Let me introduce a new segment called "Mo La La" (in Cantonese it literally translates to "out of the blue". The segment is dedicated to my siblings.
Mo La La
Let me set the situation for you. My mum (a well known hypercondriac) and I went out to lunch to a Taiwanese restaurant and we're looking at the menu.
M: What are you ordering?
w-ko: Erm.. salty fish fried rice.
M: But's it's fried!
w-ko: (perusing the menu again) Drumstick with rice.
[Waitress approaches to take our order].
M: One beef with rice. Is the drumstick fried?
W: Yes.
M: It's fried! How about drunken chicken?
w-ko: I don't like drunken chicken. Are you ordering for me or am I ordering for myself?
(MADLY perusing the menu again and find there is nothing else I want). I point to the drumstick rice on the menu to show the waitress.
A minute later because she can't stand the suspense.
M: What did you order?
w-ko: My second choice.
M: Drunken chicken?
w-ko: Drumstick.
M: AAAiiYYyyyYYahhhh! You are going to die of cancer from eating so much fried food!
4 comments:
my reaction when i saw the pic was, awwwwww, so sweet. older brother bottle-feeding his sibling.
my late maternal grandmother was a hypochondriac. my late mom used to share with me the woes/horrors of spending many nights in hospitals or rushing to hospitals after school/work becos her mom would insist that she had illness and checked herself in (even tho' the doctors later diagnosed her as perfectly fine).
my dad smokes like a chimney and drinks like there's no tomorrow but he will always nag at me whenever he catches me eating crisps. The almost exact words as your mom, "You are going to DIE of CANCER!" now i either retort back, "yeah, but you drink and smoke." which shuts him up or i'll eat them secretly in my room.
Perhaps I'm showing my ignorance, but surely there are far worse things than eating fried food. I always laugh at people for saying "wow, Japanese people eat so healthily it's no wonder they have such long lifespans" because while the lifespans may be long they certainly put away their fair share of tempura, kaarage and so on.
sl: my dad smokes like a chimney too and says he'll rather than die than give up, however, he doesn't give me that cancer crap. He just thinks I eat Maccas 7 days a week because I don't have fish with every meal.
133: the logic behind this way of thinking stems from parents reading emails friends/family have forwarded to them or read about in the papers after 'one' study found that eating fried foods over long periods of time may be one of the causes of cancer.
Translated into parental conclusive logic: FRIED FOODS WILL CAUSE CANCER! PERIOD.
This also applies to things that are overly baked and give the appearance of a golden brownish glow - CANCEROUS
Anything that is grilled with a bit of charcoal on it - CANCEROUS
Well done toast - CANCEROUS
I'm terrible and sometimes eat burnt toast just to spite my mother and to prove a point.
Dear all, here's my flight details:
dep: 13Jan 18.50 (somewhere in europe) arr: 18.40+1 (somewhere in asia.)
mother: So I booked my flight to arrive on the 13th Jan at 8pm to coincide with yours. That way we can meet at the airport and take a taxi home together....
daughter: but my flight arrives on the 14th
m: but I followed your itinerary it says 13TH JAN 8PM. You must have typed it down wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!
d: but it says +1 which means next day and no only that the time is 18hours and 40 minutes(!)
m: I printed it out and even had it in front of me when I went to book my ticket.
d: well, check it and see...
(sees that d is right)
m: what kind of stupid way of writing is that? Mo la la what's with the plus one?
Can phileas fogg please tell her that there is no way of getting from europe to asia in 10 minutes, not even in a hot air balloon.
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