Zuma Beach 10 Jul 08

Finally swimming in the beach :)
Cooolllddd water... freezing fresh though :) and dont feel cold when ur coming out from the water... :)

Santa Monica Beach 1 July & Sunset Time in Moorpark 2 July

Went to to Santa Monica after lunch. Went around a bit in Promenade 39, just a bit shopping, then finally beach time.......was pretty hot weather hot sand and wide beach but cold water. :)

The next day after st. monica was shopping time in camarillo factory outlet, stuck in Puma store oeps... Bought bag and shoes, was expensive, but when i pay 50% discount... wooeeehoooeee.. was really tempted to buy another shoes... but nooo.. was cool classic white sport shoes with green stripes... :P

Was tired but walked around a bit in moorpark for sunset time... beautiful... i love moorpark :)

(to be continued...)

First Weekend... Ladies Day..Malibu and around 28 June 08

Our host family have a visit from her room mate like 20years ago, thanks to google? for that.. 

We had a long chit chat after breakfast, Saturday morning, getting to know each othere :) we then go out after that. Sharon took us to around Malibu. Otw there we stopped in Paramount movie ranch? Its between Malibu & San Fernando valley before we had a going around window shopping around Malibu and had Mexican lunch.

Otw back after lunch, we stopped in Neptune’s Net (heard that its too fast too furious movie filming location) This is one of places that Sharon always want to visit, and finally she did it with us and im very glad that we did. Tried local beer Anita had there, was good. This place like a bikers stops, big bikes parked there stop for beer and food and across that place is beach for surfing.

We went back home after Neptune’s Net, we stopped by the beach that I totally forget the name and where it was, I only remember we took different way otw home.

Arriving home Treeza & I (mostly Treeza actually :P) cook Indonesian food, chicken soto for dinner. Indonesian dinner in our first weekend, Sharon and Anita loved it, thanks Treeza for the great idea. Got to know each other more after dinner with wine and beer :P, sharing culture diference, love life (detail not for public consumption :P)

Was perfect relaxing ladies day…. Thank you for the great time ladies… :)

(to be continued…)

[Part 2] CS gathering Sambolo, Carita - 29 -30 Mar 08

Just foolin around with my Z3

[Part 1] CS gathering Sambolo, Carita - 29 -30 Mar 08

Like nasty nosty nonesee said, was fun fun fun, Quality proved to the quantity

Had a stomache prob and masuk angin (in wind haha) but was really FUN, got bday to celebrate, had arisan signing ceremony.. woehooeee visit asia 2009!! :P Banana boat was awesome.. Good food thanks to Yunie, mom MG also Nonesee…

Meeting new people was also unforgettable..

Lovely time guyzz.. thanks!!!!

For more & uncensored pics : http://picasaweb.google.com/haryani25/CSGatheringAnyer29March2008

Some comments posted after the gathering

Nonesee
Posted March 31st, 2008 - 3:15 am
It was FUN FUN FUN FUN
Quality proved to the quantity
Terima Kasih!

Maybe Yes Maybe NO
FUN FUN.....FUN-TASTIC ;)
Through all the surprize party, crazy banana boat, modelling on the beach, lunch by the sea, "sedang apa" games, getting more and more tanned skin, without brake comby, stopping in a nowhere area, etc, etc and again etc......
Tinggal pijet aja nih kayanya bakal perfect.....:)
Everything is FUNtastic.....
Tengkiu......

Yunie Bunie
Heyas All
Just want to say thanks for the great great and fun fun time for the gathering in Anyer...U GUYS ARE ROCKKKK!!!....lets keep the Groups on FIRE :) and keep in Touch:P
~~Cheers~~

Nonesee
anyone has Tiara Picture taking pee in tol way somewhere nowhere..yes, when u guys stop at those dark turn, dead gas station and etc etc
wud luvv to have'em

Nonesee
@may (be yes/not),
Jangan lupa after dark pee on the highway thing by tiara...we also had motorbike accident Gun and Melvyn, somewhere in dark winding road between anyer and jakarta
Thank God everybody is ok, the fun was worth to some scratches...
Just called Gun and he confirmed: all valuable things; bags and wallet, laptop, camera... are safe
And received new SMS from Melvy she was...asking for dance party tonite! told her: shes nuts!, but she said, need the dance, drink and drunk to get over the sore pain...
some people just cant get over the limit

