Archive for July 2014

Day 4/8 - Surabaya, Indonesia

By secret address | Published Thursday, 31 July 2014

Food poisoning. x_x

Avoiding iced drinks, no matter how trustworthy the place is, from now on.

Went to Pizza Hut for dinner though.

Custard and peach dessert.

The main meal. Cheese Deluxe with mushroom topping and Cheesy Bites as the crust.

Location: Surabaya Surabaya

Posted in jenny | Leave a comment

Day 3/8 - Surabaya, Indonesia

By secret address | Published Tuesday, 29 July 2014

I forgot to bring my phone down when I had breakfast so I'd spare some of you from breakfast food pictures. Instead, have some lunch pictures.

Top is 'Ramen Rider' and bottom is 'Ramen Power' at Hanashobu. Yes, eating Japanese food in Indonesia, haha.

Regina showed me an Australian restuarant. Here's the menu.

"Marrickville Crispy Chicken Steak". Haha. Apparently, on Regina's word, it's really tasty. They serve it with a non-edible, mini Australian flag pinned on top.

Besides tempeh, there's something I'd been craving that I cannot sate in Australia (anymore).

Papparoti's parent: Rotiboy!

9.000 IDR for this yummy smelling bun.

Then we went for karaoke.

Some Chinese songs have pinyin. This was playing when our mostly galau themed selection ran out.

After karaoke, we went for drinks to soothe our throats.

Left is Es (Ice) Cincao and right is Es (Ice) Cendol. The stuff in Cendol isn't showing clearly here...

Then we aimlessly wandered around, trying to find wifi that consistently connected us to the Internet with no avail.

Location: Surabaya Surabaya

Posted in jenny | 1 Comment

Day 2/8 - Surabaya, Indonesia

By secret address | Published Monday, 28 July 2014

The view of the hotel room.

Breakfast time!

There was tempeh too! But it was covered with chilli so...sad face. Another time. Another time.

Today, Regina and I went to Ciputra World (yes, she's been asked that question many times. And no, she's not related to the person the mall is named after) because there's karaoke there.

And my favourite tea store!

24.000 IDR for large pearl milk tea. ^_^

Waiting for my meal to arrive at the food court.

The food court is connected to the game centre, so...

Kids can take a ride at the centre and watch their parents below eat at the food court.

The food has arrived!

Left is gado-gado (mine), which is vegetables with peanut sauce, and right is HK-styled noodles (Regina's). Finally, tempeh for me!!!

More pictures of the mall:

The Jakarta and Surabaya version of N2 in Sydney.

Hello kitty cafe

Here's Pizza Hut but they're closed for today because of Eid Mubarak (there's a public holiday for it in Indonesia)

The karaoke place ended up being closed too for the same reason so we went to the game centre.

My childhood memory, magnified.

Then there was dinner (which I forgot to take a picture of). End of day 2.

Location: Surabaya Surabaya

Posted in jenny | Leave a comment

On The Flight Again

By secret address | Published Sunday, 27 July 2014

Luckily I can save a drafted post (with pictures!) even in flight mode. (Ssh, it took years for Google Drive to get there.) It's my first time in taking Garuda Indonesia, as I usually took Qantas or Singapore Airlines, and I'm quite pleased with their service so far. I also like how they provide both Indonesian and English throughout the flight. It helps with the language immersion.

Got shafted to a seat next to the window. I should've checked during check-in that my online request via a third-party for an aisle seat got through. Oh well, might as well take advantage of the lovely view of the Australian desert.

Got some chicken~ The dessert that came with it was lovely too!

Now using the entertainment system that provides the latest Indonesian pop songs amongst other things. Which is great! There's a restless baby in the row before me.

Even found a band that sings in both Japanese and Indonesian! Oh yeaaah. I foresee buying some CDs when I land... I need some new music to listen to whilst driving.

They also have immigration officers on board who can verify my Visa On Arrival (VOA) so I can skip the queue when I land. I got the VOA when I checked-in for 37 AUD (it's worth 35 USD [dunno if that's a permanent increase from 25 USD or temporary])

Also, I finally got offered candy before touchdown! Thank goodness for something to chew on to help prevent blocked ears. I'll be flying with Garuda again. Yup.

The surroundings of the rooms in Jakarta airport where people wait for the gate to open.

Day 1/8

The fanciest McDonalds I've ever seen. Two storey building.

Here's another one! With half a guitar attached to it.

Reached my destination at 8pm, so now, I must sleep for another day of adventure.

Jenny

Location: Surabaya Surabaya

Posted in jenny | Leave a comment

I Moved Out!

By knockycode | Published Friday, 25 July 2014

Bye bye, Bass Hill!

I now live right next door to an Anglican church. I use its car park a lot.

No photos of my room whilst it's in disarray, but here's my new swivel chair.

My gosh, it took a fucking long time to assemble this seat here. I was actually sweating as I tried to connect the arms to the body in a way where the holes could align so I can screw them together. Also, please do not read the previous sentence out of context.

Tonight, I cooked pasta by myself for the first time. Thank goodness for its existence and ready-made sauces.

No picture of the finished product because I got too hungry and it's best to eat food whilst it's hot.

Tonight, I'm also trying natto, which I bought with my dinner at Mappen last night.

Large bukkake ontama udon, 2 takoyaki sticks (one's been eaten before this picture was taken), small potato salad and natto for less than $14.

As you can see, the large udon and side dishes filled me up so I couldn't eat the natto ... until now.

Staring down at it.

Opening it and emptying the condiments onto it.

90 minutes later...

I should've known when I emptied the condiments that it would be a big challenge to finish it. I mean, the way the mustard arranged itself as 'the finger', Hikaru's 'you're seriously not go ahead with that-darou' expression. Yeah, I should've known.

Oh well. I'll be flying out of the country in 2 days for Indonesia where I can eat tempeh with Regina every day (for 8 days).

Selamat tinggal. (It's sad I cannot translate that into Vietnamese, but that'll be fixed soon. First Vietnamese class tomorrow!)

Jenny

Posted in jenny | 1 Comment