Archive for December, 2007

Which one you choose: Pertamina GazCard vs BCA Flazz

After long rumor and planning (as I wrote in Teknolagi), you may notice that more and more fuel gas station in Jakarta (may be other cities in Indonesia) and suburbs are equipped with BCA EDC, BCA Flazz, and Bank Mandiri - Pertamina GazCard. Flazz and GazCard are contact-less smartcard, which just have to tap card […]

Watching TV on demand via WOWtv

Indonesia just have a new TV channel. This time it is internet-based TV On demand as I believe the first player in Indonesia. Its name is WOWtv at http://www.wowtv.co.id . All you need is internet broadband access in which I believe still a luxury thing even in Jakarta. So the market is very small because […]

Movie Review: Warlords (投名状)

My Ratings: 8 of 10
Synopsis (a bit spoiler): The nineteenth century was an era of conflict: the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of the German Empire in Europe; the Civil War in America; the Meiji Restoration in Japan; the Opium War in China followed by the Taiping Rebellion in Nanjing… all critical events that shaped […]

Belah Mangga

Another intermezzo: Musim Mangga here in Jakarta, so for the entire of the month, I get abundant of mangga: harum manis and manalagi.
Quite cheap, only 3000-3500/kg for Harum Manis and Rp 5500/kg for Manalagi.
Unfortunately, this time I got bad one of Manalagi, not to sweet but still okay lahh.
There are 2 ways to eat mango, […]

Lego City at Senayan: The biggest in Asia

Took my chance to Senayan City Shopping Mall yesterday (Dec 9), there were exhibition from Lego that claimed the biggest constructed Lego City in Asia, well I might be believe the claim. See my taken pics. There were also Lego-constructed Darth Vader in Lego Star War edition. I estimated it was 10 by 10 metres […]

Visit Indonesia? It would be better to Visit Bali 2008 only

Don’t say if I’m not a nationalist. After living my entire life in Indonesia, I just can think a place in Indonesia as a tourist heaven: Bali. Other places are beautiful, but not much developed compared to Bali.
Indonesian Tourism just relaunch its website http://www.my-indonesia.info/ to promote year 2008 as Visit Indonesia year, if you know […]