dead sea lake

...it bugs me when the abc tv journalist said last night, the 'sahara desert' when 'sahara' means 'desert'… it's like saying a 'jewish synagogue,' or a 'muslim mosque' which is a little bit superfluous isn't it?…or a 'coastal beach'…can we say that?…you may say that there are beaches that are nowhere near the coast…like there is a sandy beach in canberra, albeit a small one… I remember swimming from it to a square platform out in the lake which was caked with seagull droppings, and apparently aboriginals call whites seagulls… I begin to wonder now what aboriginals call us asians... I know the aboriginals in canberra call me, just me, brother... 'you from malaysia?... you're welcomed to our land, brother,' one said to me once in an african club in bunda street... I digressed... yes, canberra does have seagulls which is a bit weird, and they hold squawking gull meetings at night in the carpark across from gus' cafe… and wading through the grumbling sea of white, I imagined what musa must have felt when he split the red sea…

...talking about sea, did you know that the dead sea is really a lake?…keep that in mind for trivia nights…

...oh by the way... that swimming in lake burley griffin wasn't a great idea because I was told later on that waste from old canberra royal hospital ran into the lake... he said body parts too but I guessed this was embellishment to the story... this in addition to the lead dregs from captains flat old mines... the pesky european carps in the lake must be full of heavy metals and human parts... could that explain why there aren't many people fishing on the lake... the popular excuse is that the carps aren't good tucker... then again, all these could just be part of the capital's urban myths...who knows...

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...did you not know that...'tfbundy' is an acronym used by doctors and nurses for 'totally fucked but unfortunately not dead yet'...?