I woke up at 3 o clock in the morning the rushed my way to wash my face and wrapped me up in hundreds layer of garments. Ha, just kidding, but It's pretty thick, cause minus two degree still on. We took taxi to Genève Aeroport, in just only 15 minutes were already on our line of star jet airline to Amsterdam.
Checked-in was done smoothly, we're having my cousin made tuna sandwich breakfast, then off to the boarding room. It was my mom first time flew with budget airline so she was a bit freak out with the unconfirmed gate 30minutes before boarding, no baggage tag and all those detail that she never felt before.
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On the plane, the trip took 80 minutes on air, I was making the stories about day 3 when I saw cotton candy French skies on the window. Such a pleasant view of sunrise. And the mountain was all covered by snow. Like you're flying on Christmas Day!
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Over The Netherlands all I saw was green fields, a country side view I felt warm enough on me even the weather show the opposite. Baggage claim was fast and Oom Mursal already wait on the arrival gate.
Here's short story about Oom Mursal, after some times I learnt that Oom Mursal real name is Mr. Minang. He was an old friend of my uncle in Cairo couple years ago. For the last 25 years he lives on Amsterdam as a permanent resident and had 2 children. He worked as a chef on Indonesian restaurant here. For all these time too he said he used to share his home with many kind of Indonesian people from relatives to stranger. From tourist, business and educational purpose. Oom Mursal and his wife really warm and welcome to us. And his two children, Johan and Irfan are fastly adapted kid to strangers. His wife work in Indonesian restaurant named Toko Restu too just 2 minutes walk from home. At home she worked for Indonesian jajanan pasar orders around the neighborhood.
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Back to the story, we took a bus number 197 then tram number 17 to Jan Pieter Heijestraat 50B, the homey duplex of Oom Mursal and his family. His wife kindly gave us her transportation card for 2 days. At first we planned to visit Volendam first, but due to construction in underwater tunnel, the route of the bus might be changed so we think its better to have them as companion tomorrow. We took about 2 hour light sleep the made our way to Rijkmuseum then headed back to Toko Restu. Not much sightseeing today cause my mom seems to hate it being outside. And im having my big lunch on that restaurant. I was happy the taste is just like home. Before I went home I visited Johan and Onda(another Irfan nickname) school. Johan was in group 3 while Onda in group 1.
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Sun slowly sets in when I'm home, me and the kids were playing many kind of things until her mom got home from her work. They seems to like it playing with me, they insist to have more games after shalat. Yeah we did shalat together, they loved it but they still learned about shalat, so no wudhu before shalat yet.
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Not much energy after playing, I just eat everything when her mom came in and bring the sushi gift from upstairs. Ah forget to mention their neighbor was Netherlanda-Japanese couple and worked at sushi restaurant. And closing my sushi appetizer with Ayam Balado by Oom Mursal, this one is my all time favorite dishes and presented just like home.
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I finished this story on Changi, Singapore. Welcome the sunny days!
Hugs from Changi
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Day 2
Day 2
I woke up at 5pm this morning, I don't even remember when I fallen asleep last night, my mom says that she's going to St. Gallen for Breast Cancer Congress with her friends who was sleeping in the different hotel at Turbinenstrasse. Oh where the hell was that street, I don't even had the proper time to read the map. With my confused mind, I gathered strength to find that hotel. It took 30minutes of my sleep to gathered all the information, God bless my hotel for the free wifi access.
I jumped to the shower as fast I can, I won't let my mother lost when she had to find the tram number 4 to Technopark. I bought the ticket through the machine finally. Then yesterday was just a miss, when I didn't adapted yet. It's a good thing when my not so comfort zone now become one of my comfort zone. I felt like I was part of this city when I dropped my mom at the right tram station and wait for her train disappeared from my sight. I think I was the good child at that time.
The tourist information still closed on 7:15 in the morning, so I have to bought the evening tickets for Genève on the reiseburo. I was stand on the line when a man just cut my line then going before me, I keep silence, when all the people behind me got angry to that man. Fortunately the man gone right away, when I still have no idea what they're talking about.
