We spent the whole day in Rantau Prapat, the capital district of Kabupaten Labuhan Batu. The district is comparably small that we could drive west-to-east in 30 minutes. The road is wide with relatively low number of vehicles. There is only one shopping centre called Plaza Suzuya (that’s an odd name and sounds very Japanese to me) and located in …

Yesterday was my first day of my Tano Batak Trip. I flew with Garuda Indonesia, departing at 07:00am from Soekarno-Hatta Jakarta and arriving at 09:00am at Polonia Medan. The plane departed 30minutes late but I did not really care about that (of course, at least until I live somewhere where everybody is punctual. Hahaha).
Garuda Indonesia was nice in general. The …

It’s been more than 2 months since my last blog post and surely many have happened. In April 2009, I graduated from the BSc Chemical Engineering program of Institut Teknologi Bandung and was accepted by Imperial College London to enroll a MSc Petroleum Engineering this October. United Kingdom suddenly look much more tempting and challenging than The Netherlands for me.

Il a été quatre mois que j’ai appris une nouvelle langue : le français. Pour ça, je suis à la fois heureux et malheureux. C’est très magnifique, le français, et c’est pourquoi je suis content. A l’autre côte, je regret le fait que il m’a pris trop tard de réaliser l’importance d’apprendre une autre langue étrangère. Aujourd’hui, l’anglais devient une …

Last Saturday and Sunday (17-18 January 2009), I attended an amazing event called “WordCamp Indonesia 2009″, the 1st Annual Conference for WordPress Enthusiasts, which was held at Erasmus Huis, the Netherland Embassy, Jakarta. I have been waiting to attend this event to thank Matt Mullenweg personally for creating such a wonderful blogging platform: WordPress. I was so fortunate that I …