night)... if you get a chance to come to Indo and visit Bandung you gotta eat there although my aunties still think that another restaurant was much better than this... anyways.... you gotta visit the place at night coz it was so beautiful... you get to eat at this place that overlook the town and from where I stood it was such a beautiful view... *sigh... lights glisten like the starry sky above... it was amazing... really... you gotta visit this place if you ever come here... the restaurant's called Sierra and another's called The Peak... they say The Peak has a much more tasty food but it's the same thing as Sierra a restaurant that stood up on a mountain overlooking the city and best viewed at night ^_^ so... if you ever get the chance visit there....
Ok... I'll probably bored you all out of your wits by this time... but I got one more tale to tell... It's about the wedding thing... we went right? But we couldn't stay long coz my 2 cousins gotta go to school in the morning tomorrow... (ok it seems like I haven't set any time frame so I'll tell it now... the first day we arrived was a Saturday then the eating out at Sierra was on the evening of the Saturday and then the evening of the Sunday was the wedding) so basically Monday... is a school day (not school holiday week) unfortunately for us we thought it was an eating thing... (for those of you who don't know over here we usually have this Prasmanan thing where at the wedding party thing they usually have food everywhere... literally... not a seating, reservation thing but standing up, wait in line, plates in hand, and cutlery on the other, then we go along with the line choosing and scooping up the food we want to eat... so basically speaking... we get free food) but it turned out that we had to sit down and wait for the food... at first the bride and groom walked down the aisle and we all supposedly cheered and claped (but for some reason the atmosphere was a bit somber so clapping was a low) she looked so beautiful and he looked so handsome even though I do not know who the heck they were.... ~_~ and even the parents of the bride and groom looked so glamourous but I think the fathers of the bride and groom looked a bit unhappy having to dressed in such formality... anyways... it was a beautiful wedding except I hated the MC he is so... I don't know... idiotic... well.. you gotta be there... anyways... we arrived at 6 pm and got seated but the food hasn't come yet so... by about 6.45 my aunt said "let's just go" becoz of my couzs so... we were gonna go but got held back by the mother (I think) of the groom coz I think that's the one that is my aunt's relatives (hhmmm... not sure....) so... food came at about 7 pm and we went at 7.30 pm even though the party wasn't ^_^ so.... we only ate the entree not even the main course then we went.... so my stomach was a quarter full and we went back to Jakarta... with bits and pieces of Bandung we said goodbye... then 4 hours later we arrived home... that is all...
By the look of this blog it seems that even by 2 days period of adventure it seems a very full on adventure... *sigh... wished I could have stayed at a better place and know where to go... but... it was a fun, boring, miserable, classic, momentary, dull, amazing, wonderful, tiring adventure.... ^_^
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