Cakes time!! my sister already said “why you keep eating all the time?!” well this is what we do when we have too much time, we need to keep ourselves busy and baking is one of them! First, you need to get all the ingredients and tools out, second you need to make the dough, third you need to patiently waiting until it’s ready and fourth you need to wash it all and surprise surprise! half day is gone and you have the other half to enjoy it 😉
This time we made a steam sponge cake, my mom wanted to make it so it looks like a watermelon that means we need 4 colors, red / pink, white, green and lighter green. And in order to make it, it will be a little bit advanced pssst just a little bit because we use the mixer! haha finally we are using some tools. Since my dad is the son of a baker in our little village, he knows how to mix the ingredients well and this steam sponge cake recipe is already in his brain since forever.
Here we are with all the ingredients 🙂 3-3-3. 3 eggs, 300ml of sprite and 300 gr of wheat.
And the process of scaling, mixing wheat and sprite and wheat and sprite etc until its finished began! In the end it will get fluffy and so satisfying to see haha
We separated it into 4 different colors then put it into a cup that will go to the steamer. We don’t really have the so called steamer, so we just use the pot that we already have and made it as a steamer.
Tat tararamm after over 15 mins we tried to see how it goes and it went down the hill! What?? such a disappointment after decorating it so that it will looks like a watermelon and it failed! what was the reason?
hmmm! it was because of the pot! then on the second batch we didn’t put too much on the cup so that it will have some space to “erupt” and be a sponge cake.
Yeayy succeed!! Although the sizes are much smaller than what it should be (if we have the real steaming pot the size should be doubled) but it still looks beautiful! So what did we do about it? we doubled the number mwahaha
My mom still the one that insisted to make it looks like a watermelon, my dad and I were the one that kind of randomly putting the colors as it will looks good anyway haha!
My mom seems to be the one that is very happy with me being at home because my father is in a diet so he has many food that he couldn’t eat therefore she wasn’t really willing to try to make something as she doesn’t want to be the one that need to finish it all. But the situation is different now, I am here and she said “It’s good that you’re at home so I can try make everything that I wanted to and you can eat it” well… bring it on! trust me if this pandemic is over, I’ll promise myself that I will travel everywhere and won’t be at home until the foreseeable future haha 😉
Nothing can go wrong with Oreo I guess, so we made Oreo pudding 😉 and making pudding is really not hard mwahaha and hardly go wrong so it’s always a safe dessert option.
While me and my mom on the kitchen making this pudding, my father was making his own “green bean ice” in the living room and watching Narcos at the same time. He looked the video on youtube and make it without considering how much it will be and he really made a lot and he said to himself perhaps he will be able to finish it all in upcoming 2 months.
But that was what my mom wants…. so mommy got what she wanted, daddy also made his own dessert, what about moi?! I looked on how to “bake” a cake without egg and without an oven, so it was only using microwave. We have 2 types of microwaves, first was the very old probably over 30 years old of microwaves that I’m still surprise it still hasn’t kaputt yet and our brand new microwave! which…has a purpose as an oven! surprise surprise 😉
I followed Emma’s Goodies on youtube as her recipe looks very easy and all I need to do was to mix all the ingredients like flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, melted butter and warm water. Then… put it into a microwave for 5 mins! I like it!
To my father’s surprise the cake turns out pretty well! He’s the son of a baker in our little village so he always think cake needs egg, a mixer and the list goes on and on an on. Well, daddy now it isn’t! haha
With all of this, I’m officially saying goodbye to Summer body this year #adios!
Dear Netflix, one song just right for you: right from the start…. you were a thief, you stole my heart…. and I your willing victim…. #dam dam daradam. I let you see the parts of me that weren’t all that pretty (ofc, who will looks pretty when you’re binge watch the whole season in one day haha)
I have been obsessed with one TV series during this Covid-19 pandemic. Sneak peak what is it?!
