Wonderful Summer Time in Norway

This year I finally can visit Norway in the Summer time. I have been waiting for this time to come. It was on July -August 2015. I had one month holiday in Norway, the best holiday I have ever had to date. Special thanks to my beloved boss for letting me having one month leave (hehe) and to my family in Norway to make it happen.

I wonder where to start, hmmm. Let's start from the airport, Gardermoen Oslo Airport. This time I was picked up by my beloved mother and father in low going to be (hihi). Happy time after a long flight from Bali.
As usual after having a long flight Bali-Oslo I felt sick being in the car on the way home to Gjovik, Kapp. As a result we stopped for a while in the middle of the ride. Along the way home I could see the differences that weather impacts to the environment and the people and the use of energy.

When we arrived home I saw how beautiful the garden turned to be, compared with the view I saw when in winter. "Wow it is the real summer! Everything was so beautiful, the lake, grass, trees, plants, air, animals, surrounding. Perfect. What a cozy feeling being home in the summer. (I call it home because i always feel like home to be here (my second home after Bali)).

A couple of days we spent to just enjoying the nature and relaxing at home. And yess I have a new hobby now, fishing. As the lake is just right at the back of the house we often just take a boat and go fishing for couple hours. I really enjoyed it. Never thought I would like fishing imagining a boring time waiting the fish to eat the bait.


Oh ya, my another favourite activity during summer in Kapp is picking strawberries, raspberries, sweet cherries in the garden. What a joy to have such a botanical garden just out of the backdoor.

This summer I had a chance to travel to the west of Norway, GEIRANGER ..!!! :D

Geiranger is a small tourist village in Sunnmore of More og Romsdal county in west Norway. In here you can see a super beautiful nature you have imagined. The fresh air and clean environment with good people, it gets me goosebumps everytime I talk about this place.

It is really recommended to take a car ferry Geiranger-Hellesylt as you will see steep mountains and wild waterfalls with wonderful nature scenery. On the ferry, there will be an audio guide which telling you more information of the attraction of this fjord. The audio guide is in several languages: Norwegian, English, Germany, Japanese, and some others I cannot recognised :P.

The ferry costs around 245 Norwegian Kroner per person and it is worth it for one hour cruising to see the lanscape of this, one on the list of UNESCO World Heritage.

Another interesting object is the zig zag road on the steep mountain when arriving on Geiranger harbour. It does look scary on the picture and on the real life. I wonder how they made that road.



I will end this writing with my impression from this trip, "what a wonderful world we are living in, love the nature to live long".

Bandung,Hunting Clothing Material

Here I am, at home in Bali. But I am going to share a short trip when I was going to Bandung for a special purpose in really short time. It was at end of August. Taking a flight to Bandung from Denpasar with Airasia, as always, as it is cheaper than others.

 Arrived there around 10 in the morning, being picked up by a driver we have known from the previous trip. We straightly went to the place where we were supposed to go. To find some clothing materials since we were going to make a new design for the shop.

Cibadak street

 Our first stop was Cibadak around Thamrin area, here lays many many many stores selling various kinds of material. Canvas, Denim, Cotton, from 100% Cotton to 10 % of it, Polyester, Spandex, Rayon, and many more, I forgot. 

Had 30 minutes walk, we did not get what we wanted. Then we took another drive to an area where we can buy small capacity of cloth, which is the rest cloth from the garment or factory. It is common when a big branded clothing company did not use all the materials, they sell it to the stores in this area, called Cigondewah.

After 15 minutes of walk separatedly, one of us found a shop which sold what we were looking for all day long. It was such a treasure finding. Ha.. We surely bought kilos of cloth and packed them all and shipped it to Bali.

affordable hotel where we stayed

Finally we were free from duty. Yiihhaaaa. Here is the time for shopping and having a little trip. But first, we went to the hotel and got relaxed some.  

view from the hotel room

Bandung traffic on Saturday morning

After a while, We went out to have dinner but of course before that, we spared some minutes to surf ‘The Secret’ fashion outlet. From the large number of choices, I could not decide what I wanted. 

