MRT

Mass Rapid Transport. Singapore MRT is just a common train in Indonesia. But the shape and the station is slightly different.

MRT is a regular train that arrives once in 6-7 minutes. Each Train contains several exits door. We sits facing each others, and stand with hand grap if the train is full.

The MRT Station

The train is divided in several journey area.

NS (North South Line) = Red Line
NE (North East Line) = Purple Line
EW (East West Line) = Green Line

The Train stopped in many station, and stops approximately about 1-2 minutes in the stations.

The interesting part that They provide each user with Ez-Link Card that can be topped up. So everytime that we want to take busses or MRT, we just tap the card to the card reader. Confuse with which side to tap, no worry, it can be tapped in any other way.

Each MRT is provided with several LCD Display that display Cinema Adds and Next Station Information. Each doors is opened and closed automatically. No need to worry about getting down the train with which foot? because it stop first then the exit door is opened. Thats also applied to the bus.

Every MRT is provided with Air Conditioner, and some of it is quite smelly, specialy the red line one :D The most crowded Line.

The MRT runs on double rail, which can be at subway, and overpass. The old Path rail is constructed over the road, and the new one is constructed at subway.

Subway Door MRT Station

MRT is the easiest Mass Transport to deliver people all over Singapore. Let's hope that Indonesian Mass Transport will be like that. Easy and afforable.

Dried Chile Pepper Chicken Rice

Clementi Food Junction, Rengji Hongkong Restaurant

Price: S$ 4.00
Taste: Verry Delicated, tasty, spicy, and great.
Option: Choose between Chicken/Beef/Fish and Dried Chile or no

Review: After 08:15 PM and still not having dinner, I went to Clementi to look arround and find some place to full fill my desire. After the MRT exit, go to the Clementi Avenue, and passing 2 Food Stall in the area, I finally looked to some place that quite unique than the other two food stall. The dinning table were all rounded, and it had 4 chairs each. 1 Big Food Place were dominated by one restaurant called Rengji. Hm... seeing the menu, I decided to choose this menu. With Chicken and Dried Chile. Unique I suposed. And it was true. When it came to be served. I looked at the menu and amazed with the combination. The chile is really dried and the chicken is mixtured well with the chile, Bombay Onions, and rice. The taste was really something special. I think this is really worth S$ 4.00 price food. Nor the chile or the chicken is hot. Even the garlic oil and green chile that they provided as a complementary addition wasn't hot. I'm dying want to eat this menu again someday. Verry recomended food to try.

Malaysian Gado2

Eunos Food Stall Gado2

Price: S$ 2.50
Taste: Sour, and only salty when eating it with the "krupuk".
Option: Not Provided, but I think u can choose to the level of the spiciness.

Review: The Gado-gado is really different with Indonesian Gado-gado. It's tasted sour, and only salty when eating it with the "krupuk". The packet of rice (lontong) is some how has something like soft fish bones (just try and see sarden can food, you can see the soft fish bones in some brand). I don't know whether it is something unique or not. But I consider it as something unproportional. It just making gone my appetite. The seasoning is really much, as you can see in the picture. The nuts is pounded. The aunty who sold it was Malaysian. I've miss conclusin her as Indonesian. But after seeing her dialect, I already made another conclusion which was right this time. She was Malaysian. The "Krupuk" is some how like "Krupuk kulit" like Padang foods. Well, Eating it once has give me at least unforgetable experience with it, and surely won't do it again :p

Charsiew & Roast Pork Rice

Zion Road Dinner Menu

Price: S$ 3.00
Taste: Delicious with aromatic soup
Option: Not Provided

Review: This is the best Charsiew & Roasted Pork Rice that I ever eat in here. The combination between the ingredients and the meat is really good. The soup is also gives something new, its quite salty and it's good, better than sour. One another thing that really make the food is really special that, I ate it when I was really hungry :D Recommended Food.

Duck Noodle

Common Wealth Lunch Menu

Price: S$ 3.00
Taste: Sour with chinese smell fragrance
Option: Can be served dry or with soup

Review: The noodle is verry thick, it's almost tasted like Spaghetty, but it sure different in the formula. I choose to eat it with soup not dry. The taste is really sour, unless for the sliced duck meat complited with duck heart. The heart was bitter. Weew, it perhaps been better if I ate it when I am really hungry:p The duck is soft, perhaps it because the thin slice, but the duck and the soup isn't mixed well, so the duck is really sour. Not recommended Food.

Chatter Box Special Gala Dinner

First of all, this post is not for commercial purposes, this is only for reviewing the food and showing to you guys what's it like.

Ok, little background for this gala dinner, My cousin Robert was having 1 month celebration with his girlfriend and he was treating us for special gala dinner in Kelapa Gading Mall in the east Jakarta.

After arrived at 8:30PM we start to looking for a restaurant to fullfil our desire in eating offcourse. And we walking from distance to distance, from food court Gading 1 to Gading 3, Lapiaza, until the end we tresspasing the Gading Food City, still there is no clue where would he treat us. I was begin to crumbled and told him how hungry I was, so does Ivon (Robert girlfriend's friend). So after a long walk, well I'm sure it was long, it was 9:30PM, we at last stopped at ChatterBox restaurant. It looked quite beautiful for a restaurant. The decoration were quite relaxing also.

