One's innocent finger tips fall prey to the unruly mixture of bromophenol blue, and coomassie brilliant blue. Finger tips, stained BLUE. One of those stubborn stains that refuse to leave one's skin even after near-bleeding attempts are made by rubbing it onto the damaged surface of rough stone! Of course, one should use destaining solution. Unfortunately, domestic homes do not store methanol and acetic acid in their refrigerators! And one has to eat before going back to the lab the next morning. So one eats. Looking at the rasam on the plate, more often than usual, to make sure it's not turning blue. One could use a spoon. But hell, no fun in eating rasam saadham with a spoon! Sheesh! The most one can do, is refrain from licking one's rasam filled fingers for one day. What deprivation!
And so, life goes on. Through melting petri plates, and boiling autoclaves. Through stolen media, and mistaken alcohol (Isopropyl!). Through unrooted craziness, and umbridge-like bossy-ness! Through dreams of making a difference to oneself. Through working sundays. Through insginificant conversations over glassware-sterilization throwing stressed out minds into fits of laughter. Through the hunts for the silver lining. Through the greetings from a french-bearded, joyous,blue-shirt-wearing, cupric-chloride-blue-bike-riding unassuming scientist. Through thoughts about the fates of Chappu and Pappu under experimentation in the animal house. Through staring at fish in a recently cleaned fish pond. Through contemplations on nose-piercing and hair styling. Through chola poori and chappathi kuruma. Through corridors and staircases, freedom and non-freedom, through power and its nonexistence, through piercing looks and teary eyes, through realisation and...speculation. Life goes on.
Yours "Center for B, AU" ly
Signing off...
26 comments:
life definitely goes on through the eventful life you're leading(and am not being sarcastic)and you're complaining?? atleast you get to work with SOMETHING rather than stupid words staring at you from your textbooks,yawning back when you yawn,caring nothing for the boredom and irritation you're undergoing. :P
and how did you get stained with the "unruly mixture of bromophenol blue, and coomassie brilliant blue."? and isn't there turpentine at home? i used that when tar got stuck on my hands..but i touched it wantedly :P "cupric-chloride-blue-bike-riding" you saw a photo of the scientist with his bike? am assuming he's one of the profs you mailed.
and I'll add to that. Life goes on. Through computers with every possible virus and pirated virus softwares needing to be upgraded. Through useless disney channel shows and endless number of hours spent watching them. Through 2 rupee petrol hikes and 5 rupee hikes by automen(saying petro vela yerirthu ma).Through cursings and the lectures we get in return. Through not-going-to-happen end-of-year class parties and smart-ass comments from teachers.Through rains in chennai in march and next-minute sunshine without rainbows.Through stupid exams and endless no. of trees cut writing them(environment conservation yeah right).Through I-need-to-adjust-the-plug-every-minute-for-the-speakers-to-work and frustration.Through boredom and even more boredom.Through 10th std. and board exams.
btw, chappu and pappu and what animals? rats?? and why chappu and pappu. you should have had more funkier names.
suk - Loved your "through"s LOL! I rmbr the whole class-party plans that utterly flopped for us!
The scientist i was talking abt is my present project guide. He rides a blue Karizma. Cupric chloride blue! And how did i get that stain? thore are the names of 2 dyes we use in our experiments! And NO, we do not have turpentine at home! Staring at your text books, and yawning, still happens to me too. But for u, its a phase in life! I lived through that phase! It'll pass ;)
Chappu and Pappu are rabbits. And i din name them! Those are the names on their cages :) Beats me how someone can lift them up and konjify them, and then inject them with some experimental stuff the next minute... Science, for the betterment of mankind, apparently.
if they're the dyes you used for your experiment, why didn't you remove them in the lab itself? and then go home and eat? yeah you lived through this phase and the next 6 years so don't rub it in.
chappu and pappu for rabbit names? they'll inject them with stuff and will write in their observation"I injected chappu with blah blah and pappu with blahblah"?
and they probably just want them to feel good atleast before they suffer. we do it all the time even to fellow humans don't we? and I thought your project guide was a lady??
suk - I was just too bored to sit and scrub it out of my fingers in the lab, or even use the destaining solution. We were getting late and all... and yeah i guess that's wat they'd write in their records! Maybe they do want to make them feel good before they suffer true...how do we do it to fellow humans?
and God suk my guide is a woman...shez a phd student. But my actual guide, the one whoz goin to sign my report, is sir... so thats who i was talkin abt.
oooooh right.so you sacrificed the possibility of getting poisoned for boredom? we do do it to fellow humans. like for the ones who are going to be hung, aren't they given 1 last wish? feel good before they suffer?
suk - U say i'm an optimist, right? So yeah, i was just lookin at the bright side... was ready to take a chance with the stain poisoning me! Seems like u missed out the subtle point that i SCRUBBED MY FINGERS TO NEAR-BLEEDING stage ;)
i like the example u gave me :)Hanging victims. But those victims know they're goin to die. The rabbits dont. And with the rabbits, its probably slow death...which is worse than hanging.
yeah see. anyway you're going to fall ill one day, might as well do so after getting te pleasure out of eating rasam saadam??
and let's whisper into the rabbit's ears "we're going to kill you for no wrong of yours. it's just that you were grown for a purpose and your purpose is this. imagine the number of lifes you'll be saivng. it's all for a noble cause. so don't run away. even if you try we won't let you". We are being too harsh on other living things aren't we?
suk - Sure i cant try chanting those words into its ears... and like i said, its all for the betterment of mankind! And hell, of course one shouldn't miss out on rasam sadam at all! :P
That too paati's rasam!
"Through dreams of making a difference to oneself"
Sigh!!
Again the me will go into the thinking mode after reading this :)
vinod - Nice :) i never thought the post would have the slightest impact on anyone ;)
you and your rasam saadam. don't you get bored of eating it everyday?
and yup, all for the betterment of us and us alone..
we survive, they die
yaay
suk - rasam sadam is probably one thing i can enver get bored of eating... paati's rasam, all the better... :) We survive alright!
you were planning to pierce your nose??? and staring at fish in a fish bond is actually pretty interesting. you know the way the drink water "ab ab ab ab ab" tiresome job.
suk - ya i have plans of piercing...u think its a bad idea? And yeah fish are interesting... esp when theres less water and they're swimming in a weird way to get to the slopy place where theres slightly more water...!
bad BAD idea. you're NOT piercing. you want to wear mookutthi means wear those ones you gt in pondy bazaar which don't need any holes.
and I haven't seen fish in a place where there's little water but it sounds interesting
suk - by far, thats been the strongest discouragement i've got.. Lol.. lets c, am still contemplating...
why did you suddenly get such an idea?
suk - Dono... getting bored with my face i guess :P
add designs to your mirror!!that way you can do whatever you like and if you don't like it you just have to rub/wash it off
suk - brilliant idea! Just that i cant carry my mirror around for people to see :P
that's why they invented the kutti mirrors. if you stand far enough your face will fit AND you'll be able to carry it around in your bag :P or people can always come to your house and see the mirror. simple.
divs - *sigh* Good luck with the boards!!
sheesh I know they're going on.. you don't have to tell me toooo
you know before(say 5 or 6 days)the start of boards they had this stupid show on NEWS channel which had tips about boards. NEWS channel!!!!!!
woo hoo! take the tips;)
now it's my turn to say *sigh*
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