[A version in English translated with DeepL and not edited is below the Italian text] Sono di nuovo a Jakarta. Quest’anno è la seconda volta che vengo qui. Ieri sera sono andato a casa di una collega con la quale ho lavorato per salutare lei e la sua famiglia. Vive nella parte sud di Jakarta, a Pejaten. Ho preso un taxi per andare da loro. Come al solito, il taxi è rimasto bloccato nella zona […]
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Just want to say thank you to you all for following my photoblog. A year ago a met by chance a professional American photographer, Ernie Brooks, while I was travelling with my family in North Sulawesi
Even though this is Jakarta, I cycle every day to work. Last week, I think it was Wednesday, I rode my usual route to the office where I work. I started in Kebayoran Baru, got into the traffic logged Antasari, then up to Senopati before getting on the footbridge at the Senayan Transjakarta bus station over Jalan Sudirman. It takes me about 20 minutes to get to the office and I saw not one, but two other cyclists on […]
I've been ask a couple of times to share my work space, so here is a little post to show you how or better where I work and what things are important to me while working.
Quanti abitanti ha Jakarta? C’è chi dice 10.000.000, forse 12.000.000. Altri dicono che se si considera la periferia che si estende a ovest, sud e ad est si arriva a 25.000.000. Ogni weekend 4 o 5.000.000 di abitanti lasciano la città per il weekend e raggiungono le zone di collina, dove la temperatura è un po’ più mite. La verità è che nessuno sa quante persone abitano qui. Molti arrivano ogni anno per trovare un […]
I took the Transjakarta bus N1 to Blok M yesterday night. While I was walking up the ramp to reach the ticket counter heard the music played by a violin. Nice classical tune played over the Jakarta traffic. It almost cancelled it.
Took this picture in Jakarta near Plaza Senayan.
They say that there is no longer a real dry season in Jakarta. It rains more or less all the year round. I was for two days in a workshop at the 17th floor of a tower in central Jakarta. During breaks we went out on a nice terrace overlooking skyscrapers and single family houses. Like the old Jakarta battling the modern Jakarta. On both days it rained in the afternoon creating a nice effect on the glass wall of the terrace. […]