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[Autumn Break] Burgers Zoo

17 Oct

Saturday, 16th of October 2010 :
After arrived in Arnhem from Den Haag, not too long, my friend Abdul called me. He invited me to join with him and other  Indonesian peoples in Arnhem-Nijmegen  to the Burgers Zoo. Hmm,,seems rather weird for me to go to zoo. In Mumbai, people invited me to the zoo,,huhuhu, basically, I don’t really to visiting zoo, watching animal in a cage with limited movement. But anyway, it’s much better than if I stay in a room whole day, furthermore, I can hunting for some animal photos there, not a bad idea I thing.

At 13.00, we gathered at Arnhem’s Centrum. There was 2 families and other friends from Machstrict that already waiting for us. We took the bus from Willemsplein Bus Stop used Bus No.3 destination Burgers Zoo. It took only 20 minutes to get there. Yup, here we go, we arrived now Burgers Zoo . We must buy ticket to enter the zoo. It costs € 18.50 , wew, quite expensive indeed :(

After walking around for almost 4 hours, I realize, why the ticket becomes expensive. The zoo shows various kind of  animals habitat, from desert, rimba(tropical like in Indonesia),bush, ocean, safari(like in Africa) in a big cage, and they made it similar with the original habitat, even in its humidity, temperature and soon. We just not only see animals in the cage, but also, feel their habitat. Read the rest of this entry »

 

[Autumn Break]1st Step On Den Haag

15 Oct

This week, we’ve got a Autumn Break for a week. Yup, this kind of oppurnity will never comes very often in my lecture’s schedule. 1st thing to do, I intend to visit my colleague that will back to Indonesia soon in Den Haag. I also want to visit Indonesian Embassy to get a stempel in my letter and to make self report about my arrival in Netherland.

Filmon, Me, Aris & Tita

Thusday, 14th of October
After class has been finished, I packed my stuff and went to Arnhem Central Station to catch the train to Den Haag. It was quite expensive, because I haven’t  OV-Chipkaart, so that I must buy ticket to Den Haag in full tariif..ouww that’s bad. It cost € 17.60. But nevermind, if I’m waiting my OV-Chipkaart , I think I will miss my time to spend the holiday.
I had transit in Schiphol, and change my train that headed to Den Haag HS. * Yup, like as said in train schedule , I arrived there at 19.14 and picked by my friend, Filmon Warouw, to get transit in his places.

the train is very often to be late. It only get late for 1 or 2 minutes. You can count on your trip schedule on the train schedule.
Den Haag’s view from Aris & Filmon’s room

His places was in 13th floor, and we can see quite wonderfull view of Den Haag. After take dinner accompanied by Aris n Tita, we take a walk to see night city view of Den Haag.

First time to visit that is Den Haag’s RDL (Red Light District), and even if it’s not as big as in Amsterdam, the view in this area quite make me feel suprised, indeed!hahaha. The woman in the windows, kindle with the red light lamp, try to attract people that walked surround them. I curious with how they make a transaction, so that, me and my friend try to find how it works.  Try to make conversation with one of the lady in the windows, we just ask about tarif, and you know what, it cost €50 for 20 minutes of pleasure. no bargain and no run, otherwise, the cop will take you hahaha. We continue our trip to other places. We arrived at the a Hotel that has strong correlation with Indonesia’s History, the Parlement Building. We just went trough because the rain was falling at that time.

Friday, 15th of October 2010
I went to Indonesian Embassy in Den Haag accompanied by Filmon and Dewi in early morning. We went from Den Haag HS use Trem. Arrived in embassy, I felt like home. I just directly get around to my business. It takes almost 2 hours to make it finished. We just waiting in its canteen and enjoy some coffe there.

It has been finished all, we continue to go to Scheveningen Beach. Huehue, first time I saw beach in Netherland indeed, and maybe, I’ll go here again at summer. It will be much more beatifull in its view I think.

View of Scheveningen Beach

at Scheveningen Beach

Yup, all has been done in Den Haag except Madurodam indeed. I will go there at my second visit to Den Haag in the end of this month.

