I take pride in being a bookworm, but there are times when especially down with cabin fever I yearn to be out. When this happens, I get dressed and hail a cab to Jakarta. The late Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society” did say, “Carpe diem.”
It is one blissful Saturday when traffic is smooth, cappuccino is within your reach, and you have a book to yourself in. Relaxing at the Cascade Lounge of Hotel Mulia Senayan is the sweet ne plus ultra of a hectic week filled with incoherent essays, distracted students, and weird weather.