The Ending of 2011

Generally speaking, 2011 is good and sprinkled with chances to meet many good people. Celebrated this year birthday with my beloved friends, had great trip to awesome places in Indonesia and come closer to my awesome friends. I cannot be more grateful, can I? 


Oct 2011, the arranged-in-short-notice trip made it! Citra, Loon, Eddie and I went to Belitung, had such a wacky time and spent only $70 while we were in the island for FOUR days. Afterwards, Citra and I went to Bali where we met some couchsurfer fellows. (there will be pictures post on the trip) 


Dec 2011, sad (and happy too!) thing is I have to (not literally, unfortunatelly) wave goodbye to my friend Loon as she goes to Melbourne for school. This is also a statement that I fail to follow her path getting ADS scholarship, on my first try. "Don't give up!" she says, she's got the scholarship after the 3rd try, so I still got a chance! However it feels like NEXT YEAR is the most appropriate time to go back to school for me, and why?
1. Of course reunion with Loon in Melbourne.
2. I'm getting sick of secretary work, and its getting unhealthy as I sit long hours in front of PC
3. This brain is about to get numb, UPGRADE UPGRADE UPGRADE!
4. Social work is what I want to do (was planning to take Women Studies or Social Work).


The above list is in random order, just saying :P


December also means the due date of someone's Phd, and means he will come to see me soon! So lets enter 2012 with many wishes and plans. I'm planning for some Asia trips in 2012, perhaps Thai and Vietname. We'll see... 

Trip to Penajam and Batu Kajang - The Caves and Waterfalls (Part 2)

This is where Maliq saw "something" :D

Girls climbing up!

posed with the locals that helped us climbing up

pretty creepy eh 

our hands after climbing up and down, Erry literally crawled down lol look at her dirty hands! 

the boat trip to Mangkulangit, the cave

our little guide + cruiser, cute bros 

the bathing woman, I used to (have to) do it too when I was in West Kalimantan. However they have it better here, they have that toilet shack! 

Too bad the water was high, the cave was blocked by the water :(
We were actually at the mouth of the cave now

The Refugees! :P 

Next destination, next day... a waterfall which I don't the know the name :D 

a proud tree hugger :D

This is it! The waterfall haha, was disappointing. 

So we went to seek for another waterfall, which took a very very verrrryyyy long walk on not-so-good track, to no avail! No waterfall for us :( 

Last stop, the deer conservation. But I can't find the pictures of them now lol bad bad narcissistic people. 

I photograph this one :D 

I run out of pictures from this time around adventure with Maliq, Erry and Echa. Please look forward for the next trip to Belitong and Bali in October :)

Ciao

Marriage by Khalil Gibran

Then Almitra spoke again and said, 'And what of Marriage, master?'

And he answered saying:

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.

You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.

Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together, yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Khalil Gibran 


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Years ago I stopped to read this poem which was framed and hanging on the bathroom wall of a family my friends stayed with. The 21 years old me was attracted by the title. The now me, is trying to look for a soul to live it up! :D

New Eye

Lately I've been depending so much on my friends' cameras when it comes to immortalizing the moment we share. Just yesterday I looked for my pocket camera and saw that it's aging, the LCD turns black on the corners. It's time for a new one!

Been wanting a DSLR camera, but it is just too expensive, I most def can use the money to travel around and (if I can't drag one of the girls with me) have to take pictures through my cellphones or iPod. Now now, in my imagination about having DSLR I was thinking about a mixed baby of DSLR and polaroid :D 

Always like polaroid and dreaming of having one, it somehow reminds me of my childhood when we visited the museum and had our pictures taken by this guy with polaroid camera. Seeing him flapping the result to dry looked so cool! Anyway, now all I can do is using photoshop to make my picture looks like this hehe... 

statuses

I suppose I'm kinda back in writing, at least these short sentences that I use as my Facebook status, like them!

• I think I'm being in the wrong shoes, standing on the wrong angle, wrong coordinate, under the wrong sky or cloud or something. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I just want to fix this... getting this right but somehow I feel alienated. 

• Maybe someday in the future, in another life, love will be folded in much simpler way... painted with singular interpretation, sang in one key... but it would be less beautiful.

I guess my feelings show here, sometimes I wish there were easier ways to show them or to let him know my stories cos just like Brandi Carlile sings "these stories don't mean anything when you've got no one to tell them to".

Trip to Penajam and Batu Kajang - The Caves (Part 1)

waiting for the speedboat to cross over to Penajam 

after 15ish minutes boat ride we arrived in Penajam ^-^ 

waiting for Malik to get the rented car, finally got one for $50 a day excluding the gas... not bad they say 

our first bridge to cross over to go to Goa Tengkorak

Goa Tengkorak a.k.a Skull Cave, miniature of Toraja haha 

pose! 

presenting you... THE SKULLS!

this is how far I'd go near the skulls lol tempted to take them and pose tho :P

self explanatory! 

the second cave we visited was Loyang Cave which was full of vandalism :(

more vandalism :((

we went into the cave and climbed up to the top of the world! :D (still waiting for additional pictures on the climb up) 

this view worths the crazy climb up track

but this was not the way I climbed up hehehe 

my male model, but didn't get the copyright from the camera owner lol notice the copyright mark on the pic :P 

from mountain we went to the river to cool down, kweee!

on our way to hunt for different view of the mountain, with our local driver

you can't imagine how happy I was to dip my feet into the river, so fresh!

Malik was more even thrilled, now you can obviously see this

I was drop dead jealous he could swim, I didn't bring any clothes

to be continued.....