As you may know—or maybe not—yesterday was my birthday! It has been pretty well recorded on this blog how I have a love-hate relationship with such a day every year. However, I think this year is an exception—if not a turning point—to that rule, because my birthday was awesome! There were a lot of reasons why, to be honest, but since they will be way too long to dig deep into, I thought I’d mention just one: Bintaro Design District.
It is an architectural set of events that I found out only days before my birthday—which happens to be its last day! It offers numerous exhibitions, open studios, talkshows, workshops and more spread out all over Bintaro—which is an area near where I live. The system dictates that each visitor must buy a BDD Pass, which is a book filled with details on each place and activity, maps to each location and space for stamps at the back. Whoever gets the most stamps is promised some enticing freebies. This seems like such a fun concept, that I asked my sister to come with me to view the event. Unfortunately, it was the last day, so we missed out on a lot.
Thrifted shirt + shorts // old hat + sneakers // hand-me-down purse // outfit photos by Sis
Okay, I’m sorry, but I’m not going to talk about each exhibition we saw, because there were too many to fit a proper blog post. I hope you’d find their instagram much more helpful. Here are a few things I’d like to note, though. So, we ended up seeing only 9 attractions spread out between 5 venues. We would’ve loved to see more, but there were some serious obstacles. The first one is the selling out of the pass at Kopi Manyar—which is basically where they keep telling us to purchase one in their social media—so it set us back 30 minutes.
Second of all, the weather wasn’t very cooperative, which keeps us from enjoying most of the attractions as they are supposed to be experienced. Third of all, the whole stamp system is thrown out the window, because it was the last day, so we didn’t get the satisfaction of getting as many as we possibly could. It was kind of disappointing. That being said, the event was rather great. It’s very rare to find spread-out exhibitions in the greater Jakarta area, so it was really refreshing. They’d surely be much better when everything works out, but still enjoyable even with the terrible situations. I’d love to visit it again if there’s another one next year!
As you may know—or maybe not—yesterday was my birthday! It has been pretty well recorded on this blog how I have a love-hate relationship with such a day every year. However, I think this year is an exception—if not a turning point—to that rule, because my birthday was awesome! There were a lot of reasons why, to be honest, but since they will be way too long to dig deep into, I thought I’d mention just one: Bintaro Design District.
It is an architectural set of events that I found out only days before my birthday—which happens to be its last day! It offers numerous exhibitions, open studios, talkshows, workshops and more spread out all over Bintaro—which is an area near where I live. The system dictates that each visitor must buy a BDD Pass, which is a book filled with details on each place and activity, maps to each location and space for stamps at the back. Whoever gets the most stamps is promised some enticing freebies. This seems like such a fun concept, that I asked my sister to come with me to view the event. Unfortunately, it was the last day, so we missed out on a lot.
Thrifted shirt + shorts // old hat + sneakers // hand-me-down purse // outfit photos by Sis
Okay, I’m sorry, but I’m not going to talk about each exhibition we saw, because there were too many to fit a proper blog post. I hope you’d find their instagram much more helpful. Here are a few things I’d like to note, though. So, we ended up seeing only 9 attractions spread out between 5 venues. We would’ve loved to see more, but there were some serious obstacles. The first one is the selling out of the pass at Kopi Manyar—which is basically where they keep telling us to purchase one in their social media—so it set us back 30 minutes.
Second of all, the weather wasn’t very cooperative, which keeps us from enjoying most of the attractions as they are supposed to be experienced. Third of all, the whole stamp system is thrown out the window, because it was the last day, so we didn’t get the satisfaction of getting as many as we possibly could. It was kind of disappointing. That being said, the event was rather great. It’s very rare to find spread-out exhibitions in the greater Jakarta area, so it was really refreshing. They’d surely be much better when everything works out, but still enjoyable even with the terrible situations. I’d love to visit it again if there’s another one next year!