Yunie bunie
hmmmm no one took tiara peeing pictures but ask BOXU...hehehehe he's the witness...ask him if he has that pic or hmmmm ( even he has im sure he wont share it to anybody but himself hahahaha)

Pange
Sorry Nance, the true is. Between Anyer to serang. When we riding via the shortcut road. And the accident, because melvine to much singing along the trip, and goen became not focus for his drive.. Hehehe..
But After, we arrived in serang. We were laughing when we talked about that experience.. Because, I don't know if they got accident. I just know, when i'm waiting 500 meter from the place. Someone was yelling at me and they said, " Mas, your friend just fall down...". If The man not yelling at me. So i wouldn't know if they got accident..
And After took a rest in Serang, we continue our trip to jakarta ( And Melvine still singing since serang till Tangerang.. HEhehehe )
All of the belongings and the bike are still safe, they only have scratch in their hand and leg. So thanks for your concern Nance..

Boksu
Melvyn n GUn, I am so sorry to heard about that, but thanks God everything's OK, oh Melvyn...you're a microphone abuser, make a rider feel holded by a killer behind hahahaha......next time if you wanna mess with Goen, please don't do that on the bike, just show me what you got in the Karaoke room.....OK?? what d'ya think about that? :)
Hahaha......Tiara, how much u can pay me? let's make a deal or I'll make a press conference about that pictures??!!! what do you think about that,Yanie?? are you agree??
...----->KIDDING<-----...
Boxu

Maybe Yes Maybe No
@ Nonesee and Yunie:
Wah, life seems so perfect for u...after massage and luluran. tukang pijet gw di pondok gede sih, jd nunggu weekend dulu baru bisa perfect. itu jg pegelnya udah dobel or triple kali, secara minggu ini kerjaan numpuk,,,hixxx :(
@ Gun and melvyn:
Sorry for the accident. yeah, u can tell to ur grand grand children later lah....>>>Singlish gw kumat
@Pange:
Woi, tetangga kampung gw lu ya... masih macet kah pondok gede sana??
@Boxu:
Sekali playboy, tetep playboy, hidup playboy.....
<<<<>>>>>
Nambah nih unforgettable experiencenya bwt gw:
>>>>> disuruh mimpin doa<<<<<<<<<<<<
ya ampyun booo....selama ini yang ada gw jadi setannya :P

Part 3 - Short getaway Pelabuhan Ratu 7 – 8 March 08 Beach hoping biatches :P lol

Woke up pretty early for Saturday (7.30) for we had some beaches to go!! :D Had some coffe, chit chat with or neighbours next to our room, refresh then ready for beaches.. woooeeehoooeee..

1. Cimaja
Only 5minutes walk from Pondok Kencana walked through the Didesa resort to go there. 2minutes away from this beach could hear the wave, and sounds like big wave.. boem boem.. OK, definitely NOT for swimming :) only for surfing there

2. Cibangban Beach
Then we continued to Cibangban beach, in front of the Kuda Laut resort. We went there by Fida’s car. It was 30minutes from Cimaja Beach. If you wanna go there, take angkot to cisolok then continued with Ojek (motor bike I think around Rp 10.000 from Cisolok)
Had a swim finally and body board for a while then just being lazy laying down by the beach. Had a shower and ready to go back to Jakarta for me and Tiara and to SUkabumi for the others.

3. Kebon Kelapa Beach
Stopped by the Kebon Kelapa Beach, near Karang Hawu (around 15 minutes from Cimaja, u can take angkot to go there)
Had our lunch there… hhmm lekker oncom!! :)

Sigh.. time to go home… had a gathering to go at Birdie… we are dropped at Cikembang bus station, took the same bus we took to Bogor, then we had toge goreng near the Bus station before we continued going by bus to Lebak bulus stopped at Cilandak then continue with angkot to Birdie (thanks to Fida for suggesting this way, fast way!!!)

The end of our short getaway… :( NEXT!!!!

