Nescafe: Joy or Joy?

I was talking to a friend from middle school yesterday. It was after a long time and the conversation turned to our Facebook updates nowadays; that's when we found our common passion for coffee! I was quite glad to have found a fellow coffee addict.

Somewhere in between she suggested why don't I blog on Nescafe and the coffee experience? I immediately took up the idea. Anything for Nescafe!

So today I'm going to write about the richness of a steaming cup of these ethereal beans.

There are people who love the experience of coffee, and others who dismiss it. Some have it just to get an edge during the exams by getting enhanced sharpness of the mind, while others have it purely for it's own sake. The first class of people treat as a kind of 'medicine' and prepare a cuppa in a totally mechanical procedure, following the instructions on the How To label. But for those like me and my friend, the experience is so much more 'personal'.

While the major steps to preparation remain the same, we are free to experiment. Trying out different high-grade chocolates to prepare a mocha, investing in a milk frother to get a cappuccino look-alike, especially buying skimmed milk since that gives the best milk foam is so us. Closely monitoring the temperature of the water as it heats up so it's just the right value for the ideal diffusion of flavor; setting the timer value to microwave the milk so it's neither steaming nor too cool; frothing it to get the desired foam consistency; adding in a heaping spoonful of coffee powder (if the instant variety) to the water and preparing an 'espresso'.

Then there is the whole business of choosing the cup to pour the coffee into; that depends totally upon the drinker's mood and strength of coffee prepared on any day.

Then pouring in the espresso and the milk simultaneously so they mix au naturel.

After the preparation comes, of course, the actual savoring.

You sit down comfy and bring the cup to your mouth. Inhale the flavour-induced steam and smile at the feeling. Take the first sip. Oh, it's just so hot yet, ouch!

The next sip feels like heaven. You let it roll around your tongue and extract the coffee-ness. It always brings the image of a Patchi store and a Starbucks seating arrangement to my mind somehow (does it to yours too Aliza?). And chocolate and coffee are quite inseparable in my mind.

After that you just give yourself over to the moments till you've reached the last sip. After which you groan and think 'Over so soon!? :/'

And begin the countdown to your next cuppa!

Now, I think adding sugar just spoils the taste. I personally prefer adding in some drinking chocolate powder if at all sweetening IS needed.

Some people pour in tablespoons and it just bugs me so much I want to ask them 'Do you want to drink coffee, really? Because it seems to me you just want the un-carbonated version of a coffee-flavoured soft drink -_- ! '

Do you share the same passion for this dark liquid?

Do leave your comments below!

Meantime, I'll just go get myself another cuppa!

Like We're Made of Starlight

Do you ever feel like doing crazy things without caring who is looking?

Do you ever feel like going out in the middle of the night and just spinning and spinning and spinnnnnnning around under the moon, like you're made of starlight?

Do you ever feel like laughing your freest without caring who may be looking?

Do you ever feel like smiling broadly and waving at strangers as you go past them?

Do you ever feel like jumping with joy at the smallest things and just going wild?

Do you ever feel like sitting on a tabletop with your feet dangling above the ground and just swinging your legs?

Do you ever feel like running along the shoreline of the sea splashing water at your friends?

Do you ever feel like standing near the sea with a foot in, running it along the loose sand and tossing around the embedded pebbles?

Do you ever feel like collecting the prettiest shells from the beach, dusting them carefully and then just releasing them into the sea with your arms wide open with a big-big laugh?

Do you ever feel like putting on music real loud and just dancing crazy steps? Pretending you're the best rock star around when you're actually the family's bathroom singer?

Do you ever feel like riding on the wind like Aladdin's carpet and letting it take you wherever it goes?

Do you ever feel like taking your mama's hand and just giving her a whirl and a swoosh! all by surprise?

Do you ever feel like giving neighborhood kids big hi5's! totally randomly when coming back from university and laughing with them as you make your way home?

Do you ever feel like opening up OneNote on your laptop and just writing out your silly thoughts in the middle of serious study?

Do you ever feel like taking colorful markers and doodling on a paper with your li'll cousins? Drawing silly pictures and making balloons with 'Hey! This is you!' written inside? Showing them to each other and just collapsing into fits of laughter?

Do you ever feel like pinching your cousins on the ear and then having them chase you round and round the house, jumping over beds and sofas for a return pinch?

Do you ever feel like making big soap bubbles with your cousins when you wash hands together in the washbasin and blowing them at each others' face?

Do you ever feel like shaking your head and smiling while brushing your teeth, toothbrush suspended between your mouth and hand? Looking at your cousins in the bathroom mirror doing the same and laughing amid the foam like eeeeeeee?

Sometimes it feels great just to stop thinking about serious things and do the crazy stuff.

For, it's great to be young and free like we're made of starlight!

 

'And we were dancing, dancing,

Like we're made of starlight, starlight.

Don’t you see the starlight, starlight?

Don't you dream impossible dreams?'

#Starlight, @TaylorSwift