a quick getaway slash work.

i had an event at kampung sampireun, garut last week. i go there for work as i have to prepare the meeting for HP (hewlett-packard is one of my company's client) partners. as much as it is work, i enjoyed it a lot. The place is seriously FAR away, it was like 4 and a half hours from Jakarta. if you go there by bus, with a bunch of corporate staff and some of them are directors, you can't enjoyed the ride. i was so sleepy, but i can't sleep because yea it would look unprofessional, isn't it?
But after those long hours trip, the view of kampung sampireun was totally worth it. villas surrounding a lake, with a fish pond on the side and a small waterfall and a bamboo forest. added some sundanesse music and you totally got the atmosphere. you can go to places in kampung sampireun with a small boat or sampan, like from villa to villa, or just to go to the restaurant in the area. you can paddle it yourself, but if you can't there are a bunch of hotel staff ready to paddle it for you.

Here are some pictures :

a view from my villa's terrace

This picture is taken from google, i can't took a good picture at night.
but it pretty much look like this.

you see, i've tried to paddle it with one of my colleagues and i ended up almost fall from the boat and splattered with water from the sprinkler. i ended up yell for help and thank god one of the hotel staff is nearby, and running to help (while laughing off course). i even shove my paddle to him, because my boat is going to all direction. it was seriously embarrassing.
the food tasted great, all Indonesian delicacies you can ask for. the unique thing that kampung sampireun offers are in the morning and night, the caterer staff paddling around the lake and offer desserts or snacks. like at night they offer sekoteng, for those who didn't know what that is, it's kinda like a ginger ale but with fruit, peanut, bread crumbs, and all sort of things. and in the morning they offering serabi and like what Anthony Bourdain once said, it was sort of like Indonesian Pancake. and it was delicious, afterall i ate it in the cold morning, so it probably tasted better.
The work i did wasn't too hard, but i just tired of keep on walking from here and there, because i won't take the boat, i have to walk by foot, and in the end, for me to go from the meeting room to my room, i have to circle half of the area. now it is sick if you have to go back and forth like ten times.
but all in all, i really had a great experience. because kampung sampireun is pretty much expensive, so i kinda have an advantage because i got to stayed there for free. even better the concierge of the hotel gave me and my colleagues souvenirs because we held an event there. free gifts? hell yeah! *big grin


Regards,
Rani

week #1

Yes, a week has passed as per today in 2010. i enjoyed my new year's celebration as i got to spent it with my friends during the countdown at Birdcages and have a little getaway to puncak with my boyfriend and his relatives the next day. here are several pictures taken at those places :

This was taken exactly at 00.00 (well not exactly, but you know what i mean)


That time we're having a lot of fun playing with instax camera, kinda like polaroid but only smaller. we're planning to doodling the photo with words and stuff, like in one of one tree hill episode (too much series effect). anyway my friend Ivan scanned the picture and uploaded it in the internet and this is one of them.

This picture was taken when My boyfriend and I along with his family relatives playing at the villa's backyard. after this we played some cards, barbequeing, karaoke (no, not me) and some of the elders even dancing poco-poco. sounds fun eh? lol.

Well those pictures pretty much explained how i spent new year's of 2010. its pretty much a great celebration to start my year. although i have to get back to work on january 4th, but it's not much of a burden. Oh, i also want to start my year with good things for my health and body, so i was detox-ing, and only eat certain fruits and water for three days. Tho, the next day i ate like a pig (pasta de waraku and bakmi GM in one day, hell yeah! haha) but i feel refreshed nonetheless.

soo.. i spent the very first week of 2010 with a bang, i had a great celebration on new year's eve and had a productive week at work. hope the rest of this year will just as great! :)


HAPPY NEW YEAR!


Kisses,
Rani

the very last day of 2009.

you see today is actually 31st december, the very last day of 2009, and guess where i am..
no, not beaches or mountains or any leisure places.

im at work. *cue to horror music here

yeah, you hear (in this case read) it right. but im really doing nothing, i mean NOTHING at all here. right now, all the opened tabs on my window are youtube, blog, andddd that's it!
i wish i could at least spend time of new year's eve with couple of friends and strolling around somewhere in the city. we have no options left other than in the city because i think we couldnt go out of jakarta like to Puncak, Bogor or Bandung (those cities are the nearest to jakarta), because the road probably already closed due to the massive number of jakarta people going to those places.

i dont mind tho spending it at home, i dont feel the need to make this new year special. but i just wish there's a bunch of people i love to be around me.

oh well, what the fudge, i just want to be in a happy mood while welcoming 2010, to start the year with a rather positive attitude, and for it to happen i could simply watching series that can make me laughing a lot, and there. i will be in a very good mood.
sooooo in the end, i dont want to stress over where to spend new year's eve, i should just see what's come to my plate this evening, and if the offering looks interesting, i would grab it.


R