Belitung Trip October 2011

AHOY!

Yay we arrived at the... ummm what-a-hard-name-to-remember airport!

I suspect this was after dinner, first night 

Going up and down 96 stairs for few days was awesome!
But had to do that cos the restaurant with amaaaaaazing food was up there.
Don't forget to order ice jeruk kunci, cold sweet lime drink 

Our $25 cottage was wonderful! Its called Bukit Berahu in Tanjung Binga.
Forever thankful to a couchsurfer who recommended it 

This is our cottage's front yard ;)

Cooperated Levitation >.<
Tanjung Kelayang Beach

The Swag

Loon (a nick name I gave her) is my fave person 

Loon is the bestest in making cute funny face
Starting our island hopping by torturing Patricks! 

There we were... arriving at Lengkuas island. This is the main attraction of the island hopping in Belitung.

Human scale :P

That was a tall tower we climbed up 

Dutch's "left-over" :P 

Yes, it was a prison

Looking out from the window, grasping for air too... its pretty hot inside 

Precious!

The lighthouse's light, wish we could be there at night and see how it works (if it still works). You could actually spend a night at the island and rent one of the creepy rooms. You know, OLD.
We should have pics of them somewhere. 

You can't help but to love this person, right? I heart you!
Pulau Burung a.k.a Bird Island, called so due to the shape of the rocks which look like  bird 

Finally the fantastic four (read: we had someone forced to be a photographer! Our boatman hehe) 

Neat spot to rest

Gross bisou de moi :D

Tanjung Tinggi beach 

My fave silly faces!

As if... right? :P 

Citra, the mostly-behind-the-scene girl 

Ballerina, Kung Fu Panda and Yogi 

Kissing the rock for Ruci who couldn't come along *grins* 

Posing with "I <3 before="" belitung="" font="" heading="" home="">

I Am... Water

Happy Thursday from me and Asterix

It's a holiday for Indonesians, a celebration day of Prophet Muhammad's birthday. Here me and my nephew saying happy Thursday ;)

The Messy Me and Goblin The Iguana

Special post for my sweet and kind friend :)

Erry Watie's and Elsa's Works from Various Trips

These are some pictures taken by my friends Erry and Elsa during our trips. Thanks a lot girls!

Climbing up the another cave and ended up here

Trying to get inside the Mangkulangit cave but the water was too high :(

Tree hugging!

Deer farm

Snorkeling at the ocean off Kakaban island

That is ...  the ancient lake of Kakaban island which is full of friendly jellyfish.
You can swim with them ^-^v

I don't know why I did this pose, guess I was bored

I'm quite well known as a beach jumper, my friend asks me to retired... he's getting sick of it 

Walking down Derawan island's street in style :P 

I umm miss umm my umm long umm curly hair :(

Its my fave!

At the mall 

Voila! A picture with Erry. I can't find one with Elsa

Office Outfit:: 16 January 2013

I'm the luckiest secretary in the whole world cos I can wear anything (sensible) to work! And this is what I wear today, something that looks nothing like officey :D

Gemini

I'm a Gemini, fighting the stereotype that I LOVE to talk about myself (not fair judging me from this blog as this is a one way communication, ok?). But this description suits Mr A so well. Ladies and gentlemen do not fall for someone who love to talk about themselves they forget to ask how you feel :)

Vietnam Plan 2013

I believe in "things will fall into their place" so coincidences are meant to be. You just don't know yet.

One day when I was hanging out with couchsurfers, my attention was drawn to the plan of two of them to go to Halong Bay. Little that I knew where that was. This is what I love about hanging out with them, you got to know new things, new places and new people. Vietnam, that's where Halong Bay is. I said to them I was interested in joining in.

So we tried to book the tickets on the spot through Airasia website, we planned to go via KL to Hanoi. The tickets were $90 return, that's the promotion ticket. Good news, I got that price. Bad news, the others didn't. Worse, later on they changed their mind about going.

I was kinda worried about have to go alone. But along with time and happenings, I become eager to start my solo trip. It is a bit risky to start with abroad trip to a country where not most of the locals speak English. But I am sure there are lots of couchsurfers and backpackers to support me :)

So right now I am super excited to prepare myself. This is my own adventure #1! Still need to get round tickets Balikpapan to KL tho, I am waiting for Airasia to lower down the price *crossing my fingers* or anyone wants to donate? Haha

Oh additional bad news, June, the picked date by my friends, is the monsoon season (what are the chances), a bad time to have a boat cruise to Halong Bay. Of course I didn't know this, right?!!

Anyway, that shouldn't stop me. There are alternatives and there is raincoat. Alternatively I will go to Sa Pa as my friend recommends, 8 hours away from Hanoi by train.

I'm excited about everything! Wish me luck! June is still months, I know :P

Asperger and Lying

Just the other day I put "I love you Asperger people!" status on Skype which led to a this convo:

Him: why do you love them?
Me: because they can't lie (as far as I know, yes they lack of the ability to lie)
Him: but there are people who don't lie too.
Me: however with those people you can't tell whether they lie or not.
Him: true, it means you don't trust people?
Me: I don't.
Him: lucky you, how could you do that?
Me: getting hurt makes you lose trust.
Him: well I was hurt, but when they say sorry I forgive them.
Me: not hurt enough.

Wow I sound so cold lol but that's the truth. Anyway I just googled some about Aspie (cute nickname eh) and lying, so Aspie are generally honest, but can learn to lie. Lying somehow becomes human tool of survival? Sad.

In reverse of Aspie learning to lie, since I experienced the horrible event of someone lying to me, I decided to have honest policy. I'm learning to not lie. It's not easy, esp. to parents haha.

May only honest people survive :)

Scary Teeth

Last Friday, Eddie and I went for a walk to the city park and beach after work as I felt like soaking the sun. We were walking along the beach with a plastic bag to pick up some plastic garbage when I looked down and found these scary thing. Teeth of unknown creature!

Momentum Lover

Just Leave!

Something to be considered, ladies and gentlemen... (although greed is such a big part of human kind, shame on you!) 

At The End of 2012

Writing becomes a reminder for me, since I tend to forget details or things I intend to forget but somehow far in the future it would be okay to be reminded...

This year has been interesting and yet hurtful, I have met wonderful people and I-thought-was-wonderful people. Although I don't want to address it this way, this year has been a time wasting on men :P 

Nevertheless, many lessons learnt. One thing to be grateful about! 

Looking at the trips I had this year and my post about my vision of 2012, I have to mfffftttt at both. Gone to Bali twice, with one GREAT disappointment (note to self: go travel with your friends or solo, only), had to go home early with a broken heart wasn't in my plan, but c'est la vie. It introduced me to human characters, someone else's and also mine. I like mine more now, in non narcissistic way. I umm just umm gained patience. 

During the healing time, I bumped into a book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green which helped and excited me a lot (regardless the cancer struggler topic, I wasn't wishing to die) since it got me thinking. One of my favorite quotes by John Green: 

"This world is not a wish-granting factory"

So I keep my wishes to myself, to be shred at the office shredder (oh I hate the noise), if only I could shred memories like papers. Conclusion is 2012 would be a year I'd skip from reminiscence.

Come faster 2013, I have many plans and hopes for you! 

Sketches

I guess I forget how to write ha ha... could I just post some of the sketches I made? Sure! (said myself)

I just added some ^-^