(A compilation of my Sunday shopping spree. Damn, I kinda regret that I didn’t bring my camera yesterday. No pict for this post…)

Yesterday was the first day I got the chance to roam the famed (or infamed??) city of Jakarta again after been one month working at isolated rig in Seram Island.

Like usual, I terrorized as much malls as I could lay my step on.

Plaza Semanggi was the first choice.

Not a that-hi-class mall, but then again, I came here to attend a Sunday service (need sin-cleansing maaah). Not a bad choice, the preacher was funny enough to induce five- second-long laugh I hadn’t had for quite some time. (just imagine I “HA HA Ha He He He” five seconds, you got the pretty much of the idea).

One thing I got from his preach I liked the most: “Enjoy what you’d earned”

Well, I think I like it because it’s the best excuse for my shopping freak problem.

Plaza Indonesia was the next. 

The whole first floor was totally untouchable. The price was fomidable. You’d know instantly that people roaming inside the shops on the first floor were the one you should pay respect in succeeding to earn what they can spend, in whatever way they might have earned that. (hm, a gigolo is still worth respect, since they make the far-flung effort to humble their pride in serving the best they can, to aunties… you-happy-me-happy kind of service always sounds promising, agree not…?).

Nope it was not within my price range. Even though I had the power to spend such amount, it was not within my lifestyle. (Did I have such power? totally bullshitting here.. :P)

So we went to the modest lower ground. 

Ak’sara bookstore.

A favorite place to buy books for me lately. Since I stopped did less reading thriller or suspense novels and switched to more meaningful and entertaining-in-literary-sense books (like one by literature award recipient authors. I am totally so deserved to be slain for this arrogant statement of change of my book taste), Ak’sara was definitely a nice place to browse.

I got a Mark Haddon’s book I had been curious to browse (the title was kinda long and peculiar: something to do with night time, dog, and incident). It’s an International bestseller (so what, geek??).

I liked his other book which I had bought and read in continuous period (Somehow I always do ‘read-stop-read-stop’ for books I don’t really like. The read and stop period lasted usually several days to several years…. hehe). So I really hope I would fall in doomed love with this one since it got more acclaims than the one I had read.

(NOTE: Talk about Mark Haddon, it is claimed he had been actively writing books for autist kids. I wonder my liking to his book has anything to do with my autism…. shit)

Next destination: ZARA. Their T-Shirt never suited me well (though I like one particular T-shirt pretty much I once laid my eyes upon and then later laid my money upon). But then I had started to buy its jacket (a green one, a actually-not-my-favorite color, yet my girl-friend told me I looked good and I believed), so I thought browsing another item here wouldn’t kill.

I got a dark shirt. I bought it after 3-1 supporting vote (T&G said I looked damn fantastic [sorry guys, I used your names to lie a lil bit. LOL], and M liked the arms). Well, 1 vote (from S) actually said I looked like HK Boyband wearing that. She didn’t like the look. Well, I thought, what’s wrong with HK Boyband?? F4, Comic boys, 5566 (whatelse ahh?). They had pretty much fans as I could remember, and people actually screamed and cried and fainted for them, didn’t they. And some girls could die for F4. Since nobody ever fainted, cried, screamed, and was ready to die for me, why not started to try to make them?

So I bought it. 

Next we went to EX.

A mall full of gays, or so they say. 

I personally don’t know why gays like this mall. It’s small. It’s two floors only. It can be walked in one hour (assuming you are not in the worse-level-of-shopping-freak, not dining, and not sitting around on the sofa on first floor watching a performin’ band on the stage). 

Then why we came here liiih?? The XXI theatre. This theatre couch was damn good.

We watched “Body of Lies” starring Leonardo di Caprio and Russel Crowe. My impression: Gosh, I hate Leo with his ’stache. Gosh, Crowe was so fat now ahh!? 

(My verdict: 8.352546723414854925575327745/10.00.

Crowe hadn’t acted as good since Cinderella Man and Beautiful Mind. But I still like his acting. Leo was wonderful [his pretty face was enough, no? LOL. I always think he had tons of expression to expose, which was crucial for an actor, so yes, his acting was good]. The story was what I didn’t really like. Yes I liked the twist and plot. I like the theme. Yet some parts of the story turned out to be forceful. There was the lady-factor thing. There was the rather-quick resolve of the ending. etc)

Like I said. The couch was good! Try them. Soft, Fluffy, lotsa leg-space. And BCA Buy 1 Get 1 applied there too. Oh yeah, the AC worked well. The sound was …. so-so lah I guess. And the screen was…. like other xxi lah i guess (again). :)
Oh yeah, we went to pizza before that for lunch. I was kinda tired with pizza, so I just passed and ate 1.5 slices of bread instead (not that delicious. I still like Secret Recipe’s tarts better. PH made pizza, not tarts, stop doing collateral side menu laaah).

I didn’t know in what name Athena struck me (the choice of this god has no relevance or significance at all), I bought another Nike Free 7.0 shoe at PI (I didn’t know crap about what Free and 7.0 mean, but it feels good on my sole). A white one (totally against my policy to never have white shoes - since they got dirty easy and I’d be too lazy to clean). And it had this orangy streak I had liked the moment I saw them. So I spent another sum of money. FREAK!

After that, we headed to PP. Some friends did not have enough integrity to walk with us so they left early (no offense guys. but no love there too for you here. hehe).

This mall was so crammed with lack of visitors I wanted to fill it with scream. (exaggerate mode). But where all the consumers gone ah? It was Sunday, it was dinner-time, and nobody in sight. I could see the stores were crying blood to beckon people to come. 

Anyway, we just went to another Ak’sara here. New store. I didn’t see it 5 weeks earlier. I like its facade of unpainted brickwork (or false brickwork ar?). But didn’t get what I looked for. Too bad. Bad bad bookstoore (need some spankin’. i’d happily spank the cashier girls. bad bad)

So we looked for food instead. Too tired to try cost-quite-a-lot meals. I wanted to eat Baso, Sate, Soto, or the kind. Where to look lih? Solaria. Cheap, not that bad, and … (dunno what to add after ‘and’..).

Yea I know I couldn’t get Sate or Soto there. I had Baso though. Well, I had to admit that tek-tek Baso tasted better (rat meat, possibly? why, it’s still animal anyway. haha).

and then we went home. unusually early. pity some people still had to go to work the day after.

uploaded some photos to the facebook. Watched some porns (17++ or 21++ in some US states). Jerked something (PG17 man stuff). And slept. (I didn’t commit any of those atrocities whatsoever. See, I didn’t put subject. I mean “somebody” did all that)

So yes, my day was pretty spent. Just wish there were more people…