After waiting the whole morning I boarding a new Air Asia Airbus to Jakarta at 13.40pm, schedule arrived at 2.30pm WIB. While waiting to be boarding, I managed to get a few new friends, where one of them is a young creative malay guy, who own a company in Jakarta. Like me he also missed his morning flight.
In the plane, I seated near the window, while two seats before me is occupied by old Indonesian couples from Medan, Sumatra. I'm busying counting the cumulus nimbus and totally ignored the couples. They talking to each other and I overheard that's they are visiting their relative in Perak and Penang and now on the way to Jakarta visit their childrens. Both of them wearing surgery musk, protection against swine flu virus. I saw the wife offer sweet and chocolate to her husband, and they noticed that I'm looking at them.
Suddenly I feel my hand touched and I saw the old man holding some sweets to me, "Sugar Sir", yeah that uncle offer to me some sweets and I just say "Thank You" and in my mind I said" I don't take sugar" hehe
The sugar offer break the ice between me and the old man, we are talking about how closed between people in Indonesia and Malaysia, and he confirm these by saying many of his relative reside in Malaysia and coming to Malaysia is like balik kampung to him. Then I'm talking about culture, where we both share the same culture, and I ask him why some people in Indonesia protesting. The answer are very simple, he said " Iya, benar, banyak yang sama, tetapi pihak Malaysia telah patenkan (patent) most of them, jadi kami di Indonesia akan jadi tukang tiru selepas ini, walhal kebanyakannya asal dari Indonesia". "Oh, Ituu yang sebenarnya" I said.
Yes, our greedy politician never thinking what's other people think.
There's something big waiting at Jakarta Airport, my heart keep beating heavily, wait until we reached there.....
The plane reached Cengkareng Airport on time, still early, about 4pm Malaysian time. I need to find taxi to Bandung, still remember that's bapak telling me, the fare is about RP300,000, so after check up (clearence) from Imigrasi and Indonesia custom, I go to the Taxi counter, asking for single trip to Bandung, to my surprise they asking me RP1ml for 3 hrs trip, try to nego, but they are not to lower then RP800,ooo. It's too expensive to me, guy's next counter offer me RP600,000, I just accepted because the local time shown 4.30 already, at 5.00pm jalannya pasti macet (traffic jam).
The guy took my baggage and proceed to upper floor, where the taxi is waiting for me. It's Suzuki AP MPV style vehicle, drive by 40yrs old man name Komad. I telling him I just pay Rp600k for his service, and he said, "aduhh,, bapak udah di tipu, sepatutnya nggak lebih dari Rp300k". Wah, how come I get cheated by taxi counter, normally taxi driver cheat the passenger. Now I learned new lessons, do not trust any body. we go trough Jakarta highway, I saw many accidents and the supir said " mau cepat, takut macet, langsung jadi lambat". "Oh ya bapak kesini ada urusan apa?" suddenly the driver ask me. I said, "business, ambil barang di Bandung bawa langsung ke Malaysia". Then, " Oh, saya ingat bapak mau ambil mayatnya Nurdin" Wah, that's kills me, who is this guy, why he mention Nurdin (Md Top) the most wanted man in Indonesia. Do I look like Taliban, or he suspected me one of the terrorist?
Quite, I'm in very deep thinking, why he ask me that's. My knee shaking, this is Jakarta, where 25 million people live, every body with their own agenda. What is his agenda, try to kidnap me and .....
