A Walk To Remember
Trying to look for a nice place to "escape", me and a friend of mine went for a ride to go around jakarta yesterday. Using his motorcycle, we started our journey from my boarding house at Bintaro, Tangerang.
Our first destination was Jakarta International Expo or well known as "Pekan Raya Jakarta (PRJ)", occured in Kemayoran, North Jakarta –> you can imagine how far it was, took half an hour to go by motorcycle, hehehe. As we arrived, I was so excited that I could find so many outlets from all over Indonesia that occured in order to perform, exhibit, and promote their products –> For your info, that was my very first time going to PRJ, no wonder I was so excited then, hehehe.
There were so many products that they promoted; electronics, furnitures, vehicles, souvenirs, handicrafts, and absolutely, food festival. They were arranged separately, one group item in one big fully air conditioned hall. One thing’s for sure, you didn’t have to worry that you’d get lost ’cause it’s arranged tidily from hall to hall, and there were so many guidances and information centers that would help you whenever you met a problem. And the most important thing is, it has some quite well-maintained public facilities; "Musholla", restrooms, and parking areas. Believe me, it was a real heaven for people who like window-shopping like me…!!! I really want to go there for more often but unfortunately, I forget when it’d be over. I heard that it’d be last at the end of July but I don’t know exactly.
Got exhausted after going around the halls, my friend and I left the PRJ area. We decided to look for another place to go. Then we went to Glodok, a place where we can find any electronic stuffs and gadgets. Some people say that we can get them in a lower price there. But you know, as we mention "a cheaper thing", no one could ever guarrantee that "this thing" is original, manufactured straight from its brand. So you don’t have to be surprised when you can find so many illegally pirated CDs, DVDs, MP3s and so on there. That’s heaven for people who like "cheating" on rules (just like me, hehehe…). One thing that had successfully made me shocked, you could also find extremely showed exhibition of "blue films" everywhere…!!! Gosh…no wonder the rape rate is growing fast nowadays…
Felt disgusting with those "stuffs", I decided to leave Glodok and found another place to go. Got confused, finally we stopped at Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM), Cikini. Actually we really had no idea what we were gonna do there. But then I saw a ban which told us that there was a show held by planetarium there. Felt curious, then I asked my friend to watch that show. Never thought that it would be so fun. It’s so amazing…!!! We were in a gigantic studio (that’s arranged as if we were in an "Apollo"), and we were explained about the histories of the stars above, our mighty galaxy, and theories about how this universe occured. When we looked at the up above, it’s as if we were looking at the thousands twinkling stars of the night blue sky…God…then I realized that You’re all The Almighty…(and I was just a little dust amongst the all yours that You’ve created…)
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I went home with so much unexplainable feelings…
Well…that’s all what I called "a walk to remember"…
Never knew that I could be so touched…
Thanks God………………..
