[WFTW]: Jakarta

Yup, so I missed the StreetFest cosplay event last Sunday at Suntec City as I was en route to Jakarta to conduct a four-day training session for our Indonesian end users. Got to see a bit of Terminal 3 as I was flying by Qatar Airways. The restrooms at the T3 boarding gates had huge glass panels where you could look out to see the planes as seen from the above pic of the SIA plane.

Flying to Jakarta from Singapore took less than 90 minutes plus the service on Qatar Airways was good as I was given copies of both Straits Times and the New Paper to read during the flight. Upon arrival I jumped into one of the hotel transfer cab services and was warned by the cab driver, who spoke to me in a combo of English and Bahasa, to stay in the hotel and not go out due to the protests and demonstrations on the streets held over the hike in fuel prices.


Heeding his words, I spent my Sunday night staying in at the Park Lane Hotel at Jalan Casablanca and decided to eat in. If you happen to stay there over the weekend, do check out Stix, the hotel's steakhouse as Sunday is steak night where you can have a good piece of steak at half price. For about 200,000 Rupiah (about S$30 or less), I had a large bread basket (consisting of a bread loaf, two cheese sticks and several bread pretzels) for starters, seafood chowder served in a huge bread bowl as shown above plus a 200g Australian rib eye with a bottle of natural mineral water to wash it all down.

Plus, the service at Stix was outstanding and the steak was cooked to perfection! Yum! As for the subsequent days, lunches and tea breaks were provided by the client which were cool take away Nasi Padang lunch boxes and boxes of assorted pastries and rissoles while dinner consisted of local fare from the cafe at the nearby condo estate. Also discovered that Indonesian coffee is addictively good.

So in conclusion, food wise, if you like spicy fare, Jakarta seriously rocks!

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Foood Glorious Fooood!

My office had a networking session where food was abundantly good. Here are just some pix of the buffet spread before it was all consumed...

Yum!
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Der Lazy Cat

"Ah! So we meet again..."

I spent the public holiday doing a shoot with friends at Chijmes near City Hall MRT. While touring the area before the shoot, I chanced upon this scruffy yet photogenic cat that I snapped two months back. Once again, it seemed indifferent to having me stick my lens in its general direction and even closed its eyes the moment I pressed the shutter release...
After the shoot which lasted close to three hours my friends and I proceeded to head in the direction of Raffles City for our lunch. Once again, in the same spot and position was our dear furry feline friend...

Talk about spending a lazy day slacking underneath a chair. I'm sure I'll see more of you when I come around!

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Chiu ish outcast!

One of thish dings ish not like de udders...

Midweek Shootout - Think Tattoo

It was a rare opportunity for me (I don't have that many friends) as one of my neighbors allowed me to snap pix of her while she got her tattoo at Think Tattoo Far East Plaza. Though it took over two hours which ended after 11pm, it was definitely worth staying out for this, especially with the pix I took.

Before the tattoo is etched onto the customer's skin, tattoo artist Elson Yeo would go over the design, making tweaks and modifications to it.

Once the customer agrees to the design, the tattoo is applied onto a transfer to be applied to the skin. Touch ups are then made directly onto the skin before the tattoo process begins.

Ink galore!

Preparation of the needles

Modifying an existing tattoo to blend in with the new design...

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Thanks Bertha and Elson!

Weekend Shootout - Formula Drift Pt 3

Here's the last batch of Formula Drift pix. After nearly a week, my skin is finally recovering from the sun burn...
One thing to note, for some reason there were attendees who chose to smoke near areas such as the above where gas tanks were within reach. Pity that they ran away when I tried to take a pic of them standing near such areas...

One of the main highlights of the Formula Drift event was the tandem drifting category, where one car would be the leader while the other the chaser. The leader and chaser would then have to complete a round on the grid where the chaser would have to overtake the leader. The winner of that lap would be the first car that reaches the finish line or if the other one crashes out.

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Weekend Shootout - Formula Drift Pt 2

The Fromula Drift had its fair share of race queens and promoters from Canon, Carma and Goodyear. There was a contest going on where the Carma promoters would be posing with the display cars and photographers were invited to take pix of them and have them printed at the counter to be entered into a competition. Pity that they didn't inform my friend and I that we had to shoot in JPEG because their printers couldn't read RAW formats... Sheesh!

W00t! Am I under arrest?

Argh! The dreaded red flag... That signals a cold grid; meaning debris and foreign object lying on the grid. Also means marshalers are required to run out to clean or rearrange the safety wall...

The paddocks were opened to the public after the qualifying round allowing car enthusiasts to get up close and personal with the cars and their drivers...

It's all good eh?
[To be concluded...]