Sometime in February 2009, a gentleman walked into our café and ordered a cup of Colombian Special, a single origin coffee. After he had a few sips of the Colombian, we started a short conversation. He was quite impressed with the freshness of our coffee which is hard to find in most local cafés. We exchange some thoughts on the subject and before he left, he pass on a web address for me to visit, http://kfchan.wordpress.com/. I did not get his name then and only check-out the site a few days later.Five years ago I was a web designer. Ever since I started Coffee Ritual, the café, I have no idea how the web has evolved. The website introduced to me earlier by the gentleman is a blog. I have never seen a blog before. Having read about it in the newspaper now and then, but never actually seen one. I was immediately hooked. It is a blog about coffee in Malaysia. I spent my next few days reading every single posts and comments on the blog. It is a whole new world to me, very different from the BBS or Forum I knew. In a blog, there is this host, the blogger, who is really passionate about the subject written on his blog. I can feel the emotion, tears and joys of the blogger. The ideas, experiences, thoughts and knowledge are shared and discussed among the readers and the blogger in the comments after each post. It is a wonderful way to interact.
After some serious thought and research, an urge to create my own blog slowly developed over the last two months and this really got me very excited. I have so much that I wanted to share. Oh yes, this is it, this is the platform I will ride on to reach out to the world.
Finally, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Coffee Ritual, the blog.
Before I end this post, I would like to thank Kfchan of Coffee in Malaysia for introducing his blog to me that very fine day. I salute your contributions to all the coffee lovers in Malaysia. Thanks again.
