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Bandung – The Paris of Indonesia
May 18th, 2009 | Author: gabriel

If you want to shop for affordable, good quality and “branded” goods, this is the place to be! The “shops” scattered around Bandung are houses and each is like it’s own boutique. They are all ‘factory outlets’. There are tonnes of these shops in just one street.

However, as I only have limited time there, I wasn’t able to visit that many stores..

Bandung is like 2 hours drive away from Jakarta and we only departed late in the morning. By the time we reach there, it’s almost lunch time.

The first place that we visited is a shop filled with bags.. It’s like every woman’s dream.. Sooo many designer bags and it’s piled up mountaineously in the shop. Even though they may be imitation goods, they are Grade A imitationsl; which means they use the ‘actual’ high quality raw materials. Each imitation bag can cost up to a few hundred ringgit. They are really of that high quality..

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After this shop, we went to this place called Rumah Mode (Model House). A very fashionable warehouse, again, with top quality clothes.

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I couldn’t resist the ‘temptation’ and bought a few items for my own. It’ll be like a ‘waste’ not to buy them. I tried on so many clothes and many looked good. But alas, I only end up with 2 long shirt sleeves (Esprit and Tom Tailor) and a Burberry jeans. All these, only cost me approx RM130.

Can you imagine, I actually forgot that I was hungry. By the time we’re done with shopping, it was almost 430pm (Msia time). Grabbed a quick lunch and we rushed to see a volcano crater up a hill that’s about 45min drive away without traffic. Well, you’ve guessed it.. The traffic was horrible~! It took us almost 2-3 hours to reach there!! And to make things worse, when we’re there, that place is closed cause it’s too dark and not safe for visitors to go in. All the way up there!! But at least, get to enjoy the cold weather up the mountain. It’s like Cameron kind of cold during rainy season. But anyhow, I had a good “jagung bakar” (grilled corn) up there with the driver.

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And then the long journey back to Bandung city and endured the horrible traffic jam again. We reached the city at approx 10pm Msia time. My sister then took me to a restaurant at the peak of the hill for dinner called “The Valley”.

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It has a very beautiful view. The outdoor area overlooks the night sky of Bandung.

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And the food? Well.. I’d say I enjoyed their Soup a lot. They call it Sup Suppa! hahah

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It’s basically mushroom soup encrusted with delicious crisp pastry. I ordered a local dish called Nasi Buntut! hahah.. It’s actually Oxtail Rice.. haha..

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Then, it’s the start of the journey of our way back to Jakarta. We left Bandung at 12am Malaysia time and reached Jakarta around 145am

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Walking marathon
May 03rd, 2009 | Author: gabriel

It was half a day of walking yesterday. So to speak, we (yinsin and I) kind of ‘explored’ Singapore town on foot.

The initial plan was to stay in NIE library to read up more about the places that I’m going to travel and then after that, to Boon Lay market to buy bus tickets back to Malaysia. This will be the few times I’m going back from Singapore. This time round was because I have to bring back a lot of luggage with me

Last minute, we changed our plan and went to Bugis late in the afternoon. We wanted to try the Klang Bak Kut Teh near Arab Street.

Firstly, we went to the new shopping mall opposite Bugis Junction. Eccentric design and they have an escalator which connects the ground floor right up to the top floor. New cinemas, lots of shops selling clothes and undergarments.

Anyway, after that, we walked to Arab Street, explored around the place before proceeding to Beach Road for the Bak Kut Teh place.

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The Bak Kut Teh was just so-so. Decent. Nothing extraordinary but not horrible either. It’s about $5-$6 per person. But it’s definitely different from the Singapore version of Bak Kut Teh. Theirs is the one with pepper soup instead of herbs.

Anyway, after dinner we headed (walked) to Golden Mile, since I know it’s nearby, to purchase our bus tickets. It wasn’t that bad, about 5-10min walk only. And we don’t need to go all the way to Boon Lay market to get tickets now. Right after that, we wanted to go back to city hall; Suntec/Marina Square. And from Golden Mile, we can actually see Singapore Flyer and the Suntec Building.
So, there’s two ways to get there:

  1. Walk to Lavendar Station (5-10min walk), take train to City Hall (2 stations), and then walk along Citilink Mall towards Suntec (10min)
  2. Follow the Suntec Building/Singapore Flyer on foot.

