However, our very own Carrefour Express opened yesterday next to our building and we now have a place to get real coffee. My marketing friend and I went downstairs to test out this coffee and to find us some early morning food stuffs. I wasn't quite sure what to get, so I got myself some low fat digestives, meanwhile my friend came back with a sausage roll for breakfast and a spring roll for lunch. Now there's woman who knows how its done. So we headed back to work and carried on with the day's tasks. About 10 minutes later the coffee man came back to collect people's empties, and the look on his face when he saw my full cup of coffee was enough to make me think twice about getting another coffee from Carrefour. I think he was so worried that he'd made it wrong and that I didn't like it. I assured him he had not and thanked him for it and we both carried on with our duties. He then brought me a green tea because he knows I like to drink green tea after my coffee. I don't even think the giant knows this much about how I like my tea and coffee. Such a sweet man.
On the topic of coffee, most people would know that when I am angry, when I am sad, when my world is turned upside down, there's only one thing that brings me back and that's a Caramel Skinny Latte fro
m Gloria Jeans. My old boss used to see me in a state and grant me early dismissal to get my fix. I don't know what it is, but it has always made the world seem a better place- that and of course champagne and a canape to boot. I've heard of other things- chocolate milk, nalishniki, mint slice, scorched almonds, top deck but for me its the CSL that makes the world go round. So, the joy I felt when I saw Gloria for the first time in the middle east, was a warm and fuzzy one. I now feel as though I can stay here for a little while longer. I have now introduced so many to the world of the skinny caramel latte and am trying to build demand so they open one closer to my home.All this talk of coffee makes me remember the coffee man from BB's at Sydney Uni and how he would yell out "Skinny latte to goooooooo" and it would get louder and louder and angrier and angrier, and we would stand in the queue behind the crowd and pretend not to hear him until we nearly get him at breaking point. Those were the days.
From the adventures of my blog, those who don't know me in the flesh now know a few thinks that make my ticker tick. A skinny caramel latte from Gloria Jeans (don't even suggest Starbucks), bubbles or bubblez-vous, a canape, a discount shop, grocery shopping, novelty plastic food and shop signs. So ladies and gentlemen I have for you a few more signs - I find these things fascinating, not only as a marketer but as they are truly so different to what you're used to. So these photos I have taken while driving, shopping, covertly, overtly- most importantly, they were taken for a reason- for you.To the left are the toilet signs for the gents and the ladies bathroom in the Address Hotel. I think they're very cool. I saw it a while ago, and so was very happy when I went back to the hotel and this time I had my
camera. Oooh- an idea for a blog- toilet signs of the world. Oooh.Sometimes people, just need to be reminded that there are certain areas for spitting and there are certain areas where it is just inappropriate.
This one I love. Look at how much precision and accuracy went into the design of the shisha on the "no smoking" sign.
Also, did Count Dracula get some work in Dubai now? All the way from Petra? Is this a sign that the financial crisis is not over?
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