To my fellow compatriots, this is the second part of my
journey from Jakarta to London.
Before I continue, I forgot tell
you something else before I went into the waiting room. To anticipate any flight
delay which has happened to our friend Rizwan from Batch IV in Abu Dhabi, I
decided to buy some US$ at the airport. I would have needed it in case the
flight got delayed in Abu Dhabi, to buy some food or water, because the most
common currency used in any airport in the world is US$. Even though euro and
pounds are sometimes acceptable too, the price on the displayed items is
usually in US$. I spent all of my remaining rupiahs to buy US$ and I got US$
13, which I later did not use.
To answer someone’s question in
WA group about bank notes and bank draft: Bank notes is like the money that we
can hold in the form of coins or paper, while bank draft is like a piece of
paper that order the bank to pay some money to a particular recipient which has
been stated on the bank draft itself.
I had no interesting story while
in Jakarta – Abu Dhabi flight other than the man who sat next to me offered me
to invest in some land investments. He was a businessmen travelling to Jeddah
to do umrah. He knows all the high echelons in Jawa Timur I Regional Office. He
also had some tax education mobile applications that the wanted to offer to
Mbak Nina’s department. Because I am just a low level employee, I couldn’t
offer him anything other than my contact details and a prayer that he might
become successful in his endeavor relating to DJP.
I have been to Abu Dhabi airport
before, but I still forgot that the terminal for my next flight is so far away,
thus if you have a heavy luggage that you bring into the cabin, It might be
better to use the small trolley that can be found anywhere there. While I was
going into the waiting room I got stopped by a woman officer who asked me if I
got a laptop. She was not checking for piracy materials, she just scanned it with
the machine and because I don’t have any adult content in my documents so I was
let go :D. At first, I was confused because not many passengers experience it.
I noticed Dewi didn’t have to do it also. After some observation, I was glad,
and I found it was natural that my bags and laptop was inspected, because all
of the people who got stopped were man and we were all very handsome :D
Again for me, nothing interesting
happened in the Abu Dhabi - London flight other than the Bulgarian woman who
sat next to me who was sleeping and snoring quite loud during the flight. I had
to fill in some immigration form when the plane was almost landed. You can fill
it at the airport when you land or in the plane. To fasten your immigration
checking process, I suggest you fill it while you are on the plane like I did.
The queue was very long but the process is quick so it didn’t take a lot of
time to pass it. The process comprise of standard conversation such as, what
will you do in the UK and where will you study. The only documents they ask
were my passport and the aforementioned immigration form.
Similar to what I did in Jakarta,
I had to report that I was bringing a lot of money. If you intend to do that,
in Indonesia, just visit this link https://public-online.hmrc.
I got out and waited for my
luggage. Unfortunately, my luggage handler has been broken. But because the
suitcase was given to me, I did not feel too upset about it. After hearing
about Esra’s missing luggage, I thanked God that my suitcase was only broken,
not lost (sorry bro) :D I immediately search for phone card store because I had
promised my wife that the first thing I buy would be a UK phone number so our
communication will be well maintained. I didn’t find any seller, but it turned
out the phone card here is sold in a vending machine. There were many
providers, but I think the benefit that I would get were somehow similar,
eventually I chose Vodafone.
In the next few days, my partner or
I will write the next part of the journey. Right now, I have to cook my
cornflake :D
Bye for now fellas.
Herdy G.G. Pomantow
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