The Wedding Reception part 1

There’s so much things happened at the same time and need the same amount of attention. I don’t want to summarize everything in one post which can become very confusing at the end. Let’s start something that don’t need so much attention or should I say less job on my part. The wedding reception.

Yes, I’ve been married more than 5 months now but we haven’t done the wedding reception yet. So we have decided to do it on 19^th July 2008. Thank God, mak has been the best project manager and ensure everything ok. My part was quite small even though I’m the main character in this wedding ( with my co-star Zainal of course). I have to order the invitation cards. It was ok but there are few problems at the delivery and unnoticed mistake in the card (like my email address. Just hope nobody email me. Hehe).

I was also supposed to send the invitation to my friends but getting everybody’s address is a challenging task as most of the people change their handphone number like changing clothes. This is the disadvantage of selling cheap sim cards. Thank God for friendster and email, some people still can be contact, the rest I’m sorry. If you read this my dear long lost friend, please send your address to me by 25 Jun to munmzzz[at] gmail.com.

The next thing is inviting my office people. Should I invite him or not. Should I invite the whole department or just few people. If I invite the whole department, imagine production department, then there wouldn’t be enough place even for my family in that hall.

Oh yesss… we decided to do it in Dewan Siviks MBPJ. It was very nice place and can accommodate up to 900 people. A bit pricey for our budget. But at short notice, that’s the only date and place that available. Would love to have it at my abang’s reception which was at Dewan Jubli Perak, Shah Alam. But my mom find out that they have stop doing any weddings there since early this year. Furthermore, Dewan MBPJ was quite near to my house which is very important aspect if you are planning a wedding. Furthermore the cost of petrol has risen, so it is wise to focus to anywhere that near. Hehe.

What is pending for this event:

1. Cards that haven’t been send.
2. To find cheap shop to do tiny thank you cards.
3. To get all RSVP so estimate attendees.
   

Dateline: 4^th July 2008

In pain

I felt sick in the stomach. My left shoulder is in great pain.
I felt like sleeping 24/7. But sleeping make my shoulder pain worse.

What's wrong with me?

Ps: I'm going to P. Ramlee musical this Tuesday... yeay! Hope I am fine and better by then.

80 cent more? Come on...

It was 10 pm when I told my dearest hubby that the petrol price will increase tomorrow and I want to fill my car tank. He confidently said that the price hike will be in August. Disappointed, I watched TV. Suddenly at 11.20pm, he came telling me that what I said earlier was true. (It took few geeks at LowYatt.Net to make him believe that). Franticly, we rushed to the nearest petrol station.

Boy, the scene was a chaos. Hundreds of car from various area tried to cram into the Shell petrol station. Then we decided to go to next petrol station. It was lucky that Bangi has a lot of petrol station. Lastly we managed to queue at Petronas. It was almost 12am.
My dearest hubby was lining up in front of me. After filling the his car, it was my turn. By the time I parked in front the petrol kiosk (or whatever you call that thing), the Petronas man was pointing at the price. Oh my God, the price has gone up. I just missed few minutes. Damn it!

But I filled up the new expensive petrol anyway. Just to know how much has I missed. I realized it was a lot. Before this, RM50 can get 3/4 tank which equivalent to 26 litres. But now, RM50 won't get 1/2 of the tank of my car which equivalent to 18 litres only. AAAARRRRGGGGHHH!

I was so pissed off that when I suggested that we need to carpool, my dearest hubby has to agree. Kesian him, has to wake up early to send to work today. But I got the feeling that today is the only day we'll carpooling. It's kind of hard to car pool when I'm having a boss from hell like mine.

Pak Lah, can we have alternative energy for our car (Beside NGV)? Could we have the liberty to buy hybrid car like Toyota Prius? And where the hell is the car that use 50% water 50% petrol that was launch last (or last 2 years)? Why we need to protect Petronas so much? Life is getting expensive yet the salary remain the same. Sigh...

