There is no easy way to tell about this, even until few days after the visit I still don’t know what to feel.
Liburan kemarin, gue dan Widi memutuskan untuk coba sesuatu yang baru karena si mas ini tiba-tiba random kepikiran bahwa ada tempat penangkaran buaya di Cikarang, yang nggak jauh dari rumah kalau menggunakan mobil. “Is that open for public?” “Well…supposed to.” Then I got excited. Ketika nyampe, di depannya adalah tanah lapang yang luas, disambut oleh patung buaya yang luar biasa besar dengan tulisan “Taman Buaya Indonesia Jaya” That’s fascinating, yang membuat curiga adalah banyak spot untuk toko terpajang di depan yang tutup. Bukan, bukan kayak lagi nggak buka, tapi kayak udah bertahun-tahun nggak berpenghuni. Pintu masuk dan loketnya pun terlihat sangat tidak menjanjikan. This is not gonna be good… Begitu masuk, … Boy oh boy, gue nggak tau harus gimana bilangnya. Tapi kondisi taman ini sangat nggak mengenakan. I almost feel sorry for the visitors (like me). Gue pikir kondisi Kebun Binatang Ragunan yang kotor dan nggak layak is the worst, but this is.........this is it. Gimana coba kalo dilihat sendiri, dibawah ini adalah foto panorama dari yang tertangkap ketika melewati pintu masuk.
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Kita salah naik MRT.
Udah gitu aja. Dan itu salah gue. Gue memilih MRT yang tidak harus transit karena rasanya gue lelah jalan, tapi ternyata yang kita naikin itu muter. Nggak ternyata sih, Widi sebenernya udah bilang, berhubung lagi sakit kepala jadi gue nggak dengan jernih mencerna kata-katanya, I just didn't thought that it would be that far. Sepanjang perjalanan gue harap-harap cemas apakah kita akan sampai tepat waktu. Sebelum berangkat nyokap gue udah bilang bahwa Widi harus ke Merlion, sayang kalo udah jauh-jauh kesana tapi nggak liat. I sait we'll try to look if the time is possible, tapi Widi teguh memegang kata-kata bahwa akan kesana (daaammnn man!) Akhirnya kita turun di stasiun apa gitu lupa. Bener-bener kita nggak tau jalan dan asal aja, deket banget dari Stasiun MRT nggak taunya keluarnya dimana coba, Clarke Quay maaaan dan itu deket banget. Entah kenapa waktu gue kesana bulan Oktober lalu harus jalan jauh banget dari Stasiun MRT yang berbeda. Gue kaget aja sih bahwa ternyata kita bisa sampe dan bisa ngeliat. Oh iya, news flash, gue belom pernah ke daerah Clarke Quay itu, 2 kali kesana, selalu dari dan ke bagian sebelah kanannya Merlion Park (Clarke Quay kan disebelah kirinya, hehe) and it was beauuutiful. Especially at night, gue seneng banget ngeliat sungai-sungai dengan lampu yang cantik-cantik. Gue sangat menikmati jalan kakinya yang terasa kayak di Hong Kong. Ini pun pertama kalinya gue ke Merlion pas lagi malem. Dan baguuuusss...Gue seneng juga karena Widi bisa ngeliat Merlion dan Marina Bay yang legendaris itu, I hope he likes it. Waktu nyebrang jalan kita bareng dengan serombongan tour yang jelas banget dari Indonesia, masih bawa-bawa luggage tapi langsung kesini dari airport gue rasa mereka masih jetlag juga kasian banget, setelah kami menikmati Merlion dan mau pulang gue lihat mereka ngemper di jembatan, yampun. Merlion Park at night was very beautiful indeed, meskipun lagi renovasi sehingga bagian bawahnya sedikit nggak keliatan, tapi tetep bersinar dan bagus. Mengingatnya lagi gue sayang karena terlalu terburu-buru disana, bener-bener udah telat banget, kalo seandainya kemaren kita telat naik pesawat, itu adalah gue terlalu banyak ngajak foto. Nikmatnya baru kerasa disini, saat inget bagusnya sungai dan ngeliat perahu-perahu yang pengen