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  • Dubai Bus No 77: Menjemput Masalah di Baniyas Square

    <—-Kisah Sebelumnya Aku tetiba terbangun dari tidur, jam biologisku mengatakan bahwa sudah saatnya untuk melaksanakan Shalat Subuh. Masih mengucek mata, aku memperhatikan sekitar, mencari tengara yang bisa mengarahkanku menuju musholla. Aku mendapatkan tengara itu di dekat escalator, maka dengan sigap aku menujunya. Dengan mudah aku menemukan Prayer Room itu di lantai atas. Entah kenapa, Shalat…

  • Peach Aviation MM6320 from Tokyo to Osaka: 15th Airline

    My departure time for East Asia Tour Volume-2 was only a day away. There was still one stage of my itinerary which was still scattered and unfinished, i.e the deadlock of my transfer mechanism from Tokyo to Osaka. Three months ago, I wasted a cheap bus ticket from Tokyo to Osaka for 5,700 Yen just…

  • Dubai International Airport: Nafas Panjang di Kota Terpadat UEA

    <—-Kisah Sebelumnya Desing mesin SriLankan Airlines UL 225 perlahan berkurang usai roda-roda raksasanya menyentuh landas pacu Dubai International Airport. Melakukan taxiing selama beberapa waktu akhirnya selongsong terbang itu merapat dan berhenti di salah satu titik apron bandara. Aerobridge segera dijulurkan ke pintu depan pesawat untuk mengakomodasi proses unloading segenap penumpang. Aku pun bergegas keluar dari…

  • Narita International Airport Terminal 1: Alcohol….Oh, Alcohol

    Paying 1,000 Yen to the driver with tie, receiving a receipt, ending with taking a back seat, I was now ready to explore the Higashi Kanto Expressway. This was the same street I passed by for the first time after arriving in Tokyo a few days ago. Taking 70 kilometer asphalt road and within an…

  • e-Visa UAE: Gagal di VFS Global, Sukses di DUBAIVISA

    <—-Kisah Sebelumnya Saking lelahnya, aku pun tertidur di depan layar LCD TV di depan bangku bernomor 56G yang kududuki. Itulah penggalan cerita ketika aku terbang bersama SriLankan Airline bernomor terbang UL 225. Aku begitu menikmati penerbangan selama hampir lima jam dengan jarak lebih dari 3.000 km. Aku bersiap memasuki Dubai dengan kepuasan tersendiri ketika mendarat.…

  • Tokyo Station: Finding Trail to JR Expressway Bus Stop

    A little past two in the afternoon. I started leaving Meiji Jingū via Harajuku Station. I retraced Yamanote Line, turning south through Shinagawa District, then back to north. It covered a distance of fifteen kilometers and costed 200 Yen. I arrived at Tokyo Station a little past three-thirty in the afternoon and was dropped off…

  • Writing Prayers and Wishes in Meiji Jingū

    The tragedy of losing my wallet at Nakano Station made me gulp in fear, it turned out that there was still a coward side behind my courage to explore the world. I calmed down for a moment by sipping drinking water from free water station at one of Nakano Station platforms. The silver and yellow…

  • Losing a wallet at Nakano Station

    Mattress at Yadoya Guesthouse’s bunk bed also seemed to like an ice beam, even when early hours have already gone. That morning, I deliberately slowed myself to wake up, I looked like a coward who hid behind the thickness of dormitory blanket. I revenged for my eyes, after almost forty hours didn’t so perfectly closed.…

  • Meeting Lonely on Takeshita Street

    I shuffled away from Kanda River, cut a bend in Chuo-dori Avenue, and turned right across Maidreamin, speeding down the six-meter-wide street to quickly arrive at Akihabara Station’s Electronic Town South Exit. See you soon Akiba…. For a moment I took a deep breath inside station building, letting my palms and face slightly warm. I…

  • Enjoying Akihabara from Kanda River

    Electronic Town South Exit Dinner was finished. I hurriedly left Ameyoko Market and walked back to Ueno Station’s Hirokoji Exit. My steps were getting faster and easier because Tokunai Pass was still active in my hand. I seem to have a power to go in and out of each station since that afternoon. It was…