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Finally I’m arrived at Jakarta. Gosh, quite a journey. It took me a about 14 hours to get to my home. I’m already arrived at my combo dock to took a boat at 6.30am local time (GMT+9), but the boat just left site at 8am. After a little seasickness It took me 2 hours to get to Babo (small airport) to took a chartered flight and my scheduled departure was 10am, but I just left off at 12.30. It took another 2 hours to get from Babo to Sorong (small town which got commercial airliners).

The plane was delayed because the day before the plane is broken or something. The chartered flight using a small propeller plane, max capacity only about 15 persons, and we need to wear earplugs during the flight. The engine noise is very noisy. I didn’t wait long in Sorong, only wait for like 20 min then I took off with commercial airline, transit in Makassar, then arrived at Jakarta at 5.10 pm (GMT+7). There’s some funny story when I’m in there. I was buying Koteka (for those of you don’t know what koteka is, just click on the link), when when I was in the security scanner gate, the security asks me “Hey, what’s in the bag?” then I said, “It’s koteka”, then the security said, “Koteka isn’t allowed to enter the airport” I was like “Why?” Then they said “It’s allowed only when you wearing it” then they laugh. Oh crap, the security made the joke on me hehehe.

In Jakarta, I’m greeted with afternoon rush hour traffic. Most of the drivers drive like an idiot, using emergency lane to overtake in the tollway, changing lanes/turning without signals, driving without lights at night, u-turning when u-turn isn’t allowed, and the list goes on. WTF. It took me 2 hours to get my home from the airport. If there is no/little traffic, it only took 20 minutes.

Enough the rants about traffic, back at home finally I met my family, and I met new member of my family for the first time. My nephew! He is so cute, and makes me wondering when I’ll get one? *sigh. One more thing, I was quite surprised when I saw my cat, she’s so BIG and FAT! and she’s still remembers me. She’s usually shy or avoid a stranger.

Then first morning in Jakarta, I’m already awake at 5am. Usually at the same time I already at the office back in Papua. My plan today, I’m planning to get my car checked. It’s been almost 6 month my car just sitting there in the garage, hopefully it will be OK.