Cafe experssions

The search for soul mates apparently does't stop when you find your girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife. It continues in your daily life through your actions, dreams and aspirations. It propagates through your desire to meet like minded people who speak to you in a different language, a language you want to instantly respond to.
Sometimes these strangers gradually move into your world and become friends, at other times they are like flashes of common sense when you needed it, and then they eventually fade away into the universe where they came from. But they will always remain your soul mates. Someone who you bump into after ages and can still speak the same language to.

In my recent search for others who have gone down the road I am contemplating going, I met someone who is very inspirational. I am told he had started his own Cafe and magazine in Nashik, my home town. You can find some of his thoughts and ideas here at Cafe Bulletin.



Sell Coffee, not your soul

Few tidbits

What do you guys think about Begin Space? Looks like they started out as a small idea like ours and have gone quite some distance. Definitely worth a visit by our team, as soon as we get some time.

Which reminds me, I have to apologise for the slow movement on this site, the house hunting scene in Cambridge is not as easy as in London. It is so freaking competitive there!! Everything about the city reeks competitiveness actually! Or at least that was my first impression, I do hope I am wrong.

Oh and I have to mention here that my friends from Delphi really really surprised me, when they gave me hand painted coffee mugs as my good-bye gift! Thanks guys! You guys are the best! There are also two different books that I have been given, one about starting a cafe, and the other about starting a start-up business, both I think are exactly what I needed. This should give me a kick to keep my venture and the idea alive!





Sell Coffee, not your soul

Hey there

Hi,

Let me begin by introducing myself. I am the other half (or quarter if you may) of this enterprise. Based on the need of the hour I am the bouncing board, the sceptic, the detractor, the supporter, the motivator, ... name as you may.

So far I've been shirking the responsibility to come out and introduce myself, to contribute to this enterprise in the open. Before I said something, I wanted time to think about what coffee means to me and what selfish need I am satisfying by dreaming of running a café. Unlike Aradhita I hadn't been to a café until I was well into my teens. And then too, because it was the new kid on the block (Café Coffee Day had just started those days in Pune). I came back feeling a little disappointed, not just a little ripped off at their exorbitant prices and overall unimpressed by their coffee and noisy, slightly condescending environment. I failed to see what can be in the face of what was.

A lot has changed since then. I've been to many more cafés and had a lot more coffee. I've come to associate cafés with the smell of freshly ground roasted coffee beans, both invigorating and calming at once, inviting you to sit back and enjoy your cup as you catch up with friends, family, a book, writing, thinking or simply watch people going about their lives.

To me SYB is an experiment to create space and imbue it with warmth and creativity. A place you visit to stimulate the senses as well as relax, hopefully both at once.

I've dilly dallied enough. Until the next one... have a good one.

Sell Coffee, not your soul