Trains (again)

Something about the train that giving strong energy towards the boys in my house.

Little that I know, my husband spend his childhood doing trainspotting or walk on the rails after school.

Now our little man become obsessed with it.

Back in KLlife, weekend means walk around the city and maximizing the usage of public transportation.

Usually free Go KL bus as starter and finish strong with KTM (and taxi ride).

And now, in creating memories about how wonderful his childhood (mama is trying hard LOL), we opted the train trip as one of the weekend checklist activity (at least once a month).

And we are HAPPY.

No matter how busy unproductive unsatisfying our weekdays went, trains will bring back the smile.

By all means, everyone is HAPPY.

Winner!

Last weekend we took train from Manggarai to Kota. It cost 3.000 rupiah/person.

2 top options that available for this route is :

Bogor/depok – Kota

Bekasi – Kota

They are available at line 1 and 3. Or you can simply ask the officer there.

Trains are passing by every minute. I feel this is the busiest station I ever seen.

Most of the train are 10 coaches long and always FULL.

Wow, as you know that Indonesia is one of the most populated country in the world and I am proudly saying that Train is doing very well now because everyone can queue-ing and lining up properly.

Anyway, back to our train trip, the boys are spending time chatting and spotting the train at the station.

Total time riding the train : 15 minutes (one way)

Total chatting at the stations : 30 minutes.

Total time that I am spending for taking pictures : 15 minutes ++ ( and walking around checking convenient store while waiting for the boys)

Speaking about Kota (our destination), this is the old heritage area. One of the main attraction in Jakarta.

Maybe I’ll explain more about it in the next post.

See you around!

Have a great week ahead

You Write when You Miss it

I am still missing KL all day, everyday. Not that I can’t move on or continue our life, but I do miss KL. 

So, here I am, listing my fave things to do when we were in KL.

What I love the most :

1. Parks with sparks

I haven’t found any park in Jakarta that give me sparks. I could spend hours on my “so called me time” in one of those park in KL. Sitting, sip a cup of coffee, juice or ais teh tarik. 

Picture perfect. 

Taking my boy to park is also fun. We could walk around it and chat and play with the sun.

2. Yarnsholic heaven

All those craft store, from local craft store at sungei wang or pasar seni, to Spotlight. 

Did I mention how much I love yarns? It was the first thing that I check when our cargo was arrived. 

I also missed my fellow handmaker there who’s been so nice to me. Missed hang out with them

3. Supplies and supermarket

Grocery shopping is my thing beside craft. My fave grocery store is Village grocer, they have everything that I need. My fave is located at Bangsar Village, nearby our aparment and the local food banana leaves resto. 

Then followed by Cold Storage, Jaya Grocer, Isetan and Sams and local market of course. 

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4. Bangsar

Yes. Spefically I missed Bangsar. 

I missed the Nirwana Maju resto, Chawan, Mikey Pizza, plan B, snackfood shop, smalls fashion boutique, lego stores,nasi kandar, massage place and cziplee stationery store too! 

Bangsar is a homey area. It’s not located in the center of KL but it’s reachable (excuse my geographic skill). If you are familiar with KLCC, Bangsar can be reached by LRT/MRT/Monorail. 5-10 minutes only from KL sentral station. 

Bangsar is housing area too. If you are wondering about the ground house area in KL, Bangsar is one of it. 

I always love to spend my day at Bangsar. 

5. Trains 

When we were living in KL, we always enjoy taking train everywhere. It’s just our thing. 

Monorail, LRT, KTM komuter, all of it. Now they have a brand new MRT, unfortunate we got no chance to try it out.

Ah ya, we also like to take KLIA transit to putrajaya and hang out there. Simply because we enjoy the train ride very much.

I remember one time, my son requested to take bus to Melaka and he wants to ride KLIA transit too. We suppose to take KLIA transit to Bandar Tasik Selatan/Terminal Bersepadu Selatan (the place where we can take the bus to Melaka) but then we decided to take longer ride to KLIA 2 instead and continue the journey to Melaka from there. 

It was a long trip but we are having fun. A winning indeed.
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6. The Foods 

I can’t believe I put this on the list. Few months when we first move to KL, I hate all the food, everything seems to “curry-ish”. But now I love it! 

From Nasi Kandar (pelita), nasi lemak antarbangsa, Banana Leaf rice, kwetiau, mee mamak, canai, chicken rice, tosai, kuih2. All of it. 

I am drolling just thinking about it. 

Oh how I missed it. 

Kwetiau at Food Republic Pavilion

Canai Teh Tarik Palace

Kale Salad

Laksa

Mee Tarik Warisan

Ais Cendol

Nirwana Maju Banana Leaves
I could write thousands more about how much I missed KL. 

It will always be our second home and I secretly hoping to be able to spend some life in KL again. 

Hope so. Pray for me? 😁😘
xoxo

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