I took a long leave off from the office for X'mas and New Year, had been planning to take it since beginning of 2007. Well, it's just a 6 days leave but if I count the holidays, national leaves and weekends in it, all in all I got 14 days off, not bad isn't it?
But I'm telling you, from all this 14 days of not going to office, those first 6 days are not sugar and candies, it's like almost everyday me and my mom have to go to the supermarket or baking store (and just for info, we are living in the south of Jakarta, and the baking shop is in the north) for our X'mas family gathering.
But the most memorable one, is when me & mom have to go to Glodok (Jakarta's Chinatown) to buy some ingredients for her cooking. To go to Glodok, we chose to go through Gajah Mada,
it's a known road for bad and heavy traffic jam, but this one is really bad, turns our there were 2 or 3 shops in that road that's on fire 1 of the is a chemical store, fire brigade and everything was there, the road is blocked, so they put us through the other lane (it's quite a big road divided by the Ciliwung river), so we have to share 1 lane with 2 car directions.
I stayed in the car while my mom is buying her ingredients, and jelly fish to make cold dish (my fav food) because it's really hard to get parking space and it would be easier for her to just call me and I'll pick her up where she got off. While looking for parking space, I took some pictures of the area.
After that we went to the central post office in Pasar Baru area(Pasar Baru is a well known place to shop esp for textile it has been there for a long time ago at least since my Grandma was in high school, she told me her stories), to go there we past the old city with it's old building, one of them is Fatahillah museum, in the Dutch colonial era it used to be the town hall which has a low ceiling underground prison (so the prisoner can't stand up straight) and said that it used to have knee length water constantly inside the prison to make the prisonner suffer.
In front of the museum is the plaza or park known as Taman Fatahillah (Fatahillah Park), well known as a place for execution of the locals who is against the Dutch government.
Around the museum itself there are lots of old buildings.
Finally we arrived at the post office, but to our luck it's closed already. So we went home after passing some other places such as : the Cathedral, the well known and probably the oldest catholic church in town in Lapangan Banteng area. In front of the Cathedral is the Mesjid Istiqlal a famous and in the 70's the biggest mosque in south east Asia. Nearby is also a protestant church "Immanuel" built since the colonial era in 1834, they even still have this organ which is still played today dated back to 1834.
Now we were in the passage of going back to the modern era, as a mark we past the national monument known as "Monas" which was built by our 1st president Sukarno in the 60's. Around Monas area we past the Arjuna and his horses statue, which I read once was that from a feng shui point of view was very bad. As the master feng shui said that Sudirman-Thamrin (Jakarta's well known business district) has a very good landscape which is almost the same with the China's emperor's palace feng shui, river in front and mountain at back. Where the dragon headed south is roaming through this street, so it is said that the dragon's tail is exactly around Indonesia's central bank and Indosat building (on the side of the Arjuna statue). And Arjuna is holding an arrow ready to shoot, this is said that the arrow is aiming at the dragon and hloding it's tail down so it can't roam around and causing the instability for the local currency (Rupiah).
After Monas we are back to the modern era of 2000, with all of it's high building. I had quite a trip today, though it was cloudy (in the end it rained) and I was not prepared for bringing a real camera, I was still enthusistic in taking pictures with my phone camera.
I stayed in the car while my mom is buying her ingredients, and jelly fish to make cold dish (my fav food) because it's really hard to get parking space and it would be easier for her to just call me and I'll pick her up where she got off. While looking for parking space, I took some pictures of the area.
After that we went to the central post office in Pasar Baru area(Pasar Baru is a well known place to shop esp for textile it has been there for a long time ago at least since my Grandma was in high school, she told me her stories), to go there we past the old city with it's old building, one of them is Fatahillah museum, in the Dutch colonial era it used to be the town hall which has a low ceiling underground prison (so the prisoner can't stand up straight) and said that it used to have knee length water constantly inside the prison to make the prisonner suffer.
In front of the museum is the plaza or park known as Taman Fatahillah (Fatahillah Park), well known as a place for execution of the locals who is against the Dutch government.
Around the museum itself there are lots of old buildings.
Finally we arrived at the post office, but to our luck it's closed already. So we went home after passing some other places such as : the Cathedral, the well known and probably the oldest catholic church in town in Lapangan Banteng area. In front of the Cathedral is the Mesjid Istiqlal a famous and in the 70's the biggest mosque in south east Asia. Nearby is also a protestant church "Immanuel" built since the colonial era in 1834, they even still have this organ which is still played today dated back to 1834.
Now we were in the passage of going back to the modern era, as a mark we past the national monument known as "Monas" which was built by our 1st president Sukarno in the 60's. Around Monas area we past the Arjuna and his horses statue, which I read once was that from a feng shui point of view was very bad. As the master feng shui said that Sudirman-Thamrin (Jakarta's well known business district) has a very good landscape which is almost the same with the China's emperor's palace feng shui, river in front and mountain at back. Where the dragon headed south is roaming through this street, so it is said that the dragon's tail is exactly around Indonesia's central bank and Indosat building (on the side of the Arjuna statue). And Arjuna is holding an arrow ready to shoot, this is said that the arrow is aiming at the dragon and hloding it's tail down so it can't roam around and causing the instability for the local currency (Rupiah).
After Monas we are back to the modern era of 2000, with all of it's high building. I had quite a trip today, though it was cloudy (in the end it rained) and I was not prepared for bringing a real camera, I was still enthusistic in taking pictures with my phone camera.
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