After getting home and telling my kos mate that I went looking for a bike, he got excited and wanted to take me again today. But first I had a soccer match to go to. Hee Jae, an inculs student from Korea, had booked lapangan pancasila (the UGM sports oval) and arranged for everyone to meet there for a game. I wasn’t feeling too good, so I just wore thongs to make sure I couldn’t get roped into playing.. Haha… but hopefully he runs another one so I can have a kick next time. It was still great to watch tho, some of the players are SOOO freaking good! But I guess they must have been playing since they were little. I hung around for a bit afterwards and met a bunch of people… its crazy how many people I’ve met since I’ve been here! There are just too many… I can’t remember them all… and I feel horrible when someone comes up to me, knows my name, and starts having a convo… and I’m just thinking “where the hell do I know this person from”… feels horrible, but its just so hard when you’re meeting between 5 and 15 people every day..
After soccer I went home and my kos mate took me out to look for a bike again… I actually really wanted to go with Ijo, because he knows a lot about this kind of thing, and also his english is MILES better, so it would have just made everything so much easier. Anyway, I ended up buying a motorbike from a Honda dealer… and I’m really happy with it… but there was a few difficulties with buying it, because it was new. So, to buy a new bike in Jogja, you need to be a local resident of Jogja… you gotta have a KTP (basically a Jogja ID) which I don’t have.. I was going to borrow my friends, but my kos mate was saying, you know, if I use his KTP then it will be in his name, and we didn’t know what kind of person he was etc etc… which I thought “fair enough… I’m gonna have to really trust whoever I borrow the KTP from” … and then five mins later, he’s telling me that I should just use the KTP of the guy who works at the store :S … I really didn’t know what to do.. I ended up feeling a little pressured into buying it… anyway, I spoke to Ijo about it later and he said it wasn’t such a good move… and that I could have used HIS KTP!!!! …. Damn it! Why couldn’t I just go with Ijo?!?! He kind of freaked me out actually… he was saying unless I get the STNK after one month, the BPKB after three months and then a photo copy of this guys KTP… then basically the bike belongs to him! … its strange here tho… in australia, we can change the name of the owner of the vehicle, here, it costs too much money, so the buyer is always the owner, but when they decide to sell, they just hand over the STNK, BPKB and a copy of their KTP… once you have all of those, the bike is basically yours, its just in someone else’s name… yeah… it was really confusing at first… but thats why I wanted Ijo there… gah!
Anyway, Ijo said not to worry about it too much… and I should just wait and see if I get all the paperwork… so hopefully this guy is decent and I get all the papers / copy of his KTP… cause it will be hard to sell without them... but if im trying to be positive, at least I have a motorbike now…
2 comments:
yaaaaaaaaaaayyyy.... transport at last ... woo hoo... not a harley but still !!!
just remember .. you are NOT ten foot tall and bullet proof so be careful and come home in one piece ... x mum x
haha i just had to laugh at the part where u say u couldnt remember the names and stuff and still managed to chat with em for like so long? lol
but hey yeah...in those countries...(like indo and malaysia)..i think u'd better be careful with all the paperworks and stuff, but dun worry , i'm sure thats a decent guy :)
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