I will back to Arnhem tomorrow, in early morning, to cacth the train. I wish that I still can get there on time and play futsal.

Gud Night All

 

Living in Arnhem NL

10 Oct

2 minggu sudah, ane idup di negeri orang.  Ane agak anti bahas kuliah dimarih, soalnya terlalu banyak tugas yang musti di kerjain  jadi mending ga usah dibahas deh (berusaha lari dari kenyataan) hahaha.

Akomodasi
kebetulan pas kemaren dateng, langsung di arrange ma pihak kampus, jadi alhamdulillah ndak ada kesulitan. Cuman harganya kalo di kurs rupiah, terhitung mahal. Untuk sebuah kamar di Arnhem dengan kamar mandi dalem, dapur di dalem dan tentunya tempat tidur, ane musti ngerogoh kocek sebesar 300 euro sebulan. Kalo di kurs in, mpe IDR 3.5 jutaan..Ga kebayang kalo di Indonesia, dah bisa buat nyewa apartemen dengan fasilitas kolam renang kekna :P

Indomie @ Aziatische

Makanan
Ini bagian yang ane suka, scara ane suka bet yang namanya makan hahahha..Untuk mencari makanan Indonesia disini, tidak terlalu susah, ada banyak jenis makanan Indonesia di sini, seperti : Indomie aneka rasa, bumbu-bumbu instant, saos, kecap, sambal pedas dan kawan-kawan. Banyak terdapat di toko asia, Aziatishce ataupun toko2 swalayan Tentunya dengan harga yang agak mahal dibandingin di Indonesia. Bahkan ada yang nama tokonya Indonesia bet, namanya Waroeng Baroe. Toko ini konon punyanya orang Suriname yang asli Indonesia..loh??

Harga bahan makanan disini juga terhitung cukup unik. Sayuran satu iket kalo istri ane biasa beli di depan rumah seceng, disini bisa mpe IDR 17.000 seiketnya.. Lebih murah daging, susu, keju or telor.. Jadi kalo anak2 perantauan disini pada makan keju, daging n susu, bukan sok2an tajir, tapi emang karena ngirit :P

Komunikasi
Naa ini juga yang agak aneh, karena biaya sms or telp ke nomor lokal sini, ternyata hampir sama kalo kita sms or nelpon ke Indonesia, Ane jadi ngrasa, betapa murahnya ternyata tarif telekomunikasi di Indonesia. Jadi kangen sms IDR 88 ataupun nelpon IDR 1000 per 10 menit huhuhuhu

Internet disini juga kenceng. Tercatat di kamar shared subscription ADSL dari Telfort, streaming Indonesia-Uruguay via ATHDE.net, lancar jaya. Abonemennya juga murah. 6 bulan awal cuman di charge 10 euro per bulan, dan kualitasnya jauh dibanding layanan ADSL yang dikelola operator telco di Indonesia.

** tengok ke meja, kok masih banyak tumpukan tugas hueks

 

Karimunjawa Trip

01 Jul

Hehehehehe, it’s almost 2 weeks since me and my wife took a honeymoon in Karimunjawa, the beautiful archipelago in north of Java Island. I get in to share about our journey just now, because of my activity and soon. So, here we go guys :)

It started from my wife’s resident, in Boja…

Monday, 7th of June 2010

  • 4.30, Mr. Munawar with his taxi took us to the Tanjung Mas Harbour. Arrived at Tanjung Mas Harbour at 05.30. We wait for Kartini Motor Boat that will be took us to the Karimunjawa Island
  • 07.00, We departed from Tanjung Mas to the Jepara Harbour. It was not go directly to the Karimunjawa, because on that schedule, the boat will be transit in Jepara and after that it will be go to Karimunjawa Island.

