Tuesday, September 8, 2009

cafe : Coffee Culture

What's better than having nice coffee under nice weather in a nice cafe with free wifi?

I am a person who can't live without internet. I constantly go on msn / facebook / twitter / blogs. I also love staying out when the weather is nice, you know, especially under the Sydney blue sky / white clouds / sunshine. Recently I've been spending a lot of time at cafes, to work or to relax. But there's this problem with cafes here in Sydney, is that they don't often have wifi services.

I do not want to go to Maccas nor Gloria Jeans just to get free wifi but with the wrong coffee and wrong atmosphere in the wrong environment. This is so wrong. I want somewhere I can just stay for hours and relax and have nice coffee and to be able to sit under the sun and with nice service by the nice waitress and nice seatings and on and on and on. Well there are a number of places that suits the above requirements. Yet most of them do not provide internet access. In that case I would not be able to stay there too long because I seriously need internet to do research on my assignments and yeah you know what I mean. OK so what I want to say is: some cafes have nice coffee but wrong environment to stay and work; some cafes have the right environment yet crap coffee; some cafes provide internet access but only during inconvenient time period. So yeah I've been exploring so many cafes these months and I've finally found one that impresses me: Coffee Culture at Crows Nest.

Coffee Culture locates at a very convenient spot at Crows Nest, right next to a car park which allows 2 hours free parking. They provide both indoor and outdoor seating so people like me who likes to enjoy the sunshine could choose to sit outdoor. Indoor seating are pretty comfortable so your butt won't hurt even if you sit all day. What makes it better is that this place provides FREE wifi access til 10pm every day. Awesome.

I know there are a few more other cafes that provides coffee and free wifi e.g. Maisys at Neutral Bay. However, say like for Maisys, they only have internet til 7pm, and there ain't much convenient parking spaces around, provided that it is located on the main road where the traffic is really busy so yeah. Oh and the seating hurts my butt if I stayed for long.

I'll be a frequent customer from now on.

I'm sorry I couldn't get a better image. But yeah this is it :


Monday, September 7, 2009

daydream | 01

Do you daydream? I always do. I guess daydreaming occupies a lot of my time so I decided to write down what I've been thinking so to make daydreaming more meaningful (not to waste time on it but forgetting about it very soon)

Sometimes I hate myself for wasting so much time sitting here daydreaming instead of doing something meaningful like working on my assignments or other shit. And yet I still act the same. I was surfing the internet the other day, as usual, and I found a very interesting article. It claims that daydreaming is actually good for our health because our brains are most active while we daydream. Aaahh good news for me. Some other good points includes swearing / being untidy / getting angry / playing video games / lazing about etcetc are good for us. Well basically I do all of these and I am glad that these are good for my health. The next thing I did was to forward this piece of article to all my close relatives. I also posted in on facebook to share it with everyone. Maybe I should post the link here too: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1210341/Being-bad-good-Playing-blaring-rock-music-skipping-housework-actually-boost-health.html

Is there anyone who never tried daydreaming at all? I cannot believe there's one. And what would you think about? I am a person who tend to think a lot. It could be anything. Usually about the life and future. I think about what is wrong with the present. I think about what could be done to make a better future. I think about what I could do to add value to myself. I evaluate what has happened recently..

People say: oh you think too much. But I cannot control about this. I don't know why but my brain never stops and I just keep thinking all the time. I think when I'm on my bed. I think when I'm on the bus. I think when I'm driving. I think when I'm working. I think when I'm cooking. I do agree that I think too much and sometimes it leads me to the negative side: which is happening to me right now. The thing is, my brain works too fast and when I get to think of something, another thought comes across my mind the next minute and I eventually forget what I really thought about a minute ago while the negative feeling stays with me. So sometimes I feel upset but I don't remember why. Am I ill? I know that this affects people around me negatively. And believe it or not, I feel terribly bad about it yet I don't know what to do about it either.

Oh great so while I've been typing up all the above, I've forgotten what I initially wanted to write about. Oh well. I'm such a forgetful person. OK. I give up.