Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume..... . . ~Jean de Boufflers

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Almost Indian.
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A group of students went on a school exchange programme in India recently, and came back to share these insightful photos.
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This is the entrance to the Biology lab of the school.
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The external facade looked rather spunky, inspired possibly by some Petra-esque architecture.
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This is what the inside looks like :
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I imagined some top Indian doctors and scientists spending countless days perpetually hunched over these lab tables experimenting on some curry powder during their younger days as students. Heck, for all you know, one of the tables could be the bed for Rabindranath Tagore.
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Check out the 'vintage' feel of the apparatus. Any ol-skool physician would be inspired by this set-up. You can wear Victorian-era get-ups and stand anywhere inside the lab and be mistaken for Alexander Fleming - with curly sideburns, of course.

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Check out this classic learning aid.
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I kinda dig how they portrayed the eyelids as 'hook-like' appendages - like in-built coathangers. Cool but very rigid-looking, evil eyelids that looked like they were casted in some kind of L-shaped mold and then superglued to the eyeball.
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BUT the real reason why they wanted me to see their photographs was because of this :
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Damn. I didn't know I had a market share in India's convenience stores.