Drats! Coffee-ed again.

Today I bid goodbye to the pack of pack of Lipton's Jasmine tea that had been keeping me warm for a few months, and welcome a bottle (jar?) of Indocafe Original Blend (free! it was 'free'!).

Once again, I botched up my first cup of coffee. (See a pattern here?)
Then I came to a realization. This cup of coffee is just like life. No matter how simple a task it seems to be, there is a high chance that a person will botch it up when he/she's doing it for the very first time. Personal preference matters, size of cup matters, size of spoon matters (although it never said what spoon, betting on a tea spoon is smarter than betting on a table spoon), and other factors.
To complicate matters further (as usual), the effect could be more severe when it involves other people. Like if you are making the coffee for someone else instead. That person might be very particular about his coffee - (temperature, sweetness, cream, thickness, blah blah blah..., or simply because that person is an Italian), and if that person is someone who holds your fate in his/her hands, it might mean the end of the world. (Yea, over a cup of coffee...) It has been said that avid tea drinkers can differentiate cups of tea where the milk was poured in before the hot water from the ones where the milk was poured in after the hot water. I am sure there are also areas of coffee appreciation that is of this level of connoisseur'ship.

As for me? Well I am lucky that I like thin coffee, with plenty of sweetness. Nothing that an addition of water and sugar can't fix.