It’s really hard to write what is actually in our mind in english (”linggis” in Bahasa Indonesia) language. Sometimes, your head can’t translate well what you’re really think. Pff… Anyway, I’ll try to tell my story of my early week in Djakarto City, city of lights, city of pollutions, city of moral degradation, and of course, city of babes.
I arrived at Gambir Station at 19 pm , 29 Jan. I was looking around for a taxi. Someone offer for a taxi. I asked him, “It is a blue bird taxi?”. “No.” , he answered. I said, “I’m sorry sir, I’m looking for a blue bird taxi”. Surprisingly, he replied with shouting (in Indonesia) “Dasar banci, badan doang aja yang gedhe, banci !!”. It means (kinda) : damn you, fucking transexual. What a shit. Being intimidated at my first step in Djakarto? Damn..
Well, I don’t have time to listen to him. I quickly found the blue bird counter after asking the security. The taxi took me trough the traffic jam at Sudirman and Radio dalem street. I’ve got my living place earlier. At 14 Jan, I’ve been in Djakarta, looking for a living place. With a lot of help from pung a.k.a ferdi, I found a living place. In indonesia, usually you called it “kost” (I don’t know what it is in english, please give correction boarding house: credit to Arin).
A small 3×3 room, pretty cold room temperature for Djakarto standard, a below-standard external bathroom, and 400K IDR price were more than enough to convince me to took that room. Well, because I lost the phone number of Mister Haji who own that house, I didn’t told him that I’ll be come at 29 Feb. The worst thing happen. There were nobody at that house, so I can’t take the room key. Phew.. I was lucky that I just need to wait for 30 minutes on the front of his house with 3 big luggages. Mhwahwahwaha..
After some of worst-case scenarios, finally i can occupied the room. After that, Pung and Di-must came and bring me two1.5 Litre of Aqua. That’s help a lot. I ended that day with met my room neighbours. In the left is Yussack, a senior engineer in Ericsson Indonesia, and in the right is Erik, father of Erics Son, mhwahahaha.
I spent my two next days for filling my room. I bought broom, feather dust, a new gallon of Aqua, cable roll, bathing equipment, etc. It’s kinda hard to find a place which has at least half of it. I must travel into Blok-M, Blok-A, Koperasi Gandaria, Giant, and even Carrefour. Maybe that day were not my lucky day.
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Without computers, my life was really booooring. I spent a lot of my free time with sleeping (sigh). Being an immigrant without PC or notebook were really hard. I spent a lot in comics and books. And the bad news is there were no discount at all!! I miss toga mas.. really..
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This is enough for today. I can’t write more. My head almost can’t translate well into english (sigh).
PS: the average meals price in dJakarta is 8K IDR… that’s harsh…
February 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
gebuki wae sopir taxine bram. omongi, “nek neng yk kowe wis ta’kuliti, su!”
February 10th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Whahahhaa….
We just a programmer…
Our First wife is only computer and computer….
So, it’s so terrible far away from our wife…
February 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
‘kost’ itu setauku disebut ‘boarding house’
Cmiiw…
February 11th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
oi bram, ayo muter2 jakarta meneh, kw kan drg tau tak ajak ngebut neng jakarta, mwahahahaha…
btw, di lingkungan kos-ku makan masih murah. Nasi+sayur+gorengan+ayam (bakar/goreng) only IDR 5K
@ arin : bukannya “bordil house” ?
February 12th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Kok bisa dipanggil banci? Pake rok? Lipstik? Maskara? Yang sabar aja Mas.. Dia kan belon tau klo dirimu mau jadi orang besar. Eh, udah ya?
Dari quotationspage.com
Pengalamannya seru juga. Emmmm, kayaknya semua pendatang punya pengalaman yang mirip ya? Tetep semangat aja deh Bos…
February 13th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
kudune kw njawab “iya boooo…eike emang bencesss…knapaaaa?” *sambil melambai2*
wakakakakakakakakakakakak
February 14th, 2008 at 8:02 am
hahahaha… kok iso,Bram??? separah itukah ibukota kita tercinta ini?? Btw,,selamat berkarya..
