It has been long time since I have written something about my interests. Recently I had developed one new ways of spending my time and that is watching documentaries. In my school days I used to remember my father asking me to watch channels like National Geographic. But I never used to give an ear to it as it just appeared boring to me.
During those days I was a film freak. Even I spend time on TV soaps. My favorite soap was Friends. I think I remember the dialogues which they speak also. But my watching habits have suffered a small shift. I find documentaries pretty interesting as it is informative. The reason why I like watching them is because I save a huge amount of time. If I need to get this much information, then I need to read a book. But reading book takes a huge time. These documentaries provide us with huge amount of information in a very small period of time. My favorite documentaries are Mega structures, Mega cities and other science documentaries. I also like to watch those which are linked with Second World War. I have a huge collection of the war documentaries. Now I am watching documentaries of BC wars.
A trip to Chennai during my graduation has always been memorable. I visited a lot of places. Did a whole lot of shopping. Enjoyed with my cousins. When to some of the best amusement parks etc. but there is one thing which I will never ever forget in my life and that is the visit to dolphin city. It was definitely a once in a life time opportunity for me. I got to see a spectacular show where I could see great performances by two dolphins. It was truly mesmerizing. I wondered how a dolphin could dance to the tunes of a human. How it could catch the ball and clap hands like human? It was a great experience that I had there. It is observed that the dolphins are intelligent. They talk to each other using a range of distinct shrill sounds. Scientists are studying them to find out how they communicate under water and also to see if they can be used to perform tasks under water. So now you know how these dolphins are performing such mind blowing shows in the marine parks. I believe that Dolphins are the most beautiful animals and I would like to have one in my pond.
When I asked to a 5 year old cousin what his favorite past time was he gave me an interesting reply. I thought he would say watching cartoons or playing with his toys etc but he surprised me when he told me that his most favorite past time was to observe the ants. He loves to watch them move in a regular path one after the other as if a road has been constructed specifically for them. That is when I too started observing them. Yes it is truly interesting. As I was more inquisitive I wanted to know how did this happen. And I finally got an answer to it. It seems ants often follow a regular path in search of food. They give off chemicals called pheromones which are produced by glands that open at certain places in head trunk and abdomen. These have a distinctive smell and taste which other ants recognize and follow so when an ant finds food it may release these chemicals and soon other ants follow. Now if your kids come out with questions like why do the ants go in a row I hope you have got an answer to it? Ants are really hardworking creatures.
Remember the story the tortoise and the hare? Who can forget it? I vividly remember those days when my mom told me stories like these to put me to sleep. One fascinating thing about these stories is that it still stays in mind. It is like it has been engraved in our minds. It was from this story that I first learnt about tortoise. I am sure most of the children would have encountered tortoise from this story only. Talking about tortoise there is one interesting fact about tortoise. It is seen that the tortoise live for a very long time. It is believed that this has something to do with their slow rate of metabolism. They do not spend much of their energy but they slowly keep growing. Another reason is because they have very few natural enemies. Due to its shell it has a very good defense against the predators. Unfortunately these days man is hunting tortoise for their flesh and ornamental shell and hence he could cause their extinction. So one request to all you guys out there is please save our tortoises. Do not hunt them and let us not be the reason for their extinction.
When I used to be small I was very naughty and my mother found it very difficult to control me. She often gets really angry and pinches me on my hands when I did all sorts of crazy stuff. I still have those marks on my hands. I used to cry out loud when my mom pinches me. Those days are still memorable. Childhood days are always special. It was during my LKG that I developed the habit of watching cartoons and soon my mother realized that I was deeply involved in the cartoons and I was never naughty while I watch cartoons. Soon my mom learnt how to tackle me when I was naughty. She switches on the television. And I am deeply engrossed into it. No more pinches thereafter. Cartoon films are created by animation. An illusion of motion is created rather than being recorded. I am sure there would be thousands of mothers who would be thanking the cartoon films for helping them control their naughty kids.
