Saturday, February 03, 2007

aNight(not)2Remember

Last night i decided to walk from Wisma Mulia to Komdak Busway stop, since the traffic was not moving at all. My husband picked me up on that point. He insisted to pick me up to Wisma Mulia and i said no (in big eN and Ow).

I suggested him to wait for me at Plasa Senayan and watch a movie (if he wanted to). I was with my team last night doing some end2end testing, and cannot leave the client site in immediate.

The road, bothways, were blocked. Wisma Mulia was kinda surrounded by flod access. I left my laptop in the building and started to walk arround 2030hr. I met my two office colleagues and said to them that I was okey to walk by myself to senayan area.

and it was definitely a trully good decision ....
we arrived home @ 2130hr.

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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Gloomy_Rainy_Jakarta


Its end of January ....
Its wet ...
Its gloomy ....
Its rainy ...

Jakarta prepare for the flod



This pic was taken by MeddieJusuf. Location : Puri Bintaro (yang gak pernah banjir)


I woke up in a dark rainy morning. Rasanya luar biasa males untuk pergi ke kantor. Kalo nggak inget kemaren baru appraisal dan hari ini ada meeting finance dengan management (khan mempengaruhi bonus), rasanya mendingan work from home aja deh, secara punya secure ID juga untuk connect ke intranet.

Gue berangkat berdua dengan hubby melalui rute yang berbeda. Strategy yang kita pilih adalah naik toll ke bintaro 9 dulu baru balik arah lewat toll ke Pondok Indah. Terbukti efektif walaupun tetep ngantri berat di pintu keluar toll dan Radio Dalam. Kita bisa sampai Menara Mulia dengan selamat 0745hr :) Nggak beda kok dengan hari-hari biasa, mungkin karena orang2 tertahan semua di selatan.

gue pulangnya gimana ya .....

Toll ke Serpong di tutup karena banjir, Judi bilang kalo toll Jagorawi juga ditutup. Meddie (firned of mine who took the pic) cerita kalo mereka nggak bisa keluar dari Puri Bintaro karena genangan air lumayan tinggi. Dari lantai 20 Menara Mulia , gue bisa liat area perumahan dibelakang kantor banjir semua.

gue pulangnya gimana ya ....

0830hr , HRD kirim official announcement lewat sms bahwa kita bisa kerja dari rumah ... aduh beteee deh rasanya. Feeling gue bener nih , mestinya stay away from trouble by staying at home. But anyway, team gue mau ada system testing untuk the expected Go Live besok, jadi memang tetep harus ke client site juga 1400hr hari ini. Dengan catatan team testingnya client juga gak kejebak banjir.

gue pulangnya gimana ya ...

Gue inget banget 5 tahun yang lalu banir besar pernah melanda Jakarta. On that time, gue lagi hamil 3 bulan ... jobless dan mau ujian United Nation di DEPLU. Wah, antara pengen ujian dan takut kejebak banjir. Tapi nyatanya kalo ujian UN everybody could make it hahahaha ....

Tia, adik sepupu gue , yang baru hari ke-2 magang di IBM Indonesia udah work from home aja. Dia bingung ketika train is not on service today. Bahkan 3 in 1 juga gak berlaku kok hari ini. Beno telpon dan ngabarin bahwa underpass dukuh atas udah mulai tinggi airnya. Well, better stay home deh.

Weather forecast menyatakan, suasana begini bakalan terus kejadian sampe bulan maret 2006.
Duh biyung .....

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