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gonna sound a tad silly. ive come across some impressionable words this week.

twas jus yesterday that i was reading the story, "the velveteen rabbit", to my brother for a bedtime kinda story thing. came across the phrase - "It lasts for always". i always had, pictured in my mind that the phrase wld go "it lasts forever". there are prolly so many other possible variations to that line, but only one got embedded in head. it got me thinking how many other things in my life has jus been monotonous, lacking alternative views, thoughts and perception. well ild blame it on the enviroment im put in, this dull and dreary city wanna be of an island, but maybe its jus that ive got much more to learn.



"lights snapper" was the name my mom gave my father when he came home. eveytime he is abt, he'ld be clicking off the lights which were left, switched on in the vacant rooms at home. crazy... hes always complaining that we keep the lights on for no reason. and when we do keep the lights off he'ld complain that the house was too dark and that a dark house was supposedly ghostly and bad.

but its not abt my dad that has had my thoughts lingering on, its abt the word "lights snapper"... funny name... yet logicaly its correct and it sounds very much like one of the names of the giants in Roald Dahl's "BFG". (giants names were: fleshlumpeater, bonecruncher, manhugger, childchewer, meatdripper, gizzardgulper, maidmasher, bloodbottler, butcher boy and the big friendly giant.)

"lightsnapper" come to think of it, it sounds like a fish... ya, i have a fun mom.



ive always thought russian names have a very unique sound in them. i came across one of them in a national geographic monthly - "Shchuchye". its the name of an area where biological and chemical weapons are tested. worst thing abt it is the fact that there are homes and familys presant in those parts too. the kids there learn in school how to act in the case of an outbreak or leak of a test weapon. sad isnt it? ive always thought living in the city was bad but this is surely worst off... its ofcourse doesent make growing up in singapore any better but its jus ironic to be advancing in techonlogy and yet regressing in humanity. after all techonology was first put forth to help make being human more effective.

in the same artical was the name "Nevanda", likewise a town wif families and children who grow up learning emergency procedures to a nuclear test gone bad.



wat a depressing age we live in.

wat wld i do wifout jesus?