Asia After Hours

Achi likes Justin Bieber : Sakit banget (really sick)

18-year-old Achi was the highlight among the Indonesian girls I stayed with.

You recognize that Achi is my type again : sweet smile, innocent looks and friendly, big eyes. Girls like her simply didn’t got fucked up by society yet. Once the eyes turn cold and the behavior gets bitchy, I feel that the girl is lost and I won’t go for her anymore (=calling them westernized or monetarized or globalized…).
Girls like Achi you won’t find in Pattaya or Angeles City, you understand why it is often worth to venture a little further outside if you search for…more.

Achi was using google translate all the time. I have never used it before, but because her English wasn’t that good, it was really helpful. And yes, she did write also other things than the 2 screens you see here.
Achi is a true cutie :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxC6flyLPRQ

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Sweet Indonesian girl @ Mulia hotel, Jakarta

Here is a another sweet girl from Java.

She didn’t speak much English and was rather shy.

Not much to say, just check the video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnhFfNJR–s

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Sexy Indonesian chick @ Mulia hotel, Jakarta

Vero is back for another little video. You might know her from some of my previous videos like the Big Durian or others.

This time Vero looked super-hot, but certainly more mature and colder than 3 years ago when I first met her. Although her style even improved, we simply didn’t had the vibe that day.

Who knows when I see her again  ?

Interesting thing with models and also top models is that they are all available somehow, the price tag just needs to be high enough. Everyone in Jakarta knows that the super chicks at Immigrant or Dragonfly are available to grand sponsors or to people like me who put down a lot of cash quick.

2 years ago I met a good friend of Sandra Dewi, one of Indonesia’s most famous models, at Grand Hyatt. She would have been willing to help me arranging a meeting with her on Bali when she was having a photo shoot there. Her price for 1 hour would have been IDR 20 million ! I don’t think it would surprise anyone. I recently also just read an article how some of the most stunning Russian models are often hanging out with some super-rich Russian guys and nobody cares.

But I can assure you : banging a super-model doesn’t always need to be a great experience. You might miss the fun and just everything around it. I rather stick with not so super-hot girls if I believe to have a better time with them.

Vero is good at giving that coldish, high-society face. I am not into that, I prefer cuties, but it is a nice change, something I don’t get that often. That’s what the luxury brands look for and that’s what the media likes to brainwash the young girls with : to become exactly like Vero…and they will try hard.

Version 1 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbVqyxUMjCM

Version 2 :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk8rtf

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Mulia hotel, Jakarta

The Mulia hotel is really popular among expats and Indonesian people as well. You will see lots of people having business meetings there. No other hotel in Indonesia has more fans probably. It is a bit strange that this isn’t the case for the more traditional Dharmawangsa hotel.

The Mulia hotel sadly is already a bit run down. The lighting everywhere is more dark, so it becomes harder to see the flaws. I think I had one of their better royal suites but still this place looked old. The carpet was pretty messed at a few spots and I got the feeling that my room was one that didn’t had much of it. The shower inside this sauna cabin and the japanese toilet might shall add some extra fun to the room. In my eyes, these gimmicks are just silly.

All hotels, not only the Mulia hotel invest a lot of money in staff people walking around and being responsible for safety/security, lots of people in the hotel seem to have a knob in the ear and are equipped with a walkie-talkie. They should use that money for rigorous trainings with the staff instead.

Like in all Jakarta hotels, it is difficult to enter and leave the hotel. There are almost no walk-paths, you are forced to take a car which I mostly dislike.

The pool and gym is ok, the spa sucks. When I was lieing everyday at the pool I felt really isolated, there is no way in and out of the hotel under 30min of wasted time; that’s why a location switch should be thought of well. Almost everyday at the pool I was just angry about the situation how much worse it felt compared with a standard, mediocre Bangkok hotel. Wherever, whenever I ordered something to eat, the food never arrived earlier than around 40 minutes after ordering which isn’t great.

I am currently doing well in the pissed mode : One of the worst things in the hotels of Jakarta in general is : it is very unrelaxed, no signs for feeling at least a little bit like a vacation, almost no easy-going people. People love to talk about what car or house they are saving for, sounds like materialistic Shanghai or HongKong – yeah, so much fun !

I came to the conclusion that in general you pay for a certain housing standard (hotels as well) around 50% more in Jakarta than in Bangkok and still important things are worse in Jakarta anyway.

Gotta keep motivating myself with this post. There is still Malioboro and Stadium in Jakarta that make a Jakarta visit worth.

I had visited the Mandarin Oriental beforehand and had a booking running with them after Bandung, but after my experience there I opted to cancel that. The Mandarin Oriental improved a lot on the staff side compared with my last visit there 2 years ago. Their “Mo bar” I also consider to be the best hotel bar in town.

It is unlikely you see me back in any Jakarta hotel except the Mandarin Oriental or the Dharmawangsa. Only for a bar stop at CJ’s I might return to Mulia hotel.

Still I give Mulia hotel an excellent ranking for Jakarta at #2. Jakarta is just weak and expensive at hospitality…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37RxmwMgRSM

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CGK : That bule is crazy !

Blok M, here we go again. Top Gun is a place everyone has to check out when going there. This bar is more fun, raunchy and real than any normal, casual bar I have seen so far across whole South East Asia. One major difference in terms of girls is that the babes you see in the bar never are employed by the bar, they are all freelancers – their own boss. There is no barfine like most newbies would expect. I think in general I prefer a freelancer spirit over a bargirl number. It has advantages like having a girl who chose herself to stay with you, paying less maybe and not being hassled with barfines/drinks. Disadvantage is that the girls have their own will if things get messy, you have no place to complain to if you get into trouble somehow and the girls at Blok M are not as tame as the ones in PI and Thailand. The guys are also raw in general. Having a look at the characters at Top Gun, My Bar, D’s, ect…, you experience it’s a very different breed than in PI, Thailand – it’s the true Star Wars bar melting pot of cultures, races and characters….

The only real downer is the beer, I very much dislike Bintang and Heineken. You are forced to drink light beer like Corona and even that you don’t get always, sometimes you find yourself having a Carlsberg in your hand. It is humiliating.

The picture above shows CJ’s where I really had a great time. Hotel Mulia can be a lot fun, it was a mistake that I didn’t check it out earlier. I like it currently more than BATS. Red Square you also see in the video. Today they are celebrating their 5th anniversary. Red Square is always a big gamble, some nights are smashing, some just bore the shit out of you. The video displays Jakarta’s naughty nightlife.

Track of the video is “N.i.C.E.” / DJ Jack Tennis / Berlin Battery. It is a very positive mood track like the entire video :

http://www.vimeo.com/12322602

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