This morning, as soon as my boss came through the door he said, "So, you'll go by yourself next month because our boss cant make it, I cant make it. You need to ask him for details." Then off he went to his next meeting.
With that my fate is sealed. Or, I hope it did.
Teehee...
I've been having dry cough since I traveled with clients last month. I took cough meds since Thursday resulting I slept all day, and when I didnt take it, I couldnt sleep at all. Bad move.
One of my BFFs called this morning asking about yesterday's performance I was involved & my plan to visit a masseuse. Hearing that I'm still coughing she told me to get 'obat batuk ibu dan anak', mother and child cough medicine. I told her that I dont know what it was and I need to get some Nin Jiom chinese cough meds. She laughed, because we were talking about the same thing, and the fact that she's chinese & knows a bit of Mandarin calling it with its Indonesian name while I who dont speak any Mandarin calling it in its chinese name.
One of the things that I miss from NL/Europe is the museums. I used to own museum-card, and went to any museum as often as I could. I tried to visit at least one museum each time I traveled.
Now that I'm in big durian, I'm not that excited about going to museum. Most of Jakarta museum look 'unloved'. I cant really blame them, because their ticket is dirt cheap, how could they afford to put decent security/display with their income from tickets?
Google just unveiled their Google Art Project, which means we can 'visit' famous museum such as Hermitage, MOMA, Rijksmuseum via Internet! It's like Google Earth but for museums. The plus side of it, we could get up-close and personal to the objects. The downside of it, we need good internet connection (which I dont have. Hey Speedy, do something!).
Some critics said that it's not the same as seeing it with your own eyes. Well, going to Rijksmuseum to see the Nachtwacht by Rembrandt we cant get as close as using Google Art. Plus, it gives an opportunity for those unable to visit the real thing to experience it virtually.
Anyway, I'm happy now I can 'walk around' museum again, and can show my mom some of the things that I love. I wonder if I get the same emotion as I had while visiting certain museums.
Back in Lowland, I was one of the boys. More than 80% of my friends were guys. My office were full of gals except for our two bosses. My friends from one group mostly dont know my other friends from other groups.
Nowadays, there are only 2 gals in our office. My friends are 80% gals. Somehow 6-degrees-of-separation works amongst my friends from different groups.
How did that happen?
Since the last day of last year there's busway operating between Pinang Ranti and Pluit. There are only 35 long buses operating between Cililitan and Grogol, and 25 normal buses operating between Pinang Ranti and Pluit. During these time the 'regular' buses were still operating along (part of ) the same route as the Busway.
As of today, the Jakarta government rules that the regular buses are ceased to operate in that very route. Apparently there were about 126 regular buses.
Now, this is the sheer stupidity of our beloved government.
Last week Thursday I had to wait for 45 minutes in the morning from Cililitan for my busway and as soon as I got into one, it was jam-packed that I had to stand all the way to Semanggi, thank you very much. Yesterday I was pretty lucky I only needed to wait for 30 minutes and got a seat so I could finish my book. That was before all 126 regular buses were cancelled.
I cant tell you how it was this morning, the 1st day of the cancellation, since I stay at home due to upset stomach, but I dread going to work tomorrow. Going by taxi is not really something I want to do at the moment, because the traffic is getting worse due to the operational of Busway. See my dilemma?
Please who-ever-in-charge, get us more busway buses before canceling any regular bus routes. Waiting 45 minutes for a jam-packed bus is outrageous. If you are still canceling any of them, please I implore you, take the bloody busway during rush hour without any of your aides for a week so you stand there with us mere mortals waiting for ages for the bloody bus.
Please dont give the crap about you took the busway before. Taking it during some stupid opening route ceremony doesnt count. Dont tell us that your such-and-such takes busway and told you stories about it. Man up and get to it that we have a half decent transportation in this God forsaken place, that's one of the reasons we put you in your place!
