Good News Bad News

Setiap berita pasti punya dua jenis. Yang satu baik, dan yang satu buruk. Gua punya kedua jenis berita di tangan gua. 

"Pembaca yang terhormat, berita pertama adalah Alice akan pergi ke kota Surabaya, Jawa Timur dari tanggal 27 Desember 2012 sampai 7 Januari 2013. Kepergiaan Alice bersama sister-nya akan dibiayai uang sebesar Rp 3.000.000 yang dibayar oleh ayah mereka. Sekian berita pertama yang dapat kami sampaikan, sampai jumpa..."

Itu merupakan berita baik dan juga berita buruk. Berita baiknya adalah, seperti yang sudah gua bilang, gua bakal pergi ke Surabaya. Nah, kabar buruknya adalah gua bakal pergi selama sepuluh hari dan hanya di beri tiga juta rupiah untuk uang saku di sana bersama my sister. 

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Bayangkan, Imagine...

Jika kamu dikasih uang sebanyak tiga juta rupiah untuk dihabiskan oleh dua orang selama sepuluh hari di kota lain, apa yang bisa kamu lakukan?

Karena gua menulis artikel ini setelah gua selesai "berlibur" di Surabaya, gua gak bakal ngomong banyak lagi tentang tragedi "how to spend the holiday with only three millions rupiah in ten days".

So...

Here it is.

Nah, karena gua turut menulis catatan harian gua di BB, gua pun mempersembahkan tulisan tersebut kesini. Daripada di simpan dan hanya gua yang tahu, malah menjadi butiran debu yang mengganggu CPU. -_-

So, here it is!

Before truly D-1 ...

Just before me and my sister want to eat lunch, my father came and gave us money for our trip.

Guess what? Three millions Rupiah for ten days trip in Surabaya! WAH! Can you imagine that? Last time he gave us five millions for three days Malaysia-Singapore trip. What the heck with that?!

Fortunately, we do not live in hotel. We might starving just for paying the room cost.
I was imagine to buy lots of cloth in Surabaya, and that thought has to disappear from my sight. How, how can two person have a "vacation" with just three million rupiah?
GAH!!

But honestly, the one who is pissed off the most is not me. It's my sister. She was planning, like I do, buy lots of accessory, cloth, etc. But, again, this dream is impossible... I think.

I think the money just enough for breakfast,lunch,dinner,taxi fare, or maybe ticket?
Imagine that per portion it cost Rp 25.000/person. So, one day we have to eat three times. That means, the total food we eat one day is six portions. If I calculate it, the total cost for ten days is ... Half of the money my dad gave us!

HOL!!

If I add transportation fare, which maybe cost minimum hmm... Rp 200.000, we still have Rp 1.300.000 to spend. Nah, that's mean, we only have Rp 130.000 to spend per day! If one dress cost Rp 100.000... we only get to buy around 13 pieces.
That's if my calculation is right...

( ˘̀^˘́)!

Day One. 

//At the airport...

It is the second delay!! AKH!!!

Actually time for departing is at four PM. But it delays to 6 PM. And now, it delays again to 8.30PM. What the...!

GAH!

We met a person who help us at managing all the airport stuff, like tickets and stuff. He ask for our ID card. My sister gave him her actual ID while I... Gave him my middle year school ID. --__--

I haven't found my real ID, so I used that card. And the lady in the counter said,
"Ah, one adult and one kid."

¬.¬ what is that mean.

My actual age is sixteen. At least you called me teen instead of ... Kid. ¬.¬
Then... All the stuff had been arranged, and we said thankyou to "UDI" who helped us earlier.

We go in to the, hmm, place before the waiting room.

Before we go there, two lady called us...

"The Assurance, miss..."

My sister stop and then look at the lady. Totally blank of what to do.

"Is it .. A must?" My sister asked hesitantly.

"Yes! *0*" The lady answer energetically. -_-

And then, my sister "buy" the assurance which she think it was a must-to-do in the airport. -_-

// airport waiting room

I was too hungry, so we decided to "eat" at Starbucks.

Pengalaman pertama nge-bucks di airport cuy.

I pick a whatever-its-name drink with extra caramel and tuna puff. My sister... Don't care. She orders something chocolate.

Then we sat on the side by the window, playing Wifi and having fun shoot photos.
After that we go to the waiting room.

(Did I already tell you that we have delay to 8 PM?)


