Jakarta

No worries, I hope you enjoy the game. I have little interest in American Football, but may be there depending on my schedule, as I usually go in early for a coffee and to check emails. I want to say also that I didn't mean to give the impression I was picking a fight with Smoothie, he's a wealth of information and someone who has given a lot more to this board than I have over the years. We've probably bumped into each other dozens of times, but are unaware of each others' real-world identity. Smoothie, if you do introduce yourself to me, I'll gladly buy you a beer. I think maybe the fact that he goes in later has lead him to believe the bar does not open as early as it does, but I am there regularly between 7 and 8 am and can testify that there are staff there at that time. If the main door through the lobby is not open, you can enter through the side, BTW.

[QUOTE=BoneRoller;1664520]Thanks guys, despite the difference of opinion here, this is all useful information.

OK, well I will swing by there a day early and make sure someone will be there, serving something and will have a screen at which I can scream once in a while. For anyone who is in the neighborhood and cares about the game, I'll be wearing my bright yellow shirt. If you holler a go ducks at me, the first round is on me. Buckeye fans welcomed too, but you still have to holler. I apologize in advance if I have the previous night's troll sitting bewildered at my table as well.

Bone Roller[/QUOTE]

So I hear the city is pretty much fucked due to heavy flooding.

Have any of you mongers been seriously affected by this?

[QUOTE=WorldJockey;1665003]So I hear the city is pretty much fucked due to heavy flooding.

Have any of you mongers been seriously affected by this?[/QUOTE]Not sure where, but south and central are free from water today.

[QUOTE=HardHatMate;1665011]Not sure where, but south and central are free from water today.[/QUOTE]The old town was trouble-free over the weekend. Today only slight rain in the morning, now sunny.

[QUOTE=KoperenKarel;1665082]The old town was trouble-free over the weekend. Today only slight rain in the morning, now sunny.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=HardHatMate;1665011]Not sure where, but south and central are free from water today.[/QUOTE]Cheers and thanks I guess I don't have to pack that blow up raft after all.

Some of you may remember Novi Tinggi from Maribaya. Some two years ago she quit working there to become aerobics and yoga teacher. A few weeks ago she contacted me via Facebook and we agreed to meet when I was in Jakarta again. She said she had had no sex since she left Maribaya and you could tell. All that aerobics had made her very tight indeed and it took some oil to enter her. She still does an amazing blowjob and when she is really into it she also starts rimming like in the old days :-) .

Pictures in the photo thread.

Regards,

Ko.

Yesterday I was at D's Place (now under new ownership, mr. John, according to the girls) and I re-established contact with Ayu, already dancing there for some time. She is the one wearing the shortest dress with a string underneath. I took her to the VIP-room together with her colleague Cha Cha and got one of the best BJ's I had there for quite some time. Back in the bar we talked for a while and I invited her to my room with her colleague Mila (already early 30's but new at D's).

Of course they were one hour late due to macet, but we spent an enjoyable couple of hour together. 700 k + taxi for each.

Both are not exactly large breasted and visibly had kids, but are still tight and are eager to please.

Pictures in the photo thread.

Regards,

Ko.

[QUOTE=WorldJockey;1665003]So I hear the city is pretty much fucked due to heavy flooding.

Have any of you mongers been seriously affected by this?[/QUOTE]Maybe you got this idea from the increasing amount of reports about Jakarta sinking below sea level. That is a major problem and has been discussed briefly in this thread some time ago. The government and the city have started investing billions of dollars to prevent flooding, so it should turn out all right. The rainy season is expected to start late January.

Regards,

Ko.

I agree that the notion that Jakarta is always flooded in the rainy season is ill-put. There might always be an area somewhere in Jakarta that is flooded, but most of the time the areas that are often mentioned in this forum is not affected. So for travelers, flooding is not of an big issue to worry about. By the way Ko, the rainy season have definitely started in Jakarta and the rest of Java, it did so roughly one month ago. You might have confused it with the fact that it was mentioned in the papers today that the peak of the rainy season is expected in the end of January.

