Coffee for Life

Happy New Year everyone! Happy new beginnings. Happy start of new ventures, challenges, experiences, love...

2016 is a new year for me too hence the face lift of my beloved blog.  And... the best mug of vitamin to start off the day is fragrant coffeelicious beanos!

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to produce - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I enjoy a glass of iced coffee (no sugar) early in the morning. Oh yeah, I am weird but also always HOT! Gotta cool myself down for the day and it has gotta be coffee!

The fresh smell of coffee wafts through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day - Haruki Murakami.

I once read about how Life is like a cup of coffee.

An old university professor gathered a group of alumni and offered coffee to all of them. Uniquely, he placed an assortment of cups and mugs, some were made of plastic and some were expensive crystal. After all his students has chosen a cup and filled it with coffee, the old professor said, "Life is the coffee. The jobs, money, position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup you have chosen does not define nor changed the quality of life you live. Sometimes by concentrating on the cup, you tend to forget about the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups!"

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee - Terri Guillemets

One of my beautiful coffee memories: The picture above is a glass of coffee made by a Kakak Salbiah from my old work place. Every afternoon she would make sure that fresh coffee is made for the staff to enjoy. Whenever I have some free time to spare, I would surely go and get a glass of coffee, and catch up with her. Her coffee always taste greater than in the coffee shops. Simple. She makes it out of love for everyone who works there.

Close your eyes when you luxuriate the tastes of your coffee...

Savor the aroma that reminds you of joyful moments...

Be like coffee beans in life. During the "hot water" times, change the circumstance of heat and pain... release your fragrance and flavor so as to enjoy victory. Be undefeated in spirit, mind, and soul.

One of my favorite flavors is Gingerbread Latte which I had the pleasure of sipping last Christmas time in Marks & Spencers, London.  This taste certainly brought back delightful memories when my daughter, Nicole, was around 5 or 6 years old. I was determined to make a gingerbread house from scratch (my first and last time!) with Nicole; I wanted to give her a Christmas memory that would last a lifetime. The gingerbread house was not as grand as I had planned but it stayed as a house, for an hour. Then it came tumbling down!!! Hahaha... It was great fun baking, building, and decorating it together though.

The Coffee Prayer:
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze
It maketh me to wake in green pastures
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses
It restoreth my buzz
It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction
I will fear no Equal
For thou art with me; thy Cream and thy Sugar they comfort me
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks
Thou annointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the House of Mochas forever.