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My brother’s new camera

My brother decided to get a micro four thirds thingymajig, as his DSLR is too bulky and he doesn’t want to use whatever point and shoot he has. He ended up getting a Sony Nex 5N and set me on a mission to go take pictures with it. In a way it was also a way for me to figure out whether I wanted to use one or not, and wow, even though I thought I was getting most of my manual focus shots OK, turns out only about half of my pictures actually worked.

So my first project was to take pictures of food. I specifically ordered a flat white to test out my skills, but it turns out none of my 4 or 5 shots were actually 100% in focus. So instead all I have to present are two awesomely lit photos of short blacks (some sort of Colombian single origin I believe) sitting next to their decor.

And of course, I fail at taking photos so the best photo taken, ever, was by my boyfriend:

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Aeropress!

This week I finally managed to summon the courage (i.e. work the sorcerous voodoocraft) to visit Swallow and get the brewstation goodies. I’m always terrified that if I order fancy coffee, the baristas will start talking about crazy flavour profiles that I simply don’t understand.

We got lucky this week since they were already in the middle of making an aeropress coffee, so I just took my time to stare at it, all the while thinking “YES THIS IS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO SAY HEY LETS TRY THAT.” So we ordered our aeropresses and sat down at the table.

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Swallow + Skyrim bday goodness

Swallow is an amazing little cafe. It has awesome kicking coffee, possibly as good or better than some of the cafes in the city! So strong and tasty, with good food too.

And then my super crazy lovely boyfriend gave me Skyrim without warning, so now I have to play it too :)

Also today in the city while I was trying to buy juice, some old man asked me if I had $4. I said no, so then he asked me if I had $3. I said no again, and went to buy my drink. Then, from the other side, some old lady approached and from what I heard, it sounded like she was asking the old man if he had $3. It was such a LOL moment! And also why I hate the city sometimes. The look when you refuse to give people money obviously shows they don’t need it in the first place.

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