Sunday, October 24, 2010

Porridge vs Congee

I never knew there was such a significant difference between porridge and congee. At home, it was a habit to call congee porridge, or for the least in Malaysia its a common scene i think. Until today, I was making "porridge" when my neighbor walk into the kitchen and asked me what i was cooking. I answered porridge, then she was rather surprised i was cooking it with a rice cooker(lazy way, but it works).
She: what's inside
Me: water and rice
She gave me a disgusted look
She: that's not porridge, my dad cooks porridge with oat, water, barley,milk and sugar
Me: No, we cook it with rice and water
I went to google and realised I made a mistake
Me: Ok, this is congee, not porridge, my mistake
She: I still have no idea what is it. What does it taste like?
Me: It is suppose to taste rather bland.
She: Bland? *disgusted tone*
Me: It is meant for people who are sick. but you can add meat to have some taste in it. So definitely it can't be made out of milk, milk and meat ain't a good combo.

Well, congee and porridge is just too different. I will hate porridge definitely.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Week 12 Doom

Week 12 is coming to an end, indicating the arrival week 13, equivalent to exam week. I am starting to panic, I should start studying like NOW, but things seems to be surfacing, not back logs. This is official things that needs to be settled soon. I need to study!!! BUT I CANT. There is FYP, enrollment, house searching... I need more than 24 hours....