Deliciously Me
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The journey from the Adisucipto Airport to our accommodation at Delta Homestay, Jl. Prawirotaman took about 25-30 minutes. Despite being so tired due to lack of sleep, my eyes were widely open, scanning the buildings, the graffiti walls, the cars – especially the pink Toyota Altis taxi, and the people! Just 10 minutes later, I saw something interesting at one of the busy crossroads which I put in my list of ‘Interesting Fact’ and that incident was the first in the list.
There were 2 guys sitting at the middle road pavement playing nobat (traditional music instrument). Also seen were 2 masked guys in traditional costume did a traditional dance in front of the stopped vehicles, hoping to draw attention from them before going around asking for ‘entertainment fee’.
Then we crossed a bridge. I was surprised to see graffiti drawn along the bridge wall. The first time I saw beautiful graffiti displays (since it’s prohibited in Malaysia) was in Europe. I never expect to see one in Yogyakarta, as I thought the place would be like Cambodia – little shabby, graffiti-less, timeless city.
Traffic in Yogyakarta is much better than Cambodia, but still as chaotic! Oh well, at least they adhere to the rules of traffic light.
Cyclist are seen plenty on the road. But then, the cyclists there are like the motorcyclists in Penang where they love to hog the entire road by cycling slowly in the middle of the road. They couldn’t care less if people are honking at them; they would just cycle at their own pace.
Interesting Fact number 2!
It’s been 10 months of emotional turbulence; but everything was paid off when I finally stepped my foot at the Penang International Airport on the night of 12th January 2010.
Together with me were Sat, Ailing, Emily, Elise and Lasker.
Our flight for KUL scheduled to fly off at 10.45pm was delayed an hour. But we weren’t bothered with the delay, for we have the whole night to kill. Everyone was pretty excited, tho some of us were dead tired due to rushing to airport from work. We sat at the tables of closed cafe, chatting about the baby being stuffed into the toilet bowl and Facebooking while waiting for the announcement for embarkation to be made.
At 11.50pm, we were allowed to board and most of them directly dozed off once the plane took off. Despite being so tired, I can’t catch a wink! So did Sat. Both of us were just chatting, giggling and taking pictures (of those who slept). Kaka!
Out of the blue, I felt hungry!
The plane reached LCCT at 12 something. We went around the terminal, finding place to sit and nap, but all seats were occupied! Mardeh betui. So, we cured our hunger by having supper at Old Town LCCT first – hoping there would be seats available after that.
I wonder if anyone remembered seeing this humble-looking-statue?
*winks*
That’s the term.
I’ve been Indonificated in just 6 days!
Since I’m still feeling Indonised, I shall quickly summarize the whole trip before I went into details. Ah~ I can still ‘hear’ the Javanese music playing in my head.
In just 6 days, I’ve…
1. took 6 flights. Fly cheap and further with AirAsia!
.beaches. mountains. temples. bikinis. culture. spa. relaxation.
Picture taken from Tripadvisor
