Its the day of my birthday and I was roaming around wandering in the middle of Jakarta not knowing where to go and what to do. After 20 mins ride from my hotel the taxi driver dropped me to a mall. Its not a huge mall just 4 floors and a square building with not so many things in it. I was so used to being in Dubai where shopping malls have at least 250-300 signature shops in it. Blue is actually into retail business so, I have a pretty good back ground on shopping and bargaining. Anyway, came to this mall - I forgot the name...hmm. Its not coming back to my mind at this moment. Well, I went around like 45 mins venturing all the corners trying to figure out a gift for myself, I didnt see anything that interests me at all, except for the electronics. Apparently the 3rd floor was only for electronics and IT's. What caught my eyes was the logitec wireless headset (bluetooth)... it was sealed with the original trademarks in it. It costs 125USD, for a moment, I thought - its a bit expensive but then I bought a similar one from Dubai and its about the same price, so anyway I made some excuses that it was my birthday so I can have whatever I want. I end up buying the thing. I asked them to test it, to ensure it works...they told me it works as it is still sealed and I can bring it back in case it fails.
Happy to have it, so I went around for more things, I went to the 4th floor, I was so surprised that the 4th floor has more people compared to any floors. A lot of them gather in groups and very congested. So, even if I hate the crowd I was too curious of why people gather around. hahaha..I found out that the whole place was selling DVD's and VCD's. There were many display like a fleeing marker. They have a table and covered with white blankets. There are DVD's placed in cartoon and you just have to squander your way to find the movie you want. Then, as you look for the movies along with like 10Thousand people around you that makes it hard to breath, another person will ask you "do you want to buy pirated movies?" apparently what seems to be a table covered with white blankets are cartoons loaded with fake DVD's.
While I was looking for the new movies on DVD's, in the further corner of the building there was chaos, people were running and shouting. Although, I didnt understand what was said, I ran along...as almost everyone was heading the escalator like there was fire on the other side of the building. Because of the thick crowd running in the same direction I headed to the stairs with some other tourists. Apparently the place was raided by police! I cant believe it.

Once out of the building, I found myself sitting on the sidewalk with 2 backpackers who were also trying to buy fake DVD's. I couldnt move away from that place after that, we just kept laughing, thinking about the same thing, Of all places in Jakarta...I ended up here. Goodluck? Badluck - who knows?