1981 Landings Drive Building K

 

Mozilla Spaces around the world

Mozilla Spaces around the world

That is the map of Mozilla Spaces

For some point, I assumed those are also Mozilla Offices.

But before all of those stars on the map above, there was  this building.

Building K

if you open the wikipedia entry about Mozilla Foundation, you could see that photo also (from different angle). It’s located on 1981 Landings Drive, Building K.

1981 Landings Drive Building K, Mountain View - CA

37°25’6″N 122°5’15″W

And we are very grateful to Pascal that has brought us there. He told us stories about the building and the people. About the highway 101, the Google canteen across the street and many other else. I’m sure the team that’s been long with Mozilla  will have many stories to be told about that time :)

at the starting point :P

at the starting point :P

The building was the former office shared by both the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation until July 2009. It could be the Netscape building, but I think this is the place where everything ‘Mozilla’ (not just the browser) was started

ps:

This a blogpost from Justin Dolske telling the history about the bay area where Mozilla San Francisco Office is now.

Mozilla office history

[SF Trip] Downtown San Francisco in less than 8 hours

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Afternoon already, we have no much time to explore The City by the Bay.
We didn’t even have enough time to find and buy some souvenirs nor have a proper dinner :( So lets go through the checklist then.

  1. Union Square
    The area got its name because it was once used for rallies and support for the Union Army during the American Civil War, earning its designation as a California Historical Landmark.There is a wide variety of hotels, cafes, bars, restaurants, shops, etc., that are unique to San Francisco. In Union Square you will have a mix of locals, business travellers and vacationers. It’s like a transit area. Transportation is quite easy in here because you have subway or bus stations around you.It’s also an expensive area. You can see famous brand stores/restaurants in every corner. It’s like a collections of department stores, upscale boutiques, gift shops, art galleries, and beauty salons in the United States.And what we did there was … enjoy the afternoon, when the sun is calming down, warm with cool breeze, watching the activities around the square.

    After that, @Rara79 need to find a post office to buy postcards and stamps. So we go to Macy’s coz it has one. Nope, we didn’t buy anything, see the keyword “expensive”. Need to save more bucks for other things he he he he.Chinatown actually is about 1-2 blocks away, perfect place for hunting souvenirs in a budget. But like I said, we don’t have time to go there.

  2. Cable Car
    This is a must have attraction my list. So we took one next to Macy’s down to the Fisherman’s Wharf. It’s nice ride actually, but since the cable cars was kind of full, i only got a place at the rear. The best spot at the front and side of the car have already been taken :(

    There are some souvenir shops around here. It’s cheap, sort of. Well you could have 5-7 postcards for only $1 before tax. Some key chains and many other stuff. I’m sure you’ll get cheaper and more options in Chinatown.

  3. Fisherman’s Wharf
    Fisherman’s Wharf gets its name and neighborhood characteristics from the city’s early days during the Gold Rush when Italian immigrant fishermen settled in the area and fished for the Dungeness crab. From then until the present day it remained the home base of San Francisco’s fishing fleet.It’s getting dark when we arrived, so basically we spent very short time here. Just walking around the corner, we miss the chance to see the sea lion, only watching the Alcatraz (closed due to the government shutdown).In addition we (me actually) also need to catch the time to take photos of the golden gate bridge at sunset. Since we taking bus will take forever to go there, just missed the sunset taking a taxi was the only option.
  4. Golden Gate
    You are not in San Francisco if not visit the Golden Gate . That’s what we did, visit the 76 years old bridgeNobody warned us that the wind around the bridge was so cold. I should have known about that when I was at same situation at Eiffel and The Great Wall.So, my camera remote were basically dead coz the battery was too cold to operate. It also needed a moment to set up the gear for long exposure shot properly. I just couldn’t stand the cold wind and it made everything worse since i have to push the shutter manually with my trembling cold hand :(Don’t have much time since the taxi meter is still running.

