Archives: My Story
Coffee Might Help Us Live Longer
Frankly speaking, I can’t imagine a world without coffee. What a cold and flat life, haha. The studies about coffee and its supposed benefits or harms have been reported in many controversy. In one hand, it is said that caffeine raises blood pressure, but somehow, it is also mentioned to have beneficial antioxidants and improves athletic [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • February 21st, 2009
Take a Break. Let’s Have a Coffee Humor
Hei readers! Enough with serious coffee topics, let’s get some laugh on this piece of coffee humor! So, this is it :) Ways to know if you drink too much coffee - You can “out-yip” your chihuaha. -There’s more grounds than soil around your garden plants. You make coffee ice cubes for your iced coffee. You eat coffee jello [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • February 15th, 2009
Coffee Increases The Stress Level?
In many seminars or event held for public grathering, there always a break called “coffee break”, where people have about 15 minutes to relax. Kinda short break, but that’s the point. With this 15 minutes time, we can have some coffees and get refreshed! A pair of scientists from Bristol University then set up a scenario [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • February 3rd, 2009
The Ideal Coffee Mousse
What happen to your tongue when it tastes too much gelatin and whipping cream? No coffee kick but a little strange oily cream fills your mouth. Well, it such an unpleasant drink. Yesterday I had my lunch at Cihampelas Walk. Not in Starbucks, but a common lunch place. Finished with Nasi Ayam Hainan, I then ordered [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 12th, 2009
Coffee and Woman’s Health
Today is a funny day. As a caffeinated woman, I was surprised finding an article about the negative impact of caffeine on women’s health”. Seems interesting, I then fallen into the reading and found some scary thing–if I couldn’t say them as facts :) It was written that woman in childbearing age is not recommended to [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • January 4th, 2009
Coffee For Once
Rain was suddenly dropped by the time we enter Sbux at Cihampelas. It was cold outside, very cold. I couldn’t help my skin from freezing, so I just asked a Hot Frappucino. I have my coffee with him. Sit at the warmest seat and have our lovely hours passed. You know, everytime you walk your day [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • December 28th, 2008
A Cup of Inspiration
Hi :) Today is my birthday. December 26th. Yesterday I’ve planned to have an hour in Starbucks, yeah, it’s coffee-ing time! Excuse me, coffee-ing? In Bahasa, you can say it “ngopi”. An activities of drinking coffee. Starbucks at Cihampelas Walk may be the nearest place to my stay, so it will be my first choice :) I [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • December 26th, 2008
Choosing The Best Coffee
All of coffee lovers must have an ideal taste of coffee. Different person, different taste. However, in the process of choosing coffee, everybody must expect the best coffee quality. So, I think this coffee choosing tips below will be very useful for you. Check them out! 1. Start your search with local roasters. Well, local [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • December 9th, 2008
Latte Macchiato
When it comes to the taste of coffee, every body must have their own favorite. Well, I have Latte Macchiato pops up in my mind every time I visit coffee cafes. Latte Macchiato has been rapidly became very popular. This specialty drink has a very delightful taste in my tongue that makes it so special. [...]— Yessi Pratiwi • October 28th, 2008
Komodo Dragon
On his personal blog, my colleague Harry Sufehmi questioned the price of a cup of coffee on Starbucks cafe which could reach 10x the price of local-branded cafe. I have posted an unusually long comment on his blog entry, though. One of my point is that my nation, Indonesia, who has unquestionably the best coffee [...]— Koen • November 7th, 2007
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