Vivid 2k15

Another display of lights filling the beloved city of Sydney. I am so excited to witness the spectacular light installations available this year. This it the third Vivid Sydney I have been during my stay in Sydney. I love this event because it is bring and colorful and best of all it is FREE. Sorry for being such a stingy-person. But hey, what do you expect from a student who is very tight in her budgeting expenditures. I wish Jakarta has events like this but I highly doubt it. Not to sound pessimistic or anything but I highly doubt it since no one in Jakarta is responsible in taking care fragile displays like this. And the traffic is unbearable and where would you put huge installations plus the volunteers to guard them. Anyway, enough with the illogical rambles and let's start talking about THIS YEAR'S VIVID.

From the light installations I have seen, I think the theme this year might link to the the sea. Because there are so many under the sea features that were portrayed from the art sculptures. Keep reading and scrolling the visual diary I present to you in this blog post.

i should have uploaded the photo without vivi in it

Before stopping to Vivid, I stopped by at an ice cream shop I have been wanting to try this sea salt ice cream from the day I saw some friends of mine posting this famous ice cream on instagram. The blue refreshing creamy ice cream of this sea salt flavor is the most worth-it innovative invention anyone has ever invented. Okay, I know I am exaggerating but it is the BOMB. I know if you look at the picture below, it looks like an ordinary mcflurry ice cream you could get from McDonalds, but I guarantee this is NOTHING like that. I chose the sea salt and lychee flavor in the photo below. It's great. Definitely have to check it out. And they usually change flavors every 2 weeks or a month, I am not sure. I really want to try the MELON flavor if it comes out again.

Large $4.3 (i know it's pricey but hey it's THE BOMB)

the tentacles

how cool is this they even installed lights under the water

we printed quite a lot of photos hehehe taken from the professional photographers there

I guess that is about it. I was super tired after all that walking because at first Vivi and I arrived quite early and we have walked around and saw everything in Circular Quay and The Rocks. But then Ko Feri and Ka Ely came and we strolled around again. I know there are more art displayed around the city but I did not have the time to catch them all.

Ragusa // Surprising Ci Lisda

The moment that I have been planning since the start of the summer holiday. This bucket list has finally been achieved and I must say, I am not a big fan of this ice cream. It is kind of a disappointment in terms of taste but an achievement in able to go there with public transport and finally tasted it after years of curiosity.

We ordered the banana split and the spaghetti ice cream. The spaghetti ice cream was good but the dried fruits just made the whole ice cream tasting experience into a yuck. It produces an unnecessary smelly taste that overpowers the sweetness of the ice cream. The banana split was not any better, I assume they used a non-ripe banana as it was super hard.

The cafe was super packed, moreover there was a shooting going on in this cafe from some national TV.

see how packed it is

Ci Lisda's 21st<3

we decided to stroll around more

we found this museum 

We were planning to go to Museum Galeri Indonesia but we walked in the wrong direction and we stopped by this museum just a few buildings away from Ragusa. It was so empty and it was an awkward situation when we were greeted by the 2 persons working there. He was really kind in telling us about the paintings and stuffs though which was cool. You guys should definitely check out this Newseum anytime soon. Even though it is a small place but it is very cozy, despite the fact there were a lot of blood-sucking insects there. 

In the end we didn't go to Museum Galeri Indonesia, we were lost and it was all up to my fault. When we were walking, a few security guards who were guarding the President Palace were kind of racist at us and were shouting gong xi fa cai, ching cang cing whatever, at us. I know that tomorrow is Chinese New year, why should you do that to us.