Oct 15, 2013

Tidung Island : A Paradise in North Jakarta

Started from an advice that a lecturer gave to us a few months ago, I decided to write more. This one was not a new story but since i do not travel quite often and recently my daily life is quite boring, so..... I think this one will be an interesting thing to write.

Did i ever tell you that i was a part of Buchaechum (부채춤-Korean Fan Dance)? Not yet? Ok, told you, just now ahahhaha. Yep, i was one of them since February 2012 for replacing a member that went exchange to Korea. This year we all decided to retire and teach our juniors to be the next generation. So we went to a 3 days 2 nights holiday to Tidung Island as a farewell party.

Tidung Island is a part of Kepulauan Seribu (Thousand Islands) which is located in North Jakarta. It was a small island with beautiful beach. We planned to have a farewell vacation here with all Buchaechum member, at least that was what we planned but most of Buchaechum members could not make it so we just had vacation with friends that wanted to go.

Here we are!!! Tidung Island!! 


Day 1

After about 2 hours and half journey, we arrived in Tidung Island. Thanks God i did not get seasick. We met our guide and headed to our cottage (actually it was not a cottage but i do not find any word that can describe it better). After we rested a little bit and had lunch we looked around the island. Lucky us because it was the end of holiday so there were not many people around. I heard there were almost 8,000 people came here in peak season.

blue sky, blue ocean, infinity!

Like i told before, Tidung Island is a small island but you still need bicycle if you want to walk around because it will be tiring if you go by foot. And the guide already prepare bicycles for us! We looked around some beaches and played in a beach that we thought the most beautiful one.

dunno why we still could pose on bicycle
girls in beach!
Amei and Ara
found a huge sea star, we named it Patrick
so called Jembatan Cinta (Love Bridge)
it was so refreshing, and hot ~,~
At night we had (seafood) BBQ on the beach. It was perfect! ahahahahaha i liked the beach in the night. It was deep dark if you saw at the water but when you saw above to the sky you would see sooooo~~~ many stars than you could see from your house. And the sound of waves made you feel how tiny you were. I like the atmosphere and also....the food.

quite, peaceful, and mysterious
nom nom nom, we ate seafood till we fed up only by look at them

still have time to camwhore lol
umi, ara, lika, amei, uyung, lulu

umi, ara, lika, amei, uyung

Day 2

Day 2 was our main event! we went snorkeling!!! yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! we took a small boat to snorkeling area. The most thing i regretted when i came here was the fact that i forgot how to swim! the pictures were definitely not good if you took it with you in life-vest. But it was exciting when fishes came to your hand to get their bread. Sometimes they mistook your fingers as bread so just enjoy it when they bite you.
heading to snorkeling area!
dyna, amei, lulu

ready to snorkel
uyung, lulu, amei

they were so wild, can you see the biscuit?


love all the view of fishes and corals



After snorkeling, we played banana boat. I have three words to describe it "just try it".

pose before feel the great hurt -__-
banana boat old man, amei, dyna, umi, ara

We spent almost our time playing on the beach and before dinner we went to watch sunset in the West part of the island. It was beautiful view to watch with your lover but the only problem here was it was the only part of the island where you can see the sunset so everybody came here.


we made umi to mermaid!!



Day 3

We woke up at 5.00 am to see the sunrise. Actually we should wake up at 5.00 but no one of us woke up on time because we were too tired that time. So our last day was such a waste only to pack our stuffs and take boat that depart at 10.00 am. After all, our vacation was so exciting! Thank you Tidung Island!! and see you next time!



Maybe i can come again next year after i learn (again) how to swim. But beside Tidung Island there are still many island that i can visit in Thousand Island, wish me have enough money to visit all of them. See you in my next post!

all photo credit to Dyna, Uyung, and Lika
thank you :)

Sep 2, 2013

Give a Little, Gain a Lot!

Give a Little, Gain a Lot!

That was a tagline that printed in a green T-shirt that i wore everyday for about 2 weeks on July. Yup! on July because it is already September it is not a new story but i must tell you how awesome it was!

So it was around mid June where i was lucky enough to participate in The Little Big Project Thailand for about 20 days in Thailand! My first time going aboard! Can you imagine it? when you had nothing to do and suddenly you were told that you would go to Thailand next week? And actually you only wrote the application for about 5 minutes because you did not really hope to be chosen. I was not sure if my application was good enough or it was just me being super lucky.

can you see my name? 

After a short preparation and some fight with my parents (yeah we had a little fight) I departed to Thailand on July 1st. Let me tell you why did i have a fight with my parents. So they did not believe that this program was legal and they worried if I would involve in human or woman trafficking, so my Mom made sure by visiting the Thailand Embassy and finally they allowed me to go (oh gosh -_-). Listen guys, The Little Big Project Thailand is the real things made by Tourism Authority of Thailand, so you do not need to worry if you do enter to the right site, i mean you are smart enough to know which is the real one and which is the fake one right?


May 11, 2013

[PROJECT] Happy Yappy POSTCARD

Hello guys, it has been about 1 month and half since the last time i wrote here
There are these and those and so many things i must do after KCD, Final test is just right in front of my eyes, papers, final projects are haunting me but unfortunately daily assignment wont go away -__-. I'am afraid i can survive till the very end..gosh i'm really serious this time!

And here it is, one of my final project!
It's an online shopping mall! yeah my Korean business' final project is making an online shopping mall...
It got me 2 days dealing with html code and made this blog... well so simple and not really awesome meh? but i was satisfied enough, because it looks like a real one! HAHAHAHA

Mar 26, 2013

Korean Culture Day 2013 : Seollal (A Celebration of Korean's New Year)

Hello guys! in today's update i will inform you about an event which is organized by University of Indonesia's Korean Studies!!! You must come and enjoy it! (because i take a part in this event so YOU MUST GO TO KCD 2013!! *LOL*

Mar 20, 2013

you made my day

Gonna post something about Takuya again! ehehehehehe!!
Finally after a long time, isnt it?
he just cut his hair and a few days ago he posted a picture of his new hair-style in his instagram
and today i just happened to draw him (again) ahahhaha
then i posted it in my own instagram, of course i didnt forget to mention him because to be honest i also love this one!

Feb 16, 2013

Random Post : Presents for myself :)

It has been a while since my last posting!
Well, school already started and homeworks keep coming like it wont end T__T
i'm back to my real life with homework in everywhere and everytime.
i even spend my weekend for doing it -__- it is the worst thing eveeer!

if you follow my twitter i'm sure you know that I had a trip to Jogja a few days before holiday met its end
it will be a looooong story if i wanna write about it so that i will only post about presents i bought for myself during my trip in Jogja!

First! of course it was postcards!


I bought 15 postcards which 5 of them are just usual tourist cards and 10 of them are -in my opinion- unique! The pictures in the cards were advertisement from Netherlands' colonial era in Indonesia.

Jan 31, 2013

PAS 2013: when a short moment became precious

ahaaay! amei is back amei is back amei is back~!
it has been about...... wait?! 2 months?!
guys i never thought i would abandon this blog for this long time, sorry >__<

This time i'll write about PAS activities 2013! yeay by the way, what is PAS? i guess you must be curious... PAS is Pacific Asia Society. Korean Students join PAS and they do some volunteer activities in some Pacific-Asia countries.  In Indonesia, they come to University of Indonesia (Depok) and Gadjah Mada University (Jogjakarta). Because i study in University of Indonesia i'll write about PAS team who visited us!

after food festival
photo credits by Fika