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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Beautiful World

LisaDidien Sunday, February 24, 2013 0 Comments

" It rained heavily...it's just out of my expectation. I hoped rain will stop soon because I had wonderful plan this Sunday morning..."

Yes, it's kind of enlightment! haha, not really...just a strong willing to do swimming in Sunday morning.

At Saturday night, I had a promise to myself, "I must start swimming again!".

Actually, my best friends asked to go swimming with them in Jakarta, but I thought this weekend, I just want to stay at home, at Bogor. So, I went to swim by myself. It's been so long that I haven't swam anymore....missing it a lot.

Fortunatelly, the rain stopped on time. I felt so glad. I went to the swimming pool of Braja Mustika Hotel, Bogor, happily. I didn't remember when exactly the last time I went there. That time, my friends at office and their little kids asked me to swim with them there. That's the first time I knew this place.

Do you know why I chose to swim to this place today? because I needed real relaxation and this swimming pool is the perfect place for me. It's not too crowded here, just one or two families wiht little kids. So, I felt like at my private pool. Also, the view...around the pool and the hotel is so beautiful! it's so natural and green! Let me describe it....

It's downside part land of the hotel area....the water of the pool is so blue.

I might see many trees and shrubs around the pool.
There's one three that really catched my eyes.

It's like an older trees than others.

It just like that the trees has soul that powerfully influences all around it.

It like....the new wolrd is created.

I could see the small leaves was falling down from the branches....many, altogether.

Maybe Kersen/Talok/Muntingia calibura tree, which is smaller than that tree, had the same thought like me, or maybe knows that tree better because the Kersen tree stands infront of the old tree everyday, 24 hours.

The small birds had no hesitation to drop by to each branch of that old tree....singing or getting along with another small bird.
Faraway behind the the tree...I could see the small waterfall. A kind of awesome vertical movement in that green land.

Oh....I saw some butterflies also....the yellow, brown, and white. They was dancing in the air peacefully.
When I was swimming with backstroke wimming style, I could see the sky a bit grey mix with white and light blue. The sun appeared so shy..halfly hiding behind the clouds

Oh wow! experiencing all this things was like living in a beautiful world.
Georgeous!
The most important one is....I felt sexier and five years younger after swimming,hahaha....
What a beautiful world, indeed :)

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Blue Paradise: Karimunjawa

LisaDidien Sunday, April 08, 2012 0 Comments

It’s about ocean, sand, islands. It’s all mixed together with in the frame of beauty.

It’s one of unforgetable time for me. It was 2 years ago. It’s a holiday to islands called Karimunjawa. These islands are situated on Java Ocean, at the north of Jepara, a town in Central Java, Indonesia. There are 27 islands. 5 of them had people who live in.

I went to Karimunjawa Islands with 5 best friends of mine. Friend of mine already had a man to arrange our trip. The first thing I see was the harbour of Jepara, a town in north of Central Java, where I took the ship to karimunjawa Islands.

After arriving there, we were picked up by a car. Then I and friends had lunch and drink in one of villager’s house. We stayed there for 3 nights.

Everyday, we went to the ocean by a small boat. There were some people in a group who also joined the trip and two or three villagers who guided us. Those villagers were really good at diving. It was amazed us that they could dive without any particular things. Even, one of them show me a google he always wear when diving….and it was made of wood and glasses by his own hands. So cool!

We did snorkeling for hours all day long. We could see the terumbu karang in the depth of the ocean. So amazing!

We also did Island Hoping. It means we went from island to another island by boat, then stayed few moments at each island. We visited Menjangan Besar, Menjangan Kecil , Pulau Kecil , Pulau Tengah , Gosong Seloka , Gleyang , Cemara Besar , Cemara Kecil. At one island of them, our guide was letting us watch them to grill the fish with the traditional way, on fire of burned woods. Some of fishes were red and green. After that, we had lunch with rice and grilled fish. Yummy!

Other activity that we did there was swimming with sharks. At the beginning, it’s a bit scary for me but I challenged myself to do that and I did it! Yippie! Although it’s just happened for few moments, I felt glad that they didn’t bite me.