I don’t have Netflix account for the 7 years time I was in Shanghai because I need VPN and meh the internet with VPN is not fast enough so I don’t feel the necessity of having the account. But now the situation is different, I’m in Indonesia, I don’t need VPN and I’ll be jobless soon so why don’t I watch something at Netflix? At the beginning I only want to watch Narcos Mexico 2 which released on Feb 13. I knew my sister is on Netflix and I asked to use her account, turns out it wasn’t hers, it’s her fiance, my kokoe- Dom that has the account. He shared it with my sister and now with me! haha He thought I was the “Kids” section but no no I have my own section!
Honestly speaking I’m not a big fan of TV series so I didn’t realized that Money Heist was already there since few years back and I knew it because it was on the home page of my section and they automatically played the trailer and I said to myself “why not?”
When I watched it on the first time the audio was in English and with English subtitles- Yes! I do need a subtitles! I realized the voice of the actors doesn’t match with the text but only some words, most of the words were matched so I still didn’t realized that it wasn’t an English series. Then I started to searched on google about actor who played The Professor and Berlin then I realized it was a Spanish series! From then on I switched the audio to Spanish 🙂
I like their song “Bella Ciao” and it stuck in my head for a looonggg time, although it’s an Italian song but… the Spanish version is also beautiful! Mixed with the scene when Professor and Berlin sang together and when Moscow succeed on digging the tunnel that deserve a four thumbs up! The song got stuck so much until I willing to learn how to play it on a keyboard 😉
And then I kept continuing to Part 2 and Part 3 and following their instagram and found out that Part 4 actually coming on April. Since I’m not familiar with Netflix before I thought they will release one episode per week… at least that’s how I remember from Game of Throne Season 8 where people keep waiting every week instead of binge watch it. But they released it all together! wohooo 😀
My second fav characters after El Professor is Berlin! I’m sad that he’s dead on Part 2 but on Part 3 he reappears so I’m sure I will see him on Part 4 and again, the song “Ti Amo” stuck in my head and guess what? I learned how to play it as well 😉
Thank you La Casa De Papel for having an amazing songs and thank you sooo much for marijan piano and musichelp youtube account that post a tutorial on how to learn that. I owe you bunch!
I really can’t wait for their Part 5 and I don’t know when will they release it and it’s such a tortura to wait for it. Well… until then we can all enjoy the hype of instagram filter about la casa de papel from netflix_in 🙂
Ha! Here comes the desert time 🙂 silly confession I just realized that the whole time I was making a pudding and not a cake mwaha! so indeed “Not Marina Kern” title is really suits as what she does is baking with the oven like big oven at her home and what Marlyn Praseli does is making a pudding-oven free 😉
This time we wanted to make a zebra pudding, why its called zebra? because that’s how the youtube chef called it mwahaha and as usual the ingredients are super easy to get, that’s the advantages of Marlyn’s dessert, no fancy thingy attached.
My mom was the one that doing video hunting of how to make it then she wrote down the recipes. My part was always cutting bread before put it on a blender and what happened with the left over bread? just eat it! don’t let it separated by its friends they need to be together on my tummy 😉
I really like when I had to mix the pot because after some time you can smell the smell? hee?? there is a scent or flavor or whatever it’s called and it’s soo yummy! And due to the natural color of the zebra, which is two so we need to make another one with the chocolate. Then we need to put it layer by layer so first is the white, next put the chocolate in the middle and keep going until it goes up.
and it’s ready! hihihi well not ready ready but semi-ready as we need to wait for it to be a bit cool down then put it on the fridge. Usually I will only be able to eat it after half day of putting it there.
And yasss! now is officially ready to be cut and let them all go together to my tummy so they can have meet and greet with their long last friend!
Uh yeah! although the stripes of the zebra was uneven but meh! doesn’t matter, this pudding will be gone very soon and need to make another one 😉
“One for all, all for one” for some reason it reminds me of the jargon that insurance company always use haha! due to Covid-19 we are not able to meet our uncle, aunts, cousins etc, not that we always meet each other without Covid-19 anyway haha #facepalm from time to time yes but not every-time, we have life to live haha! But this current situation made everything escalates to a higher level and a feeling of “need to connect” got a high priority.
