Numpty times quick update

OK, managed to stay awake and not get drunk. ead an awful lot of David Copperfield though. I don't think Yogya has awoken to the joys of cafe culture as the waiters were really confused by my request for three cups of tea (in 3 hours - is she mad!).

So.. .got to the station and was told by multiple people who asked where I was going that the Jakarta train went from platform 3. It was easily found so I hung around and at10.15 (my train was 10.30) a big train pulled in. An official type girl checked my ticket and waved me onto a carriage (I blame her for what follows). I walked in to a full carriage full of very sleeping people. So full in fact that my seat appeard to be occupied. Once I had worked out which one was 7d (cos arranging the seats in the order b, a, aisle, d, c makes loads of sense) I had woken up two people. Suspecting they were lying to me I checked tickets and right enough we both had carriage 4 seat 7d. I had a minor panic attack and managed to attract a train official.

By this time there were four of us in the cramped aisle and people trying to get past. I swung round to let someone past just as the train moved off and fell over with my rucksack, right into another sleeping persons lap. My, did he not look happy to see me! I thought I may be chased off the train by a baying crown beating me with their complimentary pillows by this point.

The official looked thankfully quite avuncular and waved me up the train and away from the mess I had created. It turned out that this was ANOTHER train to Jakarta and as we had set off they took me to a nice quiet carriage and told me to settle down for the night. Ahhh. What a relief. I probably would have had a quieter night if the train security guard had not taken a shine to me (short man with a gun so not as rejecting as I may have otherwise been). He kept standing over me smiling and when I awoke and jumped at the sight of him at about three in the morning he tickled me under the chin. Grrrrr. Thankfully that was as far as it went and he came to make sure I knew what station to get off at so I can't be completely unpleasant about him.

Today I have "chilled" out in Jakarta as far as I am able. So far this has invovled drinking coffee at various locations and watching a movie in my hotel room. Hurrah!