Anyway, as I remember, I saw some beautiful animals here that I used to see in magazine of TV. I really saw Nemo infront of me. We catched it, put it in a plastic glass, then let it go. Of course, I saw many colourful fishes when I was snorkeling. Another unique fish that I saw was ikan buntal. On the white sand of the beach, I found many houses of dead animal (I think they were kind of siput), It had nice flowery shape that made me imagine to make necklace or earings.

When we were not at the sea, we were hanging around to the neighborhood of the village. There is small field as the centre of the village. This is used as public open space. In the afternoon, they were few warungs of villagers that sold food and drink, in example: bakso, siomay, gorengan, tea, coffee. Villagers and guesses enjoyed their relaxing time there.

In one morning, we went walking to dermaga to see sunrise then watching the activities of fishermen who just arrived and brought the fish out of the ships. We also watched the interactions between fish sellers with the customers at harbour. In a field near the harbour, we saw some people dried the fish under the sun.

Anyway, do u know what we ate everyday? Fishes as the main menu. Friends found it so boring to have fish everyday. Some of them said they missed other food, in example fried chicken, a lot.

Well, it’s time for me to leave on the fourth day. That day, we were awaked in hurry in the morning because we had to catch the ship to go back to Jepara on time. Good bye, Karimunjawa…keep your natural beauty completely and stay charming with the friendly touch of people there…what a sweet memory!

Monday, August 1, 2011

Go Abroad: I Love Berlin (2)

LisaDidien Monday, August 01, 2011 0 Comments

Since long time ago, I have a dream to travel around the world. Well, maybe it's too much but at least, I've been abroad now,hehe.

Berlin is the first city in Europe that I visited. I'm lucky one because parents asked me to go with them visiting my sister. My parents were there for 5 weeks but I and my sister were there for only 2 weeks.

I found many interesting and wonderful things when I was staying in Berlin. I found Berlin as clean city with good sistematic transportation. I enjoyed going to one spot to another spot with U-Bahnhof, S-Bahnhof, tramp, or bus (sometimes) as public transportation. It's so different from Indonesia. I almost haven't found those public transportation was so full with persons inside,hehe. I saw many great buildings here, public facilities, signages, and street furnitures in all streets. I experienced to walk a lot among people in fast way. I wasn't used to, but I tried to enjoy it.

I visited some places here for two weeks:

15 May 2011: Bradenburger Tor, Reichstag, World Clock, East Side Gallery, & Potsdamer Plat

Left to right: Bradenburger Tor, Reichstag

Left to Right: World Clock, East Side Gallery

Let to Right: Potsdamer Plat

21 May 2011: Mama Yes, Prenzlauerberg

Rice Queen Restaurant

Rice Queen Restaurant (find delicious Indonesian food here! hehe)

Touring on Spree River by Boat

Beautiful Spree River!

22 May 2011: Luisenplatz, Park Sanssouci, historische Mühle, Hollandische Viertel, Potsdam

Left to Right: Welcome Gate in Potsdam, Park Sanssouci (Postdam)

Hollandische Viertel (Potsdam)

Well, although I enjoyed being in Berlin, the adaptation needed to the weather. It's cold there. Even when the sunshined, we could feel the cool wind touched our skin. Our skin became dry! This condition made my parents could stand to say "We wanna go home!",hehehe. Next time, we need to bring something i.e. a kind of cosmetique for skin, especially for face, that could solve our dry skin.

For all those things, the most special thing is that I finally met my love face to face here. Really miss that moment, hope we meet soon...love and miss him.

Fantastic journey! thanx to my family :)

So, I'm looking forward to going abroad next time in my future. It's gonna be more amazing journey :).

Monday, November 15, 2010

Turkish and Dutch

LisaDidien Monday, November 15, 2010 0 Comments

It's about my weekend two weeks ago.
It's Jakarta again! hahaha...but this time, I did plan my weekend in Jakarta because I wanted to watch some movies on Eurpean One Screen (EOS)

What is Europe On Screen?
I think it's one Europe event in Indonesia of film screenings and fringe events.
I was interested in watching the movies. Before, I had read the schedules so I knew what were all the movies that I could watch on Sunday, September 7th, 2010. I and my friend chose a Turkey movie which would be played in Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Jl. HOS Cokroaminoto 117, Menteng, Jakarta. This is the movie:

It's a story about the love between a woman and a deaf man. Actually, it's an interesting story, but unfortunately, there's a problem technically, so there's no English subtitles on the screen. That made the moviegoer felt dissapointed and left the room. I and my friend also felt dissapointed but we chose to stay although we actually didn't understand the Turkish in the movie...we were just guessing what was happened in the movie from the body language,hehehe.

