The Honeymoon

I am back at the office and it has been 2 months since last time i blogged. I know i suppose to update the blog with the honeymoon story, but i had to catch up with the pilling work plus the flu that i got from Indo.
Now, everything starts to go back to normal, i ll try to my best to write down the honeymoon story. Oh, btw..it's Chinese New Year today!!! Gong Xi Fat Choi!!!

After we had our second wedding in Indo, we went to Jakarta and stayed for 2 days before we leaving for Singapore. We arrived in Singapore around 7 or 8pm and we were too tired to walk around and shopping so we just had our quick dinner near the hotel. The schedule was to meet the group at the airport at 5 in the morning, we arrived there and we knew no one. But i saw some young couples and i thought they must be in the same group. The check in and everything went ok, there were 24 people in our group and all of them were in the same age group with us.

We left Singapore for Doha where we suppose to transit for 3 hours. Doha Airport is small!!! even smaller than Perth Airport. It turned our that the plane was delayed for another 3 hours. And the worst thing was they dont have money changer there, but they won't accept other currency, except for duty free shopping. Luckily, all delayed passenger were given free lunch coupon.

At that time, we did not talk to other group members, so we just hang around ourselves at the Airport.

We arrived in Rome at night around 10pm, and the tourguide greeted us there. His name is Dennis, and how lucky we were to have him, he is such a nice and funny guy!!!

Im not gonna talk in details, otherwise it's gonna take a loooooonnnggg time to finish. :P

Basically we went to Italy and Switzerland. St. Peter's Basillica was AWESOME!!! i couldnt stop staring at the ceiling, how can they build something like this hundreds years ago??. We went to Rome, Venice (yes...Gondola ride), Florence, Pisa (yes...leaning tower), Milan (yes..boutiqes),Tuscan, etc.

After couple of days in Italy, we headed to Switzerland. The 2 countries located next to each other, but there are so many differences between them.

In Italy, the people are like in Indo. You have to pay for public toilet, so many thief on the streets, the customer service is not good, the road and traffic are messy (it's very very hard and scary to cross the street in Italy).They said, if you want to cross the street, just go and dont look left or right!, but the food was goooodddd. When we crossed the border to Switzerland, the scenery changed! all were covered by snow, white and cold. The people mostly speak German. And they are very good in customer service and very helpful just like Australian. And the food...not soo good. I remember one night in Switzerland, the dinner was arranged by the tour and it was Fondue dinner, all i can imagine was hot chocolate melted with strawberry and marshmallow, i was so excited especially in that weather!

The dinner turned out to be...Fondue dinner still, but....
Entree: Cheese Fondue
Melted cheese eaten with bread!!! It looked OK at first, but when i tasted it, they used 3 different cheeses together, and they are the smelly cheeses. Very strong cheese, it tasted bitter! Yucks!

Main: Meat Fondue
It's similar with steamboat but not as good. At least with steamboat, you have veggie, noodle, meatballs, etc. This time, it was only meat, they didn't put any sauce in the soup, so it tasteless.

Dessert: Chocolate Fondue
Just a normal Chocolate fondue with some fruits, the chocolate was ok not so special. Especially after those horrible cheese and meat fondue!!

The scenery in Switzerland is breathtaking!!! It's like you looking at painting or calendar! Unbelievable!!
We also went to Mt. Titlis, the snowy mountain and ate ice cream at mountain top :P.
Other place in Switzerland: Lugano (the famous Foxtown FO), Interlaken, Zurich, Bern, etc.

We were so thankful that we had this opportunity. We dont have that much money, yet God gave us this perfect wedding gift combo hahahaha :P. Indra told me that before we left, he prayed that the tour would be fun and enjoyable, good tour leader and friendly tour member. After few days in Italy, we just found out that 8 from 24 members were Indonesian!! We helped each other taking pictures and even share sambal cap jempol that i brought from Indo :). The other Singaporean members were also very nice, we laughed and chatted all the way. One night, we talked to this Singaporean couple whom turned out to be our brother and sister in Christ, how exciting!!! We shared our testimonies of how great our GOD is.

One funny thing happenned, everyday we had breakfast from the hotel. No matter where the hotel was, the breakfast was still Continental breakfast (scramble egg, bacon, bread, butter, cereal, etc). We had that EVERYDAY for 11 days!! Indra told me that he had 'bisul' (somekind of ulcer)because he ate too much egg hahaha, i got to the point where i couldnt eat anymore continental breakfast, so i bought the most expensive cup noodle ever, it was 4 Euro each which equals to around 6 AUD.

On the way back to Singapore, we had to transit in Doha again for 6 hours, but this time was much better. We have known each other, so we shared our stories, helped others keep an eye on our bags, and those 6 hours felt like 2.

Wow, what a journey!!!
I will upload the pictures later, since im still at the office now (oooppss...:P)

Chapel Farm Getaways

Last Friday, my office had a Christmas Function. We finished working at around 3pm, and we headed to Supa Golf for 9 holes games. It was fun and embarrasing, because we had 2 teams, me and indra were in the same team with Sean and Sarah, and they are good in golf, real golf!. I played Supa Golf before but it was with friends and we were joking around, no one knew how to play golf. This time i got really nervous.

Me and Indra missed the ball couple of times, hahhaha..the ball was twice the size of normal golf ball and we still missed it :P. It wasn't as easy as i thought before, you really have to concentrate and maintain the right position of your body when you hit the ball. We just laughed at ourselves because everyone was laughing at us ahhhaha :P.

After 2 hours of stupid golfing, we drove to the Chapel Farm. It has 8 rooms with different theme. They have Oriental, The Australian, Black & White, African, Bali, etc. I think it's a really creative idea. Before, we have decided that the winner of the Supa Golf will be able to choose the room first. Sean & Sarah chose the African, Simon & Rayma got the Bali, Jim & Belinda got the Oriental and we had the Australian. I've seen the photos before from the website, and i wanted the oriental so much :P. I didn't like the Australian. www.chapelfarm.com.au

But when we checked each other's room, i think our bed was the best, it was sooo nice and comfortable. Every room has small lounge or living area, with different couch and furniture depends on the theme, LCD TV, DVD and behind the divider wall was the bedroom area with queen bed, floral pattern bed cover and 10 pillows!!! soo niceee....and there was a mini bar with fridge, tea, coffee, and snacks. The bathroom was at the right side of the bed, it was huge, clean, and modern.

Here some of the photos:
That night, we had dinner at Chester, one of the award winner for best dining place. It was great, i had king prawn for entree and Barramundi for main. I even cancelled the dessert since i was too full.

In the morning, the owner of the Chapel Farm prepared breakfast for us, because there are only 8 rooms, he actually does everything by himself. He greets the guests, does the check-in, showing us the rooms and cook for our breakfast. Highly recommended by us for weekend getaways!!!

Schengen Visa

I asked Indra to call Italian embassy and last time they told him that they will make a call when they are ready. The Italian embassy takes so long to process a tourist visa, 3 weeks!!! And they require massive documentations for tourist visa.
We didn't know whether we gonna have enough time to get the Italian and Switzerland visas before we go back to Indo.
We prayed to God to take care of this, because it's not under our control.

This morning, the Schengen visa was ready, done in 1 week!! How great is our God!! Now we need to process the Switzerland visa which is easier and faster especially after we got the Schengen Visa.

Yeay!!! Finally...we are going to Europe!!! Can't wait....