*SWOOSSSHHH*




Because of the delayS, the airlines management we used gave their passenger free food. My sister insisted me to take the food. I hesitantly accept it, my stomach wasn't ready for the new wave. But, afterall, we have to take it. And I ate it. The food box contains rice, ketchup chicken, chapchai, chilli, mineral water, and... Banana. *w*
While waiting, I continued to read a fanfic called Wedding Wrecker. I haven't finished it yet, still have 2 chapter to go. So far so good, the story brought laugh! I actually laugh at the airport! Hehe

And then the information...

*please attention...*

Basically it says that our airlines have come and let's goooo!

Experience after two times "riding" airlines...

If roller coaster is on the level 10, I think "riding" airlines would be in level 3 at the beginning then level 1 and then level 2 at the end.

There are some sensation I felt when the airlines was going up, feeling like your stomach is going down and at anytime you could see giving birth to intestine. Congrats... Ekh...

THE SMELL

Bad News again...

I sat in the middle, my left side was my sister. While my right side was a stranger who was also a man. That man ask me with oh-so-low-voice and I was like, "hah?".

Then he asked me again, "Why do you go to Surabaya?"

I turned around and looked my sister, hoping she would give me sign to answer.

"Vacation." Actually, no, but, yes. Rather complicated, I know.




Getting off the plane after three hours with so much trouble at sleeping, we finally arrived at Surabaya!!

I was fascinated by the beauty of its airport. Clean and slightly similar to the airport at Singapore. Then we went down searching for the luggage place. We found a Santa figure and my sister took a photo with it. I am not taking picture. Taking photo in the middle of the night, especially "alone", with no other freaking photogenic people around... Is just too... Freaking me out. Wew

We got our luggage, went out and saw my mother calling my sister and also my name.
She called her boss' chauffeur to pick us up. And then we went off by my mom's boss office car to my mom's boss office house.





The room was smaller than our room in Medan. But, the bed and the pillow were so comfortable, like hotels'. We placed our luggage inside the room, my sister began to unpacked her stuff. After she finished, I unpacked mine. Then we changed to pajamas. And off to slept.

D-2

// Office

di rumah-kantor

I woke at 11 AM. My mom told us to bath and greet her fellow staff. So I bath first.
I took shower which was so refreshing for me. Brushing teeth and washed face in different way. (in the wash bin, my home do not have that) I used our newly bought shower gel, and lotion. It was really refreshing, the smell... Hmm...

After showered, we ate, then showered again then ate again.

We went to Plasa Surabaya at night. It took about 10 minutes by feet. We also used bridge in the middle of journey. LOL.

We had foot relaxation at Christopher Saloon, buy some panties and look around.
We ate at suteki. We ordered sanaka roll sushi and spaghetti i-dont-remember-its-name. It's delicious! I'm always eat, eat and eat. But, I don't, you know, morning activities. Hahaha.


D-3

We had to go to Tretes at 8 AM. I made alarm on 6 AM, but immediately turn off after it rang. Duh! I woke up late.

We ate kwetiau as breakfast.

My mom's boss' secretary (aunt)took us to Tretes, my mom's boss' villa.

It took about 3 hour to Tretes. It's like Brastagi, highland.

The villa is still being build. The area is really big. The wind blow so hard. I could hardly stand properly.

The villa had a gorgeous pool, balcony, garage, and many other rooms. It was so pleasant being there.

Standing in the balcony with pool below it, I started to imagine. I thought of story I want to write. My sister and mom took picture and I stop thinking and joined them.
After the visited to villa, we went to Safari!!!

It's maybe my second or third time being in a zoo. But, this definitely worth some. it's Safari! Place where you used your car to see the surrounding.

Nah, I saw many kind of animals. Ada rusa, banteng, beruang madu, macan, harimau, ostrich, kasuari, kuda nil, babi hutan, bison, buaya, orangutan, monyet, et cetera.

Then we ate in the canteen. The food cost was sooooo unbelievable. One seafood instant noodle is Rp 33.000!
Ah, maybe because this is highland... My sister and I decided to ate Nasi minang paket 1 and 2 while my mom and aunt ate bakcang.

