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Day 23 - Balikpapan, here i come..

Okay – day of ACTION.! Eid'l Fitr is Coming, so i got my self (temporary) going back home to my lovely city : Balikpapan for a week if i got lucky.. :D
Got up at some lazy hour and rendered the podcast, got to the Internet cafe at 7.30am and uploaded photos for forum, Got to bookshop at 9am and bought new Lovely Notepaper, Got to Gift store at 2pm and bought some gift for my family back home, aannddd got to the airport at 3pm and bought my ticket to fly home..

Jumped on the first transjogja bus to the airport (5.45pm) and ready to CROSSED THE EQUATOR.!! So I’m going back to the northern hemisphere : the island of Borneo..

Exciting.!!

Got to the airport in good time, 6pm..

Then…. Waited, and waited, and WAITED to get my check-in-ticket and get my luggage labeled..

It was 6.30pm before I got to plane.. And I pushed in.. I bribed a guy called Panji who was in the middle of the queue (rather than the end) with a Coca-Cola and he let me in.. Thanks Panji.!!
queue in Adisucipto airport, Jogjakarta. ^^
It was the old Lion air trick of employing just two guys with a stamp to process 200 people.. Urgh.! Entertainingly enough though, there were actually a person that carries a lot of luggage..i could say that the airplane wouldn't be able to taking off with that kind of luggage..seems like tons for me.. :p
arrived in Sepinggan Airport, Balikpapan. ^^
So I’m now in Balikpapan.. my parents pick me up, and we went home..

Day 12 - Am I Still Here.?

yap, as the title said i'm going to have a bit like 4 years living peacefully in Yogyakarta..
i got my "college" things in this city, so i'll spend more like 4 years to gain experiences in the major that i have chosen..Chemical Engineering to be said..

i will get busy on my "college things" in 31st august , which is 2 days from now..
so i got at least a couple days to get around sightseeing in this wonderful city, well i'm doing it right now..

the story begin early this morning :
I was planning to be at the Southern City Center first thing in the morning, but you know what I’m like by now and after going to sleep around 5am(after early breakfast or sahur), I had no real intentions of being up with the lark.. I got there about 11pm-ish only to discover that you can’t get a multiple-entry ticket for Sultan Palace which is located north of the southern city center.. Why I need a multiple-entry ticket is a story for another day, but it was a bit of a blow for the smooth journey sightseeing in this city..

but, today i got an appointment with my fellow JHS..together we'll held up an Open fasting (buka puasa :p) in pondok cabe resto.. which i didn't really understood about the name of the Restaurant related to menus they serve inside..the dishes quite soft to your tongue, and not much burning as the Pondok Cabe (House of Chilies) meant to be..

well, i've finished fulfilling my empty belly..and after some Late evening Prays, i got myself in the road towards Southern City Center, to see the real Saturday-night Situation where jogja's teens are on.. :p

The journey there was a bit "Complex".. I took the motorcycle across suburban to malioboro first, but the way that I took from the malioboro was kind of adventurous.. i went to a wrong entrance to the southern city center (because i not quite sure about the roads i just taken, I'M NEW HERE.!!) and by the time I FINALLY got there, it was already past 8.30pm.. If I missed out that city center because i didn't know the way to get there, i will pissed off for a week.!!

But it was okay – although I had to trek all the way up the suburbans area and get lost a few times to the proper entrance in order to visit the southern city center, I get there, I GET THERE.!!


This is where i'm actually spent my saturday night..
I spent an hour or so ambling around the Southern city center (I could never get bored of these things) and passed by a Tahu Tek street vendor.. I grabbed a bite to eat in this not-so-good-looking vendor.. it's really hard to find this kind-of-cuisine..took me for ever only to find it.. -_-'
but hey, eat in the road side gives a unique sensation of dining.. :)



finally i jumped my motorcycle back towards my place to write down things i had planned for tomorrow..


and on my way, i cross this "palace gate"..quite stunning seeing it for the first time.. :D

Day 2 - Paradise Lost

time to step foot in Sultan Palace (Keraton Jogja) in Alun-alun utara (northern city center).. I got the bus over there, taking much longer than I expected.. I arrived at after 10 minutes journey.. It’s Holiday – the day that friends warns you not to visit on due the Crowded condition..



This was the first pavillion i saw at the Kraton in Jogja.. The Kraton is the name of the palace where the Sultan of the region still lives with his family.. In true Indonesian fashion there was an admission fee and a camera fee for the front of the complex and also the back of the area.. It's really kind of a small walled city with 20,000 people living inside (most have something to do with court life).. the tour guide was the third generation of his family working there, and said he receives free housing while he works there..
Much of the Kraton consists of pavilions such as this one with roofs and no side walls.. This was a particularly beautiful one with a gold ceiling and lavish chandelier..

I looked at my watch.. It was 3.30pm.. Sulaiman sorted me out back to the Bus Station from the Sultan Palace(kraton Jogja) and then I had to get another bus back to the Dorm – Sun shine Brightly, and as a muslim i'm fasting, therefore thirst is the first thing came out of my mind after this "exhausting sightseeing"…I managed to get a bus back to Dorm..
for now, i had no idea where my friend will take me on tonight..

Day 2 - Vredeburg

So after a good night’s kip I had a the best part of a day to shake off my sleep after "Sahur".. The bus for Downtown, left at 7am.. I spent the day shuffling about, wondering why the sun had to be so bright in this "early morning".. At 6.30am I left my jacket behind in the The "dorm" as I departed for the Jogjakarta Mass Public Transport (Trans Jogja) bus station in Amplaz (Ambarukkmo Plaza), but returning ten minutes later as I had also left my mobile phone.. Which I needed.. Sulaiman rolled his eyes..

The plan is this: From Amplaz, buy a bus ticket for Rp 3.000, then head to Vredeburg Fort on the Downtown area and Visit a Museum built by Dutch.. then i catch another bus, and go for "Alun-alun" area which is my favorite because of the Keraton Building.. The downside was that taking the bus today meant missing the Prambanan's Culture Exhibition.. But as sulaiman pointed out, it should be an easy access to get it tomorrow..

I managed to cadge the back seats on the bus, which was great for the first couple of minutes as the bus wasn’t very full..

then i'm arrived in this Beautiful fort..named Vredeburg, after the colonization of dutch in jogjakarta..the shape of the fort actually better seen from above than from below, i got this photoshoot from google earth well as you entered the main gate and pays the tickets for Rp 2.000.. you can see how the Dutch's influence play a role in the shape of it's building..
built in 1760 as written on walls.. (as de facto) built by Dutch mayor Van Den Burg in the land owned by Kesultanan Jogjakarta (Islamic kingdom of jogjakarta)..
inside there were several old building, among them is the building for Leutenant, soldier barrack, Logistic Silo, Gunpowder warehouses, Hospital, and residence houses..this fort used to be guarded by 500 Town Watch, including Medics..

after a 3 hours of exhausting journey back in the year of 1760..my friend sulaiman told me to move on to the next destination, Alun alun utara (northern citycenter) ..