Part 2 - Short getaway Pelabuhan Ratu 7 – 8 March 08 The Beaches

Woke up pretty early for Saturday (7.30) for we had some beaches to go!! :D Had some coffe, chit chat with or neighbours next to our room, refresh then ready for beaches.. woooeeehoooeee..

1. Cimaja
Only 5minutes walk from Pondok Kencana walked through the Didesa resort to go there. 2minutes away from this beach could hear the wave, and sounds like big wave.. boem boem.. OK, definitely NOT for swimming :) only for surfing there

2. Cibangban Beach
Then we continued to Cibangban beach, in front of the Kuda Laut resort. We went there by Fida’s car. It was 30minutes from Cimaja Beach. If you wanna go there, take angkot to cisolok then continued with Ojek (motor bike I think around Rp 10.000 from Cisolok)
Had a swim finally and body board for a while then just being lazy laying down by the beach. Had a shower and ready to go back to Jakarta for me and Tiara and to SUkabumi for the others.

3. Kebon Kelapa Beach
Stopped by the Kebon Kelapa Beach, near Karang Hawu (around 15 minutes from Cimaja, u can take angkot to go there)
Had our lunch there… hhmm lekker oncom!! :)

Sigh.. time to go home… had a gathering to go at Birdie… we are dropped at Cikembang bus station, took the same bus we took to Bogor, then we had toge goreng near the Bus station before we continued going by bus to Lebak bulus stopped at Cilandak then continue with angkot to Birdie (thanks to Fida for suggesting this way, fast way!!!)

The end of our short getaway… :( NEXT!!!!

Part 1 - Short getaway Pelabuhan Ratu 7 – 8 March 08

Thanks to Fida who gave the idea, and finally she stayed in Pelabuhan Ratu also waiting for me and Tiara who got there around 8pm, planned to go in Friday the morning but Thursday nite was stucked at Birdie till 2am and got home 3am after miskun.
SO, woke up pretty late Friday, called Tiara to ask if we’re still goin, yyyeeee whhyy noot??

Getting there

Jakarta - Bogor : Pakuan Express Train from Gambir Station Rp. 13.000 (almost every hour from 7 am to 6pm

Bogor station - bus terminal : Minibus (angkot) No. 03 Rp. 2000

Bogor - Pelabuhan Ratu : MGI Small bus AC Rp. 20.000 (morning - 6p)

Then Fida together with Yola, Eko and Nton picked us up near the Pl. Ratu bus terminal
Had dinner at MIrah Sari Restaurant then we drove around to find place to stay. First we stopped at Didesa Resort, ended up only seeing the beautiful room there, couldn’t afford it, the room rate was Rp. 430.000 for the deluxe room and Rp. 545.000 for the suite room. (sigh).

Soooo we went to the place across the didesa resort, Pondok Kencana (stayed there before in 2002), looked around all kind rooms they have there, , then we (heheheh me wanting to stay there) decided to stay there for a nite in 2 rooms in 1 villa for Rp. 105.000 per room / nite, had 2 rooms 1 extrabed.
Below link to Pondok Kencana website:
http://www.ombaktujuh.net/rates.php
http://www.ombaktujuh.net/facilities.php

Had some beer in the terrace, had some talks and laugh then sleep.

To be continued….

Bali Part 3 – Last 2 days…

Bali Part 3 – Last 2 days… 

17 Feb
Again, woke up late but again not too late for breakfast, Erna went shopping already. Went to rent bicycle for going to Seminyak, wanted to buy the batik belt and Kudeta. Sooo biking the shocking pink mini bike hahahahhaa to Seminyak after 1 beer break in seminyak but the shop was closed on Sunday  so continued to Kudeta, Oberoi Seminyak, some shopping stops for Erna :P
Kudeta nice place for Sunset, but too exclusive and didn’t feel homey there but it was nice to go there.

