I am writing in Changi Airport right now. Still waiting for the departure time... 1 hour more to departure time....
Cannot wait for report to you all that.... AGAIN!!! Air China delayed again....
If you were reading newspaper or watching the news on tv, you might heard that there was snow storm in Beijing on Dec 30 which had caused many flights were delayed.
And I am the one of victims....
We had entered the craft without any problem. I found my seat and sit on it, waiting for the take-off announcement.
I did hear the announcement, but not for take-off..... it was announcement that there were big snow storm in beijing so that we have to wait for 2 hours in plane, sitting on the narrow seat.... Phew, I hope they have the information before we get in to the flight.... so that i can take the time for window-shopping in duty free shops hehehe
By the way, it was my first time to take flight from Kansai Airport without take the monorail to the departure gate.
I didn't know that there is Gate 111 in Kansai Airport which we no need to take the monorail, but have to take the bus to reach to the plane itself and take the stairways to get in.
I supposed to arrive at Beijing Airport on 12:20 but at last arrived at Beijing on about 14:00.
My next flight was 15:30. Ok, still have time for the next flight.
I ran to the transit counter but were told that the flight also delayed to 17:30
..... no words....
To the really really bad weather, no body to complain.
Just my bad luck... why must every time I take the Air China, she have to be delayed .... T_T
The result, the flight didn't depart from Beijing on 17:30 but 19:00 and I arrived at Changi Airport on 01:30AM (arrive time should be 21:30) My parents have waited for me at airport. Poor them for waiting for me till late night. It should be sleep time for them .... But to my surprise, they still very "genki" in this late night hahaha
I took the pictures at Beijing Airport and Changi Airport (Budget Terminal) but can't upload now.
Will upload when I back home. See you again and Happy New Year!
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Sunday, December 31, 2006
Monday, December 25, 2006
Back Home
Ticket to Singapore OK.
Ticket to Phuket OK.
Hotel at Phuket OK.
Live-Aboard Reservation OK.
Omiyage (gift?) for family OK.
(more than half of my suitcase contains omiyage haha)
Everythings had OK. The only thing to do is packing and counting days to Dec 30!! Will take Air China so got to transit at Beijing. It will be a tough trip, depart at 10 morning and arrive at 10 night!!
Too bad the business class on this route had full booking, otherwise I can upgrade by using my mileage....
Anyway, had upgrade for my Singapore - Beijing route. Looking foward for my first business class :)
The last thing to do is Pray! Praying for no any delay on the flight! (still remember the delay on Air China for my London trip?)
I have to take my flight on the next day, Dec 31 to Phuket. By Tiger Airways... the budget airlines from Singapore.
Hope there is no delay also for flight to Phuket. Phew.. cheap flight... so worry...
My schedule :
Dec 30 Osaka - Beijing - Singapore
Dec 31 Singapore - Phuket
Jan 1 - 2 Phuket
Jan 3 Phuket - Singapore - Bintan
Jan 3 - 8 Bintan and Batam Island
Jan 8 - 9 Batam - Spore - Beijing - Osaka
Wish me Luck !
Categories: my life, english, travel
Ticket to Phuket OK.
Hotel at Phuket OK.
Live-Aboard Reservation OK.
Omiyage (gift?) for family OK.
(more than half of my suitcase contains omiyage haha)
Everythings had OK. The only thing to do is packing and counting days to Dec 30!! Will take Air China so got to transit at Beijing. It will be a tough trip, depart at 10 morning and arrive at 10 night!!
Too bad the business class on this route had full booking, otherwise I can upgrade by using my mileage....
Anyway, had upgrade for my Singapore - Beijing route. Looking foward for my first business class :)
The last thing to do is Pray! Praying for no any delay on the flight! (still remember the delay on Air China for my London trip?)
I have to take my flight on the next day, Dec 31 to Phuket. By Tiger Airways... the budget airlines from Singapore.
Hope there is no delay also for flight to Phuket. Phew.. cheap flight... so worry...
My schedule :
Dec 30 Osaka - Beijing - Singapore
Dec 31 Singapore - Phuket
Jan 1 - 2 Phuket
Jan 3 Phuket - Singapore - Bintan
Jan 3 - 8 Bintan and Batam Island
Jan 8 - 9 Batam - Spore - Beijing - Osaka
Wish me Luck !
Categories: my life, english, travel
Merry X'mas
Christmas day... still working in office... yup... Christmas day is not a holiday in Japan. My friends still very surprise when i telling them today is not holiday in Japan. I thought I did told them last year or last last year that Christmas day IS NOT HOLIDAY in Japan....
In spite of Christmas day is not holiday in Japan, Japanese celebrate Christmas more than Indonesian, I think (Christmas day is a national holiday in Indonesia) All streets are full with Christmas decoration, Christmas illumination, Christmas song etc etc Everyday on december till Dec25 will have a ceremony to turn on the light of illumination of Christmas tree. Everybody reserve a Christmas cake, eat turkey etc etc (I saw a big truck full with Christmas cakes, very surprising. One of them is ours though heheh We had reserved it for our Christmas party at my friend's home). The most surprising that Christmas day is just like Valentine day in Japan. I personally very surprise when Hirai Ken been asked his opinion about Christmas. He would like to spent a whole night with his girlfriend in a suite room in a hotel, enjoying the champagne while soaking in the bath tub together. NO! That is valentine not christmas!! ーー；
Ah forget it, I am not celebrating Christmas anyway hehehe No need to grumble in here :P I just need 1 day more holiday (too greedy huh)
Last but not least, I would like to wish you all ☆ A Merry Merry Christmas ☆ Hope this Christmas is bringing all the joyness and happiness to you!!
Categories: my life, english
Saturday, December 16, 2006
帰国
珍しく朝6時に目覚ました。土曜日なのに
てか、昨日からパソコンつなぎっぱなしだし またもったいないことしちゃった あぁ～
ていうことで、朝からブログを書こうと。
木曜日に帰国のためのチケットを旅行会社から受けました。中国国際航空でｗ
前回イギリスに行った時も中国国際航空だったんですけど、大変でした。
あまりここに長い説明できないが、結局イギリスに着いたのは1日遅れた。
何が起こった？知りたい？英語になるけど、これも読んで → Air China ＾＾；
ま、読んでなくても、大体分かるよね
ひどい目あったが、今回もまた中国国際航空を乗ろうとしてる。なぜなら一番安いから！
12月30日出発なのに、込みこみ6万円！この安さ多分どこもないと思う。
いつもお世話になってる旅行会社から特別プライスを出してくれたの。
国に帰るというけど、航空券はシンガポールまで。シンガポールからまたさらに船で実家に帰ります。
大変なんで、いつも直行便にする。今回は初めて乗り継ぎ便にしました。
前回イギリスで貯まったマイレージでビジネスクラスアップグレード。
残念なことに、北京→シンガポール区間はすでにフルブッキングなんで、シンガポール→北京区間だけアップグレードできました。
初ビジネスクラス、楽しみ♪
Categories: travel, my life, japanese
てか、昨日からパソコンつなぎっぱなしだし またもったいないことしちゃった あぁ～
ていうことで、朝からブログを書こうと。
木曜日に帰国のためのチケットを旅行会社から受けました。中国国際航空でｗ
前回イギリスに行った時も中国国際航空だったんですけど、大変でした。
あまりここに長い説明できないが、結局イギリスに着いたのは1日遅れた。
何が起こった？知りたい？英語になるけど、これも読んで → Air China ＾＾；
ま、読んでなくても、大体分かるよね
ひどい目あったが、今回もまた中国国際航空を乗ろうとしてる。なぜなら一番安いから！
12月30日出発なのに、込みこみ6万円！この安さ多分どこもないと思う。
いつもお世話になってる旅行会社から特別プライスを出してくれたの。
国に帰るというけど、航空券はシンガポールまで。シンガポールからまたさらに船で実家に帰ります。
大変なんで、いつも直行便にする。今回は初めて乗り継ぎ便にしました。
前回イギリスで貯まったマイレージでビジネスクラスアップグレード。
残念なことに、北京→シンガポール区間はすでにフルブッキングなんで、シンガポール→北京区間だけアップグレードできました。
初ビジネスクラス、楽しみ♪
Categories: travel, my life, japanese
Friday, December 08, 2006
Piano
Lagi malas kerja ... ngeblog aja akh ...
