Jakarta

[Menteng]

Edited to add: And of course the granddaddy of them all Stadium, how many more lost icons can anyone recall?

Too many to mention. Lintas Melawai, Tambora, Elvis at Oscar, to name a few. And for the locals: salon!!

[Smoothy]

Ok so it did spend time as that god awful Captain something or other about ten years back due to franchise disputes, but many a happy time was started in that place after you tried your luck elsewhere. As the interviewees attest to in the video! Not for me though, never one pickup there apart from the only case of a bad stomach to ever result in Indonesia.

I didn't notice any difference between the food at that Captain something restaurant and McDonalds. I think he was still selling McDonalds food but calling it Captain whatever. I liked his pirate theme. Pretty cool. He did add a few things to the menu as well. It's amazing how they can get away with copyright infringement in Indonesia. Kind of like when Subway sub shops closed in Jakarta and they renamed it to Mamas subs or something like that, but still served the subs almost exactly the same, even wrapped in Subway wrapping paper. Haha.

I met more than one girl at that Sarinah McDonalds after late nights out at Tanamur / JJs / Hard Rock. My ex girlfriend told me the story of when that McDonalds first opened, her family made a special trip from the kampung to Jakarta just to go to that McDonalds. It seems that was a popular thing to do. That, and to try the escalators in Sarinah since those were the first ever built in Indonesia.

[Smoothy]

Wait, is Jaya Pub still open? Do bules still go there?

Jaya Pub is still open. For a good many years, they had no customers. But for the last 10 years or so it has been packed. Mostly locals now (not naughty girls anymore), and some bules, but the bules who go are usually there with their bule wives. I still go on occasion to listen to the music. At least prior to this stupid coronavirus shit.

[Hilo77]

Remember it very well, lots of memories with HRC next and if I'm not mistaken, a Chillies Restaurant. Later on for the final drinks of the night to Jaksa! Legendary!

Back in the days when the Hard Rock Cafe was, like its counterparts in KL, Bali and elsewhere, a very handy late-night pick-up joint and not the bland, family-friendly, mall restaurant it is today.

Chilies has also gone downhill, not as a pick-up joint, I don't think it was ever that but in terms of quality. It used to be a great spot for drinks, ice-cold mugs of beer or margaritas, and a steak but it had a redecoration a couple of years back and somehow lost a lot of its charm. The last time I was in there it was positively grotty, closing at 11 pm, there were no other customers and the tables were sticky and dirty.

I don't think Sarinah as a whole can survive much longer, more modern malls can expect to go to the wall as a result of this pandemic, I really can't see how an old 1960's style department store can possibly stay in business.

JJs and Tanamour are but distant memories, Today Country has long gone (probably just as well mind you, given its, er, proclivities), the 6th Floor of Melawai closed and Falatehan faded well past its glory days, no more Hard Rock and McD's in Sarinah. Of my earliest memories of Jakarta, with the exception of CJs and BATS (Tiga Puluh died a decade or more ago) only Jaksa remains largely as it was. Wait, is Jaya Pub still open? Do bules still go there?

Edited to add: And of course the granddaddy of them all Stadium, how many more lost icons can anyone recall?

[Ekspat]

For those who remember the days when Sarinah was the epicentre of activity in Jakarta. The McDonalds has closed!

Remember it very well, lots of memories with HRC next and if I'm not mistaken, a Chillies Restaurant. Later on for the final drinks of the night to Jaksa! Legendary!

[Menteng]

For those who remember the days when Sarinah was the epicentre of activity in Jakarta. The McDonalds has closed!

https://www.thejakartapost.com/multi...estaurant.html

Ok so it did spend time as that god awful Captain something or other about ten years back due to franchise disputes, but many a happy time was started in that place after you tried your luck elsewhere. As the interviewees attest to in the video! Not for me though, never one pickup there apart from the only case of a bad stomach to ever result in Indonesia.

