Quick blog while waiting for taxi-time.

Kopi Luwak is my new obsession. Yes yes, I know Bucket List was more than half a year ago where I first found out about it. But to know that the world's most expensive coffee is just right beside you, that's just so tempting. I would love to savour a cup of genuine Kopi Luwak, but even better, if I could, somehow, find a way to actually get things together to produce Kopi Luwak for export, that'll be the day.

Since when did I become such a coffee fanatic? Tsk tsk, I think I'm getting way too old for my 25 years.

Which brings me to Thanksgiving, which is going to roll around soon, which means that I'm gonna have to come up with another of my semi-annual entries like its a special feature that people actually bother to read.

In the past, my Thanksgiving entries have been really just that; long Martin Luther-esque lists of thanks that I want to give, for just about anything I have, right down to the hair on my calves. Some people who actually read that thought it's stupid. I think its stupid too, but on the other hand I think that's what Thanksgiving should be (of course, discounting the historic reasons). It should be something like personal stocktaking, where you take stock of your entire 'inventory', and acknowledge it. So even the smallest things should also get a mention.

Oh, yeah Adeline, baobei's very good friend and bridesmaid-presumptive, just gave birth to a lovely baby girl called Breanne. I would admit that the baby's really cute, but baobei keeps making fun of me about it so I have to rein it in alittle and just say that the baby's just cuter than the average baby. And I offered to buy her from Adeline too.

Which just, for fun, led me on to thinking about baby brokerage. Buying and selling babies. Sounds like a really lucrative business. Buy babies and orphans from poor countries and bring them on a tour to rich countries in an effort to find better homes for them, netting a nice profit in the meantime. Sounds like a plan. If it was actually profitable more children would be adopted as there would obviously be more people doing it for money rather than out of the goodness of their hearts.

Sounds offensive to you? That's just about how people complain about 'choping' tables with tissue packs. Some claim inefficiency (obviously lousy economists), others cite unsightly (they want Marche signs!). I say that's just practical and cost-effective. Someone who booked the table got there before you, so they should rightly get the table. And do you really want to leave a poor fella behind to hold it? That guy gets chafed. And everyone ends up waiting longer for him to finish his food; there's the pressure on that guy to eat faster or choose something fast.

I think those who complain about it are just being fussy. I took to it like second nature.

Yeah, maybe I'm just a typical ugly Singaporean.

Chris Rock rocks! I can officially say that 4 out of 5 of the best, heartiest and helpless laughs in my life are thanks to him. He's a true genius.