Bandung Spot

I want to share with you a place in my favorite city, yes it's Bandung city. I want to share a little bit of Tebing Keraton.

Tebing Keraton is a cliff that was still in the Taman Hutan Ir. Juanda area. Tebing Keraton is located Kampung Ciharegem Puncak, Ciburial, Bandung, Jawa Barat. From the cliffs we can enjoy the spectacular view. Instead of the lights of the city, but the jungle!

It's not hard to go there, just go to Dago Pakar, and then towards to Taman Hutan Ir. Juanda Area and turn right. You will passed many big houses and village. After that you will arrive in a stall with a large billboard that read 'Warung Bandrek' alias Warban. Warban is a popular place to cyclists. The journey has not been completed, park your vehicle through the rise and rocky road to the top post, directly in Tebing Keraton. Here, you can park the car and motorcycle. To achieve these cliffs, you only need to walk less than 5 minutes.

There Tebing Keraton above Forest Park Ir. H. Juanda. So from this cliff top, you can see the green scenery Forest Park Ir. H. Juanda which extend widely throughout the eye can see. This scene will be more beautiful, if you arrive before sunrise or approximately 6am. At that time, you can enjoy the atmosphere of the city who still shrouded in thick fog. Coupled with the beauty of the sun rising behind the hill in the east. All the beauty of its natural scenery is indeed the most fitting, if you capture with your camera.

I've tried to go there with bicycle with my friends haha. It's very very tired trip if you using bicycle. Because the road is so ascend. But it's payoff with the view of landscape of the Bandung city. But we can't reach the Tebing Keraton itself, we just only reach the Warung Bandrek point, because we already tired enough. What I most hated about the trip (hated but funny actually) is the trip from my school to Warung Bandrek it's takes for almost 5 hours. But when we go down back to the city, it's just takes time just for nearly 30 minutes...

Dewa Athena VII

Hi, I want to share with you about a event that held by my school. Actually this event been completed several times ago. But I wanna share my experience with you.

On Saturday morning on 21st of February, there was a event held by my school. It's called Dewa Athena VII. Dewa Athena VII it's like an olympic games where the participants are all students of 10th and 11th grade. This event is held every year. There's many categories of sports that will be contested such as futsal, basket, badminton and etc.

I went to Lapang Bali a little bit earlier than usual because I must there about 6am. It's because I must attended the opening ceremony of Dewa Athena VII. I wore a plain white t-shirt and black sport trousers as the dresscode. The opening ceremony itself a little bit off from schedule or ngaret. I must at Lapang Bali at 6am, but the opening ceremony itself started at around 7.30am. After some words from my principal, we had a little colour run around Indonesia (not all around the islands of Indonesia of course-_- but streets near my school named islands of Indonesia). So we started from Lapang Bali to Belitung street and continue to Taman Lalu Lintas and Jl. Sumatra. I slow down my pace because I'm not good at running (in distance), so I do a little jog while my friends passed me. And then I run to Jl. Banda and passed some of my friends that passed me earlier. And then I go back to Lapang Bali. At the gate of Lapang Bali, there's several committee that holding a big bottle of coloured water and ready to splash it to my clothes. Because few people a little bit shame to passtrough (especially girls), so I passed them and get splashed by coloured water. Fortunately, the coloured water is made with food coloring if not, maybe my white t-shirt will can't be washed and unusable. 

After that, the Dewa Athena VII begins. It began with a futsal match by Belitung Muda All Stars against XI IPA 3.I watched it because I really love futsal. And it was a very good match tho. After that, my class will play tarik tambang or tug of war. And the game began, it's so hard to pull the rope. No matter how hard you try to pull, the enemies will pull harder. And then we lost the game. 

In the afternoon, my class will play a futsal match, but the players aren't the boys but the girls. It's pretty unique actually, because I rarely watching women futsal, I just want to watch them play futsal. It quite funny actually, example when the ball is in front of the opened goalpost but the player kick the ball out to nowhere. Or in reverse, when a player goes on-by-one with the keeper, and the player shoot it but the keeper just looking at the ball passtrough her own goal without doing any effort to block the ball. 

