Mesh
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
If there’s a well in the yard
Let me take a bath
WHENEVER I go out of my house, I curse. Or complain. In the car.
The car has become a contradiction. In Indonesian, we call them ‘mobil’, from the word ‘automobile.’ The ‘auto’ part of the word has been dropped over time, because the fact that the vehicle can move by itself was no longer unusual. Now, all that is left is ‘mobile’. But this is why I curse—for in the Jakarta st
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