A Cup of Coffee

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These days I don’t even have time for a cup of cof­fee. Snow White tells me cof­fee is bad for you. (Her secret to eter­nal youth is appar­ently no cof­fee, no tea, no air-conditioning while sleep­ing and run­ning. Every day. With­out fail.)

I would like to tell you that cof­fee is bad for you but these days I’m not around much to tell you this. I’m not around enough to mon­i­tor your intake; I can’t be your Caf­feine Cop. Sure, you like cof­fee, I know, but not enough to become a caf­feine addict. You could go months with­out a cup, you assure me. But you sure enjoy it when you do.

You always order kopi-O kaw. Thick, black cof­fee. Just a dash of sugar. White. None of that brown stuff (what a cop-out!) and no arti­fi­cial sweet­ener non­sense either. It’s just sugar. It’s just cof­fee. You’re right, of course. We are not what we drink, after all.

But if we were, O how I would drink cof­fee every­day, bit­ter and strong, the aroma haunt­ing me till the end of the day with a sub­tle sweet­ness that is the real thing. No arti­fi­cial love here. Trust me, baby, I could drink you, all of you, till your last drop.

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Pho­to­graph by Steve Steve. Design by Kenny Mah.

March 12, 2009 – 11:02 pm | By Kenny Mah | Posted in Food, Life, Love | Tagged , , | Comments (94)

94 Comments

  • rokh wrote:
    Mar 12, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    one cup for me every morn­ing. period.

  • tummythoz wrote:
    Mar 12, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    Caf­feine I can chuck. Ec. Got vacancy for Porky Cop though.

  • thenomadGourmand wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 12:10 am

    hhmmm..the aroma of cof­fee.. hw could one resist??

  • Ekin wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 3:35 am

    Cof­fee for life!

  • Jesse wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 6:07 am

    No need caf­feine, just need sugar. Mmm, suuuugar!

    Sugar, I call my baby my sugar
    I never maybe my sugar
    That sugar baby of mine…

  • Chin wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:57 am

    No cof­fee for the last few months. No cof­fee no migraine. Drink all kinds of tea now!

  • Snow White wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 8:34 am

    Sweet.

    Run­ning — three times a week will do ;)

    But yes, no cof­fee, no tea and no sleep­ing in air-conditioned rooms. Every­day. And laugh­ter, lots of it! :D

  • cumidanciki wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 9:37 am

    no cof­fee, no tea, no air-conditioning while sleep­ing and run­ning. Every day. With­out fail… wow.. no won­der she’s snow white ..?!!! lol.. i think i can hack no cof­fee, no tea, and every­day run­ning… but no air­cond — tak boleh la.. :P

  • 550ml jar of faith wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 9:50 am

    I wish I could get the hell out of caf­feine attach­ment, I enjoy my vices way too much. I have utmost respect for those who sees cof­fee as a plea­sur­able bev­er­age choice, not as a neces­sity. I think Snow White’s got a good reg­i­men going.

  • Bosscat wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 10:08 am

    one or two… some­times none… LOL

  • Kenneth wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    Hmm … cof­fee, I could do with­out. Same with tea. But no air-conditioning? I’m very eco-minded, but that’s my one weak­ness. I need my air-conditioning … ;P heheh …

    Hmm … for some strange rea­son, I always find read­ing your entries … to have sub­tle nuances of a … more entic­ing nature … LOL. Just me though, I guess.

    Are you still jet-setting around Asia?

    Cheers,
    Ken.

  • jemima wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    Your last sen­tence emits sen­su­al­ity. ;)

  • J2Kfm wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    geez .… and I thought you’re finally com­ing up with the 1st hanoi post … :)

    thick, ‘kaw’ cof­fee by the road­side … no stools, and table-less .…

  • keropokman wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Good ol plain water is da best!

