Yesterday was the 3rd day of my 3rd trip to Jakarta..I've yet to exchange any IDR...still trying my best to survive with Rp 200,000 tat I left from the previous trip... but becoz both Jun Yau and I wanna visit Sea World on Sunday which will cost us about Rp 200,000 per pax inclusive of meal & transport of coz.....so we've no choice but to change some IDR YESTERDAY...after work...we met up at Mal Taman Anggrek and looked for money changer..it's already 7.45 pm..most of the money changers were closed...in the midst of looking for the money changer, Jun Yau saw a travel agency and he said he wan to ask if there is any promotion package for Jakarta trip...we asked bout the package available and bla bla bla...then we decided to think bout it(package offered).Before we left, we asked the guy who served us where can we find the money changer...to my surprise...he said " You can just ask the 2 guys there (who were standing outside of one of the bank corridor) the one with the white T-shirt and pink T-shirt(which in fact one of the guy was wearing yellow T-shirt instead) " .....we looked at each other with an unbelievable face..."the guys outside????? " ....we then walked out from the travel agency..passed by the guys and we stopped...we were still wondering whether we should ask or not...
Here goes the conversation :
JY: Hi Pak, do you have IDR currency for exchange? Can you change some for us?
White Shirt Guy : Oh, you can ask him (pointing to the Yellow Shirt Guy)
Yellow Shirt Guy : Yeah, I do have. What currency you want? USD?
JY : Ringgit Malaysia. What's the rate r u offering?
The Yellow Shirt Guy tooked out his calculator and show the rate to us ...Rp 2550
Both of us felt the rate was too low....they really think we are stupid and dunno tat we can in fact get a better rate?
JY : R u all always here to exchange money for ppl?
Yellow Shirt Guy : Yea, will normally hang around here after all the money changers were closed..
SM : Pak, can you give us a better rate? - trying my luck ...
The guy then gave me the calculator ...asking what's the rate I would like to have...greedy me put Rp 2650...hahahah..for ur info..that's actually the lowest rate that I can get before...@ Harco..:p
The guy disagreed and both of us also walked away.....
5 steps away...Jun Yau suggested tat we should change a bit since need it so urgently for tomolo's trip....we're in fact only planning to change about RM 200 and will not have much different though...we're expecting at least Rp 2600 and the different is only bout Rp 12,000(RM 4.80??)...Astaga!!! (oh my god)..since when become so calculative.......we walked back and asked the guy wat's the best rate tat he could offered....Rp 2600..he showed us with his calculator...we finally comes to an agreement .....
After the deal, we walked away...both of us was laughing all the way...coz couldn't believe tat we can exchange $$ in tat manner.....what an experience!!!
tat's all for today..it's now already 12.41 am Jakarta time ...*yawn*
stay tuned..and i'll have more updates bout my stay in Jakarta...
Cheers...:)
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Not like tat one lor... i didnt say like tat lor... u dun code my name there... i'm just 'k leh fey'
Which one not true?? U tell me...though u r k ley fey...but still a "yau tui pak ge k ley fey ma"
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