ya pakkk, guewe di jakarta...

yup, im in jakarta. the land of my forefathers... so what, yeah i know my roots are from here. most malays are. and i know which part are there from. its good to know where your roots came from. it gives a sense of humblity when meeting with people.

im here for the go-live project as an onsite support. meaning, all problems are handled ad-hoc. the office is at menara jamsostek. jamsostek, which faizi googled on the net is some sort like our own JPA la.. the cool thing about this menara is that it not only houses the companies in one building, of coz it also has a foodcourt area, but.... the food court area is quite cool. right in the middle of a building, an open air foodcourt area with some restaurants too.. nice......... also, might i add another point here. on the 25th floor. there's a nightclub.. wat??? yup, a nite club in an office building.. reminds me of Bali, Sunway.. but that building is own by a private company. not like the one i'm in which some sort connected to the government.

the place faizi n me stays at is a private service apartment. think of it as a highclass apartment for expatriates. hehe... so when you're stayin there, it gives you some ego boost.. hahaha... but also some taxi fare boost.hehehhehehehhee damn...

talkin about the taxis'. its always takes about 15mins to wait for the bluebird taxi. but if on a rainy day it takes to about 30mins. this is because, the place is not a hotel which taxis lined up for pickups.. this is a private area, hence the waitin period. hehe. which that is the reason we use to come late to the office. coz, its the truth. but...... everyday we find difficulties when goin back to apartment. no cabbies know where it is.. so tend to get lost everyday, until yesterday nite. this pakcik really know where the place is. really suprised the both of us. and he's the best cabbie we ever had. he gave back the exact change dude. haha... which is a rare situation involving cabbies here.

now for the apartment. hehehe as faizi came first, so he took the big master bedroom which has, tv, queensize bed, shower, bathtub and closets.... im stayin in smaller room but my bathroom is next to my room. not like the masterbedroom lor... theres a hall and kitchen, ironing area n washing area.. got a washing machine too.

heheh now to the best part. 2 nights ago, faizi want to do washing. he asked me if i want to put my clothes in too. i decline as i still got alot of fresh clothes. baru sampai maa... so both of us explored the washing machine. its an old frontloading one with the dials. damn.. last time i saw this type in my home was like 10-15 years ago.. mana mau ingat.. im using fuzzy logic technology now.. no more dials... and both of us was kinda struggling to get it running which we managed to. then when it started spinning, suddenly the front part which usually to place the water tube, burst open!! and water was coming out and the floor was wet.... both of us surprised and luckily we are not the panic type. (hehe real man dont panic dude!) so i go get a towel to make sure the water wont come in to the kitchen and faizi called the frontdesk to get people checkin the machine. almost half an hour later, 2 guys came in to check out the machine, the problem was that the front part was not locked correctly, which is not our mistake, we didnt know the front water tube part is not locked. so they locked it and helped us to mopped it. so we went back to lepaking and watchin the indon's own david letterman "4 mata".
which is quite funny la... faizi is my translator for some weird indon words...
then for the next drama, mauahhahahaha


while i was watchin the show, faizi went to look if the washing ady finished ornot.. suddenly, "DUDE!!come here!"
hahaha both of us laughed. the door opener was broken off by faizi's doing. another bad luck happened to him... so we tried prying it open with fingers, kitchen utensils and later on use my penknife. hahaha another bad luck happened, my penknife bengkok while tryin to pry the door opened. also at the hands of faizi..hahaa.. so, letih by the adventure, faizi called twice for more asisstance and he even went downstairs to ask where's the technicians... i fell asleep while waiting for them. in the end, they changed to a newer washing machine.. hahahha da fuzzy logic type...hehehe and im goin to rasmi it tonight.. hehehehhehehhehehehehehhehe

oh yeah one to add one thing. theres a coffeeshop on the 9th floor of jamsostek building which serves the best cappucino i ever hard... damn nice!! goin to have it everyday...hahahhaa

oh yeah, carrefour and a shopping mall, the ambassador is right across the street from our apartment. hopefully one of these days, when got time. go there to look around... hehe hope so.