My mother’s family is really big! She’s the 5th child out of 9! damn! I never understand the old jargon saying “more kids, more happiness” well maybe I understood some part of it, if you know what I mean 😉 #wink wink.
From her side I have 2 cousins that is in Australia and my aunt and her husband that is living in the USA but the rest is in Indonesia. We wanted to have a zoom call but we are actually more interested with my aunt and her husband that is in USA because we haven’t seen them since forever! they haven’t even installed zoom and don’t know how to use a computer, obviously they are like over 60! So, while waiting for them we do our own zoom testing and the one who participated always the same haha! #we are all the WFH-ers
Since I’m the one that is more familiar with zoom so every-time I’ll be the host but I only have 40 mins of free group call, don’t know why maybe it’s old account? because all of them that sign up now they have unlimited group calls… hmmmm
Anyway, I posted the link on our WA group and the one who joined always my cousin in AU, Santy in SG and my two uncles in Jakarta and this happened many times so we kept asking “is there anyone joining the call” but we got ignored so many times! haha because all of them waiting the eldest aunt to installed zoom and then make the video call.
I think it took my aunt 1 whole week to succeeded installing zoom and we can make the final call. Yes it is a final call because again, back to the jargon, one for all and all for one that I interpreted as once is enough! haha
My sister never replied to any of my link before but for this time she’s joining! but still not all of my uncles and aunt joined, people! sometimes its really hard if you have such a big family…
And what was the result of having 6+ people joining the call? CHAOS! as everyone talks at the same time and one said “ha? what did you say? I can’t hear you” while the other “who else joining, I want to watch soap opera”
And on the top we all have 11 people joined the call and the result is APOCALYPSE! since I’m the host once I silenced everyone and make the announcement “we can only hear if one people speak” but when I un-muted them all somehow they forgot this one and only rule pffffff to take a screenshot for them was always a struggle but finally we got one last shot!
Wogh! while my 40 mins was gone, we all said bye but the one who still wants to gossip will stay using my cousin’s number and where I was? I was gone as well!
Suddenly I was tired right after the call fiuhhh it consumed much of my energy! haha but thanks God the rumor of Zoom is unsafe and people can hacked it even though I’m sure nobody will hacked us, even if they succeed on hacking us, we have no valuable things to be hacked, no money and no info haha so mind as well the hacker quit by themselves. Some people started to uninstalled zoom, pity that the efforts of my aunt to installed it will never happens again haha! but lucky me! as I am and will not ready to have the second one! 😉
Bingo bingo bingo! this time I also succeed to make bingo! Yeay! However, while I’m looking back on the pictures for this bingo I kept rolling my eyes “why oh why Marlyn you need to wear that clothes?” but you have to consider that it was taken few years back and I’m sure at that time I thought it was the best clothes ever 😉
This bingo came from Susan: travel!
UK! oh no this is the moment where I rolled my eyes the most but again be in mind I went there when I was 16! Not even a legal age to do anything! haha 😉 and I went there for a homestay program from EF for 2 weeks with the hope that I can speak English after that and guess what? I didn’t speak any! haha I still remember at that time the currency between IDR and Pound-sterling was crazy 😮 (year 2007) and the fee was still crystal clear in my mind: 5000 Pounds! I went abroad before to Singapore but it was by boat 1.5 hours away so I didn’t really feel that I was in another country haha that’s why UK will always be my first country and perhaps that also the reason that it hold a special place in my corazon 🙂
That girl yes obviously that UK girl was the most beautiful girl I’ve ever known, very fashionable and very bubbly that unfortunately taken way too soon, she died on the age 19 (at that pic she was only 12) due to getting hit by a car when she was about to go to her part time job in a supermarket 🙁 Rest in Peace Katy Pancott, I will forever remember you!
