a weekend of jakar-YATA!!

so. it was a superbly fun weekend. and everyone knows how much i love weddings. not to add, 2 weddings were carried out at the same time! and i was on another foreign land beside malaysia to witness and record and glamourise the entire affair!! woootttsss. YATA! so you want to know what happened from the time we left home which was about 4.45pm s.t? btw s.t means singapore time and w.i.b. means waktu indonesia barat.

1st chapter
so anyways, cepats-cepats get out of the house and frantically catch a cab. the check-in closes at 5 and we had to reach the airport in 10 mins. so told the taxi driver to hurry up a lil. i think he maybe a lil pissed. afterall, this family of 5 came out of nowhere like a whirlwind and came ambushing at him with piles of luggage all crammed inside the small lil taxi. we didn't have time to put our bags at the back and waste more time unlugging it later. reached changi airport 3 more minutes to 5. ran to the check-in place where wak harun and wak pari were already waiting for us. actually, they had already call us on the way, causing us to panic all the way there. lols:)) but panicking was fun for me. it helped me forget all the bad problems i had at home and outside of it. it made me forget what day it was. it made me forget the reason why i had to go to the airport under such short time! haha. all that was in my brain was, "can't this taxi go faster? another minute has passed. we're gonna miss our flight," imagine home alone 1 and 2. we were exactly like them. anyways, when we got there, we realised that wak anjang and his whole family wasn't there yet. i was like, OH NO!! and then we saw them strolling in like the world owes them the time. i was like waving and waving, hoping they'll walk faster. then overheard wak harun saying the gate will really close at 5.15pm and its ok if they walk slow. in my heart i was screaming. my family could have died on the way there and they were like saying those things only then. wth. ok, so anyways. met with the rest at 5.30 at C23 gate where the plane was already there and loading up passangers bags. took lots of pics there. everyone called me the jakon-ist. i didn't care. i was a tourist:) duh... anyways got on the plane. oh something about my seat. it was 44H. an economy class seat. 2 seats away from the window seat. and i got the very same seat on both the flight to and fro jakarta. coincidence? or maybe luck? i don't know. not into superstitions. anyways, there was this 2 guys who were on the 2 seats next to me. and i kept looking across them to peep outside the window and take photos.
they said," why didn't you say earlier? we could have switched places."
and i was like,"oh nemind ah. its ok."
they were like,"next time if we got on the same plane again, we'll switch places k?"

i was beaming already. fyi, on this trip there were a lot of coincidence. wonder why i told you about that particular coincidence? i will tell you later. in the 3rd chapter of this blog. so anyways, the trip from singapore to indonesia wasn't all that long. about a one and a half hour journey away. considering the lift off was at 5.45pm s.t and we reached there at about 7.50pm w.i.b. but i'll tell you something. the ride there was super bumpy. a lot of turbulent winds. our delicious meal was cut short as the crew had to keep all of our food and ensure that we had our belts on. then later, afer boarding off the EK-348 plane, we went check bags and stand in the long queue to stamp our passports for 45 lethargic minutes and did the entire long process of collecting bags and waiting for everyone to come back from the toilet and the whatnots before going off to meet our indonesian relatives, who were fetching us in a BUS!! fyi, over there, buses are considered wealthy people vehicles. their daily transportations were motobikes and mini-vans. so when we were on the way out, i saw A&W and DUNKIN DONUTS!! i was like, "YAY! Later go back its a MUST buy. long time never eat conney dogs and curly fries" anyways, the trip to rumah nenek yam, which was also the site of the wedding ceremony, took 2 bloody hours!! it was even longer than the flight. but considering the busy and jammed up streets, it's a wonder we even reached that early. by the time we reached there, it was already 10.30 pm w.i.b. so everyone salam with everyone else. this was the part i was most uncomfortable with. as it happens, it was a tradition there. so, like the malay saying," di mana bumi dipijak, di situ langit dijunjung."anyways everyone talked and got served with food. oh, 1 thing about food there. its like a 24-hour foodshop. food is there everytime you're hungry or feel like munching. the prawn crackers are the best lah, in my opinion. it taste so ori:))hahas. so by the time everyone got settled down, it was already 12. 4 hours to dawn...

2nd Chapter
after a good night's rest, i was up super early. btw, over there, at 4.30 w.i.b everyone is up and making loud prayers to wake everyone else up for Subuh prayers. it was kinda fun. then after prayers, me and mum went downstairs to wake my lazy bros up. and i went up again to grab my cam and capture the morning light there. as usual, the kitchen was bustling to life with the last minute preparations for the wedding ceremony due at 9 am. to me, weddings that early only occurs in jakarta, indonesia:)) so another experience earned. and the wedding was totally indonesian. didn't believe i'd be seeing it for myself. seen it on tv before but the actual one was much more fun:) i'll let the pictures do the talking.later.

i don't feel like blogging anymore. hey, i'm random. live with it. later ah. sorry beb. i'm tired. don't even know why. byes:)