coffee for the gloomy

WHAT MAKES IT HARD TO GET BY

THIS GLOOMY DAY

 AND AWAY

IS THE THOUGHT THAT EACH MORNING

 when I wake up,  

I want to see your face lying next to mine,

look straight in your eyes,

 touch your cheeks,

and hold your hand,

then, everything would feels okey

when we had our cup of coffee …

me, pink L, my pen and coffee to ease the gloomy...

FROM FILMORE TO STARBUCKS @JUPITER--ANOTHER KEEP ON WALKIN' MODE

TALE OF STARBUCKS HERE AND THERE (part 5)

(if you were reading this, please find time to read prior blogs related to this posts ) 

FORGIVE ME  for i couldn't find any of the file photos i've saved as proof that i've been to STARBUCKS JUPITER, i've been scanning all my files in my external drive, hoping to find it stored in some of the hidden files or maybe saved it somewhere else, but to no avail. oh well, pardon me for that and for keeping you wait this long to finally publish this chapter of the story.  .. 


here's how's the tale goes...


earlier, when i looked at the Starbucks Planner and read about STARBUCKS JUPITER, i even joked Crescendo with words like "STARBUCKS having branch at the outer space?" that's because, i haven't known JUPITER ST. in MAKATI CITY yet.


now, you'll be asking, how did i get there and what significant this story has? 


oh well, it wasn't really in the plan to get there yet, however, time calls the right timing to visit the place is at hand, since i'll be doing some business at MAKATI, then i thought why not take the chance of going on a double purpose (recalling what boss told me on taking chances or hitting two birds in one stone so TAKE IT, TAKE THAT or MISS IT!). and the next thing i knew i'm on my way...


in recollection, it was on the 12th of May this year when my friend "Zerline" asked me to be her reliever for two-days at her work at  FILMORE, MAKATI  while she's out of town attending some convention of a sort. 


so, i took the offer not for the money but as to taking chances of the  experience i'll get in this job for this is my very first time to record and try they're so called job after five, while the other share of the reason in accepting this part-time job is to return favors she had for me in one time or another. 


it was my first time goin' to FILMORE though, so i asked  "Zerline" to provide me the direction  going to the clinic where she worked as OFW evaluator,  and after working on the first day, gay crescendo fetched me at the clinic with a map taken from google  as to where Starbucks Jupiter can be hounded.   


it's six in the afternoon, and from Filmore St., we walked heading AYALA AVENUE and kept on walkin' up to BEL-AIR, MAKATI, to the left, to the right and it's seven thirty in the evening and JUPITER at last, on our way to the store, we came to pass traffic lights, crossroads, big buildings, hotels, towers, cars, jeepneys,  good garbs, ties and trousers, buses, horns, noisy dispatchers, security guards, street vendor, pollution, smoke, dust, dirt, sweat, foreigner, worker, couples, lovers, the sympathetic and the apathetic, the cynics and the pessimists, we've seen all that, and wondered how lives differ from one another? buddy and i had an academic debate on that plus a peck on the cheeks, then it became a shared thought.... (for the resolve here's a coffee cheers! =))

for the love of coffee..

whew!, that was quite a walk,  for it was another more than two-kilometers of distance we walked but unlike the "keep on walking mode at Starbucks, Camp John Hay," there were no chilly or windy weather in MAKATI, dehydrated almost, i'm just glad i wore flat shoes that day, so my feet didn't complained of over walked, it's just my leg muscles that cramps...but it doesn't matter anyway, for as long as there is a freeway, i will ramble... LOL  !     




LEARNED VIRTUE:  TAKE CHANCES, take every opportunity that comes along as it may only knock once, never let it slips away, SEIZE EVERY MOMENT because this is your only time, HERE AND NOW...and regrets no way, because you're on to a HAPPY JOURNEY!




p.s.
i promise once i'll find the still shots at Jupiter, i'll post and update this chapter of the story. meantime, i just took a snapshot on the leaf of the planner where i recorded the date of my visit to each store. 

located at Ground Level, Yupangco Bldg.
Jupiter St. cor. N. Garcia St., Bel-Air Village, Makati City

thank you... and please watch out for more.....