Thanks for reading(y)

Migration of the Monarch Butterfly

The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae. It may be the most familiar North American butterfly. Its wings feature an easily recognizable orange and black pattern, with a wingspan of 8.9–10.2 cm (3½–4 in) (the viceroy butterfly is similar in color and pattern, but is markedly smaller and has an extra black stripe across the hind wing).

The eastern North American monarch population is notable for its multigenerational southward late-summer/autumnmigration from the United States and southern Canada to Mexico, covering thousands of miles. The western North American population of monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains most often migrate to sites in California but have been found in overwintering Mexico sites. Monarchs were transported to the international space station and were bred there.

Monarch butterflies are not able to survive the cold winters of most of the United States so they migrate south and west each autumn to escape the cold weather. The monarch migration usually starts in about October of each year, but can start earlier if the weather turns cold sooner than that.

The monarch butterflies will spend their winter hibernation in Mexico and some parts of Southern California where it is warm all year long. If the monarch lives in the Eastern states, usually east of the Rocky Mountains, it will migrate to Mexico and hibernate in oyamel fir trees. If the monarch butterfly lives west of the Rocky Mountains, then it will hibernate in and around Pacific Grove, California in eucalyptus trees. Monarch butterflies use the very same trees each and every year when they migrate, which seems odd because they aren’t the same butterflies that were there last year. Tmonarch butterfliesurth generation of monarch butterflies, so how do they know which trees are the right ones to hibernate in? Monarch butterflies are the only insect that migrates to a warmer climate that is 2,500 miles away each year.

Cullinary: My Favorite Food

Hello, I would to tell you about my favorite foods.

First of all, there is Tahu Gejrot.
Tahu gejrot is a sundanese food. I fall in love to this freakin awesome food because it's so delicious and the smell is nice. The taste is absolutely delicious and it's become more delicious if you add some green or red chilli more to add some spicy taste.

Second, Lasagna.
It's an Italiano food. Lasagna is a kind of pasta with some meat sauce with it. This multi layer pasta is so yummy and make you wanna more more and more.

Third, Sambal Leunca.
This is not a main food, this is a side food or the seasoning for other food. Yes, it's a sundanese food again. I love this food especially if it made by my mom. I cannot imagine how delicious eat some tempe with sambal leunca on it.

Last but not least, Gudeg.
A kind of sweet food from Jogja. I like the gudeg itself, but I more like (maybe in love, again.) the friend of the gudeg, it's called Krecek. Krecek is a very very hot and spicy food. It's made from the skin of a cow (ew gross), I know it's a little bit gross but after you taste it you will be addicted like you addicted to me. You never know if you never try, right?

Well, there are just not only my fav foods l, actually I have many favorite foods but that is the top of my list.

My Holiday

Hi, this time I'll tell you about my holiday few days ago.