  • lingzie wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    oooooo that last line.….. is sooooooo provoca­tive!!!!! :P
    hehe­hehe ~oh behave~

    anyway..ahem… i cant take strong black cof­fee (those kopi­tiam ones) makes me dizzy one. i pre­fer hot choco­late :P

  • backStreetGluttons wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 8:15 am

    We will just lip caress the warmth n wet­ness , but never finis instead just around , round and round …smoothly and serenely as tomor­row begins again

  • jeff lee wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 9:55 am

    “Trust me, baby, I could drink you, all of you, till your last drop”…
    hmmm..are we still talk­ing about coffee…?

    :P

  • kristopher wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 10:18 am

    only u can make a cup of cof­fee sound so sen­sual… ;)

  • ~ elfie ~ wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    “It’s just sugar. It’s just cof­fee. You’re right, of course. We are not what we drink, after all.”

    but if we were, what drink would u be? i think i will be a mocha latte, my fav drink! =)

  • Lilian wrote:
    Mar 15, 2009 at 12:45 am

    I love Coffee…Coffee with­out sugar..
    I think that cof­fee lovers cer­tainly have their own way of savour­ing it…
    Mine would be…
    With a small sip of cof­fee, it touches the tip of the tongue
    Let it flow evenly through the tongue, through the side and the mid­dle
    When it’s about to reach your throat, swal­low it gen­tly
    Slowly, breathe out
    Feel and smell the aroma which still lingers…

    Is it the same like how you enjoy your cof­fee?
    Cheers.. ;)

  • Nic (KHKL) wrote:
    Mar 15, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    I know cof­fee is stim­u­lat­ing, in a very dif­fer­ent, mon­day morn­ing blues way.
    And this “cuppa” you are serv­ing us is also very…errrr, let’s just say interesting…heheh…

    “We are not what we drink, after all.“
    Wow. If we are what we drink, I wanna be Cor­don Bleu. Intox­i­cat­ing. HAHAHAHAHA!

  • Jun wrote:
    Mar 15, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    ooh, cof­fee– my fav com­pan­ion dur­ing after­noon study ses­sions, my legal addic­tion, my eye opener for 7am the­ater ses­sions, my source of inspi­ra­tion… can we have a cuppa some time? :)

  • tigerfish wrote:
    Mar 15, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    Oops, I am that addict! And yes, kopi-kaw for me if it is robusta cof­fee and cof­fee black for me if it is ara­bica. I need my cof­fee! Nowa­days, to stay away from cof­fee, I try to have tea.

  • Janvier wrote:
    Mar 16, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    So we’ll fail the Snow White Test — we wubs our cof­fee, tea and aycee.

  • fatboybakes wrote:
    Mar 17, 2009 at 12:17 pm

    i think i may opt for non eter­nal youth (or rather, have opted already) than give up cof­fee, and tea…more cof­fee la.
    but i dont sleep in air­cond any­ways, so that’s 1/4 of the bat­tle won. running.…hmm, not with the reg­u­lar­ity snow white does it.….
    then again, she’s snow white, i am grumpy…she got long legs.…easy to gallop

  • Lyrical Lemongrass wrote:
    Mar 17, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    So loman­tic la. Kenny Mah’s other half so lucky. Every­day got poetry.

  • mimid3vils wrote:
    Mar 18, 2009 at 11:30 am

    cof­fee make me insomnia~~

  • gina wrote:
    Mar 18, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    Eh.. not really. I think some cof­fee is good for you. Like fruits and vege, cof­fee is actu­ally also fruit and it’s antiox­i­dant! The key word here is… “mod­er­a­tion”. :D

  • tranquility wrote:
    Mar 20, 2009 at 12:23 am

    you can never go wrong with a cup of hot cof­fee in the morning

  • sc wrote:
    Mar 20, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    i’m those who can got w/o cof­fee for months too..but I do enjoy it when i do order/ brew one :)

  • donald wrote:
    Mar 20, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    i agree that noth­ing tastes bet­ter than a cup of strong, fra­grant kopi in the morn­ing. make mine in an old-fashion kopi­tiam, not those in shop­ping malls! =P

  • the_lighthouse wrote:
    Mar 22, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    my wife loves cof­fee, tea… and me! lol

