So, you really want to know inane details of my life? Okay, if you insist ...
Whilst in Singa (as we 'locals' like to call it), I went to a museum and had my first latter since leaving Australia. *gasp* Like I said, rather inane. HOWEVER, anyone who has ever worked with me at home will know the rate at which I can skol espresso coffee. Standing in front of a coffee machine usually seems to result in drinking shite-loads of the stuff.
HOWEVER in Malaysia my espresso options consist of Starbucks, well, pretty much Starbucks. Sure there are your occasional 'Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf' or whatever else they are called, but in the end, they all kind of blur into one giant multi-national shitting-on-the poor corporation to me. I could go on about the reasons why I hate Starbucks for about 10 years, but most of the key reasons can be found here if you want a good summary of Starbucks evil activities. Oh, in addition, as someone who has made and drunk a feckload of coffee in various awesome coffee shops, I also object to their shitty "ambiance" and the quality of their coffee. Anyway, I digress - the point is I no longer drink 8 latte's a day in honour of my highly distinguished morals and my hatred of stupid coffee chains.
However, I have replaced my latte addiction with an worse one, in terms of both morals and taste - Nescafe 3in1. It's a horrid but strangely addictive combination of pissy "coffee", "creamer" and "sweetener", all of which deserve liberal use of inverted commas. Any self-righteous wanker such as myself knows that Nestle is EVIL beyond a doubt, mainly due to their deeply unethical practises in third-world countries resulting in the unnecessary deaths of babies, which can possibly be considered the worst of their evil-doings.
So - what with drinking this pissy swill every morning, and living in a country where the word 'nescafe' is pretty much always substituted for the word 'coffee', I'm not doing so well ethics-wise. I KNOW the answer to my predicament is to stop drinking coffee, but the effects of that could be human rights violations in themselves. So as you can see, I am in quite the moral pickle, so to speak ...
HOWEVER in Malaysia my espresso options consist of Starbucks, well, pretty much Starbucks. Sure there are your occasional 'Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf' or whatever else they are called, but in the end, they all kind of blur into one giant multi-national shitting-on-the poor corporation to me. I could go on about the reasons why I hate Starbucks for about 10 years, but most of the key reasons can be found here if you want a good summary of Starbucks evil activities. Oh, in addition, as someone who has made and drunk a feckload of coffee in various awesome coffee shops, I also object to their shitty "ambiance" and the quality of their coffee. Anyway, I digress - the point is I no longer drink 8 latte's a day in honour of my highly distinguished morals and my hatred of stupid coffee chains.
However, I have replaced my latte addiction with an worse one, in terms of both morals and taste - Nescafe 3in1. It's a horrid but strangely addictive combination of pissy "coffee", "creamer" and "sweetener", all of which deserve liberal use of inverted commas. Any self-righteous wanker such as myself knows that Nestle is EVIL beyond a doubt, mainly due to their deeply unethical practises in third-world countries resulting in the unnecessary deaths of babies, which can possibly be considered the worst of their evil-doings.
So - what with drinking this pissy swill every morning, and living in a country where the word 'nescafe' is pretty much always substituted for the word 'coffee', I'm not doing so well ethics-wise. I KNOW the answer to my predicament is to stop drinking coffee, but the effects of that could be human rights violations in themselves. So as you can see, I am in quite the moral pickle, so to speak ...
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