It joins the Hard Rock cafe next door (and JJs / Tanamour down the road) as but a memory in long time Jakarta expat minds.

Memories, memories. For me, this McD was always tconnected to jalan Jaksa. Had I no luck in that hamburger joint, I would leave and go there to have a beer and some fun.

[Hung Man 1808]

For those who remember the days when Sarinah was the epicentre of activity in Jakarta. The McDonalds has closed!

https://www.thejakartapost.com/multi...estaurant.html

Ok so it did spend time as that god awful Captain something or other about ten years back due to franchise disputes, but many a happy time was started in that place after you tried your luck elsewhere. As the interviewees attest to in the video! Not for me though, never one pickup there apart from the only case of a bad stomach to ever result in Indonesia.

It joins the Hard Rock cafe next door (and JJs / Tanamour down the road) as but a memory in long time Jakarta expat minds.

[MasBule]

Its a pretty fair assessment of the situation.

Highlight of my week is going too EP for a takeaway curry and a few bintangs whilst waiting for it. Although I have discovered 2 bars open, and a few restaurants where you can sit upstairs or out the back and enjoy your 'take-away' meal there. I guess they are paying someone big dollars to remain open.

The WA contacts are all active asking for a little money, I even have my GoClean lady asking for money transfers against future cleaning services. She is kinda cute and if they bill racks up too high I might just have to sacrifice a clean abode for some action, bonus is she can make the bed afterwards.

On a positive note, the roads are empty and I can hear birds singing occasionally. Pollution was at 7 on Labour day, I have never ever seen it that low in Jakarta.

Police don't seem too be harassing anyone, they have their checkpoints setup, but if you have a mask on then they let you go. They are still on full salaries, so they are pretty content as the city is so empty and easy for them to manage.

I live in an area where I can walk around alot and take advantage of that. On my walk I go past the checkpoint and there hasn't been any problems at all.

It might be my imagination, but I am getting alot more suggestive looks from girls, either at the supermarket, or in the apartment lift. I guess everybody is suffering from a little loving due too the lockdown. Or maybe because of the mask wearing I focus on their eyes more now?

Good point on the home-delivery alcohol scene. Vin+, Ismaya group all are having great discounts, which I guess shows what their true margins are on these products.

Away from the P4 P seen, its just a matter of keeping up with WA and trying to discriminate on which girls are best to take a chance with. I am still active in that sense, just managing the risk as best I can.

Stay safe out there gentlemen.

To confirm everything is closed, everything. Bars, restaurants, spas, clubs, the whole shebang. There is zero commercially run activity out there. The high point of your day is going out on your resupply run to the supermarket in the otherwise shuttered mall to pick up some groceries. If you live in an expat zone this will be slightly enlivened by the middle-class mommies who are taking to dressing up a bit and making an effort to look good in their one trip out of the house a week. If you have a mask fetish, and by the end of this we all will, then this will get your juices flowing slightly. If you are in a run-of-the-mill kampung, even this small pleasure will be denied you as the local talent will mostly comprise frumpy ibu2 in their daster and jilbab picking up chicken, veggies and a bottle of sirop for the buka puasa. It also may be my imagination but local people seem to be giving bules a wide berth, it's not just social distancing protocols, I suspect we might be viewed as super-spreaders or something.

Now I mentioned above that the commercially run activity is stone dead but there are plenty of entrepreneurial independent traders out there. Tinder is simply wall-to-wall women asking for money now and if you have a stable of WA contacts you will be finding the same thing. There is serious hurting out there, combined with the approach of Idul Fitri and the almost 90 percent layoffs among shop, office and factory staff you can almost taste the desperate need for cash in the atmosphere. The strange thing is it's not from the regular pros, sure there are still a few of them about (immediately identified in a Tinder chat by the opening questions "where you stay?" "hotel or apartment? But by no means as many as before. No these are the regular girls and single mothers, who need money and aren't terribly sure how to get it, for most it is a simple upfront explanation that they need cash and can you send it to them now please. For others it's a pretty lame attempt at getting into the VCS game, asking for 500 k for "a picture", few of them have a clue how the game operates and frankly must be unaware of all the free to air porn sites on the web and live-stream video sex services, also available gratis.