  • wmw wrote:
    Mar 23, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    I thought I smelt cof­fee! :o )

  • The Red Queenne wrote:
    Mar 27, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    Cof­fee is the elixir of Life! I couldn’t last a day with­out it! :)

  • Steve Steve wrote:
    Mar 28, 2009 at 1:41 am

    Cof­fee com­pleted my life..
    Can’t imag­ine the world with­out it…
    Prob­a­bly insomnia…haha

  • jayson wrote:
    Mar 28, 2009 at 10:13 am

    cof­fee addicts of the world unite! lol

  • JaneRadriges wrote:
    Jun 14, 2009 at 12:39 am

    Great post! I’ll sub­scribe right now wth my fee­dreader software!

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 12, 2009 at 11:31 pm

    Sure or not one cup only? :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 12, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    Porky Cop? Is that like an espe­cially over­sized offi­cer of the law? Teehee.

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    One attempts to resist at one’s own peril…

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    … or lust? ;)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    Man, you’re like a walk­ing dia­betes adver­tise­ment! :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    Really? Wow, I never knew caf­feine could have such a strong effect. But don’t some teas have an even higher caf­feine con­tent vs. coffee?

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    Laugh­ter? I get my por­tion of it every morn­ing when I look at the mir­ror. :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    Hehe, I guess we Malaysians do love our air-con hor?

  • Snow White wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 5:37 am

    ah but ciki — you’re so hot the way you are — per­haps that’s why you need your AC ;)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    R.E.S.P.E.C.T. to Ms. White.

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    Some­how, today’s com­ment trail is quickly becom­ing a java count… :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    Not just you… ;)

    As for jet-setting… I’m off to Bor­neo again this Sun­day… Sabah this round. :)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    And more, one hopes… ;)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    Hanoi has to wait lah… too busy fly­ing around these days to even sit still for more than an hour at a time… :(

  • ~ elfie ~ wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    that’s the best way to drink cof­fee — no fuss or worry about how one is dressed!

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    H20 reigns supreme… unless ur a kopi addict… :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    Hot choco­late? Now you’re talk­ing! I have to admit that when I was younger, I was all about Milo. No hot choco­late then. And other malt drinks like Oval­tine and Vico just didn’t taste ‘right’ vs. Milo. Then when I got older, cof­fee seemed to be the cool thing. Then wine tast­ing. Then back to the ancient rit­u­als of tea-drinking…

    But now, I’m older and very much not wiser and will­ing to admit noth­ing beats a really good hot choco­late as I keep dis­cov­er­ing new chocolate-themed cafés and lounges. Yummy.

  • keropokman wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    stay away.…. to look younger.… ;-p

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 13, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    I may well be way past the point of no return where look­ing young is con­cerned. :P

  • Snow White wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 5:41 am

    *blush blush*

    Well, to be absolutely hon­est, the apart­ment in the Starry Reaches is pretty cool, there’s no need for AC ;)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 8:31 am

    I dunno about whether she needs her AC or not, but I’m so with you there on Ciki’s Absolute and Utter Hot­ness. Cumi is one lucky fella! :)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 8:33 am

    You’re quite right, of course. When I lived @ Ritze Per­dana a year ago, I found that to be the same there too. Must be the alti­tude and the green lungs all around these areas. Go, go, Mother Nature! :D

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 8:34 am

    Never fin­ish? Round and round? Aiyo, hot kopi must fin­ish up while it’s steam­ing, pip­ing hot lah! (Unless you are refer­ring to some­thing else? Hehe.)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    Well, let’s just say I leave entirely up to your imag­i­na­tion… ;)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    Sen­sual? I sup­pose it depends on who’s read­ing it, yes? Dif­fer­ent folks read dif­fer­ently, but I’m sure glad you read like me, hehe.

  • ~ elfie ~ wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    so notty… ur such a bad influ­ence… in a good way! =P

  • jeff lee wrote:
    Mar 16, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    ooooooooo…can i have 5 cups of those then?..

