Thursday, May 20, 2010

My Vacation - Day 2



Hello again..

Dah tau mana I pegi for my holidays from the ‘Day 1’ entry I posted yesterday? Laa.. tak kan tak tau lagi? First clue – instant millionaire.. 2nd clue – written on boarding passes.. 3rd clue - 2 hour journey..?

Haa.. pandai pun! The answer is…






BANDUNG



Ok.. enough already! Now nak cerita about ‘Day 2’ of my 4 days holiday.

“WAKE UP! .. WAKE UP!” DAH LAMBAT NI !
I opened my eyes to see Ani berdiri tercegat kat pintu bilik. Isy! Macam baru jer tido balik lepas solat Subuh. “What time is it?”. “Dah pukul 8.30pagi. Our transport is at 9.. ni belum mandi.. belum makan..”. “Eh! Wait a minute!”. Pikir-pikir balik, Bandung is one hour behind Malaysian time, kan? So, it is actually 7.30am laaa!! Haiya! Budak ni! Kalut aaa…! Tak sabaq nak pi shopping la tuuu! Tersengih-sengih dia…

Tip: It’s good if you do not change the time on your watch. You will be waking up at 8am and rushing for breakfast and next thing you know, you woke up too early!

Lepas buffet breakfast, our supir Pak Santoso and his Avanza MPV was already waiting for us. Sewa untuk 12 hours (9am – 9pm) just for our shopping marathon.. maklumlah sejak jadi millionaires yesterday, kononnya nak ‘shop till we drop!’. Pak Santoso will send us to our destination and wait for us while we shop. When we are done, he’ll take us to our next destination.. dan lagi.. dan lagi…

Bandung … well known for their Factory Outlets spreading over the city... you only need to choose what you wanna buy first. “HANDBAG!!” So for our first destination, Pak Santoso took us to Terminal Tas – an outlet full of handbags. Begitu banyaknya handbag tapi tak der yang I berkenan pun for myself. I bought a Salvatore Ferragamo wallet for Farid and Yasmin bought a cute and trendy Guess handbag for herself.

Next, off to The Secret - a really massive factory outlet. At one corner of the outlet is a boutique filled with the latest trendy studded dresses and laced blazers.


Everywhere I looked, the women were crazy with their shopping frenzy. Really nice stuff here tapi disebabkan I’m not a ‘baju-crazy’ person, nothing actually caught my interest. Not my kind of baju anyway and partly because the ones I like.. doesn’t have my size! Ceh!!



YASMIN RELAXING IN THE COURTYARD AT THE CENTRE OF THE OUTLET





From there, we proceeded to House of Donatello - This is an outlet selling a good selection of mainly leather shoes, wallets, purses, belts and handbags. Lepas tu, kita shopped at Grande, Victoria, Jeans Street /Cihampelas Shopping Street (exclusively selling jeans and clothes; if you are not the brand-conscious type). Prices are really cheap but don’t expect high quality stuff here.



Tumpang duduk sat.. kaki dah lenguh


The weather in Bandung is pretty cooling compared to Malaysia but in my opinion, no need to bring baju sejuk la kan as the weather in the city is just nice. Yang wajib bawa is a good pair of walking shoes as you WILL be walking a lot. Don't try too hard to be trendy and fashionable in your high heels coz no one is going to look at you as everyone is too busy shopping..!

For lunch, we decided to try Sunda food. After lunch, banyak lagi outlets yang kitorang pegi, tapi some of it I did not take note of their names sebab we just popped-in and out briefly when we see that it’s not to our liking. Why bother going from one factory outlet to another? Because the prices, the qualities, the brands and designs of products may differ from one factory outlet to another. So, you may not find exactly what you want in only one outlet.

By 4pm (Bandung time), it started to rain heavily. Dah tak larat nak pegi factory outlets. Now nak tengok fabrics and kebayas pulak. The three of us often laughed at each other whenever we have to speak ‘Indon’ (especially the way my sister speaks. Dia yang kena banyak cakap coz she sits in the passenger seat in front with Pak Santoso and is the one deciding where to go next … kelakar sungguh.. I tell uuuu!!). Finally, kita ke Pasar Baru - a textile and garment market. The place was so huge and crowded with soooo many shops. You are guaranteed to be spoilt with choices of fabrics, kebayas, lace, chiffon, telekungs, tudungs, sarungs etc. This place opens from 9 am – 6 pm. You better prepare loadssssssss of cash before you come here! I bought 5 telekungs – warna biru, pink, yellow, apple green and purple! Haaa.. ambik engkau! Ni baru dapat apa yang I minat!


Ani and Yasmin bought beautiful kebayas each and identical materials to make maxi gowns. They had their measurements taken and had it tailored there. The tailor assured us the gowns would be ready the next day, before our flight home.

By now, my feet were killing me!! Arrggghhh!! Kan tadi cakap nak shop till we drop? Haa.. memang nak drop sangat dah ni!. It was more tiring that anything I had imagined. We decided to buy and pack our dinner back to the hotel. Kali ni beli Nasi Padang pulak. We reached the hotel about 6pm.

We quickly headed back to our rooms and called room service for a good full body massage costing Rp120,000 each (RM42 lebih kurang).

Legaaaaa…

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