Paul Chin ★ Culturecraft Blog: Archive

Memoirs of a Barista - Part 3

Customer: Do you serve coffee here?

Me: *looks around, surveying the interior; sigh* Yes.

Dec 30th

4 notes

2 tags

We'd laugh you out of the country

fmylife: Today, I had to look up how to eat a mango on the internet. FML

Dec 30th

127 notes

3 tags

Dec 30th

2 tags

Dec 30th

1 tag

Memoirs of a Barista - Part 2

Baristas: *Dealing with a customer with computer trouble*
New customer: *Walks in at 2.40pm*
Baristas: (To already present customer) What's the problem? Your time ode is showing no time remaining?
Customer: Yeah. I mean, I had at least 10 minutes on it AND I asked you *points to me* to check if I was logged out.
Me: Yeah, you did. But now it shows no time left. Okay, we should be able to put the time back on it.
Coworker: *Reapplies time*
Customer: Yeah, I only really need to check one thing so I shouldn't need to buy another whole hour.
New Customer: *grinning* AM I GONNA BE ABLE TO ORDER SOON?? I'VE BEEN STANDING HERE FOR 10 MINUTES!
Me: *Checks watch: 2.42pm*

Dec 29th

2 tags

Dec 28th

1 tag

Memoirs of a Barista - Part 1

Customer: Lemme have a vanilla flabby... How you call dat ting?
Me: Frappe (pron. frap)
Customer: Froggy. Lemme have a vanilla froggy with extra whipped cream. Boy dat ting you did make for me the other night neva taste good!
Me: *is puzzled* huh?
Customer: Dat mango and banana something. Wha you call it? Fruity?
Me: ... Smoothie
Customer: Mmmm. Dat Make my stomach feel bad!
Me: *thinking* Guy, you were so excited to order that the second I told you that you could mix two fruits. Nobody forced you to buy that garbage. *sigh* $4.25 sir. 
Customer: That's with the extra whip cheese?
Me: *WTF* Uh, the whipped cream? That's included.

Dec 28th

3 tags

Dec 27th

3 tags

Merry Christmas

From all the way here in the Cayman Islands, to you wherever you are :)

Dec 25th

3 tags

Dec 25th

4 tags

Dec 25th

4 tags

Free Receipt Sketches

So far, this little project of mine is going well! I seem to be giving all of them away (there’s only one left in the cup right now). Today, I started my Christmas themed ones (I’m only doing two main ones since I don’t wanna overkill things, as is customary behaviour this time of year) and gave it away INSTANTLY. In fact, the recipient came in BEFORE it was done and sat down...

Dec 24th

3 tags

Dec 24th

1 tag

“One cannot think well, live well, sleep well, if on has not dined well.”

– Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)

Dec 21st

3 tags

ohyeahpaulchin dot com

I bought it. It totally had to happen, eventually, and I may have to give it out soon (can’t say why just yet though). Anyway, not everything is perfectly linked yet but my Tumblr is (as you’ll see by the address bar which reads blog.ohyeahpaulchin.com). So yeah. Adjust your bookmarks, yadda, yadda, yadda. P.S. my gallery should also be pegged to gallery.ohyeahpaulchin.com but...

Dec 19th

4 tags

Watch

Also, I discovered this. Norah Jones has a brief cameo in it but more interesting is the story. It’s about a white guy who wins cruise tickets for him and his girlfriend who dumps him two days before the trip. He goes anyway, gets caught up in the experience (courtesy of a charming Rastafarian) and has to trek across Jamaica to find the US Embassy. I actually really want to see this. My...

Dec 18th

3 tags

Dec 18th

3 tags

Dec 16th

4 tags

Free Receipt Sketches: UPDATE

The project seems to be going well. I gave away two today (at once) and even had a disappointed customer who came in prepared with today’s password and everything (“Darjeeling gets me on the ceiling”)! She decided that rather than take one today, she’ll come in tomorrow as my shift starts and swoop in to claim it, immediately. I even had a customer ask about getting it...

Dec 16th

4 tags

Watch

Some motion graphics I’ve been tinkering with, unifying my sound design work with some design. I took a bunch of things I learnt from Video Copilot and tried to utilise them in one piece. Audio is from my song “Customers”.

