How are you today?

[vania~]

hi guys!
whoa great to hear you have a cafe now Phil!
i start dating again, i found an interesting guy, he is moslem, my parents curious and asked me if i was just met a man and his religion and bla bla.. and suddenly they told me to go to church and join the church community
hollycrap hahah, im not religious kind of person -____-
im afraid that they will matchmaking me with someone that im not interested in at all...

[Happyman]

That was literally the second question my family asked when I said I had met a girl, "What's her religion, is she a moselem?" I should have said yes, just to give them the workout.
I hope he is a nice man, and that you are happy together.

[PhilippeD]

No Vania, we don't have a cafe. We have developed some product specifically for cafe. Now we are supplying 3.
We hope being able to find 2 or 3 more evantually. We are also looking for open our own cafe...evantually!
Each thing in his time!

I wish you all the best with your dating Van.

Take care!

[vania~]

@Happyman: it happened to you too?
thank you happyman!
he seems nice guy but i dont know for sure i just met him once... he is in Bandung and im in Jakarta, not sure if its gonna work out.
because everytime i date a guy, eventually they always try to drag me to church and tell me to pray blah blah things like that, even they are not religious people

@PhilippeD: that sounds great! i hope you guys will open a cafe that will be super cool!
i deleted my bbm messenger because my phone getting slow, so i dont get update from your wife bbm...
thank you Phil! i hope so
you too take care!

[PhilippeD]

Matter of color

Strangely when i arrive in indonesia white car was a rarity. For sure, none of the toyota build in indo had white as choice of color.
I said to my wife that i find it strange as it would be my first choice of color in a hot country like indo.
A black car must become so hot under the sun!

Since 2 year manufacturer have start to offer white color... it's like an euphoria, everyone buy a white car.
The family in law have all white car.

Like I said we "bought" a car, go figure out, until the car would not be in front of my house and the key in my hand i don't believe i still buy a car.
We were suppose to receive the car before the 5 june...
Today we had a call, they can't have our color on date... but they can have us a white one now.

Me and my wife we both agree white is a nice color for a elegant car... but a Toyota Agya in white, it don't look good.
We don't want black and the only other color we like is the dark grey.

So... we wait for our grey Toyota Agya for the 20 june.

Hoping it was only a tactic for make us buy a car they want to get rib of and we will get it more early than the 20!

[jstar]

Are you serious? White is one of the most popular colors (for cars) in Asia, including Indonesia. Has been a long time. And worldwide white made it to the number one spot some time ago also (Audi has been pushing it a lot in western countries). It was unpopular because it was the cheap/free 'standard' color mainly used for vans, trucks and company cars without any options.

Black is not only an issue for absorbing the heat; it gets dirty very fast. Then silver or grey metallic are the best options. And red fades rather fast because of the sun.

But rather important: Black has the best resale value.

[PhilippeD]

Are you serious? White is one of the most popular colors (for cars) in Asia, including Indonesia. Has been a long time. And worldwide white made it to the number one spot some time ago also (Audi has been pushing it a lot in western countries). It was unpopular because it was the cheap/free 'standard' color mainly used for vans, trucks and company cars without any options.

Black is not only an issue for absorbing the heat; it gets dirty very fast. Then silver or grey metallic are the best options. And red fades rather fast because of the sun.

But rather important: Black has the best resale value.

Now they will all have trouble to sold their car because they are all buying them white.

Back off 3-4 year ago, not so many car were offer in white by Toyota.
At least rush and avanza was not offer in white.
First daihatsu release some kind of market test in white... And it become a popular color.

I don't know for the rest of asia.

[atlantis]

At least rush and avanza was not offer in white.

I think it depends on region, PhilippeD. We've bought some Avanza in early 2010 and despite having chosen them all in black, I remember that they were on offer in several colors in my city, including white.

Addit:
An "amusing" anecdote: the reason why we have chosen them in black, with very dark glasses, was because the main target for rental were pejabat going around with their mistress(es)...

[Tito Arie Sandi]

Bad traffic from Kuningan to PGC. Let's enjoy our trip because our family is waiting for us. God bless

[Tito Arie Sandi]

Don't be sad..Probably your friend was having problems

[Tito Arie Sandi]

Wow...that's coll

[PhilippeD]

Tito, you need to click on "reply with quote" instead of "reply" for we can know of what you are talking about!

[PhilippeD]

I think it depends on region, PhilippeD. We've bought some Avanza in early 2010 and despite having chosen them all in black, I remember that they were on offer in several colors in my city, including white.

Addit:
An "amusing" anecdote: the reason why we have chosen them in black, with very dark glasses, was because the main target for rental were pejabat going around with their mistress(es)...

Does it make that long I am in indonesia????

[PhilippeD]

Do you want see something hilarious?

The last anime I got for my kid is kung fu panda 1 and 2
Now a have a 3 year old who is trying very seriously to do kung fu.

What she try to imitate is in the begining of the second when the master play with a drop of water. She got the feet move and then turn her hand... Her very serious expression his very funny

[wisnupurwanto]

Are you serious? White is one of the most popular colors (for cars) in Asia, including Indonesia. Has been a long time. And worldwide white made it to the number one spot some time ago also (Audi has been pushing it a lot in western countries). It was unpopular because it was the cheap/free 'standard' color mainly used for vans, trucks and company cars without any options.

Black is not only an issue for absorbing the heat; it gets dirty very fast. Then silver or grey metallic are the best options. And red fades rather fast because of the sun.

But rather important: Black has the best resale value.

just closed the deal today; not white, not black, but a blue Chevy Suburban, 5.3L, auto, 2003 but still very good condition, got it for Euro 1300 only - I don't care for resale value; may be after 4 years I'll left on the road site.