membolang di KL, melbourne, sydney :D

i just got back home at 11 this morning. now that im not too tired, i guess im gonna write about this little trip before i forget every detail (yeah i definitely will in 3 days). well actually i am even cheating in the itinerary right now, but i try not to as much as possible


ah, before that, i should say that this trip was not supposed to be like a holiday like what really happened. it was supposed to be me and my mom looking for room or house or apartment to rent in Melbourne for my 2-year study. but as i mentioned before, i decided to go to KL instead. so yes, this holiday was 'supposed not to be a holiday' holiday :p


anyway, here it goes...


DAY 1.


my flight from Jakarta to KL was at night. i forgot the exact time, but i do remember we chose Tune Hotel (Air Asia's hotel that is located inside the Low Cost Carried Terminal Airport) so that we do not need to search any taxi or train or monorail or whatever in the middle of the night. Tune Hotel is in walking distance, and they even provide us with shuttle bus. so, that would be efficient considering we arrived there in the middle of the night. 


DAY 2


i went to Sunway with my mom to see my future campus and dorm.


oh because the trip was not arranged by tour, i would like to share our means to get to all places we've been. to get to sunway from the LCCT, we should ride shuttle bus, train, and then taxi. so firstly, we went to the central station by shuttle bus.if im not mistaken, it costed each of us 8RM.the bad thing is, they do not have any schedule so they just wait until the bus is full then they run the bus :(. after we got to the central, we went to hmmmmmmm Subang Jaya station by train (forgot the fee). the train has time schedule and it is quite punctual. then from there, we reached Sunway by taxi (15RM). the public transportation is somewhat the same as indonesia. a little better, i should say. at least they have time table and they are quite punctual. 


okay, done with the transportation thing. 


the Monash University Campus is hmm better that i thought before. the campus is quite big. we went around the campus with one of the staffs there. we saw the classrooms, lecture halls, canteens, etc etc. too bad we went there when they were having their holidays so i cannot see other students. and too bad the library closes at 5 pm. grrrr. 


after we went around the campus, we went seeing the dorm. i realised that though the dorm is soooo good, it actually is a bit complicated. there are caps for electricity, laundry, and even air con. gosh! so the cap for my air con (the thing that freaks me out the most) is 180 hours a month! ----- yes, 6 hours a day. how can i live with thatttt??? so , if i get more than 180-hour use a month, i have to pay more. that's sooooo frustrating because the fee of the dorm is already quite expensive, and the library (which of course has air con) is closed at 5 pm. SIGH. no no no. VERY BIG SIGH. another big minus is that we are not allowed to cook in the dorm. yes, malaysian foods are delicious (some are surprisingly very delicious). yes, it is cheap. but yes, those really are the big problems! i can gain my weigh! errrr.






err. i should go now. day 2 is not finished yet. will continue later.