The magic lies within

You're driving home from work. Ahead of you, hundreds of dazzling red lights adorn your view. You rub your  eyes and smack yourself on the head.

What keeps you from car-kissing ??

Coffee. 

Its 2 in the morning, and the red-bulls and sweets you've guzzled and popped in's not kicking in. Your mind's alert but not those eye lids.  

Who's your 911 hotline?

Cooffeeeeee

Papayas, bananas, wholewheat cereals have been your diet for the past two days. What goes in still does not come out..

What now?

coffee (whispers) 

Loong long time ago, there was a land far far away, where foreign exquisite delicacies like dim sum and char siew fan were consumed by its constantly starving citizens.

Kopi-O, a pitch black liquid was the humble secret to producing these scrumptious meals It was as legend recalls, how "Ale" is for Britain.. a "secret ingredient" only known among the food connoisseurs. By consuming the rich dark Kopi-O, chefs and workers magically whipped out more and more dim sum and char siew fan. A day without it means no dim sum and char siew fan for its grouchy and starving citizens.

Years later, Citizens were soon introduced to the secret ingredient, and performances in their workplaces  improved and everyone was happy and satisfied.. 

However there a little girl in a pale blue pinafore with no piggy tails that hated it. A lingering bitterness and a massive migraine in her head, is what she gets after sipping the dark liquid. Even when it got  famous and even had sweets made out of it, a single sweet in the evening, will result in a wide-eyed moment that will last  till 2am for the poor girl.

However, age caught up and she was  introduced to the wonderful world of a  PLEH University, little did she know, that this new journey she embarked on led to sleepless nights. 

Everyone here drank that dark liquid she grew up knowing.. "it keeps you AWAKE", they tell her.

She remembered the magical Kopi-O sweet she had years back. "This time", she said to herself.. "I'll take no sweet, but I'll drink the real thing" she spoke to herself. 

She made herself a cup of coffee... and since then, things were never the same. Though she didn't love it, the magic worked! She could now stay up during those late nights to complete her pile of work. 

Now, being quite an avid drinker of this black substance,she started developing a liking for coffee desserts. Somehow cakes and ice cream made of these cocoa beans were different.....! They have this certain fragrance in them..dark bitterish sweetness that's.... so irresistible! 

So for a dinner gathering one fine day, she decided to make a cake made out of the very much loved coffee as a dessert treat. 

Mmmmmmm... the magic still remains within those dark aromatic granules. =)