After the movie was ended, I and my friend went to pray Dhuhur in Masjid Sunda Kelapa. It's a big masjid and it's the first time for me to go to this masjid.

Next, we decided to watch another movie from Netherland which was also played in Istituto Italiano di Cultura. This is the movie :

This is a documentary movie. The director, John Appel, was telling us about his father who was a successful gambler. I found it as an interesting movie. I tried to listen carefully to the Dutch they spoke in the movie but for me, it was a difficult language. Well, I need to have a strong will to learn this language and I know I can do this,hehehe.

well, what's my plan next week?just wait :)

Sunday, October 31, 2010

My Weekend in Jakarta

LisaDidien Sunday, October 31, 2010 0 Comments

Well, I should say that this was actually not my plan to spend my weekend in Jakarta. Tidung Island, one of Island in Seribu Island, was actually the plan. I and two of my friends decided not to go to Tidung because of the bad weather...but some of my friends were still go there. They're lucky, I think. :p

Instead of going to Tidung, my friend's aunt ask me to go with her and her husband to a market near their house. It's called Muara Karang Market. I felt so amazed to see this market. Many Chinese here. I think, it's one of 'Pecinan'.

In Saturday afternoon, I and my friends was so confused to find good place to go for hanging out in Jakarta. Then one of my friend phoned her boyfriend. Fortunately, her boyfriend had an idea...we were going to go to Taman Ismail Marzuki to watch the show in Planetarium and a monologue "Kucing" by Butet Kertaradjasa. :)

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Welcome to The Palace ;)

LisaDidien Thursday, June 17, 2010 0 Comments

June 18th, 2010

Kemarin, saya dan teman saya, Anggito, menyempatkan diri untuk mengikuti "Touring Istana Bogor", sebuah acara open house yang diadakan oleh pihak Istana Bogor dalam rangka ulang tahun Kota Bogor yang ke-528 tahun. Kami berdua sudah mendengar perihal acara open house ini sejak lama tapi belum juga beranjak mendaftar....jadi, kami pun berangkat di hari terakhir setelah mendapat informasi dari teman kos Anggit.

Sekitar jam 8 pagi, kami bertolak dari kos Anggit diantar oleh Deden, motor setia saya. Tujuan pertama kami adalah gedung DPRD Bogor sebagai tempat pendaftaran peserta tour. Setelah sampai disana dan memarkir motor, kami segera mendaftarkan diri ke panitia, yang duduk di balik meja berselimutkan kain putih. Sang panitia memberi kami tiket masuk, sebuah kertas kecil hijau (berukuran sekitar 5 cm x 8 cm, mirip tiket parkir) yangdiantaranya bertuliskan jam-jam kunjungan ke istana. Kemudian, ibu panitia menginformasikan kepada kami untuk menuju ke panitia berikutnya untuk mendapatkan stempel tanda masuk di tangan kami (seperti prosedur masuk dunia fantasi, Jakarta saja ya,hehehe). Langkah berikutnya adalah menitipkan tas kami di kantor Dinas Pariwisata dan Budaya. Tentu saja, dompet dan mobile phone tidak kami tinggalkan di dalam tas tetapi kami bawa menuju istana.

Proses pendaftaran telah selesai dan tidak memakan waktu yang sangat lama. Selanjutnya kami berdua bersama para peserta lain, rata-rata adalah ibu-ibu, anak-anak sekolah tingkat dasar sampai menengah pertama, berjalan menuju istana yang letaknya tidak terlalu jauh dari gedung DPRD.
Langkah-langkah kaki bergegas memasuki halaman istana. Pintu masuk pertama dijaga oleh anak pramuka yang meminta kami untuk menyerahkan tiket masuk. Uhui! kami melenggang memasuki halaman istana....