The very first time I visit France and Netherlands was together with my UK trip. I was very mesmerized by the Eiffel Tower (and still am), I don’t really understand Netherlands at that time I only knew it smells bad but fast forward 10 years later when we went there again in year 2019 (read: when I grown up) I knew what kind of smell that was 😉
Korea was my premier trip with my sister, I think this time when she more or less graduated from Unpar so we were still very young, beginning of 20s haha
New Zealand was the first country where I rode a helicopter and I saw ice! not snow! but ice on the mountain, the snow is already on the road so I didn’t see it fall down from the sky but the snow was thick enough and super super enough to make a South East Asian girl very happy 😉 also the first country that I ever wear the wintery outfits and felt so cool to finally able to wear a leather jacket haha We went there because my sister graduated from ANU and we had a trip to NZ.
USA! I was only tag along actually it was my father that has a program from a bank where he worked to study in US for 2 weeks and I was still a student in Indonesia and on a semester break so yeap I joined the trip 🙂 actually he was supposed to go last year but he went to hospital instead so lucky me he postponed it to the following year haha the jetlag was surreal so while my father went to class, I was still sleeping at the hotel until afternoon 😉
Singapore, many many times! The first ever Universal Studio opened it was soooo hit in Indonesia and the Marina Bay Sands hotel! it’s a must to have a picture there 😉
Cambodia, a beautiful Angkor Wat!
Taiwan, the country that distance wise is very close with China but without a USA visa, I can’t go there as I need to go back home and apply it in Indonesia but lucky me I had that USA visa! so I can go there! and I really like Taiwan! although I didn’t read their characters because its written in an old traditional way but Taiwanese people are so nice and helpful!
Vietnam yaiss! I went there with my 2 little brothers from Donghua University. They are my friends for my whole student year! and I love them both! I called them 弟弟们 because at first I don’t speak Chinese that good and their Chinese name is so hard to pronounce let alone their Vietnamese name so I called them 大弟弟 and 小弟弟 which later on changed to just 弟弟. Thank you so much for picking me up at the airport, be my tour guide and let me stay at your place. Psst, one of them the 弟弟 already become a father! and his son is exactly looks like him! haha
Next is Thailand, I went there with my classmates from Donghua-Nan and Pisen, thanks for Nan family that drive me around and treat me like their own child. Also Pisen that kept quiet while we were all sleeping and you get lost when we want to visit Chocolate Village haha and then on some trips to I met a France born Vietnamese family and it was so funny because we all wearing the same kind of shirts! the elephants while riding the real elephants! and the local guide thought that I was one of their children as well haha well at least I got 3 brothers and 1 sister from that trip 😉 and I met with one of the brother again- Vinh at Paris few years later! and a memory that me and Vinh won’t forget was he got his first tattoo in Thailand and I was there to witness it together with his other brother Khang and Khoa they should made one also but they backed out haha!
Japan! Went there with my sister, my mom supposed to go also but she accompanied my father for doing unplanned surgery in Singapore on 10th Nov 2016! I still remember the day perfectly! We went without enough money so we kept withdrawing from ATM but the food etc was and is so expensive! and in the end because we all on a very tight budget we ate Ichiran ramen 5 days in a row not only because that was the cheapest and worth kind of a meal (I think 1100 JPY sth like that) but it was so good! and we like the concept of on a hmmm what is it’s called? small own table? the one that no need to interact with people around haha
Adhi
We met with our cousin- Adhi that was studying in Japan and me and my sister bought Kansai pass that is basically a transportation card that valid for 3 days (thank God it’s not consecutively) and we want to use it to the fullest so we kept using it and go to a very far place in the end I was dead tired 😮
Then my motherland, Indonesia!
China, my second home! thank you for hosting me for 7 years there! and thank you for having literally everything! the most impressive one was Harbin! thank you for giving me a feeling what -17 degree Celsius feels like! I have no idea how many body warmer sticker that I used and when I want to go out I need to wear 4 layers and inside the restaurant it was +20 degree and I was sweating hot this feeling is very uncomfortable.
Australia, oy oy oy! the home of koala? kangaroo? no it’s the home of my sister 🙂 I like that there are so many Indonesian in Aussie haha and Indonesian restaurants! wohoo the best!
