Facts about coffee

i have found this great article about facts of coffee written by Louie Jerome. Some of the facts given by her, i have never knew until today. 

25 facts about coffee

1. 65 countries in the world grow coffee. They are all along the equator, within the tropics.

2. Coffee is not grown anywhere in the United States except Puerto Rico and Hawaii.

3. In 1675 Charles II, King of England issued a proclamation banning Coffee Houses. He said that they were places where people met to plot against him.

4. 30% of coffee drinkers in US added a sweetener of some kind to their coffee, compared with 57% in UK.

5. October 1st is official "Coffee Day" in Japan.

6. Scientists have discovered more than 800 different aromatic compounds in coffee.

7. Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world (oil is the first.)

8. Brazil produces around 40% of the world's coffee supply.

9. A Belgian named George Washington invented instant coffee in 1906.

10. Coffee has been used as a beverage for over 700 years.

11. Black coffee with no sugar contains no calories.

12. More than 20 million people worldwide, work in the coffee industry.

13. There are two species of coffee plant: Arabica and Robusta.

14. 75% of the world's coffee comes from the Coffea Arabica plant.

15. Drinking a single cup of coffee that has been brewing for 20 minutes provides the body with 300 phytochemicals which act as antioxidants and stay in the body for up to a month.

16. In days gone by, Turkish bridegroom had to promise that they would always provide their new wives with coffee.

17. Espresso Coffee has just one third of the caffeine content of ordinary coffee.

18. Coffee beans are really berries. Each berry contains two beans (pips).

19. An expert in preparing Turkish coffee is known as a "kahveci".

20. The Nicaraguan Margogpipe is the largest of all coffee beans.

21. It takes 40 coffee beans to make an espresso.

22. One coffee tree yields less than half a kilo of coffee per year.

23. A coffee tree lives for between 60 and 70 years.

24. Worldwide, more 1400 millions cups of coffee are drunk every day.

25. Caffeine, which is found in coffee, increases the effect of some painkillers, especially aspirin and paracetamol.

me on saturday...

disaat aku dilanda kebosanan yang amat, satu idea muncul. housemate aku, dayah, mempunyai satu koleksi baju-baju kurung moden yang yang macam orang nak bertunang. So, aku tanya dayah kalau2 dia nak sewakan baju dia. daya pun setuju. aku decide untuk snap gambar baju2 tu, post kat sini ngan facebook. 

btw, i was thinking about running this evening. unfortunately, downpour is something unpredictable. so, i was stuck in my apartment re-read Rachel Gibson's I'm In No Mood For Love while listening to Taylor Swift's songs.

i was still excited about Kris Allen that made it through the final of American Idol. Kris is one of my favourite AI contestants aside from Danny Gokey (realy frustrated when he did not make it). can't wait for the finale, next week...!!!!

dayah just asked me to lepak-lepak at Old Town White Coffee. it's been a while since last time i been there... so, i going to take shower now and get ready for our little outing....

weekend

i had the most boring weekend in the history of my life.......

nearly drove me insane.....

got nothing to do....

watching korean drama (Coffee Prince and My Girl) for the hundredth time.....

re-read twilight......

afternoon and evening napping....

lots and lots of eating and coffee consumption (i keep telling myself to stop drink coffee but i just refuse to listen to myself).....

i forgot that i have this clip in my Korean music folder in my computer....found it yesterday (made me drool over dennis oh)

my day @ office

this is basically another routine of me at the office.....

morning: 

arrived at office, check my emails, received call from boss, had breakfast.

today is the last day for sending bidding document and we just finished this afternoon. Our runner rushed to sent the document to the client office which about 2 hours from our office. Unfortunate, me and my collegue forgot one more thing (we kinda lost our focus), so we told our runner to come back to office. unwrapping the whole thing, put the letter that we forgot, wrapping the whole thing again, and told our runner to rush to the client's office. 

then, finishing up the documents for petronas registration and trying to finish the online registration. but didn't get to finish it because there are still few items need to clear with my boss.

afternoon:

had lunch at Enak Kopitiam (our favorite lunch place). i had rice with egg and veggies and coffee. i know i promise myself to stop drink coffee for a while since i always had terrible headache lately (as right now) but can't resist the temptation. huhuhu..... after lunch, buy some guava fruit and headed to office.

blogging about this right now..... :D

not in the mood for working..... 

can't wait till 5.30 pm....

this headache is killing me........

coffee

i woke up this morning, took shower, went to kitchen to make some coffee.....

then my roomies told me, "mira, u realize that u drink a lot of coffee lately, like, morning coffee, afernoon coffee, evening coffee, night coffee....... u took breakfast with coffee, and even lunch and dinner with cofffee..."

my answer, " its like routine u know, not that i want to......."

she just smiled after that. then i realized, ever since this study maniac started, i took more coffee than i had before. too much caffein in my system. but then, it always like that, even when i'm at my office. the first thing i do when arrived at the office, i make myself coffee. i hv to start my day with coffee. it like a energy boosting. sort of.....

as now, i studying while drinking coffee..... :D