Jakarta is as exciting

Jakarta is as exciting

My Jakarta is as exciting as I want to make it, even with
those un-laundered flags, the mobile telephone exhibitionists,
the sometimes bad, ugly, wicked cab-drivers, the unpredictable
rains and the macet (traffic jams).

My only grouse at the moment is the rag and bone man who
creates havoc with the garbage. But I know we'll all be smiling
soon when either Carl Chairul or Jim Plouffe work on some
pointers on how to solve this problem. That's if I don't beat
them to it!

MARIANNE PEREIRA

Jakarta