Semalam nemenin teman gw beli cincin. Buat propose cewe-nya bo!! Ga nanggung2, belinya cincin Cartier, Christmas Limited Edition 2006. Harganya sekitar USD 2000. Denger dari dia sih emang mesti beli cincin yg setidaknya seharga 3 kali gaji. Padahal ga ada duit tuh dia, sampe bokap-nya minjemin kartu kredit gold ke dia hehehe (ceritanya bokapnya juga sreg banget ama calon mantu)
Baru aja masuk dept store, liat2 bentar langsung menuju konter Cartier. Belum 10 menit langsung OK! Pulang ditraktir makan cake favorit gw di HARBS. hihihi Kita sampe bikin bbrp rencana gimana nyerahin cincin buat cewenya. Pokoknya harus romantis, apalagi udah rencananya propose pas christmas eve. Ditambah emang suasana christmas di jepang pas malam penuh dengan kerlap-kerlip di jalanan. Pas banget deh.
Jadi ingat ama clipnya lagu Jo Sung Mo, "Piano" . Di klip tsb Jo Sung Mo loncat2 berpura2 mau metik bintang di langit, begitu buka telapak tangannya, ternyata ada cincin di genggamannya heheheh Kayanya jayus banget tapi teman gw punya niat doing the same thing kaya Jo Sung Mo hihihihi Barusan tadi gw kasih CD gw yg ada klip lagu Piano ini :P
Gw suka banget ama lagu "Piano" Ini lagu Jo Sung Mo yg pertama kali gw denger, jadi langsung suka ama suaranya. Video klipnya yg My First juga ok loh. Apalagi ada aktor favorit gw di klip, Oosawa Takao & Kim Jeung Un.
Semalam abis pulang ke rumah langsung nyari lagi di youtube. Ternyata masih ada. Padahal lumayan lama juga nih lagu. Kalo ga salah lagu th 2003. Would like to share with you guys. Here you are:
Categories: my life
Semalam nemenin teman gw beli cincin. Buat propose cewe-nya bo!! Ga nanggung2, belinya cincin Cartier, Christmas Limited Edition 2006. Harganya sekitar USD 2000. Denger dari dia sih emang mesti beli cincin yg setidaknya seharga 3 kali gaji. Padahal ga ada duit tuh dia, sampe bokap-nya minjemin kartu kredit gold ke dia hehehe (ceritanya bokapnya juga sreg banget ama calon mantu)
Baru aja masuk dept store, liat2 bentar langsung menuju konter Cartier. Belum 10 menit langsung OK! Pulang ditraktir makan cake favorit gw di HARBS. hihihi Kita sampe bikin bbrp rencana gimana nyerahin cincin buat cewenya. Pokoknya harus romantis, apalagi udah rencananya propose pas christmas eve. Ditambah emang suasana christmas di jepang pas malam penuh dengan kerlap-kerlip di jalanan. Pas banget deh.
Jadi ingat ama clipnya lagu Jo Sung Mo, "Piano" . Di klip tsb Jo Sung Mo loncat2 berpura2 mau metik bintang di langit, begitu buka telapak tangannya, ternyata ada cincin di genggamannya heheheh Kayanya jayus banget tapi teman gw punya niat doing the same thing kaya Jo Sung Mo hihihihi Barusan tadi gw kasih CD gw yg ada klip lagu Piano ini :P
Gw suka banget ama lagu "Piano" Ini lagu Jo Sung Mo yg pertama kali gw denger, jadi langsung suka ama suaranya. Video klipnya yg My First juga ok loh. Apalagi ada aktor favorit gw di klip, Oosawa Takao & Kim Jeung Un.
Semalam abis pulang ke rumah langsung nyari lagi di youtube. Ternyata masih ada. Padahal lumayan lama juga nih lagu. Kalo ga salah lagu th 2003. Would like to share with you guys. Here you are:
Piano by Jo Sung Mo
Categories: my life
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Xmas Party
Yesterday went to christmas party which held by my diving club. Yeah, quite early for christmas party anyway heheh We had seminar about diving from 13:30 ~ 17:30 and the party started on 18:30
Too bad, I was not fit on that day. Very bad stiff neck plus headache. It was ok on the seminar, but dun know, maybe too tired when attend that long seminar...
Very regret couldn't enjoy the party. Only ate a little bit of food although they look delicious to me. I thought I could be better by eating some food, but no appetite at all....
At last, i went home by taxi while the party still goes on.... yeah, went back without join the game in the party. Who knows I can hit a big prize if I could join the game haha
Anyway, in a bad headache condition, I still joined the auction and got a new APEX XTX50 regulator (diving equipment) which cost 120,750yen for only 22,000yen!!! :D
Categories: my life, english, diving
Too bad, I was not fit on that day. Very bad stiff neck plus headache. It was ok on the seminar, but dun know, maybe too tired when attend that long seminar...
Very regret couldn't enjoy the party. Only ate a little bit of food although they look delicious to me. I thought I could be better by eating some food, but no appetite at all....
At last, i went home by taxi while the party still goes on.... yeah, went back without join the game in the party. Who knows I can hit a big prize if I could join the game haha
Anyway, in a bad headache condition, I still joined the auction and got a new APEX XTX50 regulator (diving equipment) which cost 120,750yen for only 22,000yen!!! :D
Categories: my life, english, diving
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Last Day in Seoul
Although there was breakfast prepared at the guest house, we didn't have it as we always wake up on 9 or 10 hehe So we never had breakfast at Seoul but brunch everyday hehehe We had brunch in Insadong in this day. It was Konggugsu (콩국수), cold noodle with soy milk and Mandu (만두). Konggugsu is special dishes at summer. Quite surprise that we could have it in autumn.
The restaurant only have 3 menu, Konggugsu, Kalgugsu and Mandu. All is 5000 won each. Simple is the best :) Most of the local were having Kalgugsu, cause it is a hot noodle. I think no one will eat cold noodle in such cold weather except me. I saw Konggugsu before in tv and it looks delicious for me as i like soy milk very much. But after having it, I found it was not like as i expected. The soy milk/soup have the soy bean powder in it. I though it just like soy milk that we drink, no powder with it. And the soup was tasteless. Mix kimchi with it will make the konggugsu tastier.
