Platinum Exclusive VIP Elite Club Privé

[topum]

The capital of Moldova seems to be obsessed with the concept of VIP. They are really into adding "VIP", "Elite", "Exclusive", "Platinum", "Gold", "Club", "Privé", etc everywhere, even where it doesn't fit at all to the point of being comical. Often it is even a combo of a number of those. I saw a place once that had both "Platinum" and "Gold" in its name at the same time. One would have thought that at least these two were mutually exclusive. Well, not in Moldova. I still predict Chisianu to remain firmly below the radar of the jet-setting glitterati crowd in the near future despite the density of all things VIP, Elite and Exclusive on the ground.

Also, it is considered really cool if the name of the establishment, whether it is a hypermarket, a car park, a hospital or a tiny market stall, is in English. A week ago I was in Chisinau with a number of locals and I drove past a "cool" interior design shop. All the advertising on its storefront was only in English. The locals could not even understand what kind of a shop it was and I had to translate it to them. I had to translate to the locals what the local shop in their capital was about. That's how cool English apparently is here. So cool that you would even sacrifice the reach of your advertising just to stay that cool.

Comments

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

I get the feeling they missed something in the translation of these words. 

Nice picture though.  I could see myself hanging out there for a few hours. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Haha, believe me, you wouldn't last even a ten minutes around this "VIP zone" ).

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Why?  Is it an old out house? 

Or some old haunted prison camp..it has old communist ghosts? 

It's not a tarantula nest is it?  If there are spiders I wouldn't last 2 seconds. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it was but I know that quite a number of guys must have used it as a toilet (and you could smell it).

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Ewwww.  Ha!  You're right I wouldn't last 10min there. 

Athena

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Wow! The windows look really golden. Like in Trump Tower.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I am glad people have started letting Trump go, for a couple of weeks no conversation lasted more than ten minutes without Trump being brought up one way or another. But yes, he is the embodiment of VIP indeed.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

How quick is your life! Two days ago you wrote and asked about Trump-changing world, now he is dismissed from the talks. I just feel the winds of History in my ears.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Oh I still talk about him, he just doesn't make it into most of my definitely non-Trump-realted conversations anymore. Like the one above.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Is it a hide where you shoot V.I.P.s from the windows as they go thundering past...?

I'm sure I've seen the odd shop in England with displays all in Japanese, on the grounds that Japanese is cool? I didn't go in, because I knew I wasn't cool enough for a shop decorated in Japanese, but I assumed cool people did. It seemed like the kind of thing they would do.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think the thinking behind this is similar to the pretentious "cool" shops in London using Japanese. But it is much more widespread here. Thanks heaven our Waitroses, Wholefoods and Sainsburys are not doing it to us (unlike here).

[tigerweave.livejournal.com]

I've seen that kind of thing from Indonesia too. Very funny!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I saw some if it there too.