When in school I dreamt of becoming a famous scientist, maybe a Nobel prize winner. I am not sure if it was the fame that drew me towards the idea or the intelligence factor that impressed me, but well I imagined myself to be one.I had friends who decided we could make a beginning and so we started with the most undesirable creature that winged earth (bingo!! u guessed right) - the mosquito!!
Well, you may wonder as to why we( a set of pretty young girls ) decided to put our energies to understanding the mosquito,it was more for saving ourselves from that despicable creature. Studying in the Science Studies classroom we could simply not withstand the mosquito menace, we were senior students and that meant hours of hard work and loads of preparation for our boards but with the mosquitoes troubling, this was next to impossible. Hence the decision to find the finest and most inexpensive way to keep them at bay. The quest began, first the encyclopedia ( naah it never happened!!) to understand the life, the habits and the various interesting details of the subject. We moved on, studied all the biology textbooks(despite our syllabus having nothing to do with Biology!!) that we could lay our hands on. It was serious research and no detail about the "creature" was to be left out. There had to be some way that we could defeat them. First it was "safety swatters". They were neat, comfortable and totally easy to make. Use of paper to the hilt and that was what we did. A large palm sized piece of paper was taken, a handle jus enough to fit your hand (also made of paper) was attached and there it was. The "safety swatter" . It could be worn round the palm to swat the mosquitoes (flies included) without tainting your hands with blood. This increased the surface area of the palm giving absolutely no opportunity for the insect's escape. But the major drawback was, you had to concentrate all the time and it wouldn't be of any use if you were fast asleep.
After days of sweat and working under bathroom lights(mind you we were in a boarding school and don't question as to why we were doing this when instead we could be studying for our boards!! ) we chanced upon an unexplored theory(our own of course!!) that mosquitoes could never attack a being that produced a particular frequency. The theory, we thought, was perfect and so we decided to find that particular frequency. It so happened one day that some of us were making a buzzing sound (rather an annoying low pitched noise!!) just to irritate a few other girls who were seriously studying(I was a pain in the class. More of a rodent and I admit troubling sweet little girls trying to concentrate). While in pursuit of this impish job,we realized , this was the frequency that we were looking for, because as usual there were swarms of mosquitoes but none was actually attacking us. We had finally found(In Archimedes language, Eureka!!) the most inexpensive and effective way to keep the meddling mosquitoes away.That's why I say, in case you are being "consumed" by mosquitoes, you can alweyz hum them away ( Well, recognition comes slow and we are still waiting that coveted Nobel prize ).
