At Home | Lazy Sunday with a coffee

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Random | Existential weekend anyone?

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At Home | Best café … is in your home library

Still from The Best Café. Yours. | U.S. Ad Campaign 2012 | Nespresso

Recently I caught up on some mindless, and lengthy, watching of the “Idiot Box”, and hence had some solid exposure to advertising. Not always a good thing, the latter, if I want to stop thinking-analyzing. Yes, such is my lot. Yet, the current ad campaign for Nespresso caught my attention in a pleasant way – not only because I can seriously abuse coffee – because it had the components I blogged about (!): a nice box of capsules (I own a machine but not the other paraphernalia, like the boxes that were part of the Year of the Dragon set that I coveted, key word here, some time back), Lana Del Ray’s “Blue Jeans” as a soundtrack, and a nice home library! Alright, maybe I can be easily marketed to after all .

At Home | Benefits of Travel – Accidental Collections

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Few days ago I took a random stock of my kitchen cupboards and noticed a selection of mugs recently eschewed in favor of simple white ones (no reason in particular). Those mugs had something in common. Travel is all about collecting memories, stories and education. Photographs extend the wanderer’s bliss. Souvenirs serve the same purpose, but I got much much better at giving those a pass in the name of less clutter. Or so I thought. Here it was – an accidental collection of mugs from some of my travels. Ha! I realized what was going on – a sly attempt by the recesses of my brain at preserving the need to “gather” those souvenirs, bring back that loot from foreign lands, all under the guise (or excuse?) of practicality! Well… The white mugs will have to retire for a little while, so that each coffee or tea sip may become a “Remembrance of Things Past” and a stimulus for collecting more memories, stories and education, a.k.a. more travel.

Having a major envy moment – agh!

It has been brought to my attention that Nespresso has released coffee machine, capsule and cups sets to commemorate this Year of the Dragon. It also seems that the sets were released only to Asian and Australian markets; I am in neither of those. To say that I am having a major envy moment is to absolutely underestimate where I really am at in my head space! Gimme internet and my credit card! NOW!

http://www.nespresso-shanghaitang.com/en/

PS: After more research - the participating boutiques are only in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Kuwait, New Zealand, Singapore, and maybe also United Arab Emirates.

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