There are quite a few willing to travel to hook up (what looks like a total lockdown to us does not appear quite so total in the back streets and kos-kosan). I give them all a pass, I really don't need to invite the bugs and microbes of the fetid gangs of East Jakarta into my home. That might seem ludicrous given my previous decade and a half of exposing myself to all sorts of infectious and noxious connections but I don't know, this one feels different. A healthy 19 yo cewek can probably shake off the corona in a week or two, an overweight, probably pre-diabetic, white man in his fifties? The chances shorten a lot for him and have you seen the hospitals here? My years of excess have caught up with me, the preacher was right, your sins will find you out. Long though I have been willing to take the risks associated with playing the game in Jakarta and surrounding cities I am going to sit this one out.

I am actually saving a fortune (just as well given that half my work has dried up), and instead I am taking advantage of all the cheap booze being offloaded by bars and wholesalers on social media and delivered to my door by grumpy little men in green jackets on clapped out motorscooters. Lockdown isn't so bad when you have a decent glass of something and a VPN account and the curtains closed.

Keep safe, stay healthy, see you all on the other side.

[Smoothy]

This is depressing.

https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/0...ophe-pub-81684

[BenderOver]

Now I mentioned above that the commercially run activity is stone dead but there are plenty of entrepreneurial independent traders out there. Tinder is simply wall-to-wall women asking for money now and if you have a stable of WA contacts you will be finding the same thing. There is serious hurting out there, combined with the approach of Idul Fitri and the almost 90 percent layoffs among shop, office and factory staff you can almost taste the desperate need for cash in the atmosphere. The strange thing is it's not from the regular pros, sure there are still a few of them about (immediately identified in a Tinder chat by the opening questions "where you stay?" "hotel or apartment? But by no means as many as before. No these are the regular girls and single mothers, who need money and aren't terribly sure how to get it, for most it is a simple upfront explanation that they need cash and can you send it to them now please. For others it's a pretty lame attempt at getting into the VCS game, asking for 500 k for "a picture", few of them have a clue how the game operates and frankly must be unaware of all the free to air porn sites on the web and live-stream video sex services, also available gratis.

There are quite a few willing to travel to hook up (what looks like a total lockdown to us does not appear quite so total in the back streets and kos-kosan).

Ahh now this is the filth I enjoy reading. It's a shame you're unable to party it out Hilo. Thanks for posting.

[Offshore Swell]

To confirm everything is closed, everything. Bars, restaurants, spas, clubs, the whole shebang. There is zero commercially run activity out there. The high point of your day is going out on your resupply run to the supermarket in the otherwise shuttered mall to pick up some groceries. If you live in an expat zone this will be slightly enlivened by the middle-class mommies who are taking to dressing up a bit and making an effort to look good in their one trip out of the house a week. If you have a mask fetish, and by the end of this we all will, then this will get your juices flowing slightly. If you are in a run-of-the-mill kampung, even this small pleasure will be denied you as the local talent will mostly comprise frumpy ibu2 in their daster and jilbab picking up chicken, veggies and a bottle of sirop for the buka puasa. It also may be my imagination but local people seem to be giving bules a wide berth, it's not just social distancing protocols, I suspect we might be viewed as super-spreaders or something.