There was an auction in Insangdong in this day. It was very interesting. The participants were asked to scoop the rice, and it must be as much as requested correctly. Then it will be weighed. If you can scoop the rice correctly, then you can bring home 10kgs rice. Of course i didn't try my luck at there. What I am going to do with the 10 kgs rice hahah (I think i can't scoop it correctly though :p)
We spent the whole day for shopping in Dongdaemun and Myeongdong. Although we came to Dongdaemun with my parents before, we didn't have enough time at that time. So this day we can explore more. After shopped a bit, we felt hungry so we ate in the food court in Doota. We had a korean style mixed fried rice.
Shopped enough in Dongdaemun, we move to Myeongdong. We went to Myeongdong almost everyday hahah. Yeah we like Myeongdong very much. I like to shop at the street stall in here. There are many cute accessories sold in here. And also the food stall. We found a stall with many ppls were in line to buy the snack. It called Hotteok (호떡), kinda chinese pancake with melted brown sugar inside. It was very delicious, especially have it in this cold weather.
We ate the hotteok at the corner of street nearby the stall, and met 2 obasan who came from Japan. Have a nice talk with them. There are many japanese tourist coming to Seoul nowdays. Most of the seller in Myeongdong can speak some japanese. Even I didn't say any japanese with them, they always reply me in Japanese (some of them reply me in chinese tho- )
I think I will very very surprised if they can reply me in Indonesian hahaha
In Korea, Japanese is usable than English. One of the shop attendant in duty free shop in Myeongdong tried very hard to speak english with me, and I didn't expect that she would asked me "mousiwake gozaimasen ga, okyaku-sama wa nihongjin desuka " which mean, i am sorry, may I know if you are a japanese? Yes, she asked me in japanese directly, not in english! I told her that I can understand japanese, and then! You know what?!! Her japanese is very fluently!!! : )
Anyway, our main purpose back to Myeongdong in this day was for shopping in Duty Free Shop. I only know DFS in Myeongdong and I afraid we wouldn't have enough time to shop in airport. We bought in DFS Myeongdong and then we have to redeem it in the airport. Quite troublesome though.
We ended our journey in one nice street stall in Myeongdong. Most of my travel, I will ended my last dinner in a nice restaurant. But not in Korea, I will more like to eat in street stall. Will prefer to order some "anju" and have "soju" hehehe We ordered Pajon ( 파전) , the green onion pancake which more popular called Chijimi. And fried egg, and also the mussel, just like the one we ate at the first day. And of course with soju :) Surprisingly, we could pay the bill by credit card. Thumb up!! hehe
The next morning, for the first time we had the simple breakfast at the guest house. Then check-out and took the airport bus to Incheon airport. We had our lunch at airport. I had kimbap and my brother had a chige. I always wanted to eat kimbab while in the city, but always ended by order another food that i never tried before.... too bad, the kimbab in airport is not as delicious as I ate before in city. Wouldn't order kimbab in airport again! :P
If you read my Seoul travelogue from the first day, you will find that we were not doing any sightseeing activity in Seoul. Yes, we just shopping and eating and eating hehehe And for me, plus for practice my korean ;) Although I can't speak korean fluently, my bad korean still usable when buy something, ask for bargain, ask the direction when we get lost etc. I think my korean will improve if I stay longer : ) Sure will visit korea again!!
Categories: travel, english, korea
The restaurant only have 3 menu, Konggugsu, Kalgugsu and Mandu. All is 5000 won each. Simple is the best :) Most of the local were having Kalgugsu, cause it is a hot noodle. I think no one will eat cold noodle in such cold weather except me. I saw Konggugsu before in tv and it looks delicious for me as i like soy milk very much. But after having it, I found it was not like as i expected. The soy milk/soup have the soy bean powder in it. I though it just like soy milk that we drink, no powder with it. And the soup was tasteless. Mix kimchi with it will make the konggugsu tastier.
There was an auction in Insangdong in this day. It was very interesting. The participants were asked to scoop the rice, and it must be as much as requested correctly. Then it will be weighed. If you can scoop the rice correctly, then you can bring home 10kgs rice. Of course i didn't try my luck at there. What I am going to do with the 10 kgs rice hahah (I think i can't scoop it correctly though :p)
We spent the whole day for shopping in Dongdaemun and Myeongdong. Although we came to Dongdaemun with my parents before, we didn't have enough time at that time. So this day we can explore more. After shopped a bit, we felt hungry so we ate in the food court in Doota. We had a korean style mixed fried rice.
Shopped enough in Dongdaemun, we move to Myeongdong. We went to Myeongdong almost everyday hahah. Yeah we like Myeongdong very much. I like to shop at the street stall in here. There are many cute accessories sold in here. And also the food stall. We found a stall with many ppls were in line to buy the snack. It called Hotteok (호떡), kinda chinese pancake with melted brown sugar inside. It was very delicious, especially have it in this cold weather.
We ate the hotteok at the corner of street nearby the stall, and met 2 obasan who came from Japan. Have a nice talk with them. There are many japanese tourist coming to Seoul nowdays. Most of the seller in Myeongdong can speak some japanese. Even I didn't say any japanese with them, they always reply me in Japanese (some of them reply me in chinese tho- )
I think I will very very surprised if they can reply me in Indonesian hahaha
In Korea, Japanese is usable than English. One of the shop attendant in duty free shop in Myeongdong tried very hard to speak english with me, and I didn't expect that she would asked me "mousiwake gozaimasen ga, okyaku-sama wa nihongjin desuka " which mean, i am sorry, may I know if you are a japanese? Yes, she asked me in japanese directly, not in english! I told her that I can understand japanese, and then! You know what?!! Her japanese is very fluently!!! : )
Anyway, our main purpose back to Myeongdong in this day was for shopping in Duty Free Shop. I only know DFS in Myeongdong and I afraid we wouldn't have enough time to shop in airport. We bought in DFS Myeongdong and then we have to redeem it in the airport. Quite troublesome though.
We ended our journey in one nice street stall in Myeongdong. Most of my travel, I will ended my last dinner in a nice restaurant. But not in Korea, I will more like to eat in street stall. Will prefer to order some "anju" and have "soju" hehehe We ordered Pajon ( 파전) , the green onion pancake which more popular called Chijimi. And fried egg, and also the mussel, just like the one we ate at the first day. And of course with soju :) Surprisingly, we could pay the bill by credit card. Thumb up!! hehe
The next morning, for the first time we had the simple breakfast at the guest house. Then check-out and took the airport bus to Incheon airport. We had our lunch at airport. I had kimbap and my brother had a chige. I always wanted to eat kimbab while in the city, but always ended by order another food that i never tried before.... too bad, the kimbab in airport is not as delicious as I ate before in city. Wouldn't order kimbab in airport again! :P
If you read my Seoul travelogue from the first day, you will find that we were not doing any sightseeing activity in Seoul. Yes, we just shopping and eating and eating hehehe And for me, plus for practice my korean ;) Although I can't speak korean fluently, my bad korean still usable when buy something, ask for bargain, ask the direction when we get lost etc. I think my korean will improve if I stay longer : ) Sure will visit korea again!!