    :D

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 6:18 pm

    Imag­ine me in a Ah Pek sin­glet and shorts, with one leg lifted over the stool, sip­ping the kopi from the saucer… Now that’s authen­tic! :D

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    I think I’d be an affogato — cold and hot at the same time, thick and creamy yet clear and pun­gent… Er, rather mixed up hor? :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 14, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    See? You agree!

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 15, 2009 at 7:59 am

    Wow, I’m amazed, Lil­ian! I have cer­tainly not paid that much atten­tion to how I drink my cof­fee, cer­tainly not in such detail. Per­haps it’s time I started observ­ing more closely how I savour each cuppa joe… ;)

  • lingzie wrote:
    Mar 15, 2009 at 10:41 pm

    oh yeah! i am still very much a milo fan. and get sooo pissed off when kopi­ti­ams try to pass off sub­sti­tuted weak cocoa drinks as milo!! charge rm1.50 some more! haih!

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 15, 2009 at 10:42 pm

    You are cer­tainly intox­i­cat­ing to many ladies out there, I’m sure… ;)

    Let’s hope them dames get a drink of you tomor­row, Mon­day again ma… :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 15, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    Oh we most cer­tainly must have a cuppa, you can edu­cate me on all the sur­gi­cal intri­ca­cies of a really good brew… ;)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 15, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    And what if it’s a blend of robusta and ara­bica? Kopi Kaw Black? Lol.

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 15, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    Exactly! Quite ter­ri­ble lah the prices they dare to charge us these days for sub­stan­dard Milo rip-offs! Grrr…

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 17, 2009 at 1:15 am

    Are you sure 5 cups will be enough…? ;)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 17, 2009 at 1:17 am

    It’s alright… I think most of us fail the Snow White test any­way… that’s what makes my lil Snow White so spe­cial… :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 17, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    For a minute there, I read “easy to wal­lop” pulak. Ooh, notty. :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 17, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    My other half is stuck with me… that alone is tor­ture oredi… eter­nal tor­ture, hope­fully. :D

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 18, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    I have col­leagues for whom insom­nia is a daily, er, nightly affair… I won­der how much cof­fee they drink? Hmm.

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 20, 2009 at 8:30 am

    Mod­er­a­tion is key to most things in our lives, I agree. I’m not sure though if nutri­tion­ists and dieti­cians would group cof­fee together with other fruits … :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 20, 2009 at 8:31 am

    Strangely enough, what I like best in the morn­ing is a full glass of clear, plain water. Refresh­ing! :D

  • donald wrote:
    Mar 20, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    that’s why i refuse to drink those over­priced drinks. bet­ter stick to neigh­bor­hood kopi­ti­ams where the ah pek know our face and what our usual drink is.

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 20, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    One has gotta love them Ah Pek’s and their friendly, bril­liant tooth­less grins. :D

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 20, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    Wanna see how long both us can go with­out? Hehe.

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 20, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    What about an old-town-style kop­tiam IN a shop­ping mall? LOL — they are every­where now, aren’t they? :P

  • rokh wrote:
    Mar 22, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    sure…that’s why it makes the cup so much more spe­cial :)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 22, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    … I bet. ;)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 22, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    Hahaha, you got me there!

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 24, 2009 at 9:14 am

    Hahaha, you would, you cof­fee expert extra­or­di­naire you! :D

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 27, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    This is the first time I’ve heard of any­one call­ing it an elixir… does yours come with tongkat ali in it? :P

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 28, 2009 at 9:26 am

    Cof­fee com­pleted your life? So shall we call your future part­ner “Cof­fee”? LOL

  • Steve Steve wrote:
    Mar 29, 2009 at 12:13 am

    haha …Kopi-O + Char Siew Pao
    Great com­bi­na­tion though

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 29, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    Hahaha, be care­ful not to have too much of it… deadly com­bi­na­tion! ;)

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Mar 29, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    I won­der if there is a Cof­fee­holics Anony­mous? :p

  • Kenny Mah wrote:
    Jun 14, 2009 at 10:05 am

    Thanks, Jane… Always glad to have a new face in our lil com­mu­nity here… :)

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