    After spending about 15 minutes around the bridge, I’ve got nothing worth to be published :( With a huge disappointment, I ask the taxi driver to take us to Pier 39.

  5. Hard Rock Cafe SF at Pier 39
    I went here because one of my colleague asking me to buy a city tee for his collection. Bought some souvenirs also for people at #Room41. It’s dark, it’s windy and we’re hungry. Dinner around here is quite costly, so we took Finnan suggestion to go back to fisherman’s wharf.The food stall mentioned by Finnan was closed already, so we pick random restaurant.Geez, the American food portion is crazy!!I ordered normal pasta (well just look the menu and it seems to be face for me to eat) with a shrimp salad as appetiser. Haven’t finish it yet when the pasta came.
    OMG, the plate is like 30cm long (no, not you @naivee) with 2 chicken fillets size of my palm each. It’s for 2-3 people here!!

After dinner, me @Rara79 and @Eriskatp back to the Caltrain Station to get the last train back to Santa Clara. It’s a day that we spent most of the time on foot. I hope my lil sis Eriska was not feeling tortured. Well this is the way we enjoy the new place. Sorry sis, but I’ve warned you before he he he he.

Moral of the story:

  • Start explore downtown SF early in the morning since most of the place are nice to be visited before night time (IMO).
  • Try to be the first cable car in queue, so start from the Market Street, pick the best seat.
  • Better rent a car to go to Golden Gate area and spend enough time there specially for composing the photograph you want.

as usual you can find more photos in my [button color=’pink’ size=’small’ link=’http://flickr.com/photos/nuri_abidin/’]flickr[/button] account :).

Also feel free to leave your comment here ^_^

[SF Trip] Visiting Mozilla Space San Francisco

mozspacesf-logo7 Oct 2013, Summit over the night before. Most of us will fly back home, back to daily routine office, college, shool etc. Some will spend another day or two just for sight seeing. Let say, Jan from Holland going to surf at Santa Cruz, Ash’kary from Bangladesh have a road trip to east coast.

Me? I’ll be spend a day at San Francisco with the girls (@rara79 & @eriskatp) First stop is Mozilla Office San Francisco, @rara79 has appointment with Emily (the one from WPR tables next to Mozilla Indonesia table in MozFair day #1).

It’s kind of late. Based on my checklist we should go to SF from Santa Clara CalTrain station maximum at 9am. We board at the train around 11am. And the first thing cross my mind when inside the train is … Source Code movie. Also met Rizki from Yogya at the train.

CalTrain took about 1hr 30min from Santa Clara to SF and cost you about $9. From SF Caltrain Station we need to take a cable train to get to Mozilla SF office at Harrison St. Cost you about $2.

The weather was perfect (OK, it’s lil bit chill) for walking down the street. MozSpace at SF is nice, I wish that someday we could have one at Indonesia.

Met Emily, have a little tour inside. Josh already busy with lines code in his big monitor screen. William playing pingpong at 7th floor :) The view from this floor is amazing. I’m willing to stay overnight almost every night with this view :P I can imagine it’s getting prettier in the afternoon with all the lamps around the bridge and the building around.

From MozSpace SF, we go to Twitter office. Another $2 using subway.

That’s all for MozSpaceSF visit, as usual you can find more photos in my [button color=’blue’ size=’small’ link=’http://flickr.com/photos/nuri_abidin/’]flickr[/button] account :)
 

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Mozilla Summit 2013 – Day 03

In the previous posts (in Bahasa Indonesia but i’ll post the english version if you want it) you might feel that i’m trying to write a report about the summit. Well I did try, but actually it’s more to sharing my feeling, the exiting being in the summit and the whole topic in the last 3 days. The new tech that most of them I barely know, the people, the project, the cause, the vision, the values of Mozilla and being a Mozillian and so on

This is it, the last day of the summit.
Felt like it was just yesterday the summit begun. There are still many people i’d like to meet, talk, discuss and plenty of things need to be learnt. But more important is i need to contribute more. And join more groups also :)

Therefore I specifically attend the SuMo (Support Mozilla) class to meet Rosana and Madalina, the wonderwomen behind SuMo Projects and the other fellow SuMo as well. Andi @belutz and @rara79 also join this class. I’ll make the post about it later.

