Coffee & Our Story

I used to hate drinking coffee because it used to just remind me of all the endless sleepless nights when I would stay up all night for studies and exams. Ya, the typical SPM & STPM life, I'm sure you feel me too. The caffeine lifts were awesome but I hate the jittery feeling after. I quit caffeine for years, but then Starbucks Skinny Latte lured me again during my time working as a part-time sales assistant at GUESS, Sunway Pyramid.

You can't blame me cause Starbucks's located just opposite the GUESS store and they always give out free drink samples! But I insisted to quit after several months due to financial issue; I was so broke because of my compulsive Starbucks latte consumption. I mean if I were rich, I didn't have to get a part-time job; I worked because I was desperate for money. And rationally speaking, getting a RM10++ latte every day wasn't a bright plan at all although I managed to get 10% staff discount. No more coffee, serious. But guess what, I survived.

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Chean used to hate coffee too, not that he hated it but just not so into it until he was working with his ex boss, an incurable coffee abuser, in Portland. Jeez, you can't blame them, the city of Portland is everyone's idea of paradise, with a coffee shop on every corner. You hardly find coffee that tastes bad, very very very low possibility and if you do, congratulations, you just won yourself a lottery! See, it isn't that bad at all.

When I first moved to Portland (it was four years ago, can you imagine that? I mean I've been blogging for 4 years), Chean was so eager to show me around especially his favorite coffee shops in town; he also brought me to Seattle, the city where Starbucks opened its first store in 1971. Because of Chean I was hooked on coffee, again. We talk about coffee all the time, we could drive miles and miles for a caffeine fix, and sometimes, we'd just spend the whole day sitting in our favorite coffee shop, sipping coffee, reading magazine, browsing internet, drawing, daydreaming, chitchatting, laughing or just watching the rain trickle down the window...

We love coffee so much until we bought a condo where our favorite coffee shop located right downstairs. Insane I know. However, we are not much of a coffee expert, we just love spending quality time together in a quiet, relaxing and soothing environment... of course, having a cup of good coffee helps making a huge difference too.

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And for our pre-wedding photos, we both unanimously hope it can be taken at a coffee shop, not those franchise coffee shops where you can find anywhere in the world, but a local, unique and vintage one instead... So Jimmy, the photographer suggested 台南窄門咖啡館 -- a coffee shop that's situated in a 90-year-old building. That can't be more perfect.


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We're so happy with the end results because that's us, and that's what we love to do most of the time... One day, when Chean & I get old, we both will share the same story that you're reading now with our children, and hopefully, with our grandkids too... oh, and maybe in our own coffee shop, that'd be beyond perfect.



p/s: All photos credited to 飛魚記憶美術館 (Flying Fish Memory Museum).



With love,
Bev