After that, we went to took photo with bird, watched Elephant Education, took picture with baby Tiger and orangutan, watched Temple of Terror, and watched Lady Gagah dance with the dolphin.

foto bersama burung yang cakarnya begitu tajam menusuk hingga berbekas

foto bersama macan imoet yang ingin gua elus-elus terus

foto bersama orangutan... (geli juga megangnya)

I wanted to say that the last show is the less show I liked. Because it's not really Lady GagaH that dance. She didn't dance actually, just saying this and those thing, walking around the stage. Just a back dancer that reflecting the word 'dance with the dolphin'. -_-. In the show, I enjoyed when the pirate suddenly dance 'Gangnam Style' and 'Iwa Peyek'. I broke into smile when I saw them. Hahaha... The dolphin was also amazing, but I didn't take picture... :'(

After finally finished the NOT entire show, (I missed the bird of prey and Sumatera Tiger) we went to ate in some place. We ate rawon. I... Don't like rawon. My tongue denied the taste. And I didn't finish the food. Poor me... I think I've already gave a bad impression to aunt.

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Then we went home... And... Slept.


D-4

We slept until 11 AM. My Mom made a promise with her friends that we would visited her. So, we take a bath and went there with taxi.

Darmo hill. The location of my mom's friend. It's big and ... Big.

Once we got there, a boy came up. What's a coincidence! That boy was my auntie's kid. He opened the gate for us. We went in.

That boy looks like the same age with me. The key: LOOK LIKE. I don't know how old is him.

We went up and met auntie. She was applying make up to her face. My mom chat with her. And that boy went to his room. My sister and me was silence. We just looked at them, and nothing to do. The auntie gave us "ibi cui", and we ate them peacefully.
Then there's the disaster.

Aunt pick a phone and called her kid.

"Kid, wake up. My friend's daughter visit us. "

"..." I looked at my sister then my mom. What the?!

Then a guy came down. He's not the boy we saw back then.

"Hi, I am PapaRoti."

"... Brenda...."

"Brancy"

^-^ ^-^ ^-^

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Then my aunt and my mom asked X to brought us somewhere over the rainbow. Jeez, they asked him to brought us to cafe.

My sister definitely did not want to join. But, ... ... AKH!!!

So, that PapaRoti brought us to Ciputra World. We drove there with very super ultimate silence. We just chat a little bit, then silent.

As we arrive there, he made a valet parking. Then we got off and went to the mall. We walked and walked. He tried to communicate with us, but his talk is like an alien talk to me. My sister answer him the most as I just smile and said, "yap, right." Awkward, super awkward.

After a super long chitchat and eating, we went around and around.

And we went to another plaza in order to found Gramedia that I believed was already on the plaza we went first. -_-

Actually, Gua merasa sedikit bersalah terhadap PapaRoti, orang tak diundang. Dia disuruh oleh mamanya untuk mengantar kami jalan-jalan, tapi kami seperti orang yang angkuh. Setiap dia mencari celah untuk berkomunikasi dengan kami, kami malah seperti "oh,haha" tidak perduli dengan dirinya. Yup, it was sucks. Gua sendiri merasa berada di planet yang benar-benar berbeda dari dia.

Contohnya, sewaktu kami makan di Wagyu. He ordered Ribs for himself, molten-something for us. After ordered, he then try to talk a little bit again. Dia membicarakan sesuatu tentang business dan rasanya betul-betul tertarik dengan itu. And Oh, i felt it was so boring. Pleaseeee! Save me out of this. Gua bener-bener merasa gak nyambung dengan dia dan sejujurnya gak tahu mau jawab apa dengan dia.

 Setelah selesai makan di Wagyu dan keliling plaza, hal yang gua lakukan adalah 1) berada di belakang cici gua dan Roni 2) melihat sekeliling plaza seolah itu adalah sebuah hal yang lebih spektakuler dan luar biasa daripada perbincangan dengan Roni 3) Hanya membalas dengan senyum setengah hati kalau Roni melihat ke arah gua 4) menjawab sesingkat mungkin dan mencoba terus tersenyum setiap akhir bicara.

PARAH!! Man, sejauh gua pernah berkomunikasi dengan orang lain, gua merasa inilah bagian yang paling hancur. Perjalanan pulang menggunakan mobil PapaRoti juga begitu awkward, tak ada sepatah kata pun yang ingin keluar dari mulut gua dan cici gua. OWH... Afterall, SUCKS! I am sorry PapaRoti, but that was really sucks...!

Balik lagi ke topik semula. Gua singkatkan dan gabungin dengan cerita tadi aja yah...

