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Daniel works in the consumer electronics industry but hopes to one day own a cafe. Like most Hainanese men, he can whip up a storm in the kitchen and is constantly invited to other people's house parties... to cook for them.

Esther works for a major airline by day, and bakes incessantly by night. Trained as a chemical engineer, she puts that knowledge to good use - by reading package labels to see if it's good for you.

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I Want A Fancy-Schmancy Nespresso CitiZ

By daniel | May 31, 2009

The fire engine red Nespresso CitiZ, one of the prettiest coffee makers around.

The fire engine red Nespresso CitiZ, one of the prettiest coffee makers around.


I totally love the heady aroma and golden crema of a good coffee, any time of the day. Esther? She’s one of the rare few that can’t even stand the smell of coffee. There are very few things Esther and I disagree on, but coffee is definitely one of them.

There’s no coffee in our house, save for a few packets of 3-in-1 instant coffee mixes for when my mother visits or to accompany dessert when we host dinner parties. But most 3-in-1 coffee mixes taste dastardly, and Esther never allows me any coffee in her presence in any case.

I’m hoping that the Nespresso CitiZ single-head automatic espresso machine will change her mind. She’d still hate the smell of the fantastic coffee it’ll make, but she can’t deny its beautiful design and how well the fire-engine red version (they have one in steel grey as well) will go fantastically with the decor in our kitchen. It even goes well with our retro red EuropAce stand fan in our living room.

If she still says no, my equally coffee-mad colleague Janice has actually suggested we share one for our office – and we know the perfect little space near our cubicles to put the S$548 machine. It’s recession time after all, and we should really cut down on the coffee from Tully’s and Segafredo Zanetti’s nearby our office. With the CitiZ, we’d even have a selection of 16 premium Grands Crus coffees to try. The only problem? I know we’d have a long line of colleagues queuing up to use it.

So please, Esther, can we have one? I’d do the dishes for a year.

Topics: Coffee | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “I Want A Fancy-Schmancy Nespresso CitiZ”

  1. pinkmartiny Says:
    July 21st, 2009 at 5:59 am

    hah..u can make your colleagues pay for coffee. $1 a cup or less..(since each capsule is abt that price)

  2. Daniel Says:
    July 21st, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    My boss also saw the CitiZ and now she’s hooked too. She’s already looking for a nook she can put the machine out of sight from other colleagues!

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