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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Starbucks and Sanga

Oh no no don't worry, he didn't switch to Starbuck also! In fact I wanted to talk about that as well, but let's keep that aside for a moment.

First about Starbucks. I love it! I love it soooo very much. Simply put, I'm a die hard fan. Well OK I wouldn't die if Starbucks goes bankrupt, not that they will ever. But you just get the drift right. When I first came here, I wasn't much of a coffee fan, but I did enjoy the odd coffee. But since I came here tried a lot of coffee, well basically because there are a lot of coffee everywhere I go. And Starbucks is like the undisputed king of them all. It has this amazing flavor to it - well it has many - that makes you feel like addicted to it. There's nothing like enjoying a Starbucks in a cold evening, preferably with a book too.

So this evening I went to see a friend and was on my way back home. There is a Starbucks nearby, so naturally I had to go there. Now, there are a couple of flavors I enjoy a lot, that I buy a lot. But today I felt like trying something else just for the sake of it. So I looked at the menu card and decided on one, just by looking at. Why I said by looking at, because all the menus are in Japanese, and it takes me approximately one and a half hours to read a menu card. Instead I went for the other option and ordered one by looking at it trusting my intuition. Paid the bill and went to collect the coffee.

And the goddamn coffee turned out to be an ICE COFFEE!!!

Laughing at my intuition, I drank the goddamn thing outside the shop - all the seats inside were taken - in a weather with the temperature close to zero degrees.

Now about Sanga.

I'm sick of people bitching about him turning to AirTel. Or rather, about him advertising AirTel. I mean what the fuck? For fucks sake he's just making some bucks. It's not like he's going door to door and asking people to switch to AirTel is it? In the past few days I got like hundred emails bitching about him switching to it from Hutch. There's no rule saying he can just represent only one company for his whole life. He's making some money while he can and there's nothing wrong with that. How many others, in fact, have represented more than one brand? Why all the fuss now?

I know there are a lot of people in the Sri Lankan blogsphere that related to advertising field.

What do you guys think?


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