20060614

1530 hrs June 14th 2006

Burke's, Starbucks, Coffee Bean, Coffee Club,

Dome, Spinelli etc etc etc

What the hell fuck

is going on?

Coffee was invented

by the Arabs

a thousand years ago.

Here in Asia,

we've been drinking coffee

hundreds of years

before

the Europeans

and Americans did.

We drink our coffee

black,

we drink our coffee

thick.

None of these American coffees

which tastes like syrup

and milk,

Decaf oh my God,

what the fuck for?

Drink something else

you homo.

OK OK

I respect your personal preference

just like I prefer my coffee

kopi O, 70 cents

at a HDB kopi tiam,

while you prefer to pay

$4 for a tall latte

at Starbucks.

Fair enough,

I prefer to taste my coffee

you prefer to taste your syrup

and whipped cream.

Just what goes into the latte

to justify it costing

6X more?

OK a coffee club

is invariably

more comfortable

than a kopi tiam.

A coffee club

is more than just

drinking coffee,

its a place

to relax

and socialise

with friends,

even impress

a date.

Hey, our fathers

and grandfathers

been doing that

at kopitiams

for years!!!

This generation

certainly did not

invent the concept

of socialising

over a coffee.

So again,

why is the price

6X more?

OK OK

I do pay $10

for a beer

at comfortable hotel lounges

when I could

have paid $3

for a beer

in a kopi tiam.

So conclusion is,

I'm paying

for rental space

in a coffee club,

for the priviledge

of drinking coffee

in a comfortable place.

But excuse me,

why the fuck

are people

taking away

their latte and cappucinos?

For that matter,

what justifies

the price difference

between a latte

and a cappucino?

More coffee?

More milk?

What the fuck

goes into

the price difference?