Monday, 23 July 2012

Bonnet Macque (Macaca Radiata) Visits the Kitchen




Does anyone know what to do when a monkey visits your house and decides to grab some free bread? I am not really sure, and I am certainly not accepting the answer "FREAK OUT", because I know that's not going to work. And I say that with experience. A monkey actually just visited our house, went so close to my cake that my mother forbade me to eat it, took our packet of bread for snack and polluted the environment by discarding the plastic cover in our yard. And they say only humans cause global warming.

This is like a repeat episode of the Snake in the yard, with one huge difference. The difference: the snake was stopped from entering the house, but the monkey wasn't. 
Details: the monkey was sitting on the wall opposite our back door. I happened to notice the monkey just as i finished a science article about 'Rabies'; talk about coincidences. I was too scared to go and close the door and I started shouting for my mother to come downstairs. I then realised that I could close the door myself, but it was TOO LATE! By then the monkey had come inside and was exploring the dining table (and you might think that it was my fault). That was when the FREAKing OUT part happened.

I picked up an apple and drew the attention of the monkey to it. I then rolled it out of the door and saw that the eyes of the monkey followed the (not so) delicious apple. But no luck; the monkey did not follow the apple outside. I tried the same thing a few more times, and gave up as the monkey turned it's back on me. Man, what all you have to do to impress these modern monkeys. You know how you feel when people ignore you? Somehow, it was worse when this monkey did it.

Then this monkey stepped into our kitchen. And instead of staring at the monkey that had developed a new interest in our stove, I ran for my camera. I was 20 steps and 1 click away for getting one of the funniest pictures. And I missed taking the picture. By the time I jumped the last 9 steps in a single leap, the monkey had gone out the door (and the jump was not because of the influence of some monkey, mind you). I was disappointed and relieved at the same time. But when I saw what was happening outside, I realised that I could still get some good pictures. The monkey had stolen a packet of bread and unwrapped it on the wall. It then disposed the packet into our backyard and scrambled onto the window sill of our neighbour's house, and was enjoyed it's late snack and left from there. That was the end of the bandit monkey episode.

I might have missed a few things so please look below.
  • My dog  was barking all along as the monkey committed it's crime. Fortunately it was tied
  • You know everyone says that monkeys are incarnations of the Hindu monkey God Hanuman? Unless getting your bread stolen is a divine blessing, I wouldn't believe it.
  • People say monkeys are smart. I think that doesn't really matter if they don't have basic manners (don't pollute the environment).
  • Forgot to mention, I think the species of the monkey that stole our bread is the Bonnet Macque and thats the English, not the scientific name.
  • My mother later told me that when I went to get my camera, I missed seeing the monkey flying from cupboard to cupboard and almost nearly stepping into the cake.
Note: I think I specialize in writing about abnormal animal incidents, which rarely take place.

    Monday, 9 July 2012

    Timetables, and Death by Bernoulli's Principle

    Finally
    I heard that it is not a good idea to start a post with if, so I have decided to start a post with "I heard that it is not a good idea to start a post with if.....". I really hope you don't mind. Anyway, if you are wondering why I haven't posted for this long, it is because I was trying to finish 4 posts at the same time, and I didn't have any time. I was actually going to write about my vacation, and the details of my vacation, and something else, and this, but this one got over first and I can finally post.

    And coming to my timetable. Well, it's kind of hard to explain. I have almost one free hour the whole week, and I usually end up playing video games or something. I actually wanted to paste the whole timetable in this post, but my mother didn't let me do it. So I don't think I can. Anyway, I would like to conclude the post by..... no, not yet. I skipped the Bernoulli's Principle part.

    So, the Bernoulli's Principle is this Principle discovered by Bernoulli, which states that when wind blows really fast between two objects and low pressure is created between them, the objects get attracted to eachother. Take an example of a train. If you stand really close to the train, the wind caused by the train creates low pressure. Then the pressure behind you is higher, and pushes you towards the train. Death by Bernoulli's Principle is when the high pressure pushes you onto the railway tracks. And, I think i'm getting late for school, so I would like to end the post.

    Note: Don't stand next to a train to check if what I said was really true. That would not be a science experiment, it would be suicide.