Wamena

[QUOTE=KoperenKarel;1665999]Maybe you got this idea from the increasing amount of reports about Jakarta sinking below sea level. That is a major problem and has been discussed briefly in this thread some time ago. The government and the city have started investing billions of dollars to prevent flooding, so it should turn out all right. The rainy season is expected to start late January.

Regards,

Ko.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=KoperenKarel;1665999]The government and the city have started investing billions of dollars to prevent flooding, so it should turn out all right. [/QUOTE]I am sure the billions invested will be well spent and will flow down to the projects.

[QUOTE=HardHatMate;1666270]I am sure the billions invested will be well spent and will flow down to the projects.[/QUOTE]Project execution has actually started and Jokowi is not keen on corruption so things should be better than under all previous presidents.

[QUOTE=TimTimGuy;1661746]I am guessing that neither of you have an Indonesian visa; if so, you will have to buy one before going to the immigration lines. That would be the place to meet. You may have as many as a couple hundred people queued up at the (multiple) windows, but it is the one place where neither of you will be going anywhere until completion.

<SNIP> [/QUOTE]Bit late, but the situation has become more efficient for foreigners. After you have bought your VOA ther is no more queueing; you can walk straight through to the baggage claim. Indonesian citizens have to queue for immigration. Makes a nice change.

[QUOTE=KoperenKarel;1666302]Bit late, but the situation has become more efficient for foreigners. After you have bought your VOA ther is no more queueing; you can walk straight through to the baggage claim. Indonesian citizens have to queue for immigration. Makes a nice change.[/QUOTE]Are you sure about this? It doesn't seem right because one would have to have an immigration officer stamp one's passport, no? As late as last June, after buying the VOA (and occasionally the line for the VOA could reach a hundred or so), you had to then proceed to a line just after the VOA windows where there were immigration officers who were there to process foreigners. Sometimes one could get right through; other times it took fifteen minutes or more. Indonesians and I suppose foreigners who were Indonesian residents had to walk past this area to the normal immigration lines (The one exception was on certain Garuda flights immigration was done on board (and VOAs could be paid for at the foreign airport, such as Narita)).

Has the procedure changed since last June?

[QUOTE=LAGuy5;1666307]Are you sure about this? It doesn't seem right because one would have to have an immigration officer stamp one's passport, no? As late as last June, after buying the VOA (and occasionally the line for the VOA could reach a hundred or so), you had to then proceed to a line just after the VOA windows where there were immigration officers who were there to process foreigners. Sometimes one could get right through; other times it took fifteen minutes or more. Indonesians and I suppose foreigners who were Indonesian residents had to walk past this area to the normal immigration lines (The one exception was on certain Garuda flights immigration was done on board (and VOAs could be paid for at the foreign airport, such as Narita)).

Has the procedure changed since last June?[/QUOTE]In June it was like this already. You bought your VoA (I always arrive by KLM, by the way), got your passport and immigration form stamped and followed the sign "exit". This guides you straight to the baggage claim area.

Indnesian citizens line up for a number of immigration desks. After you retrieve your baggage you proceed to the exit where part of the passengers are randomly selected to put their bags through the scanner. I just handed in the blue customs form and was waved through last December. Fastest arrival ever.

Regards,

Ko.

[QUOTE=KoperenKarel;1666351]In June it was like this already. You bought your VoA (I always arrive by KLM, by the way), got your passport and immigration form stamped and followed the sign "exit". This guides you straight to the baggage claim area.

Indnesian citizens line up for a number of immigration desks. After you retrieve your baggage you proceed to the exit where part of the passengers are randomly selected to put their bags through the scanner. I just handed in the blue customs form and was waved through last December. Fastest arrival ever.

Regards,

Ko.[/QUOTE]Maybe your flight was an exception. I arrived about a month ago from Europe and had to queue two times: to buy the voa and to have the visa glued in my passport. Later, arriving from Sydney, things were taken care of in the plane after paying for the voa at Sydney airport.