Then I rushed to take the golden light around the station. The sun was still warm but the weather still extremely cold. My hands and my face was frozen while I was taking the picture endlessly. I had the hard time to take pictures with the gloves on, so I took the left side first and continued to take some pictures. Behind me I heard the noise, then I turn back then I saw sweeping machine moves towards me, so I stepped aside. Then when I wanted to put my glove back on I lost it. I didn't find it in my pocket, in my bag, everywhere. That happened so fast when I saw the sweeping machine passes me. That's when I realized that, damn my glove must've been slipped right before the sweeping maching passes me. My life just like one of Mr. Bean scene.
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At 8pm I already back in my hotel room, I felt sleepy ad hungry at the same time, the the hotel room become my comfort zone. I had thoughts to choose the hotel room that outside world, city of Zürich. But then the memories of all promises back. I thought I should found my peace from outside. Then I slept for an hour to regain back my energy. I tried not to be super excited today, just let the time passed me by, I will walk slowly and enjoy the coldness of today.
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9:06pm sound of alarm woke me up, my head is going to burst I think. But I had to go outside like I said to my self before. I washed my face and ready to fill up my hungry belly. I think the temperature still under the zero degree celcius. But the power of hunger against it all.
Before I went to buy some meal, I was going back to tourist information to ask my Zürich-Genève tickets that I bought before. The tickets doesn't showed the time and the seat for the trip. But that's okay actually, the officer said, plus he adds me with the guide of Genève and walking tour for Zürich. He actually made my day.
I was craving Nordsee fish & chips sweet chili sauce all day long, the store wasn't opened yet. So the choice went to Burger King cheeseburger and hot chocolate. I was so concentrate on my writings about day 1 while eating my breakfast, I didn't realize I was sitting in front of the magnificent transparent clock, yeah it's in Burger King! I just realized clock was a big deal in this country, the people who made the best watch, the people who tagged with over-punctuality.
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My route was the same green route like on the Zürich map plus the hidden route from the tourist officer before. I think my walk today as slow as I predict and as peaceful as I wanted. Never been so unplanned on trip like this, but like Mikha said that the last planned trip might be the best trip for us. I missed my friends while I was crossing the city today, but I think I can control all those lonely, depressed feelings just by remember their encouragement and joy for me. I would like to tell this route on another post soon when I'm home.
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With happy face and Luxemburgerli on my hand arrived safely on my hotel room. Browsing for a while and texting with my mom whose by herself in St. Gallen, and couple time get lost, I just can't think how could she survived after all this time barely speak in English. So I went asleep.
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Then she come, my mom, with fish and chips I've been waiting for and we rushed to packed our bags and checked out. It's 6:10 were running down the streets with all those big luggage, I missed my backpack.
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Not so hard to find that we're on the platform 15 and get on the train on time. The problem was, my mom was running first and get on the full one. So we must keep our luggage near us because the baggage shelf was full. Thank God there was a nice old man who taught us how to keep our baggage closed. He's Albanian and muslim too. But he can't speak English so it's like body language conversation all night. Now the train just passed Fribourg. One hour away from Genève. Wish me luck!
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When we get off the train, my cousin already wait for us on the platform so just by 1 tram number 14 we arrive on Petit Lancy. And I'm having the best dinner ever which is Indonesian roasted chicken with salad and my beloved, Rice.
Kisses from Petit Lancy!
March 2013
I woke up at 5pm this morning, I don't even remember when I fallen asleep last night, my mom says that she's going to St. Gallen for Breast Cancer Congress with her friends who was sleeping in the different hotel at Turbinenstrasse. Oh where the hell was that street, I don't even had the proper time to read the map. With my confused mind, I gathered strength to find that hotel. It took 30minutes of my sleep to gathered all the information, God bless my hotel for the free wifi access.
