j e a n n i e j e a n: Se Taa Bak.

Hey ssup people in da house?! ;)

Yea I know. It's like a million years since my last update. Busy ma.

Anyways, I went google-ing for Starbucks Taiping Sentral's address for some formal stuff I need to do. Well, I failed to find the add but something else attracted me to read.

A bunch of boys were arguing about whether Starbucks is right to be situated in Taiping.

Boy A (the blogger):

As you all know Starbucks is indeed a popular coffee shop throughout Malaysia. But not at Taiping. The price of one cup of coffee is almost equivalent to my one day of food expenses. Of course the reason why the price is super expensive is bcause the coffee beans used is imported. Hey, here is Taiping la! People with low or average income will just come during the festival seasons. And in ordinary days, people will just come once a blue moon. As a result, Starbucks will have any income. This will eventually lead to bankruptcy. Another reason might due to high rent. So, to sum it all Starbucks can only survive in a short terms but not in long terms.

Boy B:

You don't like Starbucks ma dun drink la. Taiping ppl dun like to spend so much I know, u don't like ma go Prima drink lah! You think Taiping Sentral so "mall-like" and high class punya place want do another Prima ah? Where flies fly here and there and drinks cost about RM1 and food about RM2, waiters all dirty and sweaty looking with black-black towels hanging on their shoulders wiping every single table no matter clean or dirty. Then the whole TS would look so clean and nice and suddenly at the corner there 1 practical kopi shop. Look so alien.

Boy C:

Taiping people getting advance day by day. The income of worker at here increase from year to yea. Yes, i agree with you with expensive coffee bean which is specially imported bean. The bean used for the coffee is not any ordinary bean. It is best among the best and all the Starbuck cafe around the world is using the same coffee bean. This is why it is expensive. By the way, I believe that you assume that Starbuck failed to attract youngster or any customer to stop by to have a drink. But i will prove that you are totally wrong. If you observe properly, what kind of people you will meet at there? Couple? Family? or a group of teenagers? No! most of them are business people. Business minded people with laptop, PDAs or any device that WE haven't seen before. They are doing their business at there, this is called home-based-business. Many people become successful thanks to them. If you compare the WiFi strength with other Cafe's WiFi strength, Starbuck is the best among all.

Boy D:

I never seen starbucks in taiping been empty before, especially during weekends..its kinda pack compare to HERITAGE WHICH IS CHEAP but full with flies. ''Hey, here is Taiping la'' O so what..? i see more ppl at starbucks compare to that heritage. low & mid income...ok but why dont u mention bout high-income citizen? are you trying to say that all the tpg citizen are poor? i doubt so..if people dont like it fine dont need to go..but there are some who like it..there are lots of citizen living here in tpg, although its a small town..1/100 of them is enough to prevent starbuck from the so call bankrupt..hmm..really making me lol-ed hard.

Boy E:

and about Starbuck?
haha... why don't you ask them.
not only businessman, other people like teenagers would go there to 'yam cha' with their friends! Maybe those "amore lang" would go there since they only know STARBUCK!
taking a sip on expensive drink? Who ask you to rush? People go there to enjoy and they can sit there for 1 whole day!

Boy F:

1.Lets talk bout Starbucks (SB). Since SB is so expensive, that’s why you only see businessman lepaking and doing business at there. And how many businessman you expect to come per day?

And then they started to shift the attention to the cinema la... the bookstores like MPH and Kinokuniya la...

If you ask me, what's my point of view on this.... I'll say: Who gives a damn? It's not my family business what. As long as they pay my salary... what tha heck la?! ;)