My Two Cents worth to Starbucks

Was asked to complete an online survey of Starbucks Malaysia with the incentive of a free tall-sized beverage. This is my blurb - notice how I got increasingly impassioned towards the end?

Less than a week prior to this experience, I had the grande-sized "Extra coffee java chip frappuccino" - I was told it contained 5 shots of espresso, and it was excellent. Then at this recent visit the guy at the counter had no idea what I was on about when I ordered it again and told me they only had a "java chip frappuccino" - I assumed that the 'extra coffee java chip frappuccino' was a promotional seasonal item, so I then ordered the "java chip frappuccino" that was on the menu board and added extra coffee.
Ugh - it tasted like all they used was coffee syrup and added coffee syrup - it was sweet, uncoffee-like and NOTHING like the 'extra coffee java chip frappuccino'!

You are supposedly a coffee establishment, STARBUCKS! Give your free-trade coffee farmers something to trade and use REAL ESPRESSO coffee in your coffee-based drinks! If i wanted a chocolate milkshake tasting thing I'll go to McDonald's! BRING BACK THE COFFFEE!!

Housework Gripe

I GRIPE ABOUT:

• Never-ending housework. What's the use?! You wash a load of laundry; another basket fills. You iron a mountain-pile; there's yet another fresh load. You mop the floors and vacuum the carpets; it's still gonna get yucky the next time you cook. You wash the toilets; it instantly gets dirty with yet another skid mark (note: not my fault).

I don't know how people can work full time and have somewhat of a social life and yet manage to keep a house non-pig-sty-looking.

I'm particularly griping now, as I gave up a Friday night out of drinks to stay home and clean the house!

Restaurant Gripe

I GRIPE ABOUT:

• when you ask for something (be it hoisin sauce or sambal) at a restaurant, and the wait staff bring you a small dish of it. Then once you've finished it and ask for more, they bring you a hugeass dish overflowing with sauce.

Seriously - can't they just:
(a) bring you two small dishes, because there's no way you can finish the second hugeass dish two-thirds into the meal; or
(b) bring you one decent-sized dish of sauce?

Okay - so this isn't the most profound gripe, and rectifying this probably won't change the world (except maybe waste reduction on a small-scale) - but it's a gripe nevertheless!