Heheh sorry Lee Kuan, but I'm putting up a really lame post in response to yours. :P I'm like, WTF, I'm supposed to be doing my bleeding ESL investigation, but meh, I'm gonna just blog around! I'll just post about clams and other bivalves and what not!
Scallops aren't 'lala'...
Scallops are the things that have shells the shape of you know, Shell's (petrol company) logo. A little bumpy shape where the two shells connect, then large triangular shells covered in smooth waves of 'crests and troughs' throughout, with the curvy ridges at the opening ends of the shells. Ah, just thought about it...The things that make up Ariel, the Little Mermaid's bra. At least, I think. Just had to mention that bit of Disney-produced obscenity for the sake of explaining. But it sure as hell gave you a better picture than the long-winded description eh?
Lala are clams, and soft-shell clams I would wager, seeing that their shells are broken so easily. Clams are generally shaped like a perfect oval, kinda look like mussels, but mussels have sorta rough ugleeh shells which are REALLY long-ish in shape, both of which are connected at a point which isn't directly in the the center, but really off to one side. Kinda like oysters in the sense that some mussels have got really gross looking rough-ass shells that look like something your car ran over that got stuck on the wheels after driving up to Bangkok and back. Mmmm yum yum oysters. *Craaaaves oysters*
Oh and another thing, I donno, but I really dislike the taste of lalas, they have a really bad smell? Taste? I donno. Just that funny thing going on when you eat it. Or maybe it's coz the seafood here's über polluted and filled with toxic crap. But scallops (Scallop meat is kinda like a thick perfect cylinder, whereas lala meat looks like. Some sorta punctured eyeball left to dry out or something? Well, sorry for the bad description la. But you know. Lalas give you way less meat per animal than scallops. And WTH, the Ausmat cafe sells basically lala SHELLS as dishes because I've never seen a single lala in those dishes that had some meat still in it, they all got washed off somewhere in the curry-making process. You could just end up paying to have a lala shell collection in your room I guess.) AAANYYYWAYYY!!!! MY ORIGINAL SENTENCE WAS..."But scallops taste way better than lala. Hella good compared to them in fact.". Fugh geez, got distracted and all I wanted to say was that.
OH OH! And another thing. La La might not be an anime or manga, but it's sorta like, I donno, a slang people back in my school used to...well, use. Oh and it's also that shitty song by Ashlee Simpson, but wtv. Generally "Lala"s are the Ah Bengs and Ah Lians, you know:
* Super straightened hair, also dyed to a bright blinding awful shade of orange or blonde that totally doesn't match their eyebrows and makes their eyebrows "ZING" right outta their face like some living specimen from the X-Files.
* Own shit-ass cars that aren't even worth the super-huge useless exhaust pipes they modify onto them.
* Play music at SUPER ULTRA MEGA**** VOLUMES with the windows down, and not just any music, shitty monotonous over-bass-boosted "makes-you-wanna-scream-and-concuss-yourself-on-the-steering-wheel- when-you're-stuck-in-a-3-hour-effing-jam-beside-them" music.
* Can be found sometimes wearing contact lenses with colours so out of whack they look like they just popped out of a Hitchcock flick (ok just imagine they're in colour).
* Wear fake eyelashes that look so freakishly fake they look like the remnant of some bombed up Taliban-guy's beard, pasted together and glued on.
* Wear a crapload of shiny bling-bling (mostly the guys), ultimately having more metal on their bodies than the total weight of their brains.
* Bottom line is: Fake. Everything's fake, fake, fake. And not the pretty fake. Fugly fake.
Aaaannnd Jasmine can't believe that of all the things she's ever blogged about, one of them was clams and seafood galore. Must be from all the years of being stuffed full of seafood by the parents. Just couldn't let the scallops suffer the indignity of being mistaken as lalas.