In the afternoon, we had a visit to Mozilla HQ at Castro Street, Mountain View lead by Pascal Finette. It was only for the first 50 person who signed up but i think we had excess passenger :P So, 50 people using the bus, the other 2 or 3 people taking taxi he he he.

After the closing speech, this summit end with a dance party where Gen Kanai being the DJ that night and played a lot of nice music :)

As usual, you can view the rest of the photos on my flickr
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Mozilla Summit 2013 – Day 02

Antri kopi pagi *slurrrp*

Halo halo
It’s day #2 of Mozilla Summit 2013.

I choose to take less photos but take more notes because there’ll be a lot of interesting topics in day #2. I mean technical related topic because we have Innovation Fair. Up until the second day, this summit is a perfect reminder of how brilliant the mozilla contributors are and and a wake up call how much of a n00b I really am. So much to learn and it’s like burning me inside (in a good way).
Yosh!!!
Keynotes di hari kedua ini penuh demonstrasi produk. Sebut saja ada WebRTC, Simple Push, Firefox OS Marketplace, App Manager, AppMaker, Shumway, games berbasis HTML5.

And then The Innovation Fair!

I saw many projects – i mean [highlight]AWESOME PROJECTS[/highlight] – that i (probably you too) haven’t heart before. If you’re there you know what i mean, there were “WOW!!” appluse, whistle everywhere in the room. And there are also gasp, interviews, note taking, asking questions rapidly like a machine gun to the developer because their projects are just simply … awesome.

Some of them might say “Ah, it’s just a toy. I built it for fun coz at that time i have nothing to do
Daaa,
kalo iseng ajah dah sekeren itu gimana jadinya kalo mereka pada serius :P
Beneran, jadi ingat ke masa-masa lalu waktu bisa alokasi waktu senggang untuk bikin project-project iseng/experimen ^_^ (apa lagi kalo lihat film Code Rush :P). I’m trying to get those days back to my life now! FTW! :P

Saya mulai dengan [highlight]Lantea Maps app[/highlight] yang dihubungkan dengan kontrol fisik dibuat menggunakan MaKey Makey. Developernya bilang ini cuman proyek iseng saja, Makey Makey mengingatkan saya ke maenan bread board dengan segala printilan elektroniknya di kelas teknik digital-nya Pak Bambang sewaktu masih sekolah dulu. Si kontroler Makey ini tugasnya untuk zoom out/in serta geser layar kiri kanan atas bawah

Belajar bagaimana tim Jepang yang sukses membajak satu display untuk demo HTML5 game lengkap dengan xbox controller. Perangkat gamenya sendiri dibuat menggunakan Panda Board. Tim Jepang juga mendemokan gesture control menggunakan sensor leap motion (dan saya lupa order barangnya padahal yg jual di amrik juga :( ). Ini semacam versi primitif gesture control di film Minority Report lah. Gila emang tim Jepang ini.

photos by bkerensa

photos by bkerensa

photos by bkerensa

photos by bkerensa

Ada Talkilla, project ini adalah salah satu contoh penerapan WebRTC. Nah kalo kamu pingin nyobain Talkilla, tinggal akses ke sini. Cuman, kamu harus menggunakan Firefox 25 ke atas.

