Above:  View from near our hotel. Surprisingly, the hotel buffet breakfast wasn’t great. The chicken was hacked up Asian style with lots of bones.  I happily had the chicken porridge and soup instead. We went out to a nearby mall for a wander.  I toyed with the idea of buying some cooking sachets to take […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]