Trip to Jakarta

Last weekend was so fun. My dad, my mom, my brother and I went to Jakarta to see the first Bazaar Art Jakarta 2009 at Pacific Place, Ritz Carlton. Bazaar Art Jakarta is a magnificent bazaar which give the opportunity for galleries, art communities, artists and visitors to express artsy painting, drawing, photograph, drawing, sculpture and other form of arts works. It provides a different kind of arts; Indonesia Contemporary Arts and Islamic Arts. This event is a right place to spread the art, especially from Indonesia, all over the world. I’m very proud that one of my Dad’s painting was displayed at this exhibition. It’s one of his greatest joy in his life as well as his achievement for his art career. People saw his painting, and for me the response was great. At times, he works in our house for several hours straight.  Above all his strives to achieve a great painting and an emotional response from the viewer, finally all his work hard has paid off. But I know he won’t stop after this, I know he will always be a working artist.

I was freaked out by extensive Ritz Carlton Security, it’s so tight and it’s considered as the tightest security in Jakarta. The Pacific Place – Ritz Carlton is awesome, it’s so freaking huge and tall. I bet you’ll get tired if you walk around the building. From Ritz Carlton, we decided to go to Museum Fathahilah but too bad it had closed. It was 14.30 WIB so we went to Istiqlal to pray Dhuzur. My dad wanted us to wait up there to pray Ashar Jama’ah so we had to stay for a while. A couple hours later, on our way to get home, we had to “buka puasa” at the rest area yeah it was Maghrib though. So we ordered meals from KFC. It was not that good, we didn’t like it but I had no choice. I share this story today because it is one of the best experience as well as my dad’s. It was such a fun family trip. I enjoyed this trip so much.

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