My 10 top favourite of coffee shop

The coffee shop is one of my favorite places to visit for do my assignment, meet my friend, place for a meeting a project, wait for someone, read a book or just taste the coffee itself. I looking for a coffee shop not only for the taste of the beverage but also the comfy atmosphere of the place, the price of the beverage, the amenities that support, the location and uniqueness that they are offering.

I start often to visit a coffee shop since early 2017 because my family had a plan to make a coffee shop. And then after that, I make research of some coffee shop in Yogyakarta, Bandung, Jakarta, Lampung, Surabaya and Tangerang that I traveled.

Because of that, I love coffee in a different way. When I've started the research, I drink a lot of coffee for 3 months, everyday no excuses. I try every different brew methods such as:
A. Black Coffee
B. Filtered Coffee
C. French Press Coffee
D. Percolated Coffee
E. Cold Brew Coffee
F. Espresso (Cappuccino, Latte,  Macchiato, Affogato, Americano)
G. Kopi susu
All that methods using different tools. And then end up with the specific coffee bean types such as robusta and arabica. I regularly try a lot of coffee and made me nausea, vomiting then increased my heart and breathing rate. It because every coffee beans contain caffeine that impacts on hormones and neurotransmitters. After that, I reduce the quantity of the coffee for a week or change it to the lower amount of the coffee in one glass (Change cappuccino into a latte or hot serve to cold serve). And it works for me.

When I visited every coffee shop, I love to chat with the owner or the barista. Because of I curious about the story behind that. I get a suggestion for one of the owner if you want to try the taste of the coffee and the skill of the barista, try cappuccino or single origin without sugar (Cappucino and single origin is just different technique to serve coffee with different tools). After that, I find 10 top favorite coffee shop that I've visited so far. Oh ya, not only the taste of the coffee but also the interior their offer. I don't standardize the design because every design is unique and have their story, but the atmosphere that they made to make the customer feel comfy.

1. Anomali Coffee, Jakarta
2. Two Cents, Bandung
3. Klinik Kopi, Yogyakarta
4. Dreezel Coffee, Bandung
5. Rosso' Micro, Tangerang
6. Tuku Coffee, Jakarta
7. El's Coffee, Lampung
8. Cattura Espresso, Surabaya
9. Lagani Coffee, Yogyakarta
10. Ombe Kofie, Jakarta

I love the taste of the coffee from my favorite places. No need sugar to complete it..

2018 rewind

In 2018, a lot of things happened. One of the aspects is a love story. Hahaha. Yeah, in 2018 I met a lot of new friends and made a relation with them. In the beginning, is really hard because you expect something to someone. And then I broke up more than 5 times maybe or more. After that, I cry it in my room or on my phone that I called my best friend. My relative such as mom, sisters, aunt, and uncle, friends, senior in campus or office, supervisor already help it but yeah until now it not works or that's not finished yet.

After that, I've learned that you should ikhlas for every destiny that your God already writes on and then never expect anything from people. Every people you met maybe not become your prince but they bring something new for your perspective and made me realize that there isn't any perfect person that exists in this world.

I still learn to accept any imperfection things that this world offer to me. And the standard for a person of my "prince" wannabe should be lower than before. Hahaha..... Because I have to look at the basic pure meaning of the marriage itself.

This journey of finding someone special, bring me to become more mature. I don't know the exact time for me to stop for searching. But I always pray it to God for my heart last destination and ikhtiar for every opportunity that it gives it to me. I hope in the end of the road, I could find him in the same as I find my self too.

I'm waiting for a new surprise in 2019 for my love story :))

Purpose of travelling

I loved traveling a lot! Because for me traveling can cutting down my stress level, getting other perspectives, opening my mind, practice origin language, be brave to meeting a new person, challenge my self to adapt in a new environment, seeing other lifestyle and culture, take responsibility for my own bringing and etc.

I've been to many cities in Indonesia also countries in Asia, Europe, and Australia continent. Not a lot, but so far I really grateful that I can visit those cities and countries for holiday, business trip, cultural diplomacy and visit relatives. Mostly are for holiday hehe. I'm not gonna explain the trip but something that I got after traveling.

Every trip has their own story. I've already try traveling in budget cost and premium cost. But in the end, I feel the same. They teach me to be grateful no matter what and feel blessed to become a human being. My favorite things to do while I'm traveling is seeing the 3 aspects, human-place-activity then captured it, listening to every story from the person that I met then write it in my diary, involving in community activity and tasting their original beverage.

In traveling, you can see the diversity of the people and then it said not only you have that problem in the world, so never blaming it to yourself that make you depressed. When you are in stress condition, you just have to take a moment, breathing, and finish it that made you stress. I've heard that you should be grateful if you still stress for your life, cause you still become a human.
And then you will understand every people background and adapt it with your nice behavior. To interlace a new relation, we have different methods of approachment. But nice attitude will always acceptable in every society. So always be nice to the people. But yeah, nice always have a different meaning to be practice. For the example, in java society, you should smile often to a stranger or new community and then they will accept you. But in Jakarta society, if you smile to a stranger you'll be categorizing of someone criminalize. We know that Southeast Asia is a friendly person. They will ask for help if you have seen confusedly. But in the Europe countries or east Asia, you should ask first because they really don't care what you did. Their respect for people privacy. Yeah, we should observe it first cause we are so different.

And also traveling open my eyes for every opportunity. If you are failed or lost, it's ok to be sad, after that you should work it for other opportunities. Opportunity can't come easily if you do not try it first. This experience teaches me to be failed. Because I'm still young, I will spend all my failed quota and hope I get success in future hehe. Hopefully.

Try their origin beverage can find the root of the city stories. The colonial, victory, war, trading by ship era and etc. Also, I can see the history of the city from the building that still exists. Every old town has their own story to become like now. Their a lot of people involved that make the pretty city. Traveling can improve our sense of the city.  Especially for a walking tour. This sense improves you the sensitivity of our city condition and makes you more aware of your neighborhood.

But now, I reduce this activity because I feel empty while I've traveled. I don't know why. Sometimes I can just sit down near the window in the shop/plane/car/train/hotel and see blank around. Then feel alone. Or while I come to the souvenir shop and buy for my relative and also for myself, and then something has been missed. hehehe maybe you know what I mean.

In the end, I suggest you travel by yourself or with a group. That experience can't be charge. And then every people have the own way of their experience. So, I'm waiting for your plan to visit a new city or country yaa!! And love to hear your experience too!