Tag: Starbucks

On The Hogging of Cafe Spaces

September 4, 2017September 4, 2017  |  Miscellaneous  |  Dear YiXi Qian, I don’t patronise Starbucks as often as I’d like. It’s not so much about their coffee that I want to go there for. I don’t particularly like their cakes either, except perhaps that caramel ...

Starbucks, MyRepublic Don’t Care About Wi-Fi Security

November 27, 2016June 9, 2019  |  Technology  |  Many of us love free public Wi-Fi, and many merchants are eager to provide free Wi-Fi as one of their value-add services. But we know public Wi-Fi can be dangerous. The freely accessible unencrypted network is easy for the bad ...

New Breakfast At Starbucks

January 14, 2016April 15, 2016  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  I’ve become a regular patron at Starbucks in the last year. They have one of the more value for money breakfast offerings in a certain mall that I have to hang around every week. For $6.90, you get a food item and a fresh ...

Frozen Over At Starbucks

August 1, 2015August 3, 2015  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  It’s a cold, wet, Saturday morning. As it has become my usual routine of late, I’m back in a Starbucks outlet for breakfast again. I’ve complained many times, and guess what, it’s happening again. They ...

Starbucks Coffee

April 4, 2015April 4, 2015  |  Lifestyle & Family  |  I’m not particularly fond of Starbucks. A long time ago, I used to complain that I always got my Frappuccino with whipped cream, doesn’t matter if the baristas asked and I told them no. It had seemed to me that ...