That would be like swigging a very nice bottle of wine from the bottle in a park.

Never rains but it pours…Amazon and tea delivery came within 10 minutes of each other.

Think I'll skip that walk and just have some tea.

Fine for the establishment, annoying as hell for me. I made the reservation and I don’t want to be bothered by it again.

Resdiary and Chope are the most annoying reservation systems, sending me a link by email/text that I have to follow to confirm my reservation shortly before the actual thing.

In the office, yes. If I brought in a kettle, I'd have to keep it on my desk — this is for gongfu brewing with 100ml clay teapots.

So that's USD 300 spent on tea leaves and teaware.

Tea leaves I needed (desperately). Teaware…was inevitable…Yixing teapots are real works of art, and functional too (the only kind of art I really care to buy).

The only thing that's missing is a kettle in the office so I can use these all day — space is a bit of an issue I think…

Overheard in a specialty coffee shop:

  • Her: “Uhhh…<way too many choices here!> I think I’ll just have a filter coffee please.”
  • Barista: “Certainly, here’s the list of beans we’re currently brewing.”
  • Her: “Uh…”

It’s not always easy to keep a straight face.

iOS’ autocorrect is infuriating. I want it to correct to “bill” (ie what I have to pay), not “Bill” (the name) by default!

Yes, it’s a version behind but it’s just for reading novels after all. And it’s effectively free as I have no other use for these points.

Was quite sure I wanted to use the Asia Miles expiring in 2 days to redeem the Shure SE535 — even though I haven't, in the past year, actually thought that it'd be lovely to have wireless earphones. I use my headphones a lot at work, btu my Etymotics (wired) earphones get used all of 5 times a year.

Then I saw there's a Kindle Paperwhite 3 up for redemption as well. Think I'll take that!