June 2nd
Finally comes the day I can enjoy the long weekend (yupidu, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday). Thursday morning I flied to Jakarta to meet my friends. Herry a.k.a Bear picked me up at the airport, it had been 5-6 years since we met the last time and it felt so.... fast!
After dropping my stuff at Bear's, we bounced to meet the others at Senayan City. There we met with Nova, Febri, Iin, Mas Oke and their spouses. So happy to catch up.
June 3rd
My birthday! Problem came as Bear had to work, so I had no one to hang out with ON the DAY. I asked Nova if she was free that day, she offered me to join her going to Bogor where she would meet a co-worker for a discussion. The co-worker's son was sick, so he had to be stand by at the hospital and there we went!
The plan was to meet Nova at this street Bear explained to me about, I was sure I knew the street as we walked pass it the previous day so I said I could do this. Well FYI, I was in Jakarta, the beast of confusing roads.
Bear and I took the same angkot, as he jumped off the angkot he told me to stop at Karet. Noted! However I said stop and got off the angkot WAAAYYY too soon lol. I realized then the road was still long as I walked, while I was supposed to get to the END of the road. So then I got on another angkot and this time I made it! Now I just had to find Nova at the busway shelter which made me walk around to find out just how to go across the street. With a little doubt of actually finding her, I heard someone called my name (I sometimes don't see my surroundings lol) and there she was! Thank god!
We then asked around how to get to the train station, after some confusion we got on the metromini and asked the kondektur (one who collects the money and screams around telling us the destination) how to get to Pasar Baru station, and he fooled us.... we had to go across the street AND asked some other people until we got on another metromini.
Eventually arrived at the train station and we paid ONLY Rp 2500 each (around 25 cents) to go to Bogor. But later I learned the price of the ticket was equal with the space and privacy we got in the train (read: TINY!)
Amazingly you can move without you realizing it when you're in a train full of people lol, and you have to ignore anything or anyone that touches you! Nova was asking me, "What's touching me from behind?" Hahaha I said it was a guy's something, FYI they were facing the same direction :P I made her a funny song there on the spot, which now I have no recollection of whatsoever. She laughed out loud and everyone must have thought we were crazy.
Then finally BOGOR! This city is so nice, green and the air is so fresh unlike Jakarta :D
We went straight to PMI Hospital where then Nova spent an hour or so discussing with her co-worker while I played games on iPod lol.
We girls just couldn't leave Bogor without going to a famous spot, of course, MALL!
So off we go to Botani mall, looked around for Blackberry charger since .... oh I forgot to tell you I forgot to bring charger, my Blackberry died and that made me going around Jakarta on the beginning of the day without cellphone! No sign of addiction intends to be showed off, just the absence of "phone a friend" option while getting lost in the jungle of sky scrappers is just .... lethal.
There we found these stands of ethnic products, fabric, jeweleries and... henna tattoo stand! Of course I got that rush of excitement to get myself tattooed. Then I got these :)
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| My birthday (temporary) tattoos |
Then we went home happily to the embrace of cruel Jakarta, meeting Bear and Ulfa for dinner
Thats my report for now, attraversiamo!
