Like every other human I’ve also inherited the trait to explore,experiment,try and learn new things, everything and everyone around me have been subject of my experiments (I’m sorry if you are my friend or even a distant acquaintance you’ve involuntarily signed up yourself to be my lab rats). And one such experiments documentation is here.

Question 1: What would a bored 3rd standard student do when she sees a large brown beetle on her desk.

✗ Option A. Squeak — Nah! Too bored to do that.

✗ Option B. Dissect — Never! That would be inhumane.

✓Option C. Experiment — Yeah! Sounds interesting.

And now, I look around for a subject for my experiment and I find only one girl seated in the far end of the classroom, too far away from my place and wouldn’t fit my requirement. Then I look at the long queue of pupil standing besides the teacher’s desk and yes there he was, my friend waiting at the end of the queue; the perfect subject. Since he was standing towards the end, it would give me ample time to setup the equipments for conducting the experiment.

I quickly grabbed a paper from my bag and placed it front of the beetle, it took a while before the beetle decided to crawl onto the paper but finally it did. And I promptly opened his pencil box and tapped the paper on its edges as the beetle safely landed inside it I shut the pencil box tight.

Now, I was growing impatient to know the result of my experiment

Option A. Squeak.

Option B. Yell at me. (For putting a beetle in his box)

Option C. Cry and complain to the teacher.

Option D. Something more interesting.

And after excruciating 2 hrs of wait, he finally opens his box and nothing happens . I look at him and he is almost undisturbed and now I peek into the pencil box only to find that the beetle isn’t there, that sick insect flew away . Argh! that is one experiment that failed miserably.

But hours later I was getting my homework signed and all I could see from the corner of my eye was a red pencil box in mid-flight and all its components diving out. And clearly and very loudly the entire school was able to hear my friend yell “Enda ammae!!” (malayalam Oh my goodness).

Experiment Result : Option A and Option D

Option A : He squeaked and yelled.

Option D : Cause that little insect had decided to surprise me and crawl into the lower deck of his pencil box. (Hope you all have seen the “double decker” pencil boxes). And that is why the beetle wasn’t visible when I peeped into the pencil box. And definitely gave me the best surprise of the day.

Experiment status : Success