Went back to the hotel on the way back riding the bicycle suddenly BOOOMMMM… looked back to Erna hey what the hell was that??? Still riding my bike after few seconds I realized it was my bike’s tire!!! Hahahhahaha flat tire… wooowww and we were still far away… Oepssss…. Damn, again I feel overweight LOL last time went to bali also had a flat tire with motorbike  :’( arrgggghhh

Sooooo walked more than 1 hr with the bike went back to poppies.. straight to the Kubuku for beer o’clock. Erna finally drink some long island!! Hahahahaha. Freshen up, had shower then had dinner 3 of us + Anders, nice food!! Went to Kubuku AGAIN.. This is lollipop nite.. LOL hahahhaha

18 Feb

Our last day in Bali.. before going back to work the next day  Had our last breakfast in Kedin’s the packing and went to Nusa Dua with Iin and Patrick… Went to see the water blow spot… beautiful spot to see the power of water… as Aquarians… :P Strong wave hitting the big coral cliff.. beautiful.. I’ll upload the video soon hopefully…
Sitting down by the Nusa beach.. Reminiscing beautiful moments I had there b4 ;) Beautiful and quiet beach also… watch some surfing with the barrel?? Surfing, beautiful and dangerous sport, beautiful bodies ahhahahah dangerously cool.. LOL Anyway.. almost the end of our trip… 

Went back to Patrick’s place for shower and had sundanese dinner near the airport and finally time to say goodbye to Bali and also to Iin and Patrick who took us to the airport… !! :(

The end…

Bali Part 2 – Serangan Beach

16 Feb
Woke up early but as usual im the last one to wake up, Tiara already rent a car, I only woke up and ready to drive… hahahha
Went to Serangan Beach, first time Patrick said Serangan it sounds like serangin for me.. hahahaha Beautiful beach there.. its surfing spot. We were guided by Australian, we local guided by foreigner to find beautiful beach in our country… Had a jaffle for breakfast at the warung there then had some sun bathing, 1 hour and we were almost more than well done, almost crispy, it was pretty hot there…

Tried to paddle on the surf board :D:D:D:D yeeee finally!! Only paddling I know but finally im on the surf board. Hahhahaha. Patrick watch me paddling and called me to go back when im bit too far, he might be more worried about his surf board than me :P hahahah naaahhh .

Starbucks Kuta after Serangan beach then continued shopping in seminyak near double six.

Anyway… went back to hotel, took a shower and get ready for dinner and meet up with CS member we met at the last gathering, family from Belgium, traveling with 11 months son who are soo adorable. Had dinner at Kubuku with them and Anders then we continued to Sky Garden yee.. AGAIN!!! :P Dunno why I didn’t take picture at Kubuku also last time I went to Bali. This is the baby sitting nite :P hahahhaha baby sitting my soulmate, while another soulmate missing hahahhaha

To be continued…

Holidays Last Destination Bali 29 Oct - 4 Nov 2007 (part 2 : 2 Nov - 4 Nov)

Finally last destination, Bali!!!! :):D
Arrived there almost midnite.. on 29 Oct 07
We stayed in Puri Agung, here’s the link if you’re looking for budget accommodation in poppies lane 1:
http://www.baliblog.com/accommodation/accommodation-on-poppies-lane-i-kuta-bali.html
or
poppies lane 2:
http://www.baliblog.com/accommodation/accomodation-on-poppies-lane-ii-kuta-bali.html
starts Rp. 35.000/room.
2003 stayed in Palu’s place (poppies lane 2, nice hotel with swimming pool and ac, 2005 stayed in Mahendra in 2005. Puri Agung is nice hotel Rp. 65.000/room for 3 person include coffee and tea, across Taman Ayu same rate but with breakfast)

Day 5, Friday, 2 Nov
Got morning call from Artha. First time and last time I met him was in 2001 after that went to Bali 2 times but always we didn’t find good time to meet, finally the 3rd time I came there we meet again!!…
He called and said he’ll pick us up and take us around woehooeee!!! Out of Kuta again!!! :) He took us to uluwatu the temple, the cliff, then to Padang padang beach and GWK, the park with the statue of Wisnu one of the gods.
He took us back to poppies then picked up us again to go to Hu’u in Seminyak, I found the toilet there really cool hahha dunno, maybe cuz its green!! Hahaha
Artha came with Arva to pick us up hahahha also haven’t met this guy for a long time like him. Had fun, some laugh and catching up at Hu’u!!! :) too bad Aline couldn’t join for she’s still have the bali belly…

