The groundnut trigger

I just bought a pack of groundnuts from an Asian shop in Guillotière. You know, the type you crack open and eat (the manibong / menglembu kind (I never understood how manibong (what my mother calls it) got transcribed into menglembu)) <-- Haha, that's grand use of brackets for you :P In this packet of groundnuts, there were several (and there might be more) groundnuts with more than two sections (three or even four...this is the first time I've found a four-sectioned groundnut in France, I believe :P ) That suddenly got me thinking about an essay I wrote when I was small (how small? I have no idea) It was about a house, groundnut-shaped with one room in each section. I even remember writing that there should be a transportation system to get from one end to the other...a kind of horizontal lift or a bicycle-like thing. But I can't remember the title that was given to us, that led to this "architecturing stint". lol. Was it rumah idaman (dream house)? I can't even remember whether it was in primary or secondary school, whether it was in Malay or English. (I said rumah idaman but I really am not sure...) If someone can enlighten me, please do...

The groundnuts also made me think of a diary entry I wrote (also when I was small, smaller than when I wrote the essay, I would say) about a wonderful way of eating groundnuts. I still keep what I wrote (just a small stack of papers, I was never big on diary-writing), and I remember reading that entry rather recently (okay, maybe 2 or 3 years ago...but that's why I remember it) I wrote it as a "great discovery" (pardon my childishness) and the method was to put the groundnuts (shelled, of course :P ) into a fizzy drink and scooping them up to eat with the drink.

I happen to have a bottle of ginger ale in my fridge...which is what triggered this memory. I'm not dropping the groundnuts in this time, though...I'm just eating them accompanied with the drink. I have bought the groundnuts loads of times...but I seldom buy fizzy drinks, which is why I haven't thought of this "groundnut-eating method" in a long time!

Hehe, have you tried this method before? :P

Edit: My mother explained the "menglembu" mystery to me. Now that I hear it, I believe she's already explained that to me before :P

Menglembu is the name of a town which is famous for its groundnuts, so we call the groundnuts menglembu groundnuts. The town's name translated to hokkien is manibong. It is so famous that not just menglembu groundnuts, but all of the same type are also called manibong, just like all containers are called tupperware. The other types of groundnuts are shantong.