Day's 1 ~ 6 February 2008
we arrived at Surabaya in the 08.45 am. The air so different from Jakarta the City that never sleep, it was so fresh there, hot..yes but more fresh than Jakarta. And we straight went to Pasuruan, my mom's city birth. About 2hours we arrived there. Pasuruan was a small town in East Java. It has 24-32 celcius temparature degree, and it was so quite. When we got there my uncle had been preparing a mass for his late wife (my mother's sister),prayer for her spirit... My uncle is a Budhism... He was so exciting with our coming..
The house so big with old fashion touched, with all the ancient pictures hanging on the wall...in white and black color... gave me a little bit of creepy feelings but also an awesome feelings..
we had chat until 02.00 o'clock in the morning..then we slept...
Day's 2 ~ 7 February 2008
I opened my eyes and it was 09.00 o'clock in the morning, i had my big spining in my head, air so fresh and chilly temparature since last nite were helping me to open my eyes,finally.., all the noisy voice saying “Gong Xie Fat Choi grandpa...” and the laughters woke me up and brought me to the conciousness mind about the place.. i got up and took a bath.... fast! All the family had gathered to congrate each other, it was New Year... Chinesse New Year... and there was a tradition after we congrate the youngest member of the family we should gave them an red envelope with money in it, we called it “angpao”.. but the rules only for the marriage one, it couldn't be applied for unmarriage person.
At the nite we had a barbeque..rib pork, chicken, and corn also. I didn't eat the meat,only the corn and vagetables (corn mixed with carrot, pottato and beans)..
Days's 3 ~ 8 February 2008
At 09.00 in the morning, we went back to Surabaya. First, we visited my aunty grave, it's in the sea...could you believe that? Yeah, she'd been cremated and they spread her ashes in the midle of the sea, so we spread some flower there... we took a boat and went to the midle of the sea.. During the midle of the sea i saw alot of ships, and across was the Madura islands.. The wind so strong, i stood up infront the boat but then got chills out seeing around me only waters, but it was fun...
After that, we visited some relatives of my mom and back to my cous home at 19.00 pm, then had chat until 02.00 am in the morning... then we got to zzzzzz...........
Day's 4 ~ 9 February 2008
In the morning i woke up cos i heard a music instrument, it was so relaxing, freshed up and so nice.. i opned the door and follow that music, i saw my cous played that, it came from a instrument called Gu Xien (read Kuchen)... it's Chinese instrument. If you heard that music it could brought your feeling to the beautiful garden filled with flowers and waters...
i learnt Gu Xien and funny in that instrument it didn't have the 4th tone (fa) and the 7th tone (ti), can you imagine that? But it could created such lovely music....
In the noon we went to the museum, House of Sampoerna (http://houseofsampoerna.museum/e_historybeauty_museum.htm) one of the famous ciggarette in Indonesia. It said that they worker could make a cigarette only in 3 seconds. When we came to the house the smeel of tobbaco so strong and all the pictures of the 1st owner hanging on the wall. They have two rooms in down stairs and then we went to upstrais, the place that we could see the way they make the ciggarette, and also they sold few hand made like scraf, t-shirt, ashtray, ciggarette box,etc.
After that we went to the mall to buy few things back to home. We left Surabaya at 17.10 pm...