Ada [highlight]Appmaker.[/highlight]
Appmaker ini semacam WYSIWYG GUI/IDE untuk membuat Firefox OS app. Masih dalam tahap pengembangan tapi sangat-sangat potensial. Di versi ini kamu sudah bisa menggunakan beberapa utama dari WebAPI HTML5. Cukup drag and drop juga untuk membuat layout tampilan app kamu. Yah bisa dianalogikan kaya pake Ms Visual Studio, Dreamweaver n sejenisnya deh :)

Panda Chassis & Mozpool, sebuah proyek yang merakit kumpulan Panda Board menjadi semacam blade server. mounting rack chassisnya ini adalah project open source yang disebut sebagai Panda Chassis itu tadi.

photo by @belutz

photo by @belutz

Firefox Metro, ini touch based browser yang optimized untuk perangkat Windows 8.x. Designnya alus banget dan minimalis, ini yang bikin saya tertarik. I love simplicity.

[highlight]Firefox Australis[/highlight]. Ummm, sama kaya Metro mending kalian nyobain sendiri atau lihat video berikut deh biar tau gambarannya :)

OpenNews, ini bukan produk fisik/aplikasi. Dimotori oleh Erika Owens, OpenNews adalah sebuah gerakan yang mengajak kita untuk membangun sebuah ekosistem yang membantu kegiatan jurnalistik berkembang di era open web ini. Erika kerenn :P

Dan masih banyak lagi yang saya ga sempat mampir *dan saya menyesal berat ninggal kamera di kamar, untung masih bawa voice recorder karena nyatet sudah ga sempat juga, keburu exiting*

Karena sibuk ngider serta “interogasi” dari satu meja ke meja lain, di hari kedua ini saya praktis cuman ikutan 1 kelas fulltime. Topik kelas di hari kedua ini ga kalah banyak dibandingkan hari pertama. Namun ada satu ganjalan. Sebenarnya saya berharap perwakilan dari almamater sekolah saya bisa join kelas 3D GameLab Open Badges. 3D GameLab Open Badges ini dapat digunakan di proses belajar mengajar terutama di sekolah. Lisa Dawley yang memberikan materi di kelas ini backgroundnya juga dari pendidikan.
Tapi sayang orangnya entah pada ngilang kemana, jadi cukup kecewa  sih. Padahal ini kesempatan yang could only be one in a lifetime. Mumpung di sini gitu loh *sigh*

Di akhir acara hari itu saya join kelas “Level Up with Firefox Student Ambassadors” yang herannya ga ada aktivis FSA Indonesia yang join kelas ini. And  I was like the only one that has no relationship with any education institution in the class. Buset deh he he he he.

Eh engga ding, si Rara kan dokter n di akhir kelas ada @eriskatp ma @akkuderry yang kemudian muncul. Sayang mereka ini statusnya masih highschool student, sementara FSA untuk studentnya lebih nyasar ke level mahasiswa. Tapi program FSA ini terbuka juga untuk guru, jadi level SMA pun masih bisa masuk.

Di hari kedua ini, acara malamnya terbagi menjadi dua.
1. Maen ke Great America yang temanya hari itu soal Haloween.
2. Nonton film Code Rush yang menceritakan sejarah project Mozilla

Tadinya pingin ikut ke Great America, tapi apa daya harus remote kerjaan kantor. Cukup banyak hal yang harus di review plus kayanya saya jetlag-nya telat, jadi kesempatan lah buat nambah waktu tidur :)

Great America

Great America Halloween Haunt!

Tapi ada satu hal yang membahagiakan peserta dari Asia di hari kedua ini. ADA NASI di menu makan malamnya!!! Nyicip nasi putih + kari ama nasi briyani deh (entah briyani/tandoori pokoke nasi! –mode wong ndeso asli–)

What an exiting day

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Mozilla Summit 2013 – D01

MozSummit 2013 Santa Clara – Day 1

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Mozillians @ Narita

NH1076 yang membawa rombongan kami dari Narita tiba di SJC sekitar jam 11.30an siang GMT-7. Setelah mengantri proses imigrasi yang cukupppp laaaamaaaaa akhirnya kami bisa keluar bandara juga. Total peserta summit ini mencapai 1800 orang terbagi di 3 kota di 3 negara. Santa Clara-Amerika, Brussel-Belgia serta Toronto-Kanada. Selain saya Rara dan Kosha dari Jakarta. Kemudian Eriska, Aditya, Dwi dari Malang, Benny dari Surabaya Chit dari Myanmar, Premp dari India serta sebagian tim dari Jepang (menurut Takeshi Hamasaki, sebagian lagi berangkat dari Haneda).