On bright side, my bunny Choki was extremely friendly with me, which rarely happen as he was closer to Zainal than me. It's as if he understand my anger and sadness. He was playing cheerfully by my side, jumping up and down on my lap and cheer me up a little bit. That's another reason why I love animals. They do understand us in some ways.

Yes, I got it.... for now

Unlike few days ago, I was unexcited to open the website as I thought the result won’t be there yet. Without hope, I clicked the website name and immediately a new link catch my eyes. OH MY GOD… The result is out already. With a prayer, I clicked and started typing my IC no. Without stopping reciting the prays, I waited until……

“Tahniah, anda ditawarkan….”

I couldn’t believe my eyes. With my hands still shaking, I called Zainal. I couldn't even formed a proper sentence to tell him. But he understood it anyway coz I've been talking about this for days already. Without I realized, my tears started to roll down as I spoke to him. This happy news means of leaving him for few months or maybe a year. At the same time the tears is for the happiness of finally my dream is almost coming true and of course I can leave my boss for good.

It felt funny to cry at 8.30am in the office. Luckily there's no people around me. To tell the truth, it's hurt inside to hold such an emotion. The feeling of so much happiness that you want to jump around and hug everybody that need to be contained.

So now, new plan has to be done on top on another huge project this July. I felt excited because my dream and ambition is one step closer to become a reality. But of course it came with a condition that emotionally painful. I don't want to leave my hubby even for a week. I don't know how to live without him anymore.

Trying to stay happy while working

I don't want to complain or whining here. Coz I think it can bored people to death. I tried to complain less to Zainal too. But when I kept all the burden quietly, I become stressed. When the mind is stressful, the body become weak. When the body become weak, it gets sick easily. The latest addition to stress-related disease is jaw pain. I hope it's related to stress coz according to Mr Google, it can also a symptom of heart disease. Nauzubillah, I don't want that too.

Try to keep a positive thought about my 6 Sigma project. The tollgate is next week but at this moment, I don't even have a goal. Sad right. Actually I have quite an idea about my project but today's coaching was making me more confused. At some point I really want to quit this. Thankfully I get a new Champion, someone who is actively involve and very enthusiastic. She is waaaayyy opposite of my boss obviously. My whole department is not supporting me on this 6 Sigma project. They kept asking me why I spend so much time on this. For God's sake, why don't you ask the management & maybe you need to try to do it yourself and you know how much time you need to spend on it. Add to my bluriness and the fact that everybody taught different ways to me.

There's a new guy in the department. And he asked a lot of questions. Questions that drive you crazy, eg: 'What room is that?' pointing at small room under the stairs and there's the signboard on top of the door showing 'Janitor'. On other occasion, he asked one of my colleagues what apple she's cutting and she just shoved the apple to him to make him stop asking questions. Some questions are ok to ask but most of time I want to scream at him to shut up and read the SOPs, coz all the answer is in the SOPs.

Ok, I must be cool down. I really hate this job am I?

Oh, the only part of this job I love is EHS Awareness Committee meeting. The best meeting ever. We laughed, we kutuking & it's very happy environment. And it's tommorrow. They are the best bunch of people I've worked with.

Try to remember this in my head everyday:
"God will not give you something that you can't handle, so don't stress." - Kelly Clarkson (I got this from the American Idol Final commercial).

for one more day

Have you read books written by Mitch Albom. You know the guy who wrote Tuesdays with Morrie and 5 People You Meet in Heaven. I bought 5 People You Meet in Heaven few years ago out of curiosity. I heard a lot about this book and I'm wondering what's so good about it. It turns out to be one of the best book I've read.

The story was simple. If one day you died and if you can meet 5 people that made an impact in your 60-70 years of life who would it be. You'll be surprised that some of them is someone you don't even expected. Furthermore, the book is not the Dewan Bahasa thick kind of book and the language he used is very simple.