At 25th December, me and family wanted to spent the holiday at Ciater, Subang. Well Ciater is located at Jalan Raya Subang, nearby Subang and Tangkuban Perahu. We started at 9 am, because is holiday season the road from Setiabudhi to Lembang is stuck and heavy (or I say hardcore) traffic jam.So we decided through Ciumbuleuit, and fortunately my father knows the road from Ciumbeleuit to Lembang. The road is not bad can I say, but the road has many sharp rises so theres many car that stuck and cannot continue to climb. We pass through Punclut or Puncrut area. Punclut is very well known place to see Bandung from the heights. We stop by a sundanese restaurant at Punclut. At the restaurant I found a huge praying mantis that camouflaged nearby the table and I can see Bandung from here, it's so beautiful bur unfortunately the sky became so cloudy and I heard many thunder pass by. After we take lunch we continue the journey. Again and again, we pas through sharp rises and small roads or jalan tikus. An one hour and half we finally arrived at Pasar Maribaya, Lembang. At Lembang there's a heavy traffic jam direction to Bandung. After we pass thru the traffic jam we continue way to Subang. We enterthe forrest near Tangkuban Perahu. It's so beautiful and the air is so cold and refreshing, so I turn down the window and enjoyed the fresh air. When we pass by Tangkuban Perahu, the road is little bit empty but and then there's huge rain coming by and visiblity is so bad just almost 20 meters ahead. It does not matter until the road awashed by water and cannot see the hole ahead. 10 minutes later the rain subsided. And 40 minutes later we arrived at Ciater Spa & Resort. My father took a villa for one night. After we arrived at the villa, I instantly jump to couch to take a nap. At the night we came to hot springs nearby, because we on the resort's guests we can enter the hot springs where ever we wanted for free. So I decided to enter the first class of entire the hot springs available. I cannot explain how good and cozy it feels when you soak at the hot springs in the night plus the cold of the rain. I asked a person beside me where he came from, he said he is from Jakarta and he said it tooks almost 3 hours just from to Setiabudhi to Lembang. At 10 pm I decided to take a bath and back to villa.

In the next morning, I take breakfast nearby the hotel. After having breakfast I wanted to took a walk along the Ciater hot springs. The area is so huge, at the rear section there's many horses and offroad trips but I'm not interested. So I walk by thru a little strawberry field and flying fox course. And when I arrived at the villa, I wanted to soak my foot at a little pool with a little hot spring in it. It feels so nice soaking your feet in hot water in the morning. I enjoyed it almost for 40 minutes, and when I took my foot off, my foot dried out like on old man because I soak it for too long. Ups. At the afternoon we went back home through Ciumbuleuit again, it doesn't matter it has many sharp rises like I said before, but important one that we won't stuck at traffic jam for almost 3 hours and maybe more.

1 hour then I arrived at home and I take a nap and feeling so satisfied.

Huge praying mantis that I found

Me in the middle of tea gardens

Soaking my foot in the little pool at morning

My Dreams

Honestly, I have lot of dreams, passion, ambition and anything I like tho. So, I will start telling you about my dreams, right?

First, I really like anything about racing. From motorcycle racing to car racing. I love watching race on tv, it's so fun, exciting, and there's possible that what unexpected happens. Like crash, accident, one racer angry to another racer and anything. So I want to be racer hehe.

Second, I love a wild animals suchass owl, racoon, wildcats, squirrel. I was had a wildcat once, be he escaped from my house. In the future I want to have a wild animal to be my own pet as long not against the laws.

Third, I love playing billiard. It's an unique sport, and I am quite good at playing billard in the game or in the real world. In the future I want to have a set of billiard table and maybe owning billiard playground maybe.

Last but not least, I want to be successful person and make my parents proud of me. I can't do that at now, but I promise I'll be successful person and make my parents proud in the future. Wish me luck maybe?

And that's all of my major dreams of all and wish me to accomplished my dreams above in the future. Thanks

The Ass And The Load Of Salt

Hi, I'm going to retell a story.

A Merchant, driving his Ass homeward from the seashore with a heavy load of salt, came to a river crossed by a shallow ford. They had crossed this river many times before without accident, but this time the Ass slipped and fell when halfway over. And when the Merchant at last got him to his feet, much of the salt had melted away. Delighted to find how much lighter his burden had become, the Ass finished the journey very gayly.

Next day the Merchant went for another load of salt. On the way home the Ass, remembering what had happened at the ford, purposely let himself fall into the water, and again got rid of most of his burden.

The angry Merchant immediately turned about and drove the Ass back to the seashore, where he loaded him with two great baskets of sponges. At the ford the Ass again tumbled over; but when he had scrambled to his feet, it was a very disconsolate Ass that dragged himself homeward under a load ten times heavier than before.

Moral: The same measures will not suit all circumstances.

(note: In this story, Ass in here means a donkey not ther Merchant's ass)