I got nothing and went to the next outlet named ‘Heritage’. Here I found my lovely white short pants. I love it and it’s a hundred k, cheap right? Those two stores were enough at that time. Time to fill my tummy with something called food. 

Then, the driver drove us to a so-called food market, yet, lets make it sound better, an exclusive food court. There are many small food stalls offer diversity of food. :p

This place is called ……… I forgot, I need to check Mr. Google first. Oh ya, it is ‘Paskal Food Market’.

Unfortunately I could not capture the place since I was not having battery on my phone and camera, which the camera is on my phone. But for sure Mr. Google can show you how the place looks like.

On the flight home

One tip when you are here, don’t worry where to pay because there are many cashiers on every direction. SSssstt, I did not see those cashiers, and I went there and here like an iron since I only saw one and only cashier near the entrance. Puha! I just realized about the presence of other cashiers when I was going to go home. L 

The next day it was only me alone, my partners flied to Singapore for some business matter. What can I do alone? Shopping for sure. :D I went to ‘Rumah Mode’ factory outlet and I found what I wanted and bought those international branded tops with a smile on my face. Yes!!!..  I got them cheap. 

At the end, i went back home alone and satisfied :) 

Snow in Norway

From the title of this post you already know what i experience. I experience Norway!!! This trip means a lot to me. Its my first time to come to Europe. Special thank for Andreas and his family to make it happened.

 I started to list everything i might need for this trip and things i might be doing in Norway 4 months before the date of the trip. I was pretty excited and i am still excited since im writing this post in Norway.

Well, i will share what i have done during my stay in Norway. Today is my 8th day staying here. When i arrived at Oslo airport i could feel the cold air through my nose. I never breath this cold and fresh air .. Its different from air in tropical weather country i am from. It was raining when i arrived, the temperature was around -2 celsius. It was really cold for me. It was almost 2 hours driving to Kapp,the name of area where i stay. 

Hey balls aka tractor eggs aka  marshmallow
- livestock foods

On the way to Skvaldra

On the way i enjoyed the view of the houses lightly covered by snow. But it was not much snow at that time. I heard that is caused by the warm wind from the south blows to the north, to norway. It causes the temperature in Norway was not as cold as the winter supposed to be which is around -15 to -25. Well i guess thats luck for me. Since i dont get use to cold temperature. 

I enjoyed my time relaxing and visiting friends during that time. But one thing i have always been waited is the snow pours on me and playing in the snow. After 5days being in Kapp, i have not experienced the 'real' winter with thick snow around. Luckily, Andreas' family has a cabin on the mountain in Skvaldra where there is snow all winter. Yeeesss! Finally its time for me to taste snow and play with it. I was so excited.

To get to the mountain it took 1,5 hours from Kapp. Entering mountain area, snow was all around me, the street was white, trees were covered by snow, the river was frozen to be ice where the birds can freely step on it. It was amazing view i have ever seen live.

 After some minutes driving on the 'snow' street, we arrived at the cabin. But opps, there was too much snow on the path way to the cabin. It was kinda hard to get through. But there must be way; first by deeply stepping on the snow, second, by crawling on the snow :) We did it. 

We got to the cabin and got warm inside. Dont worry, in every house or cabin in NOrway has heater, electronic heater or fireplace inside the house. It is awesome country i think.

 Back to the cabin. After i got warm and changed my wet socks, i went out to shuffle the snow and yes i tasted the snow! It tastes exactly the same as smooth ice in my fridge at home. Haha.. 

Then i tried to make a snow angel but i failed. I will try next time . Hihi Time went really fast. We had to go home cause we had dinner invitation. On the way home i saw a really nice sunset view.. I love it. 

Batu Caves in Malaysia

On the second day in Kuala Lumpur, i went to Batu Caves. It is around 13 km in the north of Kuala Lumpur. I went there by taxi and paid MYR 100 for return. We took taxi from central KL and did some bargain before taking the taxi. Why did i take taxi to go there? Because thats the fastest way and i think its the only way to go from KL.


