Bandung aka Parijs van Java..

Bandung was known as Parijs van Java aka Flower City.

Before going to Bandung

A lot of things that i found in the internet says that:

1. Bandung is a paradise for shoppers
2. Fods in Bandung are all nice and must-try.
3. Weather in Bandung is plus minus like in Cameron Highland
4. April is a rainy month
5. It is important to have supir to drive us anywhere

At Bandung
I realise that:
1. Bandung memang syurga for shoppers. For branded items and export quality items, Bandung has it all. Especially if you are looking for branded and nice baju sejuk, dan for kidswear also you will have a lot of option. Handbag and shoes from leather, jeans, laether products, this is the place where you have a lot of items and you feels that you want it all.

2. Foods at Bandung is not that good as it is being told. Few things are worth to try, but make sure you go for hygene first. Don't simply eat at the raodside stall, as the cleanliness is quite fatal. A lot of food poisoning happens, and of course it will kills your holiday spirit.

3. Yes, the weather there is cold, but not as cold as cameron highland. Going up yo the Tangkuban Perahu, it's getting colder and windy. In the town of Bandung itself, it is not so cold, but you will not sweating. It is a nice weather, though.

4. Yes, April is full of rain. Mostly, from the early of the month until 20th, you can expect raining all day. Gradually, it will keep less towards May. The thing is, you can hardly walk in the sideways since the water is flooding the road as well.

5. Supir is not so important, unless you want to visit outskirt of Bandung, such as Tangkuban Perahu or Jakarta. Apart from that, you can always use Angkutan Kota (Angkot), which is quite reliable and cheap. Choose your hotel/motel properly, so that you can minimize the use of any transportation.

After coming back from Bandung

Few advices and as a remberance for all:
1. If you need to walk along their roads, do not walk by the side of the road. Angkot will honk you many times as asking either you need them or not. Walk a little bit deeper of the road, normally there are a pedestrian walkways there.

2. Their time is one hour late from Malaysia (if Malaysia jam 15.00, Indon jam 14.00). Their solat time also different from ours.

3. Most of the shop will close at 17.00 waktu Indon. Most Factory Outlets will close at 21.00. After that, only roadside stalls are open until 24.00 or 01.00.

4. They really proud of their teh. Normally, you will get teh o suam for free at almost any restaurant/stalls/etc. You can buy the same taste of teh in Teh Botol.

5. Durian is everywhere there. You can try the Ice cream Durian at any roadside stalls, it is refreshing and tasty. Kopi durian can be found at Blue Monster, a restaurant right in front of Rumah Mode FO.

6. Ayam kampung is a must try delicacies. Either fried or grilled, both will satisfy you.

7. The way people drive their cars there is very much different from here, so, do not rent a car. You might face difficulty. Traffic light is very few and rare.

8. People there, they love cheese and chocolate very much. I tried their mushroom soup, and it was full of cheese. I think i got enough cheese to last for many years now.

Anyway, it is a good experience and nice holiday for me. We found people from Malaysia here and there, and in the crowd of Indonesian, we proudly speak Malays like good friends.

:)

Propose Itenerary for 3day4night in Bandung:

Day 1: Arrival and check in at Royal Dago/Patra Jasa. Explore FO along Jalan Dago (Level, Edward Forrer, Blossom, Grande, Jetset, Glamour, etc). Take your lunch at Restoren Timbel or another restaurant. Dinner, you can try Amanda, they got a nice salad, and sandwiches.

Day 2: Explore Jalan Dago. Check out from hotel and take a cab to Hotel Cemerlang / Kenangan / Mutiara. Explore FO there (Heritage, Stamp etc).

Day 3: Suggest to spend whole day in Pasar Baru. You can find telekungs, chiffon, lace, and a lot more at a very cheap prize. You can have lunch at their Food Court, and try Nasi Timbel Complit. Very nice one. Pasar Baru close at 17.00. After that, you can take taxi, and go to Cihampelas Street. Alot of jeans there. The landmark is McDonalds, just beside Hotel Aston.

