All the ladies arrived at my house as early as 8am and we started the journey to LCCT , arriving there on time for check in. After that was all done, we had breakfast at mcD with our free sausage MCmuffin vouchers which were replaced with Fillet-O-fish ! ( lagi best!)
Our flight was delayed but only for 15 min or so , phew phew!!! Arriving at Bandung, our driver took us to a restaurant for lunch. It was a Sudanese one and we were being extra careful not to overspend !! The dishes that came were extremely small but we were so hungry we didn't complain ~ gobbled everything down in seconds!!! They have a free flow of salad at the salad bar but i was extra careful about that cuz my last trip to Bandung last year left me purging for days!!!
We checked into the Grand Serela Hotel after that , and met handsome Jack who was nice and friendly. He is the owner of the transport company we hired the driver from. And he was also kind enough to book the hotel of our choice for us.
Our first shopping destination was the Pasar baru which was not that "baru" at all !! But ok la, we managed to get some really cheap deals there. Some of us bought sarongs ( not my thing!) , some bought tons of colourful socks ( a dozen for me!) , T shirts, costume jewellery and slippers.
From there we went on to more classier stuff ~ the branded goods in factory outlets! Rumah Mode was the first. And they went crazy buying stuff there . I had been there b4 so i was more sane ( hee hee) I only bought 4 pieces of attire there. Pauline went nuts and crooned over the Armani and Pierre Cardin jeans there!!! Ping spent almost all of her cash there!!! ( faint ! Faint) I think they went crazy over the men's Nike Dri-fit T Shirts!!
The next outlet was Episode ~ and this time i went crazy! This one has more casual teen wear so i went berserk buying stuff for my girls. Abercrombie & Fitch , Club Monaco, Bebe, Esprit, Roxy.... u name it , they have it!!! we shopped till the shop closed and by then Ping had to start signing her credit card ~ she had spent all of her 1K in RM!
Dinner was late but we did have snacks at Rumah Mode's little bakery cafe'. Actually i was the one who bugged them to eat~ my metabolic rate amazes me! Anyway, dinner was on top of some highland ( Dago Atas) and it was cold up there. It must have been 15 degrees up there or lower. And i wore my new Bebe jacket :) the classy new restaurant is called Neo Calista.
And they serve western as well as local fare. The food was good and the money spent was well worth it. The bill came to about 120RM for 7 people ~ we invited the driver Pak Cik to join us too. 
Back at the hotel that night, we were tired but stayed up till 2am , just yakking and settling in! I fell asleep even b4 the yaks ended! F and P were still making noises when i closed my eyes and drifted into dream land !
Morning breakfast was the hotel's buffet and it was nice :)
My lady friends got excited over the passion fruits which they thought were pomegranates!! They were constipated and needed fibre so they downed all the fruits! Hahahahaha!!! We had asked the driver to come later to pick us up as we wanted to venture on our own for the 1st few hrs of the day. Our hotel is situated right smack in outlet haven so we went to Heritage and Smart. Once again we went crazy with the goods on sale ~ buy 4 get 1 free!!!
We walked back to the hotel and jumped into the Avanza driven by pak Cik! And from there it was more outlets, more crazy shopping, but not b4 we made a serious stop at the money changer to get more Rupiahs! Ping gave me a heart attack when she told me that i did not hand her the 1k i was suppose to loan her! Faint! Faint! Thank goodness i had Helen count the money again b4 i handed it to her at the breakfast table! phew!! Its always good to have a witness! Ayuh, blur blur ping!
Our lunch was at a nasi kandar restaurant and it was the same one i went to on my first Bandung trip. The food was good with lots of choices. Every one's favourite was the beef rendang or at least F and P loved it! I liked the Telor Berlado! For me anything with eggs is yummy! it was back to power shopping after that again and by then i was almost all done cuz i was down to my last 200rm ! I was also worried about baggage space, airplane weight limit etc. And i had my sis in law bugging me with her "enough liow!!!" and " stop buying now!" and "what do u mean one more!???"
We made a stop at the brownies place called Amanda! And we sat and tried the Tiramisu covered brownies with ice cream.I still preferred the simple steamed brownies . We all bought boxes and boxes to take home.
When darkness fell, we made our way for another meal. But it was still a bit too early for our tummies so we asked pak Cik to drive by Cihampelas Street which is famous for its shoes! These rows of shops have very nice ads that are actually huge statues of famous heroes !! They have Rambo, Spiderman, batman and any other kind of muscular hero u have in Hollywood! We stopped to buy sandals and went berserk again! I ONLY bought 9 in all ! :P
Dinner time came and we went up to another highland but he said it was not Dago Atas. It sure looked like the same place tho. The road uphill was narrow and steep , and on both sides of the road we could see small stalls with tons of flowering plants! It reminded me of Sungai Buloh with all its nurseries. i am sure it would have been a beautiful sight in the day :)
We arrived at the dinner place and its called kampung daun. 
Its in the middle of the "jungle" filled with wild trees and insects i am sure!! The weather was cold and we gathered around a bonfire to warm our hands !!!
We looked like scavengers! The setting was beautiful tho. We made our way up winding steps , it was so much like jungle trekking. Each table is set up in a little shack , and we had to remove our footwear and sit on long mattresses as seats. They had pillows to lean on and its a lot like those wooden shacks u sit in to do bird watching :) 
Very cool indeed! The food was delicious too and we ordered the same fusion of western and local fare :) the price was really reasonable too. 
It was our last night there and we were all getting very accustomed to everyone and the noise we made while we ate would have made the wild animals wonder who the wild and undomesticated beings really are!!!
It was back to the hotel after that and the nervousness of packing all our stuff into our bags! but Heyyy no problem la ! They all fit in perfectly :) even tho i had to toss out my older clothes and toiletries !!! It was another tiring day so as P and F watched TV, i drifted off again ...ZZZZZ!
The next morning we were up at 7am and went for our buffet breakfast, then checked out of the hotel, and checked into the airport. Jack came to say good bye and we thanked him for his perfect services.
The last 2 hrs we spent together in Bandung was as memorable as the whole trip cuz we started to play cards.... we taught the newbies how to play "NGAU" and then we played Chiapkoot after that . yeah all this was in the waiting lounge! On the plane we ate the famous Airasia nasi lemak , and before we knew it , we were back in Klang bidding each other good bye but making plans to meet again to give our "tour leader" a steamboat treat! :)
E-cstatic shopper
