I happily signed up for a speaking gig a couple months ago with Mindvalley, thinking it could be fun to share about coffee. Who cares that I had no experience in public speaking, I had two months to prepare for it. This was what I thought when I said yes to the organiser. 60 days…
A lot of people who enjoy coffee aspire to become a café owner one day to serve the coffee they love. Passion can definitely fuel your drive to run a café, but running a sustainable café business is a different ball game altogether. Joshua from espressolab and Daphne from Assembly Coffee are generous enough to…
Sometimes I think I am happy to stay in coffee industry forever. Coffee makes things okay even on the shittiest days; and people that surround me makes me feel homey all the time. The process of grinding and tamping coffee beans, watching the flow of double ristretto, steaming milk and giving my best shot in…
I love coffee. So much so that I abandoned my well-paid corporate job and took a dive into a F&B start up company, feeling certain that this is the best decision that I’ve ever made in my life. Looking back at the past 12 months being a full time coffee lover, it is time to…
‘Hmm, I don’t know how to drink coffee.’ When I animatedly tell people about the story of coffee, this is the response that I get most of the time. Everyone knows how to drink coffee, for sure (it’s a beverage!). That gets me started to think about people’s concern in declaring their right and wrong,…
A friend told me about her unpleasant coffee experience from a hipster cafe. She wanted her coffee extra hot but the barista refused to do it and went on to educate her about the ideal temperature of milk frothing. Both my friend and the barista love coffee — one cares so much that she is willing to…
I am obsessed with coffee. I refuse to use the word addict because it somehow portrays the need to attend a focus group. Having coffee in the morning is my sacred ritual. It creates the moment when I feel like there is so much hope and love in this wonderful world. So it got me…