Malaysia!!! my neighbor country that I got the chance to visit on year 2018 with the best crew ever! The crew that made my life in Shanghai more colorful than a rainbow <3 Big credits to Brendan that asked me to join this trip, he asked me on his bday party in Unico (this place doesn’t exist anymore) after midnight and after so many alcohol- his side, not mine 😉 so not sure if he’s aware what he’s asking but long story short I said yes! and heyyy the gang was awesome! I forever owe you a big thanks! haha
Germany and Italy! I went back to Europe after 10 years! It was for a business trip but I stole some weekend so I can visit my friends and have some sightseeing. I’m glad I can visit Benjamin and Beatrice again (also met in Shanghai after about 4 years apart)
Maldives the best resort ever! it will be so hard to beat this one. It is very expensive like very very! but it’s so worthy! Even though its a resort and mostly you always there but trust me you wont feel bored! They always have sth and buggy! so you don’t need to walk around that much just call the buggy and they will send you everywhere 😉
Well… well… these are all wonderful memories that we won’t be able to taste a glimpse of it in year 2020. Perhaps its the time to give Earth what it needs the most : REST! We need to bid a farewell to our dearest friend, Travel.
I really hope we can meet soon but if you need to take some time off, I understand. Please be assured that I still want to be with you. Big hugs and I miss you a lot!
With the pandemic of Covid-19 spreading all around the world, I guess people on social media is trying to do something to kill the time. A couple of weeks ago there was a very trendy “this or that” or “bingo” thingy running on Instagram, well at least that what happened in Indonesia and one of my friends also tagged me on it but I have no idea how to edit it to mine pffff so I couldn’t participate on those trend things…
Anyway, there was about Shanghai and Bandung. For Bandung…. I’m so ashamed I didnt even reach bingo haha! where all of these places? it’s a new one or? I don’t think I knew any of it!! #facepalm
So not active in the Uni
Have no idea what is these snacks!
BUT!! for Shanghai its BINGO ALL THE WAY!! haha I’ve spent 7 years of my life there so bring it on, Susan!
Learn a Shanghai dialect?! what is learning? I even participating on a “competition” haha they chose me and Frederick Visti (I called him Fimu) as Donghua representatives. Honestly speaking, we both forget everything and think that this is the shame of our lives, we were under 3 months intense class but none of it stuck in our brain 🙁 The show was on a local TV but really none of us remember anything T.T
Yesss! I found the video! not the final one because the article has been deleted by the author don’t know why. This is probably the first and my last time I went on a Television and it really made me appreciates all the actors now I really do understand why it took them months or even years to make a movie! It took us legit more than 4 hours to make a 4 mins video.
I went to a lllooooottttt of weekend trip! it’s basically a water town! me and my friends all went to almost all water town around Shanghai, yes it all looks the same, but we were a poor broke students what can we do besides went on a bus 1.5 hours away from Shanghai haha we don’t have budget to travel by plane 🙂 but it’s always fun because at that time our Chinese is not so good so we always got lost #facepalm
Christmas market was a highlight for me! I’m from Indonesia and Christmas there was and is not a big holiday so it was my first time to come there! and it became a tradition to at least got a feeling of Christmas vibe and I fall in love with the cup mwahaha so every year I always come back and buy the cup 😉 and yes my nails should follow the theme as well. Together with the first snow that I ever witness fall down from the sky. Once I noticed it, I grab my jacket and ran outside haha what a memory 🙂
Study in the library all day? yes of course I was a dedicated student! this is me and my team! all laowai that doesn’t understand what is what so it took us all day to figure it out 😉
Pisen (Thailand), Betty (Italy), Linas (Lithuania) and Zolo (Mongolia)
Have a crush on international friend? DEFINITELY! No questions asked 😉 I love all my friends that I met here some I’m still in contact even some who are not… I’m glad that I met you all XOXO
Eri- Japan
Russel- Turkmenistan
Ali-UK
Harim-Korea
Sara-Iran
Adil-Azerbajian
Bakhnur (Qina) -Kazakhstan
Say farewell?? Ouch too much! T.T
Syuke-Malaysia
Jennifer-Indonesia
Francois-France
Another Bingo for Shanghai from Kristopher #cool
Yuyuan Garden? Around CNY is the most beautiful one as they have a lot of lantern shows and yep it’s crowded 🙂
Anya- Shanghainese
Xin Tian Di, duh?! this is only the place for us (broke ass students) only to come and take picture on the fountain and go back mwhaha the restaurants are too pain for my wallet back then… and still now haha 😉
Oriental Pear Tower, Mr& Mrs. Bund, The Bund of course! These are the MUST! After 4 years in SH I only went once to Mr&Mrs. Bund and it was for my graduation when my parents were there mwahaha 😉 For The Bund? bring it in! we were there on 31st Dec and it was sooooo many people we saw the last countdown and fireworks there 😉 and after that nope we don’t want to go there anymore, once is enough!
