tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64801143852844844022024-03-05T04:42:49.268-08:00MuCh a dO AbouT nOThiNg...!!!!Priyankahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03826216219106003992noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114385284484402.post-34618417734223149752009-08-14T13:59:00.000-07:002009-08-14T14:15:13.158-07:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This tale's got no head or tail..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> But this is how it goes..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Brothers of a kind..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Lived merrily close..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />Together they slept..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Together they rose..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Shared food, shared water..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Even the air from the nose!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In came a pretty intruder..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />And conflict grows..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Men being men..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> excitement overdose!</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />One tugged her hand..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />The other pulled her toes..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Yet other got the waist..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> One clinged to her skirt's bows..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />Some sang love in groups..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Solo performances some chose..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />But each in its way..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Screamed hard so she knows..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />She was a bit too promiscuous..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> More than one she chose..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />One must always have backups..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Never know when wrong something goes..</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Variety be the spice of life..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> As she already knows..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Picked the uniquest most..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> The commons she dispose..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />Brothers more alike of the kind..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Lost in the crowd sat morose..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />While the smart and loud and clear..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Struck the winning pose!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Each note of their songs..</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />All their highs, All their lows..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> Along with their lady's name..</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> In files in golden letters.. forever glows!<br /></span><br />...<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">An ode to extracellular single unit recordings in the olfactory bulb! :)</span>Priyankahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03826216219106003992noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114385284484402.post-4120647483536325632008-10-12T05:34:00.000-07:002008-10-12T06:22:46.248-07:00The Real Ratatouille!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCKMSNvRsSwnNmQli9bvQrIOie_Gx40TIF0rQZ9vTGM0ycXhKu8S6Bbm-Aejn3V_T0xkVQThUg-ZbVEvbd2RHZ5Mm2OuMbsnmfMWYmsxwIiQrTlnWPAvQP5orVha-E0GK-cMWbiyLnEs/s1600-h/ratatouille.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCKMSNvRsSwnNmQli9bvQrIOie_Gx40TIF0rQZ9vTGM0ycXhKu8S6Bbm-Aejn3V_T0xkVQThUg-ZbVEvbd2RHZ5Mm2OuMbsnmfMWYmsxwIiQrTlnWPAvQP5orVha-E0GK-cMWbiyLnEs/s320/ratatouille.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256255598646195410" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Some to be Stuart the little..</span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Some to Tom's adorable Jerry be..</span></div><div><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Some the Scrabbers of some obscure Ron.. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Some the Remy of Ratatouille..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Some to hunt for scraps of food and cheese..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Raiders of the road, wild n free..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">And some to be bred and fed.. and Martyred.. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In the glory of science by people like me..</span></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Priyankahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03826216219106003992noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114385284484402.post-62806014103396512802008-10-07T21:47:00.000-07:002008-10-07T21:50:24.224-07:00Once upon a time..<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">She walked ahead, He walked behind..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">A bump ahead, she tripped and fell..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Oh my! Why so stupid.. was she blind?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">He walked ahead, She walked behind..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">His pace too fast, she missed a turn..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Oh what a pity! Her way ahead she couldn't find..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">To walk ahead, to walk behind..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">She's thinking hard, but she can't decide..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Fuzzy in the head.. A muddle of confusion in her poor mind!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">When behind, whether to run to catch his pace..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">She's wondered - Or if she had more sense..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">When ahead, not to keep looking back at his face!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Confused she is, and yes she can't decide..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">For where her heart is, her mind not rules..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Don't lead, Nor follow, He says - come walk by my side..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">And he held her hand, together they walked..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">No trips No fall, No turns she missed..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Merry all through the journey - They chatted and talked..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Till the road went straight and so did they..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Ahead but came a turn, two ways left and right..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">They paused and wondered - Where to? Which way?