Who's Your Ideal Mate?

"My ideal mate would be a chiseled Chinese Indonesian who loves cows, sits next to me in church and who would happily beat me senseless when I cook the rice for two minutes longer than normal."

Thanks for that, Tim of Wadestown. 

A typical response from my Year 11 class (we were studying Romeo & Juliet at the time): "My perfect mate should has beautiful from it's physically and her hearts. She must has height around +- 175cm, also she must have nice, smooth and long hair =p"

I couldn't have put it better myself. 

For more insight into the inner workings of Indonesian teenagers' minds, go to my profile and check out the blog called "Romeo and Juliet". There are 40 comments, all written by Year 11 students. 

Money Talks

A Harvey Nichols luxury store opened in Jakarta recently after the owners looked carefully at the spread of wealth between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Official statistics showed there are at least 3,500 wealthy households here, which translates into a goodly amount of potential buyers. So what do they mean by 'wealthy households'? Millionaires? Think again; each household is worth at least US$100 million. I also read somewhere that the new Indonesian 'middle class' is roughly equivalent to the entire population of Australia. Now that's the sort of market you want to tap into.....