Day 6, Saturday, 3 Nov
Another wake up late day… ALine started to surf already while I woke up lunch time then getting ready for Hash run? First time.. was fun.. drink beer run and drink another beer, and they made any silly reason to make people drink more!! Hahahha.. I didn’t run though 100% walking in the rain :)
After that wasting another time in Kubuku, before got back to room for shower and play chest with the neighbour, one game is enough for me hahahhaha
We went to hhmmm d couple for late dinner and some wine with Iin and Patrick then back to our room for the last nite.. :(

Day 7, Sunday, 4 Nov
Woke up almost lunch time, went to have lunch with ALine and Alex then went around Legian before meeting Fred at the Kuta beach to catch up and say bye in the afternoon, last day… :( Went back to Puri Agung met hhmmm forgot their names but I met this spain couple in jakarta before, they relaxing in Bali after Papua and Bromo before going to Flores…
Back to the room, finalizing packing :( then had last big bottle of binteng at Kubuku!!! hahhahaha before we finally went to airport to go back to boring Jakarta :(

The end….

Holidays Last Destination Bali 29 Oct - 4 Nov 2007 (part 1: 29oct - 1 Nov)

Finally last destination, Bali!!!! :):D
Arrived there almost midnite.. on 29 Oct 07
We stayed in Puri Agung, here’s the link if you’re looking for budget accommodation in poppies lane 1:
http://www.baliblog.com/accommodation/accommodation-on-poppies-lane-i-kuta-bali.html
or
poppies lane 2:
http://www.baliblog.com/accommodation/accomodation-on-poppies-lane-ii-kuta-bali.html
starts Rp. 35.000/room.
2003 stayed in Palu’s place (poppies lane 2, nice hotel with swimming pool and ac, 2005 stayed in Mahendra in 2005. Puri Agung is nice hotel Rp. 65.000/room for 3 person include coffee and tea, across Taman Ayu same rate but with breakfast)

Day 1, Monday, 29 Oct
Put our stuff in our room in Puri Agung then the beer is calling us hahahahaha waiting for Dwi and Ben then we had late dinner (midnite!) at the sport bars some beer and played pool ended up sleeping at 5am.

Day 2, Tuesday, 30 Oct
Woke up pretty early before rond 10 :P Spent the whole day in Kuta beach till sunset… Met Oki who has been working there for 2weeks!! Dwi and Ben joined again… Beer by the beach while watching sunset, no way u can do that in Jakarta!!! Hahahhahaha
Dinner with Dwi, her last nite, thanks for the jungle juice!! :) planned to Bounty but changed to Skygarden instead after some pineapple fizz in Kubuku :P Went back to Puri agung to sleep, skipped Mbargo, indonesian has to pay to get in!!!! Whats that??? :P

Day 3, Wednesday, 31 Oct
Morning at Kuta, then again lunch at Warung indo like the day before. Was planning to go to the dreamland beach after lunch BUT, only Tiara can drive a motorbike, me?? I can drive straight only, and aline can drive turning left or right only hahahha good combination to the way to dreamland hahahahaha Lucky us, Fred would drive one us with motorbike, his gf with her motorbike but otw his motorbike had a flat tire, damn I felt like overweight hahahaha
Stayed at the dreamland till sunset and then back to poppies
Halloween nite but didn’t feel like party, stayed at Kubuku with Tiara, Craig and Leo, ALine went to party to ‘My Room’ with Paula and others.
Went to My Room after kubuku to make sure if Aline knows the way back, she did so went back to sleep. This was the “hey lovely…..*****” nite… LOL

Day 4, Thursday, 1 Nov
This is the start of waking up late…. :P
Another day at Kuta beach but later in the afternoon walking around Legian, windowshopping :P found cool green top but in doubt to buy it or not, not too cheap, not expensive though hahahhah
We went to Musro to see the hhmmm cabaret show? Im not sure what its called, but our friend Iin is one of the dancer, she’s made from plastic hahhahah great show!!
Iin joined us to poppies after the show, then we went to Kubuku (again) its kinda our meeting point (start drinking point :P). And went to sky garden (again) and Mbargo after, thanks to Mr. Bintang we, the local guest enter for free hahahahha weird weird weird…
Another fun nite… then zzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

To be continued

Holidays First destination Karimun Jawa - 27-28 Oct 07

Before I slept all the way to Semarang by train Friday nite at 19.00hr, the last time I woke up was Thursday morning = been having my eyes open for almost 36hrs!!!!!
Had Hoka2 Bento for dinner in the train (thanks to thoughtful and sweet Ms. T) then ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz like a dead man till we arrive in Semarang train station, waken up by the guy who screaming that we arrive in Semarang and he took the blanket!!!

