Café Mitrais
As of late, I have a lot of things flying and floating around in my brain, so rather than blabbering about the same stuff over and over again, I decided to write a lighter post today. Just a summary of thoughts:
- My girlfriend had a motor accident on Saturday. She’s fine now, apart from minor injuries and a sprained leg (or so it seems; we have been so busy going around to make ends meet for the Surabaya-Bali-Makassar GII Hok Im Tong teens’ camp (first large camp to be held outside Bandung, apparently) – so busy that we can not even find the time to go to the doctor and check up)
- Work has been drowning and droning… but that’s work.
(Day job: Getting rid of bugs – TFK (tukang foto keliling))
- The teens’ camp project is suffering from one classic project problem: scope creep, or what the computer industry knows as ‘creeping featurism’. It started as a Bali-only teens’ camp, but since we invited Surabaya and Makassar satellites, the size of the budget has ultimately gone up 3x fold from Rp 15 million to Rp 40 million – not including the subsidized plane tickets and pre-camp and post-camp accommodations, which can ultimately reach Rp 100 million. That’s a lot of undertaking for a n00b amateur event organizer like me…
- Met my ‘uncle’ from Canada (he is not related by blood, but he and my father used to be business partners and are now good friends) last Friday – and brought my girlfriend with me, too.
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(Honey, there’s a dog in my coffee! – mesinkopi.blogspot.com)
Mitrais provides seven condiments that the people can choose to their liking for their coffee/tea break:
- Tea (the Lipton yellow-label variety)
- Milk (your standard-issue Dancow variety)
- Instant Coffee (don’t know what brand, but most likely Nescafe)
- High-Grade Coffee (one with strong flavour and lots of grain – a local Balinese specialty)
- Sugar
- Chocolate (Milo)
- Non-dairy creamer
This is my personal mix:
- 2 tsp milk
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp chocolate
- 1/2 tsp instant coffee
- 1/2 tsp creamer
- Just enough water for a usual cup of coffee (175ml)
A rich and creamy blend that is perfect for relaxing a mind that has strained from coding… well, no fancy frothy bubbles, chocolate on top, or any accompanying chicken salad sandwich, but what can you expect from the office, anyway? (We go to the office to work, not to make coffee)
I try to keep it under two cups a day. If I want more, I usually take the tea instead.
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(YoBaMaH in action during our debut in Mitrais new building grand opening celebration – and first decent photograph of me playing saxophone, believe it or not)
I think YoBaMaH has successfully started a new Happy Hour trend in Mitrais: music entertainment. Last Friday was a happy and entertaining one, accompanied with great music, great requests, and features a great poem from a fine gentleman to a fine lady that he admires!
Next week we are hoping to bring in some dangdut elements, although to be honest I still have no idea how to operate the PSR-2000 so it can produce a dangdut routine. I have very little time left to do any decent information digging when out of the office.
The Telkomsel Flash service has deteriorated very badly as of late, too; perhaps a flock of migrating IM2 clients are back and jamming the network. That is certainly not helping, even if I can manage to slot in the time to do some research during my off-peak hours (not that I can – I could hardly find time to sleep even for the past couple of weeks. Thank God it’s Thursday and it’s the ascension day of Jesus Christ!).
And a 3-1/2″ floppy disk drive… who has a floppy disk drive these days? I need one. If you have one that you want to get rid of (a working one, obviously), please contact me.
Too bad this happy hour fun won’t last forever, as Bayu and I are being relocated to Sanur office.
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OK I’m off to prepare myself to go to an outdoor sermon, held yearly by GII Bali on the ascension day of Jesus Christ. Happy Thursday for those of you celebrating this extraordinary day.