Don't Waste Your Life

Somehow, I haven't managed to have chances to visit cafes for sometime, so today was a little treat for me. After church, I wanted to find a place to sit down and focus on some work, so I went to the Starbucks nearest my church: Wilkie Edge.

Wilkie Edge is a new development right on the edge of town, about a 10 minute walk from Dhoby Ghaut and right next to Peace Centre. It houses Citadines, a block of serviced apartments and another floor of Kaplan's (a private commercial school). Besides that, there's only a bank, a Korean food cafe, a restaurant, and Starbucks. As you can tell, there are not many people in the building.

Unfortunately, well-located Starbucks' don't stay unknown for too long. When I went today, it was packed full of students. Wonderfully, Starbucks really knows how to cater to its crowd. It really is no longer a place to drink coffee; it's a place to surf and read.

Rarely do you find a Starbucks where you can really sit and get some work done, but I must say this was one of them, even though the barrage of students and books really makes it feel like a cafe in a school. I like this cafe cos it's quiet, there's no music played on the 'other half' of the cafe and there are really plenty of powerpoints for laptops. In fact I think there's at least one for every table.



Strange, but the internet connection here wasn't too stable today. I could connect on my iPod, but it took more than half an hour before I managed to log in to MSN even though I could get some stuff displayed on my browser. I had to buy my coffee at full price cos their NETS machine wasn't working, my new credit card hadn't arrived (the old one broke) and I didn't have enough cash so I couldn't buy the coffee passport (which gets me every coffee for $5).

I liked my Sunday. :)