Java R&W team Away Day @ Bandung (Dec 2008)

Three years has finally come for me to join the last team away day with my department which is Java Reservoir and Wells. This time, I am one of the event committee whose job description is to manage almost the whole thing from accommodation, activity, safety concern and also leisure time. After hard discussion with the rest of the committee member, finally we have come to an agreement to spend our team away day at Bandung for 2 days-1 night activity. As for accommodation, we choose the Beverly Hills town House which is located at Cisitu area. The place is wonderful where there are around 10 – 20 townhouses which could occupy 4 – 6 person each. We arrived there at 10 a.m. and went straight to a short team meeting for one and a half hour to discuss our achievement in 2008 and our plan for 2009.
Afterwards, we went to the Bumi Sangkuriang area for lunch and then followed by games and outbound activity such as Flying Fox, Balance Stick, Japanese Samurai and also Crazy Doughnut.



Personally I had a huge fun and “excitement” on the latter game, where our team became literally crazy due to our in-capability of moving that doughnut to other place using a long stick after several attempts.





And after us finally able to move it, we were just so desperate enough to know that there was not only one doughnut but four of them. But hey, it is supposed to be a Team activity right? Hence with our new spirit and strategy we were able to move all of them and managed to be the number two spot during the day.
At 5 p.m. we went back to our townhouse to clean our self and get ready for a nice dinner at Sierra restaurant. The menu is okay but the ambience and the view were superb. It was a clear night sky at that time thus we were able to see the city lights from Bandung city, accompanied by a wonderful slow music.



In the morning, we were divided into two groups, Shopping group and Adventure group. The idea is to spend the rest of the morning and be back at the townhouse at 11 a.m.



So here we are the Adventure group getting ready for the Offroad activity and then followed by Paint Ball activity at Cikole area near Lembang. The former was the first one for me; it was fun and exciting actually, where we go on a modified-Land Rover to a very muddy and tranquil street in middle of the the forest on our way to the Paint Ball arena in Cikole. For sure, paint ball game is one way of having fun, especially in the middle of the forest. It felt like you actually went to a war with the entire wardrobe minus the real bullet.



Unfortunately, our team lost to the other team, perhaps due to the excitement of making many strategies but some of them did not happen at the actual execution.
On our way back to the townhouse we choose to go at the main road not the Offroad anymore because it was already 11.30 a.m. and yes we were already late. So at 1 p.m. we left the townhouse for lunch at the Arisan café which is nice actually, the food is great (supported by our huge hunger at that time) and the restaurant is simple yet classy.
Having our stomach filled with nice foods, our group went back to Jakarta, exhausted and excited. Well, once again Bandung has never disappointed me.

How to get there:
Bandung: from Jakarta, take the Jakarta Cipularang (Purbaleunyi) toll road, exit at Pasteur for an easier access to the main city, but could be very heavy traffic especially at weekend, and long holiday. You could take an alternative route, exit at Buah Batu toll gate. Toll fee for Jakarta – Bandung is around 50,000 rupiah and normally the duration of going there is 2 – 2.5 hours, it depends on the traffic at the toll road. Sometimes it could get you up to 3 – 4 hours during heavy traffic.
The price for each of the Beverly Hills townhouse is ranging from 700,000 to 1,500,000/night and the outdoor activity (Offroad and Paintball comes as one package) is around 150,000 to 300,000 rupiah/person