Coffee Talk#1 The Debut

living abroad made me creative in terms of extra curricular activities. back home, i am content with staying at home, or at friend's houses to sing the blues away... but here, i have no family, and i do not have many friends... but, i still have work stresses to deal with. so what am i gonna do? suck my thumb? cover my head with pillows?...

we thought of going malling (nah! too expensive!), or bar hopping (nah! we're not fond of alcohol!) or how about 'let's sit and talk a while, in a one world of coffee..'? sounds familiar? yeah, that's the Nescafe commercial. but instead of having this coffee talk in just any cafe, Manoleth and I thought of doing it in more exciting places-- the hotel lobbies!!! we wrote down the 5-star hotels in Dubai, and we realized we are going into a weekly thing! and coffee in hotels are priced fairly compared to cafes. what's more? we plan on infusing topics for the evenings, depending on our 'resource' person for the night. resource here means either 'financial' or 'conversational'! haha! and even if i am not a coffee-holic, i think the idea is very tempting enough.

so for out coffee talk#1, we chose the closest to Mano's office, the Hotel Sofitel lobby. being quite a small city hotel, the lobby is not as captivating, so this is not an intimidating first time for us. we saw other groups of men discussing, while on the other table, a girl reading a book while probably waiting for someone. i thought, 'this is a great idea to whoosh my mind away from strain...' the ambiance is relaxing as we listen to piano playing from the second level...

we ordered donut, choco cake, and croissant, and decaf cappucino for both of us. we did not like the choco cake, but finished it anyways while talking about many things-- from writing a book about this, to naming resource persons, to dispensability of people, to our plans in life, to how we were betraying our gym commitment by munching all these sweets, and so on and so forth... so 3 hours, countless stories, endless laugh and $10 after, we were home-bound with a great smile!

...watching the world go by sipping coffee with a good friend, in style, is not a bad idea after all! i am now excited with coffee talk#2...