Now I mentioned above that the commercially run activity is stone dead but there are plenty of entrepreneurial independent traders out there. Tinder is simply wall-to-wall women asking for money now and if you have a stable of WA contacts you will be finding the same thing. There is serious hurting out there, combined with the approach of Idul Fitri and the almost 90 percent layoffs among shop, office and factory staff you can almost taste the desperate need for cash in the atmosphere. The strange thing is it's not from the regular pros, sure there are still a few of them about (immediately identified in a Tinder chat by the opening questions "where you stay?" "hotel or apartment? But by no means as many as before. No these are the regular girls and single mothers, who need money and aren't terribly sure how to get it, for most it is a simple upfront explanation that they need cash and can you send it to them now please. For others it's a pretty lame attempt at getting into the VCS game, asking for 500 k for "a picture", few of them have a clue how the game operates and frankly must be unaware of all the free to air porn sites on the web and live-stream video sex services, also available gratis.

There are quite a few willing to travel to hook up (what looks like a total lockdown to us does not appear quite so total in the back streets and kos-kosan). I give them all a pass, I really don't need to invite the bugs and microbes of the fetid gangs of East Jakarta into my home. That might seem ludicrous given my previous decade and a half of exposing myself to all sorts of infectious and noxious connections but I don't know, this one feels different. A healthy 19 yo cewek can probably shake off the corona in a week or two, an overweight, probably pre-diabetic, white man in his fifties? The chances shorten a lot for him and have you seen the hospitals here? My years of excess have caught up with me, the preacher was right, your sins will find you out. Long though I have been willing to take the risks associated with playing the game in Jakarta and surrounding cities I am going to sit this one out.

I am actually saving a fortune (just as well given that half my work has dried up), and instead I am taking advantage of all the cheap booze being offloaded by bars and wholesalers on social media and delivered to my door by grumpy little men in green jackets on clapped out motorscooters. Lockdown isn't so bad when you have a decent glass of something and a VPN account and the curtains closed.

Keep safe, stay healthy, see you all on the other side.

Salut HL77, always a pleasure to read the world as you see it. I feel for you while my OCD part envies you. Nothing stays the same and this won't too but it's a jungle out there and I would think quite raw. OS skedadlled to his home nation and brought lady OS with him but the anecdotes keep coming through. Like her sisters neighbour spending a day driving around greater Jakarta looking for a hospital to take the covid symptomatic male. No takers and these people could pay the hospital fees. All full so he comes home and sets up his last stand in the upstairs bedroom and spends 10 days going to hell and back. OS would never look at that door the. Same way again.

Thanks.

[Hilo77]

To confirm everything is closed, everything. Bars, restaurants, spas, clubs, the whole shebang. There is zero commercially run activity out there. The high point of your day is going out on your resupply run to the supermarket in the otherwise shuttered mall to pick up some groceries. If you live in an expat zone this will be slightly enlivened by the middle-class mommies who are taking to dressing up a bit and making an effort to look good in their one trip out of the house a week. If you have a mask fetish, and by the end of this we all will, then this will get your juices flowing slightly. If you are in a run-of-the-mill kampung, even this small pleasure will be denied you as the local talent will mostly comprise frumpy ibu2 in their daster and jilbab picking up chicken, veggies and a bottle of sirop for the buka puasa. It also may be my imagination but local people seem to be giving bules a wide berth, it's not just social distancing protocols, I suspect we might be viewed as super-spreaders or something.

Now I mentioned above that the commercially run activity is stone dead but there are plenty of entrepreneurial independent traders out there. Tinder is simply wall-to-wall women asking for money now and if you have a stable of WA contacts you will be finding the same thing. There is serious hurting out there, combined with the approach of Idul Fitri and the almost 90 percent layoffs among shop, office and factory staff you can almost taste the desperate need for cash in the atmosphere. The strange thing is it's not from the regular pros, sure there are still a few of them about (immediately identified in a Tinder chat by the opening questions "where you stay?" "hotel or apartment? But by no means as many as before. No these are the regular girls and single mothers, who need money and aren't terribly sure how to get it, for most it is a simple upfront explanation that they need cash and can you send it to them now please. For others it's a pretty lame attempt at getting into the VCS game, asking for 500 k for "a picture", few of them have a clue how the game operates and frankly must be unaware of all the free to air porn sites on the web and live-stream video sex services, also available gratis.

