funny crawls in you

have you ever noticed those funny feelings you have before something important for which you are all prepared. I am blogging now, and I have a very important meeting 2 hrs from now. it happens all the the time right, feels funny sometimes. your thoughts vaccilate from tense to feel free and sometimes people snap.

but I am enjoying it, and anyway let me go through my stuff for one last time, will write in detail later.

keeping things tidy

Well just recently got rid of a roach problem at my place. This is one thing I have never been able to do all my life "keeping things clean and tidy". I guess it is ingrained in certain people and just brazes across the rest for a few moments and then it's gone. well now I am in my room now with everything lying around me and none of thme in places where they are supposed to be. Sometimes I chuckle saying "its ok thats cool" and then one day I say "am I living in a ghetto".

You see, in india things are much easier this way, you never need to clean your room, there is always someone to do that (in most cases it being my mom). you can never afford such luxuries here i guess.

By the way yesterday i checked out the latest linux OS released, simply awesome. I guess it is time people start using linux ending the micrsoft monopoly. But I just dont see it in the near future. I ask my dept secratary "bermie why dont u use linux" and she is like "Ravi, what's that". These people can only relate a computer to the windows xp desktop and MS word and nothing more.

I used to be fond of computers and long lines of coding a long back and then never showed interest in it, but I always had appreciation for breakthrough coding and now let me at least use linux (i know linux pretty well, i assure you)

nilavum malarum

sounds nice right, nilavum malarum paadudhu, en ninaivil mayangi pesudhu, nilai marandhu marandhu paarpathellam ....

wonderful awesome, the song is so evergreen that i can keep listening to it all day. i wish i was back in India having a nice time with all my friends around. for the past few days this feeling has been rubbing on me.

India is going great guns and its economy is progressing exponentially. I dont want to just hear this, I want to be in the midst of this progressing India. People make a lot of plans and strategies when they plan to return to their homeland and I am no exception.

United States is super dooper, but makes me feel lonely even though my dept just has 8 grad students and we all know each other very well and dept time is real fun.

I was just talking to bart zalewski, a polish colleague of mine who too misses poland and then me and bart went for a long drive and bart was planning to start a construction business in poland. Ok not bad, i thought if tata is making 1 lac cars, let me make 1 lac effienciency houses for my country.

let me make another strategy.

finally found a way

well, Abaqus has been giving me a hard time for the past few days. the drive through nail problem was never converging.

Today I finally configured something and yes, it works. It fact works very well.

So after a long time with theoretical mechanics, i went into to some hardcore building const. experiments and now back to modeling things using FEA.

feels good when the model works.

i'll have fun today.