#MozSummit #MozSummit2013

at SJC w/ @eriskatp

Sampai di Marriot pada checkin hotel dan registrasi summit. Di sini ketemu si Andy @Belutz kluyuran di lobi yang ternyata jadi site host MozSummit. Dipikir-pikir, pentolan Ubuntu Indonesia ini adalah satu-satunya WNI yang jadi site host Mozilla Summit :P Ketemu Alex Lakatos dari Romania, aktivis Mozilla yang bikin desain kaos yang kita pakai hari itu.

isi welcome kit Mozilla Summit 2013 (courtesy of ly2314)

Habis itu udah deh ngider sana-sini meeting people yang selama ini mungkin cuman kenal di forum/milis/irc saja. Jam 6 sore waktu setempat acara makan malam dimulai. Udah deh peserta pada tumplek blek cukup banyak. Dan masih banyak lagi peserta yang baru landing pada malam hari. Misalnya saja rombongan dari Taiwan dan India. Saya sendiri baru masuk kamar seiktar jam 2 pagi setelah hampir lupa waktu ngobrol ma yang lain. Ada cerita seru dari Jayakumar dari India soal dia salah packing, even-even Mozilla di Malaysia dari Mohd Fadzil, dan banyak lagi lainnya. It was fun and couldnt wait for the upcoming days.

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Welcome Dinner D-0

Hari pertama diawali dengan kegiatan jalan-jalan rame-rame keliling seputaran hotel. Ini bukan acara resmi sih, kebetulan Roland dan Ludo punya ide photowalk, jadi sapa ajah yang mo ikutan tinggal gabung ajah di lobi jam 6:30. Dan jam 6:30 di sana berasanya jam 4 pagi di Indonesia. Brrrrr dinginnnnn bahkan buat alumni bocah gunung kaya saya ini.

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Good Morning, Marriott Santa Clara

 

Kelar photowalk dan kemudian sarapan dengan menu yang butuh adaptasi perut (FYI, malam sebelumnya masih ada ‘nasi’) Mozilla Summit 2013 pun resmi dibuka. Tristan Nitot memberikan sambutan selaku host di Santa Clara. Intinya sih bagaimana cara menikmati MozSummit kali ini hehehehehe. Sederhana saja kok

[highlight]1. Participate!![/highlight]
of course, what’s the point being in the summit if we’re not participating, not attending any class, not talking to the others?

[highlight]2. Make easier for other to participate[/highlight]
Hmmm, kurang lebih ada 114 bahasa yang digunakan oleh para peserta summit. Ga semuanya bisa atau mahir berbahasa Inggris, jadi speak slowly and try to get each other point and understanding :) Buat 2 adik saya si Eriska dan Deryan yang ikutan ini moment bagus untuk berlatih berbahasa Inggris serta interaksi n bersosialisasi dengan foreigner. We’re foreigner too :)

Hal berikutnya adalah be helpful each other and of course have fun :)

Sesi dari Nitot kemudian dilanjutkan dengan teleconference dengan Mitchell Baker yang saat itu berada di Brussel.

Mitchell mengajak para Mozillians untuk sedikt flashback jaman dia merintis Mozilla Foundation dulu serta mengingatkan kembali mengenai What Makes Mozilla “Mozilla”.

Bingung? Engga sih malah seru bahasan serta filosofi yang terkandung di dalamnya, coba kalian ada di sana yah? :P hehehehehe.

Mengambil bahasan [highlight]The Nature of Mozilla[/highlight], Mitchell Baker menyampaikan misi Mozilla yaitu  “[highlight]to build internet the world needs. Internet that is open, innovative, internet where people come first, have same opportunities and where people have as much as control over their online life[/highlight]”. Dan ini membuat Mozilla menjadi sebuah organisasi yang unik. Mozilla ini bukan institusi komersial yang berusaha mencari keuntungan finansial, dia juga bukan lembaga pemerintah/government juga bukan NGO (Non Government Organization).

