Showing posts with label journey of a traveller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journey of a traveller. Show all posts

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Bummed out caused of visa thingy

Yaaa lumayan kesel lah soalnya gw ga jadi berangkat ke Eropa (Prancis, London, Italy). Kenapa? Apalagi masalahnya kalo bukan masalah visa yang wajib dimiliki setiap WNI yang passportnya ijo-ijo ada gambar garudanya itu. Padahal setau gw orang-orang dari Negara lain gampang banget masuk ke Indonesia. Hiks, irinya gw.

Jadi dulu si pacar pernah janji bakal ngajak gw ke Eropa soalnya dia diterima kerja yang rejekinya lebih dari cukup menurut gw. Awalnya sih ke Raja Ampat, eh dia dengan sombongnya bilang ke Bora-bora. Ya sekalian aja gw minta ke Eropa. Nanggung lah kalo cuma Bora-bora doang. Eh dia setuju. Hehehe.
Rencana berangkatnya itu tahun baru 2010 kemarin. Yang mana karena ke-plin-plan-an gw, akhirnya berubahlah dari UK-Prancis-Italy, jadi Prancis-Italy-Greece karena cuma ngurus visa Schengen aja.

Awalnya gw pikir gw bakal tiba di Prancis dan balik dari Prancis lagi tapi kata si pacar pulang dari Greece. Dannnn... itu artinya gw sama aja harus ngurus di dua kedutaan yaitu kedutaan Prancis dan Greece. *menghela nafas pertama
Gw googling kedutaan besar Prancis, terus besoknya gw nelpon dan minta disebutin syarat-syaratnya. Pas nulis syarat-syaratnya sih seneng tapi pas proses ngumpulin dokumen kok jadi kesel sendiri ya. *menghela nafas kedua

Curhatlah gw sama pacar. Eh kita malah berantem. Dia ngerasa susah dan ribet banget ngurus visa. Menurut gw ya emang begitu prosedurnya. Lalu gw bilang kalo gw yakin pasti bisa dapet deh visanya. Again dia bilang, “Mau liburan kok repot banget”. *menghela nafas ketiga

Esoknya (lagi) gw googling travel agent yang bisa bantu untuk ngurus visa. Lalu telpon dan minta dikirimin syarat-syarat dokumen by email. Tring! Pas gw baca, hmmm 11-12 sama yang disebutin Mbak-mbak kedutaan Prancis. Malah yang dari travel agent jauh lebih ribet. *menghela nafas keempat

Dokumen itu semua sebenernya gampang banget. Serius! Mau tau apa yang bikin ribet? Ya karena gwnya. Bayangin aja gw pergi bukan sama orangtua ataupun sama suami ataupun urusan bisnis ataupun urusan sekolah. Gw pergi sama pacar yang notabene kalo di mata kedutaan sih sama aja kayak pergi sama temen. Untuk itu gw harus minta surat izin orangtua yang harus dilegalisir, SIUP orangtua, buku tabungan orangtua, rekening koran dan yang paling ngeselin adalah karena di Prancis nanti bakal stay di flat kakaknya si pacar, maka gw diharuskan bawa surat keterangan pajak si kakaknya pacar beserta surat apalah itu dari walikota. Ngedengernya aja bikin pengen nyelem. Walhasil dari sekian juta kali debat sama pacar, diputuskanlah untuk menyimpan kembali uang liburannya dan dipending sampai 6 bulan ke depan. Semoga aja 6 bulan ke depan gw udah dapet kerja, jadi keliatan pemasukan rutin di buku tabungan gw dan mempermudahkan proses visa. -_-

Ciao

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Books about travelling

Some local novels you should read if you love travelling but you have no money yet to realizing your dream to be a traveler. You can use your imagination by reading these books before you rocketing yourself around this wild world.
  • Traveler’s Tale – Adhitya Mulya, Alaya Setya, Iman Hidajat, Ninit Yunita
  • The Naked Traveler – Trinity
  • Back “Europe” Pack, Keliling Eropa 6 Bulan Hanya 1.000 Dolar, Jalur Pertemanan – Marina Silvia K.
  • Ciao Italia – Gama Harjono
  • Travellous - Andrei Budiman


Hope these books can enlighten your mind

Ciao!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Dedicated to the ocean and everything in it

Someday i wish i can dedicate my life to sea. Spend the rest of my life with diving (complete my divemaster certification first), night diving, reef check, walking on the sand barefoot, watching school of fish, sunbathing, any forms of life in water.
God is my everything. God created world and made a truly beautiful sea.

Ciao!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Singapore, 2 - 5 August 2009

This is my second trip to Singapore. Hmm, it was kinda fun but not that fun actually because there was few problems stuck in my head. :)
We was up to having a complete member trip. Five of us. I thought the second time would be better than the first. That's wrong! So i won't tell how did we get there. Just give you some pictures. Sorry :( 



Which way to go? This way or that way?


Playing in the sand like we used to play when we were young


At Changi Airport. We were about to heading back to Jakarta

Ciao!

Friday, April 10, 2009

Pelabuhan Ratu, April 2009

Me and my friends (Agung, Fitri, and Sarah) went to Pelabuhan Ratu by car. It took approximately 4 hours from Jakarta. We went there in order to celebrate my birthday actually but not kinda celebration. Just having fun together. :)
Pelabuhan Ratu beach has big waves. That is why surfers love to surf there, including my manfriend (but it was.. Mmm i mean my manfriend, not the surfers. Don't get me wrong).


Inside the car take a little rest and snacking


This is the place where we stayed. Err i forgot the name. Sorry


This is the beach


Saturday, January 10, 2009

Malaysia

I went from Singapore to Malaysia by bus and it was costs SGD30 for 6 hours drive. So we were used those 6 hours to continue our disrupted sleep because the bus left Golden Mile Complex at about 6.30AM.
Malaysia actually looked like Indonesia. But yes of course, Indonesia is my home and I prefer Indonesia. :)
After 6 hours, we finally arrived but we looked like the prodigal child dragging luggage and carrying bags. We were clueless and ran out of phone credit. Mm, actually since I was in Jakarta, I've contacted an unknown guy from Facebook who lived in Malaysia but I'm a hundred percent not sure about him. Hey that's sofa king normal to not count on him. But we don't have any choice anymore so we let him picked us in bus station. Then voila, he and his friends were so kind, nice, and very helpful. Seriously, if not because of them, we don't know what would happened to us



Twin Tower Petronas


In front of Suria KLCC


Nice view 

Ciao

 

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