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Category: weekend

  • Weekend Wandering #3 Braga Culinary Night

    Last Saturday, our new mayor launched another one of his many breakthrough programmes. After opening several themed parks (photography park, skate park, and the infamous jomblo park), he officially launched Braga Culinary Night. It’s a culinary festival similar to this, but being held on weekly basis. So from now on, every Saturday night, Braga street will be closed for vehicles and become a street full of food stalls.

    However, due to the high enthusiasm of the local people plus tons and tons of visitors, the first day of Braga Culinary Night was like an enourmous traffic jam, only it was people there, not vehicles. It was super crowded; very crowded that you couldn’t even walk to the food stalls. You literally had to fight for your way there. We experienced what we thought was the most ironic thing in the world: being starving in a culinary festival.

    But since this is a weekly event, I really hope that it will not be as crowded as the first opening for the weeks to come. I want to actually enjoy the food, the night, and the atmosphere as a whole.

    Oh and pictures!

    The crowd

    The boys

    The girls (and boys)

    The couple

    The umbrellas

  • Weekend Wandering #2 Locafore 2013

    *WARNING*
    This post is image heavy.

    Let’s be honest here: both A and I are not really into either art, design, or jazz, so generally Locafore is not our cup of coffee. However, never having gone out of the town to the west together before, we decided to go anyway. Luckily, Locafore turned out to be a lot of fun for us. The arts were not the kind of confusing art (you know… the abstracts and the likes) and we got to see Jubing Kristianto, an Indonesian guitar soloist. I had planned to see Raisa on stage, but alas we got to the venue right when she got off the stage. Haha

  • Weekend Wandering #1 Bandung Hobbies Festival

    *WARNING*
    This post is image heavy.

    Today I went to Bandung Hobbies Festival in Graha Manggala Siliwangi to visit A’s booth there (not his, of course, but his workplace’s). Their booth has the demo version of Angkot the Game. The gameplay is quite simple, but what makes it more fun is that instead of using a joystick, mouse, or keyboard, it uses perceptual camera as the controller for the vehicle. It is like this: you move your hands in circle in front of the camera, as if you are actually driving but with an invisible steering wheel. Their booth is crowded. People queue to try this game.

    The other booths have various features, but mostly action figure exhibitions. There are also manga drawing clubs, zombie lovers, cosplay players, diecast die-hard fans, and the one that caught my eyes the most: the Star Wars exhibitions.

    Star Wars prints

    More prints plus a Darth Vader costume

    You can buy a jar of these cutesy Minion cookies for 50k ($4,50)

    Plants versus Zombies papercrafts

    Look at these itsy bitsy pedal cars! I especially love that pink one in the bottom right

    A snippet of Angkot the Game and my boy being interviewed by a local TV station

    This event is held for two days, so you still have tomorrow to attend it. The ticket is only 15k ($1,50). If you’re in Bandung for the weekend, this event is worth going to.

    PS. Remember how I used to post “Weekend is for…” series? I’m trying to make this “Weekend Wandering” as a regular series, so let’s just see if I can work it out.

  • 5 Jahre Leben


    Hello there, dear Daradise readers! I’ve abandoned this blog for more than 10 days. I really hope you don’t mind me being so moody in blogging lately. I’m not busy or anything, but I’m just not in the mood to sit down in front of my laptop to write. So sorry…

    Anyway, A and I got the chance to attend this year’s German Cinema Film Festival in Blitzmegaplex Paris van Java on Saturday. We got two tickets for a film entitled 5 Jahre Leben (or 5 Years). It’s a movie about an innocent man who is mistakenly jailed for terrorism. He is abused for five years in Guantanamo Bay and forced to confess to a crime that he never did. He’s finally released due to the lack of evidence.

    It was all fun and I enjoyed the movie, until a scene in which the prisoner is forced to kill a lizard that has been his (kind of) pet in his cell. I cried like a baby and A had to comfort me. It’s one of my weaknesses: I always cry whenever animals are killed in movies (guess what happened when I watched Life of Pi?).

    5 Jahre Leben was the second movie that we watched this week. Last Thursday, we went to see Man of Steel 3D in Ciwalk together with the people from A’s work. But I will talk about the new Superman later because I have to be a timekeeper and scorer in the Scrabble competition in AECS. See you!

  • Keuken #4 The Jolly Camaraderie

    *NOTE*
    I wrote an Indonesian version of this post here. It’s not exactly the same, but they generally talk about the same thing.

    Among other things that A and I both love, perhaps food has the top place. This Sunday afternoon, we went to Burger King to enjoy their Hot Challenge deal before going to his place to have chiffon cake. Not only that, on the evening, we went to Keuken, an annual food festival. We had ramen and kebab there. My stomach is overjoyed (but also overwhelmed).

    Since we didn’t get the chance to spend Saturday night together, this Sunday night date was super fun and really helpful for me to escape from the head-spinning revision of skripsi proposal. The due date is today, but ho and behold, I had finished it less than an hour ago! Now I can finally get some sleep.

    See you 🙂