Stuck with Starbucks

I switched from Tim Hortons to Starbucks just about a year ago. There are Starbucks in China but no Tim Hortons. That doesn’t make it easier for me to stick to my Starbucks habit. I don’t drive now and a coffee shop is not something you can run into at any street corner in Beijing.

So we got this powerful Italian coffee machine. Our guests coming from American continents are asked to bring a bag or two Starbucks medium roast coffee beans to make up for their accommodation at our “box house.” I consider this a problem solved.

I also bought a coffee brewer from Starbucks for all kinds of Chinese herb drinks that are supposed to cool the body system in the mid of the summer heat.

A little point to make here. I have tried privately to foster the kind of survival instinct in me. I keep imagining what I would do under all sorts of disaster situations, i.e. just recently on TV, how you have to drink your own pee when you are buried under the rubble caused by an earth quake. If we human beings are equipped to make up for their essentials, what’s so difficult to make up for the luxuries that we could live with or without? Only sometimes, a lot of us cannot help but keep adding luxuries items to our essentials list.