A Jail Restaurant

Most come in black

I am here again decided to hide somewhere out of home. All things I've planned finally messed. I thought I had two options whether going to Woot Coffee around Gunawarman, which is the same place as Martabak Boss or a popular coffee shop in Sudirman. Ok, I opted to go to Citywalk Sudirman for Common Grounds. The coffee shop located right in the right side near the main gate and I could see many people were having good time there with fellas. Though I saw some sofas available inside the shop but I decided to leave for another option, which I actually still didn’t know :D. I saw Starbucks but hell it's been out of my list. I don't know why I always find it too crowded in almost all of its locations.

Headline of Old Town Post

Then on the ground floor, I just have to decide between Bengawan Solo or another which is where I am sitting right now. This is Bong Kopitown. They write at the front that this is gonna be a jail restaurant. Yeah, from the hope that visitors would be pleasure to visit jail at a restaurant or maybe restaurant in jail? Wkwkwk, this is it Bong Kopitown found by Bong Chandra. They have had some branches in Jakarta and one in Yogyakarta.

Seen from the menu, they don’t have any special kind of foods or certain drinks. All are same just like the other kopitiam. They serve Iced Chocolate, Teh Tarik, Lychee Tea, carved Mango iced drink. I am ordering Lychee Tea and fried fish meatball a.k.a otak-otak kalo dari rasanya sih. Another option you can choose is like Kaya Toast, French Fries, Fried Banana with Kaya, or some light meals such as Fried Rice and variants of noodles. Something different is about the concept. They have three jails. Each can fill up to 5 people. While its menu list served in a newspaper. The headline contains of information about Bong Chandra and the profile of Bong Kopitown. Then when you try to turn other pages, it’s where you can see all the menu. Price is really reasonable, don’t worry. Waiter and waitress here are wearing uniform just like most of prisoners do. They come in a white and black striped shirts.

Iced Lychee Tea and Otak-Otak

If you ask me whether this is cozy, I think I’d still prefer to be in a real coffee shop which is not at mall. It’s gonna give me less crowd, more serene, and not having much people come back and forth passing by the place. This place playing some of my fucking favorite songs recently and I always skipped the time to put my headset on bcs I realized there’s gonna be a good song after that. Indonesian romantic songs which make me think deeply and just throw a wide smile bcs I really feel it. Great ti! Great banget!

See The Jail

Glad that tomorrow is the Independence Day so off from work for one more day. I am still trying to look for appropriate job. Yaudah lah ya kalo rejeki mah gak kemana. Santai aja karena biasanya the good things happened unexpectedly and it’s where the happiness usually come from. When you expect nothing but you’re given more. Yah setidaknya ini untuk bikin diri gak stress-stres amat tapi usaha dan berdoa tetep.

Last night, some friends invited me to the deep conversation about future, especially about marriage. About the right time for us to get married, about finding the right guy we deserve, and the bla bla bla. Oh please! I am out. Bye!

Central Jakarta says hi to you, folks!

What John Green Says

I think I do agree when John Green says that “Pain demands to be felt”. While some people say that love will come along with pain. Is that even true?

Nobody hopes to feel the fucking pain but sometimes pain forces us to be strong and even stronger. I know it sucks and fuck about pain. Pain makes you cry, pain makes you fall down, and it sometimes makes you just want to give up. Maybe for someone who’s too dramatic to feel the pain, he/she just wants to end life so that the pain would be dead too. Fuck it! They’re too weak You think death is just the only way to end your pain? Fuck no!

Everybody hates pain but sometimes you forget to realize that it forces you to be strong and even stronger. Maybe this will sound too classic but for whatever you think fuck with pain, just believe that it would be a door step to find your happiness. If you’re in pain or when you worry about something, you can cry. It’s not only woman should cry but so does a man. Don’t ever think that man should look strong so that he should hide his tears. Man even cries sometimes and when he does, you have to believe that man will cry for something really matters for him. Sometimes he feels so weak, he can’t even fix problems, he worries about future, he’s afraid to lose somebody he loves, and stuffs. 

Yes, it’s true that pain demands to be felt, to be felt by anybody. Just find somebody you think he/she is strong enough. They must be ever feeling that fucking pain. I bet!

You don’t know when you’re happy when you never even feel pain, right?

A Day Off

Two days ago, when I wasn’t in charge for work. It’s been such a fucking long time I didn’t sit at coffee shop, having solo quality time. I intended to do the translation given while look for the job from online website at the same time. Kopikina wasn’t my target in the first place but Casa Verde right across Fat Bubble in Tebet. I arrived at 11 pm and the found it was closed. Shit! Therefore I should look for another place and Kopikina came firstly to my mind.

Wooden Homey Chairs and Tables

I wasn’t their first customer. There were two guys in separate table, spending time also with only their gadget or idk if maybe they were waiting for friends or something. I told mas asong days before that I was dying to grab a glass of cappuccino but we didn’t have time. Well, I thought I planned to be on diet bcs I was scared that kebaya I’ve paid wouldn’t fit enough on August 28 but hell this is completely hard. So, yeah who cares when I am having a normal portion of meal and added by hot cappuccino which is having so many calories, I can tell. 

Noon and Traffic Doesn't Wanna Leave

I should say this more like a coffee house. I just simply feel like being at home or maybe more like into a coffee house out of town. Nothing seems so fancy or modern. No sofa, No advanced coffee machine, nothing like a good and great smell toilet. It’s far from what it should be. Like, you know it is located near the central business district, people will pass it by when they go to their offices around Tebet or Kuningan. This is located in your left side near flyover before Kota Kasablanka if you are going from Tebet Train Station. God, I remember almost everyday I pass this place in morning when I trapped in traffic jam bcs I have to go with all the workers in the office hour. But at that moment, I could easily and simply just sit down, enjoy my cappuccino, open youtube which I have left for quite a long, and of course surf about the job I was interested to. I thought a lot about career. Oh come on! Most of my friends have applied at least to one company while I still do nothing? Not even try to look for it. Terrible, isn’t it? Makanya kemaren mulai masa pencarian. Alhamdulillah ya punya kesadaran akhirnya untuk serius nyari kerja. While the updated info is that this almost fixed I am not gonna submit my journal. Alasannya, SIAK gue udah ada tulisan lulusnya, toga dan undangan wisuda udah di tangan, trus apakah gue salah kalo gue mager buat jurnal? :")

Hot Cappuccino in a Hot Day

Kopikina actually provides variants of original coffee from Indonesia. I can’t name it all but almost everything is named based on the area it is coming from. There is also kind of green tea latte and I wonder how they can cost it only 25k. Remember that I’m there bcs of cappuccino so stick to the plan.