Wii fit

Ny eve activities


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Buying a menu?

Pancious offers their menu for sale.....


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legally participating in Jakarta's traffic madness

Although I have a driver available, sometimes it is nice just to do your own thing.

I have been driving around without local license (i know bad bad bad boy) so it was time to get myself an Indonesian version of that thing.  Main reason is that you want to give the cops as less reasons as possible to ask for any other fees (if you know what I mean).

So, I made the call to a friend who knows someone that can speed things up. (Yes, speed up in Indonesia does exist...and sometimes those things come in handy). Appointment set, so early morning I get my driver (uhh during the week the car is his domain) to drive to the main office for .....driving licenses.

Rather than going straight to a counter, we report into a ..... WARTEL, one of those phone shops. Me with my passport and thats it. Give the passport to a guy, guy goes out to the next shop, guy comes back with passport and pile of copies. Ok, now it is time for the real work.

We continue our walk into a massive office building and pass some of the gates and entrances.
Please sit, the guy runs off again and returns a little later with more copies, forms and other things.

From there we go further into the belly of the beast...through some more gates. The main thing I see is people waiting waiting and waiting.

We pass some more gates and office doors and suddenly there is the magic door. Our main guid sticks his head in the room, mumbles something and tells me to go inside. As I do, followed by sitting down and wait. The waiting was for the tools to become available. Tools to take your photo, finger print and another pic.

That took a few mins and voila... done., so lets wait outside. Within a few mins our guy returns with my passport AND tadaaaaa the drivers license!

So now we walk back to the exit, where just before we seperate paths. We get  back to the car and just before leaving the guy walks off. Just realized that no service fee had exchanged hands.

Before we leave.....indeed a stop over at the wartel to finalize the transaction. The fee was only a little more than what the locals would pay for a normal or regular process time. In and out for me was now in just over 20min.

Not bad!

Mussels!!!!

Mussels wit fries and a Chilean wine yummmm


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Koffie met pepernoten

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Tonights reading

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Home made gado gado

Our maid cooked gado gado and tempeh cakes with fresh ingredients only! Yum yum yum


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1st meal cooked by our maid

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Waiting for my lugage at jakarta

Just arrived from malang, waiting for my lugage before hitting the traffic jam of evening rush hour.....


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Lunch

Lunch in malang


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Jakarta domestic terminal 1

Terminal supports the majority of domestic flights, no frills is the standard


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Sriwijaya ticket to malang

My return ticket to malang, east java indonesia


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Rain rain rain jam jam jam

On the way to the jAkarta airport stuck in jam @ 05 15 due to some serious water coming down from the heavens


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My table

My dining tAble has arrived


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Dinner

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Sunburn in December

Sunburned during trips in Bandung areA


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The appartment

Going for dinner @ the Appartment , kunningang Jakarta


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Poffertjes here we come

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Poffertjes!!!

In Bandung ordering Dutch poffertjes for lunch


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Starters

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The peak resort dining bandung

Dinner time


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Hotel view

View from our homestay placebin bandung


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In alphard on the way to party

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Hawker foodstall

Roadside foodstall in Jakarta.


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iPhone car charger

As I spend a fair bit of time in my car, and the battery of iPhones are nit that great, i thought it might be handy to get a carcharger. Indonesia has lots of cheap stuff available.


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First time use of study room aircon after cleaning

Weird smell


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Today's coffee machine

My regular joint has it's machine under repair so gotta go elsewhere


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Slow Internet whilst traveling

A snapshot of today's performance


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Yeah

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