Woe is me, for I am undone. I have no internet access here (I'm using Indonesian voodoo to post this, there'll be hell to pay later) here in Tanjung Pinang. Also transport is a bit iffy, to put it mildly.
I checked into the posh hotel - hey kids, why don't we hide an extra 21% tax charge beside the price of that room, won't that be fun??! - but their sodding wireless network isn't working, isnlt there, someone ran off with the keyboard in the night and they can't log on, whatever,
Suffice to say they do not have the promised internet connection, but they do have proper fluch toilets and room service and air conditioning, and hopefully not cockroaches as I had to deal with one with EXTREME prejudice last night back in the cheapo place when I woke at 2am to the frantic buzz-smacking of it cannoning off the walls.
I really, really don't approve of animal cruelty, and I could not face crushing it beneath my sandal'ed heel, as it were (imagine the noise, ewww...) but you have a hard time catching them let alone finding something big enough to do so, it was one of those big 2.5" bastards, so I had to resort to a can of aerosol and a fag lighter. Rest In Peace you poor wavy-antennae'd little bugger. Shouldn't have picked my window.
Anyway I'm very much behind with everything and don't know how to get out of this town. Thinking seriously about that boat trip to Jakarta....
- I'm now stucj amidst 15 crazed children in an internet gaming cebtre/cafe/place/thing and thy keep peeking over my shoulder.
God help us all if this is the best internet connection indonesia has to offer.
Laters all.
