So after the today's class is over, I went over to Indocomtech 2013 at Jakarta Convention Center before going back home. I took busway from Slipi Kemanggisan (nearby Slipi Jaya market) and the busway shelter was unbelievably crowded. It usually isn't this crowded at that day and time around (Saturday and 13.30), guess that's because many people wanted to go to Indocomtech. But that doesn't last long because just as I was about to wait for the bus to come in that crowded yet small shelter, there were 3 buses coming in a row. The first one was kinda crowded so I skipped that. But on to the second one, it was really empty. So without hesitation, I jumped in and grabbed myself a seat. Luckily third quarter of the people at the shelter got on to the first bus so the second bus was still quite spacious until it reached JCC.
Arriving at JCC, I went straight to JCC and to the Indocomtech ticket booth. And guess what, I had to wait in line for getting the ticket! I was buttfrustrated and almost thinking about going back home instead because I was too lazy to wait in line to get the ticket until I realized that this queue is nothing compared to what I encountered 2 months ago (read: AFAID13) and so I finally waited in line, paid IDR15,000 (it costed IDR15,000 on weekends while IDR10,000 on weekdays), got the ticket, and got in.
Inside, the place was, as I had already expected, crowded as hell. Especially the Smartfren booth where an auction was occuring. And just like back in AFAID13, I kept getting bad signal inside the building. What a joke.
Taking an extra caution, I switch my backpack from my back to the front and kept holding on to my phone inside my pocket. Yes, I am that paranoid about thefts. There wasn't many things I did in there. I just walked around, looking at things and sometimes trying them out. I didn't plan on buying anything or whatsover. Just... walked and looked around. And here's the interesting part begins.
I came across the Cross booth with a (gay) MC (yes, he fucking talked like Olga which was annoying as shit) attracting visitors' attention. "Now if you do silly dance, you'll get prize. "Oh, but wait. Won't that make a bad name for my family?" Hohoho never mind that. It doesn't matter anyway, you'll get the prize." That's what I roughly recall when the MC talked about what he was about to do with some of the visitors. "Oh, this silly dance bullshit again. Will they ever stop?" that's what I said to myself while standing there stoned a bit by what the MC had just said before walking away to Logitech, Sony, and Asus booths to look at some stuff.
When I was done, I passed by the Cross booth again and now with some visitors doing some fucking retarded dance (and while being watched by other visitors as well). "Holy shit what the fuck," that's what I said to myself at that time. "I can't believe someone's actually buying into this bullshit. It's almost like prostituting yourself," what I said again to myself as I walked away to look at some last booths before finally leaving the location.
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| Complete retardation. Crime against humanity. |
The shelter was completely crowded. And being paranoid I was again, I decided to put my phone inside my backpack and had my backpack in front of me. And then another shit happens: there were 2 buses coming and both of them were crowded as hell. Without thinking, I jumped into the second one and moved deeper inside the bus to escape the cramped space inside the bus. My paranoia just wouldn't stop. Knowing being stuck in such crowd could make me an easy target for theft, I kept looking at my backpack in front of me and made sure that I had nothing inside my pocket.
When the bus passed by JCC again, the bus got significantly less crowded (but still crowded though) than before. Guess there were so many people wanted to go to Indocomtech that much. And at the same time, I got myself a seat. Yay! But that's not all. Here's the real interesting happened.
When the bus stopped at Gatot Subroto LIPI, suddenly a woman reported to an on-bus staff that she lost her phone. She attracted every single passenger on the bus pretty quickly including myself, just as I was about to put on my pair of IEMs to listen to music. The woman was panicking, claiming that she still had her phone until the bus stopped at Semanggi, suggesting the culprit took her phone and got off the bus back at Semanggi. Some people were telling her to try to call her phone and whatnot but she just gave up to the fact that she had just lost her phone and the culprit had run away.
I didn't know what her phone was because I couldn't hear it clearly when she was describing what her phone was and I didn't know where did she put her phone before it was lost because she only said "I put it in here," and I couldn't see her at all at that time due to the crowd inside the bus.
After the bus stopped for quite a while, the bus finally moved again when the situation had calmed down. After that, nothing else that was worth telling on my way back home.
That's all for now folks. And remember, you cannot be paranoid enough about your security. Stay paranoid.