February 16th, 2008 at 10:31 am
@jo satchi : masalahe iki nang jakarta jon, nek nang jogja wis tak kuliti, nek nang jakarta aku sing dikuliti mengko
@kudzi : istri pertamaku kan arin, istri kedua ku komputer, klo dua duanya g ada kayaknya aku harus nyari istri baru lagi deh, hohohoho
@arin : thnx for the correction
@pung : yeee, kuwi nak pinggir kutho, neng cedak pondok indah ra ono sing semonoan. btw nek bordil house kuwi kan kost mu, hahahaha. jan2 e karo supir taksi ne meh tak jawab ngono, tapi wis esmosi sikik, kekekeke
@osmond : ok mon, thnx. kapan dolan ndene? hohoho
February 19th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Well I guess the taxi driver was right…
hehehe… Just kidding man, don’t get mad 
So u r the only soldier from UGM right? Do ur very best man! Wish u all the best!
Beste Grüße,
Dafferianto
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Yeaah.. I agree, cant life without computer
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:04 pm
@daffe : wooo… nak nang italia sopir taxi ne ramah2 mesthi, kekeke.
@ifa : yupz, you’re god damn right..
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:02 am
walah… lipstikmu lali bram, rung diilangi… wakakaka
February 24th, 2008 at 9:33 am
salah koe bram. bahasa English kui diwaca bahasa iblis dudu linggis..
whakakaka…
yeah… I’cant life without computer..
I agree with you…
February 24th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
@yang punya website
can I add this site to my link? tengkyuu before..
February 26th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
oalah bram, kerjo ning perusahaan anake pak erik kok ngekos 400 ewuan. Luwih cocok kwe ki nang apartemen, lha wong gajine sewulan limolas yuto…
maut kwe…
February 27th, 2008 at 8:42 am
moga sukses selalu di Njancukarta
February 27th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Wah, I’ll be missing U pakde!!!
Tros aku harus kemana lagi klo pgn minta update miyabi???Hiks,,
February 29th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
@ aday
gelar “bandar ilkomp” sudah diregenarasikan ke destian. jadi jangan khawatir, distribusi bokep tetap senantiasa makmur. tapi anak kampret itu malah lagi KP juga di jakarta…
March 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
@alva : aku yo nganggo maskara barang va, lali diilangi, hahahaha
@athrun : aku wis entuk komputer, yay…
@ifa : boleh2 aja mbak.. kamu juga tak add ke tempatku yaaa
@baidi : ampun dewa,, kowe cen maut,, selamanya ket jaman sma kowe cen maut, aku ra ono apa2 ne dibandingke kowe, ampun,,,
@alle : tengkyu le..
@aday n jo satchi : wis to,, mbok pada tobat,, disini kita udah nda ngopi miyabi lagi, tapi naughty america, hahahahaha
March 28th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
wakakakakak,,paling kocak pas bagian d bilang banci ma supir taxi,,
klo gw bakal bilang “iya omm,mau d sedot om??”
hehehehe,,
yoa gw masih inget,,masa lupa,ga mungkin lah,,hehehehe,,salam buat istrimu,,
April 4th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
masak nembe maca 2 baris tense mu uda kisruh.
“what you’re really think”
Setelah auxiliary verb/to be “are” mosok di ikuti Verb I/infinite (think)
TOEFL mu saya ragukan, ojo2 arin njoki ni kie :-/
May 6th, 2008 at 12:09 am
ibukota memang kejam, secara dia penganut sadomasokis..
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:33 am
seneng deh bisa kenal mas bram.. bikin saya ketawa-ketiwi. dari blognya joe nih..
September 27th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
huahaha..janc*k tenan sopir taksine..selamat datang di ibukota, yang konon lebih kejam daripada ibu tiri