"Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is..."

“Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”



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PUNCLUT, BANDUNG - FEEL THE SENSATION FOR TASTING SUNDANESE FOOD IN A HILL (AVERAGE to EXPENSIVE PRICE)

Me again... I’ll do review again for the restaurant that I’ve visited last Friday (06/06/2014).

As we (me and classmates) did before, this journey held without planning, just wanna fill our empty stomach when it comes to lunch after took 60 mins essay exam.

After exam finished we did nothing except waiting in classroom for another plan. First we were planning to discuss our research but in the end we didn’t do it. When we were about to going to our own home, it’s interupted because we want to take a lunch together. Time goes fly, then we’ve another sudden planning.

“Let’s eat in the new place to search for new sensation.”  That’s the idea,  and Punclut becomes our destination.

Punclut is the place in Ciumbuleuit district, Bandung. The topography is the higher land than mostly places in Bandung (it’s a hill). This place nearby to Dago, and we headed to there with riding  motorbike, no one of the passangers who wear helmet, so like we did before we avoid main street and line on the little street.

The route is difficult enough, there’s a up-down-up street, not flat enough. I realized there’s no commute to there, we just have to use our own vehicle, ofcourse it must be in a good condition for adapting the bad road.

Finally after a while, we arrive in there, my friend (the chairman, Wimal, remember?) suggest us to ride down in front of “Warung Teh Ita 2” that’s the name of traditional restaurant that Wimal thought the Food is well enough. Ow okay we agreed.

The Address of Teh Ita

Warung Teh Ita 2

The interior of the restaurant not really different from the other shop beside, it’s standar when the Restaurant’s concept moslty used traditional Sundanese concept, wall from woven bamboo, no chair (lesehan) and have 2 floors, so we are  choosed in 2nd floor where we can see the whole view down there. I think when the night comes, I bet it will be a pretty scenery for Bandung Night’s View.

Lesehan means no chair

OK I'm a bad photographer with bad camera, trust me the real is more beautiful

Scenery from our seat

You can see Bandung's view here, unfortunately I couldn't catch it

Ah yes before we’re sitting in the 2nd floor we choosed the menu first. There’re lot of menus such as chicken, fish, tofu, tempeh, squid etc. We can choose one among of them then we said to the waitress if we want to make our dish grilled or fried. We can choose type of the rice too, the white rice or red rice. And we also can order different type of drink including coconut water with its coconut. Our team choosed our own menu and we prefer the red rice one. Then... We’re sitting in our place on the 2nd floor for waiting until the meals come.

Classmates : left-right (Indra, Wimal, Adel, Wati, That girl)

Classmates : left-right (Indra, Wimal, Adel, Gunawan, That girl)

This is the menu that come, I loved the menu and that sambal is sooo spicy!! OK, I couldn’t handle the spicy but I can ignore this sambal either, Sundanese food without sambal isn’t perfect. Um.. Sundanese people eat their meal with hand, but don’t worry you can ask for spoon if you need it.

Nasi Timbel Komplit

In the middle of eating time, there’s a livemusic around us, traditional Sundanese music that performed by a man and his Kecapi (name for Sundanese traditional instrument). We can give that man money for his songs and we can request the song too.

Ahh.. You know and I’d just know too if my friend’s appetite were big, including me. It’s because we put on another refill of rice in our plate after the first one is ‘gone’ LOL. But don’t you have to worry because the rice served in a big bowl from woven bamboo (we called it bakul). So you can put on the refill whenever you want.

OK that’s the eating time and now the paying time, you know, we were shocked because for the simply menus that we ordered it can say if the price is expensive, (um... average to expensive). For 6 of us we spent IDR.170.000,- it means almost IDR 30.000,- per person.

Bill and payment fee, expensive ="=

Then Ugun said “we are buying place and view in here, no wonder it’s getting expensive, so after eating don’t go home first, let’s enjoyed this time.” Ay ay Captain! We agreed and spent our time to take photos and do chit chat a while.. OK not only a while maybe for hours because we’re head down to our home around 4.PM LOL.

Whatever. Because it’s fun!! OK. Next time we will explore another places!! If you wanna try my adventure, just going there Kay? Bye, see yaa~

Intermezzo :

When we go home, Wimal forgot to take his belonging so we (I and him, because I’m the passanger) went back again to take it (actually it’s just a chips, precious chips for Wimal’s sister), fortunately the employees keep that and handed to us. So kind. Thank You Teh Ita 2.

