Posts Tagged ‘Indonesia’

I spent 4 days 3 nights in Bali last weekend. It was my first trip to Bali, Indonesia. The trip was awesome and great. Thanks to my boss Eric for organizing it and the team members that went together had a great time together. There are tons of photos I wanna share, but really… tons of photos… I love to share with you guys some of the pictures taken in Philippines also. Below two pictures are taken at Kintamani Volcano & Tanah Lot Bali Indonesia. Both pictures are taken in Panaroma mode, love it.. but if I have a fisheye lens, it will be more beautiful… LOL!! Enjoy and will update my blog soon ya! Cheers!

kintamani volcano bali indonesiaKintamani Volcano, a must visit Volcano in Bali Island. I capture this photo with a combination of 4 photos, and merge in Panaroma mode with Photoshop Software. I love this photos very much as the scenery & view we enjoyed at that moment were superb & great! tanah lot bali indonesia

Tanah Lot is the most happening temple in Bali. With the beautiful scenery that painted the temple, with the strong wind & waves that hits the temple & rocks.. Really awesome and beautiful!

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When I was in Jogjakarta for my business trip, what impressed me the most was the simple lifestyle of everyone there. Comparing ourselves from the major city and them, they don’t pursue after wealthy and richest, but a simple life where they enjoy the most. I can see they really enjoy their daily life while we always rush from a place to another destination just to earn a living. Isn’t better if we just live a simple life, yet meaningful instead of everyday rush hours?

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I manage to get a shot of the people lifestyle where they were playing carrom by the road side. Question is, will you/we play carrom by the roadside and tourist will actually looking at you when you’re playing? I even witnessed with my own eyes that they were sleeping by the roadside or corridor; is not one of them, but many of them… Will you do that?

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This is what they call the “Undag” in Indonesia if I’m correct. In Malaysia, we call this “Kereta Kuda”. Well, I think they name it quite nice and advanced comparing Kereta Kuda in Malaysia :D

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Of course, one of the main transportation is the trishaw or in Bahasa we call it “beca”. I had this trishaw on every nights with my colleagues, and we will be brought to many streets and places. It was during the fasting month that time, thus we can’t see any interesting stuff, and they closed their shops/doors very early. If you have the chance to be there, make sure you take it. I’m sure you’ll love it. I paid for a ride at RM10 only and I was up there for nearly 45min :D

I was in Jogjakarta last year together with my company colleagues for a business trip there. I had the chance to visit the famous Borobudur in Indonesia Jogjakarta during my 4 days stay there. I have been wanting to write the story and experience I had with you guys in this blog, but didn’t have the chance. Here I share with you what I had photographed with my Panasonic DMC-FZ7 during my trip.

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While we were heading to Borobudur; we saw this little dustbin that was hanging by the side, and it was written “Bank Jateng”. I feel so strange but yet feels that Bahasa Malay in Indonesia is so much more advance comparing us where by we named it “tong sampah”. I think Bank Jateng sounds more polite and soft comparing to tong sampah, do you think so? Hehehe

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We were there to witness the sunset on top of Borobudur. Love the sunset and love the photograph that portray the sunset, don’t you think so?
Well, stay tuned for more updates on my trip to Borobudur. It is indeed a beautiful & nice place that must visit when you’re in Jogjakarta.

Photos first, then videos at the end of the posts.. Enjoy!! :D

Before I start compiling the photos and starts writing about the trip I had to Jogjakarta few weeks back, I would like to show you the night life of Jogjakarta that I’ve recorded down with my mobile, Nokia N70 Music Edition. I think it gives me good results.

Hope you enjoy the photos and videos from Nokia N70

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Taking a trishaw ride is a must in Indonesia. This is called the taxi or cab in Indonesia. It’s quite relaxing when you take a ride at night where you can enjoy the scenery and the night life of Jogjakarta along the street.

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While we were riding with the trishaw, I start doing camwhores. I snap this photo on the trishaw, but standing up instead of sitting down. It’s quite dangerous though, as the trishaw was shaking shaking while the rider was riding it.

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It’s quite fun. They charge around 15,000 – 20,000 per person, convert to MYR is around RM5-RM8 per person, and per ride. It’s not too bad.

Myself and Brasco, my colleague we took the trishaw for 2 nights because we thought it’s quite fun and enjoy!

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Then, we saw a group of street group performers performing some classical music and rock and roll at the street. They can play well with the guitars and the big violin, I think it’s called the cello.

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That’s the night life of Jogjakarta for the young people and even the older ones. They will gather around and sing songs, dancing and enjoy together. I think you can’t find it in Malaysia. The relationship they had with each other, and the tourists are so close.

They even dance with the tourist, while one of the tourist try to play the percussion with rock n roll song. Cool… check out the video down there.

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Ok guys… enjoy the videos I have recorded with Nokia N70. There are two parts.


Night Life In Jogjakarta from Gabriel Lai on Vimeo.


Night Life In Jogjakarta 2 from Gabriel Lai on Vimeo.


Street Performance in Jogjakarta, Indonesia from Gabriel Lai on Vimeo.

While I’m working out for more posts and photos, I would like to show off to all of you guys the street performance in Yogyakarta Indonesia.

I went to Yogyakarta couple of weeks back. We went for breakfast at a restaurant, and there goes a group of street performers doing their singing just right beside me.

They have sang the second time of the song I videoed. My friend gave them some tips and we requested this song back. Without waiting, I video the song and the song that came out from their mouths are superb and it’s really speaking the lyrics out from their heart.

This is a song for young generation from the older people in Indonesia.

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