Back to my hometown Indonesia.

It's been quite a long time since I went back, and the first thing that I noticed is that the grass has turned green. The last I remembered was that the grass in Indonesia is yellow, which made me believe that grass is by default yellow in colour, which made me look like an idiot when I first came to Singapore and was really surprised that the grass in Singapore is green.

Anyway, along the way to make my KTP(Indonesia's term for IC Card, this is one of the reason why I have to go back) I bump into somethings which reminded of why I don't feel like coming back.

- The kampong feeling near my house (probably stayed in Singapore for too long)

- The trash clogged sewer and river, and the markets just beside it.

- The uneven road which gave me motion sickness.

Nevertheless, I'm also thrilled that I get to visit my childhood home. Although we rented it out and has been converted into a warehouse, but I just have to see it again!

In Indonesia we have another taxi category, and we call them "Bajai". it's just like taxi, but cheaper, and IT IS EVERYWHERE! I swear most of the country's air pollution and traffic congestion are caused by them. I remembered I was waiting for my parents to fetch me after school one day, but they haven't arrive yet, and I got so scared that I cried, and this "Kind" bajai-man "offered" to send me home but turned out that he still charged my parents. Took a scolding from my mom after that.

This is the train station just outside of my district, whenever I saw this station, I would know that I'm almost to my house.

This is is the front view of my home, It looks so much bigger in my memory. Just at the opposite of my home used to live a little boy, I used to play together with him and my sister, together with another little girl living just a few block away, she was the daughter of our district's chief(Yeah, we have a chief. Talk about kampong life). The four of us would come together after school and hangout at our treehouse (Yeah~ Treehouse, how cool is that!)

This used to be our kitchen, and at the ceiling, you can see a hole that leads all the way to level 5. My grandmother and parents used to shout through the hole to call use down for dinner.

And this used to be where our maid wash our clothes, and also where we water our plants. At night, this is where we would hangout to gaze the stars, although there weren't much, but it was still beautiful. This is probably the only thing I really miss.

This is the top floor of my house. Before they installed the satellite thingy there, me and my brothers and sisters would fly kite here. There is this once where the wind was so strong that it pulled my string handler away together with the kite, and we were chasing it before it flew completely.

This is the first floor and also the office, where my mom and dad work. It looks so different now.

And this is taken when I went for checkup in the hospital. It's another one of the reason why I came back. My sister was worried about my sleepiness during work hour so she had me go for a check up in Indonesia since I'm going back to do the KTP anyway.