PS with love :

Warning !!! Please notice, English wasn’t my first language! I’m Indonesian, but idk, somehow I just comfort to write in English eventhough it was this messy, just like this post. OK there.. see yaa :)

BANDUNG SISTER CITY : HAMAMATSU CITY, SHIZUOKA PREFECTURE JAPAN

Sister city,what is that?

Last time I read.. Sister city is a program between two cities that has similarity in one or two aspects, the program build in the form of an agreement between that cities to help each other, more over to promote their city.

Bandung, my home town have an agreement in the form of sister city with several cities such as Cebu (Philippines), Fort Worth (United States), Suwon (South Korea), Bari (Italy), Hangzhou, Liuzhou and Yingkou (People's Republic of China), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Braunschweig (Germany), Kuantan, Petaling Jaya, and Seremban (Malaysia), and Pekanbaru (Indonesia).

Eh??? There is no Hamamatsu City isn’t there? But how can I write that as a tittle?

Well, I will say you.

Bandung City - Indonesia

Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka, Japan

Bandung-Hamamatsu Festival

Long time ago in 2009, I ever atended a Japanese festival in Cihampelas Walk. And the tittle is Bandung-Hamamatsu Festival. My friend, Andra (she’s a Bandung Institute of Technology student at back then) becomes MC because she’s fluent both in English and Japanese.

The festival held in the end of 2009, there’s so many dresser (cosplayer) that wear Japanese Anime Character, Japanese Style and Japanese Traditional clothing. I did. I wear a dress. it’s a gothic-lolita style.

Me. The back only. LOL

OK, now you can recognise where is the weird author there.

And we have guests from Hamamatsu, they performed a traditional Dance (odori) from Hamamatsu. Then the Japanese also opened many stand for Japanese food such as Takoyaki booth (Takoyaki – octopus ball cake that grilled), Okonamiyaki (snack in the form of cake that made from flour and vegetables that mayonaised and special sauced), and also cotton candy stand. I love them all!!! xD

The guy with white shirt. I thought he's a Japanese from Hamamtsu (if I didn't wrong)

Cotton Candy Stand!!

Sister City?

Ok, back to sister city, Umm.. about the event, I don’t know about that event, but someone told me if Bandung-Hamamatsu has a sister city agreement. I got it at that time so this is the event to celebrate their sister city. Ironically, I'd just ever read if sister city agreement just made in 2011. Eh??? I didn’t know about that. So what’s the festival that held in 2009 back then? Then I just thought maybe that festival is one of the ways when this both cities starting to probe each other to create that sister city agreement.

The similarity between Hamamatsu and Bandung claimed as the city which becomes industry center, there’re so many factories in Hamamatsu so do with Bandung, Hamamatsu becomes destination for workers so do with Bandung, Hamamatsu has festival traditional or various events so do with Bandung. So maybe that’s the similarity. 

OMG I forgot, how can I forgot the location, Hamamatsu city is the part of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, whilst Bandung city is the capital city of West Java, Indonesia. From the topography Hamamatsu and Bandung maybe have similarity, from it’s contur, and the situation of the city (maybe). 

In 2011 Hamamatsu even ever helped Bandung for an environmental event. So in this 2014, idk if Hamamatsu still becomes Bandung Sister City or not, but I thought it’s still. Well I don’t know, but I glad if Bandung has lot of sister cities that can help for Bandung’s promotion, moreover, I love if there’s a city in Japan that becomes Bandung Sister City. :)

Ok, you can search the information of those cities by your self. Here are :

Bandung City, West Java, Indonesia 

Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka, Japan 

EXPLORING THE GEOLOGY MUSEUM, BANDUNG

Hi, It’s me again... Um... where should I start?

Um... OK. Here I go..

This is starting after we fulfilled our hungry passion for lunch. OK I exaggerated. I mean, I and my classmates went to Ramen Shop for eating Ramen for lunch. That post could be read here : Jigoku Ramen

After that we still wanna hang out around our lovely Bandung. And it has been decided if we will go to Taman Lansia (Lansia Park), a city park near Gedung Sate (Iconic Building for West Java Government).

We are. Youngster that reckless and stubborn. To reach our destination (Taman Lansia) from Ramen Shop, we ride motorcycle. We only have 2 people that have motorcycle, so we’re splitted. Ugun+Wati, Wimal+Adel+Me. Can you imagined how that condition was?? We really abandoned police’s rule, moreover the passenger, the girls (not the driver) ride that without helmet! OMG please don’t follow our bad act.T_T

Fortunately we are follow the little street for avoid the main street, but there’s a bad news, wanna or not, we have to riding on next main street to reach our destination. And we’re panicking when we saw a police in that road. Finally, the passenger ride down and we are, the girls walk away, just for safety and we don’t want to be a bad guys.. *cough*angel imitated here*cough* 

When we’re dicussing about how to reach our desination withour riding motorcycles then I suggest Adel+ Wati to use commute, it’s because I’m the real commuter, so I’m OK with that thing. I said if the route will passed Geology Museum which is infront of the Taman Lansia, but then suddenly Adel said we are better go to Museum than to the Park. OK. It decided, we agreed!! We communicate the boys via wh*tsapp to change destination, the boys agree and they will buy the ticket if they arrive there at first.

