What I miss about Pakistan - Part 1 : Good Friends

With their kind and pure heart, they treats us like family. Honest and sincere..
Friendly Nosheen. she took care of us for everything, took us for cloth shopping, lassi time, laundry, uniform, report etc. I think I owe her for some rupees as my money is not enough to buy Apricots, hehe...

Super Noshad. He's so kind, care and helpful. He's the best. For everything. He's the one we spend our time a lot with. Korangi night and morning view walk. If fells safe to have a walk with him, from the armed officer, and Guttak. The potatoes chip, Kebab, nimko and Samosa. Take care of our 3 times meals with his knock knock on the door. He's so busy take care of everything in the processing room. I miss his hand made chapati with omelette. His handmade garnish on vegetable and fruit. We call him 'si Ganteng' , hehe...

Haris, the nice guy. it feels enjoying talking and discuss with him. About the beauty of Mansehra, his impression of Indonesia people. We call him 'Brewok'..the Beard Guy, hehe,,

Rubina and Aisya, beauty and sweet girl from processing. 

Nasreen, good leader from processing.

 

 The claw girls

 Asfa.. the pending guy, hehe,, not talk much..

 Aishya, one of my favorite girl in the processing. smart and dilligent

 Bilal and Ali. Bilal is the seamer guy and mechanic.He handles everything in seaming. Good guy and still single,,
Ali is one of the security guard. Funny and smiling person, and has 2 wife.
Both are kind and nice to talk to, Took us to have a morning walk around the factory for a couple times. I moss them..

 Farzana, one of my favorite girl in the processing room. The beautiful one. smart and dilligent. best friend of Aisha

 

 Piat's son? haha....he's complicated...

 The grace Rubina, hehe,,

 With the group : Aisya, Saima, Salma, Samina...they looks similar with name, size and face.. no woner if  mixed up mentioning their names.. haha..

 

 The QC checker. She's new. A couple days before I left. I don't even know her name. The wife of Bilal, the laundy guy..

 Piat with Nosheen and Faro

 They looks like twins, haha..

My favorite guy in Karachi. Said Anwar, the Chef. Silent and no smile man. But one I saw him chuckling when he laugh at me tasting the merci..it's hot, hahaaa...

I met a lot of kind and nice guy in Karachi. They're so pure and open hearted.
I miss them all...

Meeting the Rafiqs - Part 1

Spending 4 hours taking a nap in his other apartment. In clean and good room. Breakfast are prepared with bread and omelette. Orange juice with a classic tea milk.. Taste good..

We met with Mr. and Mrs. Rafiq, and their youngest 14 years old daughter, Laiba. 

PAKISTAN Flight Departure

Finally, flight to Pakistan!

Departured from Surabaya when I haven't finished my Idul Fitri Holiday..on July 02, 2017. Papa, Daffa, Fira were all taking me to Airport. My other team member, Agus and Piat was on separate car by the factory.

My flight is started on Terminal 2 Juanda with Garuda, SUB-JKT. It was the first flight for Piat, so she's a little nervous.

Transit in Jakarta terminal 3

Look at them behind me, seem enthusiastic and happy coming at Jakarta airport. Contact their family and taking pictures, hehe...

And then we have to moved to terminal 2. By frees shuttle bus. And the accident happened. Agus mistaken his baggage. same black color. and just find out in the shuttle bus. Calm down Henny, take a deep breath...  we go back to previous terminal using the same shuttle bus. in a hurry we went to baggage claim and complaint office. Luckily that Agus's bag is available and no need more procedure to get the bag back.

My connecting flight is using Etihad Airlines. From Jakarta to Abu Dhabi and continued to Karachi. As Agus's bag incident, we are so desperately go to Etihad counter for check in. We spent 1 hour more for this bag. Running all the corridor gates to find our gates number. Oh, gossh...

Good flight with good service. Finally we could take a rest after the long struggle to the gate..hehe..
Good food, good looking steward/stewardess.. It felt so short for 8 hours flight from Jakarta to Abu Dhabi. with twice meal..But dinner (or suppler) at midnight with sleepy eyes sometimes it so annoying...ooh, my stomach is full.

Midnight transit at Abudhabi.
It was written on the ticke that we used Etihad airlines. But the fact is we flied using PIA (Pakistan International Airlines). We were using connecting small bust to get into PIA gate.

And here we go in the Pakistan International Airlines. Not like in the Etihad flight with multi ethnic and international passenger, using this PIA was mostly with Pakistani.

And another little incident happened again with Agus. With his excitement he took pictures of steward/stewardess. Unlucky, during in PIA when he took stewardess pictures, she was upset and took Agus's cell phone and checked some files. Shtold us that we can take our pictures but not cabin crew. Sorry... Below is Etihad stewardess, not PIA.

Finally at 5 AM local time we arrived in Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. What a tiring journey... we're picked by someone at the airport, I thought that he was the driver. He took care of the immigration, trespass the immigration long queque... wow, it's a little frightening as some peoples got upset because of that. Thank God that the officer can explained it so that we can finished this line quickly.

We just find out that Mr. Rafiq was picked us himself when we met outside and he paid some money to that man..hehe... 

Then Mr. Rafiq drove as to his house as it was too early in the morning and suggested we took a rest for a while befire we go to the plant..

Passport and Visa

Procedure :

1. Making my new passport, as my old passport has already expired. To get the Passport from Immigration office, we should prepare the SKCK. And the long procedures begun. Starting to get the letter from RT, RW, Kelurahan, Kecamatan, Polsek, Polres and the last is in Polda. And then they issue the SKCK
2. Passport in Immigration office of Surabya. Only one day processed. Good government service
3. Visa. it took 2 weeks for taking a VISA from Pakistan

Taraaa.. my VISA has just finished..

PAKISTAN Trip - an opening

Alhamdulillah.. it's a big pleasure that i got opportunity to Pakistan. It was a wonderful journey with amazing experience. Meeting new fiends with their kind and hospitality, tasting the spicy and delicious foods, beautiful sea view.. and beating up my heart beat again.. It's not just a body travelling, but also a soul traveling...

Even that it's only 2 weeks stayed in Karachi, but it gave me a lot. I wish I can stay longer in there..2 weeks is just too fast.. I hope I have other chance to go there again. Insha Allah...

Actually it is a business trip.. but for me it is my private trip. I will not mention the company name. But I will stated the location and personal story

By the way. It is a late post from the actual date. As I said before, this is an amazing adventure. And I don.t want this story and experience just left and faded away. I enjoyed every second moment in there. And life is just too worthy to let it away without nothing..

I will divide in separate posting. I Let me start it.. Bismillahirrahmanirrahiim...