So last 2 weeks I bought another of his book, 'For One More Day'. The story was about a guy who attempting suicide but failed. During the unconsciousness he met his mother who had died 8 years ago. It's like he revisited his mother life once again. He find out about the why his father left his family, how his mother struggled to give a good life to him and few other things.

It made you think that you can't take life for granted. How do you know when would be your last moment with your loved ones. For this guy, he had a chance to have one more day with his mother to know and said everything that needs to be said. But us, do we have it? Obviously not. What's over is over.

There's few quotation that was very nice from this book. Some my favourites are:

"-now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted."

"A child embarrassed by his mother is just a child who hasn't lived long enough."

"Going back to something is harder than you think."

"Here is what you are going to find out about marriage: you have to work at it together. And you have to love 3 things. You have to love

1. each other
2. your children
3. your marriage

what I mean by that last one is, there may be times that you fight and sometimes you and her won't like each other. But those are the times you have to love your marriage. It's like a third party. Look at your wedding photos. Look at the memories you've made. And if you believe in those memories, they will pull you back together."

Birthday present

While busying ironing a whole basket of my clothes, came my hubby from behind kissing my shoulder with saying Happy Birthday. Wow, without I realized it, I'm officially 25 years old. I have lived a quarter of century.

What have I achieved in this 25 years living in this world? Yup, every year we keep asking this question to ourselves right. Well, I get married for a start. Learning to be a wife and live independently without my family and embak. Hehe... embak did a lot of easing my daily life. But now I got my loving hubby. Beside that, life is pretty good (if minus my boss). Won't changed any of it.

Oh, for the birthday present, I got this:



As what like I wanted. This is our gift to each other. This responsibility needs mutual agreement from both party to ensure smooth sailing of the growth of this creature.

Our little baby name is Choki. Actually we got it for a week already. This cute boy was born in valentine's day, so that's mean he's 2 months plus already. He's a Netherlands Dwarf breed. That's explained the small and cute body of his. Still not quite used to us yet even though we let him running around the living room everyday.

He's so damn cute. Rasa nak picit-picit je. And Shahnon, nope, taking care a rabbit is not as hard as I imagine. To tell the truth it's easier than a cat. But to tame it, take a lot of patience compare to cats.

Papa bunny with naughty Choki

Even crab don't feel crap

I felt like a crap. I dunno if I woke up at the wrong side of bed but that’s the only side that I wake up everyday. Or is it because the first voice I heard today was my boss calling me even before I reached office. I dunno.

Life at work is becoming shitty and shittier. It’s true what my ex-colleague said before; even though your working with the best company with best benefit with the best colleague but if your boss is the total asshole, you won’t be happy. Because boss is the one who give you the performance rating and your KPIs every year. Boss is the one who determine your advancement in a company. Boss who can make or break you. Colleagues can make you laugh and share your tears but they won’t determine either you are going to stay at that spot forever or climb the ladder.

To make things worse everyday there are always somebody who resign. Turnover for this company is very high, no doubt about it. Even my close colleagues also has resigned. She’s the one who sat next to me and always become the place for luahan perasaan. I kinda miss her right now. Hmmm…

I know my boss don’t trust me. I don’t know why. Maybe I’m not a pharmacist and I kind of suck in formulation. What to do, they don’t teach drugs formulation in engineering department. Sometimes when I find out some new info (I read about this also okay… jangan harap nak suruh dia ajar ke ape) or I give some ideas for improvement, he just brushed off. Just now I heard someone in QC said that my boss said I can’t make decisions. I’m not sure if he meant that I’m not capable of making any decisions or at my level, I’m not supposed to make any decisions. Whatever he meant I don’t care. Now when people asked anything, I just asked them to wait for my boss. Then the people will know how always my boss gone and how always he talked around the bush which have no conclusion at the end. Padan muka. Shit la, one day if there’s a law saying that you can kill a person without being charged with anything, he’s in my top list.

