there was once, when i was in my kitchen preparing breakfast, that a very interesting conversation popped up between my mum and I. she caught me spreading peanut butter using the back of a spoon. she was extremely puzzled and asked me why i was doing that. i obliged. i told her that it was definitely much easier to spread butter or peanut butter with the back of a spoon rather than a butter knife. she didn't understand it though, or rather she chose not to agree with me. But i don;t blame her, it was also no fault of hers.(It must be made known to all of you that, while i do write a lot of angst-y stuff about my mother, she isn't the only parent that constantly banters about the things i do in life) *I think my mum reads this trashy blog of mine too. no offence hor mum.* I shall now begin my lesson on the wonderful world of shapes. World of Shapes Lesson 101what's the difference between the back of a spoon and a butter knife? plenty! Let's examine two very similar products of the same principal: The double edged sword and the samurai knife. much like the spoon and the butter knife, one of them has a curved side, and one of them, a straight edge. Now here is where the difference lies. A samurai knife is sharper than mr-king-arthur's-touchy-double-edged-excalibur-sword by virtue of its curviness. pressure=amount of force divided over a certain area right? if you laid a samurai knife on a flat table, due to its curvature, only a small point of the knife would be in contact with the table. thus when one strikes with a samurai knife, all your chi and EMO(how cool is that? EMO *rolls eyes*) frustrations will be focused on that one small point. king arthur's butter knife though, has a straight edge, thus the force used would be spread all over the straight edge. Now, back to the topic of breakfast! when you use the back of a spoon to spread your gu niu(hokkien for cows' milk, aka butter, etc), you get a more even spread. Trust me. a butter knife would be useful if bread was really hard and straight. But since bread isn't hard, and it usually conforms to the concave shape of your hand, a straight butter knife is pretty useless. unless of course you are spreading butter on a toast or biscuit, but then again, the spoon routine would still work fine. so there YOU HAVE IT!!! World of Shapes Lesson 101. now spread the word. You have all been conned all these years, buying useless unwanted letter openers masquerading as butter spreaders. now you know! ps: don't get me started on fortune tellers, feng shui-ers, clairvoyants. if i do, you would realise that everything is fake and you would find no meaning in life. thus the probability of you taking your own life is very real, we wouldn't want that do we? so just go on being a mindless follower of society's crazy routines. Savant at 7/16/2005 09:37:00 am ;
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