The Trip...

So here I am, back in spore.. feel totally great, heavier and braver than ever.. =P

Surabaya was surprising.. I mean, I was really surprised by the extraordinarily dry and hot weather.. also surprised by the food which was excellent.. the trip was pretty much like my nowadays infrequent visit to hometown.. everything was so well-provided, from food to transportation to accommodation..

Speaking of being braver.. I survived staying alone in a pretty big-ass room for more than 10 nights and I am very proud of that..=P when the receptionist said “ur room is a business room, number blah3.. “ I was like “what?!? I’m gonna be alone in the room so I prefer a junior room, the standard one.. can u please exchange that for me ?” receptionist: “sorry, no, we ran out of junior room..”

I was very disappointed and scared.. but u know, it's kinda true actually when ppl say that the thought is always scarier than the reality? turned out, it wasn’t that bad afterall.. my imagination did run wild a couple of times at night but since I had been avoiding watching horror movies and listening to ghost stories… I was doing just fine in the end.. =P

We made visits to places like House of Sampoerna and the active volcano Mount Bromo; watched sunrise, climbed up to see the crater and me rode a horse (ehem).. bfore I went there, one of my colleagues warned me that it’s very cold up there, around 5 degrees C.. I didn’t totally believe that inside my heart (who knew there was such a cold place in Indonesia?) so I bravely went there with a thin scarf ard my neck and lecture-theatre-jacket, if u know what I mean.. Jan, from Bangkok did it even more bravely, by wearing only a t-shirt covered with a shirt.. and there we were, shaking like nobody’s business.. I could assure u it was definitely below 10 deg C… damn..

The Mud Volcano.. don't get the smiles in the pic wrong, we truly feel sorry about it..

Bromo

From Far..

What’s new is I’ve got my allergy back again.. since my colleague in SUB, Ida, brought us to drink in Shangri-La, right before heading to Bromo, very late at night.. I totally sensed I was so gonna get my allergy back.. we had very cold alcoholic beverages and since u bond with others easier under alcohol, ida and I drank, talked and laughed like.. a lot.. and we had to talk n laugh very loudly to keep up with the live band.. my throat was totally drained away.. and I cough for the next 1000 years.. damn..

many thanks to Ida for bringing us around!

Oops, didn't say a word about work.. work was good anyway.. Ciao... =P