meeting a distant cousin

A child's encounter with a "doger monyet".

immersed

Children immersed in their own imagination, world.

forever

street comrades

jack it up

The construction of an autoparts supermarket may jack up the city's economy. But will it accomodate people like him? Will he be forced onto the street and out of business by the capital giants?

wrong message

Organic waste, non-organic waste, paper waste. The idea is good. But without consistency and enforcement, things like this can be sending the wrong message.

nostalgic walk

For every generation, it carries a different set of memories, meanings. They will be coming back, trying to find what they used to have in the chaos of today.

ipin

Ipin is Upin's twin brother. They are Malaysian animation movie characters.

a long playground

school ride

Braving the chaotic traffic and hazardous pollution, a mother is taking her children to school on a motorbike. School bus is non-existent in this city, neither is a working mass transportation system.

we used to call ourselves, freaks

Somewhere in this picture, it's written: "We used to call ourselves, freaks." And the name is Unforgiven.

glasses and caps

Glasses and caps side by side at Jalan Dalem Kaum in the city center.

gotcha!

A bit of playful acts may ease the boredom of waiting. A sister is teasing his brother while waiting for the commuter train at Stasiun Hall (Bandung's main railway station).

smoking the boredom away

father's son

Father and son selling bubble liquid at alun-alun Bandung (the city square).

digital generation

street swing

Fun? You bet it is. What children don't like swing?

Dangerous? They, their parents, and the city's government don't think much of it. There aren't many free open spaces, parks, and playgrounds left where children can play safely in this city. The government is busy facilitating and having more fun building shopping malls, hotels, and gated/limited access paying playgrounds.

unmathematical

Just like the streets, street photography is unmathematical. Yes there are numbers, but they don't add up to a formulaic certainty.

showing off

At Jalan Cihampelas, a popular commercial street without any functioning sidewalks.

patroling

A police patrol car and a pedestrian walking his dog at Jalan Pajagalan.

mother's corner

fishy square

The alun-alun (Bandung's city square) is a fishy place. It's dirty and chaotic like a fish market, smells like fish, and has a fishy reputation. One can even go fishing there - even without the pond or fish. And the mayor - whose official residence is just to the south of it - apparently loves it as it is.

Despite all this, it's a wonderful people observatory and a great place to do street photography.

strapped and stared

Another look at life in one of the dirtiest and messiest places in the city.

digital lovers

watery race

There is nothing fun about flood. But you can make it look fun.

guttery window

Don't ask me how it got there.

cat transaction

Road-side pet vendors at Jalan Dr. Otten.

locksmith

The writing on his cart says: repair, sell and buy different kinds of locks.

wartel

Wartel or Warung Telekomunikasi (telecommunication kiosk) was created in in the early 1980s to provide the public with easier access to various telecommunication services such as local, long distance, and international telephone calls, facsimili, telegrams, etc. at an era when access to telecommunication services was very limited.

Before the advent of mobile or cellular telephones in the late 1990s, wartel was a lucrative business. Now that nearly everybody has a cell phone, it has mostly become a relic of the past.

bubbly game

Another bubbly game at Alun-alun Bandung.

bubbly bubble

Bubbly is a show of good spirits; a descriptor of a lively or effusive character. Bubble, its noun counterpart, is a hollow and light globule; a small body of gas contained within a liquid; and, figuratively, something delusive and unsubstantiated.

This is another picture in my alun-alun series.