The original plan was to go there very early in the morning on Sat, and then go back to Jakarta in the afternoon. So yesterday we left the house at about 7.30 (not as early as we planned), and when we got into Cikarang Highway Gate (about 1 hour from home), my dad opened the window to take the ticket but then the window won't go back up. We tried to fix it at a resting area nearby, but it was just hopeless. We decided that we can't continue the trip without a window on the driver's side so we went back to Jakarta. My dad took the car to a repair shop while me, my brother and my mom waited at home.

We finally left (again) at 1 pm, reached Bandung at about 4 pm. We visited our relatives, and then we planned to just have dinner together, drop my brother at his boarding house, then go back to Jakarta. But of course, that plan also, fell apart. Well, we managed to eat, but Bandung wasn't so friendly to Jakarta people then because apparently there was this huge incident happened before a soccer match between Persija (Jakarta soccer team) and Persib (Bandung soccer team) in Jakarta.

The fanatic fans of Persib (there were thousands of them, I presume) were sweeping the streets of Bandung, looking for cars or motorcycles with Jakarta plate number and vandalize them when they find any. I can't be sure how many cars were becoming victims to this, but monitoring everything from twitter, it was pretty scary. They hit the cars with sticks and stones, smashing the windows and detaching the back mirrors. Bandung was weird that night, there were almost no Jakarta cars while usually they flooded the streets of Bandung on weekends. Police were everywhere and we were told to make a u-turn before Simpang Lima Dago by a security person, they said the "Bobotohs" were in Dago and it is dangerous to pass the street. Yes our family car is very old and ugly, but we don't want to get it vandalized! Cars with Jakarta plate number were advised to hide for the night, or take off the plate number.

So ... we went back to our relative's house, asked them whether they have any spare or old Bandung plate number that we can use temporarily so we can go through the city safely. By the time my aunt finally found a pair of Bandung plate number, it was already so late in the night and she suggested that we should just rest at her house.

We weren't planning to spend the night in Bandung so we didn't have anything with us. The sleep wasn't good either, I just can't sleep well in a foreign bed. We finally left Bandung at about 8 in the morning and reached Jakarta at about 10. We saw a car with smashed windows and back mirror, we assumed it was one of the victims from last night. I was exhausted, and I still had a wedding to attend (T__________T) (and did I told you I HATE weddings?).

Anyway the trip didn't go as smooth as our plan, but it was good to have a quality family time with my family :)