ODD things ... wow, whacky & weird !

WOW,   WHACKY   and   WEIRD

Dr. T. Rama Prasad,  www.rama-scribbles.in

PAPAYA  BIRD

27.01.2020 ...  Today, our driver Chinnasamy brought this odd-shaped papaya fruit from the local market.  I just added one pepper seed and a small bit of carrot and took a photo and video ... and displayed it in our reception room.  The video is below:

LOVERS

Today (14.02.2020),  one of our Nursing Students, Ms SWATHI, brought a rare vegetable specimen of two entwined tubers of white radish from the local market.  I just added a couple of pepper seeds to represent eyes and a couple of tiny bits of a vegetable to make them look like  a beak or tongue or whatever,  and took a photo in a particular angle which may make the vegetables look like a couple of lovers !!!  And, curiously, today is the Valentine's Day !!!

CRAWL in a PLATE

Tonight (19.03.2020), while getting up from the dining chair, I saw a curious figure, looking like somebody crawling, in the dining plate of my better half.  She had thrown a crumpled empty strip of tablets in her plate after having had dinner and a tablet.  I just took a photo and saved it.  Odd, isn't it ?

COVID  PAPAD  August 17, 2020

Not  a COVID  PAPAD:  A few pieces of a papad (appalam) were in my plate.  I found an art piece in them and took a photo.  It is an ordinary hotel papad  ( hotel, because all our kitchen staff unitedly took a holiday today ! ). 

TWIN  POTATO

This evening (28.08.2020),  one of our staff members, Mrs. Tamil Selvi Chinnasamy gave me this odd potato -- two potatoes joined together.  Part of it looked like a fish with a pit looking like an eye. I cut a wedge piece in the front and placed it at the back.  This gave the appearance of a mouth and a tail fin. That's all, very simple.

I hung this potato with a string along a wall in our kitchen two months ago.   See this photo taken after a lapse of two months ... sprouts are springing up ... nature,  great !!!

CHOCOLATE  DANCERS

I positioned two chocolates and a dry red chilly.  And added a couple of 'limbs'.  And took a photo and saved it ... that's it !

POPCORN  FOLK  DANCER

Today (29.05.2020),  I saw a few pieces of popcorn on our dining table ... one has the shape of rabbit ears.  I cut a few pieces into bits and arranged them to look like a figure.  Any fake news of popcorn as a preventive for corona ???

HEART  in  INDIA  -- July 12, 2020

A titbit on our dining table,  with a heart in India.

ROSE  APPLES

WATERY ROSE APPLE fruits are arranged in CO shape on our dining table today  (11.05.2020 - courtesy - TUA).  Why CO shape ?  Perhaps, the COVID influence !! For a change, let's talk about this rose apple- Syzygium aqueum .  The fruits are crunchy and watery, having antioxidant, anti-diabetic, anti-cholesterol and anticancer effects. The coloured variety has a very attractive glossy look. There would have been a great market if there is some sweet fructose in them. -- Dr. T. Rama Prasad, 'PAY WHAT YOU CAN' Clinic, Perundurai. 

MORNING WALK

COVID DANCER

I happened to see this TRIPLE  CARROT  (2 arms & 1 head) today.   COVID is much more abnormal than this carrot or any other virus.  Though the "Covid Dancer" is not tired of dancing for 17 months continuously across the globe,  people are dead tired of "masks, distancing & lockdowns", and even fatigued to read about the stereotypical "cases & deaths" or "comforting hopes &  depressing predictions".  It has become a blame game. Governments blame people, and people blame governments.  Countries blame each other.  Yesterday's approved drug is not recommended today.  Yesterday's data is no more right today.  Yesterday's enlisted Covid  hospital is sealed today.  Common man is confused. Trust has crumbled.  Chaos is prevailing.  And it is becoming increasingly difficult to convince people on anything about Covid -- this is the "COVID EFFECT".  When will Ms Covid stop dancing ?  It depends upon the BEHAVIOUR of three components --  PEOPLE, COVID VARIANTS, VACCINES. --  Dr. T. Rama Prasad, Perundurai, India,  June 2021

BOAT  RIDE  or  BIRD  RIDE  ?

August 28, 2021:    Mr. P.R. Vishnu, our staff member, brought these two odd-looking white radish tubers, on finding the beauty  of NATURE in them.  I just added 3 pepper seeds, positioned them and took a photo.  That's all.

SNAKE IN OUR GARDEN !

COAT HANGER  MANGO  !

This is one among the mangoes we bought.

MANGO  SEED  BIRD

    I opened the hard outer 'shell' of a mango 'seed'  and removed the inside seed.  I wrapped it in a wet tissue paper and left it inside a plastic bag, to retain the moisture,  for a few days.  When I removed it from the bag after some days,  I found it germinating in a shape as seen in the photo below, looking like a bird from a particular angle of view.  Of course I placed a couple of matchsticks underneath and  a pepper seed on it  representing the eye of the 'bird' (on July 20, 2021).  You may do it.  You may not see the same shape and colour, but you will see the seed sprouting, in the same way.  This is one way of speedily germinating mango seeds. Try it, instead of throwing away the seeds after eating mangoes.  --  T. Rama Prasad

Two days later, on July 22, 2021, there was some more growth, a stem coming up and a root going down, as can be seen in the photo below.  I took a photo, this time upside down, with a twig underneath and a pepper to represent the eye.  What an amazing change in 2 days !

