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It’s been a long time since the last trip (The Golden Sunrise mission). What can I say? The daily routine never allows me to set a new travelling plan, poor me. But there will always be a light at the end of the tunnel ha! Finally I met my partners in crime, and voila! A plan to go somewhere new was set.



Since I have a job that must be done almost every day, we just made a “one day trip” agenda. We had the list of places that can be visited, and Waterfall was the chosen one. The destination was not too far from where we stay, we decided to “hunt” the waterfalls in Ungaran (the capital city of Semarang, Central Java). From the internet, we knew that this city has several good waterfalls to be visited. Lawe, Semirang, Tujuh Bidadari (means seven angels, honestly man… I don’t know what the origin of that name was) are three of many waterfalls in Ungaran. 
C7B a.k.a Curug Tujuh Bidadari

Curug Lawe

In the morning we had already prepared the requirements: drinking water, snacks, bread, rainy coat (it was rainy season in my place), and of course, money (we always need that thing, right? LOL). Unfortunately, I can’t remember the route to reach the spot (poor me), I just remember it took about one-two hours to reach the first destination; it was Curug Tujuh Bidadari (Curug means waterfall) and it was crowded, suck. But it wasn’t a big deal when we could enjoy the. There was a unique bridge made from bamboo, some waterfalls in different spots view, overall it was not too bad. In fact, maybe because of its beauty this place was used by some “freak” models to take picture hahaa (it was inside joke, there were several aged women who wore some catchy stuff, and the wrost part is, they don’t match at all. They were looked strange.) FYI, the waterfall in this place was not too high (see ’em on da pics yo!).
My partners in crime


The bamboo bridge

Before afternoon, we continued to the next destination: Curug Lawe. It was cloudy, but we were lucky. It wasn’t rain. The way to reach the second waterfall was not good I think… and we had to walk several kilometers to get there. But the best part of this place was: it wasn’t crowded.





Take a look at the water ^^

There were only a boy and a girl (they might be in relationship) who were fooling around there. It was looked more natural than the previous one, I loved it. The water was so clear, I could see the bottom of the river, and it was so cold. It was a nice place surrounded by trees (just like a little forest), peaceful and cool. I recommend this place for you to visit. Unfortunately, we couldn’t hunt the next waterfall, because the night was about to come. We back to our place and hopefully next time we could continue this waterfall mission.

5th of November, 2013

Curug 7 Bidadari and Curug Lawe, Semarang-Central Java

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Get the Real Life

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I find it’s hard to find what so called “social real life” nowadays. Unfortunately, it happened to me, and I didn’t like it at all. I was addicted to social media in the internet, I surfed there almost every day and I rarely met people directly. It became worse and worse, until someday I realized it was not good for me. I have to do something to get rid of this bad behavior. I have to Get the Real Life. I live in social world, the real one not in a social media world, I am human and supposed to be socialized. I know it is too fun to browse whatever we want in the internet, and we are also able to make friends with some strangers from around the world. But we don’t realize that slowly we are lost our social and real life.

You meet your friend, face to face in the same place but don’t have something interesting to be discussed then each of you just plays gadget (it could be internet, game or socmed) and keep silent. Have you ever been in that situation? That’s too bad guys… if you’re addicted to cyber world it can “turn” you become a passive person in real life.

From now on, just try to sign out from cyber world for a while and meet people, it can be your family, friends, neighbor or someone new. Make an interesting conversation, go for a walk in the park or hang out together (but remember, do not use your gadget unless for important purpose). Traveling will be a good idea to be done (do it by yourself or with your family and friends). You can refresh your mind, enjoy the new place directly (you can feel it by yourself), meet new people, and get adventure experience. Just try to be socialized mate, have fun with your real friends not cyber friends.

I tried to do it. Indeed, in advance it felt so hard, but I had to push myself harder and my effort was not fruitless. I tell you the truth, the real life is so much better than what you can get/ browse from the internet. Use internet wisely, but don’t ever let that stuff takes your real life away. It’s too precious to be taken from you.
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My First Skirmish

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Point Blank, Counter Strike, Left for Dead, and Virtual Cop. Have you ever known about these games? These are my favorite games by the way. Ah, that’s not the point, this time I don’t wanna share about the details of these games. However, it still has connection with these games. People who know these games will know what the connection is quickly, that’s right man… it is all about battle, war, fight, shoot with the gun and defeat the enemy (mostly using a weapon like hand gun, shot gun, riffle, bla bla bla *sorry I have limited knowledge about them, so you can googling it by yourself, LOL). FYI, I do really in love with stuff like that since long time ago.