gue naikin. Bener deh, kalo malem itu suasananya beda dan...romantis? Hehe Tapi disana juga crowded banget pada saat itu, sehingga mau foto tanpa banyak orang dibelakangnya juga susah hehe. Tapi nggak papa. Daerah sana khas dengan gedung-gedung tinggi berwarna biru kesukaan gue, bahkan dulu gue lebih banyak foto disana dibandingkan di Merlion nya sendiri, hehe. Gue pengen ngajak Widi istirahat di bawah jembatannya sebenernya yang ada pohon permennya itu tapi obviously udah nggak keburu hehe. Jadi ya...udah deh segitu doang ceritanya haha. Orang cepet banget beneran deh. Diburu-buru waktu, jalannya pun setengah berlari karena every minute counts. Capek, tapi fun. Sakit kepala pun nggak terlalu berasa. Waktu yang sebentar tapi cukup berkesan. Semua jalan cepetnya worth it sih, karena rasanya Widi udah resmi deh ke Singapore, haha. Dan biasanya gue kuliah ngejar kereta, sekarang ngejar pesawat! At the glorious THE Changi Airport... *to be continued soon* *post is still unfinished*
We paid $18 for GrabCar, from Science Center to River Safari, I think the road that we took wasn’t supposed to be that far, kata Widi sih mungkin dia muter lewat tol…It was rain outside, salah satu hal yang membuat gue bersyukur naik Grab, maksudnya biar nggak sedih-sedih amat karena kita kehilangan $18 untuk begitu doang haha. Tapi bener-bener deh gue udah pusing banget dan capek… Abis itu kita turun di Jurong East dan berpikir “We’re screwed.” Karena seinget gue dulu tuh stasiun yang gue turunin itu ada di atas tanah, sementara ini ada di lantai 2! Dan kita Cuma harus jalan dan nyebrang dikit dari stasiun itu, sumpah deh seinget gue itu deket banget. Dan sekarang kayaknya kita jelas-jelas nggak ada disana, well maybe gue salah turun dan dulu tuh turunnya bukan di Jurong East, kemudian abis nanya sama petugas di stasiun katanya kita bisa jalan atau naik bis, tinggal nyebrangin mall besar, dan Science Center ada di baliknya.
I wish I could create a continuously post like “Singapore Trip Day 1, Singapore Trip Day 2” and so on but heck I only spent about 10 hours there, haha. So here's the prologue, now I’m gonna intersect 3 posts based on the destination, first was The Science Center, second was The River Safari *insert dramatic background sound here* and the last was The Merlion Park (I know, I know, too mainstream)
"Singapore in one day?! You're crazy!" "I know." Kira-kira itu lah potongan percakapan gue dengan orang-orang yang tau bahwa gue akan ke Singapore Cuma sehari doang. Dan reaksi gue juga flat aja gitu, haha. Sejujurnya gue masih meragukan rencana pergi ini sampe ke H-1 kepergian. “This is a very stupid idea.” Gue masih agak-agak males dan merasa bahwa itu nggak worth it, Cuma buang-buang uang aja, mungkin pergi ke suatu tempat di Jawa Barat akan memberi sejenis rasa refreshing dan holiday vibe yang gue pengen. Tapi setelah menjalaninya kemarin, gue nggak menyesal. Singapore is amazing, and I would really love to come back again later if I had the chance. Berkali-kali ke Singapore, tapi kali ini adalah yang paling the best sejauh ini. Pengalaman dan rasanya beda dengan trip ke Singapore October kemarin. Bukan, bukan backpackerannya, tapi lebih ke tempat-tempat yang kita kunjungi kemarin, gue nggak heran sih bos-bos gue pada nggak amused dengan Singapore, karena destinasinya kurang greget. Gue pengen banget bisa ke How Par Villa nanti, dan bener-bener mendalami sejarahnya. Life is a never ending learning process, right?
I finally get my hands of Disney's "A Frozen Heart", and I am so excited to blog about it right now.