Categories: travel, english, korea
Saturday, November 25, 2006
3rd Day in Seoul
Left Riviera Hotel at 7AM. That's why I hate a tour pack. You have to wake up early!!.... Then my parents continue their tour to Mt. Sorak and we continue our Seoul journey hehe
Bringing the hostel map which show in my camera display, we asked some peoples for the hostel location. There was a kind ajuma who run a groceries shop nearby. She is very kind to call the hostel for me. But too bad no one picked up the phone. Ajuma can speak korean and spannish but no english. She always spoke spannish to me although i always tried to speak korean with her hahaha I think i can understand korean more than spannish though....
The hostel was Beewon Guest House. The room is ok. Only differs 3000won with the hostel at first night, we can have a private ensuite room + tv + refrigerator + breakfast. But only can score this hostel 70 from 100 cause the bathroom was too stinky :P I have to spray my perfume everyday at the toilet --; It was a new perfume and i did like the smell. But after stayed at this hostel, every time i smelled my perfume, it will remind me back to toilet smell.... gosh! I think i will not use this new perfume for one year, maybe... haha
For brunch in this day, I had a Sundubu Chige (순두부 찌게), a tofu chige and my brother had a Cheyugdopbap ( 재육덮밥 ), spicy pork mixed with vegetable and rice. We just order by picture and asked the name after ate it. My brother quite disappointed that he ordered cheyugdopbap because his korean friend always make this kind of food for him. All the pictures looked same on the menu as all is red heheh He should order another dishes that he never eat.
As it was too early, the shops in Insadong had not open. So we went to Namdaemong directly. Found nothing interest in there, we bought a fish cake stick (don't know what is the name) and walked to Myeongdong. We tried Jimjilbang ( 찜질방 ), a korean style sauna in here. If you ever watched korean drama, I bet you know what kind of sauna it is. There are many facilities in here such as game center, internet, nail-art, massage etc. You can sleep all day in here or even stay a night at here. We stayed 4 hours in here. It should be a refresh station for me from tiredness but dun know why after i had the sport massage in here, i suddenly got a terrible headache. Couldn't sleep well in Jimjilbang.... but it seems like a great refresh for my brother though. Lucky him!
We met my friend, Heesun-shi after out from Jiljimbang. While waiting for her, we had a korean style sausages which they call "Sunde" (순대). There are really many kind of foods we can try in Seoul. Although we had promised to Heesun-shi that we will have dinner together, we still couldn't reject the sunde charm hehehe
We had a nice nice barbecue and Kalbeechim (갈비찜), korean steamed beef ribs for dinner. My first time to have Kalbeechim. It was spicy and a little bit sweet. I am so sorry to Heesun-shi that I couldn't had a nice drink with here due to my headache. So she drank with my brother . Seems like every korean can drink very well ^^;
After dinner, we went to karaoke which the koreans will call it Norebang (노래방). I saw many norebang in seoul, and i think it much more than in Japan. Koreanese must be very like to sing more than japanese, i think hehe. Karaoke in korea is much cheaper than japan, as the fee is per room not per person. More ppls then more reasonable the price will be. Same as Indonesian system.
Categories: travel, english, korea
Bringing the hostel map which show in my camera display, we asked some peoples for the hostel location. There was a kind ajuma who run a groceries shop nearby. She is very kind to call the hostel for me. But too bad no one picked up the phone. Ajuma can speak korean and spannish but no english. She always spoke spannish to me although i always tried to speak korean with her hahaha I think i can understand korean more than spannish though....
The hostel was Beewon Guest House. The room is ok. Only differs 3000won with the hostel at first night, we can have a private ensuite room + tv + refrigerator + breakfast. But only can score this hostel 70 from 100 cause the bathroom was too stinky :P I have to spray my perfume everyday at the toilet --; It was a new perfume and i did like the smell. But after stayed at this hostel, every time i smelled my perfume, it will remind me back to toilet smell.... gosh! I think i will not use this new perfume for one year, maybe... haha
For brunch in this day, I had a Sundubu Chige (순두부 찌게), a tofu chige and my brother had a Cheyugdopbap ( 재육덮밥 ), spicy pork mixed with vegetable and rice. We just order by picture and asked the name after ate it. My brother quite disappointed that he ordered cheyugdopbap because his korean friend always make this kind of food for him. All the pictures looked same on the menu as all is red heheh He should order another dishes that he never eat.
As it was too early, the shops in Insadong had not open. So we went to Namdaemong directly. Found nothing interest in there, we bought a fish cake stick (don't know what is the name) and walked to Myeongdong. We tried Jimjilbang ( 찜질방 ), a korean style sauna in here. If you ever watched korean drama, I bet you know what kind of sauna it is. There are many facilities in here such as game center, internet, nail-art, massage etc. You can sleep all day in here or even stay a night at here. We stayed 4 hours in here. It should be a refresh station for me from tiredness but dun know why after i had the sport massage in here, i suddenly got a terrible headache. Couldn't sleep well in Jimjilbang.... but it seems like a great refresh for my brother though. Lucky him!
We met my friend, Heesun-shi after out from Jiljimbang. While waiting for her, we had a korean style sausages which they call "Sunde" (순대). There are really many kind of foods we can try in Seoul. Although we had promised to Heesun-shi that we will have dinner together, we still couldn't reject the sunde charm hehehe
We had a nice nice barbecue and Kalbeechim (갈비찜), korean steamed beef ribs for dinner. My first time to have Kalbeechim. It was spicy and a little bit sweet. I am so sorry to Heesun-shi that I couldn't had a nice drink with here due to my headache. So she drank with my brother . Seems like every korean can drink very well ^^;
After dinner, we went to karaoke which the koreans will call it Norebang (노래방). I saw many norebang in seoul, and i think it much more than in Japan. Koreanese must be very like to sing more than japanese, i think hehe. Karaoke in korea is much cheaper than japan, as the fee is per room not per person. More ppls then more reasonable the price will be. Same as Indonesian system.
Categories: travel, english, korea
Friday, November 24, 2006
Everland
Check-out the hotel at the next morning and had brunch around Daehanong. I had a Manduguk (만두국) and my brother had a Bibimbap (비빔밥), one of the famous dish in Korea. At first I ordered Manduguk cause i wanted to eat porridge but it was not a porridge!! I had forgot porridge is "cuk" not "guk" hehehe Btw, "guk" means soup. The Mandugug was ok anyway. There is only dumpling and soup with egg, but one manduguk can make you full enough. The portion quite big.
Then we move to Riviera Hotel at Kangnam area. My parents will stay at this hotel with their tour group so we joined them in here. As the tour group will arrive at night after back from Everland, we left our luggage at the front office. I didn't know if they will give us such service as i didn't book the hotel at there. Thanks to the japanese girl that I met in guest house. She taught me this brilliant idea. I don't need to left my luggage at station :P
But too bad, she also gave me a not-so-good idea. She said the bus stop from the hotel is not so far so we can take taxi instead of subway. But it was sunday, the road quite crowded, so our taxi driver took us by another route through high-way. And know what, the cost was 15,800 won!!! And the worst thing is the driver took us to wrong bus terminal.... then we still have to take subway to the bus stop.
