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On the second day, we went to 3 places: KAA Museum, Distro, Museum of Geology, and C 59.

We had breakfast in the hotel and had short briefing in the bus.

KAA stands for Konferensi Asia-Africa.

It is a conference that happen in the past, aim for spread the world about the independence. It happened 10 years after our independence on 1945 exactly on 18-24 of April. But Indonesia had already told the idea since 1933. It was happened because of colonialism and imperialism that gone to colonization and cold wars and turbulance of weapon and racism between west block and east block. It was included as an international level and was build on April 24 1980. Soeharto was the one who dedicated it to immortalized them the meaning and story of KAA. This building then used for education center, observation, and vacation spot. Their tables and chairs are still fresh from 1955. It was pure of Jati Tree, it was very strong and still looks new. Why our president wanted to locate this building in Bandung? He said because Bandung have a nice weather and it have good security to protect the building. It was followed by 106 countries around the world.

The place is still good and there are a lot of history things there. It was so fun.

In Bandung, there are a street that have a lot of distros. We even can’t go there for a day. So that each group of grade 10 Cita Hati student are divided into different distros. My friends and I got this distro named God Inc. It was spooky, black-dominant colors, metals, and most of all it was for boys. The people inside was also wear spooky-thingy. It was quite funny how they build such store beside a kitty-kitty-looked store that colored calm and pink. It was exactly like heaven and hell.

This distro’s actual name was not “God” but they write it as a short-name for Godzilla. It is because the owner love godzilla. He also love black and band stuffs, that is why this store is more for boys. This store have a unique and interesting color for stuffs. More we looked around, we can see that it was actually not boy’s stuffs. We saw stuffs for babies, even couples of cute-colored mini dress and blouse! They sell complete stuffs from top to below. From clothes, shorts, jeans, jackets, buckles, sandals, shoes, bags, accessories, socks, even I saw some CD’s there too! Their motto is just smile and they did not make any huge advertisement. It just known from mouth-to-mouth. Their special appearance are black, cute, old-classic, and unique. But their weakness is their product for girls is limited. They don’t have branch in anywhere else, but they have ‘branch’ in Jakarta. But not their own store, they just put their clothes in other store and so that the profit will be halve. Quite unique isnt, it?

Near the street of Distro, there the Pagoda Resto where we had our lunch. They served Chinese food and it was very delightful!

It is a museum that have a lot of geology things. There are stones, bones, world maps, and other geology things. We looked around here and taking photos. I interviewed 2 people here. First was an elementary student from PPK Penabur School, Bandung. His name is Andrew and he was still in the second grade. He don’t have any expectations from the museum, he just wanted to look around. His favourite place is the second floor because it was more interesting and fun. But he have a suggestion for the museum, he said, “maybe it will nicer if they clean it everyday and keep the cleaness well.” The second lucky person was the worker there. His name is Lutfi. He was from Bandung and had worked there for 2 years. He said that this Museum was built from 1928 and finished on 16 of May 1929. It het renovated on 1998 and got last-finishing-touched by Ibu Mega on August 22nd 2000. This place was used for vacation spot, education center, and also observation center.

Familiar with this name? It was a popular silk-screening in Bandung. They chooses this name because C stands for the first alphabet of the owner’s street house and 59 is the owner’s house number. He said that we have to make a unique and an easy-remembered name for a brand. Sometimes it may mean for an individual problem like Amanda Bakery. It is a famous brownies bakery that had branches in many other places. And so, Amanda itself stands for Anak MANtu DAmai. They choosed it because when they want to start the business, their family was in chaos. What is good in C 59? They have the same price for center store or branches stores. They were creative, inovatif, and well communicated.

Here, we saw the process to silk-screening and cloth making. They taught us how to do it and allowed us to try it as well. The place for silk-screening was not an exclusive air-conditioner room. They use traditional way. They have fan everywhere and half-opened room to allow the sun light goes in. The silk-screening procedure have to be done color per color. When they done one color, they’ll fan it with hairdryer and waited for 5-10 minutes, then continue with the next color. They can make the pattern and colour by themself. The owner of C 59 is graduated from Franch. He flew back to Indonesia and one day when he wanted to buy clothes, he thought that he did not want this stripes, he want another colour of patterns, and so on. From that day, he got an idea, “why don’t I made clothes that people can ask for the colour, patterns, and pictures?” So then, C 59 was stand proudly and still works until now. For an information, the owner of C 59 and the owner of a distro named Evil is siblings.

We actually have to go to Sambara Kebon Kawung for dinner. But, they surprised us by taking us all to Rumah Mode and Paris Van Java. We had a lot of fun there, and many of us shopped, too! Bandung is definitely such a heaven.

Then, we back to hotel. We got a lot of food. We got nasi campur, es campur, and also bread from ACS. We feel so tired and sleep right away.

And this is the end of the second day journey.