Going to Bandung

It is Friday. The Sweet Friday (Sukra Manis 11). At 6:50 a Gojek car brought me and Nuri to Tawang Station. We stopped by on Jalan Pemuda across Lunpia Semarang 24 counter. A man passed us a pack of 50 pieces of lunpia. At about 7:15 we arrived at the station. A porter helped us to carry our luggage. After buying coffee and pastry we were on board at 7:30. We spent Rp45000 for the car, Rp5000 for parking, and Rp25.000 for porter.

At 7:55 the train departed. We were on seat 4C and 4D, in coach Eks-4. We stopped at several stations, they were 8:00 Poncol, 8:33 Weleri, 9:10 Pekalongan,9:38 Pemalang, 10:01 Tegal, 10:17 Brebes, 11:00 Cirebon Kejaksan, 11:40 Jatibarang ,12:16 Haurgeulis, 12:55 Cikampek, 13:38 Purwakarta, and 14:55 Cimahi. At 15:08 we arrived at Bandung Station.

Nuri asked a portier to help us carrying the luggages. We exited the station at south exit. A Gojek car then brought me to Concordia Hotel the place we and the other alumni would gather. At about 15:45 we arrived at the hotel. Adhi Pratama welcomed us. We were place in Room #107.

The room was spaceous, modest, clean, and cozy. The hotel was old fashioned, the dining room was in a building separate to the room building. The room hotel has 2 levels, ground and first ones. The dining room has also 2 levels, all were ground ones because of the contour of the ground. Hotel Concordia was a part of the Bumi Siliwangi Resort made about 3 hectares of land located in Ciumbuleuit Cidadap, Town of Bandung. Our colleauge, Dewobroto, is the chairman of Bumi Sangkuriang

At 16:00 we joined the other alumni in the dining room. They were Adi Pratama and wife, Bambang Priambodo dan wife, Bambang Rahardjo and wife, Bambang Setiabudi Modjo, Dewobroto and wife, Endro Supriyanto, and wife, Firdaus Yusuf, Gunawan Hidayat and wife, Johnson Napitupulu and wife, Julison Arifin and wife, Kusmanto, Laksamana Sukardi, Lambok Antonius Siahaan and wife, Lettiwati Sutanta, LIdia, Micca Sahala Situmorang and wife, Mudjiadi and wife, Pudjo Parmadi and wife, Robert Sianipar and wife, Salahudin Gozali and wife, Saut Situmorang and wife, Sudaryono and wife, Taufik Widjoyono and wife, Tulus Sukariyanto and wife, Yunekky Krisnanto and wife, and Zulkifli Zaini. We shared our experiences during recent times. Lunpias were served here.

In the evening at 19:00 we gathered around the swimming pool. Dinner was served here. The dishes were shaomian tofu, stirred noodles, pumpkim soup, lasagna, chicken satay, etc. The baverage was juice, gingered sweet dumplings, etc. The alumni were added with Dony Darmayanto, TJandrawati and husband, Yulhaida, Isnanto and wife, Nuryanto and wife, Herry Jaya Syukur, etc. After dining we moved to a stage nearby to see JUlison speech about our organization, Siantuma, and to sing.