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