Pondok Grape, Wisata Alam yang Belum Terjamah

Selamat lebaraaaan 1433H, Minal aidzin wal fa idzin readers :D

Masih sama kayak tahun-tahun kemaren, lebaran ini kulewatkan di kota gadis, kota madiun, kampung halaman nenek sekaligus kampung halamanku. Aku jarang banget mudik hehe. soalnya aku itu serumah sama nenek, jadi saudara-saudara yang pada mudik ke madiun.

Selain keliling-keliling ke sodara di madiun, tahun ini kita juga jalan-jalan ke Pondok Grape di daerah Kare, Magetan. Kita disuguhi wisata alam super indah dengan pemandangan sawah lapang yg mulai menguning dan juga sungainya yang bening. perfect!

Kita juga ke monumen pembantaian G30SPKI. Jadinya kita study tour deh, belajar sejarah dan mengenang jasa pahlawan sambil jalan-jalan.

Malang Tempo Doeloe, Mengingat Keklasikkan Malang

Beberapa waktu lalu tepatnya 27 Mei 2012, aku dan teman-teman pergi ke MTD. Waktu itu semua orang pada nggossip tentang MTD , di twitter juga sempet di tweet berkali-kali. Aku udah tahu MTD dari adekku yang sekolah di malang kalo MTD itu kependekan dari Malang Tempo Doeloe, pagelaran ala malang jaman kuno yang diadain setahun sekali, awalnya sih aku biasa-biasa aja, tapi gara-gara orang - orang pada heboh ngomongin MTD aku jadi pengen visit ke sana.

Lalu berangkatlah kita ber-enam menggunakan kereta api di jam 8.30 pagi dari stasiun Gubeng, Surabaya. 2 jam perjalanan akhirnya kita sampai di malang. Tadinya begitu turun kita mau beli tiket buat pulang ntar malemnya, tapi kita kehabisan tiket dan terpaksa harus nginep.  dari stasiun Kota Baru kita cari makan, maklum dari pagi belum keisi.

Sambil nunggu MTDnya buka, kita wisata kuliner dulu. hihi. Kita nyobain es kopyor dan mie ayam ala malang. Ada yang pesen jus tape singkong juga. Menu lainnya ada gorengan, bakso dan mpek-mpek. Rasanya mak nyuss dan harganya itu lho, kantong mahasiswa banget, murah meriah, beda ama di Surabaya. :9

Habisnya sholat ashar, kita mandi n siap-siap ke MTD, temenku pada pake kostum, ada yang jadi gadis desa, muslim belanda sampe banci taman lawang. Hahahaha.

Sampe di MTDnya : Oh ternyata ini yang namanya MTD, mirip pasar malem di kampung halaman. Kita berlima mlongo, bukan kagum tapi kalo bahasa surabayanya, cegek. hahahaha. padahal kita sih mengharapkan display yang lebih dari itu. Bedanya di situ yang di jual adalah makanan khas malang tempo dan jajanan khas tempo dulu kayak arbanat, gulali, dan banyak lagi aku gak inget namanya. hehe

Gila, makin malem, makin rame, dan diantara desakan-desakan orang-orang untunglah kita sempet mengabadikan momen malam itu ;B

Artisticsm of Gula street

This pictures taken by me, Selly a.k.a semox and Cita, at Gula street, Surabaya, On January 2012. This street is famous among photographers in Surabaya and arround it, because of its artisticsm of this street. We must pay to took picture at this street. And for that old bicycle we must pay again ---..---. Instead of that, there were many people who took pictures and there was a prewedding photo shoot too. But, at least we got good enough pictures. hehe. I share some pictures to you, let's see the beautifullness of this street :B

KBS : The Died Zoo

Sedih gak sih, punya kebun binatang yang dulu pernah jadi kebun binatang terbesar se-Asia dan terlengkap se-Indonesia sekarang diklaim dengan sederetan predikat jelek sama negara lain. Mulai dari situs berita di US Fox news memuat artikel yang berjudul 'Nightmare zoo in Indonesia'. sementara TelegraphInggris memberi julukan yang hampir sama : Indonesia'nightmare' zoo. Sedih bangeet dan kecewa. Yah meskipun aku bukan orang Surabaya Asli, tapi aku ikut prihatin sama masalah ini.

KBS (Kebun binatang Surabaya) seluas 15 hektar dan dulunya punya 400 jenis spesies yang berjumlah 3500 ekor, belakangan ini jadi omongan hangat baik di berita lokal maupun internasional. Soalnya belakangan banyak banget binatang meregang nyawa di kebun binatang ini. Kemarin (30/7/12) seekor gajah bernama silvy, ditemukan gak bernyawa di kandangnya. ternyata usut punya usut, si gajah silvy ini emang udah sejak 2th lalu menderita cacat di kaki kirinya, disinyalir karena si gajah silvy terlibat pertengkaran sesama gajah. Nah, tepatnya kemarin puncak si gajah silvy, dia di temukan tumbang karena gak kuat nahan berat tubunya sendiri. Sampe sekarang tim forensik masih menyelidiki sebab konkret kematian silvy, tapi dugaan sementara menyatakan kematian silvy ini di pacu sama cacat di kakinya tadi.

