was supposed to go out wif Di, Li and Rin today..

but my mom had a polyclininic checkup..

so i had to stay home and 'grannysit' as my cousin said..

anyways..

mom went to buy some stuff at Sheng Shiong after her appointment..

when she got home..

i was watching Whose Line Is It Anyway?

(if you have never heard of or seen it... WHICH CAVE HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING IN?!)

anyways.. i heard ice cream bell ringing at the void deck..

i had a sudden urge to eat ice cream.. so i went down and bought some (yummmy!!!)

when i came back up.. my mom called me..

went into kitchen and stood at the sink next to my mom..

and she asked me a seriously random question...

she said.......

fyi: this is translated into english

"if i asked you to buy raw tapioca, would you know which one it is?"

btw: what she said in malay was ...

"kalau mak suruh beli ubi kayu, kenal tk maner satu?"

and i said..

"uhhh yea... is it the one where the outside is rough and brown with bits of dirt sticking to it.. then when u peel that off the tapioca is purplish then if you peel that it's white inside?"

FYI: I forgot at tt time ubi kayu was called tapioca in english.. so i describe it rather than say tapioca.. which i forgot..

to which answer she answered back yes of course..

anyhoos...

i asked y she asked me that..

she said some young lady in her twenties or so..

asked her which one is tapioca and if wat she was holding was a tapioca..

(she was holding a sweet potato)

so my mom picked up a tapioca and said "THIS is tapioca. THAT (pointing at the thing in the womans hands) is a sweet potato"

and incidentally there were yams in that section too.. so she picked it up and gave the woman a short education... saying...

"and THIS is a yam!"

to which the woman said while pointing to the sweet potato in her hand "so this isnt a tapioca then?"

and so blablablablablablablablabla...

anyway... i dunno..

kinda funny huh?

my mom said the lady seemed to be married since she had a small kid wif her.

and she had a ring on and stuff...

so i said..

i dunno.. maybe she's learning to cook..

nice to know that i know more about cooking than a married woman ...

not mom of course.. the lady i mean..

hehehe...

*reference*

tapioca -> ubi kayu

sweet potato -> keledek

yam -> keladi

if im wrong abt the last two ones i apologise...

i always confuse keledek and keladi..

=)))