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Rated: 13+ · Book · Opinion · #1101898
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#471603 added November 27, 2006 at 8:08pm
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The Brief Moment between Dream and More Dream
This is what you get, when you accuse someone of not blogging for a long period of time ...

The jinx backfired on myself.

I had dozed off during one of my lunch break, and woke up to find WDC in white.

What did I miss? Besides Halloween, and Thanksgiving, I mean?

Is it winter already? Wow!

I drove my family down to San Francisco during the Thanksgiving holiday.

The goal was simple. "Our son is at the stage that he is very much interested in animals, " my wife said, "We should go down to S.F. to visit the zoo there."

So, four hours later, we were staring at a snoring hippo in a small pond. The stench was very much real.

My son looked at it for a moment and declared, "Ga, Ga."
Wow, what a revelation! When he said those words, tears welled up in my eyes. My son, the scholar!

Ok, for all of you folks out there, a little bit of background information was necessary. When my wife and I taught my son how to distinguish animals, we happened to point at a duck and said, "Ga, Ga". The sound was a crude inmitation of how a duck call sounds.

So, now hearing the words to declare a 800 pound hoppo as a fat duck, how can I contain my excitement!

This one is locked in my memory. I can already imagine my son, at 18 years old, yelling at me, "You know nothing!" I will give a wryly smile, and reply, "Well, at least I know a hippo from a duck!"

Ha Ha!

Well, I can still see how my son's brain works. He considers all four-legged land animals as "Woof, woof." --- Dog.
He considers all creatures in the water as "Shh..." --- Fish
And he considers all creatures floating in the water, but not all the way submerged as "Ga, Ga." --- Duck.

Simple for him to say with authority, and interesting for us to translate for him.

Ahhh! The simple life!

Boy, I wish I can have his life!

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