WHITE FLOWERS

It is not easy to grow coffee plants here and these are saplings of Coffea arabica (Common Name: Mountain Coffee, Arabica Coffee; Family: Rubiaceae) from the Ixora family.

The second is a white flower Thunbergia grandiflora (Common Name: White Trumpet Vine; Family: Bignoniaceae).

They are both found in the Colonial Garden.

COFFEE

This is one of the few coffee drinks I had in 7 months now. Did I miss it? Not really.

MAXWELL FOOD CENTRE

I had my first cup of coffee si after about a month at the Maxwell Food Centre. I have yet to drink the second cup since then. I have weaned myself off coffee. Yippee!!

I was behaving like a pig and ordered a bowl of bak kut teh but was quite disappointed. Maybe I was too full after all.

COFFEE & TEA

I have been drinking teh-si for weeks now and just today, I broke the record and drank a cup of kopi-si. Anyway, the prices of coffee and tea in some coffee shops have gone up. Prices of materials etc have been going up gradually over the years but like what some people say, our pay seems to be frozen.

COFFEE

I must have my daily dose of cheap coffee shop coffee lest I become grouchy and sleepy.

I had one yesterday morning at breakfast and once during lunch. The funny thing was, I spilled the coffee on both occasions. I must qualify that I have not spilled my coffee since I don't know when but I did it twice yesterday.

To mark this occasion, I took this photo of the natural but artistic spilled effect on the table before the auntie fervently wiped it all away. She must be wondering what a weird guy I was.