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I can't say this all in Indo so ill say it in English OKe boss?  

SO HERES THE DILEMMA: Next weekend will be crazy. On friday Blank & jones are playing at Embassy and the following day Marco V will be dropping a bombshell at Vertigo here in Jakarta. BUT now BT is playing at the Heineken Thirst Finals dance festival on the coast here in Jakarta on the same night as Blank & Jones are playing at Embassy. Although I'm not a big fan of BT's original music, I want to see him "perform" live (he's using his laptop and synthesizers and crap to play live) and it would be fun but then I also want to see Blank & Jones.

Which one to go to? Blank & Jones or BT? Who's seen them both and can compare...?

[Jakarta]

Diary entry extracted by Tiesto himself from Tiesto's website: http://www.tiesto.com

"Last but not least, I went to Indonesia, a country that used to be high on my wish list to play! So, first we went to Bali. We visited the elephant temple, Sugar Agung (a very famous local percussionist) and did lots of sight seeing, shopping (again) and sunbathing! In every shop, its manager came up to me and told me to take as much as me and my crew wanted...for free! Tourism in Bali got hit hard after the terrorist attacks. It is a shame because it's such a beautiful island and the people are so nice.

The gig at Double Six was great but there were hardly any Indonesians! It was a place packed with Europeans and Australians. Nothing wrong with that of course but I didn't expected that in Bali. Next day my show in Yogjakarta was cancelled due to heavy rain and thunderstorms. I was supposed to play on the beach in the open air and that was just impossible due to this weather. This was definitely the biggest disappointment of the tour.

Next day in the morning we flew to Jakarta for what would be the biggest show of the tour. Save the best for last, that's what my management must have thought! At the press conference there were already more then a hundred journalists and that night 28,000 people showed up for the show. All I can say is: WOUW!! What an amazing crowd that was! The production was great and the sound system was the best one of the Asian tour. This was definitely my personal favorite gig of the Asian tour but as you can read those were all very good experiences.

I haven't told you everything in total detail because then I can write a whole book just about this tour! But I hope you have an idea about what I experienced here in Asia.

I want to thank all the people who came to the shows, all the promoters and everybody else who helped to make this tour so successful. I hope we can do it again soon. I will never forget this tour in my life!!

Love,
Tiësto"

Comment from myself: Tiesto is dead right. Jakarta has the best crowd in Asia! But too much drugs and thefts.