Thursday, May 7, 2015

Kuala Lumpur -- Bandar Sunway Day 2 - 2015 May 7 > Malaysia

Good Morning..

We are so excited for today so we woke up early today. At 9 o'clock, we eat breakfast at Instant Restaurant which located beside the hotel. The boss is Indonesian people, and she is very friendly.
I saw the booth, and interesting with it's roasted pork. So I ordered Roasted Pork Noodle 烧肉面 which cost RM$7.





It's yummy, the meat is so crunchy and tasty. My aunty ordered Porridge and 油条. My cousins ordered Roasted Pork Noodle, same with me and Balacan Fried Rice.

This restaurant will become our breakfast restaurant. Actually, there's 2 restaurant with same concept, but maybe different owner, different luck. In the morning, Instant Restaurant is more crowded than the others. But in the evening, the others is more crowded than this one.

After eat breakfast, we go to our first destination,Central Market. The nearest station with hotel is Imbi Station or Bukit Bintang Station. Imbi Station located in the next Berjaya Times Square, and Bukit Bintang Station locted behind Sungei Wang Plaza.

We ride Monorail with KL Sentral direction to Hang Tuah station then change to KTM with Sentul Timur direction to Masjid Jamek station then change again to Kelana Jaya Line with kelana Jaya direction to Pasar Seni Station.




Exit subway station, go to Central Market directions. We have to walk around 5 minutes to go there. After cross the road, you can see the blue old building, that's Central Market.



Central Market sell some art and culture craft. There's a lot of clothes like batik, and some craft. The price is standard. In the back of the store, there's painting store.



We decided to rest for a while, buy some drink. The weather is too hot. 


From Central Market, we go to Chinatown Petaling Street. We just walk pass through the road.




Then we ride Kelana Jaya Line again, and back to Masjid Jamek. Our next destination is Masjid Jamek and Dataran Merdeka. Arrive at Masjid Jamek, we take the wrong exit. So we have to cross the road. And unfortunately, the Masjid Jamek is close at noon. So we decided to directly go to Dataran Merdeka.



From Masjid Jamek, we walk near the construction, and will find a square.



From the square, we can see Pasar Seni. What?? No way... it's so close. It's only located behind Central Market. But we don't know. If we know, we didn't need to ride the train.

In the intersection of the square and pasar seni, just turn right. Then you will see Textile Museum. Walk straight, pass the river and you will arrive at Dataran Merdeka.




We eat lunch first at Dataran Underground Mall. The mall is new, and nothing much to see. Only there's 2 restaurant in there with limited seat.

After eating, we go out and walk around

We took photos with "I <3 KL" statue and enjoy the view of building around the Dataran Merdeka.










After finished, we back to subway Masjid Jamek.



We go back to Imbi Station to go to Berjaya Times Square. I thought that it's expensive mall. But it's not. Most of the store is local product.


Because the hot weather, we decided to try the snow flake. It's delicious and refreshing.


buy 1 mango snowflake, then you will got this for free



 There's a theme park inside the mall, located at the 5th floor. While eating ice cream, we saw the rollercoaster is playing. And we want to try it. I heard that it's the 2nd longest rollercoaster for indoor theme park.



But something happen, while we eat ice, on the 2nd ride that we saw, the rollercoaster stopped in the middle of the ride. I thought that it's a usual stop, but turned out there's something with it. So we decided didn't ride it. Haha..

We bought mineral water and some snack at Cool Storage.



In front of the cold storage, there's a piano stairs that can produce the sound while you step on it. It's beautiful and cool.



From Berjaya Times Square, we go to Pavilion Mall. We pass Sungei Wang Plaza, Lot10, Fahrenheit, all of them are famous shopping place at Bukit Bintang.  We eat dinner at Pavilion Food Republic.

the 2nd most not delicious tteokbeoki that I ate
Then we go back to hotel for rest.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Kuala Lumpur -- Bandar Sunway Day 1 - 2015 May 6 > Malaysia

Thank you for one of my aunty, I got a chance to roaming in Kuala Lumpur. But this time, this is on duty journey. I will accompany them to walk around Kuala Lumpur. 

My aunty stay at east java, her child study at Bandar Sunway. So, she wants to visit him while touring Kuala Lumpur. We depart from Yogyakarta, because my autny has something to do in central java, and the ticket price is cheaper than from Surabaya.

