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  jakarta shenanigans
last year i interned in Jakarta! the big busy beautiful capital city. i was there for around 2 months, bust screw intern!! i went to a lot of places and dates in Jakarta since it was so close to boyf's home, so he took me around literally every weekend bc maybe partly this has been both our dreams--to go on dates freely in his hometown LOL. such smol dream. but finally realised.

typical work/intern days include:



our office was all the way up on the 53rd level can you believe?!?! elevator rides were absolutely mind-numbing and took all the time in the world unfortunately, but the view is breathtaking. back in my hometown you only get views like those when you climb up a mountain or go to batu LOL. the work itself was quite tough on us tbh, as we spent the first 2 weeks just rolling around doing nothing. the rest of the time we negotiated into not having to come in to the office everyday as our places were quite far (half-1 hour ride each), and also that we needed stable wifi which our office didn't have since they couldn't grant access to us (since we were merely internees). right until the end we only had to go in twice a week which made my stress level decrease so dramatically since doing work at my own pace and place was so much more my forte yfeel?



during the weekends we went to lots and lots of places! mainly with boyf (as i've mentioned) but also with citra. it felt like she was the only friend i had in that big city but it wasn't like she was actually my only friend LOL i had my whole squad in jakarta at the same time, and my src friends were mostly there as well. but they were there because it was their home so obviously them being back home would also bring out house rules and curfews. and mostly because we were all there to intern so weekdays = work days sigh. jobs to do, places to be, things to finish, sleep schedules to maintain. most of the time i would come over to her place to sleepover and just talk shit about both of our living alone for the first time moments ahahaha. bless her.



on weekdays boyf kept saying that it's okay for me to ask for him to accompany me places after work but he finishes pretty late and i just felt bad because his house is like an hour away from his workplace lmao rip. but at least his workplace wasn't even 10 mins away from my place LOL perks. during the weekends we went to dufan which i haven't gone to in more than a decade holy shit, can you believe. i can't say that much has changed around there because last time i went i was like SIX YEARS OLD but i do remember some things that didn't change. why did we have to visit dufan twice, you ask? because i bought a yearly pass (it was all they had) and i didn't want it to go to waste lmao. other weekends we went to jakarta aquarium as it was in one of the places i wanted to visit, museum macan for the same reason, went on movie runs, starbucks runs while doing our individual work, etcetc. all good things, all good things.


my birthday coincidentally fell during a saturday and during my time in jakarta! so obviously boyf and i took this fucking golden opportunity to celebrate it together without a care in the world. i mean, i wasn't home!!! imagine. so we went to museum BI (bank indonesia), walked around kota tua, had lunch in kfc bc if i remember it was the only decent place around there to get food HAHAHA. afterwards we went somewhere in north jakarta to get kripsy kreme AHHHHH best donuts on earth. the day before (friday) he actually came over to my place after work and pulled out an uncle tetsu cheesecake at midnight this dude.... i mentioned it to him once while we were out that people said uncle tetsu has one of the best fluffy cheesecake and that i'd never tasted it anddddd he pulled it out on my birthday i cant



grocery runs were also accompanied by le boyf as i needed a personal transport medium which i didn't have but he did (and because i wanted to be accompanied hehehe). can i also just say though, car rides with boyf are fun as fuck maybe because back here we can't do those. idk, it feels so refreshing to see him actually drive a car yknow. meh anyway. after intern officially ended i had a week to myself until mum and sis visits me in jakarta and we all inevitably go home together. i decided to spend the week by staying in (more) and going out to the national library! boiiiiii let me tell y'all. it was gorgeous. the place was super duper comfortable to stay all day in, the wifi was stable, the ac was the right temperature, everything was perfect. no registration fee, had a cafeteria, man do i regret not going there sooner. i long for a place like that here in my hometown but so far there's none that compares to the national library. the sheer cozyness. damn.


throughout my whole time in jakarta, i took my disposable camera with me! definitely still learning the basics and hacks on how to shoot film properly, so not a lot of shots turned out as hoped. but the ones that did, i love them all!!!! aaaghhhhh ehm i just realised upon publishing this post that the photos i labelled dufan 2.0 were in fact dufan 1.0 LOL apologies.


and soooo as the week ended, mum and sis came over and we all eventually went home together. back to reality of uni! my time in jakarta was so eventful and i'd definitely do it again in a heartbeat. jakarta, i miss you already!



thanku for reading, yet again!





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