Oh hell. It’s Monday again. Well, then again, if Monday doesn’t come neither would Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (my current favourite day of the week), Friday and then followed by (allegedly! amazing) Saturdays and Sundays.
So I guess, it could be good that it is Monday and that we are finally in March (i’m not pleased that I have to stretch my salary for 5 weeks though!). This means that I am T-4 months to heading back to Melbourne for alot of coffee, alot of beef and alot of lemon tart. Sometimes, I think it could be a little sad that I only see Melbourne that way, along with the copious amount of shopping that I can do there – but hey, there’s no better way to entertain me than good, glorious food, decent weather, good company and sho-oping. yipppe.
I so cannot wait for that.
Anyway, back to my really random post title. Those are all the current things that excite me at the moment, alongside with Jones’ strawberry tarts and their iced-latte. It is a perfect breakfast I tell you. Closest to Laurent’s strawberry tart that I would ever find. You know, that the thing about Singapore, and just desserts here. There’s always something close enough but it is never good enough to beat what there back there. I suppose it could be because Melbourne has been doing it for a while now and well, having coffee with a strawberry tart in Singapore wasn’t considered tea typ-ish food till very recently. So here are the reasons why the following things excite me: -
Lululemon Athletica – A Canadian brand of gear that started out in a yoga studio and has expanded all over the world (alas, only a very small range is available in Singapore). They stock very well designed and comfortable exercise gear – from yoga and pilates wear to running shorts, work out mats, gym bags. Their stuff is amazing and really, oh-so-cool. You know, like nice cool, not the tacky sort.
Besides, all these really amazing things, I think the fact that the brand has a culture of contributing back to the community is also really commendable in this day and age when corporate social responsibility is something that is often forced upon the conglomerates. And with a manifesto that is chockful with inspiring phrases such as ”Successful people replace the words “wish”, “should” and “try” with “I WILL”", what’s there not to like?? Perfect eye candy I tell you, see more here.
Coffee Culture – Well the world over knows that the city that I spent the last 6 years of my life, has got a rich coffee culture. I mean, we even had a documentary made about the culture in the city and we invented our own type of coffee. Flat Whites are clearly Australian things!!!
Cafes line the street. They can be found at the end everywhere and anywhere. These cafes were enough to “almost” chase Starbucks out of the city. In Melbourne, having someone say”let’s go for coffee” is arguably as commonplace as “let’s go for a smoke”. It’s really hard to not love coffee in the city. It is also really hard to not become really picky about your coffee – re-steaming milk (flop!), burning milk (flop!), coffee like drain water (flop!), coffee too thin (also flop!). So, it was really interesting for me to read in the NYtimes today that London’s gonna have its own. The news made me really excited (it is such a caffeine-addict type like symptom) and suddenly want to visit London again and hunt down all these recommended coffee places. English barrista did win the World Barrista Championships three times you know!! Coffee and amazing pastries…bliss I tell you. Bliss.
Read about coffee culture here.
Adams Peanut Butter – oooh yah. The joy that is peanut butter. hee heee. I’ve always been a Kraft kid. Kraft smooth peanut butter. Always and forever. Unfortunately though, I had to break off this relationship since coming home and make new friends with the new wonder that is Adams Peanut Butter.
I have no idea why (someone care to explain?) but our weather makes the Kraft peanut butter go-o sticky. Not gooey and sticky in a good way but rather, gooey and clunky. Nutella suffers from the same fate. Putting it in the fridge doesn’t help either because it just makes it really hard.
So anyway, Adams is smooth, very smoooth. It does not turn or change its state even when left outside. In our weather. It’s really yummy too. It’s consistency was sufficient to make my maid remark, “Wah, this peanut butter is really different!!” 
Want to learn more about Adams? Click here.
Many happy things. Life ought to be this good every day.
Tags: cafe, food, travel.
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