The funny part we talk in the cafe during work exchange

Friends from the guesthouse gets together for coffee

The “flow” in old Japanese cafe

Yesterday at the house, morning we had an outing where all 6 of us will walk to the nearest cafe to get our coffee for the day. Well, when I saw the lady boss is working in the kitchen I was afraid that she might assume our order as all coffee drink so I went over to clarify with her on our order. Apparently she told me “Chottomatte” please wait and get back to her work. I suddenly realise that I had interrupted their work flow again.

In Japan when you get into a cafe usually you will not be entertained to until when the owner is finished with her tasks one hand and ready to come to you. You will know it is your turn when the owner brings over a hot towels and then they will have to serve a glass of iced water. There will be the time you put in your order. I think any other time when you just interrupt them for order will be rude.

It is very different from Chinese people where they can multitask and take order while maybe cooking fried rice at the same time. All Chinese cares are about is turnover rate and collection of money as quickly as possible. But in Japan, you will get the feeling that they don’t care so much about the money but instead they are very persistence in their sequence and traditions. Which they focus more on well being instead of the peruse of material procession. 

Question for personality test

In the cafe they asked us 3 questions and wants us to answer them straight when we think of the question.

When you are walking in a jungle and;

1. You see a color and what color will that be? And why
2. You see an animal and what will that be? And why
3. You come around an environment and what will that be? And why

You can stop and think of these questions yourself and I will be sharing my answer below and what does it mean in the end.

My answer for the color have 2 answer to it. First thing comes to my mind instantly was yellow and my mind was changing it quickly to black. The reason was that yellow was what i used to like as a kid where it symbolise energetic and happiness, but as I grow older I stop liking yellow and love black. Black is the absent of color or I should say more accurately the presence of all colours. As I grew as an adult I felt a lot of emotion need to be contained and not expressed so I choose black as my favourite color.

The animal that come to my mind was cat as i liked cat most as I was attracted by the car attitude and for them respecting distance. They are cute and comfy to hold in. Sometime they give you a feeling that they need you and provide comfort for you and yet sometime they are just on their own doing their stuff and they will not require your attention at all. Furthermore, I love the arrogance attitude from cat as they know they don’t need you as long they had their food taken care of.

As for the environmental scene that I can think of this, standing at the cliff looking down on the sea in front of me. This scene was the one that Sandy, Tracy and me was in Danang. The feeling attached to it was that I was so small compared to the huge and board world in front of me. That was a sense of liberation and I describe that something was “holding back and suddenly got released”.

They laughed hard as the answer correspond to these is, color is what you think of yourself and animal is what you are looking for in a partner and last question on environment is what is your ideal sexual experience. So literal right?

Bread vs toast

You know me and Jackie just had a heated discussion on the difference between a bread and a toast. For my understanding, bread and toast is the difference in hardness. As long as the bread was placed in a toaster and removed moisture where you know it became hard and warm is a toast.

However for the German they had a philosophy on bread. Just like wine and coffee per se. There are differentiation between sour, sweet and bitterness in bread. The after taste and the initial taste so on. They really respected bread a lot. On the hand, toast to them is like “junk food” like any bread that has a shape of a square is a toast. Like all our gardenia bread is call toast even without putting in a toaster. They call it the untoasted toast. 

Staycation at hotel Changi cove

I believe this hotel is only 4 yrs old and relatively new, i book it as it adv as 4 star going for $140 sgd per night (after discount) which is quite worth it. However i think they are not worth 4 stars as adv. hard to access room from lobby, lack of smoking point and not fridge in the room. My shower got no hot water although later they had water back online. Good thing is we went off perk, very little people hence quite quiet which we are looking for when going for staycation. 

Whats special is that the room will be complimentary nespresso coffee and a bean bag to snuggle. They also have a guest loft where u get free flow of espresso machine and board games to play. But still i hate they didnt include fridge in their room. 

Another highlight is that they allow us to draw arts on their wall. Let me vent out some creative juice inside the hotel. 

A lot of tree and jungle green around the hotel but lack in swimming pool and smoking point. The whole hotel only have 1 smoking point at the lobby which i have to travel 3 mins from the room to the smoking point. Enough on the hotel. 

Sat morning i surprise her by picking her up after her yoga and when to changi village to have lunch. She wasnt aware about the staycation that i had planed. Suddenly she had the urge to go toilet and i told her the public toilet was too dirty and i would bring her to somewhere cleaner and with aircon. Driving to Changi cove, the hotel doesn't look like one. It do looks more like a country club which she used the toilet while i secretly checked in. Unfortunately, the checking in took so long and she caught me checking in already. Killed the surprise. 

The rest of the afternoon and evening we just laze around watching cable and movie on my ipad. There are itnerary and we suppose to visit a musemum and changi boardwalk however i was really really lazy. But the boardwalk had stunning view at sun set. Could love to go there one more time to enjoy the senceria. 

These are some of the images from evening boardwalk. Would really want ti be there sometime again to take picture myself. 

At night we went to Changi village to dabao walking will take ard 8mins, driving take 2 minutes but hard to find parking on weekend. 

Our dinner cost me around $60. Oh my god. I am so broke.