Random Thoughts

Villager
My engineering college was very famous for notorious monkeys. Wait! I am not talking about us (the boys), I mean “Real Monkeys”. They invade classrooms in the early mornings, when very few students would be there. (VV was one among them). Once one of the boys was attacked by a group of monkeys and was bit by a monkey. So we had to rush him to government hospital near by. As usual the staff their said they were short of medicines dealing with monkey bites and we would have to go and get them from medical shops. Hardly surprising!
However, we saw a hilarious scene. One villager was talking to a doctor and was saying he had a snake bite. The doctor said “enna pambunu theriyama marundhu kuduka mudiyadhuya?” (“I could not treat you, unless I know which snake bit u?”). The villager took a dead snake from his yellow bag and said “Indha pambu thanga doctor kadichadhu. Adichu kondanthutein” (“This was that snake , I killed and brought it here”). The scared doctor said “sari sari ulla vei ya, sethurichu thana?” (OK, Ok..keep it inside, I hope it is dead).

Meena Ponnu
There was a Meena, 3 years old living next to our door. One evening, there was a power cut in the area. The kids were playing outside, in the streets and I was watching them. Meena too was running here and there with them. Meena’s mother told her “ey meena pulla, velila odadha. Andha marathu pinnadi pei iruku” (“Hey Meena, don’t run outside, there is a ghost in that tree”). It was very dark outside, even elderly kids got scared for a while. Meena ran to that tree pointed by her mother and came back and told other kids “aama pillaingala, angana rendu pei jingu jingu nu aadikittu iruku!” (“Yes kids, there are two ghosts dancing crazy”). Her mother went mad as she did not know how to terrify her.

Elephant born
The below picture shows an elephant delivering a calf. One can see how all other elephants help the mother in her delivery.



Do you know, only human beings have the habit of charging money for assisting a pregnant woman in her child birth? NO animal does that!