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Reality Trumps Love

9:04am Jul 6, 2011

I usually write about the questionable things that happen here in our beloved city in order to dish out sarcasm about them. But this time I want to tell you all about the greatest thing in our lives: love, with all its bliss and misery.

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Misuse of Media and Publicity

7:51am Jun 5, 2011

Since I work in the media, I am confronted with all kinds of news every day. So, for the last seven months, the media has been covering the disappearance of this little 17-year-old sinetron starlet. She ran away from home, twice, and was found just recently in a government building. Many different parties were involved in the search for this little girl, including child protection services, all kinds of lawyers, etc.

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ComplexCity: Negotiating Jakarta’s Mad Traffic

11:32am May 21, 2011

Did every Indonesian win their driver’s license in the lottery? How often do you sit in a motorized vehicle and wonder if the driver is actually qualified to operate it?

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RRR - No, This Is Not About Trio Macan

11:08am May 7, 2011

In the heat of global warming and with our mother earth at stake due to our foolishness, urban citizens of a city such as Jakarta are reminded on a daily basis to reduce, reuse and recycle. From an ecological point of view that’s great — and we should keep on doing it — but apparently, in a city of 9 million inhabitants, according to Wikipedia, (I believe the real figure is closer to 20 million), there are other ways to interpret the three Rs.

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A Bothersome Greeting at the Airport

2:34pm Apr 28, 2011

After breathing 20 hours of crisp and fresh air in Singapore, I landed back in Jakarta. Usually the overwhelming smell of urine at the airport embraces me, but today it actually was not that bad. The airport was busy, a plane from Doha had landed at the same time and some people were lost in total confusion trying to find the right queue at the immigration checkpoint.

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About Marissa L Nasution
With an East-meets-West upbringing, Marissa Leufke Nasution, the host of “Insert” on Trans TV, dishes out a somewhat sarcastic view of Jakarta. But she adds a disclaimer: Don’t take it too seriously; we all need a good laugh once in a while.
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