Price in Bahasa: Rp. 65.000,- Price in English: Rp. 189.000,- Cukup jauh ye bedanya, yang gue beli di Paperclip adalah english version, design cover antara yang English dan Bahasa sih sama persis, tapi yang English ini hardcover, cantik banget. Me likey. Okay, first thing first, please don’t hate me because I think that Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them is better than Harry Potter. I just really really really love it and I can’t help it. I grew up reading Harry Potter book from 1 to 4, until that I stopped. And the only Harry Potter movie that I liked is only the first Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and third Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I catched the goodness of Harry Potter and get mind blew by the wizard world and really want to go to Hogwartz by the first movie, it really amazed me, so many good things to be seen, and the third movie has a deep story and drama, I just like it tough. And the rest of Harry Potter movie was, meh. I remembered when the last time my boyfriend asked me out to watch the first part of Harry Potter’s last movie I was almost fallen sleep because I was so bored, and I still mad at him everytime I thought that so many times of my life has been wasted to watch that movie, I don’t like it, the wizard world is dark, lots of tears and misery, I know that was the story, I knew they grew up but I still think that movie has ruined the first Harry Potter movie that I saw when I was a kid. When I was aged 9 to 10 I’m a hugeeee fan of Harry Potter and Daniel Radclife, I collected a lot of their merchant and I watch the first movie over and over again, but as they’re grew older and the story get darker, I lost my identity as a Potter fan. The reason why I watched Fantastic Beast movie was because Eddie Redmayne, I don’t even know what is the point of story, again, please don’t hate me. I used to be a huge fan of Eddie since I saw him on The Theory of Everything when he played as Stephen Hawking, you know, the man of science is so my kind of guy. I watched the movie trailer once and I wasn’t really pay attention on the story. All I know was this is the story before the Harry Potter thing happen, I don’t care, Eddie’s there. And as I see the advertisement about the movie like everywhere, I know the movie story is plotted in New York, I was scared at the first time because on Doctor Strange I watched the glorious Bennedict Cumberbatch being an American and don’t talk British, but I thankful that Newt Scamander is a British wizard. At the beginning of the movie, the typical Harry Potter opening music from Warner Bros has really got me, I forgot that I tell my self I should watch again the Harry Potter first movie as soon as I get back home, and I really like Newt Scamander from the very first time of his appearance. And my thought about the movie? Terrific! Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them is FANTASTIC!!! I really really really love it. I swear to God I had no idea that the movie was about a man who really care about animal (or, beast) and feel more like home when he’s around them instead of human. Sounds familiar? Me! I AM like him. I just found about Newt’s character on that movie, and bonus point, it was played by Eddie, so when he talked to his beloved beasts “It’s okay, mummy’s here…” Aah…I am melting (ing, still right now), it really got me. And I can’t stop my fangirling since I found out that Newt is a Magizoologist, how cool is that? He really cares about the endangered beasts and live to protect them. I wish I figured out more about Fantastic Beast earlier, because I really like it. The whole story isn’t so dark like the last Harry Potter movie that I watched. Watching Newt’s adventure to get all of his beasts back was so fun, my favorite part was the first time then went to Newt’s house and watched him pet all of his beasts, he really cares a lot about them and I love to see that, my boyfriend said that I wasn’t even blink at once and really gasped by that scene. The funniest part is when he found his niffler on the jewelry store pretend to be mannequin. I’m also mind blown by the mating dance that Eddie did, he used to be a shy person and that is so not him so that’s just proof how great he is as an actor. I don’t know how many times I told you that I like the whole Fantastic Beast story, I really like it! And to me it’s flawless. I’m really looking forward to see the next movie of Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them. And by the way, I also made a journal about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them then posted it on my planning account, you can check it here, xoxo : Okay first thing first is I do not review this song because of the lyric. I am not in the middle of break up or something like that haha. This song was just randomly shuffled and I listened to it and remember how I first acknowledged that there’s only one person who sang this song which is Sam Tsui. Few moments later when I stalked Kurt’s channel and watch this video I just found out that Max Schneider was also a part of it.
Dari dulu udah sering main Dinorama di iPod, kayaknya waktu itu liat Dinorama di AppStore sebagai Editor's Choice kalo nggak salah. Setelah pake Asus Zenfone 2 ternyata Dinorama nggak available buat android, alhamdulillah bisa ganti iPhone 5C jadi bisa main Dinorama lagi deeh :D
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