An Engineer's Romance

During the systolic ventricular contractions of my heart, the Tricuspid and the Mitral valves close only with the hope that when they open, the heart would no longer be under the control of my Medulla. During the diastole, the atria relax with an optimism that in exchange of the loss, my Medulla gets another pump to handle.

When I see you, the blood pressure in my heart mounts translating into higher velocity in accordance with the Bernoulli’s principle thus surpassing the Reynolds number for blood, leading to turbulences in my heart. This leads to the increase in the stress in the fluid thereby attempting to simulate by Computational Fluid Dynamics methods the only unsolved problem of classical physics and mathematics- the Navier-Stokes equation.

If you feel my heart is in dire straits and needs rehabilitation, my brain is much worse. The sensory neurons are longing to carry the message from you while the motor neurons want to convert it into actions pertaining to you. The afferent neurons search for the smell of your hair, your body, your perfume!

Most of my memory has been converted to the hardwired Read Only Memory (ROM) giving me no choice of changing its contents. The small Random Access Memory (RAM) which I have been spared with, keeps randomly drifting on to you. The Cache in my memory even though n way set associative for the most part of the secondary memory is directly mapped to the addresses in the secondary memory in which the data related to you is stored.

The deeply pipelined multiple execution units Superscalar processor of mine gives immense priority to the sub-instructions stemming from the larger instructions pertaining to you in the Reservation Stations. Such a lopsided Tomasulo Algorithm, even though not optimum is my pleasure. The Graphics Processor, by now, has developed a special sub routine to process your images in my memory.

In the healthcare sector of the stock market, I know your price is really high and my equity is limited but I am extremely undervalued hence I believe it’s not a bad deal. Also this time you have the 'Call option' which is really advantageous to you. I understand there are people with more prepaid expenses, inventories, marketable securities who can look good on paper but I have ample amounts of intangible assets like brand, goodwill and trademarks!!

If you are rejecting this proposal, you are bound to be tried under Indian Penal Code 378 on stealing organs (my heart) and paralyzing my brain and sentenced to life imprisonment. Though it’s a bailable offense you have committed and the bail is lifetime imprisonment with me!