Destination Bandung!

These days I seem to have shocked my friends with my impromptu decisions. Sometimes these decisions shock me too. It is an avalanche of factors that lead to one single event. Much like what the subprime has done to the indexes worldwide today, “Destination Bandung” is going to burn a hole in my pocket. Though I must say, this one stone has definitely killed quite a few birds.

Last month, when my good buddy Mark told me that he has decided to take up a short project in Jakarta, my eyes went watery, my emotion went high – much like the Korean TV drama – and I promise him that I will visit him before his project ends (erm … you know, we guys do have bonding too). Mark and I used to meet almost once a week. All of a sudden, my life seems a bit lonely these days.

Though a promise is a promise, we guys are good at putting things at the back of our heads. Similar to Cynthia’s constant lament on the “airport blue”. She hates Monday because that is when she needs to fly off to Jakarta for her business trips. She hates Friday too because she always gets stuck in the Jakarta airport hoping to catch an earlier flight. At times she may have to miss her flight due to meeting overrun. The ideal case is, of course, for me to visit her but that too has been put at the back of my head.

Less then two weeks ago, I was instant messaging with Mark’s significant half and was recommending all the wonderful places that they should visit in Indonesia. I got Felicia so excited and out of the blue, I typed: why don’t we go and visit them over the weekend … we will do shopping and tour Bandung as well?

Uh-oh … where did that come from? Before I knew it, Felicia has got us the air tickets and I got my passport renewed at the last minute. Although I have visited all the tourist spots in Bandung, I am actually looking forward to visiting Puncat – the tea plantation – and the Safari nearby. Cynthia, as a local, has not been to the Safari before and I would love to relive some of those memories of huge animals sticking their heads into the car munching on a bunch of carrots I was holding with saliva dripping everywhere, ostriches running alongside with the car, and a monkey that threw the banana back to me – twice.

Oh, before Cynthia flew off couple of days ago, she actually helped me packed up some of the stuffs with two checklists (see picture above).  Nice huh? Stay tuned for more updates!