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Yup, as the title suggests, the round-trip journey on Cathay Pacific Business Class was for my own wedding, held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel Bali on the 28th June 2008. As much as I would have liked to travel to DPS directly from HKG, the journey would have to be routed via SUB and CGK as I had an Engagement Party on the 25th June (before the Wedding, for my wife's family as she is from Surabaya), and my family's Dinner Reception on the 4th July (for my family as I am from Jakarta and coincidentally, USA's Independence Day to make the date unforgettable for both of us
). The Church Wedding and Dinner Party was sandwiched in between and it meant that we had 3 parties to prepare and attend to 
The fact that each party was in different style made all of them special to us. The engagement party in Surabaya was a standing party buffet with all kinds of food (sushi, Chinese, local Indonesian, etc), with the guests mostly from my wife's side. The wedding reception in Bali was a 5-course Western style dinner, with 80 guests comprising our relatives and close friends. Finally, the dinner reception in Jakarta was a traditional Chinese style dinner, with 40 tables and lots of old folks (mostly my dad and grandma's friends and relatives).
As I had amassed quite a number of miles through the Citibank CX Platinum Preferred Card just before CX cancelled its partnership with Citibank, I decided to burn 50,000 miles for my own trip, with the routing of HKG-SUB, CGK-HKG. Since the flight from CGK would be on a Boeing 747-400, I had intended to make it a memorable flight back to HKG by burning another 30,000 miles for my wife and secured Upper-Deck seats for both of us. This would also meant a surprise gift and first experience (and it turned out to be to great one, albeit some drama happening, to be elaborated later on) on the UD for my wife!!
NEXT: HKG-SUB on CX "NRBC"
Yup, as the title suggests, the round-trip journey on Cathay Pacific Business Class was for my own wedding, held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel Bali on the 28th June 2008. As much as I would have liked to travel to DPS directly from HKG, the journey would have to be routed via SUB and CGK as I had an Engagement Party on the 25th June (before the Wedding, for my wife's family as she is from Surabaya), and my family's Dinner Reception on the 4th July (for my family as I am from Jakarta and coincidentally, USA's Independence Day to make the date unforgettable for both of us
). The Church Wedding and Dinner Party was sandwiched in between and it meant that we had 3 parties to prepare and attend to The fact that each party was in different style made all of them special to us. The engagement party in Surabaya was a standing party buffet with all kinds of food (sushi, Chinese, local Indonesian, etc), with the guests mostly from my wife's side. The wedding reception in Bali was a 5-course Western style dinner, with 80 guests comprising our relatives and close friends. Finally, the dinner reception in Jakarta was a traditional Chinese style dinner, with 40 tables and lots of old folks (mostly my dad and grandma's friends and relatives).
As I had amassed quite a number of miles through the Citibank CX Platinum Preferred Card just before CX cancelled its partnership with Citibank, I decided to burn 50,000 miles for my own trip, with the routing of HKG-SUB, CGK-HKG. Since the flight from CGK would be on a Boeing 747-400, I had intended to make it a memorable flight back to HKG by burning another 30,000 miles for my wife and secured Upper-Deck seats for both of us. This would also meant a surprise gift and first experience (and it turned out to be to great one, albeit some drama happening, to be elaborated later on) on the UD for my wife!!
NEXT: HKG-SUB on CX "NRBC"
Since I had never been onboard the J Cabin with NRBC configuration, I quickly got hold of my camera as soon as I settled into my seat at 16C and started to snap a few pics of the cabin and seat. The layout of the cabin was 2-3-2, and there was a smaller cabin at the back which give a more private feel. On that day, it was occupied by a Korean family, with the parents and 3 kids. 
At the end, his wife and another son still had to sit at the back....hmm....
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