    @Tanjung Mas, ready to go - destination Jepara

    Transit for a while @ Jepara

    When you want to take a trip to Karimunjawa, I suggest you to confirm about the boat schedule to the ASDP Jepara (hotline : (0291)591048 ) .  There are 2 kinds of boat, Muria and Kartini. Read the rest of this entry »
 

Bedugul – Tanah Lot .. Last trip on de last day in Bali

23 Apr

at least, my 1st Bali’s Journey ended with a great trip to Bedugul and Tanah Lot. Use a motorcycle and Bli Kadek’s Graco to reach those 2 places.With ’special’ permission from my boss, I extend one day in Bali from the day that I supposed to be back to Jakarta.

Thursday(22/4), I started trip from Pt’s Homestay in Hanoman’s Street Ubud at 7.30. First place to go was Bedugul. I really like to take a lot of Pura’s Potograph in there that well known with its beautiful scenery and fresh air. Hmm arrived at Bedugul, it was almost 9.30 , the sun shinned very bright at that time,,what a lucky day indeed. Yup, it took almost 2 hours from Ubud. A great view of mountain, rice field and sky appeared in a road way to Bedugul. I took this photo at Baha Village,,

Okay, let’s begin with bedugul’s photos :) Read the rest of this entry »

 

My First Shutter Click of Mr. President

20 Apr

got it,,yup, really satisfied with this day. I’ve got Mr. President pose for the first time and separated only few inch from my edge of lenses- norak.com :D

Venue : Tampaksiring Palace, Bali – Tuesday, April 20 2010

 
 

[part 3] Mumbai’s Story – Mahabaleshwar

16 Feb

2nd weeks in Mumbai, we’ll arrange a long distance trip to a high place called Mahabaleshwar. It’s a mountain hills area with a lot of peak view. It took 6 hours from Mumbai to reach that place with bus. Although it would be a long journey for us, but no regret for it, because the view was very amazing and tremendous.

We departed from hostel at Powai area in 7 am. and reached Mahabaleshwar at 1 pm. It was a rough track indeed.. after took a rest for a while in Bharat hotel, we went to first hill top in afternoon. We didn’t know what would happen in our dinner in that night. Anyway, here is a pict of the hills

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[part 2] Mumbai’s Story – City Tour

27 Jan

On this wiken, we had a chance to go around city of Mumbai. The officer in MTNL Company arranged a day trip to see tourism places in this city. Hmm need to prepare anything especially camera stuff :D

23 of Januari at 09.00 am. , the team left from MTNL Hostel in Hiranandani Garden, Powai use a bus. First place to go is JB Udyan Heritage in Byculla. It is a big garden with a lot of animal in it (I think it looks like a zoo for me :p ) . We take a look around in that garden for almost 2 hours. In the front of the entering gate, there are an england ommission building that now became a museum. Good architecture indeed. Its former’s name is DR. Bhau Daji Lad Museum. There’s no time to look what’s inside, because the bus already went to the next destination, Gate of India.

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Never Ending Bromo Part 2

25 Nov

18 November 2009, saya dan temen-temen dari komunitas www.purworejokita.com telah merencanakan untuk melakukan perjalanan ke Bromo. Awal rencana, ada 7 orang yang akan bertolak dari Jakarta, tetapi menjelang hari keberangkatan, 2 teman kami membatalkan untuk bergabung karena alasan pekerjaan dan keluarga.

18 November 2009 – 04:00

Kami bertolak dari Tangerang, dari rumah Om Timbul tempat kami menginap. Kita memang berkumpul dahulu di rumah salah satu anggota team yang rumahnya paling deket dengan bandara, mengingat pesawat kami flight pukul 07.00 takutnya pada keblablasan tidurnya :P

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Digital Imaging : HDR n Stitching, Still Working on Those Things

02 Oct

High Dynamic Range, well known digital imaging..It is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques or photographic prints. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to represent more accurately the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight. – wikipedia

Yup, the result of this technique always makes me fascinated..I think, it’s a magic technique to make an image became more ‘hard’ and rough, but in other hand, give a wonderfull colour and great scratch on the edge.

Last week, I did a lil’ journey from my home village to Yogyakarta’s downtown,, While I was shopping, I tried to grab a piece set of building in that area. The result has been modified with HDR technique use photomatix pro.

Here are the result :

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