Daily humor

Do you want to start the day with a smile? I strongly urge you to read the Jakarta Post every morning. Where else can you find the news that a person is "the mother of two sons, one daughter, and 100 orangutans?" (June 6, 1997, page 1).

We understand what this statement means but one can't miss the humor.

I thought the shareholders of a company are its owners and would be duly invited to attend a general meeting, and not summoned. But a company in Indonesia issues "summons to shareholders" (June 6, 1997, Ad on page 12). A court can demand attendance of a person by means of summons. The word should have been "invitation".

If you really wish to have a "massage of mind", there is a regular column in a classified ads. It seems there is no sickness in the world which can't be treated and cured by a simple massage. At times, the advertisers even give you very special hidden "message", if only you choose to read between the lines.

D. CHANDRAMOULI

Jakarta