7/21

7/21

Ok, I know it's Wednesday, but I'm doing a recap of the weekend.

So Saturday, I had my 4-hour business class, as usual. After the movie, Meg and I went to the mall and saw the new Harry Potter movie. It was good, but the ending left something to be desired. Plus, I hadn't seen the previous one, so I was a little confused about some parts.

Chrystina later met up with us to go out to dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe in Jakarta. We took the long way as to avoid traffic, and it was a good thing, because it was totally jammed. When we got to the Hard Rock, we sat at the bar, and was still Happy Hour, so we got 2 pitchers of Angker for the price of 1. (beli satu, gratis satu!) I got a bowl of chili and fajitas, which took forever. Pretty decent tho. We had another pitcher after Happy Hour ended, and listened to the live band. There was an older British guy at the bar hitting on Chrystina (which is very typical), and she kept giving me the "kill me now" eyes. Upon leaving, he said, "Ok, goodbye, you crazy Americans!" A little while later, 2 other guys came in, and totally ignored us. 1 shorter, older, rounder guy, and 1 strikingly handsome guy. Chrys was kinda pissed that they didn't even acknowledge us, but when the handsome guy started dancing, it was obvious why they both came in together. Plus, they were speaking German.

The band was covering some rocking bands, like Rage Against the Machine, Green Day, and My Chemical Romance. I had a neck-ache for 2 days from headbanging, I think we all did. So we got the bill (over Rp. 600,000 for the 3 of us, yikes!) and since we were right around the corner, we got a taxi to Jalan Jaksa.

We started out at Memories cafe, like last weekend, got a couple large bottles of Bintang (awful, especially after Angker) and sat at a table. Almost immediately, this Indo guy comes tot he table and starts chatting with us. He works in Bali as a SCUBA instructor. He was a little tanked, and kept getting really close to Megan, who was mortified. At one point, he was laughing, and leaned in and gave her a bite on the shoulder. So we left, and continued down the road. We walked to the end on the road and met up with an African guy. We asked him a question or 2, but he wasn't able to help us... The 3 of us ended up in the Djaksa Cafe, in the bottom of a hotel. There was horrible, loud karaoke and a woman in a really disturbing looking outfit; a bra, see-through mesh shirt, and a tweed sports coat. It wouldn't have been so bad if she wasn't 50, fat, and butch. I was feeling woozy, so I just had some water, the girls had Bacardi and Cokes, a tequila shot and a screwdriver. I went outside for a few minutes and talked to an Indo named Lucky for a few minutes.

We left the bar, but weren't quite ready to go home yet. We went to a third bar, and tried to order 2 bottles of beer with 3 glasses, but we ended up with 3 beers. Which sucks, because it was near closing time. So the bar girl kept refilling our glasses, topping them off. It was not pretty. I'd turn around, and my glass was full again. We finally finished and shtumbled out of the place. The creepy Indo from Memories found us outside, but the bar owner shooed him away. We found a taxi and headed back to Depok. Chrys passed out in my lap in the back of the cab. We all went to my house and sat around and talked until sunup.