Day 4: in the morning, you can visit few FO. Then, check out and make your way to the airport.

By this way, you can travel by walk and do not need any supir, so can save up to 450k rupiah which u can use for more shopping. Check your receipt each time, few FO are giving out vouchers together with the receipt.

Do not afraid to ask around. You may find dificulties speaking their language, but they understand that your are foreigners.

Lastly, save up few rupiah for airport tax and cab's fare (normally cab's fare to the airport = 20k - 25k using meter and airport tax = 60k per person)

:)

AF week 5

Terlepas few minutes yang awal, bukak je tv nampak budak2 tu tgh dok berjoget2 sakan atas pentas. Okla, sempat aku dok makan kejap sambil jeling2..

1. Pengkritik jemputan Hetty Koes Endang tuu..tapi tak lalu tgk aksi manja AC melentok atas pentas yuckkss!!

2. Undian dibuka: Alif Stacy Riz Toi Nadia Stanly Saida Nubhan Rina. Alif 22% dan Rina 6%.

3. Lawak apa tu Lelaki Karan tu??

Alif
Baju lawo dah, tapi attitude tak cukup la dik. Bila Adam masuk jer, nampak sgt Alif very lack of rap attitude tu. Banyak words yang awal2 tu tertelan masuk perut, agaknya sbb nak concentrate dgn step nyanyian kot. Anyway, tarian backup dancer cantek sekali. Sharp dan gempak. Geram la AC ni sibuk je menyampuk si Hetty tgh komen! "Indonesia bisak! Jgn diam saja, goyangnya mana" Wahhh.. konsert ni akan lebih menarik nih!!

Stanly
Ciannya mak Stanly bagi ucapan sambil baring tu. Starting ok dah. Tapi Stanly selalu takleh control suara bila note tinggi. Penghayatan bagus, penyampaian pun bagus. Baju Stanly tu nampak tak sesuai sbb kaler tu menyebabkan Stanly nampak debab dan berat. Mungkin perlu beri suit dan kemeja sambil pegang bunga ok kot?? Yes ning, u point it right about the high note. Sweet la Hetty panggil Bu Kartini gitu heheh.. Eh Eh AC nampak sgt tinggi bila diri seblah Stanly.. baru perasan!

Nadia
Persembahan dia ni memang aku tunggu2. Dah la aku minat Kalis Rindu ni. Anyway, Nadia nampak berisi sgt dgn baju begitu. Tapi Nadia tak cukup attitude utk lagu macam stail mcm ni, kena lebih byk ekspresi lagi. Warawiri dr Hetty, tapi semuanya OK!

Rina
bajunya sgt tebal dan hebat! Wow Rina! Kawalan suara yg baik dgn interaksi yg bagus. Nasib baik AC jawab okeh, kalu tak wat malu je heheh. Betul kata hetty, ending nya tak nail la mama. Gonjreng!! (betulke aku eja tu?)

Iklan kejap yg AC jadik drebar bas tu heheh..

Toi
Lawak Padaiyappa la pulakk!! Ha nasib baik Sean yg real muncul jugak heheh tah apa2 tah.. Mengahnya Toi.. sampai aku yg tengok dan dengor pun rasa mengah gak. Toi nyanyi wordnya keluar sebijik2 tapi banyak tempat yang hancur, kerana note takleh sustain di tempat2 yang agak tinggi sikit. connection dgn penari latar ok, tapi dgn penonton tak de la pulak. Cap yg dipakai tu bila halfway dia bukak tu nampak lebih ok. Attitude dah ada cuma kurang sikit, probably sbb mcm Hetty cakap, terlalu menghafal lirik. Sean Kanna la plakkkk... iskk.. nalla!!

Saida
Dapat tengok kejap kak ogy berlakon dgn azmil citer apa tk ingat tajuk. Saida masih macam dulu gak, terlalu nampak ketakutan dan was2 dlm mata dan air mukanya. Probably sbb mata dia tak fokus pd 1 spot dan asyik terkelip2 dan mukanya nampak takut, bukannya sedih, which is the right mode for this song. Tak cukup umpph bila endingnya rasa macam tergapai2. Jiwa kacau betul, kan kak ogy kan? Yes Hetty point it truely right.

