A Tea Addict's Journal

It’s sad when….

July 30, 2013 · 10 Comments

… you break a piece of teaware you use every single day

… you turn on the kettle, only to find the heating element is wonky and you don’t have hot water

… you are traveling and there’s no hot water anywhere within 100km

… your favourite tea shop you visited last time is now a McDonald’s

… you discover that you didn’t seal your bag of tea, and now it’s stale

…or you left it out in the sun and now it’s baked

… you realize that your favourite tea is down to fannings left in the bag

… and it’s sold out

… and the tea you bought instead turns out to be a real dud

… which is beaten by the tea you drank yesterday, on its 25th infusion

… when tea producers promise you so much, and give you so little

… when you can’t decide what to drink for the day, and end up drinking something really bad

Which unfortunately is my case today.

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10 responses so far ↓

  • Jay // July 30, 2013 at 2:56 am | Reply

    Wow, I didn’t think it was possible for you to have a bad tea day! Where in the world are you?

  • Sébastien // July 30, 2013 at 6:56 am | Reply

    have a burger & a coke !

  • chyckun // July 30, 2013 at 10:51 am | Reply

    I know how it feels to break tea ware 🙁

  • Brenian Tvplease // July 30, 2013 at 11:29 am | Reply

    hi i visit your site regularly,
    when you have updates,

    you should really consider using “disqus” plugin for replies.
    cheer up mate at least you have us to brag about.

  • Nicole Martin // July 30, 2013 at 2:43 pm | Reply

    That does sound like a bad day indeed. Someone get you a tea IV, stat!

  • Ken Lee // July 30, 2013 at 4:37 pm | Reply

    it’s also sad that you age your puerh for 10 years only to find out.. it sucks.

    • MarshalN // July 31, 2013 at 4:12 am | Reply

      Oh yes, that’s pretty terrible

      • Brenian Tvplease // July 31, 2013 at 9:35 pm | Reply

        That’s not terrible enough,
        My father kept a stack of Puerh for 20 years (bought from China),

        during his funeral, I was excited as I was the only tea drinker in the Family,
        so I happily went to his stash and opened it!

        Only to find out it’s actually “Readily Aged Puerh” not your regular “Green Puerh”,
        and it wreck of artificial taste and smell……….

        you have to be very lucky to be able to enjoy Puerh 20 years ago,
        as people weren’t so into puerh back then, they were more into oolong and tie guanyin,

        oh well, at least my generation started good,
        I started on 2010….so hopefully it’ll be good in 2 more years…

        Say La Vi!

  • Andrew Harto // July 30, 2013 at 10:43 pm | Reply

    Things can only get better from that, right? Hope all is better soon.

  • psychanaut // August 1, 2013 at 3:45 pm | Reply

    Where are you that there’s no way to get hot water within 100 km but there is internet and power??

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