2nd of February, 2007

Written on Feb 5, 2007


Friday morning rain fell down really hard, in fact since Thursday nite, as if it wouldn't stop. Me and Crey were about goin to office, we texted each other while still lying lazily on bed. This Friday was a casual day for our office, n we would have end month dinner at Hanamasa, GM Plaza.
Me and Crey ended up deciding 2 take a taxi. Crey couldn't get a single avalable taxi, that she walked to my place. Then we walked together, trying to find one, under one umbrella. Standing for almost half an hour, no one single taxi could we get. Either bcoz it's occupied by other people, or we're unlucky competing with other people who stood not far from us.
We walked n walked, trying to find a better place to wait, untill we found public transport (angkot, red-). We sat in front. It was 9 o'clock already when the angkot stopped nearby the office. We still needed 2 walk to Metropolitan 1 building. Thank God my senior manager could acept our tardiness. In fact there were several people coming worse later than us.
Starting to work, i think it was next to useless. Everybody that i called was not in d office bcoz of the flood. But i managed to get i mobile number of a managing director of a pharma company. At first, i was afraid he would cold me bcoz h was at home, but i called him still though:P. Thx God he responded well.
The phone lines got down b4 lunch time. We could hardly make a call. So after lunch we gathered in d board room, sharing, discussing, brainstorming about how 2 handle objections and how 2 close a deal. Engaged in d funny conversation, 5 PM was just about 10 minutes to go. Leaving the office together, we walked 2 karet, the nearest Trans Jkt stop. We walked, took pictures and chat lively.
Then we found out that Trans jkt (alias Busway) stopped operating. Ow man... I think this is the first time. Crazy....Jakarta bow, the capital city of this country was paralyzed by rain. Bloody long traffic jam, flooding, no phone line working, only with d same operator and SMS. Several banks ATM and credit card even couldn't be used.
I was wondering whether Sutiyoso and his majors care about it. Whether they're having a meeting now to find out how to handle it, or whether all of them in fact now are sleeping with the thick blanket, and take it as annual holiday bonus????????
Anyway, after times of bargaining. We managed to get a small bus (Kopaja, red-) that we paid especially to take us to GM plaza. Obviously it was once in alife time that Marcus Evans takes this old-non AC-speeding driver-dirty-bus. But we took it as fun anyway.....
News on TV are about flood, flood and flood.....
This is my first experience living in Jakarta with flood. 2002, i was in Bogor that i wasn't really afraid of it. But now.....Ow God.....
Only around 1 km from my place the flood reaches 4 meters oledi....
I'm praying the flood won't reach my place....and that water will be dried soon.............