ahhh... a post from jakarta itself... if i were to use a word to describe the place, i'd use the term 'patchwork'. the entire city feels like a quilt, with different patches tacked on to it haphazardly... to get to the housing estate i'm staying at, you first have to pass a very dilapidated area with crumbling shops and dirt everywhere... right past that, you get awesome italian-styled homes, definitely for the extremely wealthy. i must say they have so much more taste compared to *ahem* some malaysians. beautiful porticos and graceful columns, sweeping steps... see that back home? hardly... lol...
as it usually is with air asia, the flight was delayed by an hour. bad air asia.. the winds were so strong right before landing the plane was shaking violently... turbulent affairs... i remember closing my eyes and feeling the weightless sensation of being tossed around... scary and exhilarating at the same time. lol.
spent the first day strolling one of the most exclusive shopping centres around town: grand indonesia shopping town; inside those walls, no one is poor. everyone has money to spend and they're happily spending it, as it seems. outside's a different story, however. children beg for money in between the cars on the streets, standing next to your car and playing a violin hoping for just a little bit of that money. big difference, no? though one interesting character was a 'lady' sitting next to the road, very heavily made up, with flying eyebrows... lol... i guess you know what that means? pondan laa... haha... too bad i didnt manage to snap a photo of her; she was waving at us... lol...
i spent christmas in lembang. before that, we were in bandung. where we had dinner, Valley, the view was quite spectacular, in addition to a warm ambience. the food's another matter, though... it gave two of our party tummy aches. as for my tenderloin, it was badly cooked. cost quite a good bit. the next stop at lembang was awesome though. sangria resort has a breathtaking view of the mountains and valley, plus the way the place's decorated simply enhances the feeling of being in nature. well placed dim lights, a bamboo huts on stilts... i'll probably toss the photos up on my poetry in motion blog. the climate there resembles spring or autumn in some far-away country... celebrating christmas mass in that weather was beautiful; the slight chill makes a difference, somehow.
two more days till i go home. i miss my dog awfully and i wonder how he is. probably miserably lying in a corner of the cage waiting for days to pass and for us to come collect him. come january 3rd, i'll be back in kl, and seeing everybody.
as it usually is with air asia, the flight was delayed by an hour. bad air asia.. the winds were so strong right before landing the plane was shaking violently... turbulent affairs... i remember closing my eyes and feeling the weightless sensation of being tossed around... scary and exhilarating at the same time. lol.
spent the first day strolling one of the most exclusive shopping centres around town: grand indonesia shopping town; inside those walls, no one is poor. everyone has money to spend and they're happily spending it, as it seems. outside's a different story, however. children beg for money in between the cars on the streets, standing next to your car and playing a violin hoping for just a little bit of that money. big difference, no? though one interesting character was a 'lady' sitting next to the road, very heavily made up, with flying eyebrows... lol... i guess you know what that means? pondan laa... haha... too bad i didnt manage to snap a photo of her; she was waving at us... lol...
i spent christmas in lembang. before that, we were in bandung. where we had dinner, Valley, the view was quite spectacular, in addition to a warm ambience. the food's another matter, though... it gave two of our party tummy aches. as for my tenderloin, it was badly cooked. cost quite a good bit. the next stop at lembang was awesome though. sangria resort has a breathtaking view of the mountains and valley, plus the way the place's decorated simply enhances the feeling of being in nature. well placed dim lights, a bamboo huts on stilts... i'll probably toss the photos up on my poetry in motion blog. the climate there resembles spring or autumn in some far-away country... celebrating christmas mass in that weather was beautiful; the slight chill makes a difference, somehow.
two more days till i go home. i miss my dog awfully and i wonder how he is. probably miserably lying in a corner of the cage waiting for days to pass and for us to come collect him. come january 3rd, i'll be back in kl, and seeing everybody.
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