Yang bikin aku terheran-heran, udah tahu si silvy ini cacat, tapi pihak bonbinnya kayak gak seratus persen nanganin masalah ini, si silvy di kasi general serving yg sama kayak gajah lain.

Gak cuman si silvy, masi banyak hewan terdzolimi lagi di KBS. Contohnya satu-satunya jerapah yang udah duluan meregang nyawa di banding silvy, mati dan di dapati bungkus-bungkus plastik yang menyumbat saluran pencernaannya. Lalu kasus kematian kudanil yang didalam bangkai lambungnya ditemukan bola tennis, dan lagi beruang yang memakan sandal penjaga KBS yang tertinggal.

Ternyata masalah serupa udah sering terjadi selama 10 th terakhir. Selama tahun 2002 40 ekor satwa mati, mulai dari jenis ikan sampai harimau sumatra. Setelah itu kematian satwa bertambah dan beruntun terus terjadi tiap tahunnya. dan itu terjadi selama 10 tahun !!

 Sekali lagi, dimana peran pihak KBS dalam kepedulian hewan-hewan yang ada disitu??? kenapa gak ada tindakan berarti dari pemerintah selama 10 tahun, dan kayaknya 10 tahun bukan waktu yang singkat untuk melakukan sebuah perubahan yang lebih baik buat KBS.

Ini denah KBS yang dulu, dimana bisa kita lihat satwanya masih lengkap

Short Vacation in Jogja

At this time, a week ago, I was spending my evening in Gudeg City, Jogjakarta. We had 3 days full of great vacation this time. Altough it was'nt my first went to jogja. This be special there was my lovely grandma who took this trip with us. I'm glad that she was looked happy and stronger than ussual. Enough story aboout my granny, I will tell you a lil short story trip during our vacation to jogja.



1st DAY
We started this trip at 6am from Madiun and arrived Jogja about 12am. The way we got are: Madiun-Ngawi-Sragen-Solo-Klaten-Jogja. I was slept in over a half during the way. I was goten up when we trough Ngawi. the road was soooo bad, soo weavy, and my head keep 'touch up' with car's glass window, that's why I got up--___--. Out of Ngawi we trough Sragen, alhamdulilah the road was going more soft and more. hehe. I was slept over again :P. And when I opened my eyes we was arrived at Jogjaaaaa. 




We was check in at Hotel Mutiara1 (I suggest this hotel because it's served very well, especially Mutiara2 B), it's located in malioboro street. It have beautiful scenery of malioboro, and in front of the hotel there was traditional orchest of art street. That's why I always choose this hotel. if you wanna take a look for others just visit this http://www.yogyes.com/id/). After check in, we went out to got lunch. At first, we would went to Mc D in secondstair in one of mall, but Granny was too affraid to take the lift or escalator, ooh, while i was in high stadium of hungerness. Then we walk again and again, there's another, but there was no left chair for us. Finally we found a not bad place to got lunch, I forget the name of that restaurant, but it's located in front of Ibis Hotel. Their spacial menu was Gudeg Special and Baked Dara. 


At evening we got dinner at Mie Pak Kadin, this noodle is not ussual noodle, you must try this! We went there by pedicab. ( I suggest to pick pedicab or The andong if you wanna go out arround and you'll get the sensation B), tp harus pinter2 nawar yeee ) I'ts took about 10 minutes from malioboro. After that we went to Alun-alun Keraton. I always love Jogja at night, it's sooo beautiful.


2nd DAY
We took a walk in the morning in maloboro street to got fresh air. During the malioboro street there are many replica of carving  in Indonesia who made by Indonesian artist. we took many picture of it.

                             

And near the end of malioboro street (near alun-alun selatan keraton) there was  delicious Bubur ayam jakarta and we were try Mendoan (one of west java traditional food, u must try, it was soo delicious).

After that we visited Beringin kembar. There is Mythe between this trees. Whoever could past trough this trees in closed eyes, their dreams will comes true, insyaallah. Or other belive, whoever can past this in closed eyes, it mean they have a bright soul. Alhamdulilah I could past this, whatever the myth, we now live in the modern culture and we have Allah to believe.

At 8am, we went to Borobudur, it was took about 2 hour to go there. yeah, many carv was lost in borobudur, and there are alots of no head buddha carving. but instead of all we still could enjoyed anyway, we also enjoyed the beautiful scenery arround Borobudur. You also can surrounding borobudur by the train, I already knew that there is elephant's 'cage' and mini forest in borobudur because took this short trip train.

From Borobudur we went to Parang Tritis beach. It tooks about 2hours from borobudur. We were look arround the beach, we trough a little village before parangtritis, in that village, there is parang ireng, it looks like yard with pendopo in front of it. It used to hold traditional ceremony. 5 minutes later we arrived at the beach. So beautiful, yeah altough not as clean as I expected before. But we still happy anyway.