Sure, we only ATE at the
hotel (as opposed to staying there, as my class did during their
stay), but the place in the hotel where we ate was the very same
restaurant that we ate dinner during MY grade's stay at Jogjakarta.
In fact, while my family and I were waiting for our food to arrive, I
was busy trying to reconstruct the memory of my class eating in the
restaurant. Sure, I didn't do such a good job, but it's nice to
contemplate sometimes (in fact, that's what I do most of the goddamn
time, even when in a huge crowd and forced to “socialize”. I'm an
introvert guys, deal with it). Plus, they even had free Wi-Fi in the
restaurant, so I managed to kill two birds with one stone.
Overall, the holiday was
quite unique in its own right (the way we got to Jogjakarta was even
MORE unique, as you're about to discover in a few paragraphs. And not
in an entirely good way either, but we'll talk more about that
later). For one, it was the very first time my family had ever gone
any farther than Bandung (in this case, as I have pointed out several
million times already, Jogjakarta) via car. Secondly, it was also the
first time my family had ever stayed in multiple hotels/villas in one
trip (two hotels and one not-so-great villa (once again, no offense,
villa owners. I don't wanna get a lawsuit from you guys or some $#!+,
but if you're gonna entertain me, add a few more entertainment
devices if you ever plan to attract more guys like me (AKA people who
prefer to spend their time staying in their room couch
surfing/watching cable TV/ streaming videos from YouTube) to the
place).
I've never been a big fan
of being stuck in a tight space (in this case, a car) for extended
periods of time (my parents told me it took around 8 hours to get to
Semarang), unless I could be sedated for the entire journey, of
course. We normally travel to such places via airplane, but my
parents were all like, “f*** the plane, we gonna economize, baby.”.
I don't blame them, but I guess if saving money means taking about 16
hours to get from Jogjakarta to Jakarta (seriously, that's how long
the return trip took, and apparently the GPS navigation system
estimated we arrive back in Jakarta by 2 PM, when in reality, it took
until about 9 PM), then we gotta do what we gotta do. Speaking of
which, they're also planning to get to motherf***ing BALI using a car
once we manage to, so that's yet ANOTHER thing to look forward to in
the future. Hooray...
Thankfully, now we're back
at home, where I'm typing this, away from all the traveling bull$#!+.
I should probably enjoy this while I still can, considering it's only
3 weeks until I'm due to be back in school, surviving yet ANOTHER
onslaught of work for a year (excluding holidays and weekends). But
until then, this is Jason, and see ye until the next post. Peace!
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