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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

"Interesting" Jakarta

Who said Jakarta isn't interesting place to live?
I've been living in Jakarta for few years. So far so good ... still survive, i mean.
Well, here's the fact:
1. Traffic.
The traffic in here is very "interesting". Maybe u wouldn't find any traffic like this in any country, or would u?? There are always n always TRAFFIC JAM whenever n wherever u go. NO DOUBT! If u could go "smoothly" ur way on the road, well then it's ur lucky day! The vehicles keep increasing year by year, instead the road get more crowded n crowded day by day. So, let's say if u wanna go some place which takes half an hour to go, in here mostly and at least u need to add more 15 minutes to an hour to take u to ur destination. So, u waste ur time n energy about half an hour or could more or less (depending) CRAWLING on the road!
By the way, there are really "u-got-ur-way-i-got-my-way" principle here. If u are a pedestrian, "u got ur way" to go. Dun have to bother the vehicles: the car, the motorcycle, n all public transports, when u wanna pass the road. Just go on ur own, they will notice u n take action depend on u.
If u are the driver of ur own car, i just can say, u gotta be a FEARLESS, CAREFULLY, CONCERN MUCH on another user who will suddenly "appear" in front of ur car, u know, in order to avoid u'll hit another user or their vehicle.
If u are the driver of the public transport, the road is "YOURS". Whenever n wherever u wanna stop ur vehicle, u just stop. No need to bother another user, even u would cause sum big traffic jam behind u. Mind my own business here! Nah, their principle is "u got ur way, i got my way. But if ur way were stucked bcoz of mine, just got ur another way, this is my way". Interesting isn't it?
If u are the driver of motorcycle, the road is all urs too, as long as u got any chance of space where ur motorcycle could go through. U got ur way, rite?

2. The Government
Let's just take a little sample: Once u made some mistake, u hit the road when the light still red n u get caught by a police man. They can be very nice n practical as long as u give them money. U got ur way to go. Got money, got no problem. Got no money... oh no,here's ur problem. "Interesting"!

3. The Environment
Since the road are always crowded with all vehicle, u can imagine how the air would be. U can't find any fresh air here, accept u go to some higher place like mountain.
As i said, as long as they got their own way, they don't care to another. Ur pipe polluted the air. No problem. It's not ur problem. U dun care. As long as u still could use it to travel or make money for u. Just leave it to the earth to take the rest. The earth? It works so hard but can't help with it. Keep warming n warming. No choice, till the end of the world ...

4. The people
"Mind ur own business" really reflects the people in here. We either can throw garbage/trash anywhere we want. Noone would bother. The principle here is, "as long as mine is well, screw another. Hey, don't we live so practical? We can do anything throw everything whereever we want. We just live the best we can be for our own. We don't care about the other thing in this world. We care NOTHING for this world. We care about OURSELF ONLY.For example, we can throw the trash to the river, the lake, the ocean, wherever we want. Noone will notice that until once it happened to disease, flood, pollution here n there. Who would BLAME on who??? "Interesting" people!

SO, who said Jakarta isn't "INTERESTING"?

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