MIYAZAKI mangoes

The Miyazaki mango, usually found in Japan, is known as the world’s costliest mango. The rare mango is now found in India in West Bengal's Birbhum district. It is priced at an exorbitant rate of Rs 3 lakh per kilogram.                                                    MANGO -- the king of fruits

Many may not know that the English word "mango" originated from the Tamil word "manga" (via Portughese - also "manga" in their usage). In Tamil Nadu, the mango is referred to as one of the 3 royal fruits (mukkani) along with banana and jackfruit. The trio is also called as 'Ma-pala-vazhai'.

It was in 1510 that "manga" was first recorded in a European language (French). The 'common mango' (Mangifera indica) originated in India and Burma. It is the national fruit of India and the Philippines and the national tree of Bangladesh.

-- Dr. T. Rama Prasad, 'Pay what you can' Clinic, Perundurai,    July 2023

CAPSICUM  cut into half in our kitchen

GINGER in our kitchen

One TAMARIND + four COCONUT pieces

Leftover cabbage pieces in our kitchen

Some roots

CONJOINED  TOMATO

          I found this odd-shaped tomato in our kitchen.  It looked like CONJOINED  TWINS.

CONJOINED  TWINS

who are identical twins born physically attached by tissues of the body.  The incidence may be one in 100,000 births.  They don't usually live long.  

          The most famous pair of conjoined twins was 'Chang and Bunker' (1811 - 1874).   The brothers were born in SIAM (now, Thailand) and hence the term SIAMESE  TWINS came into use as a synonym for conjoined twins.  Chang and Bunker were attached at the torso by a band of flesh, cartilage and fused livers.   At that point of time, surgical skills were not developed so much to separate them.   The brothers, together, traveled widely for many years, popularly known as 'Siamese twins'.

          

          In recent times, Abby and Brittany were born (1990) as a very rare case of DICEPHALUS  CONJOINED  TWINS -- 2 heads,  2  in 1  body,  each head controlling one half of the body, each one doesn't feel the other side of the body, each one having different personalities, likings, etc.

TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE  !!!

          Usually, such twins won't live long.  But Abby and Brittany grew up in a typical American family and graduated in high school (2008) and college (2012).   Each of the two with one body got driving licenses, to make sure that both know how to drive.

          They worked as 'a' school teacher in 2017 for one salary !

        CONJOINED  TWINS 
These twins with two bodies attached at the head level, are due to write their SSC exams in March 2020 at the same examination centre but on different hall tickets !  They hail from Nalgonda district in Telangana State in India.

 In our backyard, there is a guava tree.   It bore one 'TWIN  GUAVA'  fruit.

Quite often we see twin bananas

Here is the TWIN  LEMON -- courtesy  of  Prof. Karthick

TWIN  OKRA - LADIES' FINGERS

Peddababu (B.R. Prasad, M.Com, Visakhapatnam) found these twins in his backyard on 21.10.2020.

Very rarely, a conjoined apple (SIAMESE APPLE) may be found.  The fruit shares a single stalk, but has two cores and two sets of pips, creating a quirky mirror-image fruit.

Conjoined watermelons are as rare as Siamese twins.  Such changes may rarely be seen in other fruits and flowers.

A man named Ken Morrish had an apple on his tree with a dramatic colour as can be seen in the photo below ... a perfect line of demarcation between the green and red portion of the apple. The red half of the fruit tasted better !

The changes may be due to  a random weird genetic mutation.  One in one million fruits may have this chance.

Conjoined flowers.

Conjoined mice.

          William Shakespeare wrote:  "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, my dear Horatio."

MULTI-HEADED  CABBAGE

          While buying some vegetables in the market today (18.07.2019),  our driver Karthik found this odd-shaped, ten-headed cabbage and brought it.  Had you ever seen such a one ?

ODD  POTATO

Again today (04.10.2019), our driver Karthik picked up an odd-shaped vegetable - potato this time.

Miss  CARROT

      Again, today (!3.10.19), our driver Karthik brought one interesting vegetable -- a bifid carrot looking like the lower half of the body.  I made the upper half of the body with another carrot and photographed them together !!!  (See the photo below)  

"MANGOMELON"

           Today (December 2, 2019), our staff member, Veerakumar brought this oddly-shaped (mango shape) watermelon.

BILWA TREE … August 2, 2019

This evening, one of my patients was carrying a fruit of Bilwa tree … enthused by its shape, I took a photo of it. The leaves and fruits of this tree (Bilwa / Bael / Wood apple /Aegle marmelos / etc) are used in worshipping Lord Shiva. The tree is believed to have great spiritual and medicinal values. It takes nearly one year for the fruits of this tree to come to the stage of ripening. In the Newar community in Nepal, girls are “married” through rituals to Bilwa fruits to ensure fertility and to make sure that the society treats them not as widows when their husbands die ! The leaves resemble the ‘trishula’ wielded by Shiva. Noting my interest, the patient offered that fruit to Rama (me !) instead of to Shiva ! My interest in this fruit is because it looked remotely like a deer or some animal with two horns or long ears (see the photo) … somehow odd things like this come to my notice quite often. If you wish to read my small note on Shiva, click on: http://drtramaprasad.blogspot.com/2017/03/shiva.html



I just added one dot to represent eye, and two matchsticks to a BILWA fruit.  It made a lot of difference. 

August 15, 2020

This represents the REAL PATRIOTISM in the RURAL INDIA.  Reeling under the attack of CORONA,  many a city folk are switching over to agriculture for the good.  Migration to cities,  destruction of nature,  spoiling the environment and living a bad lifestyle have escalated existing diseases and brought in new diseases.  CORONA is teaching good lessons,  but the human being does not learn unless the pandemic lasts for a long time.