Grand Hyatt Jakarta

... mudahan<br>Tuhan-mu mengangkat kamu ke tempat yang terpuji. Dan katakanlah:&#8221; Ya<br>Tuhan-ku, masukkanlah aku secara masuk yang benar dan keluarkanlah<br>(pula) aku secara keluar yang benar dan berikanlah kepadaku dari sisi<br>Engkau kekuasaan yang menolong. (QS. 17:78-80) Beristighfar, ia<br>selalu beristigfar, mohon ampun kepada Allah SWT, karena merasa bahwa<br>dirinya tidak pernah luput dari dosa-dosa, karena hidup ini penuh<br>godaan dan rayuan yang selalu ...

The flight into Jakarta was a grueling one at 14hrs from start to finish. I nodded off to the Goldberg's shortly after take-off and awoke to see my first glimpses of Indonesia just as we crossed the equator. After a little hassle at passport control (sodding bureaucracy) I finally got a cab into central Jakarta. That journey was nothing short of fascinating, in particular what I learnt of local driving habits. Lanes are apparently ...

... Belajar membuat masakan tradisional ...

... artwork and cases and DVD quality rip go for the equivalent of 70 US cents. Software goes anywhere from pennies to 40$. All I could think of was all my friends back in the Bay area with jobs at these software companies. Money spent on their hard earned work they will never see... I am also really surprised by the number of American Chains I see here in Jakarta. They have so much more than Europe. Obviously Indonesia was much more open to American franchises than the EU and it ...

... had nearly an hour to kill before our train left. We hung out in front of the train-station and then showed our ticket to a man at the station entrance to obtain entry to the tracks. We were surprised to see that although most people were showing their tickets, the people in front of us simply handed the security guard some cash (20,000 Rp I think) to be allowed entry. It was quite easy to find our seat on the train, since Indonesians use the same Roman ...

... much more complicated dish like gudeg (raw jackfruit cooked in a Javanese traditional way that originated from Yogyakarta). In big cities like Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Semarang and Medan, the street vendors offer many a traditional food from various regions in the archipelago. But in smaller cities, they are usually of the local cuisine. The most commonly found street food is bakso or meatballs that are usually served in a bowl, like soup, with noodles, bean curds ...

... and decided to play a DVD of Westlife live in concert!? Before we got to Dumai we were treated to one of the most surreal moments of the trip. They had put on a DVD of the entire back catalogue of some really terrible Indonesian pop singer. This woman pranced around in ridiculous padded bras of all different sizes which took her from Jordan in one scene to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson in the next, miming hopelessly to Casio keyboard backing tracks as the words came up ...

... vergadering niet in de middag natuurlijk, maar fijn om 8uur s'ochtends!Nadat we de deadline hadden gehaald konden we gelijk beginnen aan het voldgende blad..the 'inspire the world' tijdschrift wat dus in oktober uitgebracht wordt, wij mogen de inhoud etc. bepalen en gelukkig mag ik me met de vormgeving bemoeien waar mijn collega(ik noem haar vanaf nu H) gelukkig niets over te zeggen heeft, want ookal is ze zakelijk gezien vrij goed, creatief is ze absoluut niet....wat zij natuurlijk ...

... on her sphinx-like face. She has good moments, too, when she manages to stop wobbling and hold her own, but it's usually followed by an extra giant wobble afterwards that can send her tipping over. One day Karen and I watched her pause and steady herself as she came down the ramp to the front porch. "Good girl!" we encouraged. But when we looked away, we heard a splosh in the water. Wobbles had fallen in the pond again. She climbed out, looking skinner and more bedraggled than ever ...