JAKARTA — As night falls, groups of twenty-somethings gather at a trendy hangout, chatting at tables laden with beer, iced coffee and nachos.
Around 6 a.m., the first commuters were straggling past police officers and into the station, laden with cups of coffee and newspapers.
Then we climbed past patches of corn, banana trees and other tropical staples like a kind of tuber called cocoyam, interspersed with coffee trees laden with tiny flowers scented like orange blossoms.
An ebonized tray arrived promptly, laden with smoked salmon crepes, coffee and orange juice, the latter included with the price of the crepes -- a bargain by hotel standards ($18.97).
Students hunker down in the library for twelve to fifteen hour days laden with high-energy foods, coffee, and shot-sized "booster" drinks that make claims just as ridiculous as their flame-covered packaging, To add to this come the perils of self-medication in the form of Pro-Plus tablets meant to carry students through the strains of non-stop study.
The dining room table is laden with plates of chocolate croissants, lox and bagels, Danish pastries, cream cheese, jams and jellies and elaborate coffee and tea services.
The typical return flight from Bogotá used to be permeated with coffee aromas, as travelers laden with Colombian beans hoped to recreate the experience back home.
Ms. Chilingarova was lounging on a sofa by a coffee table laden with platters of smoked fish, red caviar and bottles of Champagne.
He is vainly trying to deter Jeanne-Claude from emptying the contents of a bulky manila folder labeled "The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City" onto a coffee table laden with books about their monumental art projects.
"I love the contrast between the brutality of the city and the softness of this," she said one day, showing me a photograph she had taken of a bourgeois living room, its coffee table laden with textiles, pattern upon pattern, and bowls of fruit.
If you are going to post the currently de-rigueur Instagram of a coffee table laden with takeout cartons or the kind of snacks that look like you ram-raided a petrol station, you may wish to invest in a pair of double-ply cashmere socks in order to complete the view-from-the-sofa picture.
