LOST

nah, I'm not lost, just at a beach in Southern Mountain (Gunung Kidul) area, a nice place.. Wedi Ombo's the name, u should go there sometime... It's around one to two hours drive from Yogyakarta

and like other beaches in Southern Java Island, no swimming!

enough for this mini post :) it's nice to see y'all again

Hello Y'all!

Hellow earthlings,

It's 2009 now, soo many things had happened during the year of 2008, life, love, loss and of course happiness itself alongside every other emotions.

The year 2009 will be another stepping stone for me to reach happiness in life, now i live in Jakarta, city of opportunities they say, so lets give it a try.

Today's January 11th, yes it's late but i hope it's not too late, Happy New Year 2009, All the Best to come...

Start over

Currently busy carrying out a new business, and this blog will become my channel in to getting in touch with the great wide world of Internet and... er.. the world itself :)

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A Small Reunion

[happy faces!]

Look at the above picture, that's me on the left, Bachtiar Rifa'i on center and Kris Hartanto aka Patrick on the right. Last night, when I'm in Salatiga, well when I post this posting, I'm still in Salatiga. We were a long-time-no-see friends, Bachtiar and Patrick are my high school friends, though I've known Bachtiar since Junior High.

So, the story's like this, Patrick's now livin' in USA, married, but for one or two reason, he had to return to Indonesia, for maybe a year or so, while for Bachtiar, he stays in Salatiga and working while doing his graduate degree on Law. That Sunday I went to Salatiga to pick up my Mom, the plan was Wednesday, but as I know that Patrick in Indonesia, Salatiga to be precise, I go there in Sunday in order to get the chance to meet the guys.

It was hilarious, imagine this, friends who haven't met for 10 years, yup 10 years, (FYI I left Salatiga in 1996), talk about how life has been treating us, back then and now, funny stories bout the past etc. We talked until it's midnight, and what a coincidence, Patrick' birthday is February 26th, the day I wrote this post, so we were the first to congratulate him, as for his wife in USA still in February 25th thanks to Time Differences...

I'm still in Salatiga for another 2 days, let's see who'll I meet here in the next 2 days, as for I intended to track down my old friends...

Another Gallery featuring Me...

Some from Borobudur..

KETEP!

Last Tuesday, I took the liberty to go to Borobudur Temple in Magelang and followed by going to Ketep Pass, a place to see Mount Merapi, a cool place (literally! Colder than Jogja at least...) these are several pictures that I took during the Journey...

Merapi, FullBody \(^o^)/

The most Close-Up that I can get, need some telephoto lens... T.T

look mom! no hands! ;p

See Y'All on the next journey...

Gallery Showcase

Two souvenirs from Danyal's house at Salam Village Magelang...


Above is a picture of his living room's Lamp...
..and below is a picture of Sunset taken near his house, FYI this picture is taken from a speeding car...


See more of my so-called art work here

Soto ESTO Salatiga

Monday morning January 29^th, I was in Salatiga, and when I’m in Salatiga I’ve always have Soto ESTO as my breakfast. It is located in front of ESTO bus garage in Salatiga.



Now, for the soto itself, it is a chicken soto, and it is served with “ kerupuk karak”, a rice based cracker. The taste is good, with a taste of coconut milk soup, it’s perfect for breakfast, especially when you eat it with some fried snacks, such as prawn-tofu, meat-tofu, tempe, egg-sate, clamshell-sate that is also served there, not to mention about “uritan”, a-soon-to-be-egg-that-is-still-inside-a-chicken that can be ordered there and served on another bowl, and of course a hot tea, yummy!

For those of you who would like a taste of this soto, you better be there around 6am to 9am since after that hour they’re usually out and have closed the place. Highly recommended…

As my brother said in his impersonation of Mr Bondan Winarno of Wisata Kuliner on TransTV..


" The taste was...mmhhhh Mak nyusssss..."

Mie Ongklok Sate

As we were in Wonosobo, it was high noon, and we were craving for food, there a restaurant caught my eye, Mie Ongklok Sate, never heard of it before, so we thought we could pay them a visit. So, here’s the story…

Above is how Mie Ongklok Sate is served, two bowls, one is the mie (noodle) and the second is sate. The noodle is served in a thick soup, like mie rebus medan, the taste was, well, good, and the sate was fine. It’s quite something though, try to visit them when you’re in Wonosobo. It’s on the outer skirt of Wonosobo though, along the road to Banjarnegara.

That’s Denny in front of the restaurant…

Nostalgia

In Purwokerto, I met with my very old friend, Adi Nugroho, we met the last time was when we were at our first grade in SMUN 1 Salatiga back in 1996, that was like 11 years ago.

How we met was quite unique, I uses Yahoo!Go software in my cell phone, a Nokia 7610. In it there was Yahoo! Messenger, which enables me to chat with anyone in my list, or in short it lets me to stay online anywhere anytime. There I always put my status as where I am that moment.

When we’re in Purwokerto, Adi or Jedhek as I always called him before, saw my status as @Purwokerto, it turns out that he was in Purbalingga, half an hour motorbike ride to Purwokerto. Then we met at our hotel, and we stroll to Alun alun of Purwokerto. Later I found that he stays in Purbalingga as an Indonesian Air Force squad, ahhh, then we talked about the old days, when we were young, hahahhaha…

At the time also, I met Denny’s friend who stayed in Purwokerto as a lecturer, he was also an Informatics Engineering graduates from UKDW Jogja, Denny’s college.

