Faith

I was getting some stationeries in Popular bookstore when i chance upon this notebook that comes in different headings like "Love", "Peace", "Joy", "Hope" and "Faith". i was looking thru when i saw the quotes in the beginning of each of the notebook and i like the one in "Faith" most.

"Faith is believing in what you not yet see and the reward is seeing what you believe in"

something like that, can't remember the exact phrase.
I think it kind of sums ups what faith means.
to me, faith is the reason why God doesn't appear cause if your faith is strong, He doesn't have to.



anyway, wanted to buy the notebook but it comes in only one colour = Purple
that's so gay and girly...
hmmm, wonder why do others comes in black while only "Faith" comes in purple.

coffee in hanoi

just came back from my hanoi holiday. one thing for sure, i've never drink so much coffee in a day my whole life. we walk to all places and drop by at cafes along the way to drink coffee. more of hanoi and my thoughts on hanoi later...

i'm hook on vietnamese coffee.

it's like a progression from local kopi to latte to viet coffee with milk to viet black coffee to taste the favour of the beans. i started drinking coffee when starbucks and coffee bean and tea leaves invaded our country. started with the fraps or ice blended then switched to hot coffees like cuppa and latte. after too much fraps, i find it too sweet for my liking so when i switch to hot coffees, i cut down on the sugar till the extend that i don't add any when drinking latte or any other starbucks hot coffee. maybe i'm paranoid of myself getting diabetes :) somehow, after drinking hot bev, i don't drink cold fraps anymore. from starbucks, i progress to kopitiams. out goes the softdrinks and in comes the hot beverages. now, every sunday morning, i'll goes to the yakun at my place for coffee and breakfast.

back to the topic:
the thing with viet coffee with milk is that it is sweet and it's a understatement. it's damn freaking sweet to be precise. it's more like 1/3 condensed milk and 2/3 coffee. thou it's sweet, it taste damn good. i try not to stir the bottom of the cup to suit my liking. the more i drink, the more i like the taste. after numerous cups of milk coffee, i decided to give viet black coffee a try to satisfiy my curiosity. damn, it was then without adding sugar that i taste the full aroma of the beans. now that i think of it, i really miss the small cafe by the road along phan dinh phung st. can't remember the name but i'll always remember that it's the cafe that brought me to a higher level of coffee appreciation @-) it was not too bland or watery and after the bitterness of the coffee comes the sweetness and that is what brought me to coffee heaven!

it's like eating dark chocolates or those at least 70% cocoa. it's bitter but once you past that stage, you can actually taste the sweetness. i think it's like beer too but i can never taste the sweetness in that :)

haha, i think now i'm into the different types of coffee beans which give me the different favours and the sweetness. wah, up level liao :) like drinking wine, once you've past the cabernet or sauvigon, you'll start to dwell on the smell, taste, colour and the region of the wine.

by the way, i bought a kilo of chon coffee beans from the old quaters in hanoi at sgd12 a kg. the thing about chon beans is that it's literally weasel shit. yah, shit from weasel... the farmers feed the weasel with coffee beans and the weasel's stomach are not able to digest the beans so it comes out as poopoo. why the shit taste so good? well, the stomach acid makes the beans more acidic and that gives it a special aroma eh, i mean the coffee not the shit aroma. after cleaning / roasting process, it becomes chon coffee beans. if you love coffee and when you're in vietnam, you should get it. in hanoi, it's at the milk powder st in old quaters.

damn, i need a caffeine fix now.