BANDUNG, air bandung? mee bandung? maybe not. BANDUNG, the heaven for shopping. true much. get yourself ready because i'll be flooding my blog with lots of pictures! its been a long time since i had a proper update especially when it comes to holiday. what not, i rarely go for holiday. LOL. its 4:15AM as im updating this blog so dont mind mewhen i start talking crap. just read on okay. HAHA.
anyways, the day before we went off, i went over to ibu's crib. DAD'S ORDER. went around the house for a last check on my checklist make sure that i didn't forget not even a single thing. its hard, seriously. because we still ended up forgetting our slippers. not me, but them. did i forget to share how hectic was the packing period? the room was in a mess. TOTAL MESS FOR 1 WEEK. i had to scream to get my sisters going. it's funny but that's just us, we LOVE to do things halfway and the next minute, we end up playing the computer finding unusual things and leave the packing hanging. we went to Bandung with 2 luggages, yes it was a mistake for a family of 5 people to check in 2 luggage's only. whereas ibu's family had 3 peopleand checked in 2 luggage's as well. lesson learnt. i was too excited that i couldn't sleep at home. played with my phone till 12. slept till 2, Tika woke up and I ended up rolling on the bed till 4 where ayah woke us all up. yes EARLY. guess what time was our flight? 10:40AM. too much blabbering already. so skip skip, it was time to board the plane. TIME TO SAY GOODBYE SINGAPORE for 4 days.
pretty excited? HELL YES I WAS. the plane ride was quite smooth just that i had a bad headache. Still, Arfah was all hyped up after her 1 hour sleep. chop chop we reached after 1 hour and 40 minutes. FINALLY SAY HOLLA BANDUNG! frankly speaking the queue at the customs was TAKING FOREVER. it was really slow that we were done in 1/2hour. yes that SLOW. disappointed for a first timer. thank god it was not humid, super windy even when its sunny. could control my mood.*phew*
DENGDENG, our supir for the 1st day! okay no his name was DANDAN. i think. HAHA! he took us from the airport and headed for lunch first. boy was i hungry. the spread of food was nasi padang. IT WAS NICE. SUPER NICE. not exaggerating, but facts. FYI, they don't have sambal belacan alright. its called SAMBAL MERAH which was actually SAMBAL BELADO. their specialty like our sambal belacan. didn't really know what was so nice about it because im not a fan of belacan what more belado right. the spread of food was a lot and the uncle did warn us about being charged for every food that we touched. we took note of course finishing all the food that we took. everyone was re-energized after the long wait. finally lunch charged all of us up!
next was our first factory outlet shopping. didn't do much shopping because i bared in mind that there was a lot of factory outlet so i didn't want to rush. ended up waiting for my dad to buy his clothes. it was looongggggg. BUT NOT LOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG ENOUGH to beat the makciks after that at PASAR BARU. 3 SOLID HOURS spent at the level 4 and 1/2 level shop. initially, they only wanted to buy telekung. then they were attracted to the kain batik to kain eler to samping. it was like a virus spread from the maks to the teenagers to the fathers. hectic i tell you and it was only our family in the shop. it felt as if there was a lot of people! i think by judging the stuffs that we bought, the shop owner could close the shop for the day. no i was not exaggerating because we really bought A LOT. the rest of us except for the mak mak got REALLY REALLY BORED that we were at our wits end. we were feeling TOO BORED that kak yun and kak nana had their photography session at the car park itself. guess what, FYI, THERE WAS 350 SHOPS of 8 levels and we spent 3 hours at 1 shop! i was like, ''what about the 349 more shops?!'' it was really epic when i remembered it.
(1st factory outlet)
(3 LONG HOURS WAIT)
finally after 3 solid hours we headed down to GRAND SERELA HOTEL!! FINALLY! the moment everyone has been waiting for. by the time we reached the hotel, everyone was dead beat and didn't have the motivation to do anything. or was it just me? i just wanted to LAY DOWN ON THE BED. waited for the administrations to be done and head up to 3 different rooms.627. 628. 630. it was at the last level because ours was a DOUBLE STOREY hotel room. i went crazy for a moment. having the 2nd story for me and tika was obviously splendid! it was a good thing that tika was lazy to go up therefore i had the bed to myself most of the time. HAHA. rest for a bit and headed down for dinner at PRAOE seafood. the food there was SUPERB because it was seafood. everyone started eating and there was total silence. really menikmati makanan. the dessert was nice to but not to my liking, sadly. after dinner, everyone was soo full already. stopped by the alfamart something like a 7-11 store in singapore but sadly they had limited items there especially the drinks and crackers. sad.
therefore the night went over us as everyone was dead beat. initially kak yun booked a karaoke room for us but the parents were having their messaging time so we waited. and waited, till i was too worned out and slept. we had to wake up early as usual but I find out that they didn't go for the karaoke session. HAHA.
basically, that is all for my PART 1 blog entry for BANDUNG! Part 2 to be continued SOON! it is going to be kinf of too long if i were to put all 4 days into 1 and you'll get bored by the end of this entry.