Did I tell you that he’s my Champion for 6 Sigma? How unfortunate someone who has to be with his boss only. Some other candidate got to choose other head of department as their Champion. But I am stuck with this balloon. Just now a person remarked who’s the unlucky person who has him as Champion. When I admitted it was me, she just laugh away and wish me luck. Sedih tak?

All I want to do right now is crawling under the comforter and sleep forever with Zainal by my side. I don’t care about my KPIs, the 6 Sigma or any production problems anymore. I don’t care if tomorrow is holiday and this Sunday is my birthday. I just don’t care. I just want to be happy and stress-free. Is it hard to ask?

Ready or not

Ready or not, the hectic days are coming before I realized it. The Six Sigma Define stage training end yesterday. The Tollgate Review will be at the end of this month. It supposedly not that much work as we required to do around 10 presentation slides. But within that 10 slides, there's thousand of data that need to be collected. I don't mind collecting data and analysing it. But what I don't like is when it's involving other people/department. I don't have this ability to force people to get my data. When they started saying they are busy and such, I immediately back off. That's why I always get anything I need from another more than a week. Hai...am I too soft with people?

Beside Six Sigma, I have volunteered myself to become internal audit for ISO 9001 and cGMP. That was before I knew that I was selected as Green Belt candidate. So, I'll be going to internal audit training this week and the audit start week after next.

The question is.... when am I going to start collecting the data for my Six Sigma? Waaaaa....

On other note, I'm turning quarter century next week... Can't believe how fast we getting old. Was hopping to get a rabbit from hubby but I am not sure at this stage of workload, is it a wise idea to keep a pet especially the one that needs a lot of care. But I want one!! So tomorrow we will survey the rabbits.... =)

Oh, I want to watch the shitty AF now.

Green belt

I was chosen to do project under Six Sigma Green Belt second wave. To tell the truth, I'm secretly excited but mostly nervous. I'm nervous because I'm scared I can't achieve my KPI (key performance indicators) at the end of the year since I'm involving in this Six Sigma. I think this is a very good opportunity to improve myself in corporate world coz Green Belt certified surely can improve my paycheck tremendously. Hehe...

Seriously, I'm not even sure if my topic can have hard saving of RM500 000 in 6 months. I need to save that amount of money to obtain the green belt. That's something be scared of. Furthermore the increasing workload of my department has made the situation worse. I just wasted 2 days of this week writing something that would be discharged coz of my boss indecisive mind and degil problem. Shit la.

Next week I will go for the 3 days training for this six sigma thing. I've seen all the previous batch belters who need to work till late at night to finish this thing. Really really need to work hard for this thing. Worse still, your saving is not enough to qualify you. So you have to take another project to top up the balance. That's horror man. The good thing about being chose is that I don't need to do the continuous improvement project (CIP) that required every executive to do at least 2 a year. Haha..

At one point of the day in the office, I felt like stopping all my work at once and just enjoy the gift of technology, internet. And thankfully, I always have a lot of ideas to search for during office hour. But when I step into my house, my head when blank on what site to go. So I end up playing games or just watch tv.

I wish my new department colleague will get well soon and come back to work soon. Since she joined my department, she's been on leave for a week twice and now MC for a week plak. Hai, at the end, I felt like previous condition-me doing all the department job alone again. Sometimes I wonder if boss is programmed to have an allergic reaction to doing works. The weird thing is, they can write a 4 pages report by hand and ask us to type back. Can they just type instead of write it down? But they keep insisting the latest and best computer in the company. Weird but true.

So good luck to me.

Meow meow

There's a calender next to my office printer which highlight mother's love. Instead of putting human pictures, it posts picture of animals with their baby. Every month it showed different animal. It so happen in April, it showed a leopard hugging with her cub. Oh my God, that was the cutest picture ever.

The picture made me want a cat desperately. Every time I passed the printer, I will stare at the picture and missed more and more my pets. I missed the fishes that I promised to bring to new home but they are so big now and the aquarium is quite big too... So sorry guys...

Cats is no-no as we live in apartment right now. It won't have any suitable area for them to have a good life without disturbing our place. Geezzz... I want a pet!

