Taman Lampion

We had dinner at another posh place i have no pocket left after this programme. they have been burnt i ordered the whole gurame (that is ikan kaloi for my fellow Malaysian) that comes with hot sauce and since I am Asian, I called for rice after a few spoons of only fish. and lalapan segar (that is fresh ulam/green for you guys).

and after dinner we went to Taman Lampion. It is a place full with lanterns.

and by lanterns I mean those that look like this

Cool right?
We basically had the place all to ourselves.

It felt more like an eerie theme park at first but 2 rounds on the trampoline erased that. yeah only 2 rounds or else I would puke out my dinner on that thing.

some went for the closed trampoline. man, they are good. backflips and all.

there was a band playing to nobody in particular and after much hesitation, I joined Sophie dancing under the stars. Too bad the band doesnt know that much english songs (you can request song from them). and not long after, the dancing lesson took place 

oh yeah, some of us raced on these. the perk of having the whole place to yourselves.

and after we walked around the park, I jumped on these out of the blue and we raced with it. Indonesian students are crazy bunch, never a quiet moment with them, which is good.

I would want to go again on the trampoline but the park was closing. yeah, we stayed until it's closing time. so we made our way back to UC.

P/S : all photos are from Chris collection. good stuff!

Water Rescue

we knew we are going to have a water rescue session but I have no idea we are going to have it in Indonesia's RAF base! yes, Indonesia's royal air force base. Well, to me, soldiers (army, navy, RAF) are not civilians, in a good way of course. they are different bred and it is a very rare chance to see them in their element in their own ground.



anyway, we got to the swimming pool. I blame the years spent scrubbing pool and pouring chlorine - let just say that apart from not getting myself into the pool, I tried to not touch the water.



It is a bummer though, because the session was really good. I have never participate in water rescue because me dad's certified in water rescue. the instructor instructed in Indonesian and Yana's translated for him. then a bit of warming up before jumping into the pool for a majority of us. I learned from dry land and did a lot of people watching after that from the platform. it was urm, very interesting.




We retreated to the mosque for Zohor and I went a bit jakun meeting the long lost I-dont-know-its-name plant near the mosque. God, it feels so nice to have praying facility available anywhere you go. The one inside the RAF base is open air concept. and filled with RAF personnels. after prayer, we went back to them bathsuit clads lads drying themselves under the equatorial sun and having their lunch. it was sunny and breezy. and we chatted about. the ghosts. of all the topics we can talk about, we chose ghost. and let me tell you, Indonesia's ghosts are no joke. luckily none visit me afterwards.

*all photos are from organizers collection.