First and Last NYE on the Bund
I think Muse on The Bund was the very first night club that I’ve ever been too. I was never go on a night club before and then it was after we had Christmas dinner so without plan and without proper clothes (me and Jennifer was wearing legit sweater jacket etc) and not a clothes to go out at all and yet we went to Muse on The Bund, feels a bit weird because every girls were wearing dress and minimum outfit while we were complete gear to fight for the weather haha
SH Movie Park and Thames Town this two far away place! yet still I was there mwahaha with my classmates 🙂 so fun! we didn’t even care how long the ride was and in fact we took metro or buses, what taxi? thats too expensive 😉
Chuandao (Japan) and Rosalin (Malaysia)
with Jennifer (Indonesia)
These (except picture with Syuke) was my memories during my 4 years being a student in Donghua University, crazy how time flies! and as I saw through the old pictures it made me laugh of how good the memories are and made me a bit emotional also as some of them I lose contact and I can’t find their number or wechat ID or even emails but I hope they remember the funny times that we had 🙂
Thank you Shanghai for the memories, I am forever grateful that I spent my 7 years time in this city. I promise you, once this pandemic is over, I will go to visit you all, Azerbajian, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Iran etc etc etc and I will search for you.
Until then, stay healthy! keep safe and from the bottom of my heart, thank you for the times that you shared with me and I love you all #big big hug from me to you <3
AHAHAHA! Sorry Marina for using your name without your consent but I can’t think of a better headline 😀
As China imposed a travel banned for foreigners started on 28th March until God knows when which means I am still in Indonesia and things getting surreal that I am and will be here way way way waaaaayyyy longer than I expected 😮
With losing my current job just around the corner and I am skeptical about the implementation of my so called “Plan A” , I need to stay sane!
My brothers from a disturbed family make a mouth watering bread last week and it motivates me to do the same! I mean, Marlyn move your ass and follow your brothers!
Thorben’s
Thorben’s
Wyatt’s
Hmmmm but I’m not Marina Kern! I don’t have all the necessary ingredients that make the object looks fancy so I went over to Youtube and find how to make something I mean just something! cake, bread etc that is easy to follow and with no complicated ingredients! And here I found the recipe of basic cheese cake and remember this is Marlyn Praseli’s style not Marina Kern’s style so the emphasize is different. Her was more on the star hotel presentation and me, eatable 😀
And see that plastic of sugar?!?! it’s like 120 gram of a real sugar! not like the “fake” (read: healthy) sugar that Marina used pssst!
and yes we only use blender and the pot! very basic, affordable and most important is doable! 😉 I feel like master chef already hahaha tadaamm!
and what can go wrong from this? Nothing! it’s done and it’s cheesy- I mean its a cheese flavor not cheesy cheesy you know.
One of the bright side from this pandemic time is I have all the time in the world and when its all over, I need to have a new skills and why not put baking as one of them??
Ofc the start always a basic but for sure it won’t stop there! I will look another video of how to make anything and hopefully the next zillion one will be as close as Marina Kern’s fancy style 🙂
Kolbano beach is only 27km away from Oetune but there wasn’t really a sign of “Welcome to Kolbano” or whatever so it was a bit of struggle to find where is the entrance, we indeed need to stop few times to ask where is the beach until we found a big giant rock and there it is. Never I’ve been so happy to find some kids there! Me and my mom each got a kid 😉
Mine was Age, while my mom was Alfa-both of them are 14 yo but they are soooooo small, well this is how 14yo Asian looks like 😉 they went to the beach straight after school to earn some money and we gave them however we like.
