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11 February 2026
Leaving Jakarta With a 1255 flight from Jakarta to Kuching, I left my room at 0800. Today, I thought I’d try out the rideshare and train combo, despite the highway to the airport being clear and the rideshare price being low. I took a car to the Sudirman Baru station where I would catch the […]
10 February 2026
Above: T-shirts based on Jakarta scenes and food. Chinatown I woke at 0600 in Jakarta, which was 0700 back in Bali. Today, I’m meeting Ah Meng, who is family of the hotel that I stayed at in Jakarta. With brunch on the cards, I made do with some fruit and cake before heading out at […]
9 February 2026
Above: Art made up of scrunched up fishing nets at Sarinah Mall. Leaving Despite retiring much later last night, I woke at 0500 for my rehab exercises and taking breakfast at 0730 to avoid waiting (like yesterday). I told them to skip the pastries and juice, in order to eat less. Checking out at 0900, […]
8 February 2026
I kept up with my rehab exercises after waking up at 0500 and taking breakfast at 0730. Kim was home attending to lots of matters, so I played my part by doing some admin on the computer before having a swim around 1000. For lunch, I went out to the main road in search of […]
7 February 2026
With 5h of time difference, I was up at 0500 and did my rehab exercises for my hip and knee before breakfast started at 0730. Breakfast started with a basket of bakery, cut fruit and cereal before a hot ala carte option was given. It was too much food for me! Having recently gone over […]
6 February 2026
Landing some 20 mins ahead of schedule at 1700, we disembarked about 10 mins later and I was through immigration using the automated gates at 1715. It was purely walking time with no waiting at all. I had applied for an obtained a Visa Exemption application online free-of-charge, which allowed the use of the autogate. […]
6 February 2026
Leaving home for hometown Today, I make my way back to hometown, Kuching, for Chinese New Year. Rather than go back through the usual route of Singapore or Kuala Lumpur, I travel through Bali and Jakarta to use the relatively new service on AirAsia from Jakarta to Kuching. I fly Air New Zealand on a […]
9 January 2026
Driving back to Christchurch We left our Lake Benmore campsite around 0730 for the drive to Christchurch. We had better luck with our stop at Fairlie Bakehouse this time. The salmon and bacon pie was very generous with a large chunk of salmon in it! During the drive, a friend Ming had told me that […]
8 January 2026
With cool and changeable weather, we didn’t get up to doing much today. There would have been nothing to report except that Kim went on the water ski effortlessly after many years of not having done that. He even went on one ski, a harder feat, but I didn’t catch of photo of that.