Surabaya Trip - Part 3

Day 3 of the trip is Chinese New Year's eve.  This is the most important part of the trip as we'll be having reunion dinner later that night.

We started the day easy with a quick breakfast at Pasar Modern in nearby Puncak Permai.  Nothing to hoot about as the food are really quite simple and well..  ordinary....

A signboard in the market - taken with LG G3

Surabaya Trip - Part 2

On the 2nd day of the trip, our main objective was to visit the legendary Pasar Atum.  It's been around for the longest time...   Since 1972 to be exact.  I had been going there ever since I was just a 9 year old, which is 26 years ago.  My wife wanted to make customized plastic covers for our luggage and as far as we know Pasar Atum has several tailors who make the custom covers.

First stop of the day is breakfast at Nasi Bali Cik Ing.  This is a home based eatery selling Balinese mixed rice with pork.  Personally I prefer the tuna version, but I've never come across that version in Surabaya.  So far all use pork.  But irregardless, it's still damn good food.

Yep that's the address alright!  Darmo Permai Selatan XVIII No. 2

Surabaya Trip - Part 1

So from 5 - 14 Feb we went back to Surabaya for Chinese New Year.  We don't usually go back this long for CNY but since Lincoln is already attending regular tuition classes for English & Chinese, I'd really hate to arrange for make-up classes at other times.  So I thought let's just spend more time in Surabaya and save on the air fares as well.  My wife suggested that we go to Batu as well which I thought is quite a great idea.  So we planned a 3 days and 2 nights visit to Batu this time.

We departed Singapore on a 7:50 a.m. flight early in the morning and arrived in Surabaya at 9:30 a.m. Unfortunately immigration and baggage clearance took about an hour so we only got out at about 10:30.  We were then greeted with the traffic which seems to get worse every year I come back, I'm still trying to digest that it took us nearly an hour to get home from the airport, twice the usual time it should be.  

I swear the traffic seems to be getting worse every year... - Taken with RX100M3

Almost 1 month!!

It's been almost 1 month since my last entry, and it's for a good reason.  I went back to Surabaya for 10 days to celebrate Chinese New Year, of which 3 days were spent in Batu.

When I came back just about more than a week ago, my 4 year old VAIO laptop suddenly had a hard disk break down. I tried salvaging as much data as I could, but unfortunately some of the photos from my Surabaya trip could not be recovered as they happen to be in the bad sector of the hard disk.  That is so frustrating...  I don't usually cut and paste my photos, just this time and this has to happen....

Anyway I managed to recover the photos taken from my RX100 Mk3 and some early shots from my X-T1.  I had also luckily transferred some photos to my G3 so there are some memories remaining.

My VAIO's other hardware are actually still in good condition.  I have some plans for it which include changing the hard disk to an SSD and start a new system.  I should be looking into it sometime this weekend.    

But that's not the end of the story.  For some reason I ended up with a slipped disc and a stiff neck.  Still recovering now from the stiff neck although the slipped disc is much better.  Maybe I'll have time to start going through my photos from my Surabaya trip.  It was a very nice holiday, not long enough as usual....  Holidays are never enough, especially when you're going back to your old home.

Anyway, here's a closing shot for this short entry.

A very friendly camel in Batu Secret Zoo Safari Trail

~ Photo taken with Sony RX100 Mark III ~