Friday, December 31, 2004 - Jakarta, Indonesia New Year’s Eve is on tonight! It was around nine in the evening when Beau and I arrived in Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta, after roughly eight hour flight from Seoul, South Korea. Mom, Dad, my sister Leona, brother in law Julius and niece Kayla, were meeting us at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport arrival lounge, and we were fortunate enough to experience the notorious Indonesian street ‘riot’ celebrations for New Year’s Eve on our way to my aunt’s house in Kelapa Gading. I was expecting many New Year’s Eve festivity chaos and wild things to happen throughout the mega polis. To start with, we drive at the ‘wrong’ left side of the road, as Beau describes it, and everybody seems to be in close proximity to each other: pedestrian,
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