coelacanth

BANG!


here i go again~

for the last three month i have taken a toefl prep. course
and i've just gotten into the most tiring part: reading comprehension.

this reading thing is confusing, even for me: an unco bookworm. and this reading part often talks about things i don't know *and don't care* at all

really, plenty of 'em talks about unimportant things: bacteria, an army post in la la land, banking crisis, et cetera.

but sometimes i DO find interesting subjects.

such like a hoax, and the fact that Charles Ludwidge Dodgson (his pseudonym was Lewis Caroll, you know, the one who wrote Alice in Wonderland.) was an author of some dorky math text books (some of 'em involving TRIGONOMETRY). *uh, well. i think he seriously had a multiple identity crisis. his first identity is the excitingly over-imaginative boy and the other one, the alter-ego, is the creepy math-a-holic guy*

and last week i had just found an article about FISH. certainly not my favorite pet, even though i have to admit they're kinda cute.

there was this fish *not the 'cute' type, i'm sorry*. it's REALLY an ugly looking fish*, named
COELACANTH.
the coelacanth is a type of fish that was believed to be extinct. from fossil remains of the coelacanth, paleontologists have determined that it was in existence around 350 million years ago, more than 100 million years before the first dinosaurs arrived on earth. because no fosilized remnants of coelacanth from the last 70 million years have been found, the coelacanth was believed to have died out around the same time as the dinosaurs. however, an unexpected twentieth-century rediscovery of living coelacanths has brought about a reassessment of the status of this prehistoric sea creature.
in 1938, a living specimen of the coelacanth was discovered in the catch of a fishing boat off the coast of South Africa, and since then numerous other examples of the coelacanth have been found in the waters of the Indian Ocean. a few of them was caught in indonesia, too. google 'em. really, they are interesting inspite of their ugliness. they don't even worth a fortune. in fact they are NOT even valuable. but they are still interesting. right?


okay, people. let me tell you one thing: semoga anda tidak membaca kata coelacanth secara indonesia: KU-lacanth.
actually my teacher said that it should be read like this: SEA-lacanth.

well? did ya' make a mistake? ;)

haha, don't you think i can't recognize that dumbfounded look on your face!

ciao, then.