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Trip to Medan (Part 3)

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Here’s the final instalment of my trip to Medan….Let’s go for more holidays….Bangkok, Manila, Jakarta…anyone?

I found vandalism in Medan...Nice one sumore...So happy. But too bad its destroyed by some prankster.

I found vandalism in Medan...Nice one sumore..Cool rite?

Damn prankster...Spoil the street art

When I was in Medan, it was about 60 days to elections. The whole streets and all were filled with politicians banners and all....This caught my attention. Guess the tagline is a little small - Berjuang Melawan Penjajah Belanda....WTH? Why still adopt this tagline? The Dutch had been out of Indonesia for decades!!!

-Nothing to say-

Me at the Batak restaurant....The Batak food menu was surprisingly full of <i>babi</i>!!! <i>Babi panggang, Sup babi</i> etc...I'm seriously surprised...The Bataks are mostly Christians that's why

This looks damn gay, but nvm...We were all so gay in Medan...lol

Nelson taking a photo of Paul (look below)

Paul being photographed by Nelson without him realising...haha at the same time, I took at photo of Nelson without him realising (above) lol

Our group shot again...hahaha

Our 2nd last photo during our last meal in Medan. I guess by now you know each of us by name already since we appear so often in all the photos. The only exception is the girl in yellow, she's Susanty. And too bad we did not have any photos of Josephine. She did not join us on our last outing.

Our last photo in Polonia International Airport, Medan. Damn the airport people in Indonesia, gotta pay an extra 75 000 rupiah (~RM20+) for taxes. WTH. Apparently everyone has to pay and my Indonesian friends just asked us to pay coz they themselves gotta pay.

So that was it people. My 6 days break in Medan. I missed all you epeople. You guys had been a great host to Nelson and I. Thank you very much. I will miss the Teh Sosro, the Bahasa Indonesia - listening to the bisa, enggak, bangat, nelpon, gua, lu etc and also the Hokkien mixed Indo language…haha

What a great timing actually. Most of the girls actually left Medan for Singapore the morning after Nelson and I left for Singapore. If we had gone 1 week later, the trip would never have been this fun. So see ya all soon in Singapore! Cheers!

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Trip to Medan (Part 2)

Monday, February 16th, 2009

More photos here….

The 3 girls - Pratiwi, Yosin, Yindy

Paul, me and Nelson

Look at the peak of that hill....It's what we call the One Tree Hill

We drove all the way to the top of the One Tree Hill!

Nelson and I hiked up the One Tree Hill and started posing for the cameras...haha

Everyone's very small from the top....Even after 3x optical zoom, they still look small here!

I like the One Tree Hill....A very good place to take lots of photos!

Us posing again....Really very free taking photos after photos after photos....hahahhaa

Paul, Nelson and I admiring the scenery

OK, I guess this should be enough for Part 2….I think I’ll do one final post for the remaining photos…In a few days time, Part 3 will be coming out….

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Trip to Medan (Part 1)

Friday, February 13th, 2009

There’s just too many photos to put up. I shall split my post into several parts. Before I continue, a little context here. I went to Medan from Feb 6-11. I went with Nelson, my Singapore hostelmate who happens to stay in KL with me. Well, Nelson and I actually wanted to go Surabaya to visit Irvan, my Indonesian hostelmate/schoolmate. But we couldn’t stay in Irvan’s house and somehow Irvan can’t contact Alvin, my roommate in Singapore who also stays in Surabaya. So Nelson and I decided to ditch that plan and go to Medan instead where we can bunk in at Paul’s house (Nelson’s roommate). Good decision indeed.

And also it was a trip well timed. Not only did we manage to catch Paul, we managed to meet up with most of our Medan friends the day before they leave for Singapore on the 12th. Cool right?

The trip was fun. My life in Medan is just like KL….Going out, meeting friends for yum cha sessions in malls….haha….Not only that la, we also went up to Brastagi and drove further up to Simalem where we saw Lake Toba. Very cooling and refreshing. It was such a relaxing 3 days 2 nights stay up in the highland resort.

In Medan, it was mostly makan, makan and more makan. Damn good life la…..Enough words….Now for the pictures….

Me and Nelson in the Firefly airplane....Hey Firefly is actually better than AirAsia....It has more legspace, less passengers, better service, shorter queue, airport in Subang, and they actually served us with muffin and orange juice during our 1 hour flight!

Our first meal in Medan - Sate Padang.....Super delicious....It's some special curry sauce on the satay...Where can I eat this in Malaysia?

Count the number of satay varieties available. Each tray is a different kind of satay. There's 7 types! Squid, Beef, Chicken, Mutton, Telur Puyuh, some giblet satay.....but the best is the squid satay....I want more

Yosin, Paul, me and Nelson enjoying our Satay and Teh Sosro

The Medan beca...It's motor-powered...Cool stuff rite...But there's simply too many of these on the streets. No choice though cause it's the main public transportation for Medanese. No buses

The alternative to the Beca is the Sudako....Mini vans disguised as public buses

After our Satay makan session heading to a mall, we saw this huge Army Barracuda vehicle on the streets...Huge vehicle cruising along the streets.

This is a Hindu temple that I saw while we were in the car along Medan streets. Nelson and I were shocked to find Indians in Medan. We didn't know that there are Indians there...Well at least now we know...And we also found out that the Medanese Chinese are indeed very very Chinese...

Some photo of the streets in Medan

Can't excape this...Every major city, someone will surely sell this all-too-popular brand of t-shirts....haha

Paul, Pratiwi, Yosin and Yindy....on our trip up to Brastagi....We had fried frog legs....Yummy

Nelson, Paul and Me

This is my most favourit group shot....Us at the theme park in Brastagi after a crazy ride. Pratiwi, Yosin, Yindy, Nelson, Me, and Paul...And if u realised, Nelson's hair is a lil brown...Yea he dyed it in Medan the day before.