Muhammad Kevin Ardhiwilaga: Juli 2016

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

Hello everyone, today I want to tell you my latest holiday activities, my biking tours when it was a long, long holiday.

Also, I will tell you a little bit about my new school. Starting from today, July 25th, I was, officially, be a new part of 20 Senior High School Bandung.

I mean, us...(my new friends, new humors, and new interests).

Okay, starting from the biking activity, I reached my 1000, and more, odo with my Polygon bike. And it was my sick, lonely tour to Padalarang. So I was tired at that moment and had rest of my next days as my longest sleeping time of lifetime :D

Okay, not funny then.

Because I had advanced to Senior High School, I decided (wanted, actually, not decided) to buy a road bike. Would you prefer Orbea Avant or Look 566? You can add a comment below if you have your opinions, and also, tell me why.

My holiday was very, very, very adventurous. I took a plane to Ende. It's basically a name of the city in Flores Island. Not a long time ago, road cyclists were racing along Flores Island and reached "checkpoints" in some cities in Flores. That event was called "Tour de Flores 2016."

Why did I travel to Ende? I have some answers. First, my first formal education starts there. So I was really excited to see things that have changed in that town. Second, my father now works there as Chief of Resort Police [or here in Indonesia we say it as "Kepala Kepolisian Resor (Kapolres)"]. Third, I love the beach view! I always love the beach and historic sites in Ende. I mean, Indonesia's First President, Soekarno, was there, live there as he was "the Eagle that had broken wings." Four, it has a less number of traffic jam! Haha, of course it's only a small city, but with the good solidarity of the people, it makes great. I hope Ende City will be more popular as a tourist's tour agenda soon.

I was having the holiday there when all of my family fasted. So we didn't took too much travel activity or stuff. We had travel only once when we were fasting in the Holy Month of Ramadhan. Me and my family took a little Police Patrol Ship (it's basically a small ship belongs to specific police usages) and traveled to Ende Island. It's an island which has a similar name to Ende city. It is only a small island. No internet, no cool cars, no even big motorbikes, no even paved roads! People did their, I think, daily activity: fishing and sailing. For my grandpa, it would be fun. You know, he loves fishing. I have added some photos down below, and all of these photos are taken by Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, and some of them were taken by Samsung Galaxy Note5.

Look at the sea, not my face-_-

After the Holy Month of Ramadan passed..(*crying like a baby doosh), we went to Soekarno sites, such as a house where he was thrown into with his families. And the park where he thought of Indonesian ideology.

This is my best travel in Ende, Kelimutu! It was the name of the big mountain. But when it was a big explosion, it made three lakes at the same mountain as the cause of the explosion. Now, it started to became one of tourist's travel agenda, I think..just because many tourist from many countries came there to saw three lakes and how they changed their colors automatically. I took ~~a pill in Ibiza~~ some photos, which you can see right down here.

Cliff

New Google Profile Pic, yeah!

I got a pretty cool scores in National Exam when I was in Junior High School and I made it to Twenty Senior High School. I can't even believe this. I mean, many of my friends want to go there too, but there are personal reasons why they can't. I thanked Allah very much for what did He gave for me. I love this school, its teachers, its parks, my new friends, and my new spirit to studying is coming back again, finally :D

Having friends right here is awesome! I can increase my photography skill very dramatically, just because I have friends that can do it well, such as Ruffy Verryal, Seikei, or Sarah. And here, although there's no extracurricular that related to cycling here in 20 Senior High School (SMA Negeri 20) Bandung, I have incredibly awesome friends that have exactly same hobby with me. Me and my friends have cycled together once to Forest Park (Taman Hutan Raya) in Dago, I got 259 elevation gain that time. But when we went home, it's freaking fun: TOTAL DESCENDING ROAD! Which is extreme if you do it with no hands. I reached 50.3 km per hour maximum speed when I was descending with my friends. If you wanna know it, you can add me on Strava "Muhammad Kevin Ardhiwilaga."