oct

taken 22/10/10, 5:22pm

i went on a trip to bandung, indonesia with 3 friends i knew from ns. this was taken outside the airport after we spent over an hour in immigration.

yes, that's the airport.

when we got off the plane and saw the airport, we all agreed that the sheng shiong opposite our station looks better. "welcome to sheng shiong," we said.

interesting looking airport aside, it was quite a fun trip. for starters, i didn't know it was going to be kinda cold until i checked wiki. who would have known that an indonesian city could have an average low temperature of 18 degrees in october? it was, because bandung is actually over 700m above sea level. it came as quite a relief since i was expecting to be sweating it out in the tropical heat.

i think because of the elevation, there was a lot of condensation on the roads at night. the roads were always wet and hilly, and yet the motorbikes there still zipped around with wild abandon. i feared for my life at times, but they all seemed to be very good at it.

the bad ones are all dead, i suppose.

bandung is well known for its factory outlet stores (wiki says), but i didn't expect factory outlets to be all there was there, or at least they were where we spent all our time at. my friends were on a crazy hunt for g-star clothing, and so we hit outlet after outlet looking for that elusive brand.

there was really a whole lot of stuff to buy, but too bad i wasn't terribly excited by any of that. i ended up flipping through the racks looking for their beloved g-star while hoping there was something that would catch my eye too.

we were supposed to go see some volcanoes on one of the days, but it rained so we went to see stars instead. i mean g-star.

at the end, it was quite a good trip. great food, fun company, although i suspect i might have been so happy if i had to go g-star hunting in 35 degree heat.