Meaningless Rants

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I don’t understand these trendy things going on in Indonesia. Why do people line up for the most banal things? I mean, I saw tens of people waiting in line for tens of minutes to get… Yoghurt? Seriously folks. It’s just yoghurt. Is it such a special tasting yoghurt that it’s worth to wait that long? And then people start asking you, “have you tried Sour Sally yet?” No and I don’t want to bother trying it. It’s yoghurt. Get over it.

It’s not just a recent thing, too. I remember vividly how, around 15 years ago, people were flocking to the newest burger joint to arrive in Jakarta from the US. What burger joint? McDonalds. I kid you not. Hundreds upon hundreds of people waiting in line at the first McDonald’s joint to eat their limp burger with overcooked-thin-burger patty that looks close to being a jerky. Hey, if it’s In&Out opening up here in Jakarta, I’d wait for 2 hours just because the burger’s that good. But McDonald’s?

Well, alright. Sometimes these trendy stuffs are good. Bread Talk do have some nice bread things. But really, when it first opened, I though it was a line for Halle Berry to kiss you silly. But nooooooooooo hundreds of people waiting in line to buy “abon bread.” What is this abon bread anyway? Just a bread with a prodigious amount of butter so that the abon will stick to the bread.

But hey, Bread Talk I can still enjoy. But Krispy Kreme? What’s up with that. It’s just doughtnut. D to the o to the u to the g to the h to the n to the u to the freaking t. DOUGHNUT. And it’s not just any kind of doughnut. It’s the type of doughnut that you’d get if you ever want to feel what it’s like to have diabetes. Seriously, the stuff is so unbearably sweet. If there was no line and I have to choose between Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts, I’d pick the later. But I’m forgetting something: IT’S THE NEW TRENDY THING COMING FROM THE US! So we should all line up to destroy our kidneys, right?

The list goes on and on: Rotiboy, J.Co, Starbucks. The latest, aside from Sour Sally, is Burger King. Well, it’s a step ahead from McDonalds, but it’s still Burger King. But no, I’m not saying that I won’t ever try Burger King. Of course I will. I also go to McDonalds sometimes. I buy bread fro Bread talk. I drink over-priced coffee from Starbucks. I will try Krispy K… no nevermind. Who knows, maybe I will get an ephipany one day and try Sour Sally. But to wait in line for ungodly tens of minutes for yoghurt… no thanks. Besides, if I want something cold, I’d rather get myself Haagen Daaz. I’m such an unrepentant snob.

Speaking of which, you know the latest trendy ****? Blackberry. Yep. As if I need to check emails every ten minutes. Having said that, I won’t refuse if someone wants to give me a piece though.