And the result, we arrived in Everland at 3 PM ... raining... bad time bad condition. Met my parents and sister with her family in here. Just took some pictures in here. Didn't enter any attraction. Enter fee was 26,000 won (Free pass ticket is 33,000won)
From Everland, the tour group will going to Dongdaemun so we left first to take public bus and meet them later at Dongdaemun. From Dongdamun, was planning to visit Myeongdong but cause the rain, the tour had canceled the plan and back to hotel directly. I handed my luggage ticket to my father so that he can redeem my luggage first when he arrived at hotel. Of course, I have wrote my father's name on the ticket :) We didn't join the tour group bus as the guide said she will feel bad to another customer.
The bus stopped at Kangnam so that we still have to take subway to Dongdaemun. Still raining... we were thinking to buy a umbrella so we went to convenience store. But we didn't buy it (too expensive) and turned to buy beer instead haha Since we have beer, we stop at a dalk gochi stall and eat. Dalk gochi with beer. hmm good combination :p We had odeng as well. My parents were having samgyetang, the ginseng chicken soup at the restaurant at that time ^^;
We searched hostel for next day at subway station (free internet) and found a hostel at Insadong area. Called and booked directly to the hostel. We also took the picture of the hostel map on the monitor ^^; So fond of this korean station service. Almost all big station have computer inside the staion. You can browse internet, transfer your memory card to computer and simply send to your email. And also you can recharge your mobile's battery. Feel secure for the next day things, we back to Riviera hotel to join our parents. At last, we met our parents only on this day. We supposed to be can meet one more day when they back from Mt. Sorak, but too bad the tour had changed the schedule.....
Categories: travel, english, korea
Then we move to Riviera Hotel at Kangnam area. My parents will stay at this hotel with their tour group so we joined them in here. As the tour group will arrive at night after back from Everland, we left our luggage at the front office. I didn't know if they will give us such service as i didn't book the hotel at there. Thanks to the japanese girl that I met in guest house. She taught me this brilliant idea. I don't need to left my luggage at station :P
But too bad, she also gave me a not-so-good idea. She said the bus stop from the hotel is not so far so we can take taxi instead of subway. But it was sunday, the road quite crowded, so our taxi driver took us by another route through high-way. And know what, the cost was 15,800 won!!! And the worst thing is the driver took us to wrong bus terminal.... then we still have to take subway to the bus stop.
And the result, we arrived in Everland at 3 PM ... raining... bad time bad condition. Met my parents and sister with her family in here. Just took some pictures in here. Didn't enter any attraction. Enter fee was 26,000 won (Free pass ticket is 33,000won)
From Everland, the tour group will going to Dongdaemun so we left first to take public bus and meet them later at Dongdaemun. From Dongdamun, was planning to visit Myeongdong but cause the rain, the tour had canceled the plan and back to hotel directly. I handed my luggage ticket to my father so that he can redeem my luggage first when he arrived at hotel. Of course, I have wrote my father's name on the ticket :) We didn't join the tour group bus as the guide said she will feel bad to another customer.
The bus stopped at Kangnam so that we still have to take subway to Dongdaemun. Still raining... we were thinking to buy a umbrella so we went to convenience store. But we didn't buy it (too expensive) and turned to buy beer instead haha Since we have beer, we stop at a dalk gochi stall and eat. Dalk gochi with beer. hmm good combination :p We had odeng as well. My parents were having samgyetang, the ginseng chicken soup at the restaurant at that time ^^;
We searched hostel for next day at subway station (free internet) and found a hostel at Insadong area. Called and booked directly to the hostel. We also took the picture of the hostel map on the monitor ^^; So fond of this korean station service. Almost all big station have computer inside the staion. You can browse internet, transfer your memory card to computer and simply send to your email. And also you can recharge your mobile's battery. Feel secure for the next day things, we back to Riviera hotel to join our parents. At last, we met our parents only on this day. We supposed to be can meet one more day when they back from Mt. Sorak, but too bad the tour had changed the schedule.....
Categories: travel, english, korea
Seoul First Day
Already one month past since after I went to Seoul. Too busy..hmm or must I say, too lazy, honestly hehehe. Went to Seoul on Oct 21~25 with my younger brother (3 days after back from Hongkong!). Our main purpose going there was for meeting my parents and sister who were joining tour in Korea but at last we only met them 1 day in Everland due their tour schedule suddenly had been changed T_T.
Our ticket quite cheap. Only 23,200yen + tax 9250yen. We would not be informed what flight and what time will we have until 10 days before the departure. Well, since it is not my first trip to korea, it was ok for me. Cheaper ticket is better. Quite lucky we had Asiana Airline and could earn 1000 more mileage on this low fare (I thought I can't earn miles from this kind of budget ticket). Flight time was not bad too!
We supposed to arrive at the guest house on 5 PM but we didn't notice when the bus driver asked if anyone getting off at the stop that we would like to go. How could we understand what he talking about as he spoke korean!!! (-_-); Feeling fishy so I went to ask the driver but he dun understand english at all.... Thank God that there are 2 ajuma in the bus who are working as a tour guide. They don't speak english but japanese ^^; As the result, we keep stay at the bus till the last stop and turn back again to our bus stop and arrive at guest house at 6 PM! (_-_)
First night stayed at Daehangno (대학로). We had booked a room in a guest house nearby (Windroad Guest House). The peoples in there very friendly. We have a nice talk at there. But too bad, we don't like the room. We got a private room as we requested but we had to enter the dormitory before enter our room. When we coming back at night and going out at early morning, it makes us feel like we are disturbing another guest who are sleeping in the dormitory. We don't like that feeling. And the room that we saw in web is different! The room was as big as shown, but not 2 single bed in the room. It was 2 single beds place closely and 1 bunk bed. You can imagine how narrow the room is. So that, we decided to check-out at the next day. It was 34,000won per room per day.
We just explore around Daehangno and Myeongdong at first day. Quite funny in first day as we didn't know how to order in the food stall. We saw an odeng (fish cake) stall which full with customers. It must be delicious, we think. But at the end, we left the stall cause after standing at there for a while, as no body told us how to order!! hahaha Too stupid :P Everything goes well when we visit another stall. Become cleverer after explore more stall hehe (anyway, we still stupid when we take the cold tempura just like that and didn't know that we can ask ajuma to warm it up hahaha stupid! stupid!) Then we also had dalg gochi (kinda chicken satay or japanese will say it yakitori) at Myeongdong.
Okay, that was a small stall and we just stand at the front of stall while we are eating. Next we went to bigger stall, so we just sit down and order soju. They brought us a bowl of mussel with soup. Hmm.. we didn't order mussel... maybe everyone will eat mussel so every guest coming they will serve mussel, we think... after waiting a while, still... our soju haven't coming. We asked them again to bring us soju. "Anju! Anju!" the ajuma replied us. Hmm? Is she asking us to sit down and wait? gee.. what must we do??!!
Seeing we confused, there were 3 kind girls helped us. One of them can speak english a bit. She told us that we can't order only soju. We must order the food as well. And the mussel, it was free! No wonder they serve us the mussel even though we didn't order it :)
Then the kind girls helped us to order a bowl of snail, same as the mussel, it come with the soup. All the dishes very tasty especially had it with the soju hehehe
Back to the guest house, a japanese girl who is a friend of the guest house owner told me "anju" means snack and "anjo" means sit down. OOOoooo I thought the ajuma told me to sit-down, but actually she were asking me to order a snack hehehe Must learn korean more ^^;
She also told me that almost every stall have different system. Just like the stall we visited, the customer have to order the original food from the stall first before order a drink. :)
Although we had some problems in a short day, we found it was a splendid day. Found that the koreans really helpful :)
Categories: travel, english, korea
Our ticket quite cheap. Only 23,200yen + tax 9250yen. We would not be informed what flight and what time will we have until 10 days before the departure. Well, since it is not my first trip to korea, it was ok for me. Cheaper ticket is better. Quite lucky we had Asiana Airline and could earn 1000 more mileage on this low fare (I thought I can't earn miles from this kind of budget ticket). Flight time was not bad too!
