The Riordans

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Come Back | Latepost of Jogja Trip With Family

It's been more than a year since i last blogged. Many things happened since then. I used to work in family business, but now it's been about 3 months i'm not working anymore. Hehe. Still don't know what to do right now. We'll see :)

So yeah, for a comeback, i'm gonna blog about our last family trip. And it's gonna be a long one :)
Not going anywhere fancy this year. Since one of my brother recently stay in some special dormitory for disabled kid at Jogja, my mom and dad decided to have a family trip to Jogja to visit my brother. I have 4 siblings and i am the oldest one. :)
Maybe next time i will give introduction of me and my family. ;)

We went on a car for this trip, and it took about 11 hours on non-stop drive since 10 o'clock in the morning :'( poor dad... My parents are the kind of people that like road trip though...) :( I was feeling so sick that day because i haven't sleep yet since the night before :| (As my boyfie said, i'm a nocturnal person :P) And 10 hours in the car really not helping at all :'( Fortunately, we make a stop couple times for eat and toilet, so i can get a fresh air. Arrived at Jogja around 9pm something with a very sore ass :(

We were staying at a guest house there. The house is big and kinda nice actually. It has about 5 bedrooms, and each has a bathroom inside. My family occupied 2 of them. My 2 little sisters and a cousin in one room, meanwhile me and the youngest brother staying with mom and dad. The best part is, at that times, there are no other people staying there beside us. Lucky us! Hehe :D All of us fell asleep immediately that night due to tiredness.

This is where we were staying

The next morning started kinda messy. The bathroom in our room is accidentally locked from inside. And somehow the house owner doesn't have a spare key. And since it was Lebaran holiday, there was no locksmiths work on that day. :'(
Inevitably, we have to share the other bathroom. Imagine that! 7 people sharing one bathroom! What a traffic! Furthermore, the floor drainage in that bathroom is kinda clogged... What a mess! :(

However, after all the commotion, we all have breakfast that has been prepared for us by the house helper together. After that, off we went to pick up my brother Andi. By the time we were arrived, we were welcomed by the friendly caretaker where the other caretaker waking my brother from his nap. It's been a month since we last see him, and by the moment we see him, all of us (just the girls actually) were crying. My brother lost so much weight :'( Apparently it took him so hard to adapt living there. It shocked us really. However, it seems bring out improvements too. Before, my brother has caffein addiction, everyday he always ask for coffee, and if we declined, he will throwing tantrum. (My brother is 25 yo this year, so yeah, it is not easy to handle). It's a long story how it started, but seems like my parents can do nothing anymore to stop it. But now, the caretaker said that he never asked for it again. They replaced it with milk instead. I don't know how they did it, cause we tried it before too. And he has more friends there with a lot activities. So we guess it is a good thing. However, in a couple months we have to visit and checking up on him again and see if he can adapt better then. If not , we have to pick him home. :)

When we were spending a couple hours there, i talked with some of the inhabitants there. Other than disabled kids, some of them were drug addicts and people with anger management issues. Their family put them there to have rehab. They are a nice people. The fact that some of their families didn't visit anymore and just leave them there make me so sad. How cruel they are :'( Maybe next time i blogged more about this topic.

In the afternoon, we all have lunch together at mall food court. Apparently most restaurant are closed during this holiday. During our stay there, there isn't much to do. We went to Keraton Jogja, but too bad, they were closed due to some ceremony.

Take a picture with my mom ❤

With my sissy ❤

Full House ❤

Hi Cuz! :D

Went to Parangtritis beach on the next day. Not staying long there. Take some selcas ❤❤❤

Again with sissy ❤

My lovely parent ❤

And of course, Malioboro is a must-visit place at Jogja! :)

Didn't buy much there, since there was nothing much interesting. Just couple of shirts and this personalized couple bracelet for me and him ❤

Apparently someone is missing me ❤ Hihi. :*

Last day at Jogja, bought the famous pia 25. The cheese one tastes good even for someone who is not really a sweet-tooth like me. :)

And eat Jogja's signature food "Gudeg" on Wajilan Street :D

Overall, we had quite a great time at Jogja despite all the bad things. Hehe. Yeahh... at least that's what we thought before 22 hours in car on way home. Arrgghhhh. My ass turned into square shape.... :'( (J/K)

LOVE, X O X O

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Sweet escape to Singapore ❤ ( ื▿ ืʃƪ)

This trip taken at May, 31st - June, 06th 2012. Been planning this trip since last year, quite a long time eh? We're supposed to go on February actually, just me with my bf to celebrate Valentine's Day together there. But since our friends planned to go to Singapore too on End of May, so we thought why don't we go with them? The more the merrier right? :) So that's how it decided. February's trip was cancelled, such a waste really, let the tickets forfeited :( well...

So, the night before the trip (our flight was on 7 a.m), i had sleepover at my bf's home. Went to sleep kinda late that night (I'm the kind of person who can't sleep the night before trip due to over excitement :P), so it was feel like hell have to wake up so early. Even my bf who is usually wake earlier than me didn't wake up until i woke him up. So after the rush, we went to airport.

When we arrived at airport, after checked in the luggage, we went for eat. well, just me actually :P

Took some photos of us ❤

And finally meeting with our friends

Met and made some new friends too :D

We stayed at Five Stones Hostel there (Clarke Quay area), the place was really nice ❤

Sleep in bunk beds. Exciting ❤

The view in Clarke Quay is really nice, especially the night view ❤

Had so much fun at Singapore. Ate some Singapore's signature foods

Chicken Rice and "Es Potong" (Dunno what is it called)

Ice Kachang (Don't really like the corn sauce, but it's quite yummy :D)

Been to several places
Day 1

Some temples, forgot the name.
One is Buddha Temple and the other one is Hindu Temple

Strolling around Clarke Quay and Went to China Town

Day 2
We went to Bugis market and ION Orchard. It's not really a wise plan to went to shopping area just on 2nd day in there. But well... :)

And as I thought, spent quite a lot of money there. T T

Day 3

Went to Chinese Garden. I wanted to look the giant tortoise and tortoise museum there, but my friends were already tired.. and my feet felt really sore too.. So maybe next time..

At night, we went to Marina Bay Sands. The place is so awesomeeee ❤
It amazed me really.

Dunno what this is.
Some kind of water fountain maybe. Nah..

We even went to Casino. Not for playing games of course. Somehow i just feel it's wrong to playing games in Casino. So we were just looked around. Kinda freaked out watching those people playing really. They spent money just like it some kind of paper (or some chip) :s

Day 4
On day 4 we were playing at Sentosa Island. Yayy!

Fu fu fu ❤

Ride Luge and

It was freaking hot that day, really!
And it felt so scary up there T T

Day 5
That was the most fun day at Singapore.
Universal Studio is AWESOME!

With Underworld casters. ❤

"Wet look" or more like "Soaked look"? :P

This place is so sweet ❤❤❤
Sweet candy-land ❤

And the night came, we went to watch "Song of The Sea".
The show was great.
And the sea's view at night is really pretty ❤

... And the next day, we had to fly back to Indonesia.. So sad T T Had great times at Singapore and next time will definitely go there again, just with my bf ❤