Bandung: Mission Accomplished!

Salam..

After all the challenges and huddles, my trip to bandung finally become a success. *yeay*. The initial plan was to go for a whole week, but as human beings who are under the control of Almighty, I have to shorten the trip to 3 days 2 nights despite having to leave my other girlfriends to spend their millions of rupiah exploring the city and outskirts of bandung for another few days (sila baca dengan nada yang jeles).

Not to mention, I leave for Bandung one day earlier than the others and I would say it was a challenge for myself to travel alone in a new country even just for a day. And I'm proud to tell you, I passed the challenge succesfully!

Passing through the immigration alone, riding a taxi to Hotel Cemerlang, where I spent my first night, walking from the Hotel to Pasar Baru, shopping in Pasar Baru alone and riding Angkutan from Pasar Baru back to the hotel. It was all a smooth success, Alhamdulillah. The important thing is, you have to always ask for the local people's help especially for directions and which angkutan to take. They are very helpful. Shopping inside the Pasar Baru itself, at every shop that I went, they were suprised seeing me alone by myself and some even care to give pieces of advice on how to take care of my bags and wallets. And luckily, I met honest people where there's one time I'm trying to take out seven pieces of 100,000 IDR notes for a shirt  priced 70,000 IDR. (Mind you, I'm trying to pay 10x the actual price). Alhamdulillah, the owner return me back the money and tell me which IDR notes I have to give to him. Then, another occasion at the food court, I'm giving 5,000 IDR for a meal cost 27,000 IDR (I've mistaken 5,000 to 50,000). See, I'm so bad at all these ribuan and jutaan rupiah T_T.

The next day, upon arrival of my friends, we went to Tangkuban Parahu, Sari Ater Hot Spring, Lembang Floating Market and checked in to Hotel Salon Fora. At night, continuing my shopping at Rumah Mode. On the last day, we went to shop for more telekung and kain pasang, Kartika Sari for some brownies and airport for sending me home.

There goes my short trip to Bandung, Overall. I have to say that I had a new kind of experience as I met and mingle with different kind of people especially in the flight sitting next to me and at the KLIA2, where I met an Indonesian footballer who requested to go with me to the immigration since he doesnt know the direction. *Actually, aku pn xtau tapi buat2 konfiden jek tau*.

Ok then, sekarang dah bleh start berangan untuk next trip yg xtau kat mana and bile. LOL

Spoken Word Poetry

Bismillahirrahmanirahim..

Today is the end of the CNY holiday and tomorrow I will be going back to class as usual.. However, compared to previous semesters, this semester is much more relaxing since in average, we've got like 2-4 hours of classes only.. And since I've finished taking all the 14 credit hours of electives last semester, this adds to the emptiness in the timetable slot.. Just imagine, last week I've no classes on Tuesday and Thursday! Oh, but of course, as a human, we (or is it I?) never feel grateful for what we have.. When you have too much classes, you might feel stressed but even with lack of classes, I tend to feel bored and also stressed since I dunno what to do during the free time.. Hehe..

Back to the topic, Spoken Word Poetry.. Last few days, I've encountered a video posted in Aiman Azlan's facebook about someone reading poem about "Hands". I don't really know whether the word "reading" is correct, since she's more like telling us a story but in the forms of poem. And that leads me to another video of her telling a poem entitled "If I Should Have A Daughter.."

Sarah Kay performing "Hands"

Honestly, I was captivated with her language, her self confidence and her way of expressing things that makes me want to google more about her (her name is Sarah Kay) and also about Spoken Word Poetry. Based from my 'on the surface' reading, spoken word poetry is basically not a traditional poem with a rhyme at the end of it, and it's more like expressing things in your own ways and it is performed in front of the audience, rather than writing it in a piece of paper. As Sarah Kay mentioned, "It is like when theater and poem gets together and gave birth to Spoken Word Poetry".

I really love the poem about the daughter and Hiroshima. I hope I can convey the message to my little girls in the future.. :P I guess now I've find a new interest, listening to Spoken Word Poetry. Hope it can brush up and improve my self confidence and also improve my English.

p/s: I'm trying a new thing for this semester by joining the futsal team for the Interbatch Sports Carnival.. Hopefully I won't be the cause for the team's failure.. Haven't started training yet, but I've started to jog (which I normally hates).. Wish us luck!

Sayonara!