Indonesia
it was an eye opener to head over to Indonesia for a long weekend.
day 1: arrived at the Jakarta airport and straight to Bogor. Airport bus was relatively cheap (Rp20,000 per person - equivalent to around RM8.50). Have the first taste of Jakarta's notorious traffic jam to Bogor.
Reached Bogor around 4pm their time, took an Angkot to our destination only to find out that we took the wrong route. to make matter worse, their sunset starts at 5ish. by the time we reached our destination (Firman Guesthouse), it was dark, we were tired, hungry and conned.
Settled for some nasi goreng from their road side warong. Food was ok but i like the after dinner drink. Went to Bogor Trade Mall (closest shopping mall from our guesthouse- 5 mins walk) and decided to have a fruit juice. Ordered some drink called Jus Alpukat.. it's greenish with some brownish looking syrup.
yes yes, me and my 'adventure' with food. couldn't figure what it was, even asking them to show us the fruit doesn't help. (hint: scroll down to the end of the blog to find out what is an alpukat)
Day 2: was awoken by the morning prayers at bloody 4ish am (don't they sleep in?!?). yicks. i thought they would follow Malaysia's 5-ish am morning wake up call, which i thought is more humane and i do like malaysian's prayers, i can meditate along with it. for those who knows where i stay, you know how close the mosque is to my house, with its speakers facing directly to my bedroom window. i thought i'm pretty used to the prayers.. I was shocked out of the bed. not just 1, 2 or 3 mosques... but a total of 10 mosques all trying to outdo each other. they don't even have a standardised praying time.. the first mosques starts its prayer 2 mins before the last and each mosque will try to stretch a good 5 mins of prayers). argh....
.... to be continued later.
(answer: Alpukat is Avocado and the brownish lookish syrup is none other than chocolate syrup)
day 1: arrived at the Jakarta airport and straight to Bogor. Airport bus was relatively cheap (Rp20,000 per person - equivalent to around RM8.50). Have the first taste of Jakarta's notorious traffic jam to Bogor.
Reached Bogor around 4pm their time, took an Angkot to our destination only to find out that we took the wrong route. to make matter worse, their sunset starts at 5ish. by the time we reached our destination (Firman Guesthouse), it was dark, we were tired, hungry and conned.
Settled for some nasi goreng from their road side warong. Food was ok but i like the after dinner drink. Went to Bogor Trade Mall (closest shopping mall from our guesthouse- 5 mins walk) and decided to have a fruit juice. Ordered some drink called Jus Alpukat.. it's greenish with some brownish looking syrup.
yes yes, me and my 'adventure' with food. couldn't figure what it was, even asking them to show us the fruit doesn't help. (hint: scroll down to the end of the blog to find out what is an alpukat)
Day 2: was awoken by the morning prayers at bloody 4ish am (don't they sleep in?!?). yicks. i thought they would follow Malaysia's 5-ish am morning wake up call, which i thought is more humane and i do like malaysian's prayers, i can meditate along with it. for those who knows where i stay, you know how close the mosque is to my house, with its speakers facing directly to my bedroom window. i thought i'm pretty used to the prayers.. I was shocked out of the bed. not just 1, 2 or 3 mosques... but a total of 10 mosques all trying to outdo each other. they don't even have a standardised praying time.. the first mosques starts its prayer 2 mins before the last and each mosque will try to stretch a good 5 mins of prayers). argh....
.... to be continued later.
(answer: Alpukat is Avocado and the brownish lookish syrup is none other than chocolate syrup)
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