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Starbucks is in Davao! (almost)
May 25, 2008
The moment I saw it, my coffee borne blood simmered as a shaman’s oil pointed at a suspected aswang. Yes, Finally Starbucks has reached Davao, exclamation point!
Consumer’s in Durian City has been, for so long, limited to the transient dehydrated ground Starbucks powder, packed and sold at the grocer’s. An added insult to this injury is that two of its outlets are accessible in the Luzon mountain province. Yes, the boondocks are regarded more coffee worthy than us. This is over-almost.
You see the coffee came here. Pure Starbucks frappuccino MINUS the seats,subtract the ambience, forget the barista with the “One _(enter coffee variety)_ for _(enter name here)_” in a DJ booming voice, and don’t even think about the coffee house, is here! Yep ONLY the coffee came here. At least you get the chic coffee bottles (they came in, bottles-mini milk bottles, not in mugs or paper cups). Is this an advance? Is starbucks slowly worming its way to the Davao market; First coffee powder then coffee in bottles? I don’t know.
It’s up to you how to view this situation: be appalled or be jubilant. As for me, I’ll buy the coffee and do the barista voice “One frappuccino (in a bottle) for JP!” for myself until the real theng comes here.
(For information on where you can guzzle this liquid that has been deprived from you, post me a comment [kung asa mapalit ba])
Warning
I assume that you are financially able at the time of reading. Otherwise, this warning will be useless. If you are planning to buy a vehicle, and a second hand at that, be very careful. There is nothing wrong with used cars. This year’s car models are available in second hand car shops for a whole lot cheaper price. At a glance, these cars can be mistaken for brand new; heck, they might even seem newer than your car(if you have one)! So what’s wrong with second hand cars? It’s not the car per se, but the dealers.
An acquaintance has found themselves in quite a predicament after cops confiscated their 2007 model car. Four months after purchasing for half a million peso (ka-ching!), men in blue seized the unit as carnapped vehicle; its original owner brutally murdered. My friends found themselves in jail and fortunately go out with bail. Total expenditure for the legal process? P50,000. So what happened to the dealer of the car? Two days ago, in the local daily, the dealer has been bagged. But the question is: What happened to their money? More than half a million peso was gone with the Philippine justice and crime process. Until today, they are “pursuing” the said crook. The act itself is considered futile in our setting.
Moral? If you want to buy cars, buy it brand new. If you’re short on dough and need wheels bad, do your homework well and research the legality of your nominated dealer.