Comments on: Oh Indonesia, Oh Valet http://finally-woken.com/2007/03/oh-indonesia-oh-valet/ Four seasons in one day, two countries in one heart Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:26:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dean Boulding http://finally-woken.com/2007/03/oh-indonesia-oh-valet/#comment-35 Dean Boulding Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:18:38 +0000 http://finally-woken.com/?p=44#comment-35 I've been spending a restful day looking at blogs, and remembered this post and googled for it. It's still just about my favourite Jakarta story: I think you've captured beautifully the frustrations people with a clue sometimes get here. I still love it and all, but we all have these experiences. I’ve been spending a restful day looking at blogs, and remembered this post and googled for it. It’s still just about my favourite Jakarta story: I think you’ve captured beautifully the frustrations people with a clue sometimes get here. I still love it and all, but we all have these experiences.

]]> By: Anonymous http://finally-woken.com/2007/03/oh-indonesia-oh-valet/#comment-34 Anonymous Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:19:00 +0000 http://finally-woken.com/?p=44#comment-34 So, so true of Indonesia. I do like living here, but sheesh, it makes you a little crazy after awhile. I had a similar situation where I ordered a lime squash but they brought me a lemon squash. Back and forth it went for 20 minutes: "I ordered lime" "Yes, maam, this is lemon." "But I ordered lime. I want lime." Yes, lemon squash.." FINALLY, a manager comes over and says they are out of limes. Well why didn't you just SAY SO!? So, so true of Indonesia. I do like living here, but sheesh, it makes you a little crazy after awhile. I had a similar situation where I ordered a lime squash but they brought me a lemon squash. Back and forth it went for 20 minutes: “I ordered lime” “Yes, maam, this is lemon.” “But I ordered lime. I want lime.” Yes, lemon squash..” FINALLY, a manager comes over and says they are out of limes. Well why didn’t you just SAY SO!?

]]> By: Therry http://finally-woken.com/2007/03/oh-indonesia-oh-valet/#comment-33 Therry Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:42:00 +0000 http://finally-woken.com/?p=44#comment-33 Oh man ... To think that you have to go through all that trouble just for parking and the fact that those parking people surely never communicated let alone exchanged information with each other (clueless? ignorant? stupid...??) really depicted how most Indonesian service providers work. <br/><br/>You can call up the Customer Services of Indosat, CitiBank or First Media, to name a few, to describe your problem and then spend the next hour repeating after the same thing to a different Customer Service officer.<br/><br/>Such Irony. Oh man … To think that you have to go through all that trouble just for parking and the fact that those parking people surely never communicated let alone exchanged information with each other (clueless? ignorant? stupid…??) really depicted how most Indonesian service providers work.

You can call up the Customer Services of Indosat, CitiBank or First Media, to name a few, to describe your problem and then spend the next hour repeating after the same thing to a different Customer Service officer.

Such Irony.

]]> By: Matambo-Neilson.com http://finally-woken.com/2007/03/oh-indonesia-oh-valet/#comment-32 Matambo-Neilson.com Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:03:00 +0000 http://finally-woken.com/?p=44#comment-32 OMG, this is probably the funniest posting I have ever read! Anita, I totally sympathise with you as I've had many parking adventures here as well. What saves me sometimes is my diplomatic plate but oddly, some garages cater to it, others totally ignore it. Go figure! OMG, this is probably the funniest posting I have ever read! Anita, I totally sympathise with you as I’ve had many parking adventures here as well. What saves me sometimes is my diplomatic plate but oddly, some garages cater to it, others totally ignore it. Go figure!

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