The Bookhunt

Okay, so here am I, now, in Jakarta. It is the worst town, in my sarcastically opinion, I've ever visited (despite of the architecture). I HATE this city. It never has a clear blue sky. When you look above, all you can see is the gray-cloudy sky. Like yesterday, I thought it would be raining because it so cloudy. But not a single rain drops. So, it must be the pollution, smoke from the cars. And then, it's hot in here, makes you never want to live without the air conditioner.

Anyway, I came here to release the stress I had in Bandung. All the pressure is troubling me. Like you've read before in my recent thoughts, feeling manically depressed combine with the absence of faith and confrontation with despair make me feeling mentally ill.

But when I arrived at Jakarta, I didn't have anything better to do besides lounge myself reading a book at my grandpa's house. I wanted to go somewhere, but Jakarta doesn't have interesting places besides the shopping mall. What else? Monas? Dufan? TMII? It must have been so crowded, it's a holiday. I never like crowding much; it tends to make me feel dizzy. I don't have a crowding phobia, if you ask me, I just don't like spend my time on such dense places.

So I called my friends to accompany me going somewhere. We met at Citos, another shopping mall nearby. Wait, maybe it's not a shopping mall, it's an eating mall. It's so full of restaurants and cafes, I don't know why.

They late half an hour; she should be there at thirty past ten. I should be mad; I don't like unpunctual people, it wasting my time. But it's holiday anyway, so why one should mad about time wasting?

Later, I have an idea to go on a book hunt so we went to QB book store at Pondok Indah. Oh, I missed that place. I once go there, and wow, take a look at those books; I could die happily reading books in there, despite of the prices of the books itself. Unfortunately, almost all of the books cost hundred thousands of rupiahs... *sigh*

I tried to look for all the Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess but there was none of it. I looked for Salinger's and Saint-Exuperry's book, but I shouldn't mention it here anyway because the price made me petrified. I have the money, but I think I'm going to spend it on some better goodies with lower price...

I went to QB at Kemang too the next day, but the result is the same. So I just buy a book, Ellipsis by Laksmi Pamuntjak. It's a compilation of her poems, in English. And I found that I have new preference of buying books now: written in English. Why so? I don't know. Maybe because of this blog, since when I tried to write it in English and be consistent on it.

The book hunt didn't go as much as I expected, I just bought a book. I needed to find a place with some lower price on the books. So I ask my friend, Upi, about Aksara book store she used to go to.

Who knows it deals with a better price? The name is Aksara, in Kemang, but I don't know the exact place it is. She told me it's beside the Newscafé. But I went there and saw nothing indicates that there's a book store nearby. So, another day of book hunt passed by and I'm quite disappointed on the result, but I hope my next bookhunt will be better.