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It was May 11, 2009. I had to go to my office to get a report evaluated. It was a scorching Sun, like a ball of fire, looking down upon me asking "enjoying..eh!!" and then vehemently laughing as I perspired.

It was 11:47am and I got a flat. Took my bike to the nearest petrol pump and stood there as the mechanic told me that the tube that the tyre had was a misfit. I asked him to replace it with the right size one. However, as was with Helius, the mechanic told me that he didn't have any new tubes, but could make some "jugadu" arrangements with another used misfit.

As I instructed him, I saw a very beautiful chameleon - half muddy brown, half green; it got down from a tree. It was an interesting situation. The chameleon approached a pile of dead leaves. It waited, moved with subtle grace, changing its color to that of dust now, moving each leg just a centimeter towards the leaves. It seemed that the four legged little guy was looking for something. Food. I waited and watched, not paying attention whether the mechanic was fixing my tyre of ruining it.

The chameleon moved towards the dead brown leaves near the tree at the roadside. It made me feel that an insect was about to be made dead. But it went past the dead brown leaves near the tree at the roadside.

I looked closely observing what it was doing. The creature moved each limb with unmatched grace. Taking it's time. Not looking in any other direction. Probably it had all its senses alert to evade any enemy/prey that wanted to consume it, however I of course could not see. And it went past the brown leaves, slowly, turning grey, climbing a boulder now.

Something else was the target. All of a sudden, the chameleon dug its face into the silvery stone. It took the reptile a split of a second at enormous speed to do that. Up rose the head that was chewing onto something. An ant; maybe.

The bike was ready to hit the road. I paid the guy 60 bucks and was off to East of Kailash.

life is intelligent

I had to go to Mohali to see my grandma. It was raining and the traffic was chaotic. I stoped at a signal near Sector-26 in Chandigarh. The heavy transport was high for the nearing festival season. Trucks and lorries carried indstrial load for the economic zone to the left of the road. Light vehicles intended to go to the city. It was a T point and I had to go straight.

The road had mango plantation on the both sides. The greenery was lush and beautiful.

There were police officers trying to challan the offenders. The the most obedient towards traffic rules and thus wary of dangers, accidental hazzards and health problems was a dog.

This clever dog that I saw waited at the signal behind a horse cart till it was red. No sooner than the signal turned green the dog started running underneath the cart to save itself from the terrible traffic and the rain.

It is such a general sight. Something one wouldn't ponder about. But I don't know why I did contemplate and thought about the dog running under the cart.

Life is intelligent. It observes the surrounding environment. Measures the parameters of existence and quantitates the variables of necessity. Life calculates the availability of these variables and gauges their benefits. There can be instances of circumstantial deficit in variable resources in which case beings try and avail substitutes of the required. Adaptability of life towards its facultative surroundings is vey interesting.

It is a change in the organism in order to live successfully. Adapting in the environment enables it to cope with bionomic pressure and stresses. The underlying genetic basis for adaptability in an organism arose because of greed. Every life form wants to survive and in the process moves towards attaining that particular resource variable which gives it maximum advantage. This is a phenomenon where a bearer of the genetic argument selects something which is more likely to support its survival.

It was very interesting to see what the dog did.

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man

• a palm is the width of four fingers
• a foot is the width of four palms (i.e. 12 inches)
• a cubit is the width of six palms
• a man's height is four cubits (and thus 24 palms)
• a pace is four cubits
• the length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height
• the distance from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is one-tenth of a man's height
• the distance from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin is one-eighth of a man's height
• the maximum width of the shoulders is a quarter of a man's height
• the distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand is one-fifth of a man's height
• the distance from the elbow to the armpit is one-eighth of a man's height
• the length of the hand is one-tenth of a man's height
• the distance from the bottom of the chin to the nose is one-third of the length of the head
• the distance from the hairline to the eyebrows is one-third of the length of the face
• the length of the ear is one-third of the length of the face

The navel is naturally placed in the centre of the human body, and, if in a man lying with his face upward, and his hands and feet extended, from his navel as the centre, a circle be described, it will touch his fingers and toes. It is not alone by a circle, that the human body is thus circumscribed, as may be seen by placing it within a square. For measuring from the feet to the crown of the head, and then across the arms fully extended, we find the latter measure equal to the former; so that lines at right angles to each other, enclosing the figure, will form a square.

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