Muslim World Biz @Jakarta - Travelog Day 4

Friday, 14th September 2012.

As usual, I wake-up at 4:15am, open up my laptop and update the logs :). Then solah and took another sunrise pictures.

Sunrise at Jakarta on Friday Morning

Ini namanya 'Haie' yang melambangkan semangat patriotik
dan juga tempat apa jua demonstrasi diadakan

It is a new refreshing day and our boss seem to be fine after taking a good rest. I when to gym and did do the cycling for 30 minutes and burn lots more calories than the first day :).

While cycling, there was aerobic with instructor and seem it was fun. Just that it was meant for women only :(.

Wira Jakarta - Sudirman

After completed my exercise, went for breakfast and start to replace the lost calories ... hahahaha :).. but honestly, did not eat a lots as usual. I drink juice, yakult (few bottles), and yogurt too. Than, had sandwiches and some buns plus fruits and that's all :)

Exhibit the technologies for high industries

This is our second days of exhibition. We arrive there at 9:30am and starts to open up the booth. As usual, it was a quite day for us. Just a few visitors drop by and there was a contractor asking us about our bunting frame, the price, where do we manufactured it, our desk frame, etc... What!!!! we are exhibiting a solutions, services, software, and hardware for electrical power system.. NOT the frame..... hahahaha... However, for the first half of today, there are two visitors whom like to be our local partners and wish to market our product when there is opportunity related. One of them proposed us to sell our product to the airport management as it have frequent power outage. Hmm... we informed the organizer whom promised to setup the meeting with them... and till the last day, it never happens :(.

The best part, many of exhibitors in Malaysia felt that they are in the wrong exhibition.... hahaha.. as we all showcase a high technologies and for medium to large scale industries.. not for consumers.

Friday prayer

Here in Jakarta (or Indonesia I guess), it is not easy not to perform Friday prayer @ Solah Jumaat. 

They will provide a space and lay out sejadah @ prayer-mat, in an empty space (or hall). Not like us in Malaysia, where we can only perform at certain place approved by the religious agencies or related organization (JAIS, MAIS, etc).

I wish, Malaysia could implement similar. ISLAM is simple and easy and every implementation of it should not be made difficult. And also, the best of the prayer is that the khatib was knowledgeable and it does not have any political link (no condemnation on any site) and the khutbah given was related to our daily life.

Exhibition - the second half of the day.

My team member :)

Friday here in Jakarta is a bit slow. Not many visitors came to the exhibitions. Many of the exhibitors felt the same. Not just us, including the Indonesia. Yesterday is more than today. The people that visit the booth mostly was the other exhibitors whom have nothing to do accept walked around the hall.

Is this my chance?

Quit.. need to walk faster

Still not many visitor

Ini company profil nya bapak.. Kami bisa jual perkakasan tenaga elektrikal

Iranian asking about local homegrown electrical appliances (ECE)

The Indonesian helping Malaysian to sell bird nest from Perak :)

The suresweet guy. Honestly, I have doubt on the product especially on certain non-logical and non-scientific approval.

The gadget boy

More visitors coming after 4pm

The two lovers

The 'Cewek'.. waduuh manis sik

Ending the day

Around 5pm, we start to close our booth despite the exhibition closed at 7pm (some says 9pm). But many high industries like us closed earlier. We did the same as afraid of difficulties in getting the a taxi.

Our nightmare in Jakarta starts after leaving the hall. Many taxi pass by but none stop for us. We wait for almost 1 hour and the area is getting dark (6pm in Jakarta is already like 8pm in Malaysia). Even the police make a jokes at us. He asked us the reason that the taxi does not stop. We were thinking that due to traffic jam, they afraid to get summons but the police (but did not says this to the police.. we just say that we don't know). The police than laugh at us and says because the taxi driver afraid to pick both of us whom is big in size like cow (in malay 'sebabnya mereka khuatir melihat kamu macam lembu sik').. We replied silently 'Cilakak lu polisi, kami udah penat ini dikatanya lembu pula'.. hahahaha

So we decided to take a walk to the other side of the road. Had to take the flyover and it is like climbing a small hill. But it does reduce our waiting time. It took us less than 10 minutes to get a cab and back to our hotel.

Nasi Goreng Gila.

We did not go straight to hotel. Instead, we went for dinner at a stall outside of Restoran Garuda, in front of Sarinah Mall. The name of the stall is Nasi Goreng Gila and I order the specialties @ famous dinner which also the name of the stall. Thinking of what and how it looks like, it is actually the simplest way of cooking, you put everything into the fried rice and there you are, the Nasi Goreng Gila. Simple but I think is quite OK for a person whom at that point was very hungry.. hehehehe...

After finished our meals, went back to our room, take a bath, perform solah and play around with my phone for a while until my eyes starts to close... and that's end of my forth day in Jakarta.

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