Saturday, December 27, 2008

masteng and alay

Everyone seems to ditch and hate friendster now. Well at least, in Indonesia, those who think they are one step ahead than the others, prefer to use facebook than friendster to connect with friends. While in fact, way long ago before facebook was even invented, I bet you a hundred dollar, most of the people join in facebook was a former friendster member. Included YOU! Hehehehe..

I just read an article posted by a friend of mine on facebook, talking about Alay-Alay on friendster. Well, you might be wondering what alay-alay is, and I'm sorry 'cause I can't even find a word to describe it. Simply click here so you can instantly get the idea of what alay-alay is. Okay, back to the topic about friendster and alay, I understand another reason why people left friendster. I guess, blame it on the alay-alay who love to mess up with us, the fabulous and oh-so-stylish women/men alive, that they keep on checking our friendster profile, constantly trying to add us as their friend (well you wish!), attempting to flirt with us by sending messages, and the list goes on, but that's enough to frighten us. Me, was one of the victims. My inbox was full of junks sent from them, telling that I'm cute and he wanted to be my boyf (what the?!!), or just asking me to add them (why on earth couldn't you just click 'add as friend' or something? well you think I want to add you as my friend? no, thank you!), asking me to fukin check out their profile (this one really made me wanna puke!), or even asking for my phone number. Ah no, there was even worse.

So this masteng (yes, masteng is a higher level than alay) sent me a message, gave me his fukin biography and explained his intention for making friends with me. So he gave me his address (well you think I'd like to correspondent with you? fuk no!), phone number, his three cellphone numbers (wow, he's rich), email, his office number (I bet it's a warnet rather than real office), and a fax?! How complete was the information he gave me. I didn't respond but he kept on sending me messages and kind of beg me to reply his desperately-want-to-make-friend message. But honestly, seeing his hideously sleazy profile picture gave me this kind of nausea so I decided to ignore him (physical look still rules haha). See? How it had become so uncomfortable to me? I know there are loads of victims out there and I am sure my case is not the worst.

I know they are humans too, and they have the same right to connect with everyone on friendster. But I prefer not to connect with them. I don't know, tell me I'm stuck-up or something, whatsoever. It's a feeling I can't exactly describe nor I can explain. Maybe, those who think they are more educated than alay-alay or masteng, simply don't feel comfortable with them since they have pretty strange look, trashy sense of style, nasty attitude, stupid acts, and annoying voice (ahhhh their voice is so identical). I have nothing against them or getting a stereotype, I am just saying what I think about them (while in fact, it shows a lot that I'm so against them haha). Have another opinion, share your words.

11 comments:

dinadinadina said...

hahahaha...
keren postingan lo.. tenang, jangan dibawa emosi..
alay dan masteng kan juga manusia..
begitulah cara mereka hidup, mencari makan dan mencari kawan hidup.. ahaha..
sekalian qod, ttg mbateng dan AGJ!!
aku menunggu... hihi.. ^^

devishanty said...

hkkk I feel you! gue sih cuekin aja deh yang kaya gitu2.. blehh

Anonymous said...

that's why I left friendster! hahahaha

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Rivelino said...

Nice one !! Haha, setubuh.

Kreshna Iceheart said...

Actually, alay is the Indonesian equivalent of chavs and townies.

Chavs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav

Townies:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=townies

Kreshna Iceheart said...

Oh, and believe it or not, I actually got my fair share of being exposed to alays, especially since Jakarta is a very big city, with huge cultural and social class diversity.

Here's my observation so far:

(1) They can be easily spotted by their trademarked costume: low-waist jeans, chains, flip-flops, and hooded sweatshirts.

(2) Somehow they just loooove to wear hooded sweatshirt despite Jakarta is 83°F -hot.

(3) They love to swear for absolutely no apparent reason. Hey, I swear too, but I least I do have the reason.

(4) When it goes to music, they listen to the apparently same kind of local bands: Peterpan, ST 12, Kangen Band, Paddy, The Massive, Samson's, and other trashy music typically played at KFC.

(4 a) While we're at it (local bands, I mean), I don't think they listen to the likes of The Groove or Maliq & D'Essentials. Apparently, this kind of music is beyond them.

(5) Etiquette and manners are simply beyond them.

(6) They usually ride underbone motorbikes. Carelessly, of course.


So again, based on the observations above, I think alays are the Indonesian equivalent of chavs and townies (follow the URLs of my previous post the read more about chavs and townies).

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