We supposed to arrive at the guest house on 5 PM but we didn't notice when the bus driver asked if anyone getting off at the stop that we would like to go. How could we understand what he talking about as he spoke korean!!! (-_-); Feeling fishy so I went to ask the driver but he dun understand english at all.... Thank God that there are 2 ajuma in the bus who are working as a tour guide. They don't speak english but japanese ^^; As the result, we keep stay at the bus till the last stop and turn back again to our bus stop and arrive at guest house at 6 PM! (_-_)
First night stayed at Daehangno (대학로). We had booked a room in a guest house nearby (Windroad Guest House). The peoples in there very friendly. We have a nice talk at there. But too bad, we don't like the room. We got a private room as we requested but we had to enter the dormitory before enter our room. When we coming back at night and going out at early morning, it makes us feel like we are disturbing another guest who are sleeping in the dormitory. We don't like that feeling. And the room that we saw in web is different! The room was as big as shown, but not 2 single bed in the room. It was 2 single beds place closely and 1 bunk bed. You can imagine how narrow the room is. So that, we decided to check-out at the next day. It was 34,000won per room per day.
We just explore around Daehangno and Myeongdong at first day. Quite funny in first day as we didn't know how to order in the food stall. We saw an odeng (fish cake) stall which full with customers. It must be delicious, we think. But at the end, we left the stall cause after standing at there for a while, as no body told us how to order!! hahaha Too stupid :P Everything goes well when we visit another stall. Become cleverer after explore more stall hehe (anyway, we still stupid when we take the cold tempura just like that and didn't know that we can ask ajuma to warm it up hahaha stupid! stupid!) Then we also had dalg gochi (kinda chicken satay or japanese will say it yakitori) at Myeongdong.
Okay, that was a small stall and we just stand at the front of stall while we are eating. Next we went to bigger stall, so we just sit down and order soju. They brought us a bowl of mussel with soup. Hmm.. we didn't order mussel... maybe everyone will eat mussel so every guest coming they will serve mussel, we think... after waiting a while, still... our soju haven't coming. We asked them again to bring us soju. "Anju! Anju!" the ajuma replied us. Hmm? Is she asking us to sit down and wait? gee.. what must we do??!!
Seeing we confused, there were 3 kind girls helped us. One of them can speak english a bit. She told us that we can't order only soju. We must order the food as well. And the mussel, it was free! No wonder they serve us the mussel even though we didn't order it :)
Then the kind girls helped us to order a bowl of snail, same as the mussel, it come with the soup. All the dishes very tasty especially had it with the soju hehehe
Back to the guest house, a japanese girl who is a friend of the guest house owner told me "anju" means snack and "anjo" means sit down. OOOoooo I thought the ajuma told me to sit-down, but actually she were asking me to order a snack hehehe Must learn korean more ^^;
She also told me that almost every stall have different system. Just like the stall we visited, the customer have to order the original food from the stall first before order a drink. :)
Although we had some problems in a short day, we found it was a splendid day. Found that the koreans really helpful :)
Categories: travel, english, korea
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Cheap!!
Very cheap!!! Osaka - Cairns return ticket only 20,000yen!!! Limited for sales on Nov 17 only!!
But! travel on Sep~Oct 2007 hahaha
Yes, travel on next year and you book from now.
Anyway, if you have flexible time, why not? Too bad, I am not so flexible....
How I wish can visit Cairns T_T
Seira, Sydney - Osaka only AUD 399!! Visit me next year !!! ;)
www.jetstar.com
Categories: travel, english
But! travel on Sep~Oct 2007 hahaha
Yes, travel on next year and you book from now.
Anyway, if you have flexible time, why not? Too bad, I am not so flexible....
How I wish can visit Cairns T_T
Seira, Sydney - Osaka only AUD 399!! Visit me next year !!! ;)
www.jetstar.com
Categories: travel, english
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Google Earth
Have you tried Google Earth? Wow! It really awesome!! I wonder how could google provide such faboulous things and it is FREE!!!! Haven't try? Browse earth.google.com and install it! But be careful for those old computer (above 4 years old for PC and 2 years old for Notebook) cause it might not run properly. Btw, my note book already 4 years old and when at the first i had installed it, suddenly my computer hang and i have to reboot it. But after that, everything was normal but it run very slow.
For US and Japan and some big city, it show very accurate data. You even can input your full address and find the location accurately. It really awesome. I tried to find my home at jakarta and here is the result ;)
Click the picture for bigger version.
Categories: travel, english
For US and Japan and some big city, it show very accurate data. You even can input your full address and find the location accurately. It really awesome. I tried to find my home at jakarta and here is the result ;)
Click the picture for bigger version.
Categories: travel, english
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Twn & HK Hotel
Hari ini tiba2 tambah dingin lagi. Mana angin kenceng banget pula. Taunya tadi sore liat di news, tornado telah membunuh 9 orang di Hokkaido... iihh seereeemmm
Well, back to the topic. Oct 11 - 17 kemaren bisnis trip di Taiwan dan Hongkong. Ga ada yg bisa diomongin masalah bisnis di sini hehehe Cuman sedikit review mengenai hotel yg gw nginap.
Hotel di Taipei kali ini yg paling gw suka, dibanding hotel2 yg dulu gw nginap. Btw, hotel yg selama ini gw inap yg paling bagus tuh di Kaoshiung, yakni di Grand Hi-Lai Hotel. Supplier gw yg booking-in n dikasih upgrade. Kamar gede banget, bisa liat night view, sampe di toilet pun ada tv kecil. Selama ini di Taipei selalu ikut Boss nginap di Hotel Brother atau ikutin hotel dari tour-pack. Boss gw udah 20 taon nginep di Hotel Brohter terus, tapi belakangan ini dia sadar selama 20 taon royal ama hotel ini dia ga dapat benefit apapun. Hanya kartu ucapan ultah tiap taon tanpa mendapat diskon yg layak. So dia skrg ga bakal mau lagi nginap di situ heheh Ek kok jadi ngomongin hotel laen seh...
So gw disuruh nyari hotel sendiri n ketemu Hotel Riviera, dimana hotel ini ranking pertama di site taipeinavi.com. Dapat 12700yen per malam. Karena bayarnya advance di jepang, harganya dalam yen. Pas pertama booking per email, gw dikasih tau kalo harga ini khusus untuk orang jepang n korea. Wah beda negara beda harga... Trus setelah dicek ternyata WNI juga bisa dapat harga yg sama.