I grew up with pets around me. From fish, rabbit, birds, chicken, turtles to iguana (only few months), we never have a shortage of animal to taken care and play around with. Cats will always be around; no matter the one that taken care of or volunteer to be taken care of (stray cat la). I love animals cause I can talk talk to them and pretend to get angry with them. Haha.

Whatever it is, I think whoever who hate animals are the one who don't have hearts. But I hate ants, mosquitoes & rats. The others are free to stay but please don't disturb me. And spider with long legs are everywhere in my house, not that I hate them but they made my house looked unkeep and there's a lot of spiderweb everywhere. Please spider with long legs, please stop making spiderwebs everywhere.

I'm the biggest fan because......

I am the biggest Celine Dion fan because...... because.......because....

Damn it... I hate contest that has slogan to be continued. I'm have trouble writing creatively for less than 150 characters. Not that I'm good if given 2000 words limit. Haha. Used to be quite good in writing in BM, but SPM result has tainted my self-confidence. So my career in writing just go down the drain.

Oh, back to the topic, I really really want to go to Celine Dion concert this April after missing BSB concert that day. (Some people didn't want caught dead at BSB concert la... Ceh, talk about being together through rain & shine...huhu...). But Celine Dion concert ticket is expensive. Can't afford to buy for 2 people (coz the other one is force to join. Nak harap volunteer, memang tak dapat la. He already asked me how to behave at that concert. Should he sleep or acting interested? Macam-macam la)

So I know the first 2 answers but the slogan thing........ Aaarrrghhh... tak tahu nak tulis ape.... Leen, any help? Got any idea? =)

Album part 2 (& final)

Apparently I forgot to continue the album post due to the work stress.... hehe... This is the last part and after this, no more wedding pictures okay....

The final product... Nice huh.... love it very much!!
(Don't like my pic on that cover though... I look fat...eurgh)

Give some holiday peace

Why sometimes God gives us a difficult person to deal with? Is it because He wanted us to appreciate the next one which is the good one? People always said that. Or is it that we already got the good one before but we never appreciate it. Now when we got the worst one, we’ll realize that the last want was one of the best. I hope it’s the 1st thought. Seriously I kept reminding that statement to myself whenever I have to deal with my boss (which is everyday). Seriously, his behaviour and attitude is unbearable. The latest one was this week and until today I felt angry towards him.

Yesterday was public holiday. So me and Zainal planned to use the free one night stay coupon at Genting First World Hotel. We booked the room a month ago for 18 Mar. We thought to go today but apparently the coupon is for non-peak day. So I applied half day leave on 18 and 1 day leave on 19. The public holiday on 20 will add another extra day of holiday. I already applied this leave at the end of February and was approved.

On 18 Mar morning, I reminded my boss that about my leave. And guess what? He made a big deal of it. At 12 pm suddenly he asked me to changed my leave la, postpone it because he wanted to discuss about something.. I told him that can we discuss it now, why wait in the evening (I know why-he wanted to leave for lunch early like always). So we discussed at that time. THAT something turned out to be everything that I’ve been telling him many times. Shit la. The discussion finished about 30 minutes only. I nearly wasted my leave and get myself burn with Zainal’s fury about this stuff. Can you believe it? And the sakit hati part was that he kept on repeating that I’m going on leave tomorrow and told other department boss who sat next to him about it. Hello? Is that necessary? It looks like as if I make something shitty that need to be told and laugh at. It’s not that I took a month leave. Only a day ok. Benci.

And today when I came to work, the clerk told me that my boss asked if I changed my leave. Bukan dah abis bincang ke?

This is not the first time this happen. Every time I wanted to take leave, 2 hours (or 1 hour) before the day end, he suddenly become kelam kabut and asked me to tell him what have I done so that if anyone ask him, he knows what to answer. Before this he never care to know what I’ve done. Or he asked me and then forgets the next minute. Therefore he always asks me to attend the management meeting so that I can answer on his behalf. Bengang tak.