Nubhan
Seloka Bob dab Farah tu sungguh tak masuk akal. Nubhan ni nyanyi biasa2 je tapi confident level dia memang boleh dipuji. Gaya macam pro je dibantu baju yg ok dan vest pun cantik. Interaksi dgn penonton (at least penonton depan tv) memang superb, gaya badan pun memang the vast. Izwan pilus ke tu?? Ingat kan Hatta Dolmat tadi hehehe.. kak ogy kata Nubhan perlu merangsang sikit, Ning kata lenggang lenggok tu kena buang okeh! Hetty again said it all!!

Stacy
Lagu ni memang sangat susah nak nyanyi. 1. Attitude seksi 2. lagu rancak 3. tarian kena mantap. But Stacy manage to cater all area to make it a superb performance (kata kak ogy), meletop (kata ning), sudah siap menjadi superstar (kata bu hetty). You go girl! Goyangnya jgn ke depan tau, kena ke samping hehehe..!

Riz
Lawak dari Corrie tu okla jugak, memandangkan yg berlakon nya Corrie kan hehhe. Nak kena marah ni lompat dr stage ni, kan haritu Linda Jasmin dah marah tak kasik. Perghh takutnya aku tgk muka Riz. Well, aku tak familiar lagu ni so tak tahu sgt nak comment apart from mekapnya yg menakutkan dan bajunya yg terlalu sopan pulak utk lagu underground. Kalau pakai macam baju gitaris kat belakang tu pun cung jugak. Baju tu nampak feminin lah. U did it (kata kak ogy), u mesmerize us (kata ning), puas (kata bu hetty).

Yay! Rating aku utk persembahan konsert ke 5 ni, here goes:

1. Stacy
2. Rina
3. Stanly
4. Nadia
5. Riz
6. Alif
7. Toi
8. Nubhan
9. Saida

I don't like to watch tarian menuju puncak, so aku taknak review on that.

Well, nampak gayanya telahan aku betul bila aku put Saida's performance yg paling last sekali. Saida nampak gembira dapat keluar, probably dah rindu sgt dgn hubby dia kot. Dalam ucapan dia nampak lebih bersemangat dari masa dia nyanyi. Hmm.. like people said, dalam setandan buah, mesti ada yang komeng. So, label adik Siti is nothing ok!

for the rest, buat baik2 next week.

And tunggu next entry pasal Bandung pulak. Bandung, here i come!

Makan2..

Harini hari Sabtu. Since esok kami nak bertolak ke Bandung, so harini rasa macam nak masak2 dan nak ajak kawan2 makan. Tapi tak ajak datang rumah lah sebab aku nak clearkan rumah. Aku bawak makanan turun ke bawah aje, ke kedai Leha.

Apa yang aku masak tu yea?? ha ni tengok gambo dan cuba teka apa yang aku masak. Sapa dpr teka dengan betul,nanti aku belanja ice cream heheh..

ok..

Dapat teka tak??

yummy yummy!!

Rupiah...

Jumaat haritu aku sgt bz. Bukannya bz keje, keje tu ada sikit2 aje. Tapi bz menguruskan duit utk bawak ke Bandung. Oh ya, kami akan ke Bandung pd hari Ahad ni. Penerbangan dijangka sampai di sana pukul 12.40 tgh hari. Kami stay selama 5 hari di sana sehingga 24 April baru balik.

BTW, duit yg nak dibawak kesana nak kenalah tuka ke IDR, so aku pegi tukar kat Warta je sbb aku memang ingat ada money changer kat tepi CIMB dalam Warta tu. Masa pegi tu money changer tu tak bukak lagi. Alih2 adalaa sorang pakcik tu dalam 40an la kot aku belasah je panggil pakcik, rupa2nya dia baru balik dr Bandung dan nak jual balik balance IDR dia. So, since aku pun memang nak beli, so aku je dari dia 2.15 juta rupiah = 752.50 rm. So, lepas tu beriya pakcik tu story pasal Bandung kat aku. Aku pun apelagi, tadah ajelah.