Above is a picture of Me (center), Adi N aka Jedhek (left) and Prawito DiCaprio (self proclaimed surname) (right), Denny's not there, he's taking the picture...

The Journey

As I have said in my previous post, of Jobs and Journey, me and my team, consisting of me, Denny Widyan, Vivaldi Wattimena and Muhammad Yasir Zain. Considering the destinations we split it into three main routes, one is the south central java route, consisting of Magelang, Temanggung, Wonosobo, Banjarnegara, Purbalingga, Purwokerto, Cilacap, Kebumen and Purworejo.

Second is the central to west central java, Klaten, Boyolali, Salatiga, Ungaran, Semarang, Kendal, Pekalongan, Pemalang, Tegal, and Brebes while the third route, the east central java route, is the Surakarta, Sragen, Karanganyar, Sukoharjo, Wonogiri, Purwodadi Grobogan, Blora, Pati, Jepara, and Kudus route.

central java map courtesy of Microsoft Encarta 2006

On January 10th we started our journey on a two on two scheme, Me with Denny and Vivaldi with Yasir. My team goes to the south central java route, and Valdi’s team goes to the north-then-west route.

My route has great views, view of mountains, but since we have a tight schedule, only a few pictures are taken. We ride on a blazing speed on the road and at work, within a day, we finished 6 cities from Magelang, Temanggung, Wonosobo, Banjarnegara, Purbalingga, to Purwokerto.
We stayed on Hotel Wisata Niaga in Purwokerto for the night and start our journey again on the next morning to Cilacap, Kebumen and Purworejo. In short we’ve done our part in two days. There’s an interesting story here, I’ll write about it in another post.

scenic views from Wonosobo area

Vivaldi’s team made it to Semarang on the first day, 5 cities within a day, they stayed in Semarang and continued their journey the next day to Kendal, Pekalongan and Pemalang. It turns out that due to traffic and road condition, they have to stay in Tegal before the job there is done. The following day they finished their journey there and return to Jogjakarta.

Next! Due to some situations and conditions, we started our journey on Monday, January 15th. This time my team mate is Vivaldi, coz well in short Denny and Yasir can not join us. The third route was split into two routes, the south and north part, I was to go to the south part coz I have to be in Jogja by January 17th, Wednesday, since my parents were scheduled to return from their Hajj pilgrimage.

So back to the journey, we went to Solo (Surakarta) then Sragen, Karanganyar, Sukoharjo and then Wonogiri. We finished it by two o’clock in the afternoon; we started our journey from 7 am in the morning. So in short, we’ve gone through 5 cities in just 7 hours, including the work itself.

Now, 5 more cities to go, Purwodadi Grobogan, Blora, Pati, Jepara, and Kudus, this route will be taken care of by Vivaldi and Yasir starting from today, Tuesday, January 16th.
We will be hearing from them later.

Over and Out…

The Use of Animal Sound-like Horn is Prohibited!

Found this in Magelang, never seen this before in Jogja, what animal sound? So a car with the sound of a cow? or a motorbike with a sound of a horse? or maybe a bicycle with a sound of a duck? makes me want one, any information on getting one?

Jobs n Journey

In December, a friend of mine, Vivaldi Alvarez Wattimena, offered me a job, a job of doing training to PT Pos Indonesia employee regarding Western Union services in PT Pos Indonesia. In short we were trained by Western Union trainer on a training on trainer scheme. We were to train in 34 cities within Jogjakarta and Central Java, and it’s no joke that it will make my weigh lower due to the length of the journeys.
This is the list of the cities that me and my team will visit:

SEMARANG
UNGGARAN
SALATIGA
PEKALONGAN
KENDAL
TEGAL
BREBES
PEMALANG
PURWOKERTO
CILACAP
PURBALINGGA
BANJARNEGARA
PURWOREJO
KEBUMEN
MAGELANG
TEMANGGUNG
WONOSOBO
SOLO
SRAGEN
BOYOLALI
KLATEN
SUKOHARJO
WONOGIRI
KARANGANYAR
PURWODADIGROBOGAN
BLORA
PATI
KUDUS
JEPARA
YOGYAKARTA
WATESYOGYA
BANTUL
WONOSARIYOGYA

Expect to see post of stories within my journey across Jogjakarta and Central Java under the WU Project and Journey labels…

Did You Know? The length of Jogjakarta Outer Ring Road?

On the left is my trusty Blue Thunder, a 250cc 2005 edition of Suzuki Thunder, one day we took a ride across Jogjakarta, i went to Jogjakarta Outer ringroad, my intention is to warm up and charge the battery of this li'l fella, since it's not been used for 2 weeks or so...

I go on a constant speed of about 80-120 kmh, the track was Jogjakarta outer ringroad as a whole, I check my odometer when I start, it was 110, and once I finished the ride, it was 150, so the Jogjakarta outer ringroad is approximately 40 km in length my friends, from the south outer ringroad, west, north to east outer ringroad, back to square one.

I started my journey from Jalan Imogiri Timur, near my house to the west and ended there also from the east...

Here's a map of Jogjakarta, there you may see the track of my so called journey....

[map courtesy of www.mapsyogyakarta.com]