Remember, these are UNIT not weapon

It happened when a friend of mine (he’s my senior in my college) asked me to join Skirmish, wait… what?? Kismis? (means raisin) didn’t have any idea about he said that time. Later, I knew that skirmish means airsoft war game. So, what is airsoft itself? Have you ever heard what so-called airsoft gun? You don’t know about it? Me neither, HA! Well, maybe next time I will review about it in detail after I get sufficient knowledge and well-informed about it (and if I want to, LOL). OK, back to the topic. When I generally knew that he asked me to join an extremely cool game, I could say nothing but "YES". Last Sunday I finally joined Skirmish. It was… toooooooooo awesome to be described in words. And here’s my story…

As I said before that I had it last Sunday. The plan said that we would start at 10 am, but it was raining, that was the uncoolest part of the day…fyuhh! Fortunately, God knew that I really wanted to feel Skirmish and the rain stopped so we could go to a place called Tinjomoyo. It was a zoo long time ago and it looks like a natural forest, a great place to have a war game. When I arrived at a…. I called it base camp, OK, when I got there, suddenly I felt so worry and a little bit scared. There was a group of men with army look style, they were completed with all the equipments (you can also call them tactical gears). My daddy was an army, I used to see him with his uniform and once his weapon and he didn’t make me scare at all, but they were different. Maybe because it was my very first time I felt that I had no ability and information at all about how to use the weapon, (wait! It is forbidden to call it weapon, because in air soft gun we call it unit) how did the battle field look like and even we didn’t wear the gears as completed as them. FYI, it was just my feeling and honestly, I picture it too much and dramatically, LOL. It’s OK to join them, no need to worry *winking.
 
I was learn how to use the UNIT correctly and it was heavy :D
Before the game began we prepared all the requirements in a place which used to be the office center of the zoo. I got safety vest (I don’t know what its name), goggles to protect the eyes, a unit (I got a shot gun, great!), and the amo (we call it BB). Then I practiced how to shoot, the target was soda can, in 10 shots I hit it 3-4 times, what the…#@$^@$$%$*&*

We started the game, a man who called himself marshal (as what I heard) gave the instruction/ scenario of the game and divided the group into two. Just liked a real battle, my group had a captain who would lead us and set the strategy to accomplish the mission. I liked the atmosphere, the tension and how we moved in the battle field. I didn’t care when I saw my dirty clothes after crawling along the forest tried to stay alive and completed the mission, when too many mosquitoes bit me or when I had to follow the captain in the rain, all of them were awesome! Finally I was hit, (if the opposite team shoots you, you have to say "HIT" and stay where you are. Say "MEDIC" to call the medical to help you, in PB it is called Respawn) and there was no medic who could help me, poor me. And the game ended after the marshal told us that the time was up. Then I knew that we didn’t win the game, haha crystal clearly they had three newbies. We still had two more games after that, all of them were totally terrific.
 
HIT?! No medic? Keep calm and take a picture, LOL

Those men were the members of the club

It was a tiring day, my clothes were dirty, I was hungry (I could eat a horse!), and soooo thirsty. But they were nothing compared to the experience I got, new good-nice friends and more about airsoft gun. Surely, I’ll join them again next time, yeay!!!
 
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New experience, new friends (y)

Tinjomoyo, 9th February 2014

Special thanks to 24Cal airsoft club.
Wanna know more about airsoft? Click here.

