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The first roses of summer have bloomed in our backyard. Hopefully the start of a summer of vibrant colours. [caption id=“attachment_139” align=“alignleft” width=“640”][/caption] [caption id=“attachment_142” align=“alignleft” width=“640”][/caption] [caption id=“attachment_141” align=“alignleft” width=“640”][/caption]

One of the biggest troubles I’ve grappled with over the last few years is maintaining a consistent level of motivation in all my work. I’m pretty sure grad school is intended to be more of a test of character than your ability to solve a differential equation, purely because it seems infinitely harder to maintain a clear understanding of why you’re doing what you’re doing, as opposed to looking up a theorem in a book or paper, and doing some algebra/numerical work.

Every time I fly long-distance, I wonder why no one has come up with an “adults-only” airline. I absolutely love babies, but put a cranky, screeching one inside a sealed metal tube, and you have the ingredients for the biggest baby-lovers to plead for adult-only bliss.

Does exam invigilation really work? I’m sat here in a room with 32 students, heads down, working through some fun rocket motion problems, and it strikes me as quite a waste of time for everyone concerned, for me to sit here.

Keeping with the cooking spirit yesterday after lunch, I tackled Thai food for dinner. I think having Indian blood in me, enjoying Thai food is just part of my make up.

I’m not one generally for working from home. I find it quite isolating, and, when you’re sitting in the suburbs, downright boring at times. There are a number of benefits though.

The 2012 Abu Dhabi GP has got to go down as one of the most exciting I’ve watched recently. There have been plenty of great races over the last few years, and this one definitely ranks up near the top.

Finally, I decided to migrate to a Wordpress-based site. I hope this means that I’ll be more motivated to keep the content here updated more frequently. There’s plenty to report since my last post, almost a year ago.

The months have flown by since my last update. Since August, I have been working hard on trying to get the Mab-problem sorted out. I am now at the stage that I can hopefully start drawing conclusions from my results that will have a bearing on whether the hypothesis of the study can be valid.

It’s been a whirlwind few months. I’ve crossed more timezones than I care to remember, traversed more kilometers than I can count, and seen more places than I can remember at the moment.