Day 1, Take off to Bangalore, India (25 Mar 2005)
At 9:30 AM, I was heading to the Soekarno-Hatta airport and meet with my friends from Universitas Parahyangan, Bandung: Pascal Alfadian Nugroho and Renald.
| | From left to right: Me (Felix Halim), Pascal AN, Renald |
There wasn't any difficulties going to Singapore. During the transit, we met the other Indonesian friends: Ardian KP, Bramandia R, and Prima C. Also we met other GICJ contestants that appeared to be on the same flight.

| Singapore Airlines... each seats has a monitor and a "controller".
When you flip the controller, it could be used as a phone.
It can call to any seats on the plane or call outside plane using card. |
We then arrive at Bangalore International Airport after 4 hours flying.
| Bangalore International Airport (Arrival). We are the last persons queuing.
At the right is the picture of Bramandia, Prima, and Ardian queueing. |
There are 10 GICJ contestants in the plane. We assembled at the outside of the Bangalore International Airport waiting to be picked up by the GICJ agent.
| | Missing 2 people here (me tacking the picture and 1 other was phoning Mr. Tapas) |
After phoning Mr. Tapas approximately 10 minutes we were escorted to the Park Hotel. The hotel is near the airport only 15 minutes distance by car.
| | We were checking in to the Park Hotel |
I was assigned to room 104. Google is generous... each person was assigned to a double room (two persons). In the hotel, there was so many mirrors. I really loved it, I could take a picture of my self easily. Here you will find many picture of me reflected by the mirrors.
| The left pic is me in room 104 posing. The right pic is me in front of the hotel's lift posing :P |
After putting our stuffs in our room and rest a bit, we were heading to the "Blue Box Room" (still in the Park Hotel) to get our Google T-Shirt. In fact we got not only Google T-Shirt but also Google Bag! (the inside of the bag was two Google Pen, a Google Bottle, and a Google Hat!). That's very nice gifts from Google India :)
| | The left pic is the Google Bag. The right pic is the Google T-Shirt. |
| | The Google Hat, Google Bag, Google Bottle, and Google Pen inside the Bag |
Ok that's for the first day: register to Park Hotel and get the Google Stuffs.
Next : Day 2, Breakfast, Briefing and go to the Cafe!? (26 Mar 2005)
- Introduction - Google India Code Jam
- Day 1, Take off to Bangalore, India (25 Mar 2005)
- Day 2, Code Jam Contest (26 Mar 2005)
- Day 3, Back to Jakarta (27 Mar 2005)
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