My first poetry ...An ODE to microbes!!!

What follows down this passage are a series of lines with coherent words...words that are inspired and hence dedicated to the world of minis and micros (shh..didnt mean the girlie skirts!) i.e the micro life-bacteria, viruses, fungi, phages (wonder whether there is anything newly discovered...well! my microbiology needs a version upgrade). I wrote this in my second year of BSc in which microbiology was my ancillory subject. Microbiology (MB) was not at all my favourite subject- I had to put up with memorising a whole lot of microbes' names something like Escherchia coli to begin with, their physiology, their habitat, diseases they happily bring about, human inventions to curb their action and so on...oops!! theories that run for pages. To make things worse, the practical session was worse (disgusting I think is the apt word) as one had to see what kind of microbial population is present in each and everything around us (food stuffs mainly!!...kind of a trick to make us stay away from cokes and samosas...but the trick never worked!). I even found a deadly Pseudomonas in one of the Fanta samples!. Besides all these not-so-well-to-do points, the microbes still scored pretty well and hence the poetry. MB as a subject was damn boring but it made the invisible world visible. The lectuer for MB, Ms Anuja George, was a damn interesting soul ...she made MB bearable. The song from Kaakha kaakha, 'Oru ooril azhage uruvai..' reminds me of her...she was a real charm and intellectually egoisitic (thats how my seniors call her-well!..I dont consider her egoistic in grounds of her knwoledge but she surely was damn smart). My poetry had infact seen its first publication-not in a well to do journal or online portal..but in my department's peroidical.

here I go...

Sticking to the dust is numerous of them,
Seeming to be as very abstract as the wind,
Yet acting with an effect as strong as a nail on skin.
Could they be placed second to God for their omnipresence,
Or first in the list of crimnals with power so immense.
Invaluable they are to us-so worthy to be applauded
They as flames turn us to ashes-so should they be put off?
As coins with heads and tails that never depart,
These as goods and evils are too very smart!
Sticking to the dust is numerous of them
Well!..Its to the microbes i dedicate this poem ahem!.

if I read it now, it seems so childish. What do you feel???

Wonders of technology..

Advancement in technology has brought in many revolutions. But EVOLUTION?..Yes, I can think of one (probably, you can think of many). EVOLUTION OF NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHERS. Yeah..the advent of and now, the advancement in digital camera technology have germinated many amateur photographers. You can find them everywhere and anywhere, holding either a mobile phone with a lens to capture 1/0 images or a digital camera that can snap a picture or shoot a video. Whatmore, there are softwares that can just do many things to your picture -you name the way you want it, u get it. 'I am there for you' is their moto. Photoblogs have facilitated in advertising of one's skills..one needn't wait for advertising agencies and publishers. The techie market giants are rushing up in R&D in bringing smarter ones that can hone your skills better. So when you show a wonderful picture to anyone, they are awe-struck and you are applauded. Ofcourse everyone knows who is smart..but smarter is the one who uses it cleverly to bring a picture perfect.

So what do you need...

A digital camera (the obvious), passion to snap anything under the Sun (Universe too..you just need to board a space ship..Simple!), softwares, blogs , all of this to become a novice. But to be a professional, well...a lot of CREATIVITY to see what others miss (Even this can be increased by stimulating the part of the brain that helps generate creativity-brain scans are helping us out to configure this part. I think I will soon share this news with u all).

So, Stay tuned!!..
Down below is the link to the pics that i recently took. well why do you think I wrote this post for ..that too at 12:30 am!!..so Check it out!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/subashini.sudarsan/Nature/photo#s5166900243696804722
c ya and cheers,
suba

Yeah....Essence of life in just one flash of a scene (flash of few seconds..rather)

Seven years in tibet....One of the best movies ever taken and one of the best movies I have ever seen. Movie lovers will surely know. But for all the 'hitherto Unaware folks', the movie is based on a true life story of the 14th Dalai Lama. This movie captures not his entire life but the period of His Holiness' time when he was just a curious little boy entrusted with responsibilities as the Guru of the tibetans. How He meets Heinrich Harrer, an austrian mountaineer and how each influence the life one another is what the movie is all about. This is not movie review so I jump to what I would like to share (the one scene which might go unnoticed).

Scene: Chinese military rulers visiting Dalai Lama to make negotiations (Chinese and negotiations!!..nay!!..they came to authoratatively declare that they were waging war against the tibetans).

In the mind of Dalai Lama: Got to request these barbarians to let Tibet be a free and peaceful province as it was currently at that time.

Lots of decorations, colorful, floral arrangements, big pandals, resounding music ...everything and anything to Welcome these hard-wired, tyrannt chiefs of the military.

The marshals arrived atlast grim and stoic as ever...nonchalant to the hearty welcome. One guy from Tibet does the welcoming..kind of an ambassador (forgot the position he held). There is one particular colorful decoration which the tibetans do with colors, flowers, etc-something so big and artisitic (very much like our rangoli). It takes so many days and many people to put up such a thing. It is their tradition says the ambassador to the chiefs. U know what...inspite of the so many efforts taken to do the rangoli, it is tibetan culture to destroy it after the very day it is completed. The funda behind it- Nothing in the world lasts forever...everything has to die no matter how significant the thing or the person it is to you. You will lose it and it doesnt belong to you..so dont attach yourself emotionally to it. One creates an art with so much dedication, love and care but at the end of the day he must be equally postive and happy to see it destroyed. (I love my digital camera..Sure..I wont be happy to lose it one day).

The tibetan ambassador tells all this to those gree-uniformed outlanders. But these cool dudes pay no heed to its significance and hit the rangoli to show their sarcasm. Kind of 'I dont care a damn man' attitude. Billions of Blistering Barnacles...anthropoic mountebanks...grrrrr!!.

Well...anyways it was to be destroyed..it was just ahead of its destined time.

So when you guys watch it next time, do check it.

Sounded sensible for me. So, I penned it down...I dont know whether u care a damn abt this :).

c ya...