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Please Tell Me What To Do In Hong Kong and Jakarta

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…So that I don’t kill my father before we’ve even begun our 4,000 hour transcontinental flight. …Please?

Because he is currently doing the Dad Thing where he sends me article after article after article on Ten Things To Do In X Location!, and for whatever reason this is making me react like a bratty 16-year-old (UGH DAAAAAAAD), and I literally cannot make myself read the articles, but he will not stop sending them to me. (I’m also super conflicted about the trip full-stop, which doesn’t help.)

…Can you help me figure out what to do in Hong Kong and Jakarta, so I can copy and paste your answers and send them to my father, and so that he will think I actually did the requested research (assuming, of course, that he is not a daily reader of www.ramshackleglam.com)?

Thank you.

(Links to some semi-thematically-relevant posts below, just for fun.)

 

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That qualifies me as an expert in the matter.

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(I’ll answer that one myself: Yes. …But what, if anything are you allowed to do about it?)

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