The Three Golden Years

it is just another day...
but you understand its importance later someday...!

a lot of chaos a lot of confusion
cause it is the day of admission...
with the formalities done...you become part of a well known institution
RUIAITE now becomes your recognition!!!

the aura here is just amazing
studies and extra curriculars here, are balancing!!!

many guest lectures to attend
there are many new things to comprehend...

boards around the gate are always full
announcing auditions and activities handfull!!!

inside the classroom the teachers enlightening
in the lab the mama's so helping...

everything around is so perfect
bunked the college, did you ever tell...
on holidays got bored staying home
because of college-the second home!!!

Ruia Micro Dept....the name itself is enough
to get the feel of atmosphere it develops...

this is the place...you make good friends
Also,with teachers books and scientific trends!

this is the place...were you start thinking
and get a feel of scientific happenings...

this the place... you start discussing
btw this is actual learning!

its amazing, the way the dept works
nothing here is forced on, even a jerk!
the greatest strength are the teachers for sure...
cause the training they give is pure!

what you attain here in three years...
Is something difficult to explain
Is something...extremely precious and of importance immense...
I guess it is the satisfaction of being educated in true sense!!!

it is just another day...
but you understand its importance later someday...!

times change...

walking down the memory lane
i see quite a few things change...

friends, parents, teachers, relatives
they are the one's who always keep me positive!

personal touch:is lost from communication
it is now just a two way voice recognition
the never ending enjoyable discussions
now merely get cramped in few call sessions!

life has taken a really weird turn
and here my feelings and sentiments are vigorously churned...!

life was fast...now its slow
life was hot...now its cold !!!

the transition experienced is really weird...
many new things have got a beginning here!!!
things taken for granted...now show their worth
you value things when there's dearth!!!

the situation today is quite dicey
but such situations make life spicy!

today its difficult sailing in the storm
but the sun is waiting to shine brighter after few hours long...!

the smarter one's!!!

just a few old observations...

mosquitoes..! they are a real menace in India...cause of malaria and its dangerous types!
so in every household you generally employ one or the other ways of taking care of them...
at my place we have got nets on the sliding windows...which prevent them from entering in...!
so in the evenings when usually they take a tour at your place,you put on the netted sliding...

now one fine evening at around 8pm...I was at the window and noticed one lizard on the net...
it was,i thought lazing around there on the outer side.
frankly speaking i being really scared of lizards and wanting to zero on the chances of it entering the
house...i just gave a jerk on the net...and it fell off!!! ooh...how relieved i was!
this sequence of events took place for few more days that followed...
sometimes it was me or my bro otherwise on the remaining days...!
one day i was at the window for quite sometime then...completely bugged of doing this core everyday to find the lizard again there after sometime...was really curious...

y? the hell was the lizard always there only in the evenings???
...was she trying to terrorise me???
she wanted a breakthrough into the house??? if it was so y? was she doing it only in the evenings???
did she give it a shot, of trying to enter the house from other ways???

the answers to all this were just there...
OK...this was the time in the late Aug..when you actually experience attack of variety of insects at
your tube lights!!!
so here was this lizard strategically located at a checkpoint from which every damn insect attracted towards light would go...and she would easily feast upon them...those innocent notorious creatures!!!
wow!!! Wat a strategy...you feast...by just lazing around at the right place at the right time!

moreover...y? the hell she would bother..when creatures like me were trying to shoe her off...
i mean you don't leave your feast for such silly reasons...naah..never!
the lizard had a smarter way of taking care of us...!
when she would feel our presence by the jerk we applied...the lizard was intelligent enough and would go and hide herself in between the steel non-netted region of the slide....from where she was not visible to us from the inside...in short she pretended that she was off her way home after our act...making us fell happy and relieved!!!

would come back after a while and continue with her feast!!!

from that day i never even tried to shoe her off from there...i really did not mind her being there coz she was even benefiting me from her act...the number of insects that hovered over my tube light and were quite troublesome,reduced because of the lizard's presence!!!
had it not being for this observations...i would have missed a real smart and intelligent strategy which was employed right at my window!!!

http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2008/06/02/a_new_step_in_evolution.php

summary of work carried out by richard lenski... just chk out his web page...its really awesome and the work carried out by him is mind boggling..!!!

http://myxo.css.msu.edu/index.html

chk out AVIDA...!

my first paper ppt...

had my life's first paper presentation...!!!
have given many ppt before this...but this one was really special one... was waiting for this since my B.Sc years...and really wanted this to happen in my M.Sc....and here it was on 30th Aug 2008...

i have already posted the abstract here...and if anybody interested in reading the paper its freely available online(just type the title on Google...!!!)
OK this paper was on evolution....and it is "the" thing for me.... so the excitement of presenting it was, i seriously cant explain at what levels...!!!
actually looking at the paper...i was cautioned to take a simpler one...this one being interdisciplinary and this being my very first paper ppt!
but was quite adamant on this particular paper...after all it was on evolution and RNA!!!(ribozyme)

btw all the things required for the seminar i.e the abstract and the actual ppt... as usual did it at the 11th hr....mind well not at the 11.59th....
for a change wasn't tensed at all about the whole thing...was the first one in the whole batch of the first yr M.Sc students to present...
And let me tell you the whole thing went really well....i mean right from the intro....till the concluding line...it was just too good...at least i was satisfied...after the ppt!!!
Still the most dreaded part of the seminar was left...the viva questions and let me tell you there were real intelligent questions asked by both the teachers in the panel and also by my seniors!!! real good questions...and i was most delighted after answering all of them....convincingly!!!
i mean i presented for 20mins and was there at least for another 10-15mins answering the audience...it was fun!!!

hmm...was really happy about the whole thing...it went so well...really wasn't expecting it to be this way...really cool...a wonderful experience....a lifetime experience i would say!!!
now eagerly waiting for my next paper ppt...in the next sem...that time there will be many expectations too....!