Beware! This is going to be the longest entry that I’ve ever posted. Don’t tell me that I didn’t warn you!

It’s March already, meaning there’s less than a month till I turn 21 this year. Eekk.. Whoa, I am getting old. Finally, the cardiovascular module came to an end after long 6 freaking weeks! Seriously, this is the toughest module that I’ve been through. All the diseases related to the heart and blood vessels are just too much. The last day of exam, Raje and I went out together to have fun coz if I just stayed at home, I would probably end up sulking all alone in my room since the last paper was tough as hell. Initially, we wanted to watch this Indonesian movie, Ayat-ayat Cinta with the others but then we decided not to since we weren’t that excited to watch it after all.

So yeah, we went to Kelapa Gading Mall (Yea, just the two of us.. I hope Mie won’t mind. Lol~). Had lunch at Burger King which has just opened. I was literally in heaven! Burger King has always been my favourite and there are not many Burger King outlets here.

See my happy face? I can’t believe that I actually could finish up that one huge burger.

My friend, Raje. We got the same pose!

After having our lunch, we headed to the bowling arena. It has been ages since the last time I played bowling. Raje was convinced that she is a worse player than I am. Everytime I came across with people saying that they’re not good, it turns out that I’m much worse than them. So yea, the same thing happened that day. Raje beat me by the score of 4. Oh well, at least she did beat me right.

Us after the game was over.

Yes, surprisingly, I got a strike in the first round. I couldn’t believe it myself either. Yea2, we know. We really do suck big time.

Before the game ended, we made a deal. Whoever wins the game, she would treat the other one an ice cream. So yea, Raje won and so she treated me with Monas, A&W ice cream! Yay! Thanks hun! I just loooooveee ice cream. Who doesn’t anyway?

Ice cream lovers!

We spent our time there for quite some time. After playing bowling, we just strolled around the mall blindly. We did some window shopping anyway. We entered the shops, we took a look at the stuffs there, commented on everything that we saw, laughed like mad, and went out. We did that for every freaking shop and I’ve never thought that it could be that fun. There was also one time we were tegur by this pak guard for taking pictures inside the mall. Man, what’s wrong with that? I remembered I took lotsa pictures in Mid Valley, Sunway Pyramind in Malaysia back then but none of them ever tegur me.

Then we even went to Sogo’s FoodHall where only rich people do grocery shopping there. Man, the things sold there are so expensive! But of course, most of them are not local stuffs. We got excited everytime we came across with Malaysian products. And of course, the prices were damn expensive. Guess how much 165g Cheezels would cost? It was around RM 10. Heck. It’s just a freaking snack, for god’s sake! But we ended up buying one since I craved too much. They had this promotion “buy one free one”, so it would only cost us RM 5 each. It was so scary eveytime I looked at the price. I seriously can’t afford that much. Ask me how many things did I buy there. Cheezels, mandarin oranges, and guavas.

Then, we went back home at around 5 pm since my legs began to ache after the long walking. This was when eveything got so wrong. It started with on our way back home. I’ve never ever met such a rude taxi driver. Okay, I did come across one. Read this post if you wanna find more. I don’t really know what’s wrong with that stupid taxi driver. I think he’s too stupid and he shouldn’t be given a driving license anyway. It all started when he suddenly stopped his car and parked at the road side. Me and Raje were puzzled. Why the heck would he suddenly stop and go out of the car? Not to mention, he never told us that he wanted to stop by. Guess what he wanted to do actually. He stopped just because he wanted to buy some stupid snack at the road side. Hey, we paid him to take us home and he treated us like this?? Some more, he never paused the meter. WTF?!!

Then, we decided not to do anything stupid like asking him why would he suddenly stop by. There were only two of us and some more, we are girls. It was super jammed that evening and the roads started to flood as it was raining heavily that time. I began to get all bored and sleepy due to the long journey. Eveything was fine until we reached some place near our house actually. (The following conversation will be in Indonesian + Malay. It will sound funny if I translate it to English)

Driver: Ini udah sampai di Salemba. (Stupid! This isn’t Salemba. We know our place and we’re not that fool enough to believe you) Tujuannya ke mana?
Raje: Kami mau ke UI Salemba.
Driver: (confused expression) Huh?
Raje: UI Salemba. Universitas Indonesia, Salemba. UNI-VER-SI-TAS IN-DO-NE-SIA! (She repeated for countless of times coz we thought that he might be partially totally deaf.)
Driver: Kampus UI yah? (Then, he started to yell like mad) Bilangnya harus jelas! Sebetulnya KAMPUS UI! Kok nggak bisa berbahasa Indonesia. Sebutannya nggak jelas!! (Man, he was so mad at us for something that was not even our fault!)
Raje: Tadi kan udah bilang Universitas Indonesia! Universitas Indonesia!!
Driver: Nggak!! Sebutannya nggak jelas. Harusnye di bilang Kampus UI!
Me: (Turned to Raje) Huh?? Ape plak kampus UI? Kite dah sebut name panjang UI, apsal die tak paham? Pekak ke? Bodoh!
Driver: Ni harus ke mana?
Me: Ke arah Senen. Belok ke kanan.
Driver: Atas atau bawah? (There was an overbridge ahead)
Me: Bawah ke kanan.
Driver: (He headed to the left which is below the overbridge and replied) Yang bawah nggak bisa belok ke kanan. Hanya yang atas!! (grumpy face)
Me: WTF? Why tell us now and not then?? Stupid!

I was so angry. I’ve never felt this angry. Tension built inside me till I could hardly breathe. I had chest pain and I could feel my heart pumping so strong. How can a person be that stupid? I know that he actually was neither stupid nor deaf. He just pretended to be stupid. He pretended that he couldn’t understand us when we actually spoke very loud and clear. Our Indonesian wasn’t that bad even though we couldn’t speak fluent Indonesian. He just wanted to fool us and take advantage over us. I was totally angry when he mentioned that we didn’t know how to speak Indonesian. He sounded like he wanted to tease us for not being able to speak fluent Indonesian. Stupid! He didn’t have the right to criticize us. I shall speak however I want!

Some more, he pretended that he didn’t know where Salemba is. Hello? Every freaking taxi driver knows where Salemba is. They know what UI stands for. They’ve never told me to say “Kampus UI” instead of UI only. Stupid. What else UI stands for? UI is of course a campus, you silly! Everyone here knows that. If he wanted to pretend, don’t pretend something like this because people would just think that he is too stupid too understand anything.

This stupid taxi driver obviously initially intended to kenakan us. It’s so overrated that taxi drivers tend to take advantage over the foreigners. It’s really disappointing. I won’t say that this only happens right here in Jakarta. Because there are also cases like this happening in other countries as well. But when I think back again, I’m not so sure myself. Hello? This isn’t my first time. My first encounter with another deceitful taxi driver was even worse. Just click the link that I mentioned previously.

Man, I’m so sick of this! And did you notice how many times I used the word “stupid”?