Anyways.. that was how I started my holidays…

Arrived at Semarang train station at 4am, stayed at the train station had pop mie for breakfast then went to the Tanjung Mas port to take Kartini fast boat to Karimun Jawa. We left to Karimun at 9am and arrive there at 12.30, lunch time, great food!!! We stayed at Wisma Apung. So far we've been through 4 kind of transportation, the train, the becak, the speed boat and the fishin boat... :P

After lunch and some coffee, we went to Menjangan Besar island. Nice island BUT could have been more beautiful without the trash!! And the water on the sunset side was awful, looked like polluted by the shampoo, washing water… I didn’t go to cemara island unfortunately…

Back to wisma apung after sunset shower time then dinner, hhmm nasi uduk and grilled fish with sambal!!! Yummy yummy yummy…. Couldn’t have holidays without beer!!! Hahahaha was having some beer under full moon across where we were the wisma apung’s terrace with sea as your garden :)

The next day, we went to Menjangan Kecil island after breakfast. Beautiful little resort island (10 rooms only, 5 bungalow). We have to pay Rp. 10.000 to get in the island. My camera battery was empty :( didn’t take some picture of the island. I’ll probably take some pics from Ms. T and Ms. A to add it here.

Back to for lunch and prepare to leave, the boat leave to Semarang Tanjung mas port at 14.00 and we arrived in Semarang at 18.00hr. Sooo we missed the joglosemar shuttle bus we booked at 18.00hr and the next bus at 19.00hr was full :( But luckily we met nice and helpful couple from Jogja who went to karimun to who informed us how to get to Jogja by the public bus and we arrived in Jogja at 23.30hr.. Thanks guys!!!

To be continued….

Sepa Island, Thousand Island Jakarta - Company Outing 24-25 August 2007

The most and the only beautiful part of Jakarta i guess, Thousand Islands.

Was another fun and great with the adorable colleagues + the amazing boss :P hahah

for more pics:
http://fidaatje.multiply.com/photos/album/58/Sepa_islandouting_with_company_throwing_away_my_past

Gold Coast 5 July 2007 - Surfer Paradise the beach & Q1

Another lesson in the morning then we went to Surfers Paradise Beach, some shopping (NOT for me :P) then went up to Q1, another beautiful view from up there! We stopped by the main beach on the way to Surfers.

The day befere, 4 July took some pics in the Griffith University campus where the students had lessons then shopping time in Pacific fair (again NOT for me :p) Internet time for me, expensive internet :( Aus $ 6 per hour.

Gold Coast 1 - 2 Jul 2007 - Boat Trip & Surf Safety Lesson

Arrived in Gold Coast 1 July, the host family took me around after lunch.
The next day the students started the lesson and excursion. Went to the warm water swimming pool BUT didnt bring swimmers unfortunately :(
The safety lesson looked fun, they played some games too...

Pramuka Island - Thousand Island, Jakarta 30 Sep - 1 Oct

Finally!!! after years not going to thousand island, used to go there with my family in those younger years... :P
Im so glad to finally find less expensive trip, thanks to Frans!!! Went there with Tiara, Stian and Rainer then met new people joining the group, we all 11 people, nice friendly new people :D Carmen, Angel, Catie, Nicky, Christian, Pipit and Frans,
We had 2 days snorkling, good food, nice and clean ac accomodation beautiful view otw to the island (u wont feel 2,5 hours) and 1hr trip for snorklin was worth it, too bad we couldnt stop by the kuburan cina island for sunset cuz of a bit of strong wave.. sunset on the boat was also COOL!!
I really had a great and fun time!! another short but great getaway weekend!!!! Need a long holidays!!!! havent got a chance this year, i still have 12 off days

For more pics of this trip: http://efeks.multiply.com/photos/album/14

Visit here and msg frans if ur interested to have this wonderful trips: http://efeks.multiply.com