What do one do while the significant half spends hundreds on hair that takes half a day to complete? Well, spend more money myself of course. I park myself at the nearest Starbucks and booted up my laptop to pace across the hot Saturday afternoon. The hairdo is taking 4 hours to complete, and blogging was on my mind. I got myself a mocha and log into WordPress to check for comments. I remembered seeing in the papers that Starbucks was promoting gift cards for the Christmas season, and I made a note to myself to get one. I am one of those junk collectors that loves to collect interesting looking stuff. When I was in the states, I collected giftcards from everywhere possible, not that it worth any money at this moment, I just like the look of it and the joy of admiring the design.

I took out my RM20 and handed over to the cashier, and he handed the card over to me. Hold on, it’s a paper card? Damn, its not plastic. Oh Crap, it expires in Feb 2007. I was disappointed as I expecting a plastic card, where we could reuse again and again, like what coffee bean has. Anyway, the paper card do look nice, and can complement my car collections, if it last the 2 months of usage before expiry.

Can there ever be a quiet coffee shop? From the mamak stalls, to the Kopi Thiam and up to Coffee Bean & Starbucks, there is no peace and quiet. Mainly it is a place for mingle, business, and pure Malaysian style lepak, all these coffee shops are always vibrant with loud customers. This is not only in Malaysia, its the same over in the US too. After all, what could one expects, it is a public place, and a public place is never quiet, only the library I guess…

If you been to the Old Town Kopitiam, you would probably have tried their Kaya Toast bread. Today, I made a startling discovery, the toast butter is just a tiny weeny piece and only covers the side, for cosmetic purpose. From the side, the toast looks great with a huge piece of butter, but then, once open up, its just a butter strip. I was expecting the butter to cover the entire toast, I guess my expectation turned into a disappointment.

The title may be superficial, but this is the observation that I made on my morning romp at e-gate Starbucks. Of the 9 laptops seen in the Seattle’s best, 5 of them were Dell, 2 HP, 1 IBM and 1 Asus.