Friday, December 08, 2006

When they get to your head...

UPDATE - 12/12/06 - Happy birthday Bharat! If anyone's wondering who i'm talking abt - Happy birthday Tsb! (its happened, i'll just say 'bharat' in conversation flow, and the other person'll be like "who?" , and then i'll have to say umm, tsb!) Anyway, tsb, take some time off from your research articles, and chagas disease and have a blast! After all, its not a crime to get back to being the lord of randomness ;-) Hope you have a great day, and a wonderful year to come. We're hoping you'll give us more updates! If you were in chennai, your birthday cake would definitely have been idly/pongal with 20 candles planted on it! But since you dwell in the idly-less wilderness called toronto, you'll have to put up with normal, boring cake! ok, have a nice day. God bless.
I give you this.
And for your sake, Happy birthday Rajnikanth! ;-)


You know the exams are getting to your head when....

  • MBA becomes Molecular Beacon Aptamer.
  • Ppt becomes 'precipitate' rather than 'power point' (This one's for sandhya! Who actually asked me 'did you send the precipitate to your cousin?')
  • You have dreams, Tarzan fashion. Just that you're hanging on a rope from the pyrole ring structure of glucose rather than trees!
  • You instruct your mother to add equimolar quantities of rice and rasam to your plate!
  • You end up telling anyone who'll listen to you that trangenesis is very sinful as it involves super-ovulating female mice/cows, mating them, sacrificing them when they're still pregnant and then flushing out their oviducts to retreive the eggs for DNA microinjection! ARGH! Yes, i'm obsessed! Last sem i was obsessed with rennin production, which was previously got by sacrificing new born calves! (I do know biotech involves so much of sacrificing the animal world to save we mortals, but it still feels so bad! Murderers!)
  • You stare at your fist, open it and close it, and realise how fast your contractile muscles are working, how fast the nerve signal is being transmitted, and how much work your body has to do just because you FELT LIKE moving your palm! And you make a genuine attempt not to move any muscle unnecessarily!
  • You look at your hair, and think of how inserting some keratin gene into sheep induced over-production of their fleece! Will it work with me?
  • You're addicted to some kind of eatable! Last sem it was mars chocolate. I had to eat one every afternoon at a particular time...this sem, its been peppy mini cheese balls! Or cheetos...*sigh*
  • Finally, you have elaborate conversations with the pictures of football players stuck up on your pin-up board. (Ronaldo, do you know your head is as round as the football? What if someone kicks it mistaking it for the ball? Ronaldinho, do you know your teeth are so big and sharp, i could scrape a coconut? Beckham, i don't know why i'm so oscillating when it comes to liking you...One day you're all giving amazing free kicks for england, the next you're promoting some big beck perfume and hoping you're 4th kid's a girl! argh!)

Besides all that... there are my exam sms'... 3 more for this sem! Heights of ridiculousness!

Enzyme Engineering and Technology

How're the enzymes treating you? I bet they have no clue, that the sky is blue, and they deserve to live in the loo, till they get a flu, and a speech from laloo, on how to make the paper a hulabaloo!

Genetic Engineering

Chromosomes walking in my head, Chimera infesting my bed, Looking at AGTC my poor eyes bled, Leaving my body, my brain fled, To hell with your genes! - it mockingly said, and continued to savour molded bread, and so into a brainless head i fed, Facts and figures, white and red, Till my Doc declared me half dead!

Bioprocess Principles

Do you know the story of bioprocess? It was brought to the world by Moses, But ditched him and joined the circus, Where it got dumped into a heap of molasses, Sat on the graveyard crosses, Jumped onto the tuxedo of the scientist Contois, Made friends with the lab Funguses, And finally entered our brain closets!

Thats it :D For last sems crazy sms', you can have a look at this.

Have just one more paper to go. And then i'll come up with a more worthwhile post! Till then, please entertain yourself with this, and entertain others by putting up poems in the comments section if you please!

Yours "Till my doc declared me half dead"ly

Signing off......

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey mam am commenting after a lng time n feels nice 2 comment bout dis post 1st ;) cos i can completely understand d situ 5 exams over,1 more 2 go but aldready in d "exams r goin 2 get over" mood cos it's ethics where we hav 2 anyways blabber(considering wer gud at it,dat shud nt be a problm)loll
n well ya i did mention ppt n even equimolar rice,n mom dint even react 2 it i while serving the rice,gues shes aware of d "xams get in2 ur head"phenomenon loll n 1 thng divs after 2days xam was over i thnk we ve had r blabberng sessions aftr long time na, - "xam paper ka ek nazar kar diya dimag par pura asar" ;)

Div said...

sand - totally!! Some blabberation session we had yesterday! But it was so much fun. And did u realise we're calling it a blabberation cuz it was actually a serious conversation compared to the usual nonsensical (antisensical!) ones? I mean, we did crack up a good deal with the movie thing and all, but it was mostly serious discussion! Maybe thats why we blabbered? I mean, when we're crazy, its normal, so its not blabbering..! But when we get all philo, u feel like 'damn we blabbered'! Ok, i think i've blabbered enough in this comment!