Kenapa gw suka sama hotel ini, pertama hotelnya bener2 bersih dan semua perlengkapan lengkap, sampe setrika dan papan setrika pun ada. Ketel-nya juga yg bagus, stainless punya so gak berkarat. Kedua breakfastnya bervariasi. Mau western, chinese, japanese semua ada. Ga kaya di Hotel Brother tiap hari sama semua, sampe gw bosen. Bayangin waktu itu gw biztripnya seminggu tiap hari makan breakfast yg sama.... Tapi anehnya tiap client ato supplier gw nanyain dimana gw nginap, ga ada yg tau sama hotel ini.
Lanjut hotel di Hongkong. Oct 13 - Oct 16 Electronic Show di Hongkong, semua hotel muahal banget. Terutama sekitar Tsim Sha Tsui. Gile2 pokoknya harganya, di atas HKD 1000 semua. Akhirnya ketemu Regal Oriental Hotel, sekitar old airport Hongkong. Itupun HKD 805.7 per malam.
Kamar gw gede buanget. Bisa tidur 4 orang. Kalo udah gitu berasa sayang banget ya buat gw seorang doang. Pas baru masuk ya ampun bau rokoknya.... Tapi katanya baru ada kamar ini yg udah diberesin, ya mau ga mau .... Standard deh hotel sini. Lucunya gw kirain dapat breakfast so hari pertama gw ke restorannya. Langsung duduk, taruh kunci di meja trus ambil makan. Selesai makan ga ditanya apa2 so gw langsung berangkat ke pameran. Pas hari kedua, gw diminta voucher breakfast. Gw bilang gw ga ada voucher n ternyata setelah dicek, rate gw itu ga termasuk breakfast. hauahahuahha ternyata hari pertama gw makin gratis LOLOL
Hotel di Hong Kong rata2 buat akses internet mesti bayar lagi. Di sini HKD 150. Hebatnya manager gw pake acara bilang "mahal banget ratenya!", eh taunya dikasih HKD 80. Ternyata mereka ada rate promosi tapi pada awal tetep bilang rate normal dulu ....
Sebenarnya hotel di atas difoto untuk forum travel gw, sekalian deh bikin versi indonya di blog gw sendiri ;)
Hotel review in english version please see my virtualtourist page.
Categories: travel
Well, back to the topic. Oct 11 - 17 kemaren bisnis trip di Taiwan dan Hongkong. Ga ada yg bisa diomongin masalah bisnis di sini hehehe Cuman sedikit review mengenai hotel yg gw nginap.
Hotel di Taipei kali ini yg paling gw suka, dibanding hotel2 yg dulu gw nginap. Btw, hotel yg selama ini gw inap yg paling bagus tuh di Kaoshiung, yakni di Grand Hi-Lai Hotel. Supplier gw yg booking-in n dikasih upgrade. Kamar gede banget, bisa liat night view, sampe di toilet pun ada tv kecil. Selama ini di Taipei selalu ikut Boss nginap di Hotel Brother atau ikutin hotel dari tour-pack. Boss gw udah 20 taon nginep di Hotel Brohter terus, tapi belakangan ini dia sadar selama 20 taon royal ama hotel ini dia ga dapat benefit apapun. Hanya kartu ucapan ultah tiap taon tanpa mendapat diskon yg layak. So dia skrg ga bakal mau lagi nginap di situ heheh Ek kok jadi ngomongin hotel laen seh...
So gw disuruh nyari hotel sendiri n ketemu Hotel Riviera, dimana hotel ini ranking pertama di site taipeinavi.com. Dapat 12700yen per malam. Karena bayarnya advance di jepang, harganya dalam yen. Pas pertama booking per email, gw dikasih tau kalo harga ini khusus untuk orang jepang n korea. Wah beda negara beda harga... Trus setelah dicek ternyata WNI juga bisa dapat harga yg sama.
Kenapa gw suka sama hotel ini, pertama hotelnya bener2 bersih dan semua perlengkapan lengkap, sampe setrika dan papan setrika pun ada. Ketel-nya juga yg bagus, stainless punya so gak berkarat. Kedua breakfastnya bervariasi. Mau western, chinese, japanese semua ada. Ga kaya di Hotel Brother tiap hari sama semua, sampe gw bosen. Bayangin waktu itu gw biztripnya seminggu tiap hari makan breakfast yg sama.... Tapi anehnya tiap client ato supplier gw nanyain dimana gw nginap, ga ada yg tau sama hotel ini.
Lanjut hotel di Hongkong. Oct 13 - Oct 16 Electronic Show di Hongkong, semua hotel muahal banget. Terutama sekitar Tsim Sha Tsui. Gile2 pokoknya harganya, di atas HKD 1000 semua. Akhirnya ketemu Regal Oriental Hotel, sekitar old airport Hongkong. Itupun HKD 805.7 per malam.
Kamar gw gede buanget. Bisa tidur 4 orang. Kalo udah gitu berasa sayang banget ya buat gw seorang doang. Pas baru masuk ya ampun bau rokoknya.... Tapi katanya baru ada kamar ini yg udah diberesin, ya mau ga mau .... Standard deh hotel sini. Lucunya gw kirain dapat breakfast so hari pertama gw ke restorannya. Langsung duduk, taruh kunci di meja trus ambil makan. Selesai makan ga ditanya apa2 so gw langsung berangkat ke pameran. Pas hari kedua, gw diminta voucher breakfast. Gw bilang gw ga ada voucher n ternyata setelah dicek, rate gw itu ga termasuk breakfast. hauahahuahha ternyata hari pertama gw makin gratis LOLOL
Hotel di Hong Kong rata2 buat akses internet mesti bayar lagi. Di sini HKD 150. Hebatnya manager gw pake acara bilang "mahal banget ratenya!", eh taunya dikasih HKD 80. Ternyata mereka ada rate promosi tapi pada awal tetep bilang rate normal dulu ....
Sebenarnya hotel di atas difoto untuk forum travel gw, sekalian deh bikin versi indonya di blog gw sendiri ;)
Hotel review in english version please see my virtualtourist page.
Categories: travel
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Speciality Diver
Actually in last diving trip in Kushimoto I can get "Speciality Diver" license but didn't apply for it. Nobody will say that her/himself is speciality diver hihihihi Nothing to be proud for it. They will be more proud to say that he/she is Advance Open Water Diver. Still have 12 dive to be an AOW Diver... *According SSI (Scuba School International) standard, we can have "Speciality Diver" licence after our 12th dive.
Anyway, would like to share u guys my diving experience this time. As usual, went to Club Do Diving Centre at Kushimoto, from Oct 07 - 08, 2006.
We departed from Osaka at Oct 06. That day was Chinese Autumn Festival. The moon at chinese autumn festival is believed as the lightest moon all over the year. Wished we had a night diving at that night. You even could drive at night without the lamp. So you also could dive at night without a torch. But we know it is a impossible thing ^^; We arrived at Kushimoto kinda 12 or 1 pm..... its the sleep time, not dive time! :p
07 Oct 2006
Boat 1 - Ebisu No Hama, Kushimoto, Japan
Air temp 26C - Water temp 26C - Visibility 4m - Max depth 6.2m - Dive time 41mins
The day after typhoon. Woke up in the early morning but still worried if we can dive or not... While waiting for the boat dive, we began first dive by beach entry at Ebisu no Hama. Dive by 3kg weight. Beyond our expectation, there was many fishes around. We even can saw the cute Neoclinus bryope (コケギンポ) . Thanks to Si-chan for drawing the cute kokeginpo on my logbook. Beside that, as usual there were many Stripey (カゴカキダイ - Microcanthus strigatus)around.
