Adventure of the White Otah

sometimes, i am amazed by how some seemingly common information is not common knowledge afterall.

let me explain.


Last week, i was quite excited that i came across a stall at the hawker selling the plain, white version of the usual spicy, orange Otah.

I exclaimed to the auntie running the stall : "Oh! Auntie! 你有白色的 Otah!"

(Oh! Auntie, you have plain whilte Otah!")

she looked at me quizzed but i was too excited to say anything else.

i happily bought 2 and wolffed them down for old times' sake.

it has been at least 10 years since i ate a plain otah and the memory of its taste is better than the real thing.

they were not as nice or tasty as the spicy ones that are more popular.

maybe that's why the plain ones are less produced.

i thought i was silly enough until i told val about the white otah and she never even knew it existed.

1 in 10 people i surveyed didn't know there is the plain otah.

okay. before you say anything, i got to tell you about the "Bra Extension"

val & i went to the market and she visited the Bra stall to get a Bra Extension Band for her mommy.


bra extension band??


i have never heard of such a thing.


she explained, it is for people whose body torso are quite big and need to extend the circumference of the bra so that it will not be too tight.


!!!??


i asked the auntie at the stall

"auntie, 这个东西已经卖了很久吗?"
(means: auntie, has this product been on sale a long time?")


the auntie didnt quite know how to answer but she said the product has been around for a long time. (probably as long as the existence of the Bra?)



4 in 10 people i surveyed didn't know the existence of a bra extension band.

so what does this means?


nothing serious obviously, but what im trying to say is that we could never take for granted what we thought is commonly known and expect that everyone would know about it.


we should always communicate, communicate and communicate.


the above is just a case of some minor daily-life normality and we already are not having common knowledge,, what more about more complicated things like environment, politics, emotions, work, etc.

don't you think so?