About me being ignorant!

My 88th blog posting! You know I don't usually blog about myself being ignorant or foolish, although sometimes I do! Today I had some guests over at work from the UK. They were actually university staff of the university that our college had a collaborative partnership with who were down here in KL for a meeting with us.

There were 3 of them, a Dr Michael and 2 ladies. We had our meeting throughout the day and then adjourned to lunch. After lunch, my boss asked me to go get the dessert, which was Tapioca with some coconut shredding on top of it. It was served on a rectangle flat serving plate and cling wrapped so when I brought it to the dining table, both me and one of my female guests from the UK (I think she's Irish from her surname) were both staring the dish down equally baffled and trying to figure out what on earth that thing was! It was chunky,yellow in color and had a texture which was somewhat similar to a pineapple. The moment I set eyes on it, I concluded straight away that it was slices of pineapple!!! Big chunky slices of pineapple but again, I was kinda baffled as to who would serve pineapple for dessert after a main course of pineapple fried rice?

Well, a few seconds later my boss and our British guests caught me staring the odd looking dish down and asked me what's wrong. Humbly, I said, I've got no idea what that thing is... seriously. What followed was the typical what-an-idiot-you-are unfolding before my eyes. A short moment of deafening silence before a roar of laughter from everyone, even the lady who wasn't even sure what was being served on that serving dish! It was the moment of truth that made me wish that at that very moment, I was sleeping nice and quietly at home. I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A TAPIOCA WAS OR HOW IT LOOKED LIKE!!! o.O"" Forgive my blatant ignorance cos even with a business degree from a reputable business school in Australia and a Masters degree from the UK, I didn't know what a tapioca was! ZZZZZzzzzz

And so, as our 3 British guests were savoring the dish for the first time in their lives, topped with coconut shredding and syrup and all, so was I... So was I!

This kinda reminded me about the argument I had with my girlfriend and sister a few years ago about the difference between a peach and a plum, again my ignorance proved me to be less than smart individual by mistaking a plum for a PEACH! zzzz...!