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**** i just have to highlight the place i've been for a more evident recording****


1.6750 = Ayala Avenue, Makati City
2.Cebu Ayala = Cebu CIty
3.Camp john hay = Baguio City == APRIL FOOLS DAY
4.Lipa = Lipa City, Batangas
5. Solenad = Sta. Rosa City, Laguna==HOLY  THURSDAY
6.Boracay = Boracay
7.Corinthian Hills = Quezon City
8.Katipunan = Quezon City
9.Intramuros = Manila
10.SM Sky Garden = Northedsa, Quezon City
11.Bacolod = Bacolod City
12.Jupiter = Makati City == MY VERY FIRST TIME TO GO ON MOONLIGHTING
13.Tagaytay = Tagaytay City
14.32nd and 7th = Global City, Makati City

STARBUCKS and ME going back to SOLENAD

TALE OF STARBUCKS HERE AND THERE (part 4)

(if you were reading this, please find time to read previously related posts) 

it is located at Solenad, Nuvali, Sta. Rosa, Tagaytay road corner,
nuvali Blvd, Nuvali, Sta. Rosa, Laguna, Philippines

(photolink:  http://food.clickthecity.com/b/ig2cb49)

it's not because i've been to Starbucks - Solenad then, then i won't include it in this year's hunt of Starbucks 14 stores. well, you got that wrong, because i did came back, and since this is my second time here, there wasn't much hassle in my travel, but just the risk that it's close to midnight yet we're still on gallivant at STARBUCKS, SOLENAD, NUVALI, STA. ROSA, LAGUNA. which was quite far when conveyed by a tricycle from a good friend's lair, "Aiza" at  BALIBAGO, STA. ROSA and where i and myself spent the holyweek.  

..gabb, aiza and me and .. a bit tired and sleepy
yet on the go for the storyline...

...finding time to talk the talk we'd never talked..

a snapshot before we finally left
 (sorry for the poor picture quality, camera's battery is dead)

LEARNED VIRTUE: "VALUE" your relationship with others  and keep it "TIGHT",  bond and do odd yet funny things together, illuminate life and keep it light so that while you're in pursue with your destiny you are in a HAPPY JOURNEY!      

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EXTRA:

the still shot of my visit @ Starbucks, Solenad the first time and again it's my post birthday treat early June last year with a dear friend "Mami Haze", from here we did some fish feeding and boat riding for the fun.

  

...because seXy KM said try frapp!

fish feeding and SB venti on hand...lol

..going for the boating, still with SB venti..

enjoy your ride....

P.s. 

watch out for my next starbucks quest story..

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**** i just have to highlight the place i've been for a more evident recording****


1.6750 = Ayala Avenue, Makati City
2.Cebu Ayala = Cebu CIty
3.Camp john hay = Baguio City == APRIL FOOLS DAY
4.Lipa = Lipa City, Batangas
5. Solenad = Sta. Rosa City, Laguna==HOLY  THURSDAY
6.Boracay = Boracay
7.Corinthian Hills = Quezon City
8.Katipunan = Quezon City
9.Intramuros = Manila
10.SM Sky Garden = Northedsa, Quezon City
11.Bacolod = Bacolod City
12.Jupiter = Makati City
13.Tagaytay = Tagaytay City
14.32nd and 7th = Global City, Makati City

STARBUCKS AND ME AT CAMP JOHN HAY, BAGUIO CITY

TALE OF STARBUCKS HERE AND THERE (part 3)

(if you were reading this, please trail back to the first parts) 

it is located towards the golf club pass the nearby export depot
and  Carlo's pizza. in between Cantinetta and waffle's place

..so very True, if you're guess is CAMP JOHN HAY, BAGUIO CITY - this has been the first store i'd been out of the 14 featured branches in the Starbucks 2011 Planner, and true too, that, going there wasn't easy for a first timer like me, with no idea as to where the place can be found, therefore, i had a lot of mis-turns and mis-steps in an about one hour of hike from the entrance of Camp John Hay to the coffee shop. it is an undulated more than two (2) kilometers expanse. And thanks for the chilly weather in Baguio, it spared me from dehydration.

What's so special with this trudge, is that, it's happening on APRIL FOOLS DAY, and because i am a FOOL i made myself a blot here at CAMP JOHN HAY, STARBUCKS.

  

Enjoying the long walk

it's such a long way up to my destination but i
even manage to pose for an emo mode in a while

it seems like an endless walk and almost at the verge of losing hope in finding starbucks, so i took another stop-over in here, got some rest and asked if  starbucks does exists in the woods?

the lady i've asked told me to just keep walkin'
and enjoy the journey, you're  almost there..(she's right 1.5km more up and hilly and in an awesome pace and i'm there)

whew! after an hour of leisure walking with slip - ups and doubts as to 
what road to head on , finally @ cottage 661

what a blissful place to spend an idle afternoon, chat nonchalantly and,
take time to get in touch with the inner you... 

and to my surprise! here's a perk for this visit.. this is a free taste to a product they are about to launch, and i'm so sorry, i forgot what was it..weeh! =)
 i can say, This quest is recorded to be more than extraordinary aside from it is being the first to find in the trace, there is more  in the core of being here. (and for those who would ask why, i say: go, see and feel it yourself...)

...and don't ever forget to take a memorabilia with you,
for the recollection of memoirs, LATER...  

