of hot, tall, cold, venti, frappe memories...

I'm not a coffee drinker.

I tried the famous mocha frappe... it was good for a while but did not really love it. And once I bought the venti size and when I finished it, my heart was just beating crazily. Too much caffeine for my not-so-used-to-caffeine body.

I so HATED that Banana something frappe they had one summer. It tasted like a pure banana syrup!

I liked the praline mocha... but only on the first few sips... After sip # 10, it'll be too sweet for me. Same goes with the toffee nut. Once Barry bought me a tall praline mocha... I ended up giving it to Flow after the first few sips.

I loved the hot white chocolate mocha... but I used to drink that with someone who's no longer with me so I don't drink it anymore :p

I think I'm loving the cranberry juice... ahahah... kasi like sya nung someone I just adore right now (ahaha.. loser!)

But I'm just loving starbucks right now.

Not for the drinks they sell, nor for the yummy chicken pandesal... not even for the chicken honey mustard salad that mimi and I crave so much.

It's just because I'm loving the people I eat with, drink with at Starbucks. And some of my treasured memories happened at a nearby Starbucks branch...

   Starbucks Rockwell - where we surprised John for his birthday, where Faye, Eloisa and I had to ask a lighter from construction guys to light the candle for John's cake...
   Starbucks Valero - where I had the scariest one hour, hoping and praying that Tantan will be successful in unlocking and opening my iPhone... and he was.
   Starbucks Podium - where my best highschool friends and I meet up after my Saturday night practices from CCF
   Starbucks Megamall - where I recently had pure girl talk with Jheny and Awit
   Starbcuks Insular Life - where mimi and I just sometimes eat, drink and update each other on latest JPMC chasemis :p
   Starbucks Metrowalk - where Jheny and I first spent the time with James, Adrin and Jhun after the first Cantata presentation... and we ended up friends since then...
   Starbucks Tagaytay - where I poured out my heart to mimi, becha and tantan... and we stayed there from 6am until 10am, waiting for Leslie's to open so we could eat Bulalo... only to find out that Leslie's is actually open as early as 7am!

   *sigh*

Oh yes, I do have a favorite drink now... I'm satisfied with a tall hot mint tea... and maybe have it with an oatmeal cookie...
... then my "to-go" will be a happy heart, a smile plastered on my face, moments captured in my camera phone and yet another memory to go back to once in a while...

...like today.
   *another sigh*