Mocha Ice Blended Affair

It's been a 9-year affair between me and Coffee Bean's mocha ice-blended. I discovered it thanks to my evil comrade-in-(wasting money)arms GRR. Stuff intervened here and there - bubble tea came between us during JC. Then Coffee Bean's refusal to have any branches or anything at all to do with the UK separated us for four years. But that also meant that it was always the first coffee I grabbed when I return for vac, and by its presence at the airport it was normally the last drink I downed before leaving Changi by plane.

Anyhow I only realised this faithful consistency over a sobering length of time when I stared at "10 years of Coffee Bean in Singapore" on my Coffee Bean card. That reminds me of how things have moved on since those days. I would fork out blood and life for ice-blended at J8 and Tower Records, and now I realise through a Coffee Bean card that I spend a hundred on coffee a quarter.

Owen was talking about the costs of getting married and a new home, probably in the tune of 30-40K taking into account family contributions. While Brandon and I were gasping at the costs of marriage rituals, TS could not stop mumbling about how once 50-cent Yakult bottles seemed expensive to us as little kids. As we move on with our lives, the definitions of 50-cent Yakult bottles we share diverge. So you are getting richer, maybe I'm not. Probably means I'll have to look harder for value-for-money when I eat out, whereas you'll just scoot off to Your Humble House. We'll see how this goes. I'll just stick to the Coffee Bean for now.