[highlight]The heart of Mozilla is a global community with a shared mission. Build the internet the world needs.[/highlight]

Sesi berikutnya dibawakan oleh Brendan Eich (you know, the who INVENTED JavaScript!) yang memaparkan tentang roadmap Mozilla hingga 10 tahun ke depan serta harapan-harapan dari Mozilla terhadap para kontributornya untuk mendukung roadmap ini.

Jika pingin tahu lebih dalam mengenai Mozilla, misi serta kegiatannya bisa baca dari tautan berikut ini sih.
Mission
History
Manifesto

Setelah sambutan-sambutan selesai, acara kemudian dilanjutkan dengan World Fair. Di acara ini, peserta/tim dari masing-masing negara akan mendapatkan meja dan kita diminta menampilkan apa saja sesuai dengan kreativitas kita sendiri di meja ini. Bisa berupa suvenir dari negara masing-masing, demo aplikasi ataupun materi/slide presentasi mengenai even-even terkait Mozilla di negara tersebut. Ada juga meja-meja yang tidak mewakili negara manapun tapi topik-topik khusus seputar Mozilla. Misalnya ada meja dari tim WoMoz (Women of Mozilla), Hackspace, Open News, Open Badges dll.

Meja tim korea dengan aplikasi how to write your name in korean (courtesy of @mozchanny)

 

making your own pin

making your own pin :) (courtesy of Kevin-WY)

 

Meja tim Indonesia yang heboh gelar berbagai macam suvenir (courtesy of @bennychandra)

Selesai makan siang, acara dilanjutkan dengan diskusi intensif yang menghadirkan berbagai macam topik. Jadi buat siapa saja yang pingin ikutan dikusi tersebut tinggal masuk ke kelasnya saja. Kalo ternyata dirasa pingin ganti topik tinggal pindah kelas yang lain sih. Istilahnya mo hop-on hop-off antar kelas juga silakan asal ga berisik dan mengganggu saja. Yang ada juga saya terbawa diskusi dan ga sempat mikir untuk ninggalin kelas demi ikut kelas yang lain.

So far saya ikut kelas What does “Mozillian” mean, Firefox OS in 2014 and beyond serta telat masuk di Localizing with L20n. Alhasil di sore hari badan rasanya capek banget yang membuat saya tertidur di Lounge Space dan kelewatan acara foto bareng di halaman hotel. Ah egp lah ma foto-foto, i took too many already in day one and a lot of ideas filling up my head. Benar-benar banyak manfaat yang bisa didapat di MozSummit ini.

salah satu pojokan Lounge Space – Marriott Santa Clara eat n drink whatever you want, open 24 hours, WiFi included :P (courtesy of ly2314)

Setelah makan malam acaranya sih bebas. Ada yang sepertinya jalan-jalan ke San Jose, ada yang ngobrol-ngobrol di teras, ada juga yang berkaraoke ria :) Hahaha, niatnya mo duet nyanyi ma @rara79 apa daya ga kebagian giliran karena waktu keburu habis. Malah si @belutz yang sempat rock the night menyanyikan I Remember You-nya Skid Row

Skid Row’s I Remember You cover by @belutz :)

Kelar karaoke ya lanjut ngobrol-ngobrol lagi dengan people around the world dan kembali saya masuk kamar sekitar jam 2 pagi.

Metallica!

akhirnya malah ngobrolin Metallica di malam yang dingin buanget itu dengan Mozillian dari Serbia :P Dan saya masih belum sempat nonton film Metallica: Through the Never

Beberapa foto dari kegiatan welcome dinner dan photowalk bisa lihat di flickr saya.
 