And i heard from the taxi driver its hard to find and stop a taxi at the street in Batu Caves Temple, since its not in the city. Then i decided to book the taxi for return.

In Batu Caves Temple, there is the world largest statue of Lord Murugan. Based on KL smartguide book i have, it is said to make the statue it spent hundreds of tons of concrete and steel bars and 300 litres of gold paint to make the 43m statue that welcoming visitors at the base of the hills of the cave.










 To reach the cave you need to step the stairs, 272 steps up. It was a bit tiring for me :) .

Cave entrance 

When you get to the top of the stair, you will see really big cave with beautiful cave wall with many birds around. 

The Main Temple

There was the main Hindu temple inside the cave after passing through such a big hall in the cave. 

Me and Andreas :)

On the other side of the main temple cave, there is an adventure tour into the dark cave. Of course you need to purchase some amount of money to join the adventure.

One thing that i like when i was here is that there were hundreds friendly pigeon birds at the base on the hill. It was nice being among them :)

Pictures in Merdeka Square Kuala Lumpur

On the third day in KL, i travelled to Merdeka Square. At first, i thought Merdeka Square is a mall in the middle of goverment building area. Then i was expecting to do some shopping there. But when i got there, i realized that Merdeka Square or Dataran Merdeka is a venue where annual National day parade held on Independent Day. I guess its like Istana Merdeka in Jakarta (Indonesia) where flag ceremony is anually held.

In Merdeka Square, you can see many buildings that have fine architecture like these below :)

Many tourists visit Merdeka Square

The kings that have ruled Malaysia

 You can see the miniature of Kuala Lumpur city in KL City Galery next to Merdeka Square . You will be served with a short video about the city that is ended by the shining miniature of the city.

Petronas - Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur

The Twin Towers is one of Kuala Lumpur icons that located not so far from Kuala Lumpur Tower. The skyscrapers have 78 lifts each. It was the highest building in the world from 1998 - 2004. These two towers are owned by KLCC (Kuala Lumpur Convention Center). 

Inside the towers there are Petronas office, Convention Center, many big company offices. No wonder when you are there, you will see people in formal suites: businessman and women.

On the feet of the two towers there is a big mall named Suria Mall. It has underwater aquarium called Aquaria, Science Center, Art Gallery, and shops that sell international branded products.

Outside the towers, there is KLCC Park with high water fountains and a park with public swimming pool. The parks are so clean and neat. It can be a relief in the middle of crowd city. When I was there, there were many people having picnic on the grass. It seems it is an alternative to spend time with family J.

Short Story on the 3rd day in Kuala Lumpur

Finally on the third day in Kuala Lumpur, I saw the sky was blue, after little rain..

On the third day in KL, i travelled to Merdeka Square. At first, i thought Merdeka Square is a mall in the middle of goverment building area. Then i was expecting to do some shopping there. But when i got there, i realized that Merdeka Square or Dataran Merdeka is a venue where annual National day parade held on Independent Day. I guess its like Istana Merdeka in Jakarta (Indonesia) where flag ceremony is anually held. 

There are many beautiful building around Merdeka Square. If you like to see architecture, its a right place to visit. 

After Merdeka Square, I wanted to go to Little India or China Town. I asked people around, apparently Little India is quite far from where i was, but China Town is just around. I tried to find China Town and I arrived in a street where there are many Indian sellers. It was just like Little India but it was not, it was at Masjid India street. 

I continued my walk to find China Town and arrived on Central Market. In Central Market there are so many stuffs you can use as souvenir or oleh-oleh.

After some shopping in Central Market, I was tired of walking and decided to take taxi to Berjaya Time Square. I planned to watch Wolverine 3D in Golden Screen Cinema (so damn big cinema just like in Singapore).

On the way to cinema from inside the taxi I passed the China Town street which i have tried to find so long time, but i was too tired so,, maybe next time :p