Duit tu tak cukup, so aku tunggu gak la org money changer tu datang, dan beli lg 3.5 juta rupiah. So, all in all, aku bawak 5.65 juta lah duitnya. Pergh, terus jadi jutawan aku hehehhe..

ni gambo duit rupiah tu:
Semuanya tu 5.65 juta tuu..

Hmm.. nanti aku posting pasal Bandung plak yea.

Lega streamyx dah ok..

Leganya rasa streamyx rumah aku dah settle. Punyalah lama nak dapatkan technician TM datang dan baiki. Yelah, rosak dia mungkin minor je tapi manalah kita tahu, tambah2 husband aku yg bukan computer guy tuh.

dialog hubby dgn org TM:

hubby: Cuba ko check, apa masalah aku? aku ada hutang ke?
TM: takde lah ncik.
hubby: abih tu, apa pulak masalah ko? sampai nak masuk 10 hari tak boleh settle?
TM:*terkedu*

janji dia, technician nya akan dtg kol 9pagi. Okla takpela. Pastu sampai kol 1 lebih masih tak muncul. Kena sembur lagi. Last2 kol 3 lebih baru sampai. Muka dahla masam mencuka, agaknya kena sound ngan boss dia kot. Buat keje kat umah tak sampai 15 minit. haii.. tu pun payah sangat ke nak datang??

Terukla customer service TM nih!!

Sejuknyaaa....

Masih dalam sesi presentation student. Punyala sejuk bilik aku ni rasa beku urat saraf. Harini kami semua mood baik.. walaupun student tak semua boleh buat elok sistem mereka. Ada yang ok, ada yg hampeh, tapi hanya yang benar2 hampeh je kami fail kan. Yang so-so tu kami masih bagi chance, duduk kat belakang dan betulkan few functions - once dah ok, considered lulus.

Teringat zaman aku buat project final year masa belajar dulu. Punya lah takut sampai last minute pun masih betulkan slide presentation. Tapi masa tu takde lah macam sekarang ni, senang je simpan sistem dalam cd.. dulu terpaksa ambik masa sekerat hari nak burn sistem dalam cd. Beratur ambik no giliran lagi sbb cd burner nya ada 1 je untuk 1 fakulti dan sebesar 1 desktop pc tu aa. Melampau sekarang ni boleh simply write, delete, read kat CD sesuka hati kan..

Kemudian dulu manade CD sangat. Yang ada hanyalah floppy disk yang lembut tu sebesar half A4 paper. Nak bawak kemana2 pun kena hati2 takut terlipat ke apa nanti langsung takboleh pakai. those were the days.

anyway, harini dah selamat semuanya. Overall, from 2 session yang aku jaga, ada 7 student pass, 4 student fail (3 boleh remarking, 1 takboleh sbb outsource), 3 tak dtg langsung (takut gamaknya). Lega rasanya dah selesai tugas.

Pasnih nak concentrate utk tulih karangan rational kenapa aku layak utk further PhD aku. Hmmm... harap2 aku dapat convince top management that it is about my time to do it. Meantime, kena tgk2 jugak projek grant tu takut sangkut tak jalan pulak..

ok la, sambung next entry.

Streamyx problem...

Tension la talian streamyx kat rumah masih sangkut. Tak boleh access sbb katanya komputer cannot be reached. Ntah apa problemnya. Telefon TM dari hari Isnin, bawak sampai nak abis minggu pun masih tak solve lagi. Janji nya ada technician akan dtg tapi habuk pun tarak.

Dah le bayo tiap2 bulan tu RM77 tu, geram je rasa!!

Terpaksa la masuk dari opis je. Curi2 post entry sbb byk sgt keje.

Marking belum habis, 5S tengah menggempur, projek seed fund nak buat meeting asyik pospon je. Rationale utk permohonan PhD pun masih sangkut. Analysis Advisor-Advisee pun tak sort out lagi. Report projek 1 student pun masih belum baca.

warghhhh!! Rasa macam nak jadi hulk hogan!!

