explorer

came here for 4 days and started to explore around this place.
somehow, still miss my family very much and home sick very badly.
after few days, already get used to it a little bit for stop making me homesick.

so, decided to know more friends and have fun with them around so that i won't be home sick so badly.
but at the same time, i asked my dad to come visit me every month xD
sounds very childish but i miss them
still want them to come here to accompany me although just few days.

what you people know about indonesia - Medan?
Medan located at north sumatera.
the third biggest city in indonesia and of course more people!
and here mostly are indonesian and some of chinese.
chinese over here speak hokkien - regretted didn't learn hokkien from my mom ): sigh.
and indonesian here is not as bad as last time, people are LITTLE BIT more polite compare last time *i guess*
this is my first time encounter this kind of situation in indonesia.

let's talk about the traffic over here first.
people around here doesn't have line to separate fast lane and slow lane.
people drive how ever they wanted to drive.
and as for traffic lights, they never stop for red light or go for green light.
they just go anyhow they want over here and cause a lot of traffic jam over here.
so i never like to get out from the room to go through this kind of mess !

daily transport over here got basically 3.
firstly the cheapest one ever - Angkut
cost only 1000 RUPIAH that would be around 30 sen.
so it's very cheap but of course hot and dirty and very downgraded.

and secondly is beca, beca is much more expensive.
but u need to discuss the price with the driver because some of them will put the price extremely high and it's not worth it.
mostly only cost around RM1 or RM2
by sitting the beca is very hot and dusty because it's open air.
so when he drive around the town, you will inhale carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and will die faster.
( just saying )
i don't have to explain much how beca looks like since in malacca there's like tons of beca.
but the differences is beca over here is using motor not bicycle.

lastly, taxi.
taxi over here call bluebird.
cost more expensive but with aircon and not polluted air.
it cost around RM 5-6 to anywhere.
so it's okay if u're going somewhere far a bit and you doesn't want to inhale polluted air and die fast, you may pay extra for the bluebird.

as for the airport over here is extremely small and it's called international aiport polonia.
so it's not that interesting so i will just skip this lol
and the airport is located in the centre of the city, different from malaysia that is far away from the town/city.
when airport almost landed, you can see airplane super clear from the view on your car.

food.
food over here basically spicy every single day.
including breakfast also spicy.
i really can't stand the spiciness every single day so decided to buy bread at the nearby shopping mall.
it's quite cheap also, or almost the same price as malaysia but it's much more healthier right?
haven't really explore with the food over here yet.
so by now, i still stick myself with malaysian food - chay kuey tiaw or nasi goreng or bihun goreng.
:D

place over here is very dirty and u can even see like 10 rats dying by the roadside.
or maybe dustbin is full with garbage and nobody bother to keep it or something.
until now, i haven't see any MPK car.
wondering do they even have one? *hmm*

there's begger everywhere here asking you for money.
you just ignore them, some of them are children.
some begger even sit in the middle of the road just show their hand asking for money from the driver car or passenger on the beca.
got it like twice and just ignore it.
and few children selling newspaper, drinks and badminton racket while the traffic light turns red and they just walk in the middle of the road asking people to buy it or something.
haven't encounter this problem yet and i hope i never even need to encounter that.

well, basically that's the basic.
i will talk about it again in the next post.