Seperti yang sudah gua bilang tadi gua mendapat uang tiga juta rupiah dan cici gua melapor sama Dad kalau uangnya tidak cukup. Dad mengirim satu juta lagi ke rekening cici gua. Dan dengan kebaikan bos Mom gua, kami mendapat voucher satu juta untuk SOGO department store dan banyak toko lainnya. 

Dengan voucher itulah, gua dan cici gua susah payah keliling Tunjungan Plaza. Pada saat itu, gua benar-benar exhausted, karena kebetulan gua was having period. Jadi gua cepat lelah dan malas berjalan. Tapi akhirnya kami membeli sebuah jam tangan untuk cici gua, dompet untuk gua dan abang gua di NEXT. 

Nah, sebenarnya gua ingin banget menceritakan semua perjalanan gua panjang lebar, tapi... gua... malas. Itulah penyakit yang terjadi setelah anda selesai dari perjalanan dari luar kota ataupun luar negeri. Indikasi yang terjadi juga dapat menyebabkan... Bluhblahbluh... Okay... Let's just keep it short. 

I WAS HAVING FUN THERE. 

Seperti gadis normal yang lain, gua membeli baju, tas, aksesories, dan dompet buat kesenangan gua sendri. You know, shopping! Hahah...

And that's all what happen in Surabaya.

Day Ten

Gua bangun jam empat pagi dan bergegas mandi. Kami bersiap-siap dan berangkat jam 05.30. Mom mengantar gua dan cici gua ke bandara. Kami akan berpisah. 

"Anyeong" was what I could said to my Mom. I didn't hug, I didn't cry, I didn't laugh, I didn't feel anything. I just said that word and fled off. 

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AND OH! 

I MET MY FRIEND!!

Gua sedang duduk rapi di kursi pesawat gua ketika tiba-tiba sebuah sosok terlihat familier walaupun gua gak memakai kacamata saat itu. OH! MY! GOD! Sungguh sebuah keajaiban, gua bertemu dengan teman gua dari kelas X-15. Orang yang dulu duduk di belakang gua, dan orang yang cukup keren di mata gua. Dia juga orang yang disukai oleh teman yang duduk di samping gua saat itu, Ale. FH merupakan cowok yang putih, tinggi, dan memakai kacamata. Dia juga memiliki hobi yang sama dengan gua, badminton, dan hobi lainnya yang gua gak tertarik, futsal. Dan hari ini tanggal 7 Januari 2013 gua bertemu dengannya di airport. Gua sedang duduk dan dia berdiri menunggu orang di depannya untuk berjalan. *Lebay mode on*

"FH!" 

Gua selalu memanggilnya begitu dan semua orang juga memanggilnya begitu.

Perlu waktu dua atau tiga kali baginya untuk mendengar jeritan gua. Dan saat dia melihat gua, dia terkejut, sama seperti saat gua melihat dia tadi. Tidak menyangka. 

"Hey, kamu dari mana?"

Sebenarnya waktu dia bertanya seperti itu gua berpikir, "udah pasti dari surabaya, ngapain loe tanya lagi? -_-"

Tapi gua gak menyuarakan pikiran gua saat itu, dan hanya menjawab "Surabaya."

"Dari kapan?"

"27 Desember" Sekarang, gua merasa jawaban gua sungguh aneh. Mesti banget gak sih, gua menjawab sedetail itu??

Dan pertanyaan yang tadi adalah pertanyaan terakhir yand ditanyakan oleh FH. Dia sudah bergerak menjauhi gua. Gua pun melambaikan tangan, sembari FH mengatakan, "Yok!" yang artinya "gua pergi dulu ya!"

WAW~!

Setelah bertemu dengan teman gua (dan keluarganya) tanpa sengaja, gua tersenyum. Entah kenapa, rasanya bahagia. Mungkin gara-gara pertama kalinya tanpa sengaja bertemu dengan teman gua di airport. 

Tapi perbincangan yang tadi merupakan perbincangan terakhir kami di airport. Setelah selesai mendarat dan mengambil bagasi pun kami tidak berbicara lagi, walaupun gua melihat dia, jelas dan konkrit. Tapi mungkin dia malu karena dia bersama keluarga lengkapnya dan gua hanya dengan cici gua, yang mana gak membuat gua terlalu malu berhadapan dengan teman. Hohoh~

And so, I am back home.

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I am home.

No more holiday. I have to go to school tomorrow. :(

And so, BYE! My trip end there. It was quite fun, though...