I jumped to the shower as fast I can, I won't let my mother lost when she had to find the tram number 4 to Technopark. I bought the ticket through the machine finally. Then yesterday was just a miss, when I didn't adapted yet. It's a good thing when my not so comfort zone now become one of my comfort zone. I felt like I was part of this city when I dropped my mom at the right tram station and wait for her train disappeared from my sight. I think I was the good child at that time.
The tourist information still closed on 7:15 in the morning, so I have to bought the evening tickets for Genève on the reiseburo. I was stand on the line when a man just cut my line then going before me, I keep silence, when all the people behind me got angry to that man. Fortunately the man gone right away, when I still have no idea what they're talking about.
Then I rushed to take the golden light around the station. The sun was still warm but the weather still extremely cold. My hands and my face was frozen while I was taking the picture endlessly. I had the hard time to take pictures with the gloves on, so I took the left side first and continued to take some pictures. Behind me I heard the noise, then I turn back then I saw sweeping machine moves towards me, so I stepped aside. Then when I wanted to put my glove back on I lost it. I didn't find it in my pocket, in my bag, everywhere. That happened so fast when I saw the sweeping machine passes me. That's when I realized that, damn my glove must've been slipped right before the sweeping maching passes me. My life just like one of Mr. Bean scene.
---
At 8pm I already back in my hotel room, I felt sleepy ad hungry at the same time, the the hotel room become my comfort zone. I had thoughts to choose the hotel room that outside world, city of Zürich. But then the memories of all promises back. I thought I should found my peace from outside. Then I slept for an hour to regain back my energy. I tried not to be super excited today, just let the time passed me by, I will walk slowly and enjoy the coldness of today.
---
9:06pm sound of alarm woke me up, my head is going to burst I think. But I had to go outside like I said to my self before. I washed my face and ready to fill up my hungry belly. I think the temperature still under the zero degree celcius. But the power of hunger against it all.
Before I went to buy some meal, I was going back to tourist information to ask my Zürich-Genève tickets that I bought before. The tickets doesn't showed the time and the seat for the trip. But that's okay actually, the officer said, plus he adds me with the guide of Genève and walking tour for Zürich. He actually made my day.
I was craving Nordsee fish & chips sweet chili sauce all day long, the store wasn't opened yet. So the choice went to Burger King cheeseburger and hot chocolate. I was so concentrate on my writings about day 1 while eating my breakfast, I didn't realize I was sitting in front of the magnificent transparent clock, yeah it's in Burger King! I just realized clock was a big deal in this country, the people who made the best watch, the people who tagged with over-punctuality.
---
My route was the same green route like on the Zürich map plus the hidden route from the tourist officer before. I think my walk today as slow as I predict and as peaceful as I wanted. Never been so unplanned on trip like this, but like Mikha said that the last planned trip might be the best trip for us. I missed my friends while I was crossing the city today, but I think I can control all those lonely, depressed feelings just by remember their encouragement and joy for me. I would like to tell this route on another post soon when I'm home.
---
With happy face and Luxemburgerli on my hand arrived safely on my hotel room. Browsing for a while and texting with my mom whose by herself in St. Gallen, and couple time get lost, I just can't think how could she survived after all this time barely speak in English. So I went asleep.
---
Then she come, my mom, with fish and chips I've been waiting for and we rushed to packed our bags and checked out. It's 6:10 were running down the streets with all those big luggage, I missed my backpack.
---
Not so hard to find that we're on the platform 15 and get on the train on time. The problem was, my mom was running first and get on the full one. So we must keep our luggage near us because the baggage shelf was full. Thank God there was a nice old man who taught us how to keep our baggage closed. He's Albanian and muslim too. But he can't speak English so it's like body language conversation all night. Now the train just passed Fribourg. One hour away from Genève. Wish me luck!
---
When we get off the train, my cousin already wait for us on the platform so just by 1 tram number 14 we arrive on Petit Lancy. And I'm having the best dinner ever which is Indonesian roasted chicken with salad and my beloved, Rice.
Kisses from Petit Lancy!
March 2013
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