Monday, June 26, 2006
The Alpha Soup

Explaining simple scientific knowledge to older folks are completely useless ( and sometimes, a waste of time) since normally, either they do not understand what you are trying to tell them or they just refuse to listen.

Recently, my gramps went up to my sister with a bowl of soup, telling her that if she was to finish it all, then she need not eat anything else. Yes! What she meant was that all my sis can choose between eating the horrible food my maid cooks or suffer the soup. ( However, speaking frankly, I would rather opt for the soup )

BUT! As a science student ( a biology student at that! ) and knowing that that brown concoction could not be the answer to the starving kids in Africa, I went up to my gramps and start telling her that my sis will still have to eat the basic necessary food ( the ones in the pyramid ) even if she drinks that thing.

I suppose she took it the wrong way, thinking that her smart-ass grandson is challenging her knowledge, however little, of brews and tonic, which ,by the way, I swear I was not doing. My gramps started to explain, conveniently ( to her ) switching between Mandarin and Teochew. A pretty cheap technique to be using against me, due to my lousy understanding of the language. However, given the age gap between us ( it is like me snatching a lollipop from a toddler ) totally unfair!

After she finish saying her share bit of defending speech( which did not make sense to me BUT I think I caught the statement : undergoing 4 hours of brewing ), I tried once again, failing of course, to tell her that at the very least, my sis still have to take some vegetables! ( I am pretty sure that the grayish-brown bits floating in the soup is no where near food that can provide adequate dietary fiber. )

For several days, all my sister took for a meals was one large ( and I mean very, very huge ) bowl of THE soup. However, like everything in my family, nothing lasts. I suppose that 4 hours of brewing is too tedious process for my gramps. Now, I am happy to report that the unidentified liquid is gone for the moment and that my sis is happily enjoying her chicken porridge.

ciaoz~
p.s: someone in the family suspects that it is me who told my sis what was used as ingredients for the soup that caused the cease in the product. I, however, beg to differ.