N ya, equimolar is yours too! Couldn resist puttin it down...n looks like u're in a big shairi mood lately ;-)

And abt ethics, i have a feeling we're going to be too complacent with it and break our heads on monday right before the exam! God save! Last one after all :D :D

Anonymous said...

well r blabbering comments r bcumng 2 long na loll nyways ya i ve realised dat wenever we actually blabber we dnt realise it but wen we hav a 'philo talk' we always refer 2 d convsn as "blabberations" loll oh wasnt dat d name of ur old post? ;) aur main koi shaieri ki mood main nahin hoon ji :)

tsb said...

genetic engineering is fun.

:@

Div said...

sand - actions speak louder than words! actually i cant apply that for this case, cuz its words written speak louder than words spoken! ok, crap again! But no, u have been very poetic and rhyming with your words lately! Kuch to hai ;-)

tsb - Yes it is. The irony being that when one falls in love with it, one has to say goodbye to it. But since there's no sayin goodbye in a true sense to our core subjects, it shall persist, and remain one of my favourites. If only we had a better prof. *sigh*

Shruti said...

what have u named your football i cant stand the suspense :D

Div said...

shruti - Shit i din even think anyone wud rmbr the name's not out yet! It makes me feel happy :D The name shall be announced on wednesday shruti, thanks so much for askin! The official naming ceremony is to be held on 13th dec 2006. And you can expect a post with pics ;-)

Yeah i know i'm crazy! Does anyone wish to remind me?

Div said...

Is it ethically correct to be wasting time on recreation when one has an exam at hand? Maybe it is, for one has the rights to liberty, life and prospect for happiness, as stated in the american declaration of independence. Ofcourse i'm not american, but quoting known texts is a practice followed religiously by mr.mike martin who happens to have had the patience to analyse the intricacies of delicate matters in the field of professional ethics, in the best interests of the public and their welfare. One does this for happiness, which according to Mill Utilitarianism happens to be the only intrinsic good, others being instrumental to achieve this intrinsic good. But because a rational person must think of universal good, i terminate this short essay, which if continued, may bring upon displeasure to the reader who i consider a rational being with moral autonomy and the capability for reasonableness. Mr Brandt must be happy i just satisfied my rational desire, which seems feasible in the light of my own psychology and i suppose according to the general public too, being you.

Control panna mudiyala!!! God save!

Anonymous said...

diva mujhe kuch nahin hua ya, bas tumhein hi kuch ho gaya hai ;)
Wot the, how cud u even think bout writing so much bout ethics man, looks like u've bcum so involved in d subj n ur so much in awe of ur role model Mr.Martin( the most confusing n repeptitive author i've some across) n he should have writtena a bk on law rather than ehtics cha but u seem 2 be njoing his bk so i wnt comment loll (yay !!! i aldready knw who's goin 2 be r topper dis time, 4 sure d undisputed - disciple of Martin :))

Div said...

sand - I would have kicked you if u were standin next to me. U do know my experience with kicking...but i guess i have to give some consideration for your poor leg, which has already endured enough due to your irresponsible actions to satisfy your irrational desires to achieve incredulous ends ;-)

And abt mr.martin... i guess we would have excelled in our probability paper if we had ethics n PS in the same sem...Martin teaches us the probabilty of occurence of so many events, n also the no.of ways the same piece of info can be given, twisted n turned!

k i'll stop.

Anonymous said...

Mike Martin fell on his head as a baby. If u ask someone who's actually seen him, they'll tell you about a certain flatness in his otherwise spherical head.

What about UR otherwise spherical head ? :-B

Div said...

anish - *narrowing eyes* rather, *narrwing "abnormally big" eyes*

And my head will remain spherical forever! It is ethically not feasible to harbour the desire to change the shape of one's head, God-given as it is! Thus, i satisfy my otherwise ethically feasible desire by pushing my toungue out at you, for i have right to freedom of physical movement! :P

Anonymous said...

*shaking head in despair*

Div said...

anish - *Wicked smile* *on achieving desired end, in a morally acceptable fashion* ;-)

Anonymous said...

Glad to know that exams does this to everyone and not just me.. All the best :)

Div said...

vinod - actually, i was the one thinkin am the only one who gets like this! Every one else is always so sane, n maybe don even update their blogs during exams :( And btw, my exams got over today! Thanks for the wishes!

tsb said...

lol, thanks. unfortunately, uoft screws me over by keeping an exam on my bday.

from 9am-12pm, and its my toughest exam too.

however, the thought of 20 candles on a cake shall take me through this tough period :)

Div said...

tsb - you're welcome :) and good luck the your toughest exam! And ofocurse the candles shall take u thro ;-) symbols of hope as they are... err i conviniently skipped mentioning the cake! Ofcourse it'll take u thro though! Considerin we're all ready to eat cake, anytime, anywhere! :D