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Right went right into the sea, Left left straight for the sky..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Where to, which way - they wondered, they argued ..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">He was born to swim.. Oh but, She'd longed to fly..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">For she no longer knew to fly alone.. to follow nor lead..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Sink she must, or to swim she tries..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">But her heart's isn't here.. or is it only 'here' that her heart is indeed?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Lead n follow, hand in hand, only fairies in tales tell..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">A rosy beginning.. through a tough middle..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Oh but only in tales all is well.. For it always ends as 'well'..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">She wishes not to follow, not to guide nor lead..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">Nor to trot holding his finger..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">His faith she moves with.. Not his push she needs..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">He swims through his waters.. She soars.. She flies..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">For her heart is just in him.. And for forever be indeed..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">No sooner than later they meet - When she rains from the skies..</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';">And thats how they lived happily ever after!</span></div>Priyankahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03826216219106003992noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114385284484402.post-57775656803322479742008-09-21T05:53:00.001-07:002008-09-22T05:38:11.859-07:00Buddhism RE-visited!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Disclaimer: The poem is a simple outburst of emotion, All characters are a figment of my imagination, any resemblance to anyone living or dead is almost co-incidental.. ;)</span></span><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFtJk7OxDB5KjY5t4onW41hPvvgbOHVcaJRLz6_x84udMPm_25XK-pVrQq3L8iFQbRldWDU_Xoqta0xLkV_mEjjzdU7HrH51KJFNwsgrftscEU0X0Ct_TlvW3l7SEQRRJJpsHw4zIAVvk/s1600-h/Lightmatter_buddhabelly.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFtJk7OxDB5KjY5t4onW41hPvvgbOHVcaJRLz6_x84udMPm_25XK-pVrQq3L8iFQbRldWDU_Xoqta0xLkV_mEjjzdU7HrH51KJFNwsgrftscEU0X0Ct_TlvW3l7SEQRRJJpsHw4zIAVvk/s320/Lightmatter_buddhabelly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248701150241799794" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Silent night, holy night,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">All is calm, All is bright.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Shepherds hear the Cows and Bulls sing,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Alleluia, Hail our King!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A brand new saviour is born..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Oh, yet another saviour is born!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">'Buddha of now' - he's calls himself by the name,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Habits though wild, At heart he's tame..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Simple living - low needs, low standards and taste,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">High thinking - Fly around the moon with bats, this land is a waste.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But coz his task is to bless and heal the mankind,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He lives like a mortal, killing mice, putting all his wishes behind..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Carefully if you saw, round his face even the 'Halo' is there,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Only coz he's different, its not light but hair!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">That 'distinguished' appeal, that sparkle in his eyes..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Long kurtas, Wealthy paunch - that look of the intellectuals and the wise!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">An aura of divinity around him, holy chants always filling the air..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Buuurrrrrrp.. Grrrunnttt.. Gloaaaaat.. Yaawwwwnnn.. Bbuurrrpppp.. cant you hear!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mastered words ten of marathi, Hindi even few..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But my friend, a holy soul needs no language to speak to you!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Compassionate at heart, Love all women and 'men' alike..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Looks that of a hero, when he rides his bike!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Those wits unmatched, humor funnier than funny..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">That charm that gives every 'uppi', a run for his money!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Blessed is our man, and so are we..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For in his heavenly company, we get to be..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For a lesson or two on life even we can learn,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Purify our lives, have our sins undone..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But all said and done, A mind gifted only to the very few..</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And in my most humble words, thats Dhadi for you!<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />With love to Dhadi.. :)</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /></div>Priyankahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03826216219106003992noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114385284484402.post-51278366096406292002008-07-24T19:59:00.000-07:002008-07-25T11:04:50.441-07:00Who will Bell the Rat?The Li'l-Naughty-Rattie sat in a cage in the wall..<br />The Li'l-Naughty-Rattie knew it all..<br />It laughed seeing me almost on my toes to reach it..<br />Ha Ha Ha.. Girl if only you were a bit more inches tall!<br /><br />It looked at me through the corner of its eye..<br />I smiled back stupidly - 'just wanted to say a Hi!'<br />I lifted up the wire rack - 'Dude lets be friends..'<br />But it knew where it was going.. and where it ends!<br /><br />It puffed up its chest.. and lifted up its chin..<br />Showed back a thumb to me - 'get back to from whereever you've been!'<br />'But I was just being nice - my heart is clear..<br />I mean no harm.. why do you fear?'<br /><br />But the Li'l-Naughty-Rattie from up the cage in the wall..<br />Was smart and sharp.. and he knew it all..<br />'Ok if you insist - we could talk it out..<br />But hang on a minute - let me settle my doubt..'<br /><br />'Friends?' I said, a handshake was a good beginning I thought..<br />Boy, this is easy - atleast easier than it ought..<br />But as soon the hand was stretched out for a shake..