Instant Coffee

Everyone drinks coffee at work. We have this fancy coffee machine (two of them in fact) and I envy people who walk back to their desk with something that looks more like a work of art than a cup of coffee. It would usually have some spiral design on top made up of cinnamon powder and froth. Which made me wonder if everyone here used to work at Starbucks before they joined the digital effects industry.

Now why can't I do those? I know how to work the coffee machine (I'd like to think so). I guess I just don't have the patience. I work till 2am and I'm back at work at 9am with the usual 4-5 hrs sleep. The last thing I need is to spend another 10 minutes just to make coffee. I don't even like coffee. I drink coffee because it keeps me awake. Red Bull doesn't go well with my empty stomach in the morning.

I'm probably the only person here that drinks instant coffee. Nescafe? Maybe. I don't know, I just get it from this glass jar in the 'deserted' 2nd flr kitchen. I'm kinda hoping it is though because it reminds me of Manila. Not that I drink Nescafe in Manila (I usually have a mocha frapuccino at Starbucks if I run out of Red Bull), but because I always used to see the Nescafe commercial on TV. It doesn't really matter, I can never tell which coffee is which. It's pathetic I know, but they all taste the same to me.