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Buggy & Connecting Flight

Pernah mengalami saat-saat menegangkan saat bepergian dengan connecting flight dari maskapai penerbangan yang berbeda? Nah Rara, Eriska dan saya punya satu cerita menarik.

2 Oktober kemarin Rara, Eriska dan saya berangkat ke Santa Clara dengan rute Jakarta – Singapura – Narita, Jepang – San Jose, California. Di Soekarno-Hatta, Rara dan saya ditawari petugas Garuda untuk ikut penerbangan ke Singapura yang jam 6 sore. Tawaran ini akan memudahkan kami di Singapura supaya punya waktu transit yang cukup karena kalo ikut itenerary awal, kami nyaris ga punya waktu transit. Landing di Singapura 23:45, jam 00:45 dah take off lagi ke Jepang.

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Gerakan offline sejenak itu memang benar

Hal itu ga bisa saya lakukan karena saya harus berangkat bareng Eriska no matter what. Sementara Eriska masih di Surabaya dan pesawatnya baru akan mendarat di CGK sekitar jam 5 sore. Belum lagi petugas Garuda di Surabaya rada-rada oon soal bagasi. Mintanya langsung ke San Jose lha kok malah disuruh ambil di Singapura, abis itu disuruh ambil ke Narita. Buset dah. Kalau saja petugas Garuda di Surabaya ga oon, kami bertiga bisa ikut flight jam 6 (Eriska bakal dikit lari-lari sih)

Jadilah kami tetap ke itenerary awal dan saya sudah wanti-wanti kalo di Changi nanti kita bakal jadi atlet marathon dadakan. Pindah dari T3 ke T2 Changi itu jarak yang cukup jauh. Dan saya juga ga tau skytrain-nya masih jalan apa ngga jam segitu. Dan benar saja, sesaat sebelum persiapan landing, kami bertiga diminta oleh pramugari Garuda untuk pindah ke barisan depan. Kenapa? Supaya kita bisa keluar pesawat lebih dulu untuk mengejar penerbangan berikutnya. Kru garuda pun sudah koordinasi dengan kru ANA yang sudah standby di T3 Changi.

Kembali teringat pengalaman beberapa tahun lalu di Eropa. Saat itu penerbangan saya dari Paris ke Frankfurt delay, sehingga nyampe di Frankfurt amat sangat mepet dengan penerbangan saya selanjutnya ke Singapura. Lari-lari deh di bandara. OMG, it’s gonna be SSDD.

Begitu keluar pesawat kami bertiga langsung mulai lari untuk mencari letak skytrain serta arah ke T2. Berasa banget karena berat ransel saya saat itu 8.7kg :( Tapi ternyata penderitaan kami ga sampe 2 menit karena di ujung lorong sudah ada staf ANA yang unyu menunggu kami. Ga cuma itu, kami disediakan angkutan (yang disebut sebagai Buggy Car) yang akan membawa kami ke T2. Dari bayangan harus lari marathon, kami sedikit kebut-kebutan di buggy car disertai tatapan aneh para pengunjung Changi malam itu….

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kok bisa-bisanya mereka cengengesan gini padahal terancam ketinggalan pesawat

Masalah belum berakhir. Di transfer desk, saya lupa kodepos Marriot Santa Clara. Sepertinya efek adrenalin neh :P Kertas-kertas ada di koper atau somewhere deep inside my backpack. Gadget rata-rata masih posisi dimatikan dan WiFi Changi malam itu seakan-akan ngeledekin kami. Beruntung terminal free Internet di dekat transfer desk berfungsi lancar semua. Fiuhhhhh. Dan yang melegakan adalah NH902 malam itu diberitakan delay 10-15 menit. Horeeeeee :P

Alhasil sepanjang 7 jam flight ke Jepang saya pilih tidur saja selepas makan malam.

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[box type=”note”]Untuk kru Garuda GA 836, kru ANA kami ucapkan terima kasih sebesar-besarnya. Tanpa bantuan anda, kami mungkin malah akan tertinggal pesawat.[/box]