Shit. Shit. Shit.

My vote goes to...

General election is coming in 3 days. It's hard to ignore if you stay in Malaysia. The side roads full of posters hanging, half hanging and scattered around. TV, radio, newspapers and internet is full of election coverage. At some point, I felt drowning in all these political agenda and wanna puke to all the sweet promises of candidates.

What I know is, this 8th March, I will use my right as a citizen of Malaysia to vote. So next time when I'm complaining about the leadership of this country or at my place (whoever will win) I have the right to do that. Nobody can't stop me. So those of you who didn't register or don't want to vote, keep your foot in your mouth and shut up. HAHA.

So who should I put an 'X' at? Dacing, roket, bulan mengambang, bulan separuh or buku (yes, my place got buku-very intellectual) which one can guarantee better future?

UNDI adalah RAHSIA.

On other story, but same topic, my boss likes to ask people who they want to vote. Paksa orang jawap plak tu. Tension betul la. Tahu la sokong Hindraf. Bencisss...

J.Co Donuts

In the midst of doing this boring BMR (batch manufacturing record) for simvastatin, suddenly I remembered my J.Co donuts. The chocolatey-taste-melt-in-my-mouth felt make me can’t wait to go home. This craze of J.Co is ridiculous. This is the second weeks in row we had J.Co donuts. Last week I was in KL area, I bought ½ dozen. Yesterday, after doing some errands in KL, I managed to stop by Pavilion just to get a dozen of J.Co. Managed to get 4 pieces of that Choco Loco. Seriously sedaaappp… memang buat you jadik loco la.

We (me & Zainal) had our first taste of this diet-spoiler thing in Bandung since our attempted to buy at Malaysia failed as we wouldn’t want to queue that long just to get.. well… donuts. At first I think it was ok la. It softer than Dunkin Donuts and I’m not a big fan of donuts. I am happy with the traditional donut, the one that sprinkle with refined sugar. So in Bandung I wasn’t quite sure what the hype of this J.Co thing. Oh yes, in Bandung, you don’t even have to queue up. There’s no line at all… The supir tu pun malas nak layan kitorg dgn aksi jakun kitorg… haha…

But then, last week I bought all this chocolatey donuts and realized, oh my God…… sungguh sedap la…. (apparently the flavour I bought at Bandung not so nice la)

Ok, typing this make me want that donuts more…. Nyum nyum…

(hope zainal didn’t finish up the donuts yet…. Oh yes, dia suka makan 1 new flavour donut sampai abis & baru cakap sedap. Ces…. Lepas ni, nampak je dia makan, terus je minta rase…haha)

Album part 1

Obviously I have no idea what to write.... therefore I keep posting the album pictures...hehe

Album part 0

Finally.... my album preview.... lame kena tunggu.... biasanye, hidup kena bersabar kan....

Fireworks

I love fireworks... I don't mind going to KLCC with thousands of non-Malaysian for Malaysia National Day at midnight just to watch the fireworks. I admire the pyrotechnics technology that they manage to show every year.

But since I rent at Kajang, fireworks suddenly become something that you never has to trouble yourself or wait twice a year. Fireworks seem like normal here. For every festival say Deepavali, Gong Xi Fa Chai, New Year, you name it, they have it. This is not mercun that just give you that loud bang sound but this is the full beautiful fireworks that you see at the KLCC or somewhere equivalent. Seriuosly, where the hell that this people gets all this supply. I want it too. I thought I want to have it during my wedding. Haha...

As I'm typing this, the fireworks have been exploding almost (if not more) an hour already. It's normal to watch 2 different places of firework at the same time. If you are lucky, you get to watch 3 places. I used to enjoy watching it from my 13th floor balcony but as people always said, too much of something is not good. I have lost the excitement of watching fireworks nowadays. Even the sound of it has become immune to my ears.

I'll post the picture that I took few minutes ago during typing this after I can find the card reader.