Dec 15th

4 tags

Watch

Closed Session: “I Can See Clearly Now” ft. Amanda Diva - Ruby Hornet How can you not love Amanda Diva? She reminds me of every girl I’ve ever grown up with, here in Cayman, ALL AT ONCE. Only better.

Dec 15th

4 tags

Dec 15th

5 tags

Free Receipt Sketches at Café del Sol

This is a little project I started on my last day at work, this summer, and now that I’m back home for a month, I’ve decided to make it more fun! Every day I work, I plan to do a free sketch on some receipt paper and give it away to a random customer. No strings attached. Well, there are a few strings. Every day, I’ll tweet/Facebook status a password for the sketch of the day...

Dec 15th

2 tags

James 1:20

fishforpeople: Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires. Something I’ve been, slowly but steadily, getting better at handling.

Dec 12th

42 notes

2 tags

Dec 11th

1 tag

Learn To F***ing Spell →

OH YES PLEASE. One of my greatest pet peeves in life isn’t illiteracy but SUB-literacy. To those who “can’t be bothered to spell correctly online”, kindly peep.

Dec 11th

5 tags

Watch

More in-the-lab goodness. Silexz on the beat, behind the scenes on The Phoebe EP.

Dec 11th

5 tags

Watch

Working with Jason Florentino on The Phoebe EP. Things are looking promising!

Dec 10th

3 tags

Dec 9th

3 tags

Look at this f***ing Brooklyn bike lane war. →

Bikes for all but I still don’t like those dirty hipsters. Also hipsters ≠ black people, jsyk. (via lookatthisf***inghipster)

Dec 9th

92 notes

2 tags

No Chemicals, No Disasters

Some insight, if I may: The dating process is probably one of my least favourite things on the planet. How I’ve done it “successfully” before is beyond me. You have to get psyched up, mentally, and you’re never exactly who you are when it’s happening. It’s just all kinds of uncomfortable and I really wish I didn’t have to do it. More so, it seems to...

Dec 9th

3 tags

Dec 9th

1 tag

Dec 9th

3 tags

Watch

Grant Morrison biopic trailer. I’m so excited about this! I think this may be the first time, ever, a comicbook creator/icon is the subject of a feature length film! (via: comicbooks)

Dec 7th

5 tags

Give Me Beats to Go In On...

I wrote the slickest cypher rhyme to Heaven by John Legend (prod. by Kanye West). What are other tight instrumentals that you’d potentially like to hear me rhyme over?

Dec 7th

5 tags

Cayman Islands Christmastime Cypher(s)

If any emcees/DJs/general hip-hop heads are going to be back home in Cayman this Christmas break, let me know if you’d be interested. I’d like to organise a cypher (or two) while I’m home. This isn’t a freestyle battle (no 8-Mile), this is a cypher. That means, it’s an arena for rhymers to get together and just kick rhymes they’ve got, whether freestyled or...

Dec 6th

2 tags

There are few things in this world I hate as much...

Sites with autoplaying music. Worse yet, when it’s embedded into the site and there’s no way to turn it off! This is exactly why I refuse to go to Myspace, ESPECIALLY to research some bands. The other day, I wanted to look up 1500 or Nothing and I couldn’t stand it. There’s SO MUCH CRAP autoplaying on their horrendous layout that it just became impossible. So patrons...

Dec 6th

5 tags

In Less Pleasant News...

I know I promised the release of The Phoebe EP by the end of the year but unless I write, produce and record two and a half more songs on Tuesday, I highly doubt that’s going to happen. But you can certainly expect it for early 2010! Dare I even say, January? So yeah. Apologies for the delay but, you know, school and stuff.

Dec 6th

6 tags

2009 is almost over

And I’ve gotta say, I’m well pleased with the way it’s turned out. 2007 and 2008 had real potential to be phenomenal years but there was always something real petty, but real major, that screwed things up. However, I haven’t really come across any of that this year. In fact, 2009 has been a year of great personal progress for me and I can only hope 2010 will continue...

Dec 6th

2 tags

Dec 6th

4 tags

A-Trak's Hard Drive Woes [Must Read for Serato... →

I’d like to just state that the LaCie Ruggeds are NOTORIOUSLY bad external drives. Also, Paris needs to get its act together and get itself an Apple Store. Ridiculous.

Dec 5th

4 tags