Blogs from Malang, Java, Indonesia, Asia - page 2

everybody!!! :D have you know that I'm also member on couchsurfing??? so here's come my first time hosting, yay! :D and it goes to... teng teng... Rachel Harper!!.. yes, she's my first guest hehe :P she comes from US but recently she's working on Thailand by NGO and her coming through Indonesia is for her holiday and visiting time for her friends.. well, few days before her coming to Malang, she messaged me and told me she'll spend couple days here..so I just said "oh, yes..! your room is ready!" then here she comes :) I picked her on train station which located only 5 minutes driving from my house and then we heading right to have lunch..yeah, she seemed hungry and need some space to walk cause she's been sitting in hours :( then I ... read more

So, anybody already know what 'Batik' is? well, Batik is a name for any kind of fabric material which drew with some traditional pattern and properly rubber-ink in Indonesia. It can be found on clothes pattern, bag with fabric material, and so on.. Usually it used natural colour as the colour base.. but the interesting is.... the pattern! Each region have different kinds of pattern compared with their customs and heritages.. all pattern must been influenced with nature and environments near some villages.. Since 'Batik' commonly produced by traditional people, and when it comes over Indonesia that have lot of customs and spreaded among those lot of islands, each region would named their traditional pattern with their name to divide those kinds of 'Batik'.. Now about the process of making 'Batik' pattern.. first, since I never ... read more

It was 6 PM and I already finished my dinner. Not really remember, but seemed I had only raw vegetables with traditional tomato sauce for the dinner. Well, hadn't had any meat or fish for a month :( only rice and vegetables.. and again and again.. As I finished, I noticed that I need to buy some medicine for my mom on drugstore near my house so I just decided to take a walk. It's still not dark, I was feel weird too..usually it's already dark at that moment..but instead of dark, it's still bright with some grey colour start brushing on some point :P then I arrived on the drugstore and ask some medicine to the store keeper and paid it soon. Grabed it and quickly walked back home.. cause there're few bad and sick ... read more

It took me about 1,5 hours driving to the south part of Malang. Along myway, I only see lot of woods and more woods.. oh, of course there were few small villages and traditional market. Actually I didn't even plan to visit Balekambang Beach, but since I already drove further into this south area I decided to came by on it. Before reached it, I used to think that this would be a dirty and incovinience beach. But after I arrived there, I tottally changed my mind! It was so awsome!!!!! ;) Lucky me it was a really really clear sunny day.. the sun was brightly shining and the ocean wave wasn't in high tide. But for sure, it was damn hot! I took a walk along the beach there and found a small island with ... read more

Ah.. Since it was a weekend nigh, it would be so bored just stayed at home. My friend and I chose to spent some hours on a coffee shop in my city. We sat on its top roof and had our coffee & hot chocolate drink.. Well, my friend just came back from Bandung and we hadn't met for a lon time. So we thought it would be nice to spent some time together than just stayed bored in our house..... read more