Amazingly, I also found a
pretty decent place to eat while at Jogjakarta (OK, it wasn't really
a restaurant, per se, but a food exhibition of some sort, like an
outdoor food court (rhyming accidentally), and it fulfilled most of
the criteria for a good Indonesian restaurant. It had great food
(notably this really awesome Indonesian burger. Shame I forgot to
tell the vendor not to put any hot sauce in the burger. Thankfully my
dad bought several ice teas to extinguish the metaphorical fire in my
mouth while I was eating said burger, but it was good nevertheless)
and strategic placement (right next to the hotel). However, if there
was something I could change about the place, it'd be the atmosphere
(the atmosphere was fine, but I prefer indoor places, to be honest)
and the background noise. I couldn't even hear myself over the noise
of the host at the time (it was an exhibition, remember?). Other than
that, it was actually great.
We also went “cave
tubing” at Jogjakarta, which I had to say, was a pretty OK
experience (I know it's anticlimactic for me to say it was an OK
experience, but you know the type of guy I am). On the plus side, I
got to witness going swimming in an underground cave for the first
time, learned a bit about the local wildlife whilst in the cave
(notably bats, fish and REALLY pesky bugs, but it was interesting
nevertheless), and most importantly, got a photo of my dad taking a
selfie (#selfieception). Unfortunately (for the rest of my family. I
was totally fine with what happened next), we didn't go to any more
activities like that for the remainder of the trip (see?).
But for ME, the most
memorable experience of the trip was (hint: it's not the time when I
ate at McDonald's or KFC, although that does qualify as a great
experience. And sadly, that experience wasn't “lounging in the
hotel room for hours on end” either. Nice guess, though) my visit
to a hotel for some Dim Sum. I've been a pretty big fan of Dim Sum to
start with, and secondly, this hotel was the very same place that I
stayed in during MY grade's time in Jogjakarta. This was the most
nostalgic I've ever been throughout the course of the entire journey
(the second time was when we revisited the mall in Semarang that I
told you guys was connected right next to the hotel on the return
trip from Jogjakarta, but the only difference was that we only
visited the mall to get some lunch. That was more anticlimactic than
nostalgic, really, considering the fact that we visited the mall and
got instantly depressed when we remembered that the hotel was right
next to us. It's a hard feeling to describe, OK?).
Well, that should be it. This should at least please Daddy a bit, considering his mood if it doesn't. All I can say is that although this blog writing is somewhat of a necessity for my life (Internet surfing and $#!+), I will say that a side benefit to that is that you guys can at least see the life of my family. Maybe. I'll just leave the paragraph there before things get more complicated, so yeah... See ya next time!
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