At 06:45, I go to Damri Bus Stasion at Hotel Wisata to go to the Airport. I took 7 o'clock bus and it cost IDR 50.000/pax. There's approximately 8 people inside the bus and the journey take 1.5 hours. 


At 08:30 I have arrived at Yogyakarta Adisucipto International Airport. My aunty and my cousin has already arrived in there too.

For information, there's road renovation at Jalan Adisucipto, after ringroad to Airport direction,right before the imigration. From 4 path of car road into 3 path which there only 1 path to airport direction. I'm lucky because it's still morning and not traffic in there. If you depart in the afternoon or evening, maybe you need to depart 2-3 hours early to avoid the late.

Arrived at airport, we still can't check-in. So we wait until 09:30. We drop our baggage, and after verified our documents, we passed the imigrations. Then we wait in the waiting room.



Approximately 11:15, we are boarding. Then at 12:00, we say "see you again Yogya".  There's delay 15 minutes from the exact time because of air traffic. It should be 11:45.

There's only Airasia Flight from Yogyakarta to Kuala Lumpur direct. I have been many times ride this plane and it'c comfortable. But this time, there's one stewardess that make me didn't feel comfortable inside the flight. She help us, but I thought that her behavior is less polite. I hope she could realize and fix her attitude.

We buy pre-flight meal on the flight. I buy Uncle Chin's Rice Chicken and my aunty and my cousin buy Nasi Lemak.

The flight took 2.5 hours. At 15:20 we landed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport Terminal 2. The airport is new, so expect half hours to walk to imigrations, and then half hours to wait for the baggage. Our baggage has already on the belt. Last time I came here, when I arrived at baggage claim, the baggage still not come out and we have to wait 15 minutes.

We decided to ride bus to Hotel Capitol Bukit Bintang. The bus station is on 1st floor.and you can see a lot of ticket booth in there. Just go to the bus locket and ask for the bus to your destination. Bus to hotel Capitol Bukit Bintang need to change to the small car. And it cost RM$15. The next bus is 16:30 which is still there 15 minutes to depart.

We go to platform A4 and the driver ask us what destination we go. And he will write our destination and I thought he tell the agency about it.

At 16:30 the bust depart. First stop is KLIA1. And no one depart from there so we continue to the city. Arrive near Pudu, we change to small car because the bus can not enter Bukit Bintang Area because there's MRT construction.

Finally, we arrive at Hotel Capitol Kuala Lumpur. It cost RM$195/room/night. We booked via hotel website, www.fhihotel.com with credit card guarantee.



The room is nice. We booked connecting room, so it seems a big room because we open the connecting door. We are on the 6th floor and the view from here is nice.





We rest for a while, while waiting for my cousin that study in Sunway come here. 1 hour.. 2 hours.. my cousins suddenly said, the monorail is broken so it didn't operated. He needs to wait on not sure time. So he decided to walk about 3km.

At 20:00, he arrive at hotel then we go eat dinner at Alor Street. We choose Alor Corner Stand which famous with Asam Laksa.



I order Curry Noodle. It's not my favourite, but it's better than Chicken amd Prawn Noodle which is my aunty's order. My cousins order Asam Laksa and Dry Noodle.






Then we walk along the alor street, we try coconut ice cream and also Wong Ah Wah chicken wings.






Then we go back to the hotel to rest.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

2015 KGSP-Graduate -- 2nd Selections by NIIED

Today is the 2nd selections notice. And it come out in the evening (as usual).
It's a pity, I didn't passed the 2nd selections, because in the 2nd selections, you will compete with applicants from your country.

For university, only there's 10 people from Indonesia that will got the scholarship.  And I'm not in that 10 people.

Mmm.. It's a strict competition. Everything is beyond of luck. So, will I try again next year? :D

Credit: http://studyinkorea.go.kr/en/sub/gks/selectBoardArticle.do;jsessionid=26AE4D3274AFC41DF3EB989BAEAA91B0.node_20


Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Movie ~:: Avenger: Age of Ultron (2015)

This month, another good movie came out. The Avenger 2, Age of Ultron.


When Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) jump-starts a dormant peacekeeping program, things go terribly awry, forcing him, Thor (Chris Hemsworth), the Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and the rest of the Avengers to reassemble. As the fate of Earth hangs in the balance, the team is put to the ultimate test as they battle Ultron, a technological terror hell-bent on human extinction. Along the way, they encounter two mysterious and powerful newcomers, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff.



