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  <span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Phase 1 in my research is complete and i am probably way ahead than the rest of my class-mates in terms of amount of completion. But Phase 2 is a monster on which i am working on currently. It hogs all the time i have. The physics, the math, the software design and the actual coding in both MATLAB and .NET is making me bonkers. Dell was truly a paradise with lots of time to read but ironically, i might have caught up in pace with all the technological advancements i missed out in the past one year by reading blogs, articles and stories, news on .NET and general programming. I am in the process of designing my software code for the computational model and i can clearly see that the old tricks are still in the bag ! Wonderful. </span>
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  <span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">My PhD qualifiers are coming up this september and haven&#8217;t even started preparing for the behemoth. I am scared to my bones even thinking about it. I have to clear the qualifer this time, no matter what. Amidst all the chaos that is happening right now, i still need to squeeze in more time for the preparation. Oh well. Another challenge coming up. Need to get more coffee from the grocery store.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></p> 
  
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    The other day, I saw a bunch of Indian guys playing cricket on a nearby field. Fragile as i am, the feeling more intensified with the monotony, with strong desires to play, i walked away. Ironic. Confusing. But that&#8217;s how weird my mind is working these days. So then, i forced myself to play soccer at the recreation center and midway through the game i realized that i had no stamina left to run anymore. I had to bail out and watch the rest of the match from the stands. It was worse than pathetic. At the end of it all, there is just one conclusion. I need to take more time out and play something daily or am not gonna last my target of sweet 32, no matter what 😉
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    And oh yeah. Forgot my other recent addiction these days. &#8220;Unreal Tournament&#8221;. I remember back in those good old college days, when night out was just another regular day in &#8216;Octagon&#8217; &#8211; the computer lab, playing Unreal on the network with an alias &#8220;HellRaiser&#8221;. That sure as hell was fun 😉 Now, after almost 4 years, the memory haunts and the mind fell for it. So i installed Unreal and started playing online, using my unlimited DSL connection, and life has taken a twisted turn.
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    Sleep which i once so dearly loved, for which i bunked so many classes in college, so many morning hours with meetings in Dell, has become just another triviality. I don&#8217;t have to go to my office daily, and i do most of my work at home. But i still don&#8217;t have enough time to do lots of stuff i have wanted to do. It ain&#8217;t stress management or work management. That&#8217;s bull given by managers in a Dilbertish environment. There simply isn&#8217;t enough time ! Does anyone understand that ? Again. I ain&#8217;t cribbing my ass off here. That&#8217;s not the point. The fact i am pointing out is that either there simply isn&#8217;t enough time to go around in a day or i am surely becoming slower at what i do best. God i hope it&#8217;s the first one. Or maybe i just need more sleep.</span>
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