Caffeine Urges..

I awoke this morning with two desires: A large Caramel Macchiato and to get some studying done for my finals next week.

Realization: Today’s Friday – school café is CLOSED.

Fine, I’ll settle for a homemade instant cappuccino..

A search in the kitchen cupboards turns up a “Carrefore” brand weak imitation instant coffee.. Ha, ha HA – as coach would sarcastically laugh. Ain’t no way EL Hazard would lower herself to drink such vile, weak liquid..

sErIoUsLy! The trademark cappuccino “froth” in that stuff is merely two bubbles clinging to the side of the mug! I mean even the VENDING machine at school can manage a semi-glorious froth on your cappuccino! Ha, fine when you don’t have a horse ride a cow right? I’ll drink tea with milk. I search the cupboards again and find every exotic and weird tea the stores carry: Vanilla & Pineapple, Raspberry & Echinacea, Green tea w/ orange, Green tea w/ mint, Green tea w/ apple, Green tea w/ java, Green tea w/ lemon, Green tea w/ ginger…..(Ya waylna min Green tea afan allah!) lemon & ginger tea, sage tea, anise tea, Earl Grey tea, Darjeeling tea, M- something tea (purple box).. Allah yasamhich Umee! Ma 3andna “normal tea”?!

I searched some more and found a box of store brand imitation Lipton. “Fine” I thought digging the box out from underneath “Exotica tea land”. It was oddly light. I opened the box and found it was EMPTY! Nooooooooooooooo! I could hear the exotic teas snickering mockingly.

Allllllll the way in the back of the cupboard I saw a container with tea granules. Aha! I can make karak. Dismissing the appearance of those tea granules (I think they were old and it wasn’t good tea quality aslan..) I turned them into a sick looking imitation karak. Even the color looked miskeen! I drunk it even though I’m very picky about my karak. There are only three karaks that I really like (believe me I’ve tasted many), from the karak shop down the street from my house, Karak at Bookworm’s house, and Karak from a Shamsi lady’s house (her karak was to die for.. it was a cross between cappuccino and karak.. kinda creamy with froth on top).

I drank two cups of my creation and looked like this:

It definitely didn’t arouse desire to study.. so instead of studying I hung around online. It wasn’t until after I went to go reheat that stuff (I had to study and can’t study without some caffeine..) I noticed the cute jar of dried tea leaves Bookworm had given me some time ago. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW I’m saved! (I made tea with that before and it was great) I normally don’t like to waste but I had to toss that awful karak and make a fresh pot.
Hehe, with Bookworm’s tea my karak looked and smelled marvelous. Lol Such great tea would definitely need great milk.. Stole a can of mother’s sacred Rainbow Cardamom flavor milk and dumped it into my concoction. Perfect-o! (Lol, she’ll have plenty to say when she sees the emptied can in the garbage…I’ll justify it, she has more in the closet =P )

Equipped with passing Karak (not as great as any of the above mentioned 3 but a pretty good imitation if I do say so myself =P ) I shall dive into some grammar for my Language Development final..

Ediilee, Allah yakhaleekum!

Cappuccino on my mind

I officially love my university.. yes love with a capital L.

Only had pocket change today and was seriously craving coffee. Craved it so bad I didn't care what kind it was. Black expresso, latte, cappuccino, mochaccino- heck even arabic coffee would have been fine. As I waited for my 9:00 class I was eyeing the coffee machine. (it's one of those machines u just put coins in, this cup comes down into a holder thing and then the machine makes all sorts of swishing sounds as it prepares the coffee...super cool.)

40% of the girls stop in front of the coffee machine - which is right beside the snack machine- and buy coffee and chocolate before class. Looks really good but since I'm on a diet and currently very proud of the fact that I have managed not to eat any junk whatsoever for a whole month now - the exception of a mini snickers and a mini bounty, the really really small inch size minis, which so can't count - chocs are out the question. I was dreaming about coffee throughout my classes today.

At the end of Speech Comm (my last class for the day) my friend called me and decided we should go to the cafeteria and get something to eat. I wasn't much in the mood for anything though I would have settled for a milk shake but they don't sell any there. In the end neither of us got anything. We walked over to the student affairs building to see about getting student ID cards and behold there in the main hall stood a coffee machine. (Come to think of it I think all the buildings in each hall HAVE a coffee machine!) The machine was literally shining in my eyes. "I will definitely have that coffee." was the only thought on my mind.

I was amazed at the choices. I think there were like 6 or 8. Expresso, Cappuccino, Chocolate Cappuccino, White tea (tea with milk it said in arabic but it was translated as "white tea" in english- Karak wannabe no doubt. Ha ha, I don't think I even wanna try that.) Hot chocolate..... I can't remember the rest! I decided one could never go wrong with cappuccino. Only time cappuccino is disgusting is when it doesn't have enough sugar. There was a button that said extra sugar - beside another button that said no sugar. I assumed the cappuccino would have sugar then.

It was pretty weird buying a hot drink from a machine. I had only seen a coffee machine like that in the movie Terminator 2. I put my 2 dhs in, made my selection and down came the cup. The LCD screen read: Drink in Process. (COOL!) Swishing sounds were coming from the machine and after a few seconds it beeped and the screen read: Take your drink. It was really foamy and looked as a proper cappuccino should look, lol. I was 60% sure I was going to regret not selecting the extra sugar option though. I was 99.9% wrong ;)

Durn best cup of cappuccino I've tasted since the great cappuccino I used to buy at the Emarat gas station's bakeria!

From this day forth I will never leave for uni without life saving pocket change - hahahha my cappuccino shall depend upon it!

Oishiiiii !

Simple words so can't do the description of the Karak I had today justice... Oishii, oishii, OISHII!

Despite the fact that it was delicious, even though it was the afternoon batch (morning Karak from that place is amazing! the afternoon stuff is simply just better than the other tea places, nothing utterly amazing about it.) it was only one cup, hardly enough to keep a "caffeine-pire" like myself awake much less active.

God! I can't believe the official summer vacation is nearly over... This summer was weird though. Somehow I can't say it was good or bad. It was different. I can't exactly put my finger on what it was but I know I've never had a summer like this one before.

I was going to post about my interview today but I reckon I should wait till everything is finalized..

Anywayz, I think I'll go watch FMA the movie, possibly the latest two Ouran Highschool Host Club eps and if I have any chakra left to keep my tired eyes open then I'll watch an ep of Cluster Edge and catch a few minutes of a tennis match before I crash. Thankfully I already put in some work on my project today!