...and again for the record, I JUST HAD THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE APRIL FOOLS IN THE 32 YEARS of my being.

 LEARNED VIRTUE : "PERSEVERANCE" yes, i've almost abandoned the mission if not of my insistence, that, indeed, there is Starbucks out of this woods, chum too is hopeless and petulant of my idea in finding starbucks here. DETERMINATION AND POSSIBILITIES too can aid you to satiate your endeavor to a HAPPY JOURNEY!

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whew! indeed, a journey....guess again the next destination..?
there's more in  store, so please keep on reading....

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**** i just have to highlight the place i've been for a more evident recording****

1.6750 = Ayala Avenue, Makati City
2.Cebu Ayala = Cebu CIty
3.Camp john hay = Baguio City == APRIL FOOLS DAY
4.Lipa = Lipa City, Batangas
5. Solenad = Sta. Rosa City, Laguna
6.Boracay = Boracay
7.Corinthian Hills = Quezon City
8.Katipunan = Quezon City
9.Intramuros = Manila
10.SM Sky Garden = Northedsa, Quezon City
11.Bacolod = Bacolod City
12.Jupiter = Makati City
13.Tagaytay = Tagaytay City
14.32nd and 7th = Global City, Makati City

STARBUCKS, THE 2011 PLANNER AND ME...

The 2011 Planner features 14 Starbucks stores, giving customers a feel of Starbucks as their "third place". The 14 branches include:

1.6750 = Ayala Avenue, Makati City
2.Cebu Ayala = Cebu CIty
3.Camp john hay = Baguio City
4.Lipa = Lipa City, Batangas
5. Solenad = Sta. Rosa City, Laguna
6.Boracay = Boracay
7.Corinthian Hills = Quezon City
8.Katipunan = Quezon City
9.Intramuros = Manila
10.SM Sky Garden = Northedsa, Quezon City
11.Bacolod = Bacolod City
12.Jupiter = Makati City
13.Tagaytay = Tagaytay City
14.32nd and 7th = Global City, Makati City

So, what’s that got to do with my story?

Like I’ve said I love coffee and hanging out at coffee shops and starbucks is one, plus my innate liking to trek so the tale has begun, I told myself I have a yearlong age to trip the 14 branches. That’s got to be the goal for this year.

Well, among the fourteen “Solenad” was the only store I’d been for my entire starbucks experience, that was, sometime in June the previous year as my post birthday revelry. To date I’d seen seven (7) of the stores and has another seven (7) for the chase.

I say again, please bear with me and read on, as I relate every detail of my quest to Starbucks here and there … I promise, you’ll be entertained, you’ll learn lessons from the experience and you might as well get inspired to do the same to break the routine and try to explore new things with an end more than fun. HAPPY JOURNEY…:)

(the 2011 planner and me)


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P.S.
Could you guess when and where I begun keeping record? and i tell you, it's not easy to get there, i've had a lot of slip-ups as to map reading and directional ability but the experience is worthy to note.

Please, follow on to my next blog…..


ADDENDUM:

(just for the record, this has been my very first memory of goin' to Starbucks, that was in Megamall early June 2007, courtesy of my friend Zerline as her post birthday treat for me..)

The TALE of STARBUCKS here and there...

Coffee? yes i love coffee and hanging out in coffee shops. Starbucks is one, and the tale of running to Starbucks different branches started sometime in November last year where me and my coffee buddies chilled out at Alimall branch, and the Planner 2011 was launched, the barista gave me two cards and to avail the planner I have to collect sticker and complete it before 2010 ends. I get interested having a planner for two (one to be gifted to my coffee buddy), and it was then where almost everyday i can be pretty found at starbucks.




and in just a month, i've got the planner, exactly the way i want it =))



and im so glad to have it, cause i know for one reason or two, starbucks has done a great part in my long and winding journey ...





a chronicle is about to be unwrapped...



and about to be untold...



..and each day i'll mark every leaf with a beautiful and unforgettable memories....


.and this has become my journal, it'll be with me wherever i may be and sooner or later, when i recollect, i'll just be turning each page to help me enliven great things that happened to me with the year 2011...



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Are you up to know how I stumbled to quest the Starbucks branches featured in the 2011 planner..? just keep posted on my next blogs, I’ll share the exciting escapade and misadventures I’ve been through just to keep record that I’ve been to that branch, I did it with an end more than fun. HAPPY JOURNEY!


P.S.
Please bear with me this is quite a history =))

a cup of coffee to cheer my day

beep......
it was just the bell ringing, a clue that there is a necessity to get up
if you can't get one hello, then just give it to yourself with a grin
the world is big anyway, and it has a lot to offer,
sure there is one for you
don't colonize with a love that is distant and obscure..!

here's your coffee to cheer your day.. =))