Jakarta Today

Jakarta at night, Taken from second level of fX lifestyle Center facing Jln. Sudirman, the central business district in Jakarta. You can find coffee shops like Starbucks, food court,  karaoke, cinema and few clothing shops in fX. There's Transjakarta Bus Stop nearby fX and the building positioned across Jakarta Stock Exchange building.

Jakarta Fashion Week 2008

From the media group that has been leading and spearheading Indonesian fashion industry for the past 35 years, Femina Group and its partner Pacific Place, the luxurious and latest shopping center in Jakarta, organize Festival Mode Indonesia 2008 with the opening night on 20 August 2008.

Festival Mode Indonesia 2008 is the pivotal of Indonesian fashion industry, showcasing the best of Indonesian fashion designers who are also the existing members of APPMI (Asosiasi Perancang Pengusaha Mode Indonesia) and IPMI (Ikatan Perancang Mode Indonesia) as well as the young and independent designers.

Fashion shows will be held at the Pacific Place, located in Sudirman Central Business District starts from 21-24 August 2008 (check location on Wikimapia)

Further information please contact :
fmi2008@feminagroup.com or read on Femina Group's magazines

Senayan City

Senayan City (also known as Sen-C)is strategically situated on the west corner of the junction between Jl. Asia Afrika and the ‘newly proposed road leading from Jl. Jend. Sudirman to Jl. Arteri Pondok Indah', as part of the golden triangle area of Jakarta. And has been designated to be along Jl. Asia Afrika and faces both the direction of Plaza Senayan and the eastern part of Senayan City , also free access from 3 in1 traffic.

The site of development is approximately 48.000 square meters. The Senayan project aims to place its focus in portraying to be one of the most exclusive destination in Jakarta.

I come to Senayan City almost once a week just to hang-out with bunch of friends have cup of coffee or watch movie in cinema XXI on the 5th fl. The location is really strategic and good parking basement, but Senayan City is kinda too big for me, every time I go there I just hang around in GF Floor, the most crowded level in Senayan City beside food court on 5th Floor. On GF, there are quite coffee shops, let say my favorite one is Secret Recipe (try moist chocolate, yummy) and Exelso, Coffee Bean, Krispy Kreme, J.Co (better taste than Krispy Kreme, well, acceptable amount of sugar), Burger King,Hot Shots, Kiyadon, etc.

1st-4th floor mostly liase by international branded retails, Zara, Topshop/Topman, Miss Selfridge, Levi's, (M)phosis, Samuel&Kevin, Baleno, Surf clothing brands, blah blah blah and Debenhams department store.

5th Fl, food court yay, there are more than 20 stalls, KFC, Mie Leker (good one, try Mie Kangkung), Fiesta Steak, and..hmm..too much to mentioned or I totally have short-term memory loss and a smell-make-you-sick smoking room also located in food court area. Anyway, Cinema XXI is on this floor too, while waiting for midnight show, you can hang around in Avenue/Soho just beside main entrance of Cinema XXI, opens till 00.00.

Senayan City opens daily from 10am-10pm but there some coffee shops close on 1am such as Starbucks, A Mild Cafe and there this XKTV on GF Fl., although I might say from the outside, really good looking karaoke venue, inside nah huh, that XKTV has poor list of songs, difficult software, and a bit pricey..Ok then, that's my reviews. See ya in Senayan City.

Log on to Senayan City website for more details:
www.senayancity.com

La Piazza - Kelapa Gading

Kelapa Gading is located in North East Jakarta, surrounded by subdistricts Cempaka Putih, Sunter and Pulo Mas. It stretches west to east from By Pass road to Cakung and north to south from Koja to Perintis Kemerdekaan road. Kelapa Gading has a total area of 1.633,7 hectare, or 2,14% of the total Jakarta city.

In Jakarta, Kelapa Gading is famous among the food lovers. They can find Indonesian food (Minang food, Javanese food, Sundanese food, Manadonese food, Makassarese food, etc), Chinese food, Japanese food, Thai food and Western food. The central point in Kelapa Gading is the area for food, known as Gading Food City and more hundreds restaurants along boulevard.

Try my favorite restaurant :
Sop Konro (Coto Makassar) - ribs serves with authentic Makassar soup in boulevard
Apollo - Hainan chicken rice in boulevard
Baji Pamai - Ujung Pandang chicken noodles in boulevard
212 Seafood
* I will update my blog with restaurant listings in Jakarta.

Nowadays, Kelapa Gading is famous as a prestigious shopping centre area. Kelapa Gading is one of the subdisctrict in Jakarta, with five shopping malls in 20 kilometer radius. In 2004, Kelapa Gading has approximately 365,000 m2 of shopping centres. My favorite place to kill-time in Kelapa Gading is La Piazza which is also the extension from Kelapa Gading Mall.

La Piazza is a lifestyle concept and open place plaza for live music or watching soccer. One of many best places in Jakarta to hang out with a lot of options for coffee shops such as Starbuck's, Sega Fredo, The Barrel, Bakoel Coffee, DQ, and on the ground floor several restaurants : Loy Kee, Pizza Hut, Chatterbox, Healthy Choice and food court serves snacks on the first floor. The free hot-spot facility also offered by La Piazza by purchasing any (amount) of F&B within La Piazza tenants, exchange the receipt with username and password provided on the information/reception desk. The F&B prices are affordable and cheaper in La Terrace (food court)

The crowd come from Kelapa Gading, Sunter and Pulo Mas area and people start coming mostly in the evening and a bit crowded on weekends especially when there's an event is being held in the main atrium. Therefore I should warn you, when third-party is conducting an event that is targeted to teenage or inviting popular celebrities or bands, you might want to avoid La Piazza, sometimes the event makes it less comfortable because of the C and D class crowd are freely to coming around and the noisy sound from the stage in the main atrium, if you don't mind, think that as a free entertainment.


I provide you with Kelapa Gading Map, hope you will visit La Piazza after has business trips in Central Jakarta.