Random Facts after a long Hiatus

I ahve been very busy last few weeks so didnt even get time to type stuff in the blog(well i did watch 24 every night)...yah we have been working hard in our lab to acheive a magneto optics trap(MOT) and we finally did it(me,max,kyle and murray)......so ...

*I joined salsa class....and it seems not very difficult...till the time ur paired witha girl taller than u and u cant really twirl her around(terrible i know...once i joked to the girl if she wants to lead)...but apparently(warnign to the feministS) salsa is a very sexist dance and a girl ahs a role and the guy ahs aparticular role and the guy always calls te shots when to turn and all ...all these messages conveyed thru pressure in the hands....well if the girl is too pissed she can puncture the guys foot with her heels(so its not so disbalanced)

*my collegue(another phd student) Kyle from united states...is allegric to nuts...but thru the events of the day...he always manages to swallow a nut.....and then starts the rashes and the groning noises and the feebling swallowing of benadryl in the lab....it has happened twice now alreay...so my lab is always stocked with benadryl...

*so we have been workign on this magneto optic trap which will later be used to create a BEC(bose einstein condensate)..so basically we have this really really absolutely ultra high vaccuumm(10^-11 torrs for those u understand) whre we have some rubidium atoms floating about .....then we have these 6 laser beams arranged along the coordinate axes ...so the laser beams slow the atoms and upon application of a special magnetic field(anti helmotz configuration)...the atoms get trapped into this glowing ball size of 1 mm....1 mm contains about 10 million aotms ...... so finally after workign on it for 3 mnths we have an amazing stable atom trap.....

*I bought a nikon d80(wohhooo) with 3 kick ass lenses ...one general wideangle (18-150mm) i think,one telephoto but the best is the f/1.8 lens which gives these amazing lowfocal depth pic.....im yet to expolre the potential of this camera...but ill be doin good

*classes have started ..taking advanced quantum mech...and accelarator based material characterization....im typing the blog in the materials class....its a saturday ..yah i go to school even on saturday.....

*i ahve been sober for 2 weeks...2 reasons .. i realized i had bene becoming fat cos of the bottles of wine and beer i had been binging and secondly i ran out of money.....soo i decided to drink less ofr sometime ..lose some wieght and then start again....

*i am not daitng anyone now...hehe somehow im am doina real good job of repellig woman...anyway i have 21 yrs ofpractise...sreya wont talk to me anymore....my sex life consists of sites like pichunter and celebritymoviearchives.......its good with lot of variety...haha
(ill remove this entry i think)

*i realize i ahve this amazing ability to survive inspite of my life being jus nothing.....my gf left me....im supposed to be destroyed right...but im surviving.....yah im a lil sad...and she was jus soooo nice...but i try not to think about it at alll.....wat good can come of it....she is not coming back.....ok rest of my life is goin real good ...hehe thats why im surviving......my collegues are fun to work with and the constant jocular environment is really uplifting.....

*funny incidents....
my friend went all the way to italy went to a pub and ordered wat he thought was an italian beer...truth is it was san miguel(philipines beer) popular in hong kong...also he said it was a gay bar ..which i dont believe him

my friend who is in offsshore(i donno somehting about oil pipes) had amazing visions about his life after graduation...hehe his exacts words were(Affected by the american sitcoms)..."I thought my life would be liek FRIENDS after i graduate with fun and hangin out but its like PRISON BREAK now cos i have to be at an offshore rig"

*people are in such an obsession for being "Cool"....wat is it all about...specially people i know from calcutta....wats this obsessive compulsive behaviour to hang out,booze,party.....hehe
i mean do that...but dont put it on ur resume like its a big factor.....its like they are in a pursuit of an image of wat they want themselves to be...someone defined cool for them and they are like okk lets follow these guidelines:

1) grow weird beards.....maybe a van dyke or a goateee.....truth is in most countrys their visas are gonna be refused if they go with the beard..

2) hookah obsession.....why for goodness sake....isnt it a lil gay sititng on ur knees sucking on a pipe for an hr.....do it well and u can earn a lot of money in dark alleys.....one person i know(not a friend) had a dillemma choosing between buying ahookah or an Xbox 360.....dumbass

3) drink whiskey and vodka......as if these are the only 2 drinks in the world.....maaan and tequila....tequila is bitter and there is a bit of theatrics when u have to drink it involved but its no way that amazazing...drink the 160 proof russian vodka and ill salut u.....

4)goin to a coffee shop everyday...why ...is it for the aircon..... or ur so insecure that u need to be surrounded by equally insecure people jus to feel safe that ur not alone (bohhooo)

*anyway ill be coming up with more photo stuff later....over and out...