Director: Joss Whedon
Running time: 2h21m
Film series: The Avenger series
Music composed by: Danny Elfman, Brian Tyler

Credit: Google Search

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Culinary :: Kue Ayas > Malang ~ East Java ~ Indonesia

Kue Ayas, is special snack from Malang. Everytime my father go to East Java, he will buy this snack from it's factory. It is made from glutinous rice flour and coconut milk with various filling. There's peanut, sesame peanut and no filling type.

Nowadays, it's hard to look for this snack in Malang. If you didn't know where to buy, then you won't find it.

Suddenly, there's a big package from my aunty's in Jember. It's Kue Ayas. She said, one of her friends in Malang, help her buy it. But she didn't know where.

There's various taste now.



The brand is Kue Ayas Merah Putih Nam Hien. Actually, I don't know what brand that I ate when I'm little. But the taste is the same. Only now there's mocca flavour, and chocolate flavour.

Is there anyone who could tell me where to buy this? ^___^

Friday, April 10, 2015

2015 KGSP-Graduate -- I Passed 1st Nomanee for Sookmyung Women's University

Today is the 1st nomanee result. This evening, once I open the SMU Website, the notice is come out. And.... I passed 1st nomanee for Sookmyung Women's University.

OMG~ What should I feel? I'm happy, yet nervous, and confuse. This is beyond my expectation. But I stil have another things to passed. Next is NIIED 2nd result on 30th April.

Let the fate decide..

Monday, April 6, 2015

Movie :: Fast and Furious 7 (2015)

Finally, this movie is out. Fast and Furious 7. I think this is the great movie in 2015 (until now, May 2015). Fast and Furious always make us feel we are also inside the movie.



After defeating international terrorist Owen Shaw, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) and the rest of the crew have separated to return to more normal lives. However, Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), Owen's older brother, is thirsty for revenge. A slick government agent offers to help Dom and company take care of Shaw in exchange for their help in rescuing a kidnapped computer hacker who has developed a powerful surveillance program.

Director: James Wan
Running time: 2h20m
Film series: The Fast and the Furious
Music composed by: Brian Tyler

Friday, April 3, 2015

2015 KGSP-Graduate -- Interview from SMU for 1st nomanees

It's today, my interview.

I don't know where should I be to accept the calling. So I just let it be.

I got a call from Sookmyung Women's University but I didn't hear it because I'm still preparing to go to work. Then they call again at 07:21, they wants to remind me about interview which will took in 2 hours.

I go to office at 08:00, and waiting in there. But I feel that it's so noisy because my office is on renovating. So I decided at 08:45 go to KFC while eat breakfast, and also receive the phone call.

Then at 09:04, another call is coming. There's 2 professor that interview me. One of them ask me if I could speak Korean, and I said I can't. Then they said they will interview me using English.

They ask me to introduce myself first.

Then ask me,
- how did I know about sookmyung women's university?
- your precious major is different from HMBA, why I want to study HMBA?
- after finished, what will you do?
- what did I do as travel agent?

Mmm.. It's different from last year. And maybe the signal is not too good, when one of them ask me something, suddenly the phone call was drop off. But they call me again and said that's enough, and ask me if I had questions?

Mmm... I don't know, because it's just the 1st screening. I don't want to ask something before everything is decided. So I just said, that I don't have any questions right now.

Then they said goodbye and said, "hope to see you soon".

Really, this year it's really different interview. I could answer with smoothly, without nervous. I just learn that if you like what you do, then you won't be nervous. I just think the interview as a normal conversations. I didn't think anything about the scholarship. I just think that they ask, and I will answer.

Now I just wait for the notice.


Wednesday, April 1, 2015

2015 KGSP-Graduate -- SMU Interview Schedule

Sookmyung Women's University interview for KGSP 2015 is out. Check their notice.

Link: http://e.sookmyung.ac.kr/notice/view.jsp?cmsCd=CM0341&ntNo=180&dvsn=&src=&srcTemp=&currtPg=1&fix=


I got interview on 3rd April at 11:00 Korean Time, which means 09:00 at Indonesian Time. Nervous? No.. I really feel relax this time, no under pressure, because I always remind myself that this is only trying. Everything happens for a reason.