Day 1 without the man of the house

It's been roughly 24hrs since The Man left for his jaunt around the world. I'm already bored. Amazing how just having someone there to talk to can make life that little bit more interesting. Oh well, we knew his job would be like that, hence the lack of a proper job for me.

Had a rather interesting little experience today. There we were, happily driving down the road to school when all of a sudden, absolute standstill! There were news vans lining the road and police trucks and it seemed like a scene out of some action packed Hollywood action movie. I was just waiting for some suave guy in shades to come leaping over the stationary cars in pursuit of the scruffy looking baddie wielding a parang (parang of course, we're in Asia!!). Instead, all I could see were people standing around. And more people... and even MORE people. Where did they all come from?? Anyhow, we inched along untill, suddenly.... Absolutely no traffic going in our direction!! But being Jakarta, all the oncoming traffic decided that since no one was using our lane, they might as well! So there we were, to all intents and purposes going AGAINST the flow of traffic. I was stressing away going, 'Udah lewat dong!! Bagaimana nak sampai di sekolah dalam masa 10 minit!!' (It's already late! How're we going to get to school in 10mins'), when Mr.D our fabulous driver replied in his inimitable style, 'Ngak apa madam, bisa jalan di sini...' (Don't worry madam, we can go here), and promptly drove OFF THE ROAD!! HELLO!! We were OFF. THE. FREAKING. ROAD!!! Remember the non existent pavements I was talking about? Well, there's a reason you take your life in your hands if you try and walk on them, it's because everyone uses them as emergency lanes. Or convenience lanes, I should say. At least we arrived at school on time... And from now on, I will never ever try and walk on those death traps, ever again!!