Yay! In Jakarta again for a two week holiday. Being here is like an adventure. I love Jakarta but hate it too. Left home at 6 am on Saturday and was in Jakarta at 10 am this time. Was quite a quick trip as we got an earlier flight than the one we were booked on originally. Am staying in the same apartment as last time. It’s very central and was quite a bit cheaper this time too. Found a duty free shop that has thousands of wines and cask wine - so stocked up on some good bottles and a few casks. On Monday I did Oliver's visa application for our trip to Tasmania at Christmas time. It should be quite straightforward this time as he has been granted a visa once before. Am doing lots of big city stuff. Cruising bookshops, looking for CD's, drinking coffee in malls and people watching. I plan to do lots of walking to take pictures in parts of the city I haven’t been to, take lots of faces for my Faces Of Indonesian blog, (http://facesofindonesia.blogspot.com/) read lots, meet some of the guys I have contacted for casual sex, swim and use the gym in the apartment complex and eat sushi! Jakarta seems quite stinky and polluted this time. When we arrived there was a distinct sulphurous haze of smog. The traffic is always bad and I am always flummoxed by how the very rich can live the way they do right next to the slums that pepper every corner of this, the fourth largest city in the world.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Jakarta Again
Yay! In Jakarta again for a two week holiday. Being here is like an adventure. I love Jakarta but hate it too. Left home at 6 am on Saturday and was in Jakarta at 10 am this time. Was quite a quick trip as we got an earlier flight than the one we were booked on originally. Am staying in the same apartment as last time. It’s very central and was quite a bit cheaper this time too. Found a duty free shop that has thousands of wines and cask wine - so stocked up on some good bottles and a few casks. On Monday I did Oliver's visa application for our trip to Tasmania at Christmas time. It should be quite straightforward this time as he has been granted a visa once before. Am doing lots of big city stuff. Cruising bookshops, looking for CD's, drinking coffee in malls and people watching. I plan to do lots of walking to take pictures in parts of the city I haven’t been to, take lots of faces for my Faces Of Indonesian blog, (http://facesofindonesia.blogspot.com/) read lots, meet some of the guys I have contacted for casual sex, swim and use the gym in the apartment complex and eat sushi! Jakarta seems quite stinky and polluted this time. When we arrived there was a distinct sulphurous haze of smog. The traffic is always bad and I am always flummoxed by how the very rich can live the way they do right next to the slums that pepper every corner of this, the fourth largest city in the world.
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Hey Stephen,
Have a good vacation. Live does exist outside of Batu Hijau.
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