STARBUCKS to SHUT 500 STORES... in the U.S.

The Giant Coffee Company

is closing down 500 of its store across

the UNITED STATES due to HIGH Gas Prices.

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and another one here...

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12,000 BARISTAS would soon lose their job...

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In the U.S., a cup of STARBUCKS COFFEE costs about $4.00

(that would be around 180 Pesos)

Here in the PHILIPPINES, a cup of STARBUCKS COFFEE

costs to around 110-150 PESOS.

If their reason for shutting down the stores in the U.S

is because of HIGH GAS Prices,

that would mean they charge an extra

30 PESOS for a COFFEE with KEROSENE or UNLEADED...

LOL!!!

I wonder what it taste...

IMAGINE your favorite Starbucks Barista shouting

"One CARAMEL MACCHIATO with DIESEL for Aira"

Harhar... !!! LOL!!!

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But on the serious note, I guess its KARMA for the coffee company.

They have a lot of controversies in the past. To name a few:

First,

"Anti-Competitive TACTICS"

...its their attempt to drive out

small and independent coffee companies.

Second,

"Fair Trade in the Coffee Bean Market"

...they play MONOPOLY while drinking COFFEE. LOL.

...and as a result of all these SELFISH acts, LOOK what is happening now on your business...

Even here in the PHILIPPINES,

GAS PRICE INCREASE

has been affecting

all commodities available in the market.

and SOON, maybe your

FAVORITE COFFEE CHAIN

slash

HANG OUT PLACE

at your

FAVORITE MALL

would also do the same move

...

It's the same thing happening in our country...

the GOVERNMENT doesn't have control

over those

weekly INCREASE of GAS PRICES

because our local

OIL COMPANIES

import those raw materials

from the INTERNATIONAL MARKET

which is also facing their own crisis right now.

They say it's caused by the US economic recession

...but whatever it is...

it's just something

UNCONTROLLABLE.

Living in an Unknown World

Why am I here? It is the question I always asked myself when I'm in an environment I'm not used of.

Like now, I'm in a place of mixed people. Different races. Separated of different status. Yes, of different personalities. Mixed as they say. I am here. I am alone. I am unknown. Nobody knows me here. Nobody knows why I am here.

I'm sipping my hot coffee and all I can think of is the aroma that is as sweet as the agonies I am enduring. I wanted to relax. I'm trying to relax. I wanted to breath. I wanted to taste every air I can. I wanted a life for myself. I wanted myself today all unknown.

Why am I here? I asked myself again. I don't belong here. I know. I'm a minority and I should be out there with all of them. Well who cares? This place is where the minority are. They work. They run the whole thing. They are called the manpower. They have the strength that could pin down any system as big as a block of an ice. They are hot and they won't cool down. They are on the attack. No resting. No one could stop them. Actually, they're just not allowed to stop. They are robots. Someone behind their backs have controlled to each and everyone of them.

Why am I here? I did not pay for this cup of coffee. The whole working class paid for this. I owe them. Do I deserve this? Do I deserve them? Do I deserve to relax why they are working to death? Or am I another hypocrite? How many hypocrites are here around me? Do they ask the same question as mine?

Status is a question always left unanswered in our minds. We always try to look at ourselves higher and bigger than the other, or if not, level ourselves among the elite. We are envy. Always. What we do not know is that there are more higher than us. We worked for them to death that we even have to kiss their feet.

People walked in and out of here in this place where I am right now. Do they have questions same as mine? I asked again. Am I the only unknown here? Why am I here? I again asked myself.

I am here for a cup of coffee. That is all I know. I'm here to sip the goodness of aroma that is as sweet as my yesterdays of hatred, gore and total animosity.

This is reality. I'm reality. Why I'm here is because of reality.