Indonesia Part II

I forgot to bring my cable to work again... but i'll go ahead with this post and edit the pictures later ya?

I arrived Jakarta Airport 4th Dec. Daniel(my colleague n QC master) suggested i try to travel on my own to Bandung from Jakarta... and so i did. It was rather easy... there's a counter infront of mcdonalds which sells tickets for a direct coach ride into Bandung... stopping at Bandung Supermal a.k.a BSM. If you peeps wanna correct my spelling on Supermal... don't it is spelled with 1 L in Bandung... not 2 Ls... haha! And so i boarded the coach and the ride was 3 fucking long hrs. My butt hurts from the damn ride... i slept through most of the journey, spent only maybe 30mins reading 1 chapter of the book i'm reading now... "The Knights of Black and White" - will introduce the book another time.

And so i met up with Daniel at BSM. Went to buy some neccesities and off we go back to "Hotel" Leading - thats what Daniel calls the Dormitory for factory Leading Garment. I went to my room & settled down abit... then head straight for the inspection room and my work starts... it's about 1630 local time... which is 1730 sg time. They are 1hr behind us.

Then my 2nd day starts... It's Wednesday by the way... and we head straight to another factory in the morning planning to come back in the evening to continue with Leading's inspection. Nothing much happened that day... just that i had 2 mcChicken for lunch... haha! And then came news about Leading wasn't able to finish their production in time for our inspection... that they will only be able to finish it the next day... So we had a clash on Thursday as we planned to head for Jakarta on Thursday. So Daniel suggested i stay in Leading while he goes to Jakarta for inspection and... TADA~~~ my 1st own inspection!

Before i head towards my 1st inspection... lemme go to my dinner on Wednesday night... well, my 2nd dinner to be exact. My Aunt (if i have not mentioned... my aunt is my boss) came down to Indon for factory visits, and Leading was her last stop that night and asked me if i wanna go dine with her. Daniel was still doing the inspection on the last style and he had to leave very early next morning... so he didn't want to go... so asked me go on ahead. So i went along... with my aunt, Liz(a boss from another factory) and Novike(our ex-Indon rep QC). We went to Sushi-Tei - i've never been to Sushi-Tei before... not even in sg - and Liz was ordering SO MUCH FOOD! I told them i won't be eating much as this is my 2nd dinner (my 1st was at the Dorm) but still... Anyways i feel like a rubbish bin that night. Liz keep stuffing my plate with food they can't finish -_-" Well anyways... sushi! you know... nothing much to say about it. So after dinner, Liz was sending my aunt back to her hotel... which is in the opposite direction from Leading. So i suggested i'll take a cab... but in Indon, cab is not as safe as sg is... even if it's not dangerous... the cab driver will cheat non-local's $$ by taking stupid long paths. So anyways... from what i know... there're 2 reputable taxi companies in Indon... Blue Bird & Silver Bird. Then Liz offered to gimme a ride from the restaurant to the hotel my aunt stays and "shop" for cabs on the way. That's so funny... you know... "shopping" for cabs... haha. Then we saw a Blue Bird cab by the road... and so Novike offered to "negotiate" with the driver before i hop on. She's like a da jie lar... she came back and told me to just pay the driver rp35,000, he won't run on meter. So i said ok~ I reached "Hotel" Leading shortly after and i paid the driver rp40,000. rp5000 isn't really much so it's ok. And my day ends there.

The langguage really is a barrier for me... I'm learning abit by abit... and i can count 1 to 10 in Indonesian... well it's the same as Malay... whahaha! But i found out the previous night when Novike told me Indonesian & Malay actually differs quite abit. And so i went ahead with my inspection. I have 3 styles to look at before i rush for the last train outta Bandung... bound for Jakarta at 1830. I practically rushed through the inspection (because it was rather well done) and then the damn Merchandisers told me there's 1 more style last minute! grr... but even so i managed to finish it and rushed to the train station to catch my 3hr train ride to Jakarta. This time i did not sleep through the ride... I spent half the time reading my book... hur hur.

Once again... Daniel met up with me at Gambir station in Jakarta... he suggested to grab a bite before returning to the hotel and of course i'm more then willing to grab that bite! We settled down at a chinese restaurant "Imperial Chef" and ordered a few small dishes. I had Beef noodles and Daniel had Fishball Porridge haha... we also ordered some side dishes... and it's so amazing... i found strawberries on top of "Ko Lo Yoke". And the ko lo yoke actually has some taste of strawberry with it... its nice! We then went back to the hotel... nice big room with 2 beds. I just showered and hit the sack straight away.

Friday is relaxing... we checked out after breakfast and went down to the last factory straightaway. Nothing much there and Daniel brought forward our flight back to sg. We were supposed to take the 2200 flight... but brought it forward to 1630 ( i was so damn happy =X ).
Before we left for airport, we stopped by a small shopping centre for some light lunch. Guess what i saw there... TAMIYA TRACK! For those who don't know whats a Tamiya... NI MEI YOU TONG NIAN!!!!! Tamiya are battery operated "racing" cars... you have to put them together yourself and there're actually different grades of motor... I remembered i had about 3-4 of them when i was young. And i believe we don't have that kind of track in sg anymore... i took a picture of it... will post it sometime later ya?

Once again... i slept through the 2hrs journey from the shopping centre to the airport. I woke up once to took a picture of the transmission cables running throughout the whole country... THAT is 1 thing you'll never see in sg... not even when i was young. So i'll post the picture sometime later again ;D Rest of the story is just we flew back to sg... got xianjie a Black Label and headed home for WOW!!!!! ;D

Thats all about the work and days i had there... you think i'm done here? Well... think again! Haha~ i wanna describe some stuffs i observed again in Indon. I saw a dead animal on my way to Bandung from Jakarta the 1st day... Might be a dog or a young sheep... i don't know... too fast to take a good look... such a poor thing =( I wonder what will happen to the freelance traffic controllers i mentioned before... if someone was to set up something like LTA there... installing traffic lights & such... WHAHAHAHA!

I once said i would not dare to drive in Indon... well i take that back... infact if i'm given a chance to... i will! It's a good place to practice my clutching... cause of the traffic there... you have to go at slow speed and oftenly got to stop here and there. 1 thing i observed from their traffic is... the right of way is given to the vehicles turning out instead of the vehicles which are already on the road... meaning da lu rang xiao lu. And then you see a family of 4... or sometimes 5 riding a small motorcycle... goodness 1 child infront of the dad, 2 behind him and the mum at the back! Another thing i observed was the bikers there... the younger 1s that is... wore racing helm with mirror coated visor then riding a SUPRA!!!!! haha... so buey ta lar!

I hope no1 allowed me to drive in Indon... i'm already reckless enough to learn to be more reckless! Ok lar.. i'm not that reckless... you can ask the people who have been my passengers before... just don't ask Evelyn... somehow i think she'll say i'm reckless!

Alright alright... i'm gonna stop here... i'll make another post if i discovered i missed out anything. Long eh? any1 doze off while reading? Let me know on the tagbox WHAHAHA!

*signs off*