Thursday, September 17, 2009

Didnt Need To Know That!


Sometimes i wonder why the sky is so blue today then it hits me "oh yeah because of the "tyndall effect" which somehow gets me to thinking that in reality, science has ruined alot of the simple wonders of nature for us by breaking it all down into logic or rather forcing us to think "how? why?". How i miss the old days when i used to marvel at the beauty of a rainbow and now whenever i look at one its like "bahh thats just caused by light being refracted from tiny water droplets in the air". Let me spoil the wow factor of the rainbow furthurmore for you by telling you it can be reproduced at home,just spray water on a white wall in sunlight and you'll have your own rainbow!
See knowing how stuff happens or how things work is useful, when you want to fix a spare tire,a leaky faucet or pass exams but when you just want to enjoy nature why do you need an explanation? Again i blame science or better yet education for creating that uncontrollable curiousity-remember it did kill the cat.
What's really bad,which i guess most of us have experienced is this- you are enjoying a picturesque view, and you come across these annoying people who always ask why (I bet you must have) and you must have felt like taping their mouths shut when they not only ask a question but also answer it themselves (for example) "oh why is that cliff shaped that way? mmm its pretty...... oh yea i know must be due to soil erosion" :-s
C'mon man did you really have to do that??
Sheesh :-(
P.S - feel free to comment on how the beauty of something you know has been lost thanks to science/logic ;-)

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Tiptoes

Hello out there ! yes i literally am on my tippy toes as i figure out "blogging" and how to go about this site...i know this fad has been around for a long while now but im just getting the hang of it...one thing i am afraid of is plagarism but who lives w/o taking risks?
Just the other day i overslept and woke up 20mins after my class started...i made a dash for it and luckily didnt get caught as the sir himself was 30 mins late :)
Another big risk that we take-especially here in manipal is eating food while walking as we have crows the size of kittens who are 24/7 as hungry as we are, with wings the size of TT bats, a sharp beak & dementor-ish claws, it makes a terrific sight when one swoops down on an innocent-samosa-eating girl and seizes the samosa from her! Brave chick i must say especially after living here for 3 years and knowing the fate that awaits those who venture out into the open with food, she still did!
No one can predict the future, we all take each day as it comes but why follow the routine like everyone? why follow the unspoken rules ?
Be brave, take your samosa out into the open!