Long delayed Jakarta finale

Due to my already well-known laziness, thus the very late wrap entry of Jakarta. Today was sort of the highlight of our trip or rather the whole reason we made this trip to begin with. The day started off by visiting this cool and creative mall called fX, which I thought was quite weird for a name. Well they had many other giant malls with the likes of names: Taman Angerrik, Mangga Dua, Pondok Indah, Ciputra Mall etc. hurrmm..

Not only being a huge mall itself, there is a giant slide called the ‘AtMostFear’ placed right in the middle connected all the way from top floor which was Level 9 if I remember correctly. The 70 – 80 metres long of adrenaline test was among the attraction to tourists like us. We did not get the chance to try it because it was only opened much later. We went to have an owesome breakfast in this cool cafe called Panini (Yes, I know it sounds like your ‘punani’)

Don’t chu love that sofa corner so much. We practically terrorized that spot and made a big huu haa which was quite malufying but wth.. Below are some uncensored scenes (hehe) of spidey and her tikiman.

After exploring the mall for a bit (check out the Indon chics, hehe), we headed off to JCC for the Java Jazz Fest! Bought our door tickets, Roze wanted to catch Jason Mraz live but to our dismay the ticket price hiked up to Rp. ONE mil from the original Rp. 350k. Such lousy ticketing company…

Anyhoo although we didn’t made to see Mr Mraz, we did literally ‘posed’ with him. wahahha.. Jadilah tuu..

Fellow invited artists, both locals and international already began strumming their ballads when we walked into the entrance. And the crowd was already quite mad considering it was only early afternoon. Little did I know that this indoor convention hall turn out to be so huge with so many different common areas and large halls. We took our programme leaflets and walked into the first show which was Glen Dauna Project.

Let’s just say they believe in starting young over here, this little boy is the son of the pianist below. They were both talented and the team played beautiful jazz rendition.

We walked in and out of so many different halls to catch all the different artistes till I lost count and track of them. This guitarist below is owesome and he’s from the Harvey Mason Quartet. The drummer was suppose to be the highlight but I couldn’t get a decent shot, the crowd was too overwhelming you see.

After several more sessions, we stopped for teatime at the coffee house. Wacked like nobody’s business cos we were too hungry after all the commotion and sticking in and out of the heavy crowd. Boy, you need good stamina even for Jazz Fest weh!

The last show we watched was by Glenn Fredly which was tributed to Chrisye, an Indonesian legend. His performance was purely fantastic, I’d say he’s a true performer because he knew just when and how to tease the crowd with his rythm of music. Night was closing in and we managed to catch some local booming artists among the locals before we took off. It was an entertaining day at the Java Jazz nonetheless very very tiring too : P Good experience to be remembered.

Chandra then brought us to this restaurant cum sky bar at the summit of a tall building. Can’t remember how many floors there were but it was sure pretty damn high. I had a fulfilling sandwich with my fruit punch, fell in love with the absolute thirst quencher!

It happens to be Chandra’s birthday in two days time so we decided to throw him a surprise. To our amaze, the crowd turned out to be very creative and artistic with their version of birthday intro. Now I see why they are all talented musicians, haha.

I guess we all had a great time in Jakarta… the food, the party, the companies, the fun, the Java Jazz, the cheap shopping and what not. Gotto run, ciaos!