This is my first time to dive in small group. Only 4 ppls dived together + 1 guide. Very enjoyed it.
Boat 2 - Miya no Seto, Kushimoto, Japan
Air temp 26C - Water temp 24.2C - Visibility 7m - Max depth 23.1m - Dive time 32mins
For the first time, we joined other diving shop for the diving trip to dive in Miya no Seto. Even this point was the first time for my instructure. Wow!!! I found this point really different as usual. Our diving shop never went this dive point. Every shop have their own dive point, I think.... I had difficulity at first for the buoyancy cause I still had my 3 kg weight for this deepness!!! Gosh, had a bad time! But thanks God I could got the balance at last. The guide, Nakamura-san showed us the cute little clown fish in the coral. It was soooo cuteeeeee!!! There were also little cuttlefish (コウイカ - speiida), Striped Catfish (ゴンズイ - Plotosus Lienatus), Long-spinned Sea Urchin (ガンガゼ - Diadema Savignyi), Sea Hare (ウミウサギ - Ovula Ovum)
Still... I had trouble at my 12th dive..... My gauge showed unstable scale.. sometimes 70 sometimes 50 ... we were told that we have to back to the boat if we found our gauge show 70.... but at that time I found my gauge show 50... really panic.... NO!!! I have to go!! but ... when i saw my gauge again, I still have 70 hahahha When I asked my instructure, she told me it was because I didn't set my tank properly.....A good lecture, must be more careful in next setting.
08 Oct 2006
Boat 1 - Orotsu no Hama, Kii Ooshima, Japan
Air temp 21C - Water temp 24C - Visibility (no data) - Max depth 16.2m - Dive time 47mins
Still in bad condition after typhoon... sigh... Woke up in early morning for waiting info if any boat can take us for diving. At last we waited till 11 am and we have to moved to Ooshima for diving, about 10 mins drive from Kushimoto. This time had more time for taking picture but still... I have to learn more for photography.... couldn't get any best shot....
The fishes in picture are Squirrelfishes (サルゴセントロン・コルヌータム - Sargocentron Cornutum), Shortspined Cowfish (シマウミスズメ
- Lactoria Fornasini), The Blue Damsel (ソラスズメダイ - Pomacentrus Coelestis). There is one fish in picture that I don't know it's name... anyone can tell me?
Boat 2 - , Tsu-Suri (Two-Thre-?), Kii Ooshima, Japan
Air temp 22C - Water temp 23.7C - Visibility (no data) - Max depth 18.3m - Dive time 37mins
My last dive at Wakayama this year. 22C really cold, especially after dive, too cold to stay on boat. Really cold!! Can't bear anymore. Maybe this year will dive at abroad ( I wish!!) or have to wait till summer next year.....
There were Dragon Moray Eel (トラウツボ - Muraena pardalis), Domino Damsel (ミツボシクロスズメダイ - Dascyllus trimaculatus). No need to say clown fish (クマノミ - Amphiprion clarkii), almost every dive in Kushimoto we can see it. But still, they are photogenic hehe
Anyway, would like to share u guys my diving experience this time. As usual, went to Club Do Diving Centre at Kushimoto, from Oct 07 - 08, 2006.
We departed from Osaka at Oct 06. That day was Chinese Autumn Festival. The moon at chinese autumn festival is believed as the lightest moon all over the year. Wished we had a night diving at that night. You even could drive at night without the lamp. So you also could dive at night without a torch. But we know it is a impossible thing ^^; We arrived at Kushimoto kinda 12 or 1 pm..... its the sleep time, not dive time! :p
07 Oct 2006
Boat 1 - Ebisu No Hama, Kushimoto, Japan
Air temp 26C - Water temp 26C - Visibility 4m - Max depth 6.2m - Dive time 41mins
The day after typhoon. Woke up in the early morning but still worried if we can dive or not... While waiting for the boat dive, we began first dive by beach entry at Ebisu no Hama. Dive by 3kg weight. Beyond our expectation, there was many fishes around. We even can saw the cute Neoclinus bryope (コケギンポ) . Thanks to Si-chan for drawing the cute kokeginpo on my logbook. Beside that, as usual there were many Stripey (カゴカキダイ - Microcanthus strigatus)around.
This is my first time to dive in small group. Only 4 ppls dived together + 1 guide. Very enjoyed it.
Boat 2 - Miya no Seto, Kushimoto, Japan
Air temp 26C - Water temp 24.2C - Visibility 7m - Max depth 23.1m - Dive time 32mins
For the first time, we joined other diving shop for the diving trip to dive in Miya no Seto. Even this point was the first time for my instructure. Wow!!! I found this point really different as usual. Our diving shop never went this dive point. Every shop have their own dive point, I think.... I had difficulity at first for the buoyancy cause I still had my 3 kg weight for this deepness!!! Gosh, had a bad time! But thanks God I could got the balance at last. The guide, Nakamura-san showed us the cute little clown fish in the coral. It was soooo cuteeeeee!!! There were also little cuttlefish (コウイカ - speiida), Striped Catfish (ゴンズイ - Plotosus Lienatus), Long-spinned Sea Urchin (ガンガゼ - Diadema Savignyi), Sea Hare (ウミウサギ - Ovula Ovum)
Still... I had trouble at my 12th dive..... My gauge showed unstable scale.. sometimes 70 sometimes 50 ... we were told that we have to back to the boat if we found our gauge show 70.... but at that time I found my gauge show 50... really panic.... NO!!! I have to go!! but ... when i saw my gauge again, I still have 70 hahahha When I asked my instructure, she told me it was because I didn't set my tank properly.....A good lecture, must be more careful in next setting.
08 Oct 2006
Boat 1 - Orotsu no Hama, Kii Ooshima, Japan
Air temp 21C - Water temp 24C - Visibility (no data) - Max depth 16.2m - Dive time 47mins
Still in bad condition after typhoon... sigh... Woke up in early morning for waiting info if any boat can take us for diving. At last we waited till 11 am and we have to moved to Ooshima for diving, about 10 mins drive from Kushimoto. This time had more time for taking picture but still... I have to learn more for photography.... couldn't get any best shot....
The fishes in picture are Squirrelfishes (サルゴセントロン・コルヌータム - Sargocentron Cornutum), Shortspined Cowfish (シマウミスズメ
- Lactoria Fornasini), The Blue Damsel (ソラスズメダイ - Pomacentrus Coelestis). There is one fish in picture that I don't know it's name... anyone can tell me?
Boat 2 - , Tsu-Suri (Two-Thre-?), Kii Ooshima, Japan
Air temp 22C - Water temp 23.7C - Visibility (no data) - Max depth 18.3m - Dive time 37mins
My last dive at Wakayama this year. 22C really cold, especially after dive, too cold to stay on boat. Really cold!! Can't bear anymore. Maybe this year will dive at abroad ( I wish!!) or have to wait till summer next year.....
There were Dragon Moray Eel (トラウツボ - Muraena pardalis), Domino Damsel (ミツボシクロスズメダイ - Dascyllus trimaculatus). No need to say clown fish (クマノミ - Amphiprion clarkii), almost every dive in Kushimoto we can see it. But still, they are photogenic hehe
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