What's your poison?

Mine's coffee. Brewed coffee. I settle anytime for the instant kind, though, if it's all there is.  I am such a huge fan of this perk-me-up drink, that I consider any meal special if food is paired with a cup of joe. My close friends and I like to bond over coffee and pasta and cake. Thinking about it, I often wonder: Could men have coffee instead of beer in their drinking sessions? To me, it makes perfect sense to make the switch! Not only is coffee healthier than beer or scotch or whiskey, it will also spare them all the troubles that entail alcohol intoxication. And coffee, like beer, is a social drink - best to be enjoyed in the company of friends. Surely, you don't finish a cup of cappuccino or latte in one large gulp. Instead, you take one little leisurely sip, savor its sweet-bitter-creamy taste, breathe in the aroma, then take another sip. In between those sips, you chatter the minutes away with your company. I cannot think of any moment as perfect as when you get to banter and share laughter with good friends and good coffee. So what's my favorite coffee? Kapeng barako from Batangas! I used to brew myself a cup every morning until I discovered in the pantry a can of almond coffee sent some time ago by my sister from the US, then forgotten. Fortunately, we discovered it before it expired. I never knew I'd love flavored coffee but I did. Now it's what makes my mornings really special and worth waking up to. But of course, there has to be sinangag and tuyo and sunny side-up egg. But that deserves another story. (Teehee.)