<br />Out of fear I guess.. the hand went back in a wake!<br /><br />No not the Rattie.. it was me who was scared!<br />It was standing there happily.. while I was shivered and feared..<br />But its so tiny, what could it do afterall..<br />C'mon be brave - its hardly 6 inches - you're atleast 5 feet + (nothing at all!)<br /><br />So with new guts and zeal - lets make a fresh start..<br />Gentle is what you've got to be - its a skillful art!<br />C'mon Li'l Rattie lets go out for a walk..<br />May be over a cup of tea.. we could talk!<br /><br />It puffed up its neck.. and raised high its nose...<br />Smelling my hand it was, me clueless 'Is this how it goes?'<br />'Hey what do you think of yourself dude - I have had a clean bath n fresh air!<br />What makes you doubt.. cant you smell the 'Davidoff' in there?'<br /><br />And am sure it did, for it jumped a bit..<br />leaped on happily to my arm - Wow! The davidoff was a hit!<br />Only if I knew what it had on its mind..<br />From my arm onto my shoulder.. and it leaped behind!<br /><br />All right Li'l Rattie enough games for the day..<br />Lets be done with you - and get this out of the way..<br />As I ran behind it.. here and there like a jet did it sway..<br />As If a game of hide-n-seek we were meant to play..<br /><br />And from behind the bench.. stickin out its toungue..<br />It smirked and laughed at me - showed me a thumb!<br />'Now thats not done - have all you've been taught is to behave this way?'<br />As i grabbed it by the tail.. in air did it sway..<br /><br />I cuddled it gently.. my dear I mean no harm..<br />And it sat their Quiet (finally) on my arm..<br />I think its heart melted for it smiled and stretched out a hand..<br />As I shook it with mine.. right into my palm did its sharp claw land!<br /><br />'Ouch! That hurt', "M sorry - that wasnt meant -<br />If i knew it before - Some of your anaesthesia.. to you would i have lent!<br />So that even if I digged it in and drew out blood in weil,<br />Not a penny of pain - would you ever feel!<br /><br />Or feel you would - but wouldn't be able to shriek or say..<br />For am not sure which of the senses does that dose take away!"<br />'I Think we've had enough chatting for a day..<br />More later may be.. '- Into its cage I put it away.,,<br /><br />The Li'l-Naughty-Rattie was back in its cage on the wall..<br />If Science is our aim, If noble is our call..<br />The least I guess I can do - be warm and nice..<br />To hurt A little less - my rat and mice..<br /><br />For if I were to be he. And you were to be me..<br />Though may be even if your point I'd be able to see..<br />But knowing that though lovingly - what you were going to do..<br />Am sure my dear - I wouldn't be exactly 'nice' to you!<br /><br />So next time to my Li'l-Naughty-Rattie , n all rat n mice..<br />The least I'll do is be gentle all sweet and nice..<br />Poke down the needle gently.. without hurt or hit..<br />Dont worry my friend - This is going to hurt.. just a Li'l bit!Priyankahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03826216219106003992noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6480114385284484402.post-4957613973483467212008-07-24T08:27:00.000-07:002008-07-25T10:17:54.861-07:00NcBs.. Sugar(ed) with a pinch of salt!<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">In a far away land where no one goes...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Is a li'l building of which almost none knows...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">I'd tell you the way.. if you really wana get there...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Warn your pocket I must.. darn heavy is the fare!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And even if you're sure you're rich enough...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">I also must warn you.. that the journey is tough...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">You ought to be brave and have the strength to fight...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">For you'll find all rickshaws' way too polite! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Well, if smart you are you wont mind their glare...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Just a few rude beans spilled here and there...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Pay them twice the worth.. n softly if you plead...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Am sure they'll help you in this hour of need...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Though the journey is fun.. through the traffic and blare...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And later than sooner you'd find yourselves there...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And if you're scratching your head wondering if the address is right...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">For all you can see looks like a forest till far in the sight!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Smile my friend.. for the hardest part is done...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Just hit the road staright.. and head out for the fun...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Tread where the roads leads.. only keep your eyes open wide...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Else you'll miss those 'li'l' signboards hidden somewhere in the side...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And you might just take a turn wrong or two...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And if that happens then good Lord help you!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Ah! smart you are.. you'll call me up and seek the way...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And anyways you're almost there hardly a few metres away...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Lets not waste more time hunting.. your Phone you better seek...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">How I wish you could use it.. only if the signal wasn't so weak...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">If you're lucky enough a few more wrong turns may accidently lead you right...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Or you'd spot a holy soul somewhere close in the sight...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And if you're luckier still.. a li'l more than kannada will he know...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And if you tell him the place he'll tell you where to go...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Oh! dint I tell you name? I thought i had...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">NCBS.. Right there you see it.. Aint you glad?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Yes you are.. for now not trees and bushes in front of ur eyes...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">This elegant grey building stands - indeed a pleasant surprise!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And i'll let you marvel.. for its not just a pretty sight...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">But also post the 'adventourous travel' - a huge respite!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And it only gets better when with a pleasant smile...