So I was just arriving in Bandung like an hour ago. I went back to Bogor on the weekend to fetch my high school and National Exam certificate, while stealing time to spent with D. Even now I'm still feeling the aftertaste of hanging out with her, lols. But enough with cheesiness, that's not the point of this post, actually.
So, on the way to my boarding house (kosan, for you Indonesian fellow), there's this really small red booth/shop in front of a house I notice every time I walk to my campus. It's a booth called "Chinese Box" that serves takeaway Chinese Food for the price of 15.000 rupiahs. And every single morning, when I'm making my way to ITB, I would check that booth out, to see if it's open. Mainly because I kinda crave for dimsums lately, and secondly, because of my curiosity about the inside of that small, eye-catching, well-designed booth.
Going back again to one hour earlier from now, I was singing my way back home when I passed that very same booth. The booth, emitting a dim red glow in the dark of the night, has plastic chairs lining up in front of it. It's open. I considered passing right through it, reminding myself of me being a college, boarding kid, thus I should save money, but in the end, the tempting and incredibly well design of the booth *not to mention the smell of Chinese food* win me over.
The inside wasn't bad at all. It's packed with ingredients, leaving just enough space for two cooks to... well, cook the Chinese foods. I ordered seafood mix, a mix of seafood dimsums, but feels a little disappointed afterwards seeing the tiny portion. I shrug it off and while waiting for my dimsums to cook, took a little moment to mentally applaud and appreciate the well execution of this brilliant Chinese food takeaway booth idea.
I took my fragrant seafood mix, paid 15.000 *still in a little disappointment* and continued my walk to my boarding house.
The idea of a little booth in front of my house seems really nice. I pondered upon the idea for a while, thinking how nice it would be to have a little booth out front my future house. It would be a plain booth, with a display that could change, meaning it won't have to be just a Chinese food booth, or a Yogurt booth, it could be both! I'll open it up whenever I want to, whenever I'm bored at home and have nothing to do. I'll hone my cooking skill so everyone would enjoy my foods, and starts to ask when will I open my booth, to which I answer, "You'll just have to wait.". And on one nights when I opened it, people will start to swarm the place, even texting their friends to say that my place is open.
Imagine how fulfilling would that be.
Imagining me in the future, spending long nights chatting till drop in my booth with my wife *preferably D :p*, while waiting for customers, taking turns in serving them and competing to make better food, puts a smile on my face. The future have endless possibilities, and I know it would be amazing if I could go there with D. We don't actually plan ourselves to stick together till marriage, but hoping on it instead while just going through whatever this thing is :3.
Lots of ways to enjoy life on the years to come, and I guess a booth out front won't be a bad idea.
P.S. I'll post a picture of the Seafood Mix later ;)
