Blogging has been part of my life since 6 years ago. When I started the blog, privacy was not my biggest concern. I just didn't care about it. I was an unknown girl in a virtual world. Nobody would be interested in my crappy stories, I thought. I didn't feel hesitant to write anything I wanted on my blog. I was quite ignorant about it. That's why most of my posts (especially those published in the first 3 years) were very personal. I didn't even remember how personal they were because I never read them anymore (but they can still be read on this site).

But over the years, the number of visitors of this blog increases. The number of people who regularly read my blog also increases. Through some of them, I made new friends. They became not only my virtual friends, but also my "real" friends as we…

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After successfully got a good deal for the room, we dropped dead to sleep. We were just tooooo tired! I blamed the World Cup Final for this! We hadn't had a good sleep until that afternoon. We were even woken up by a knock on a door and were asked whether we wanted to join for the snorkeling but we refused. We needed a good sleep. Come back tomorrow .

We woke up at around 2pm, had the most unexciting lunch full of flies around us, and cycled towards the end of the island to cross the looooong bridge to the other island. Tidung Island, which had a population around 4,000, consisted of two Islands: Tidung Besar and Tidung Kecil. All resident's houses were located in Tidung Besar (including the one where we stayed) and…

(Embrace yourself, this is going to be a loooong post!) Yes, I went to Indonesia last June. It was honestly a sudden decision. Mom had been bragging me about coming back and I kept on resisting; hoping that I could plan an escape to somewhere in Europe. After days of "yes" and "no", eventually, I decided to go back.

This vacation was a bit different than my previous ones. My lovely traveling buddy, Jessie, was spending her vacation too in Indonesia — so we planned to meet up in Jakarta and planned to do something different! I've done few travels with Jessie (including the Easter road trip) and she was usually responsible behind the wheel. So this time, we were gonna do another exciting backpacking trip without placing her behind the wheel, of course .