Dewa Athena

I think I have to make sure that I had already told you about Dewa Athena that was held one year ago. A year ago, Dewa Athena had an icon. It was a lion that grab a torch. Don’t forget about the motto, too. It was “Ubi Concordia Ibi Victoria”. In this year Dewa Athena comes with different icon and different motto. The icon is a well-known figure of cartoon. It is Sonic. Its motto is… ah I don’t know for sure it is quite hard to remember. So sorry if I can’t tell you.

Just want to remain you, Dewa Athena is a sport competition. So my class may gain in this event and this time I’ll tell you about my class. My class, yeah I may say we have quite ability and potential to compete the other, but I don’t know why my class has failed in some parts of the game. Have no luck, I guess. 

My class quite, quiet -_- Not to interesting or I don’t know. Too busy may be, so it’s rather hard to find a person who wants to be a represent of my class. In football game my class is quite good. In the other game, I don’t know, I don’t put any attention. I don’t know because I never want to be a participant of Dewa Athena. I’m trying to be, but my schedule doesn’t want me to be. Quite like an excuse but for sure I’m not joking about my schedule.

Like a wind but big as a lion. This game is quite a big event but it feels like just a pass by thing for me. I don’t even want to put myself on it. My class still can go on well. May be they need me, but they never ask me to. I know, I should’ve asked, but they don’t seem like me to be. Hah.. I’m so sorry.

I may only remember the final announcement or I may say final round for all of the games. My class was quite good at the football, but to sorry we just can be the third (if I’m not wrong). I don’t know about the other. Like What I said yeah it just, yeah it just. The coordinator is good and they always make an announcement for the result of the game. Like what I said to you I don’t know that much about Dewa Athena this year.

For sure I may say it is a good competition. I think my class enjoy the game, too. Everything just as good as what I can see. Football, badminton, marathon, table tennis (I don’t know this word), all of them seems interesting for me. I hope that in the next year it’ll be good or better. I just remember the final announcement that has already spread out in Line. It is good to know that we can win in one of the game. 

Dewa Athena may still go on. Hope it’ll be more interesting. To me this event is quite beneficial but I don’t put any attention. Hope it will be more.. yeah just more. If only I know abot this event well I may tell you more about this. It is one and another experience in my journey in senior high. Hahaha… I don’t what to say again. Thanks guys.. :D

Bandung Hotspot

Now days, Bandung has changed so much. Bandung has turned into a beautiful city, thanks to our mayor, Mr. Ridwan Kamil who has made a big improvement to our beloved city.  There is so many beautiful park and incredible spot in Bandung. Mr. Ridwan Kamil has changed some place into public places such as parks, where those places back then was not quite useful and beautiful. He likes to design every hotspot by himself since he is architecture.

  Now I can tell where those hotspots are. Actually there are hundreds of the renewable parks but I just can tell some of the well-known one. Fist one is Braga and Alun-Alun Bandung. Braga and Alun-Alun Bandung is close by so I can go and come in the same time. It is a crucial place since Asia Africa Commemoration was held there. 

Alun-Alun Bandung has a unique style. It is synthetic grasses for its field. They said it can last until 10 years. The design of the Mosque is pretty incredible. There are so many flowers and ornaments that decorate the place. There are some chairs there, so everyone can enjoy the moment there. There is always so many people that come to see the place, so it always crowded. 

Braga, there is a big statue which shape a word B.R.A.G.A. Back then, Braga was always a beautiful and classic place, but now it is prettier. Whenever I walked on Braga I felt like I was overseas. Its ornament is exciting to see and so classic. There are so many shop and café there, so you can have a meal while having a good moment there. For the street itself, there are so many rocks that has already named. Each rock has a name of one country which counted as a part of Asia Africa Commemoration. The streetlights give more unique style to Braga. For sure I may say, it is really a beauty place.

Now, Balai Kota or its popular name is ‘Balkot’. Balkot is a place where the Mayor and Vice Mayor of Bandung work. It always crowded when weekend because so many people do their activities there, such as doing a workout, dancing or for a gathering for some communities. Now days the place was given a new ornament which is the same like in Namsan Tower South Korea. It is “Love padlock”. Every couple can put their padlock there. Beside Padlock you can also see some beautiful statue there. There, you can also have a beauty and green view or maybe you can take some selfie there as what I did. Hehe..

Now let’s move to an urban place—Dago. Its name has a meaning. In Sundanese, Dago has a meaning “wait”. In Dago, you will find so many-many outlets and restaurants. From International style to traditional style, you can always find it in Dago, as long as the money still in your hand. This place is quite green, so it is quite interesting if you have a walk there. For every people who like bicycling can also rent a bicycle right on side street of Dago. 

Still near from there, there is one of well-known college in Bandung or you may in Indonesia. Its Institute is well-known for its major in technic and almost every scholar want to be a college there (especially in my school). Its name is “Intstitut Teknologi Bandung”. You can pass by there, and see the beauty of its architecture. You can have a meal there, too, because there are so many merchants who sell so many kind of meal. And you can also make yourself comfortable by seeing the student’s activities there. I ever saw their experiment, too, it was interesting.

For sure there are so many places you can see and enjoy in Bandung and so many things you can experience here. You can learn its culture too. Don’t forget to take care of your things, too, because there a possibility for an incident such as robbery case or any of them. Be joyful for a new experience in Bandung! :)

Tur Budaya 2015

Tur Budaya is a kind of an outdoor education learning where we can learn its social culture. So, as you can guess if the title must have a place that has a distinctive culture, you may know the place. Bali—One of an island in Indonesia that well-known for its culture. So, that was our destination. “#32016 goes to Bali” you may say.