I remember that I always force my parents to subscribe cartoon network in my home television. It was always an entertainment to watch cartoon at that age. Even now at this age, I like to watch cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Mickey mouse and Donald duck
One of my friend’s Rahul is really short. All my classmates tease him for being short. He feels really bad about it. I sometimes feel sad too because some of friends go way out of their limit in teasing him. It is sad when the guys are short. They feel very dejected about it. There are a lot of things that are coming up in the market like the height increaser and all that. Do they really increase your height? I doubt. I have seen most of the basketball players to be really tall. One of my friends told me that swimming also increases your height. But this should all be done in the initial stages probably when you are in school. Games like swimming, basketball, cycling and pushups definitely help. But once the bones are hardened and fused further increase in height is almost impossible. So if you have kids at home send them for such games so that they grow up tall and handsome.
Recently by doing some research in this field, I came to know that there are operations which can increase the height of a person. This is usually done in Russia. But for doing that they break the bones and wait for the bones to grow up. This can make you bed ridden for almost 6 months.
I just love dogs. All of my friends have dogs at home and it is quite amusing to see how these dogs run with whole lot of excitement when my friends come back from college. I wish I too had a dog. But the problem is my mom hate dogs and she feels that it is not good to have a dog at home. She says it is weird to have animals running around the house. I totally adore dogs. Have you guys noticed that the dogs always thrust their tongue out? Have you ever thought why do they do it? When it is really hot we human perspire similarly dogs do not perspire. But when it is really hot the dogs open their mouth and thrust out their tongue. When the saliva evaporates it gives relief from hot weather. Great isn’t it. I wish I too had a dog like my friends so that I would also know such facts like my friend Reshma. One of my hobbies these days is to listen to interesting facts like these about dogs from her. One thing I believe is that dogs are really very good creatures who love human beings. Cats on the other side are not like dogs.
The worst day of my life was when I met with an accident and I fractured my hand. Apart from fracturing my hand my entire body was paining heavily and also had about 7 stitches. Those days were terrible. I had great difficulty in sleeping as the entire body was severely paining. My mother kept applying hot pack on my muscles which gave me so much relief. Whenever we have body pain elders ask us to keep hot pack. The reason for this is heat in any form helps to improve the blood flow in that area. Therefore a hot pack helps to remove congestion in that area. So when my mother applied the hot pack my pain slowly disappeared and I was feeling a lot better. From then on I was really careful while driving because even today I remember the amount of pain that I suffered when I met with the accident.
My brother has a fascination towards animals and insects. It is so weird to see him go behind creatures like frogs and lizards. He catches hold of it and scares me. I run for my life. It was during my vacations that I and my family went to Munnar a beautiful tourist spot in Kerala. It was a great experience. The scenic beauty was truly mind blowing. We had a great time out there. It was then that my brother showed me an interesting stuff. He showed me that when an earthworm is cut into two. It becomes into two earthworms. I was totally taken aback. That is when he tells me that it is because the earthworms can regenerate the missing parts of the body. The simpler the structure of the animal the easier it is to regenerate or rebuild itself. Now I wonder how good it would have been if human beings also had this ability.
I am happy that I am a commerce student. I have always hated science right from my childhood. During my tenth boards I had a bad time learning chemistry physics and biology. That was the only subjects I was scared of. I had extra tuitions for it. I remember my science teachers. I used to hate them so much. Each time they catch hold of me asking some question I panic and I forget whatever little I know. They used to be my nightmare. The biggest problem I felt was to remember all those biological names that were in Greek and Latin. I wondered why they were in those languages. The reason for this was because during the ancient times Greek made great advancement in biology. The authority of Greek and Roman writers were great and they were respected and so the names given by them remained unaltered. Such was the case with many other branches of science. I still have a fear for science and I just can’t imagine myself to be learning science.
Even during school days I never remember a single scientific name of an animal and for that I was asked to stand outside for a class session.