Indonesian counting
The picture above is showing a typical control panel of a skyscraper elevator.
What is missing? 13 and many fours, as 4 in Chinese is a homonym for 死 (death).
What do we learn? First, avoid bad luck and second, that the Chinese seem to run the ups and downs of most skyscrapers here in Jakarta.
Save ride!
What is missing? 13 and many fours, as 4 in Chinese is a homonym for 死 (death).
What do we learn? First, avoid bad luck and second, that the Chinese seem to run the ups and downs of most skyscrapers here in Jakarta.
Save ride!
Jakarta, May 2009.
Labels: facts to know, Indonesia, Jakarta, weird
2 Comments:
It's typical: They always want to be bigger than they are
Ma'af: Ethnic Javanese or Chinese or all of them?
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