A sign saying "jangan makan" or don't eat that can be found inside the smoking lounge of 'Menara Batavia'
Tags: city guide, Jakarta, writing
To Eat or Not to Eat, that Is the Question
A sign saying "jangan makan" or don't eat that can be found inside the smoking lounge of 'Menara Batavia'
Tags: city guide, Jakarta, writing
Om'bak 
January 21, 2009 at 5:21 pm |
Hi Lovelli,
“Don’t eat” sign is still make sense than “Don’t smoke” or “No smoking” sign. That is installed in smoking room, right? I think the room want to take “revenge” to dining room where commonly installed “Dilarang Merokok” or “No smoking” sign.
It’s witty picture.
January 31, 2009 at 5:58 pm |
That’s one way of looking at it, Titus. It wasn’t in my mind the moment I took the picture, though. But it is interesting to see, in real life, that design is not everything but…
everything is designed.
I posted the picture as a response to Belinda’s interest in learning Indonesian. If I were to be walking around in a city slash country slash area that was very foreign to me and the only language I mastered was English but it wasn’t used in the country, I’d learn first from such signs and symbols.
April 10, 2009 at 8:25 pm |
I make a point of asking people not to eat while I’m smoking. It upsets my delicate olfactory senses. The fat bastards.