flymoniker: Bandung Part 1

Yeah that's right we went to Bandung! Farley has been raving about it for a long time (he went there 4, 5 years ago) and on his persuasion, our trip diverted from Taiwan to Bangkok then to Bandung!

Day 1

Us at Claud's place before leaving for the airport

I wanted to bring my Miu Miu wristlet for shopping but the girls said I would get mugged/forget/lose it so I borrowed a sling bag from Kelyn which turned out to be amazingly practical. The Agnes B keepall however, was simply NOT ENOUGH to hold what I bought back.

K's Victoria's Secret holdall. It's pretty but it has a impractical fixed shape. Which means you can't do the sit-on-luggage-and-zip thing.

Checking in

Budget airport food

There's Secret Recipe, but it's overpriced and disgusting.

Our aeroplane - really budget we had to climb a makeshift staircase to board.

I look like a movie star right?! Haha wind in hair: check. Shot in the midst of walking: check. Heh heh. Ok don't talk about my clothes I was dressed for a day of flying and transport.

Bye Singapore!

We took this shot to see how much more luggage we're coming back with. You'll see that in Part 2.

Our room

Ok K shot this while trying to figure out how to turn on the flash on my digital camera

Discussing shopping plans for the next day

There's a staircase in our suite!!!!

This is what I see every morning when I wake up. The inside of a roof (:

At first I thought I was bring stalkerish when I took photos of them from the upper level then I saw....

HAHA K did the same thing

Dunkin' Donuts we got on the way to our boutique hotel

Room service! Extorbitant as expected at 10 SGD a plate (plus we had room service like twice. Or thrice.) when standard of living in Indonesia is way low.

Day 2

I look so awful here. Direct sunlight = unflattering.

This is embarrassing but I figured it'll be a laugh. The girls laughed at it because my roots made the bun look badgerish.

Breakfast

I actually ate Koko Crunch and Mee Soto everyday. Yummy. And the fresh milk in Indo are all full-fat and it's super good. And sinful.

Bluebird taxis! They're the only company to run by meter.

How most of the houses in Bandung look - even though we saw gigantuan castles and lofts... I WANT I WANT

But what's really terrible is that you see young kids playing on the road (like, on the road itself and Bandung's traffic is dire), stuffing each other into giant plastic bags, motorists carrying three pillion passengers on a normal-sized bike, teenagers walking up to cars playing guitars, beggars knocking on windows to ask for money... It's so sad. And you can't even help any of them because they snatch your money and stuff when you open your window.