There are quite a few willing to travel to hook up (what looks like a total lockdown to us does not appear quite so total in the back streets and kos-kosan). I give them all a pass, I really don't need to invite the bugs and microbes of the fetid gangs of East Jakarta into my home. That might seem ludicrous given my previous decade and a half of exposing myself to all sorts of infectious and noxious connections but I don't know, this one feels different. A healthy 19 yo cewek can probably shake off the corona in a week or two, an overweight, probably pre-diabetic, white man in his fifties? The chances shorten a lot for him and have you seen the hospitals here? My years of excess have caught up with me, the preacher was right, your sins will find you out. Long though I have been willing to take the risks associated with playing the game in Jakarta and surrounding cities I am going to sit this one out.

I am actually saving a fortune (just as well given that half my work has dried up), and instead I am taking advantage of all the cheap booze being offloaded by bars and wholesalers on social media and delivered to my door by grumpy little men in green jackets on clapped out motorscooters. Lockdown isn't so bad when you have a decent glass of something and a VPN account and the curtains closed.

Keep safe, stay healthy, see you all on the other side.

[BenderOver]

The pussy is much more available and cheap here in Baroda right now.

Good to hear, brother! Are the ceweks young and cute in that part of India? Hope you're scoring some top shelf cuties!

Too bad the girls are in hiding. The few WhatsApp guys I know who knew how to connect people together didn't have anything to offer me but instead were flat out begging for food money. Damn I felt bad for the people who are suffering from something as base as hunger. This world.

I'm not in the region and it doesn't look like restrictions nor airfare are returning to normal until August if we're lucky to not see any further foreign policy extensions.

Good luck mate. Be safe.

[EatALotOpus]

That girl did contact me two days later wanting me to come to her place of work though. Haha.

She will be already "Hot" for you! LOL.

[Offshore Swell]

What ever happened to JakartaAfterDark? A few guys got a conspiracy laden message a while back then he seemed to fade away.

Did the Illuminati get him? 😁.

G.

They sure did. That guy was going to some funky places, see some of his work below:

Sure hope he won the war.

I don't have an internet connection in my parents' house by intention. I regularly went to an internet cafe around 350 meters from my parents' house. 200 meters to the main street. The street is a 1 km street from one traffic light to another with 3 you-turns and about 800 meters with a well maintained green grass, plantation and trees. The street is a 3 lanes street with 1 lane for the Busway, a 2 meters street separator with a fence on one side and a well maintained green grass, plantation and trees, another 3 lanes street with 1 lane for the Busway. Another 150 meters following the traffic flow but the internet cafe is in the other side of the street. So every morning I regularly walked to the main street and walked following the traffic flow for 100 meters, crossed the 3 lanes street, walked through a 1. 5 meter wide street pavement for 2 meters the street pavement cut the 2 meters street separator and the fence, and crossed the 3 lanes street. Then I walked against the traffic flow for 50 meters. Another alternative is to use the pedestrian bridge of the busway shelter, Halte Busway SMK 57 6-3. Then walked against the traffic flow for 150 meters.

Yesterday, Tuesday, September 4, 2018, I logged out, paid the bill and headed home around 10:40. I walked following the traffic flow for 50 meters. Before I crossed the street I noticed there were two gardeners on both sides of the 1. 5 meter wide street pavement with a grass cutting machine on each gardener. They were both outside the street pavement but they were both pointed their grass cutting machines to the end of each side of the street pavement. They were cutting the newly planted plantation at the end of each side of the street pavement. I saw there were several other gardeners on far left of the left gardeners. I also noticed they all used brand new expensive uniforms, caps and maskers. I knew they weren't the regular gardeners. I recalled the regular gardeners wore different color uniforms and they were old cheap uniforms.

