as for my new years celebration.. it was my first time spending it in another country wit my couz's n sis.. definitely something different! we were all at my gram's place in Bukittinggi.. which is a very small town.. a lil bit better than a village but still not close 2 being a city..people were already out in the afternoon.. going to the main area which is the Jam Gadang (translation: big clock).. we decided to go chek it out when it was
11pm.. since we had nothing 2 do at home..we walked out of the house n when we reached the main road..boy was it packed with human beings, cars n motorbikes!! we continued squashing with every1 n headed up... there were poeple EVERYWHRE.. some were already sitting on the curbs sleeping.. they even brought their babies along 2 endure dis.. poor kids.. we just couldnt understand why they bothered to come out if they were tired and wanted to sleep.. must b ke po chi's.. hehe.. (if u look closely at d pic u can c the clock in the left)
anyway we manage 2 reach d top whre the clock is after being squashed, lost n wat not.. we wanted to go 2 the hotel nearby but decided not, cuz it thre was a sea of ppl we wuld had 2 get tru.. so we bought ourselves TEH BOTOL as our last drink for 2006, n 1st for 2007.
Then before even the clock hit 12a.m, people were shooting firecrackers from everywhre.. so dangereous cuz we almost got hit by em..!! but thre were some tht were pretty nice la.. nuthin beats those huge ones we have here tho! by the time the clock hit 12a.m, people had run out of their firecrackers, so thre was less of it.. n the onli thing dat happen 2 the clock was dat it lit up with white light.. no one was jumping n screaming happy new year.. they didnt even have a countdown!! every1 was focused wit their camera phones taking pics of the clock.. totally weirdd!! we stood there dumbfounded....

it was like a culrute shock for me n my sis... our new year eve had just passed like that.. n our legs were so tired of walking n standing!! so we heaed 2 dat hotel which we wanted 2 go earlier n chilled thre b4 we started on our 'journey' back.
on the way we bought murtabak (choc, cheese n durian.. uughh!) jz for fun n nabil kept insisting d dude 2 put durian in..
so yeah dat was about it la.. ThAt was My NeW YeaRs EvE celebration in Bukittinggi...












































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