My first Starbucks experience!

Starbucks is considered like the ultimate coffee experience. So when I passed by the new Starbucks café in Bangalore, I decided to give it a try. This special day I discovered the turned out to be a Sunday. A closer look and I realised that getting inside the café was a near impossible task atleast for a few hours as the queue of people waiting to get a taste of the special nectar from the coffee beans extended a few blocks down the street.  Well my mouth fell open seeing the queue. The queue reminded of the people waiting to buy alcohol outside the liquor shops in Kerala. Guys this is just another café selling coffee and they are not selling the nectar of immortality. I had to return back disappointed.

                                                  

Determined to have taste of the Starbucks cuppa, I decided to visit the café again the next day. And this time I was lucky.  There were just few people waiting. So I joined the queue. It was indeed a good gesture by them to serve the eager java seekers a taste of some of their special brew in the form of small complimentary shots. It did taste really good.(when was anything free ever bad? ;-)) While waiting for my turn I ended up downing 3 glasses of their complimentary drinks. Geee!

Once we reached the counter, my friend and I, we ordered our drinks and snacks. I decided to go for a Hot Praline frappe and Double meat sandwich. While my decided to go for something cold. A cold caramel coffee and a veg rolls.

I eagerly wanted to get my name written on my cup and when the guy at the counter wrote my friend's name on both the cups, I was irritated. How could the guy deny me the opportunity to see my name on my Starbucks cup??? I asked the guy to get me a new cup with MY name on it. Finally there it was! A Starbucks mug with my name on it! Yesss!!!

Despite all this excitement, we had to wait a few more minutes to get a table to sit. Well neither of us were coffee drinkers. So I really cannot comment on the taste of the coffee we ordered. But yes it did taste good. :-)

Then when I bit into my double meat sandwich, I tasted heaven! That was easily the best sandwich I had ever had. Trust me on this. The sandwich was filled with Chicken, sausages, beef, egg, cheese and mayonnaise. (Definitely not something calorie conscious people should try.) This is a meat lovers' delight. I savored every bite of it. Though the sandwich like the coffee cost a fortune, it was worth every penny spent. 

After treating our taste buds, while leaving we spotted some souvenir mugs. So I decided to get a Starbucks India mug as souvenir. On the whole, my first Starbucks experience was worth savoring, specially for the sandwich. :-) 

 

The One You Cannot Have

Haaa... It's been so long since my last post. An IT job really gets you lazy!
Well what prompted me to get back to my blog is this contest by Westland for Preeti Shenoy's new book TOUCH (The One You Cannot Have). Love the acronym. She being one of the my favourite authors and such a sweet person that she is, I couldn't help participating.

So this is the prompt for this week's contest: If I could have anyone I choose as my 'forever friend'/ 'life partner' , I would choose........

Well I have quite a few friends. But I have lesser friends whom I trust than the number of fingers on one hand. When people break your trust more than once, you start losing trust in people and think twice before trusting someone again. But I have one such friend whom I can always count on and trust blindly. I can confidently say that no matter what happens she will be there by my side. although our friendship just four years old, we know each other better than anyone else. In fact, she knows me better than I know myself. People often mistake us to be going out but we really don't mind what others think, our friendship comes first to us.
We share a few likes in common but as individuals we are poles apart. The last thing you will see is the two of us agreeing on a particular topic. There is always an argument on, which means fights, quarrels and bloated up faces. But at the end of the day, I know that she will be there for me. It's not simply that they say, "Opposites attract".
She has been the reason for many of my achievements and success. She has been the reason I didn't give up on many things half way. She has been the reason for many of my happy memories.
I can be myself in front of her. I don't need to put on a fake smile. Many a times I take her for granted and do not treat her in the best of ways, mostly unknowingly. My bad. She always complains about this. But then she just keeps getting better at being my friend. When she is around I feel like I can go the extra mile and achieve what might be difficult. She trusts my abilities. She brings out the best in me. I guess I can't ask for more than this in a friend. I am lucky but to others I would say she is "The One You Cannot Have!"
Good times or bad times, we will be friends till the sun rises in the west.
So if I could have anyone as my 'forever friend', I would choose 'My Miss. BFF.'