Jakarta 6th - 8th February 2009

It was a sudden decision to go to Jakarta, Indonesia. There was a Coffee & Tea exhibition there and decided to pay a visit. It was only a 3 days 2 nights stay. Manage to book 2 flight tickets with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and it only costs us RM700++ for return flight for 2. Now they even offered to fly to Bandung. Anyway, it was Tracy's 1st time being served by a western stewardess and she mention they aren't that pretty nor young... hahaha... The food they serve on board is actually quite good so is their red wine... hee hee... The flight took about 2 hours and we touch down in Jakarta at about 7pm. The hotel I booked had sent a personnel to transfer us to their hotel.

This is my 2nd thime to this city and the traffic is still the same. Very very congested. It took us more than an hour to reach our hotel where it normally takes only 30 minutes. The hotel I booked is called Hotel Borobudur, a 5 star hotel. The hotel is huge but it is already kinda old. There is a garden and lake too which makes it a resort. The room was okie to us. Had dinner in the hotel and later straight we went to bed. The next day, we went for breakfast which was provided. Tracy was shocked to see so many kinds of food was served. We had a stomach full breakfast. I then call my agent in Jakarta and we set to meet at the exhibition center. Took a taxi there which was not far from the hotel. Once we enter the halls, we were actually very dissapointed. There were'nt as much exhibitors as we thought there were. Only manage to find a few which were in line with what my business is. A lot of stalls are still not occupied yet. It only took us less then an hour and off we went out to wait for my agent. Had some business talk with him and later on he offered to send us to a renowned shopping complex called Senayan City.

Since there is nothing much to be done already, Tracy and I went window shopping and later on even catch a movie.. hahaha.. we watch Benjamin Button. It was a very nice movie actually but kinda long one too. We then took shabu shabu for lunch and dranks some beers. Then more shopping and then dinner.. hahaha.. really nothing much we could do in Jakarta. Bought more beers and chips to be brought back to our hotel. We continued there. There goes the 2nd night. Gonna fly back to KL the next day.

The next morning, took our breakfast as usual. Since our flight is late in the evening, we took our time walking around the hotel vacinity and took some pictures. We actually wanted to go for massage but sadly it was fully booked until 4pm which was then too late. We then went shopping again to kill some time. At about 3pm, we went to the airport. We found a massage center there and we had a foot massage for an hour. hahaha. The massage was good but kind of on the pricey side but what the heck!.. Shopped and drank more beers in the airport while waiting for our flight. We reach KL in the night. Overall, a bad exhibition but then a great time with my wife Tracy!