Age and Alfa
Age asked me to point my finger, to hold this stone and to make a ssssshhhhhh with my finger. I don’t really understand why should I do that but I trust that this kid knows what he’s doing 😉
Then he put some rocks to make a kind of “house” and stack it all together and I asked what the purpose of it? He told me to stand on the other side and when I looked at him he put the camera right infront of the stones so it looks bigger. He even asked me to jump while throwing some small stones and he got it on one shot!
I am so happy with Age because he is soooo smart and he also doesn’t have a phone so thanks to “My Trip, My Adventure” that taught him to do so! I kept asking “Age, where should I go now? where is the good spot again?” and he kept saying go here, go there, stand in here, blablabla. He knows how to use my phone more than I do!
Actually the spots for taking picture is finished there and he asked me if I already been to the top and can see the view of the blue sea? and I said no, do you want to come with us? haha so we asked both of them to go to the car and drive us there #this is not kidnapping 😉 and because they are so small so they sit in the front seat together #facepalm
Yes both of them share the seat 😉
He changed the filter by himself
They are a bit shy at first and I asked Age what is his fav subjects at school? and he said “theology” he can’t do math so well. I asked if they learn English and good things is they do! wogh! i’m glad, but for sure not so much as what 14 yo learn on Java island but at least they know other language other than Indonesian! haha
The driver asked me where to go? and I said just follow the kids, they know the place. Just keep going up until they said stop haha
I am so happy to meet those kids they are all smart and polite and don’t worry peeps I returned both Age and Alfa to where I found them on the first place. I really hope they got many customers every day so they can get some pocket money! Thanks kiddos 😉 and may God bless you all!
As a result of being “unpredictably” stuck … Marlyn just had her journey to the East! My father was worried that I might get bored if I don’t go anywhere so when he got a business trip schedule, he took me there. I went for sightseeing with Mom while he was on his schedule elsewhere.
HA! Now we got something to do which is making the itinerary! As this journey to the East is far already and not cheap people! so I need to make the most of it 🙂 There are many beaches there but the most most most most visit one are: Kolbano and Oetune Beach (one day because it’s located really far like 3 hours away from the city center) and Tablolong (not too far max 1.5 hours away). Besides the beach, there is a very popular cave called Crystal cave, I’m not a big fan of the cave itself but because we will be there for 3 days so…. why not.
Oetune beach is really cool it’s looks like a desert. The sand was sooooo hot at the end I kind of almost “fainted” due to the heat and there was no tree that could work as a shade.
And don’t think about swimming or snorkeling there because you can’t, even if you can you will not do it, in fact you could get a skin cancer if you stay that long on the beach, the heat was unbearable #sigh
And there was 3 kids that approached us and these are the kids that are looking for money. But how can they do that? They became our photographer and we gave them tips in the end however we like. I was quiet skeptical with them because hmmm how can they take pics? But well we gave our phone… it’s not that they will steal and run away with it anyway.
Turns out the kids really know how to take picture, put a vivid filter, black and white etc and I asked them if they have phone at home and learn it? and they said “No, but there was one TV shows called My Trip, My Adventure while they do the shooting here, they taught us how to do it so we can use this as our way to ask money from people” I was amazed by them because the shooting maybe only last for few days….but they memorize it all!
As this is the “dessert” so we can’t really do much but this kid still find a way to make some picture for example he spray some sands in front of the camera to make it looks like….. i don’t know 😉 just a bit artistic… maybe?? haha
These 2 boys also playing with the tree until they knocked it down….don’t know what the purpose… They also looking for mussels from the sands to give it to their mother or neighbor or whoever they want 🙂
We spent about 1 hour there because my feet are burning! haha
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and we asked the kids “can you go to Kolbano with us and take our pictures?” #it’s not kidnapping hey… but they said “there’s also another kids that will take pictures there” wow, cool! the hunting for second kid started!
