Since it was my first time and I didn’t know what to expect, I was quite surprised with the price of the food. The food price mostly above 50K, only the snacks and appetizers price starts from 35K. I ordered a seafood platter for one and shared it with a friend, while other friends ordered New York Fish & Chips, Philadelphia Fish & Chips and Spaghetti. The NY Fish & Chips and Sea Food Platter are amongst their recommended menu.

Since the food is quite pricey, I expected a delicious meal and waited with watery mouth. When the food came, the look of it was delicious. The seafood platter consists of fried prawn with mayo, rice, French fries, fried fish and squid. To my disappointment, the food served cold, there’s no sign that the food is freshly fried – well except the French fries. The food taste as if it needs more ingredients. I don’t know what they do with the rice, it has orange-ish color, all I can refer to it is nasi briyani except it doesn’t taste like one. The squid is also plain and as a prawn lover, I was disappointed to know the prawn taste so-so. But I do like the fish though. The fish was fried and wrapped with cooking flour (I assumed), it taste good, fresh and doesn’t produce any fishy odor. I can’t help myself but comparing the seafood platter with the one I had in Manhattan Fish Market. I must say I prefer the one in Manhattan Fish Market.

I remember hearing my friend said that the spaghetti was tasteless, again it taste as if it needs more ingredients. Thus they provide us with lots of mayo and chilly on a plate. My fried who ordered Philadelphia and NY Fish & Chips didn’t complaint. I’m not sure whether the enjoyed the food or just feel obligated to finish the food because of the price hahahaa

The total bill was 520K (after discounted 30% because we use Mandiri CC), so 85K per person. The drinks were bottomless. For me, it’s too pricey for a so-so dining experience. I don’t think I’m coming back, and I’m having a difficulty to recommend it to others too.

The seafood platter: 139K
New York Fish & Chips: 65K (I don’t remember exactly)
Other food: > 50K

Fish & Co

Pacific Place Level 4-49 & 4-51
Jl. Jend.Sudirman
Jakarta Selatan

Food: ☆ ☆ ☆
Price: ☆ ☆ ☆☆
Value for Money: ☆ ☆
Ambience: ☆ ☆ ☆

I never thought it that way but I guess my father, who has live years before me, has different view and wisdom. Then I started to browse my photo collection on my laptop.

This is a picture of me on my trip to Melbourne and Sydney. I looked so happy, didn’t I? This is the live I never had. Sure I can make it into a sad memory, but I choose not to. I choose to store it on my “Happy” category on my brain and let it stays there forever.

Melbourne Trip - Happiness 2009

Another picture reminds me when I started my master study. We were gathered in Rumah Perubahan to join an orientation and introduction to other students. That was happiness too as we were involved in several fun games that involves team work. Although I kinda regret I didn’t establish a close relationship to all of the students and only a few of them.

MMUI Orientation

And this is a picture of my friends and I when we watched Java Jazz festival two years ago, a reminder of whom I’m coming with to the next Java Jazz festival next year.

JJF 2008

And the recent photograph is the one on my Yudisium (graduation) last Sunday. It tells a lot. It tells a friendship that has last for more than two years, it reminds me of the rocky road we went through together as students. It reminds me of the competition, the hard work, the team work that we went through together as this is the first few students I know during my first year of study. This is class F081 of year 2008.

Yudisium FEUI - 2010

Friends @ MMUI - 2008 to 2010

See, the stories behind pictures and how we react to it is basically depends on us; whether we want to evoke the sweetness of it or the sadness of it. And these pictures could also be media for us to learn, to ask for forgiveness to those we forget and to forgive those who perhaps has torn us apart. Pictures are reminder of how our relationship with others used to be and how our lives used to be. We can always learn from this and use it as a base to make ourselves a better person.

I hope my pictures would bring good memories to my friends, even after we lost contact and it would bring them to this page and remember me

Once there was a boy named Charlie, who had a nice life – but it wasn’t quite perfect. He had to spend too much of his time doing things he didn’t want to do. So one day he packed up all his time in a suitcase, locked it up, and set off to find a better way to spend it. Charlie traveled the world looking for the perfect thing to make him happy. In the meantime, unbeknownst to him, his itsy-bitsy seconds and silky, smooth hours and raggedy days ticked away, so that when Charlie stopped traveling and realized what he truly wanted out of life, it was almost too late. Almost.

I believe there are two types of book in this world, type one is the one that I will read and forget; whilst another one is the type of book that I read and will stick forever in my mind. This book falls into the second type.

I was exposed to this book at Borders bookstore on my visit to KL when I was searching for a book in the Self Improvement/Self-Help section. This book presents itself to me as the cover of the book accidentally caught my sight. At first I was only fast-read the book and put it back to the shelf and ended up buying another book. But I couldn’t get myself to forget about the story and how the message of the story has really stick in my mind. I search for this book in Times Bookstore, which fall under the graphic novel section, and didn’t find it. Finally, I could bring this book home after searching for it under the Underground comic section on Kinokuniya bookstore.

