500-year old daddy

i wonder how it feels like to wait 500 years before a child is born to you. noah sure was patient (genesis 5:32) :-\

revenge

i read genesis 4 today, and i didn't quite understand this particular passage:

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13 Cain said to the LORD , "My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so [5] ; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over."

23 Lamech said to his wives,
"Adah and Zillah, listen to me;
wives of Lamech, hear my words.
I have killed [8] a man for wounding me,
a young man for injuring me.
24 If Cain is avenged seven times,
then Lamech seventy-seven times."
* emphasis mine

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i wonder if these passages mean that lamech was the one who killed cain.

tree of life

i wonder why adam and eve had to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil instead of the tree of life. God did not forbid them from eating from the latter. :-\

of navels and firstborns

i wonder if adam and eve had navels. they didn't have to be born, so there was no need for umbilical cords and stuff. :D

ungas word of the day

frankenstein

pronunciation: 'fra[ng]-k&n-"stIn also -"stEn
function: noun
definition: what my code will be/look like after we finish the project :(

see also www.m-w.com

books i have read lately

i've read quite a few books lately, as i've been busy playing computer games for hours almost every night to release my work-related stress. but i did manage to finish a few this month since i didn't have money to spend on shopping and late-night coffee sessions at starbucks with friends (thanks to my well-paying job).


yesterday, after almost three years, i finally finished reading the whole Bible -- all 66 books in it. yey! i just wish i had written down my thoughts about the things i read there. if i did, this blog would not have been as empty as it is now :D oh well, i could still do it, as i'm reading from genesis again -- i just finished the creation story this morning. i'm making it a goal to find out how many times i can read the Bible over in my lifetime ;)

i finished ludlum's the bourne identity last week. i know i should have read it back in high school or college. but you see, the books i read in high school were your average teenage pocketbooks (yeah, i was a teen-ager once :P) like sweet valley, nancy drew (i know i should have read this in elementary, but you see (again), we were busy playing in the streets when i was a kid), and that pocketbook series where p.s. i love you was a worldwide favorite (with p.s. meaning paul something(strobe?)). i can't even remember the books i read in college besides the math, physics, and history books that were required readings back then. (no, i didn't read mcnaught back in college, even if my freshman roommate had a collection of them. and i can't remember when i started reading grisham and clancy)

so about bourne, i didn't get to watch the movie, but i saw the trailer :D and i did watch the bourne supremacy, though i have yet to read the second book. i didn't think julia stiles' character was in the first book. my housemate also said that the movie was a lot different from the book, even the second one.

well anyway, the book was a real page-turner, so i don't recommend reading it when you're trying to put yourself to sleep (i tried it once, and i ended up sleeping after two hours -- not that i grew sleepy by then, but because i had to sleep since our friendly neighborhood rooster was already screaming its lungs out. also because i knew that in half an hour, our friendly neighborhood neighbors would be doing the same -- screaming their lungs out). i just borrowed the second book from my housemate, and i'll start reading it this week (yeah, it was that good i had to read the second installment -- or maybe i'm just an obsessive-compulsive :D ).

ungas prayer of the day

oh Lord, will you not take up our cause?