I have a bad habit for writing down my solo trip only, the mood never swing on the right track when I had a casual trip with friends or family. Maybe when I'm alone I contemplate more, or maybe it's a memory I can keep for myself only. When traveling with other people, we can always reminiscing "Do you remember when bla bla bla..." But when you hit the road by yourself, you should write it down otherwise your rusty brain will leave the memories back to the places where you won't have any idea where to find anymore.
It's a trip to attend a friend's wedding in Jakarta actually, had kept my eyes on the flight ticket eversince I decided to go several months ago, but it never hit the promo price due to holiday season. Not until one week before D-day I finally booked the ticket flight back home from Semarang via KL (which cost me less than fly back from Jakarta) and decided to try my ass on the bumpy road of Sumatra all the way from Medan to Jakarta.
I knew I'll spend the same or even more on the road than fly directly to Jakarta, but I choose the hard way, hahaha...a decision I'll never regret anyway. If I have more time and one traveling partner I want to hitchhike all the way down to the south, but I only had one week and nobody want to join me T__T so I took the bus instead (yeah I have no guts to do solo hitchhiking on Sumatra, plus it's too tiring to do it alone for such a long trip). So long story shorted, I got a friend to book the bus ticket to my first stop, Bukittinggi!
Bukittinggi is always special for me, as it was our (me and Shanty) first backpacking/hithchiking trip back to 2009, so it's kinda a reminiscing trip as I re-visit the same place in order to attend her wedding party. Eventho I ended up visiting some totally different places and only had a chance to drive pass some familiar road. ~Places look the same, and we're the only different~
It all began when I got stranded cos my host didn't show up. I sent request to some couchsurfers in Bukittinggi, no female CSers replied my message :( and some male rejected my request, cos it's kinda complicated for guys to host girls overthere. So there's one guy (just named him Bunga) replied me and said he'll try to find me a couch and will pick me up since he's free that day.
After 21 hours on the bus, I touchdown at Bukittinggi almost 2 hours earlier than its schedule, so I called Bunga right after. My phonecall was answered in second but nothing except loud sound of children shouting (I couldn't catch any of their words), then I tried to call again for more than 10 times in the next 2 hours and nobody picked up the phone anymore. I was worried if something bad happen to Bunga, he sounds like a decent nice guy and I couldn't think of any reasons why he didn't answer my calls. So I dropped a message to his friend (that gave him strong reference on his CS profile) and asked if he's ok. To my surprise, his friend replied later on that day said he's fine, suddently busy and couldn't pick me up. I was like WTF!!! Dudeeee why didn't he just said that? I'll respect him if he just told me right away and a simple apology is much appreciated. But apparently until today (just finished my 3 weeks trip and arrived at home), he never drop me any explanation. This guy seriously needs a big lesson of what RESPONSIBILITY means. I didn't bother to leave any negative reference on his CS profile since he doesn't seem to give a damn bout CS anyway. But truly hope he'll man up a bit in near future and stop being a pussy *roarrr*
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