Stories, experiences, and feelings in this journey of life.
My conference ended on June 2, 2018 and I had planned to wander around Manila the next day before I returned to the states the next two days. It was my birthday, too. I was turning 30 on June 3, 2018. Gosh, I was feeling so old. LoL Well, actually I had no idea about…
I went to see Manila Bay (I went to Manila Baywalk) on my last day in Philippines. For some reasons, I didn’t get to go the day before and I thought, since I didn’t know what else to do, I decided to go to Manila Bay before returning to the airport to catch my flight…
Well, I should’ve written and posted this sooner but I just couldn’t make time to write about it. Ramadhan has been over, but it’s better late than never, right? Actually this was not not my first Ramadhan and thus not my first fasting experience in the United States. When I first came to the US…
This might be just another narcissistic act of mine, sending a postcard to myself. Why would you send a postcard to yourself? Don’t you have somebody to send you a postcard? Sending a postcard to yourself looks so pathetic. Don’t you have anything else to do for yourself? Well, I have no idea about what…
On the way to the hotel from the airport, I looked around the town from inside the Grab car. It was messy. I mean, it was not so much different from Indonesia. But then I guess I was too tired so I fell asleep even before I arrived in my hotel. I just woke up…
The international airport at Manila, Philippines – Ninoy Aquino International Airport – was kinda small for me, even smaller than the one I had at home, either in the international airport of Juanda, Surabaya, Indonesia or Tucson international airport in Arizona, USA. But I didn’t browse to really compare them, this is just based on…
When I arrived at my friend’s home, her husband and her son were already asleep. I felt really bad that she couldn’t spend the day with her family because of meeting me and guiding me around Tokyo during my short transit. But I couldn’t undo what I had done. So when I arrived, I just…
After getting the Suica card and putting my backpack in the locker rent, I went to find my train. I knew I should get into a Skyliner, the fastest one, but I seemed to get into the wrong lane. There was the intersection between the lane I was and the lane I was supposed to…
First of all, this wasn’t my first time transitting in Japan as most of my previous flights to or from USA always had a layover in Japan. However, this was my first time transitting and going out of the airport. I was so thrilled and excited. I’ve always wanted to travel around Japan. Well, I…
I was scheduled to fly to Japan on May 28, 2018. It was still Ramadan, so the night before I still went to the mosque for Iftar and tarawih. I came back home around 11 and decided not to sleep (or rather, I couldn’t sleep). I mean, it’s almost always like that. Whenever I’d travel…