Home, Tebet, Depok

I did not go to Bandung thanks to a ridiculous 1 1/2 hours delay of my Lufthansa flight from Singapur to Jakarta including the most horrible landing ever. I bet these people will never fly Lufthansa again. I went straight to the house of my friends where I arrived just in time to see their kids before they went to bed. Sitting in the cab I had the same strange feeling I had when I arrived in 2005 for my first longer stay. I have been idealizing this city/country/people so much in the past year that I am afraid of discovering now that all has only been steambubbles in my head.

I spent the first morning playing with the kids which made me forget this night's dream about desk calendars and invitations with incorrect logo and colours. I read from books while they worked together to inflate balloons.



In the afternoon I went to nanonine in Tebet to buy clothes. I spent 120 $ but decided to pick up the stuff tomorrow as I wanted to go on to see the Depok Indie Fest. On my way I decided to get off the cab and spent a lovely hour in Zoe Cafe, buying books and eating a salmon. Unfortunately I could not find the venue so I returned to the city (Depok is on the southern outskirts). In the end I spent three hours on transport for nothing, hungry and tired but satisfied that I can still do and support trips like this.