Jakarta, Indonesia

Hmm..what can I say about Jakarta? I have never been to Jakarta but I sort of expect the city to be something like KL. Guess what? I personally think Kuala Lumpur is way much better, obviously.

Come to Jakarta if you love traffic jams..



Come to Jakarta and take their Lan Jiao Blue Bird Taxi, the most reliable transportation in the city because they have established a very reputation in terms of quality of service and the usage of fare meter, if you get what I mean.

But most of the time, you will experience yourself waving your hand around your face just to shoo the mosquito away or if you are lucky like me......this is what you get

In Jakarta, its very normal to see people selling stuff along the road or even congested highways which have 3 lanes and close to residential area.

During one of the working days, I was offered a packet of lunch by one of my client's staff. Reason? It was his birthday so he bought everyone a packet of Nasi Ayam Penyet for lunch. Cute eh? Maybe next time for my birthday, I will buy Chicken Rice for my close friends.

During the weekend, we went to Ancol where the public can visit the 2 famous beaches (Carnival and Festival Beach) where there's cable car along the beach, a theme park called Dunia Fantasi, water parks like the Atlantis Water Adventure and SeaWorld.

Indonesia's foreign BeachBoys


In the cable car

One of the beaches

Sampan or boats for those who wanna "sail" out to the sea

The Atlantis Water Adventure Park


So~So~So Scandalous. Scroll up to see who..

Jakarta is also a place where you can find donuts...I mean famous donuts everywhere you go.

In Mal Kelapa Gading

Donuts

Shared and ate 6 donuts before exploring Mal Kelapa Gading

In the evening, we went to Ciputra which is a hotel cum shopping mall.

i-Crave donuts

Till now I still don't understand what does Baso Malang means..

By the way and before I forget, my 2 weeks stay at FM7 Hotel has been wonderful because its only a 3 stars hotel but the quality of the food and services are almost as good as 5 stars. Visit their website for more info because I forgot to take pictures of the hotel.

No..this is not FM7 Hotel..this is the famous Cathedral Church in Jakarta

The official name is Gereja Santa Maria Pelindung Diangkat Ke Surga, consecrated in 1901

Inside the Cathedral Church

Statue of Mother Mary carrying her son, Jesus

Looks like those european churches

The altar in the Cathedral Church

Another part of the church where this area is to pray to Mother Mary

Am I in Europe or Jakarta?

Food stall along the streets

In Thailand, we can find Tuk-tuks but in Indonesia...

They call it Bajaj

One of my mission in Indonesia is to get to Holland Bakery and buy the famous Kek Lapis and Kek Surabaya as humbly requested by Lin's mom. Came to this outlet to make some reservations to be collected on Sunday when I depart for Malaysia since they have an outlet in the airport.

Inside view of the Holland Bakery outlet

One thing quite special about Holland Bakery is that, they do bake Disney themed cakes

Kek Lapis Chocolate (104,000 Rupiah) and Kek Lapis Pandan

Kek Lapis Tikar and Kek Surabaya

Because I love my friends so much, I endured great challenges bringing Krispy Kreme and Holland Bakery Cakes back to Malaysia. On Sunday, due to some problems which my colleague encountered with the hotel, we were delayed for more than 45 minutes and I was so worried that I couldn't buy the the donuts and collect the cakes from Holland Bakery.

The Krispy Kreme shop is located at terminal 1 where my departure hall is at terminal 2. Luckily the hotel driver was patient and kind enough to let me do my last shopping. I was running with a heavy laptop bag on my back and struggling to get through the crowded airport and busy looking for the paper which consists of special flavours requested by my beloved friends.

After paying for the donuts, I was really wondering if I bought too much. I did not count the number of donuts and I just kept pointing and pointing and pointing at different donuts until the guy said,"Beli 6 lagi, baru ada diskaun" then only I stopped.

My colleague was quite shocked to see the number of donuts I bought and both of us rushed to the check-in counter before we can collect the cakes from Holland Bakery from the domestic departure hall. I had to run to another end of the airport again just to get the cakes and by the time I board the plane, everyone was staring at me as if I am selling donuts and cakes in Malaysia.

I definitely violated the rules and regulation. Each passenger is only allowed to carry a hand luggage not more than 7 kg. I thinkmy krispy kreme, cakes and laptop bag weighs more than 15 kg.

I can't imagine if they refuse to let me board the plane and force me to eat everything before I can board the plane.

I think I will die.