We order several main dishes, and I've been picture it for later recommendation.

Menu 1: Salmon Steam Set
This menu is served well on the plate with some noodle, I think it just like Kway Tiaw. The salmon was good, mixed with the special formula. Something that kinda akward is the pepper. It served with rounded Pepper as you can see in the picture, so it's so spicy.

Menu 2: Black Pepper Beaf
This menu is quite special, because the taste is really good, and the mix between the spicy formula, and the rice is also mixtured well. This is a recommended menu by me so far. Off course the original menu it was not like the picture. This was Robert's menu, and he put one of the french fried on top of the rice.

Menu 3: Mashed Potatoes With Sausage
Well lets talk about this menu, because this one is my menu. When I first ordered it, I was interested on the mashed potatoes, and then mixtured with sausage. I wonder what kind of menu is this, so I took one. The taste was merely good. The mashed potatoes is mixed with cheese, so it wasn't sour. The sausage is great also, well I don't recommended this one, because of its price was to high compared with the taste.

Menu 4: Chicken Teriyaki Sets

I don't know what's like is it, since it just like the same chicken teriyaki sets in other restaurant. So I only can show u the picture of it.

Part of Life Journey

After seeing my old picture, it appears on my head to try to write down and show u a bit of my life journey.

Begin at 1999, when graduated from SMUN 1, I was consider myself to take a computer degree since I really like computer. So I've decided to enter Bina Nusantara University, majoring Information Technology.

1 year later the challenge, I joined Bluejacket All Star Community, to learn more about computer. With our slogan "We are not the best but we always try to be the best", 00-2 is continue our journey with several people in it. 2,5 months of training phisically and mentally we were formed. First RY leaves us, and then followed by BU, and the last one is JY. Our member is becoming lesser than ever.

1,5 year after that, I've got promoted to Network and Infrastructure Staff and joined the backoffice team. And time sure flew quickly, after 2 year contract is over, most of the 00-2 team were not continuing their contract, and leave me behind, since I was mutated to a new office outside Software laboratory.

This is my 00-2 Team Member 1 Year after we separated.

And the story move on. Entering the PDC as System & Simulation I met with a lot of unique and solid friends. PDCians that what we called ourself. Unique people inside Binus Corner. That some times forget about the rules of the world. We worked proffesionaly and treat others with respect. There were two strong girl in there, Henny and Yani, both of Video Team, that always busy carying Video Camera, Tripod, Line Extention everywhere when their shooting. There were also outstanding Instructional Design that gave consultation to the Binus Lecturer about how to build good Multimedia to share with their college students.

But, not only in work. In the other part of our job we were also tough and doing several outdoors together. This is the photo when we were playing Volley Ball together and named our team with Star BUG =p

Now at the 2006, who knows what kind of friends that will I had. I just hoped that I will get a bunch of new friends. Just let it flows with the wind, and just try our best to reach our dream.

FIRST

First Flight
First Overseas

is surely a brand new experience
damn I sure don't like the feeling the the plane is landing, my ears is sick, and it gettin worst when the plane go down.

Nervous, yup I think that described what I've felt.
But luckily the feeling gone when I'm stepping my foot to the changi airport carpets.

Wow I had never seen an airport like that before. It's just like all the passenger is the king. They greet us with hospitality, always smile, and polite.

Still feeling amazed, I'm forcing myself to walk the step still with amazement and looking to the left and right. I stopped in front of the toilet, and curious about the toilet. So I went in there, and more amazed to see the view. The toilet is quite something, no hand services :D
That sure the right word for the toilet. It flush automatically, and when u want to wash your hand the water pour automatically also. Want some soap? just put your hand bellow the sensor, and it will tear a drop of it. Not enough you must wait for another 2 secs before it drops again.
No wonder they announce it as the 1st international airport.

Because of my friend will pick me up after he's done in the office, I must wait for his arrival. So I spent my time in the airport, enjoying free access internet, free water to drink, free foot massager to feel relax.

Outside the changi airport the public MRT is already there, it takes me from terminal 1 to terminal 2 free. Wow there's a lot of free service in here, that's what I thought. And again no wonder it has all the facility, the airport tax is surely high in there :D

I've bought the EZ-Link Card for MRT and public busses for S$ 15, and again I stunned to see how easy to use the card, we just tap the card near the sensor, it doesn't care when it side front, or the otherway arround. Just tap it, and the door will be open. My friend told me to put it in the wallet and not put it out when want to tap the card. Yes, it can be used within the wallet.

Bringing my baggage into the MRT I'm amazed again with the train, it arrives every 6 minutes on normal time, and every 2 minutes in early working hour. The train is like the bus way in Jakarta, but the seats were from plastic, and some train have LCD display on the top of the train to show some adds from the movie and some direction.

Each station provided with locality maps and line direction. So there is no story that tell about 'Lost in Singapore' hahahaha. awesome.

Ok, this is my first, everybody has their first too right.