Pertama kali, kami disambut oleh sebongkah batu besar, mungkin dimaksudkan sebagai batu ucapan selamat datang...batu polos tak terpahat...lalu, kami melewati sebuah selasar samping bangunan menuju halaman istana. Beberapa orang memilih untuk terus berjalan saja, sementara kami berdua memutuskan untuk memasuki sebuah ruangan di sisi kiri selasar, yang ternyata adalah ruang musium fotografi. Di dekat pintu masuk, di dinding sebelah kiri, terpampang tulisan cetak print besar sebagai sebuah bentuk kata-kata pengantar. Kami melihat foto-foto seputar istana yang terpajang disini...dari foto-foto masa lampau, sampai foto-foto di era-era terbaru: eksterior sudut-sudut halaman istana, aktivitas-aktivitas istana, para jongos sampai para pejabat, para tentara yang berfoto di tangga masuk, interior ruangan, aktivitas para presiden dulu sampai kini....semuanya berusaha menuturkan kisah keberadaan Istana Kepresidenan Bogor. Sayangnya, display foto-foto itu secara keseluruhan tidak terlalu bagus...tidak terbingkai dan asal dipajang saja...lalu kami pun menarik kesimpulan kalau museum fotografi ini tidak ditangani oleh orang-orang yang memang akrab dengan kegiatan fotografi.

Tujuan selanjutnya adalah ruang-ruang dalam salah satu bangunan istana yang memegang peranan penting. Di beberapa sudut depan pintu masuk ruangan-ruangan itu, ada beberapa orang paskibra yang bertugas memberikan penjelasan tentang ruangan-ruangan tersebut. Mereka menggunakan semacam pengeras suara (toa). Namun, suara mereka tidak terlalu jelas kudengar, huh! akhirnya kusuruh Si Anggit untuk menanyakan ulang ke adik-adik paskibra,hehe...maaf ya, Nggit...tapi lumayan kan bisa ngobrol sama brondong,hehe...

Ini dia bagian yang paling menarik! Ruang Teratai dan Ruang Garuda, sebagai ruang yang biasa dipakai untuk pertemuan-pertemuan besar...selasar pendek penghubung kedua ruangan ini menarik bagi kami....mengapa? jawabannya adalah karena ada dua cermin besar dengan bingkai berlapis cat warna emas yang dipasang pada dinding selasar yang saling berhadap-hadapan...jadi, seakan-akan, ada lorong menerus memasuki kedua cermin itu...hmm, Anda semua bisa membayangkannya kan? ;)

Perjalanan di ruangan-ruangan dalam salah satu bangunan istana ini harus diakhiri tanpa bisa diabadikan sama sekali karena tulisan "DILARANG MEMOTRET!" diletakkan di setiap ruang-ruang tersebut. Kami keluar dari bangunan tersebut dan berjumpa dengan seorang bapak penjaga yang ternyata berasal dari Solo, Jawa Tengah. Kami sempatkan untuk berbincang-bincang dengan beliau tentang Istana Kepresidenan Bogor sampai basa-basi tentang tempat kerja, tempat tinggal, dan sebagainya...Seorang anak remaja berpakaian seragam, yang kemungkinan adalah salah satu anak yang bertugas jaga hari itu, menghentikan perbincangan kami...aku pun berusaha membuka kembali percakapan agar tidak terjadi kekakuan dengan menanyakan padanya perihal museum-museum yang ada di istana. Ternyata, selain museum fotografi, ada dua museum lukis: satu museum lukis yang hanya boleh dikunjungi oleh presiden dan keluarga, satu lagi museum lukis yang dapat dikunjungi oleh para pengunjung umum. Menurut adik berseragam tadi, museum yang saya sebutkan terakhir terletak dekat museum fotografi...jadi, kemungkinan saya dan Anggit telah khilaf dengan melewatkannya begitu saja...hiks...

Kemudian, setelah 'peristiwa' perbincangan dengan bapak penjaga, aku dan Anggit, berfoto-foto di area tangga dan depan bangunan....sepuas-puasnya deh...tak lupa, aku dan Anggit juga mengabadikan objek-objek yang terdiam membisu di halaman luar bangunan....sculpture-sculpture yang mengapresiasikan keindahan lekuk tubuh kaum hawa...;)