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Hunting the Golden Sunrise

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One of amazing moments is when the sun rises from east. Have an opportunity to witness it in the right place, right time, and with the right person, it’ll be excellent. I heard the sunrise is more than just beautiful if it witnessed from a high place like mountain. In my previous experiences with mountain, I had never seen the sunrise. That’s why the mission of my newest adventure was sunrise.
Sikunir, was the destination of my adventure to hunt the sunrise. This hill is in Dieng Central Java, not far from Wonosobo or Banjarnegara. I made a plan to visit this place long time ago, but several damned reasons caused me to cancel it. But this time, I’ve made it! Yippie!!! As always, I told my partners in crime about the plan and they just accepted it without any comments (man, I know there’s no reason to refuse this good idea). However, it would be so boring if we come to Sikunir just for sunrise since there are some good places to be visited in Dieng Plateau, and then we listed how we would fool around there. The plan was like this: Friday 23rd in the morning we would have the trip from Semarang to Dieng. Friday at noon we would arrive and find a cozy place to spend the night before the sunrise mission. In the afternoon we would explore Dieng Plateau, and hunt the sunrise at the top of Sikunir on the next day. To spend the time, we could continue the exploration or maybe sleep before we back to Semarang. Everything was settled. Buuuuuut, on the D day one of my partners in crime was sick (the ‘nyemingo’ one). Nothing we could do but postpone the plan… *sigh
On Saturday, we finally started the journey (Yay! Sikunir here we come!!!). It was 9.30am when we left Semarang, and we took the alternative route (Bandungan-Sumowono-Temanggung). FYI, the route to reach Wonosobo is more than one, from Semarang we can choose Ungaran-Bawen-Ambarawa-Temanggung or Ungaran-Bandungan-Sumowono-Temanggung. From Temanggung there’s an alternative route: Temanggung-Parakan-Ngadirejo-Jumprit-Tambi-Dieng but the road is narrow and not too good. Another route is Temanggung-Parakan-Ngadirejo-Wonosobo-Dieng, the road is wide and good but farther. We arrived in Wonosobo at almost 12pm (actually, if we had no troubles we could arrive earlier in this town). We had a yummy lunch called Mie Ongklok, it is a special cuisine from Wonosobo. Mie Ongklok featuring satay (roasted chicken or mutton) with sauce is the best combination. After we were full, we needed to full-tanked our motorcycle. FYI again, from Wonosobo to Dieng there’s only one gas station in Krasak, a smart driver will full-tanked the vehicle before leave for Dieng. But don’t worry, for those who are not smart they can find gas retailers around Dieng with higher price and not guaranteed quality (well…not smart, huh?).
After more or less an hour journey, we reached Dieng (this place is so damn cold but the sun is so bright… not good for our skin, trust me). We had to find home stay to spend the night right away. Since it was weekend, home stay in this place would be full in the afternoon. Well actually we could build a tent in a camp ground, but the temperature was too low for us. Several days before we arrived, the temperature in Dieng was around -1o (me and partners had already known it would be a bad idea, in addition the ‘nyingo’ was still in his recovery). The home stay we can choose is so various. Cheap, expensive, clean, dirty, narrow, or wide just up to you. For those who don’t want to spend too much money, please DON’T ask the villagers to find the home stay, the price will be higher (they will keep some of the money for themselves and give the rest to the owner). It’d better we find it by ourselves and meet the owner to choose the room (or to bargain maybe). As we did, we got a great home stay: new building, wide, clean, comfortable bedroom, bathroom with hot water, acceptable price, living room with television, usable kitchen, and kind-hearted owner (Pakuwojo home stay). It is located near the Sikunir hill, in Sembungan village. Sembungan village is the highest village in Java (2200 masl), and 800m from the top of Sikunir.
In the afternoon we visited Kawah Sikidang, a cauldron full with sulfur water. The smell of sulfur is not too good (smells like fart everywhere haha…). The water is hot so visitors can boil eggs there. Other tourisms in Dieng are Telaga Warna (a lake with unique color), Telaga Blambangan, Telaga Menjer, Telaga Cebong, Pakuwojo Mountain, Sikunir Hill, Curug Sikarim (waterfall), Arjuna Temple, Bima Temple, and the rest I don’t remember eheheee… unfortunately, we just visited Kawah Sikidang that afternoon. One day is not enough to explore Dieng I guess.

Sembungan, the highest village in Java

Kawah Sikidang

 
Kawah Sikidang II
The next day we woke up at 3.30am and got ready to hunt the sunrise at Sikunir’s top. We started to walk from home stay at 4am, I still remember it was so cold and windy. We just needed 30 minutes to reach the top. Additional info, visiting Sikunir on weekend isn’t good idea. The top is too crowded, hard to find a nice spot to see the sunrise, and almost impossible to get a real magic moment with someone special. We were already there, no choice but enjoy everything as much as we could. Good things about that place in that time were the clear sky full with stars, crescent moon, awesome horizon, mountains (from the top we could see top of Merbabu, Merapi, Sindoro, and Ungaran), and the golden sunrise itself (the cold and strong wind were not included). Agree, sunrise is more than just awesome. The view from above is also amazing. Before went back to home stay, we visited Telaga Cebong. A lake surrounded by hills, field, and trees. I think I love Sikunir, yay!!!
sunrise

Waiting for the golden sunrise

more than 2200 m above the sea level

Cebongan Lake
View from the top
In the home stay we cooked our breakfast and took a rest. At 11am we left Sembungan and took the shorter route (Jumprit-Temanggung). We passed Tambi, a beautiful large tea plantation. It would be nice if we could take some picture there, but we didn’t. We bought bakso bakar (roasted meatball with spicy taste) and bakso uleg (special cuisine from Temanggung) for our lunch in Temanggung before we left for Semarang.
I love adventure and travelling more and more. Looking forward for the next agenda, unyanya :3


Another double date
24-25 August 2013
Dieng Plateau- Central Java
(with my Bebiihui, Pasku-Nopai)

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