Coffee Convert

I've officially been converted.

In my attempt to study for my final two exams of the year I chanced upon the Ortigas Park last night. Situated at the park is The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, a nice cozy coffee (and tea) shop that opened just early this month. I absolutely love it there! Not too many people, nice music, friendly staff, and a nice change of environment. There's a Starbucks at the ground floor of the building where I live and I used to like studying there, but lately the place has been too crowded and noisy. You know how special a song is when you know it's not "mainstream" and you think you're the only one who knows about it? That's kind of like what I feel about this new CBTL place - my little secret. It's too bad it only opened recently, when I'm about to leave school already.

Anyhow, so I feel I'm officially a convert. Goodbye Starbucks, hello Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Angel, Shara, Ella and I hung out there again today. But the Ortigas branch closes early at Sunday so afterwards we went to their Eastwood branch, which was slightly bigger but still cozy and a nice place to study. Shars was apparently a popular regular at the place and she was made Customer of the Week, before she leaves for New York, where she'll be staying for a whole year. I'm going to miss her a lot. The CBTL staff took a picture of her to post in the community board and Angel and I joined in on the picture. It was a lot of fun, although we didn't get a lot of studying done.

I'm off to studying again. Till next time.