Who needs profit anyway?

When President Megawati Soekarnoputri opened the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit here on Sunday she read out her written speech in English.

The President can actually speak English fairly well, but while reading her speech, she stumbled embarrassingly on the word profiting, calling it something on the order of "provaiting". She tried to correct her mistake but still failed.

"She looked a bit nervous. Actually she should not worry about it because at least she tried hard," said one of the guests.

Her step-sister Kartika Soekarnoputri drilled her in English before the President addressed the United Nations General Assembly last month.

Kartika probably needs fly over here from her home in New York to resume the English lessons for the President, or maybe she can enroll at one of the many private English schools here. JP