The shut doors and rusty locks of Pecinan

First house that caught my attention! What a nice arrangement!

Last week I had the chance to visit an opening of my art photographer-friends' exhibition at Semarang, Central Java. In two days and a night, me and my friends were walking, well frankly, taxi-ing around the city and got to check some tourism spots we googled days earlier. 

We stayed in a small budget-hotel at Pecinan, the chinese-community kampung or what-so-called China Town in the center of Semarang. Wake up earlier in the morning, I sneaked to have my me-time, snap-shoting the houses nearby the Hotel using my new-cheapo Fuji pocket camera. Old houses with a mix of Chinese-Dutch style in da neighborhood!

Green and Modern City of S’Pore

Di Orchard Rd. SG, 2009

It was lucky me going to the Singapore for the first abroad experience. Singapore seems to be a very modern country for me. The city planning is so neat. There are a lot of great and modern architectural buildings in the middle of green city forest. Various birds are flying above the buildings. High variety of trees can also be found in the city forest nearby, almost everywhere in the city. The trees are not only various, but also old and well grown. Instead of that, developing project of buildings is covered with high fence, so that nobody is being inconvenience near the project. It looks as if the government care about resident service very well. But one thing that disturbs me is that in Singapore the prices were pretty high compared with Indonesian price. It is just because the country of Singapore is actually lack of natural resources. They import almost everything, so the production process costs higher.