Around The Country in 8 Days
November 17, 2006
Sorry for not go online constantly these past few days. I was at this roadshow to a couple of cities in Indonesia. This event, which sponsored by one of the well-known motherboard vendor in Indonesia will travel four cities: Jogjakarta, Banjarmasin, Samarinda and last one, Medan.
In those towns, we will hold seminars about two things, Home Entertainment and 3D Animation. The speaker of that seminars will be my good friend, Jimmy (for the home entertainment part, yeah you know hes good at those things) and Deddy Syamsuddin (for the 3D part).
Town no.1: Jogja. Its only day 2 (out of eight days) but the fatigue was killing me. I have to help setting up the seminars in the morning. Standby when the show starts and prepare for the evening event when we held up a gathering to our dealers in Jogja. Therefore, Im not going to travel around Jogja for souvenir hunting. I dont have the time for that.
We wake up early the next day to catch a plane to Surabaya. The plan was to go there for a transit to our next destination seminar which held in Banjarmasin. But just as others flight in Indonesia, we have to prepare for the delays. In addition we have to wait 4 hours in Surabaya. Well, its a little bit about the weather issues not just a technical problem of the flight service. We had a delay because of the smokes that covered up the skies in Banjarmasin.
After we came, I just knew where the smokes origin. When we travel from the airport to the hotel, theres dozens views of forests burned by fire. The locals told me that the burning is one-partmistakes and other part intentional. They burned bushes to clear the field for building commercial centers. Not like in Jogja, this time we got time to hang around and travel a bit on the first night there. I bought some local made shirts which is kind of cheap, and I get to taste some local foods (the fish eggs are extremely delicious here in Banjarmasin, you should try it when you travel here)
The seminar was unexpectedly full. We have to provide many extra seats. It seems Banjarmasin had a very high enthusiasm towards Information Technology, which is a very good thing. Unfortunately, there wasnt much enough dealers and distribution to back up the needs of computer Banjarmasin (thats what I heard from one testimonial of a distributor)
The next day, we have to pack up early and go right up to Balikpapan. From there, we have to do two hours trip to Samarinda, the next town. Much to my surprises, Samarinda is much urbanely developed than Balikpapan.Many oil fields in there could be the culprit. You know, much of the town in Indonesia, which produce oil were highly developed, and thats the reality. Jambi, Cepu, Merauke, and now witnessed with my very own eyes, Samarinda.
The last trip (two days after we held the seminar in Samarinda) was Medan. Now heres something interesting. It seems much of the people who drives in Medan, drove their car furiously. Just kidding there, :)
In Medan we stayed at this five star hotel called Grand Angkasa Hotel. Disappointingly, they didnt give Wi-Fi access unless youre in the executive suite. So much for a five star hotel… Overall, this eight days cruising around Indonesia was a heck of a tiring trip. Nevertheless, some good moments were never being forgotten.
Here are some photos:
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Okay, life must go on, right? So with the spirit of Sumpah Pemuda and the recent festive of Pesta Blogger 2007. I officially announce that:
It's just around the corner, not very far away.
The reason? Well you can say that I'm getting bored with Wordpress and I want to try something new. But trust me, I won't move it anywhere else in the future, I will use patvandiest.com as my main blog, always. I promise you that!
So please... please update your bookmark, I will forever graceful if you do that. But if you are reading my blog through my Feedburner account, worry not, I will automatically update the link. That goes to my other social networking related link.
I won't delete this blog, though. I will keep it as past archives of my writings.
So, sorry for this inconvinience. I hope you don't mind. See you at my other room.
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Hehe.. Ice cream is everywhere. It’s good for your health, even there is a lot of smoke out there. cheers! :D
On November 17, 2006 at exactly 8:16 pm
yes..i’m sucker for any kind of ice creams…whenever..wherever :D
On November 17, 2006 at exactly 9:19 pm