Well, obviously… We chose the latter one being the ‘adventurous’ sport that we are.. lol. Wasn’t that bad actually until we reached a point where we can see Suntec Building but we can’t go there. It’s just about less than 100m away from us but what’s separating us and the building is the highway!! It’s the ’spaghetti’-type of highway where some cuts across, some flies overhead from one place to another. Following the Suntec Building was out of the question now since we may end up in the middle of the expressway.  So, we followed the Singapore Flyer and walked towards there. We eventually made it to Suntec Building after walking for what it seems like a U-turn to me. The entire walking took us approximately 20-30min. Not that far right? hahah

After doing some shopping and getting what we want, we headed back to NTU for supper at Ah Fang. It’s been a very very long time since I had supper with my batch of friends. My last memory of such an ordeal was back in year 2. The end of second year.

It was okay I guess. To like hang out again with them what seems like after a long time. And this is gonna be like the last time of NTU Supper for me. The walking outside NTU to a hawker place. And taking another 30min to walk back to my hall.

By the time I reached my hall, took a quick shower and went straight to bed.. Soundly fast asleep.

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Hectic days..
December 14th, 2008 | Author: gabriel

Past two days was very hectic for me.. Some are eventful, some are horrendous. To start off, I wasn’t able to sleep well the past few night and slept very late; prolly due to stress.

On Saturday, I woke up early to take pictures of my friends and after 1 hour of rest or so, I’m supposed to meet someone in the city area. While at it, I went out shopping alone at Vivo and the New Jurong Point. Oh, speaking of Jurong Point, it’s now TWICE as BIG!! It’s HUGEE… Reminds me of One Utama now. With it’s old and new wing.. Lots of new shops and hidden corners. There’s even gonna be a 24-hour NTUC hypermart!
Anyway, by the time i’m back, it’s already almost time for dinner and I worked on my FYP and processed photos. Did that the entire night and fortunately, my FYP is in a good pace now.

Had to sleep early as I’ve to wake up early on Sunday for West Shooter’s TFCD Session!

FYI, TFCD (Trade for CD) means that it’s a model shoot but instead of paying the model, you shoot them for free but in return, you provide a CD of their pictures that was taken by you.

I woke up at 6am as I’ve to be at Fort Canning Park (FCP) by 8am. The weather was bad.. It rained the entire morning. Mostly did indoor shootings with the occasional outdoor shoot under the drizzling rain. There were only 2 femae models and 1 male model. Theme was ‘gothic’. Will gonna upload pics soon after I processed them.

Due to the rain, the whole thing was prolonged and delayed. It ended around 2-3pm when it was scheduled to end at 12pm. By the time I reached NTU, my course mates were already finish preparing their self-made  Laksa.

Serving the gravy (by P3rSeUs)

Laksa Noodles (by P3rSeUs)

The laksa is courtesy of Xin Fern and her mom’s recipe. It was just alright.. Taste wasn’t strong enough and not spicy enough. Otherwise, it’s pretty good. It was lunch for me as I only ate potato chips in FCP.

I tried introducing Munchkin to them.. They didn’t enjoy it as much as elaynne they all. Probably they didn’t really read those stuff written on the cards. Just want to know what the end results are. But still ok, nontheless.. Had a quick dinner in Hon Yoong’s room after that and I watched them play Monopoly (Disney Version). It was quite funny as most of them didn’t really know the ‘actual rules’. Only those rules that was played when we were kids. hahaha… It was fun to watch and before I know it, it’s already late at night. it’s damn tiring but at least, it’s rather eventful rather than spending the weekend in the room alone…

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IT Show 2008
March 07th, 2008 | Author: admin

Was at the IT Show last night and it wasn’t as crowded as I imagined it would be. It was crowded, no doubt but at least I could still walk into a direction that I want. Unlike a situation last time where I have to follow the flow of the crowd and if I would want to turn back, It’ll probably cause havoc and traffic jam

Anyway, I’ve bought 2x Kingston 1GB PC5300 DDR 667 RAM for $28.50 each and a $15 Notebook Cooler.

Was so tempted to get a 22″ Widescreen LCD Monitor. The cheapest offer is from ViewSonic for $339.. Second best would be Acer’s for $359. Reason for not getting at the moment is that I still don’t have a use for it just yet since I’ll be working during the day and will be busy during the night.

Oh well, maybe next sem, during the August PC Show? Shall see how fate brings me to it

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