And somehow we’re remembering Septa, another girls in the class. She isn’t with us because she has a TOEFL exam schedule, unfortunately when we said this sudden plan to Septa, she  already went home... Auw.. Next time we should go together then.. :( 

After a while.. there we are!!! A museum? Ticket were bought by us for IDR.2000,-/person.

A ticket for entering Geology Museum Bandung

I couldn’t believe it, finally I step my feet again on here after years skipped. 

Last time I visited this museum when I was a Junior High.

We are,um.. I mean.. me.. I am really excited!!!

First we enter museum, we cursed ourselves which visited this museum on the Saturday when the visitor arised in great numbers, mostly junior high and we arrive at 12.30 that mean we only have 1.30 hours before the museum closed at 2.00.

Geology Museum (c) on photo

But it was OK. I don’t wanna lose this chance. And here we go again, we explore this museum. First we heading to 2nd floor where it’s about mineral knowledge and natural disaster explanation that caused by geological thing. In the part about Mineral and Mining we could see various of gemstones!! So beautiful! ruby, saphire, jade etc.. OMG I wan’t it all!! Can I have them all??? LOL

Then we learn (sounds like a class) about hydrocarbon (oil) and another mineral, we know about the various stone that used along in the history, accessories from the past, various ores etc. In the Natural Disaster section we learn about mount eruption, tsunami even earthquake!!

A little interesting story about earthquake, there’s a simulator for earthquake based on measurement of its earthquake scale. I dont know how the Richter was, it just written model 1 and model 2. We are (the girls) esp Adel want to try that, but the queue is long, all of ‘em is the jr.high. Ow please I’m an adult how can I fight with the kids so I can use that tool, but in the other side maybe I can used this seniority to expelled them away? *smirk* ahahaha I’m joking of course we didn’t do that. 

Fortunately there’s anouncement if the Jr students have to go to 1st floor. Yeay!!! Finally we tried that simulator with model 2, and it success make us dizzy. The shake was strong enough.

Therefor, we go down to 1st floor, there are many specimens of fossil. Mammoth, Dinosaur, something like Buffalo, and primordial man were there, even we could see clams shell, and fossil of trees. It’s amazing!

But you know what is the more amazing?

Yes! Exactly! We took our photos almost in front of the specimen that we thought it is cool xD. We saw a father who posed in front of mammoth with weird pose, we laugh at him, but we imitated him in the end. LOL.

Full members in Geology Museum Expedition in front of Mammoth Fossil, Meet the team : Ugun-Adel-Wati-that girl-Wimal

This ‘taking-a-picture’ time continuing even until we exit from the museum, because in the outside of the museum we still found the interesting objects (rock/stone, sarcophagus etc) and even the beauty of that museum it self is an elegant object. It’s because Geology Museum’s building architechture is made from the Netherland Era in Indonesia, it has an Europe Style :)

We only consist of 5 people, so if we wanna our members complete in a photo, we asked a stranger to take the picture for us. Whatsoever because it was FUN!!

see the back? it isn't only us who's taking a picture xD

guys... don't hugging like that, it's only stone! it shown if we're the real LDR victim :(

nice Europe Style building

meet my another friend he is T. from Tyranosaurus Rex

it's lovely T again :*

And we share our pics on group (in order to save the complete pic by ourselves) but it made Kang Suryo (another classmate) shocked. He said we’re strange younger in this era for liking to hang out to the Museum.LOL.

We are hippies?? Um.. ofcourse not!! We are not that kind of oldies!! xD

Once again whatever... people might be think person who visit museum is nerd. But I don’t care, we’re found it interesting anyway!

Another museum??? We aren't hesitate to discover it later!!!

Bye~ Bye~

that girl is this weird author. I didn't close with her tbh. note : she imitated the weird father's pose before

More info about Geology Museum, Bandung. Here :

History of Geology Museum Bandung 

One of Review of Geology Museum, Bandung 

PS with love :

Warning !!!

Please notice, English wasn’t my first language! I’m Indonesian, but idk, somehow I just comfort to write in English eventhough it was this messy, just like this post. OK there.. see yaa :)