One and half weeks after my trip to the UK (it also means that I only worked for that period in December), I started my going home trip. As I did last year also, I chose Singapore as my destination from Duesseldorf (by Emirates again...it's good for my Skywards points :-P), then continued to Surabaya by JetStar (Valuair). I like that route since I do not have to go to Jakarta and change to domestic flight to Surabaya, and also because I like Changi airport so much :-)
This year I stayed in Singapore for three days and explored it with my parents who joined me there. My flight from Duesseldorf arrived around 2am in Singapore. I decided to sleep at Rainforest lounge until around 9am, took a shower, had my breakfast at Toast Box (yummy....see..that's why I love Changi), walked around the duty free shops, and then I decided to go to the hotel, that I have been booked before, at Scotts Road. I picked up my parents at the airport in the evening and after dropped the luggage in our hotel, we walked along the Scotts road and had dinner in Far East Plaza which has quite a lot of muslim restaurants. We spent two days exploring Singapore using hop on hop off bus. We also went to Sentosa island to see Song of the Sea performance, which was okay, but it's been better if it was not that wet because of rain.I am happy to be able to explore Singapore (finally) , though to be honest, our main activity was shopping (from Mustafa Center, Chinatown to Orchard Road) :-P
We went back to Surabaya after spent three days in Singapore, then continued the trip to Malang, and finally home...
I spent 10 days in Malang, having relaxing days (the days have gone so fast for sure), visiting relatives, eating lots of foods... I also went to Surabaya at one of the days there.
I continued my trip to Bandung at 2nd of Jan. Meeting Yayan, my bro.. stayed at his place for two days. I met Remko, my Dutch friend who works in Medan, and we spent one day exploring Bandung...well actually we only went to Kawah Putih, which I have not been there before, then ate at Kampung Daun. But I was impressed with Bandung now... with the fly over, the toll road...
I returned to Jakarta with Remko and went directly to the hotel. In the evening (it was Friday) I met Eva, Aris, and mbak Helena. We chatted a lot (first, dinner at Setiabudi building then moved to Menteng to have some drinks) until almost midnight. My parents and Caca joined at the hotel that evening, and the next day, we were finally full team. Yayan arrived from Bandung, Didit and Nia also joined us in the morning from Bekasi, oh and also Hendra, Caca's boyfriend who works in Jakarta. It was nice to finally meet the whole family :-)
I spent four days in Jakarta, mostly for family gathering in the weekend, but I also managed to meet Robin, mbak Elvi, and Bing bing on Sunday evening. On Monday, I had lunch with Wira (finally we met each other :-P), then met Ocha in Pasar Festival, who was so kind to accompany me to visit Diery, and her Ira, at her house. I had my first experience using Busway by the way :-P Directly after that, I met Runi, who waited for me already in Plaza Semanggi....that was really busy schedule for my last day in Jakarta. The next day... we left early from the hotel. I had my trip to Singapore (then Dubai-Duesseldorf) and my parents returned back to Surabaya (and then Malang).
It was really nice to meet my family, relatives, and my friends in Indonesia....three weeks seem so fast. The next day after I arrived in Duesseldorf, I had to go back to work...to my real life, and I still could not imagine that I have left the office for three weeks already :-P
