Parkour and Adventure

Videos: 1. Parkour Veteran 2. Parkour Jawa Timur (meet and greet) 3. Yoshi Afano 4. Teaser video 5. SIPP Parkour Probolinggo

Déjà vu , that’s what Andreas and I felt that night. Just like last year on D-1 departure to Singapore, again…we had to stay up all night packing ±300 T-shirts and stickers for Lion City Gathering (LCG) . We should ignore this sleepiness and exhausted feeling in order to finish it as soon as possible. But apart from that, it is a pride for us being trusted again for the second time by Parkour Singapore to produce LCG 2017 T-shirts, stickers, and also wristbands.

Déjà vu , itulah yang saya dan Andreas rasakan malam itu. Sama seperti tahun lalu saat H-1 keberangkatan ke Singapore, lagi-lagi kita harus begadang untuk mem-packing ±300 kaos dan stiker Lion City Gathering (LCG) . Rasa lelah dan ngantuk pun harus diabaikan demi menyelesaikan tugas ini. Namun terlepas dari itu, merupakan suatu kebanggaan bagi kita bisa dapat kepercayaan lagi untuk kedua kalinya dari Parkour Singapore untuk memproduksi kaos, stiker, dan gelang LCG 2017 .

I didn’t know how many times people talked to me in Tagalog language since my arrival in Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Probably it’s because the facial resemblance between Indonesian and Filipino, that make us hard to be differentiated unless we show our passports. But apart from that, there was a huge enthusiasm feeling inside me. On that day, November 23 rd 2016, for the first time in my life I did a solo traveling abroad, and this was also my first visit to the Philippines, the country whose culture is very similar to Indonesia.

Entah sudah berapa kali saya diajak ngomong Bahasa Tagalog sejak menginjakkan kaki di Bandara Internasional Ninoy Aquino. Bisa jadi karena kemiripan wajah antara orang Indonesia dan Filipina yang membuat kita sulit dibedakan bila tidak menunjukkan paspor masing-masing. Namun terlepas dari itu, ada perasaan antusias luar biasa yang menyelimuti diri saya. Hari itu, Rabu 23 November 2016, untuk pertama kalinya dalam hidup saya melakukan solo traveling ke luar negeri, dan tentu saja ini juga adalah kunjungan perdana saya ke Filipina, negara yang kebudayaannya sangat mirip dengan Indonesia.

Videos:  1.  CNN Indonesia (YouTube) 2.  Hamka Wiratama (YouTube) 3.  Angga Alp Flow It (YouTube) 4.  Blade Cam (YouTube) 5.  Hornbill in Flight (YouTube) 6.  Spartarun Solo (YouTube)

Finally the plane had landed at Sultan Syarif Kasim II International Airport around 10.40 AM. Thankfully Andreas and I arrived to our homeland safely, although we had a very bad sleep in Kuala Lumpur airport last night, even I had a neck pain when I woke up.