Pesta Buku pun dah nak habis. Sempat ke nak pegi nih?? Rasa macam tak sempat jer nih...!!

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Rumi ke Jawi

Ada 1 web yg menarik sangat sbb kita boleh tukar rumi ke jawi. Bagus bangat kalau2 tak tahu how to spell in jawi, boleh pegi sini untuk convert kan.

Have a look!!

Kakuro..

Currently i'm so in love with Kakuro. Game ni more or less like Sudoku tapi lebih mencabar sebab kita kena buat sedikit kira-kira (bukan ilmu hisab Sufiyah yea). Walaupun kena mengira, tapi nombor yang dikira ialah nombor sa dari 1 hingga 9 aje, dengan value minima ialah 3 (1 + 2) dan maksima ialah 45 (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9).

Ada nombor yg ada beberapa set penambahan seperti 8 (mungkin 1 + 2 + 5 atau 1 + 3 + 4) tapi beberapa set nombor memang mempunyai 1 set penambahan tertentu seperti 7 (1 + 2 + 4) dan 24 (7 + 8 + 9). Memang seronok bermain Kakuro!

Untuk pengalaman Kakuro anda, boleh pegi sini atau taip je kakuro puzzle dalam Google untuk dapat list web2 yg lain!!

Selamat ber Kakuro!!

AF oh AF..

Mana2 pun org citer pasal AF.. so, just nak buat beberapa significant comments aje lah..

1. Baju lufya tu amatlah buruk. Lebih kurang macam baju Princess Fiona bini Shrek masa dia jadi ogre gitu. Tak rock langsung malah tak sesuai langsung utk sebarang lagu.

2. Mama Rina Rawkssssss!!! Puas hati dan terhibur bangat!!

3. Sentuhan kecundang memang kecundang goes down the drain. Frust nak mampus aku dengar lagu yg sedap tu hancur berderai gitu.

4. Saida nyanyi memang takde gaya ella yg lentok2 mengada tak sedor diri tu. Tapi, muka Saida macam tu gak gayanya tak berubah2. Macam takut sesangat, yg heran tu, dari mula sampai abis lagu muka dia pesen tu gak. Rileks la sikit kakkk...

5. Nadia sang it sooo wellll!! Mood sedih dia sampai giler rasa mcm sayu sangat.. Stanly pun maybe faktor utama utk set kan mood tu. Memang menjadi lah!!

6. Nubhan mengunyah words dan langsung tak dengar apa dia cakap.. lirik pun tak hapal.. nak kena nih!!!

7. Pelesit kota benar2 menjadi cuma suara Stacy tak cukup rock. Tapi gaya dan attitude memang boleh puji terlompat2 gaya camtu is soo pelesittt. Boleh diterima dengan senang hati.

8. Stanly menghancurkan lagu yg sedap tu jadi tak sedap dan forgettable.

9. Tere main angklung maknanya takde lah tone deaf. Toi bawak lagu ni biasa2 aje sbb lagu ni pun tahap biasa2 aje rock nya. Aku memang tak suka lagu ni dari dulu pun.

10. Naim memang forgettable punya nyanyiannya. Kelaut menangkap ikan ke Naim?? Anyway, dia ni sgt pekat Peraknya tu so ada gak la connection ngan aku nih.. Perak rulezzz!!..

11. Lagu Aliff sangat berhantu dan sangat sedap. Evergreen gitu.. tapi memang Kamelia tu jadi macam kena marah pulak. Muka Aliff yg takde expression tu tiba2 expressi nya marah plak.. apeke hei nye yop!

12. Riz nampak lain sangat dengan fesyen rambut camtuh. Lagu dia bawak pun oklaa.. tidaklah hancur mcm faisal tu, tapi dia boleh go better so sedikit dissapointed la sbb dia tak all out gitu.

overall, memang rock ni utk org2 lama je. zaman2 dengar radio Pilihan Bersama dan dubb lagu dalam tape kosong. Itulah zaman rock yg kekal kapak!!