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Close your eyes, breathe in, breathe out. Imagine your perfect summer Managing Editor
day. Is it a hot busy day in the city? Or a laid-back day in a countryside
somewhere by the water? Whatever you choose, summer is the season to enjoy Sam Tanadej Kamonchan
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and we picked the best places to go, best drinks (and food) to try and talked
to people that know how to enjoy life to the fullest. As it seems to us, one of Coffee t&i ( China )
the best representation of summer perfection is David Hockney’s A Bigger
Splash, it also inspired us for this issue’s cover as it is a pure invitation to Chief Editor: Nicole Ou
English Editor: Dasha Kartasheva
dreamy thoughts of hot summer days, with sticky air and the coolness of a Editorial Team: Yazmin Su
plunge in the pool. Graphic Designer: Hanna, Hailong Fang
One of the most important components of joy is mindfulness as it is all about
being in a moment, living it here and now. And this exactly what most of us, Publisher
including myself, need not only remember but also practice daily. While Coffee t&i (China)
mindfulness can bring a lot of joy, please do not mistake it for YOLO. Enjoying RM1103B, No.222 Huaihai Zhong Rd.,
every moment to the fullest and giving all of you to only one task at a time might Huangpu District
be the opposite of trendy multitasking, but this is exactly what will bring you Shanghai, China
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we will set an actual goal and loose interest in being distracted as there will be
something much more interesting to do, something that we really love. The contents of this publication may not
Working on Coffee t&i, we have been lucky to meet tremendous amount be reproduced in whole or in part without
of people and listen to them, share their stories and learn, a lot. This issue written permission from the publisher
brought a lot of new people into our coffee family and all of them can teach Cover
you very different thing but one thing that unite them all is mindfulness. People Illustration SHUA C
that we worked with are passionate about coffee and their community and * Cover inspired by A Bigger Splash, 1967. By
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making them better is their goal and their purpose . They do it through different David Hockney
channels, using different ways, but at the end, they all do it for a reason and Y
that is why they stay focused and succeed. Just like two brothers that opened CM
a hip specialty chocolate store in Seoul to introduce Venezuelan culture to MY
Koreans and help the country while it is in need. Or a Vietnamese cafe, that
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was built to be sustainable with its design centred around an aquaponics system,
trying to set a positive example in the hospitality industry. And there are many CMY
more examples of mindfulness and purposeful work inside of this issue. So K
let’s start practicing it right now: take a big sip of coffee, enjoy the moment
and Coffee t&i.

Dasha Kartasheva

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