Honeymoon Trip to Bandung

A lot of people asked why we chose Bandung instead of Bali for honeymoon. Even the Bandung man himself. Well, Bali is so commercialized and next time I go to oceans, I want to dive. So we booked the package even before our solemnization date was confirmed.

We stayed at Arion Swiss Bel-hotel which is so wonderful. The staff are all very friendly and the room was okay and I think it was a wise choice. They even send us a fruit basket as our honeymoon gift. Even me forgot that I've mention that we are on honeymoon when I was booking.

In front of our boutique hotel

Lucky we have a supir (driver) who was good. He was very reliable and can be understood well. He knew where to go and suggested a beautiful restaurant which has the hillside overlooking Bandung city. He took us before sunset to experience the moment. Unfortunately we missed it as the day was cloudy. Anyway, the view was fantastic and the food was not bad. It was so cool and it was perfect setting for couple on honeymoon. 10 points for Irfan.

The so romantic restaurant -Sierra Cafe at Dago Paka

The shopping at Bandung is very bad for shopaholic coz it will make you go mad with shopping. There's a lot of factory outlet and there are all very very cheap. According to people all the items are original but maybe it has some defect that the factory send to the outlets. Can you imagine Louis Vuitton handbag at around RM200 only! I was going to buy it but at the end I bought LeSportSac instead coz I wanted it for so long. The LeSportSac that I saw in Malaysia was about RM200 but there I got it for RM70 only. I don't know what's the defect coz in my rough eyes, I can't find it. And I bought a lot of clothes. My regret was not buying more office shirts. I bought one only. Boleh tak. Irfan has brought us to very good FOs like Happening, Neutral. I also prefer Cascade and Heritage. Contrast to popular advices, Rumah Mode is happening but I didn't find anything I like there.

The happening Rumah Mode. Oh, that's not shopping bag from Rumah Mode.

The next day we went to Mount Tangkuban Perahu. We love the place but hate the people there. We were cheated big time. We spend almost RM300 at that place only after being cheated by these so called pity-us-we-are-just-farmers-trying-selling-something-to-support-our-family things. Irfan has warned us not to follow them but instead they were following us like vultures.

Anyway, at this place, this was the closest I've been to volcano crates. The smell was unbearable as it was smell of sulfur from the volcano. The last time the volcano erupted was in 1969 which was not long enough in my opinion. Takut jugak tetiba hari tu dier nak buat hal.

At Kawah Ratu. The biggest crate. Bahawa betul berdiri kat tepi tu...

On the way downhill of the Mount Tangkuban Perahu. Jauh okay...

Behind us is the 130C water from ground. Panas dan bau busuk plak tu..

We covered with mud that supposed to be good with the vultures being supergood to us before start selling overpriced items to us. The water at that area was around 20-30C only. Okay la... boleh celup kaki & tangan.

Oh, 1 thing in Bandung was that it has many J.Co outlet. Strangely that was the first time we ate J.Co donuts after the 1st attempt to eat it at Sunway Pyramid was failed after seeing long queues. There, it has not even has a queues. And I just found out that J.Co is an Indonesia product. No wonder Irfan was not impressed when we jakunly told him about J.Co.

The food at Bandung was quite cheap and not hard to find as it's population is majority Islam. Mosque is everywhere. You have to choose what to eat: Padang or Sundanese.

Of yes, there's another place that you should go, Pasar Baru. It's where you want to buy the traditional things in bandung - telekung, kebaya and lace. It's so cheap. I can imagine if I went with my mom. But this time I'm with a man, so the situation was different la. Oh, we were looking for cheap invitation cards for our reception when Irfan volunteer that he has a friend that do the printing job. He even gave us samples of cards to take home to choose from. It's beautiful and quite cheap. anybody interested, please call me. =)

The conclusion: the trip was great. It would be better if we can come back at later flight instead of morning flight on the 3rd day. Tak puas la... Next time I want to go again (especially when I want to change the whole wardrobe)