At that point I regressed a planting information that says those two gardeners are planning to make me paralyze from waist down by cutting both of my Achilles tendons with their grass cutting machines. My adrenaline has been very high in the past few days. I was also on high alert. The reason was because the Death Shove warlock-executioner tried to kill me again last Sunday, September 2, 2018 at 14:30 in a busway shelter, Halte Busway Monas 1-14/2-2. He already tried to kill me on Thursday, February 25,2016 at 15:59 on the side walk across Istana Merdeka. Jl. Medan Merdeka Utara, Jakarta, Indonesia. Yaris the Ruby's dagger warlock-executioner is the Freemasonry Protestant Church warlock-executioner. He is 160 cm in height with a chubby build and a very scary face. Si Gembel the Death Shove warlock-executioner is the Freemasonry HKBP Huria Kristen Batak Protestan warlock-executioner. He is 160 cm in height with a very slim build and a very scary and hypnotic face, eyes and musang-style mustache. The reason Yaris is not as scary as si Gembel is because Yaris trapped the souls of the evil people he killed in his demon-killer dagger and si Gembel trapped the souls of the evil people he killed in his own body because he killed his marks with bared hands. I regressed a planting information that says the bone of a dead Death Shove warlock-executioner is the worst poison for a man soul. Back to sidewalk where I stood up and watched the two gardeners in their dancing formation. I decided not to cross the 3 lanes street and walk through the Gardeners' Gate. I decided not to dance with those gardeners. So I walked following the traffic flow for another 100 meters and used the pedestrian bridge of the busway shelter, Halte Busway SMK 57 6-3. Then I walked another 200 meters to the House of God.

I will write a full report on this and find out what is dancing with the gardeners is all about but it is going to take some time.

Best regards,

JAD.

P.S. I have an emergency situation. I always heard sounds of a heavy movement, sawing or filling activities, sweeping activities behind the ceiling of my room. Warso who had been working in my parents' house as our gardener / maid / cook for 32 years had convinced me that they were activities of a cat or a musang. I have been waking up with fever for an hour since Monday. Last night I woke up at 02:00 where I experienced a soul take over. I regained control after I ran to my parents room while praying surah Al-Fatihah. I noticed there was a heavy activity of sawing or filling activities and sweeping activities behind the ceiling of my room and from time to time I saw flash lights between the corner ceiling and the corner wall of my room. At that point I realized a cat or a musang doesn't know how to use a flash light. Then I rushed to Warso's room and I found out his room was locked. I regressed a planting information that says he is sawing or filling a bone of a dead Death Shove warlock-executioner and sweeping the dust of the bone of a dead Death Shove warlock-executioner to the corner ceiling and the corner wall of my room where there is a hole so he can shower me with the dust of the bone of a dead Death Shove warlock-executioner with the help of an electric fan in my room the air conditioner is not working. The dust of the bone of a dead Death Shove warlock-executioner is very evil. Warso is supposed to be an Indonesian Muslim of Javanese tribe. I really have no idea how he can possess a bone of a dead Death Shove warlock-executioner. I started to realize he has been poisoning me with the dust of the bone of a dead Death Shove warlock-executioner for years. I regressed a planting information that says the evil King Messiah will kill his parents and his siblings. My father screwed up financially and very hard headed. My mother also made big financial problems in the past. Lately, I had to face the fact that my own brother's mind was poisoned by an Indonesian Muslim of Javanese tribe KPH Kanjeng Pangeran Haryo Japto "Yapto" Soelistyo Soerjosoemarno to work against me becoming King Messiah. Last time I was in Singapore I also had to face the fact that my own sister was willing to sacrifice me so she can continue to live out her good life with her own family. I started to realize my whole life is full of conditioning so I will kill my own parents and my own siblings. I found out last night it was Warso who has been working on the poisoning my mind side so I will kill my own parents and my own siblings.

I don't want to be an evil King Messiah. I want to be a good King Messiah. Eric, could you help me on this.