Zura and Zetty asked me to join them for a shopping trip to Jakarta-Bandung. Since got free accomodation at Aji's, why not? Then due to the election, Aji had to come back to M'sia. So, we had to get our own accomodation.
Lucky luck was shining at us when Mr. Wong offered the company's apartment in Jakarta. Best of all, we can use his driver througout the trip, even to Bandung. Yoo hoo!
The flight was at 7am. Which means we have to at the airport by 6am, which also means that we have to leave for the airport at around 5am, which also means have to wake up at 4am! What a torture! I almost overslept. Dunno why my alarm clock did not ring and I suddenly heard Bryan said "Ling, it's 4.30am already!". Wah, I that's the fastest I've ever woke up!
We met up at Zura's and Syed sent us to the airport. We got there at about 6.30am. Luckily they still let us check in.
The flight was 2 hrs and they are 1 hr behind us. So we arrived the at 9am. "Pak Angang" came to pick us up. We were screaming for food cos we have not eaten anything yet. We keep reminding him that the first destination has to be for food!. So he brought us to some local nasi padang.
They'll serve all the dishes and you eat watever you want. They charge you only the dishes you "touched". The meal for 4 was 50,000+ RP.
The we head straight to Bandung. Traffic was very heavy as it was a public holiday that day. It's the Nyepi Day @ Silence Day for the Hindus. The normal journey takes 2 hours and it took us 3 hours that day.
We know we are close...
Street peddlers. You see them almost every where especially during heavy traffic...
Gloomy Bandung...Had some difficulty as Pak Angang is not familiar with Bandung. Took us some time to find our way.
Pak Angang asking for directions...Finally...
The highly recommended place to shop...
Rumah Mode. Check out the crowd. There's only one shop there...At last we were so hungry and had no strength to look for food and we settled for...
Zetty, Zura and Pak Angang...
Bebek aka duck... Another meal that cost us 50,000+ RP...After 3 hours of drive(more like sleeping :p), here we are at the City Loft Apartment.
Cost about 800mil RP
The view from the apartment...
Demonstration is quite common in Jakarta. And we passed by this...
Public transport...
Jakarta - China Town
Along Jalan Mangga Dua. In one of these complexes that we lost most our money and soul...
Other than shopping, we have not done anything at all in Jakarta. So, it's time to at least visit the most happening area @ Kemang...
The KFC also nicer one...
Very blur pics because the road was so bumpy...We did not stop by Kemang. Just wanted to have a look. After Kemang, was more shopping. Until we were desperately looking for foot reflexology. Pak Angang must have thought that he can get away early for the day as there's nothing much to do at night in Jakarta. Sekali, we found a 24-hour foot reflexology while searching for dinner. Without saying anything to each other, we dashed into the parlour and Pak Angang only got to have his dinner at almost 12am. Haha! By the time we got back to the apartment, it was almost 1am and not very much earlier than the day before. AHAHAHHAHAHAHHA!
As our flight home was at 3pm, we had to leave for the airport by 1pm. Which means we can't go out for more shoppping. So we decided to drop by the hair salon in the connecting mall. A hair-cut cost less than 30,000RP. I wanted to have mani and pedi too (which is less than 30,000RP each) but the "expert" was not in. So I opt for colour. Colouring was only abt 130,000RP.
Had our lunch in the airport. I spent all my RP and had to for donation of 1,000RP for my lunch... Hehe...