Later when I look back to my journey in finding this book; to the self improvement, graphic novel then underground comic; I realize that this falls into every-described category. This book will tell you a story about life in Charlie’s point of view. After all, Charlie is like any ordinary human who always seem to seek for happiness in life and never get satisfied of whatever life gave him. Completed by beautiful illustration, you will feel like a child again being taught by a master of life, well about life. And in the end, you will realize that the best way to spend your time is by living and loving. Try to live in the here and now. Dreams are grand, but a life spent chasing can end up a life wasted.

This thin book is written by Daren Simkin, which consists of only 48 pages. But the message inside this book worth a lot more than the physical of the book. The way Daren pass through his message is by writing a very simple story and completed by beautiful illustration. The illustration is made by Daniel Simkin, brother of Daren and it’s beautifully entwined the story and illustration together into a subtle message of wisdom about life

I love this book so much that I would really love to buy several copies of the book and send it to those who were lost like I was once. But then again, I only get one copy and I could only suggest others to go find it and read it. You’ll never regret it!

Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

IT as a supporting role is the main case in Indonesia. At least in my narrow point of view hehehe IT support in an oil company, in banking, in department store, in a restaurant chain, in a hospital, etc. But I would like to highlight one company that seems to have think ahead of other company and implement IT as one of the company’s strategy. This company is BCA. I remember I once wrote about BCA ons my strategic management class. I highlighted on how the management decides to make the bank as a transactional banking and make IT as their strategic role. Their decision was made on 1994 and look where they are now. When other Banks haven’t thought about ATM, they rolled out ATM machine to several spots. When other Banks didn’t think of having an Internet Banking, they deploy the system and educate the market. And now, when others are busy making mobile banking, BCA introduce the mobile version of its Internet Banking. They’re making technology as a state of the art. It’s elegant, really.

It has been my longtime dilemma on whether to stay in IT as my core or jump in to the strategic part of the company. Unless I worked for a company like Google, I doubt that my loyalty to IT will lead to some place strategic. Oh what am I mumbling here?

Huffhh memang sunggu keterlaluan, setelah 2 tahun kuliah di daerah Salemba dan hampir setiap hari melewati Megaria baru sekarang (saat sudah selesai kuliah) akhirnya menyambangi tempat ini untuk mencoba pempek-nya.

Pempek Megaria terletak di dalam kompleks bioskop Megaria/Metropole yang telah berdiri sejak tahun 1949. Meski sudah berdiri dari tahun 1949, sekarang Metropole sudah di renovasi sehingga menjadi bioskop sekelas XXI. Gedung dimana tempat bioskop ini berada masih tetap saja merupakan gedung tua. Anyway, saking seringnya lewat sini dan hanya lihat-lihat saja akhirnya saya memutuskan untuk mencoba. Abis kepikirannya, kapan lagi dong main-main ke Salemba lagi kalau sudah tidak ada kepelruan perkuliahan.

Seperti tampak luarnya yang sudah “berumur”, interior dalam restoran (atau warung?) Pempek Megaria ini juga sudah “berumur”. Kesan berumur ini bukan dibuat-buat seperti Kopitiam Oey, melainkan benar-benar memang sudah tua dan saya gak yakin pernah di renovasi/dekor ulang. Meskipun sederhana, suasana di dalam Pempek Megaria ini cukup bersih dan penuh. Waktu saya datang, hampir seluruh meja terisi oleh pengunjung. Restoran Pempek Megaria ini memiliki 4 meja dengan kapasitas 4 orang, 3 meja dengan kapasitas 3 orang dan 1 meja panjang menghadap dinding dengan kapasitas 6 orang.

Sayangnya pada saat saya datang, jenis pempek yang tersedia hanya Pempek Kapal Selam, Pempek Lenjeran dan Pempek berbentuk Telur dengan isi pempek lenjeran yang telah dipotong-potong. Akhirnya saya memutuskan untuk memesan pempek kapal selam. Begitu pesanan datang, ternyata porsi pempeknya cukup besar dan disajikan tanpa mie kuning penyerta pempek seperti pada umumnya. Bumbu cuka pempek juga sudah disediakan di meja dalam 1 botol besar, sehingga pelanggan dapat menambahkan bumbu sesuka hati. Yang saya suka adalah rasa cuka bumbu yang tidak terlalu kuat, sehingga untuk perut lemah seperti saya (baca: maag) cukup aman dan tidak membuat maag saya kambuh. Untuk rasa dari pempek itu sendiri, well not bad, cukup enak dan porsinya besar.

Harga pempek megaria ini sangat bersahabat. Untuk 1 porsi pempek kapal selam yang saya makan, harganya hanya 10ribu rupiah. Oh jangan lupa untuk menambahkan kerupuk ikan berwarna putih yang banyak tersedia disana, penambah nikmat lho!

Kesimpulannya sih, pempek ini patut disambangi apabila sedang mencari camilan iseng-iseng di daerah salemba dan sekitarnya. Untuk saya yang tinggal di Selatan ujung sih, agak niat banget ya kalau harus kesini lagi hihiih tapi saya belum sempat mencoba es kacang merah yang konon juga enak! Hufh, jadi paling tidak saya akan kembali kesini satu kali lagi

Pempek Megaria

Kompleks Bioskop Metropole/Megaria

Jl. Diponegoro
Senen, Jakarta Pusat
INDONESIA 10430

Telepon: +62 21 3153333

Foursquare Venue: Pempek Megaria

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Value for Money: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Ambience: ☆ ☆