28 February 2014
Our journey for the Supper Snapshots exhibition in Yogyakarta started on Thursday, as Titing and I took the business-class train Senja Utama from Pasar Senen station at half past six in the afternoon. It was my first long train trip in years (my last one was in 2004 I think) and there has been some changes. All the economy and business class trains are now equipped with air-co, and the difference between the classes is now in the seats. The cheaper the trains the less convenient the seats.
The good thing about the air-co was that we didn’t need to worry about the heat so we could get a better rest. However, the air-co was a house air-co stuck onto one side of the ceiling and it was aimed right at us. It was bad. It was so bad that we couldn’t have a decent sleep. And when I can not have a decent sleep on a moving vehicle, it means that it is far from convenient.
One thing that we should’ve brought was a sleeping bag. If we brought one, one of us would’ve been able to sleep on the seat and the other on the floor on a sleeping bag. We didn’t bring newspapers either – or anything that we could use as a ‘sleeping mat’.. like what other people actually did.
I finally ended up watching the Person of Interest series and editing some photos while Titing did some revisions for her work. We had very little sleep and we were quite surprised that the train actually arrived on time. My friends told me that the trains usually depart on time but arrive late, but it turned out that our train arrived at Senja Utama at three in the morning.
We were still so tired so we decided to sleep a at the station for a while before going to LIR.