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">The guard at gate assures that its indeed the place you've been hunting for all this while!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">So there you are in a faraway land where no one goes...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">In this Li'l building of which almost no one knows...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">If the travel's tired you out you could rest a bit...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">All right, I'll go on with my talking.. but only since you insist!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Much different from the untamed wild bushes outside...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Everything in here is a pleasing sight...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Neatly cobbled paths.. intricately with pebbles are lined...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">A trip or two you might risk.. but for their sheer beauty you dont really mind!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And mind it.. to make it look the way it is - much a fuss they do...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Such obsession for cleaning I've seen in places quite few...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">From every li'l window - to every ledge - every door...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Every bit from the ceiling to the wall to the floor...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">They clean and mop and sweep and wipe and shine...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Even the leaves of all those plants you saw placed in line...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Not a twig on the gardens that you can see in the view...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Except for those that just fell... they couldnt help those few...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Oh! and did you see the pond.. (well technically a ditch you could call)...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">But nevertheless its pretty.. got pretty kingfishers and lilies after all!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">As nice is it indoors.. the hostel takes you by even more a surprise...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">No scrape falling off the walls.. it took me a while to believe my eyes...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">A room neat and cozy.. even a bathroom's attached...:) </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And its all for you.. its not just comfort - a luxury unmatched!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">So pleasant is the stay.. and you've all that you want...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">As long as something from the market you do not demand!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Now that's a li'l tricky.. for all this made you forget...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">All the fun on the way ypu had.. before here did you get...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">For the way out - is just the same as that came in...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Only now you dont have to be brave and the dangers are thin...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">There is no worry about arguements with auto uncles' for one...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Coz inside here.. even if you really wished for.. you will still find none!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Anyway.. By the time you crib and complain and make a fuss...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">You realize that its time for the next shuttle bus...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And for they are good with time.. hurrying.. you better be...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Or for another hour you'd be waiting.. sipping coffee or tea!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And though now even though you may have time enough...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">To chat a li'l more.. and have me tell you a li'l more stuff...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">For all in good.. I'd better make my way...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">For I was here to do better than chatter through the day...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Though its rude I know to abruptly end a conversation like this...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">But then i've already told you all.. did something i miss?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Ah yes! We do science.. but that i thought you already knew...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">For you'd know its the place to be if you loved biology too...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And if you dont then you'll anyways never feel the real fun...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Of being in this faraway land visited by none...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Its not the luxury, the beauty and the comfort thats the treat...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">But the quality of brains that here you meet...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">The spirit to question and the oppurtunity in hand...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">To feast your urge.. fend for yourselves what you wana understand...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">All that that is known.. and even that that is not...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">U've got all the means if the enthusiasm you've got...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And dont you get me wrong it isn't roses all the way...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">To think with reason and logic.. Is no trivial work for a day...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">That elegance in thought.. the eye to see what is seen by few...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Is what amazes me most.. wonder if it mystifies you too...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And that's all i wana take home - the ability to question.. to see the logic through...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And may be if am lucky.. to fetch an answer too!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And for they say when oppurtunity knocks at your door...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">I'd now better be going before it waits no more...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">For even though the best of scientists are the most creative at heart...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And its all about ideas be it science or art...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">And imagination and the power to think is all they take...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">A 100 line poem does not eventually a 'scientist' make!</span></div>Priyankahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03826216219106003992noreply@blogger.com2