Darla!

Author: Dara

  • getaway day 1: jakarta

    *WARNING*
    This post is super heavy. There are a lot of pictures and a long writing.

    What an exhausting day!

    Well, I should open my post with this information: we missed the train.

    Yesss! We actually missed it. By about 10 seconds.

    I was already in Bandung railway station 10 minutes before the departure time, which was 5.30am. I texted and called my friends and they all said that they were on their way to the station. And so I waited and I waited. They actually came right on time… when the train started to drift away. We got to wave at it. God… We decided to catch the next one at 6.30am, but unfortunately we didn’t get a seat. So we stood from Bandung to Bekasi. We were lucky enough to have two empty seats and two more after a lady and her daughter got off at Bekasi. It was fun, though. We were the only people who talked during our journey. We talked about so many things and laughed at a lot of things. We were meant to be backpackers, right? So, getting no seat in the train was acceptable :p

    At about 10am, we arrived at Gambir. We walked to Monas and took some pictures there, and then we asked people around for the free shuttle bus that could take us to Kemayoran (where the Jakarta Fair was held). We walked from Monas to the bus shelter to find that the shelter was empty, the bus wasn’t there yet. We decided that we didn’t want to wait any longer, since it was very hot there. So we took the bajaj.

    After holding back the pain in the butt for a few minute, we finally got to Jakarta Fair. Yay! 😀

    But, wait a minute… Why was the place so empty? Well, it turned out that the fair started at 3pm. What on earth were we doing there at 11.00am?! We sat there for about 30 minutes, thinking what we should do. Vicky suggested that we go to the nearest mall, just to cool down. But malls were million miles away. And it was Friday, so the boys had to do the Jumat prayer. We then decided to find a nearest mosque by using Afief’s GPS. Luckily there was one in 950 meter from us. We walked following the direction from Afief’s GPS. We walked and we walked and we walked… Still no sign of a mosque. We just kept walking until we arrived at this Al-Ihsan mosque (Mr Boyfriend’s name!) The boys proceeded to do the prayer while us girls waiting for them at a cafe. We ordered four drinks there.

    A few minutes later, the boys were back and they sat with us. They didn’t order anything because us girls didn’t finish our drinks, so they finished them. And the owner of that place yelled at us for spending too much time there. I still can’t believe how rude she treated us as her consumers! We paid and we left right away. Jakartan people are so mean!

    It was still 1pm and Jakarta Fair was still closed. So we went back to the mosque and stayed there for a while. We prayed and we took a nap. At 2.30pm, we left the mosque and went to have lunch. At 3.30pm, we finally got in the Jakarta Fair! 😀

    Jakarta Fair… was kinda boring and disappointing. It wasn’t like what I had imagined before. It was basically an expo where merchants sold goods. There were kitchen and house appliances, clothes, electronics, cars, food, etc. None of which had caught my eyes. But I didn’t go home with empty hands. Why? Because I found an elephant hand puppet! 😀

    We walked around in the fair for about 3 hours. After that we went to May’s house in Bekasi, which will be told in the next part of the getaway series 🙂

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

    PS. All pictures are courtesy of Afief. He also wrote our story in his blog. Go check it out.

  • quoted saturday

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    “To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.”

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to…

    Leelee from Just Because by Leelee!

    As you may have known, this month my blog is sponsored by six awesome people (look at my sidebar!) Leelee is one of them. She is the girl behind Just Because by Leelee. Let’s check out my interview with her 🙂

    Hello, LeeLee! Tell us a bit of yourself 🙂
    I am a fashion designer from Colombia, I have my own handmade fashion accessory business that I create when i’m not at my office job. I can’t live without music and concerts. I love going to adventures and fun places, but also I love staying at home and watch netflix movies while eating popcorn or smoking hookah!

    You’re originally from Colombia. Can you tell us what Colombia is like?
    Colombia is a beautiful place. Each city has its own culture, climate and accents. I couldn’t travel a lot when I was there, but I’ve been to few places, like the capital, Bogota, which is hands down the best cosmopolitan city to live in, full of fashion, awesome people, cool places to hang out and perfect cold weather; I lived there for a year and a half and since the first month I fell in love with it. I was born in Cartagena, which is tropical climate every day all year long, has beautiful beaches and the downtown part of the city is all colonial and very beautiful.

    When you were a child, what would you want to be when you grew up?
    As a child I always wanted to be famous. LOL.. like movie actress or singer.. so funny.

    You’re going to Barcelona to visit your boyfriend this month. Is long distance relationship hard for you? How do you guys cope with it?
    Long distance relationships are VERY hard, in fact it has been very hard for us, we broke up last year, lasted a month not even talking and we saw each other on Dec and was like love at first sight again.. I think our long distance relation has brought us apart since december, so honestly i am very scared to go visit him for 3 months, but It is something I’ve been waiting for almost 2 years now, so I gotta be strong and the worse thing it could happen is that we breake up and I go to Cartagena for few months to be single again. hahaha … But yeah is very hard to handle this situation. :/

    Thank you for sharing with us, Leelee! And you, guys… You should chekc out Leelee’s blog. She’s the cutest 🙂

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • i’m going to jakarta! (a happy post)

    So, after being postponed a few times, I’m going to Jakarta on Friday. Yeah! 😀
    (Read this post if you don’t have any idea as to what on earth I’m talking about.)

    This morning, I went to Bandung Railway Station and bought tickets for the seven of us. Ah… I can’t believe how excited I am to go to Jakarta. I still remember how I hated the big city February last year, but this year… I love it!

    I may not blog for the rest of the week because of this trip. So… I guess I’ll see you later? 🙂

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.

  • guess who just turned 20 today?

    Yup! This boy! 🙂

    Last night I pretended that I was mad at him because he didn’t text me back. He apologised but I didn’t answer. He begged and I still didn’t answer. A few minutes after midnight, he began to be mad back at me. I didn’t know that he would be that mad. Haha! At that point, I almost gave up. Thank God, I fell asleep :p

    I didn’t talk to him all day. He, on the other hand, seemed like he already forgot what we were up to last night and asked me out for lunch. I agreed, but I still didn’t want to talk to him. He tried to make me smile, and again, I almost gave up. But hell noooo! He took me to this new cafe and we had steak, french fries, and potato wedges (all carbo). But still no words.

    After that, we separated. He went to a meeting and I went to see my friends from BlowUP! In the afternoon, I sneaked into his room and prepared for the surprise. When he arrived, I was standing behind the door with pancakes and candles. He smiled 🙂

    I told him that all the fight last night was just a prank I had planned. Haha! Poor birthday boy ;p

    I’m glad he likes my present. I really forgot to take a picture of the gift I gave him, but here is the booklet I attached inside the gift wrapper.

    In the night, we went to the pasar malam (a kind of country fair) in Gerlong. He convinced me to try the ferris wheel. It was scary. Look at my face on the second picture below! Haha

    I love you, Mr Boyfriend. Happy birthday! You’re no longer a teenager. (Think I should really start to call you Mr Manfriend :p)

    Sincerely,
    Putdar.