I and all of my friends in SMAN 3 Bandung went to Bali by train then cross the bay by ship. We spent two days and a half may be. I don’t remember but may be. In the midnight, we arrived at Bali. In Bali, we stayed at Nirmala Hotel. It was quite cozy hotel and three stars hotel.

The first destination in the first morning in Bali was going to Nusa Dua. Before we went, we had a breakfast in hotel. The food was good and I liked it. I found this funny, I realized that the more I was getting near to Bali, the dish tasted more delicious in every moment when we had our food. For real, I had a big appetite there. When breakfast, I had done my breakfast for two people portions. Nice shot right!

Breakfast in stomach, Nusa Dua up ahead. We went there by bus with our tour guide accompanied us. There were 10 buses which precisely for ten classes. We passed toll road. The road was just built one year ago (if I’m not wrong). The unique thing for this toll was that motorcycle could pass this toll road, too. It was quite good to pass this road, since I only saw it in TV, yeah even though I ever went to Bali before.

Unrealized we’d arrived in Nusa Dua… yeah.. (Because as long as the trip in the bus, I was sleeping, hehe) Now what do you know about Nusa Dua? It’s beauty? They’re facilities? Or its sea? Yeah you’re right, the answer is all them is true. Yeah, but the first thing that we were going to try was water sport and the second thing, we were going to play in one of the beaches in Nusa Dua.

The water sports that we tried were banana boat, parasailing, flying fish, jet ski, donut boat, glass bottom boat to Turtle Island. So many of my friends played one of them unless glass bottom boat to Turtle Island but I rather choose went to Turtle Island because I didn’t want to get wet. Just for information there were some packages that you can choose. Such as, banana boat, flying fish, and parasailing in one package and any of them. For the price itself, to me, it was quite expensive.

So, on my way to Turtle Island. The island was cross Nusa Dua (may be), so we used boat to go to Turtle Island. Guessed what?! I thought going there wouldn’t make me wet, but my calf to foots were wet. The boat stepped aside quite far from my reach. So, I had to walk and pass the water to hop into the boat—Disappointed. Knew what! Seeing Parasailing almost didn’t reach the water. I thought my choice wasn’t that right, but I didn’t care again since the price was cheaper. I still could be happy.

The boat was moving in its way to Turtle Island. On the middle of our way to Turtle Island, we stopped. We were given some bread by the sailor so we could feed the fishes. We ripped them into pieces then threw them away. Then, the fish gathered around our boat and ate the breads. The fish were wonderful. They had so many colors and they were so beauty. I was very excited.

Finally, we had arrived at Turtle Island. We were welcomed by a tour guide. The tour guide led us to go in. He explained anything there while we were had our tour. We saw some little turtle in the pool. We saw some old turtle, too. They were so big—Bigger than I thought. I felt so wonderful to see them in real. I could touch and played with them. Not forgot to take some pic. I saw so many animals there. There were eagle, snakes, iguana, bath, and so many others.

After had a tour on Turtle Island, we went back to Nusa Dua. We had our lunch in the shore. I liked the food. The food was good, especially the satay and otak-otak. Huhuhu I liked them. The taste was so rich. Between sour from lime and spicy from cayenne pepper. So refreshing. After I had my lunch, I was in rush to go to the bus to get AC. I couldn’t stand the temperature there. It was so hot. Since I lived in Bandung where the temperature was quite cold, I couldn’t easily get along with the temperature there.

Finished with water sport, we went to the second destination—Pandawa Beach. To me, this beach was more beauty than Kuta Beach. The sea was still pure blue. The sand was still white and clean. In the way to the beach, we could some big statue that was built on the cliff. It was awesome. The statues were an image of the Hindus God (If I’m not wrong). I thought that Balinese was a good artists.

There, we had some games to play. We had futsal match where each class should compete the other and won the game. The players were all boys. Yeah, since the rules said it so. I just could watch and stare. Too long to stay on the beach, I felt like my skin was burnt by the sun rays. I was in hurry to step aside and find a place to hide myself from sun rays. Then, I stayed at a stall and bought a drink. Not for a long time, my friends came and joined with me.

In the stall, I just sit and drank coconut water which my friend had bought. Saw the view and enjoyed the moment. It was such a peace to see the beauty of the sea. I could see my friends were playing futsal. I could see some tourists were sunbathing. I was just wondering why they could stand the temperature. Hah, the world was more complicated than I thought.

A night had already risen, we had our dinner at Jimbaran Bay. It was a restaurant where we could eat at the sea shore. It had a beauty view, but unlucky, we came in the wrong time. So we couldn’t see the sunset. The view was a matter but the food was more than just a matter for me. The seafood was good. We had our dinner with a dancer entrained us.

                We had some entertainment, too. It was like celebrating every student who had birthday in that day. They got cake and some candle to turn off. Then, they had to give their piece of cake to their special person. They confused to choose the person. Some of them might be have one but they didn’t want to show him/she to the public. Haha, kind of shy. At the end, they gave it away. Well, that was pretty good to see that moment.

                We had an event, too. It was to lit lampion and then threw them it the air. Every class was given one lampion. We lit the lampion together. After we had lit the lampion, we counted down.10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Then, we let them fly in the air. After we set them free, the fireworks started to tone up the moment. It was entertaining.

                After we had so many food and happy moment, we went to hotel. We had a tiring day so after arrived at hotel I directly took a bath and went to sleep. It was quite in the midnight. It was tiring but it was good too. One day in Bali had rolled up.

There were so many events that had already happened when three days in Bali. We had a good moment and a good fun. Sorry, I just can tell you the first day that I did, but I still had some photos to share for. Hope you’ll like it :)