tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58182812024-03-07T04:56:16.694-05:00Life is a journey to be relished and enjoyed to the fullest.Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1139894783334581672006-02-14T00:21:00.000-05:002006-02-14T00:26:23.346-05:00

I am currently thumbing through a book called "The Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. A very interesting and thought provoking book that combines wit, humor and plot with common sense and intricate observations in the right proportions. After a long time, i feel i have read through a book that not only gives a nice plot (like Dan Brown's DaVinci) but also makes me think about my own self (Like

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1138711121062774932006-01-31T07:37:00.000-05:002006-01-31T07:38:41.073-05:00

Over this weekend, i just realised that snow boarding offered more fun for me than skiing...As they say,snow boarding is difficult to learn, easy to master...skiing is easy to learn, difficult to master...

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1138164603707927682006-01-24T21:39:00.000-05:002006-01-24T23:50:03.816-05:00

I was thinking of making it public after i completed the development of my portal by at least 50%...but then, as usual, i am lagging a bit behind.So here it is....www.chocolatemind.comChocolate can be sweet, semi sweet or bitter....so is life...Sounds very chocolatey...and childish...but i guess i liked it! :-) YUM!Right now, am caught up in work and other related stuff.....so more later...SS

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I was exploring my culinary interests lately...especially baking. I decided to try out a traditional home made chocolate chip cookie recipe...and YUM! it did turn out pretty tasty!My next trial is the Chocolate brownie!:-)

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1137284946592400182006-01-14T19:25:00.000-05:002006-01-14T19:29:06.606-05:00

Yes! it is true! :-)I finally bought a domain all for myself. I wanted to register the names www.borrasandhya.com,www.martinigeek.comthough both were available, I finally went for www.chocolatemind.comSo that is where i will be transitioning to in the coming few weeks. I am trying to make my site more like a portal with multiple applications and utilities and hey, if you want an email address

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1136423544906321762006-01-04T20:02:00.000-05:002006-01-04T20:26:06.973-05:00

We were camping in snow this time(Catskills mountain ranges in Upstate NY)....and snow shoeing across cross country ski trails to get to the camping point....a few pictures below:Thats the Vehicle (Chrysler Pacifica - i did not find anything really great about this vehicle) and thats the gear (now that was some gear!) :-) We were dressed in so many layers that we were actually sweating in the

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1135784088949022272005-12-28T10:13:00.000-05:002005-12-28T10:40:39.843-05:00

Never wanted to get back to normalcy! Never wanted to leave the place....Those were my feelings when i was flying out of vegas. I was so pleased with the quality of the night time pictures we took. A few samples of the pictures are below...Mirage-Treasure IslandFountains of Bellagio from Paris -Eiffel Tower...The fountains at Bellagio... I love this one...i am copyrighting it.

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1135133436025508762005-12-20T21:43:00.000-05:002005-12-20T21:50:36.040-05:00

i came across this funny little map....thought it was pretty aptly depicted. And oh yeah....vegas Rocks!!!

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1133929771939941172005-12-06T23:26:00.000-05:002005-12-06T23:30:57.116-05:00

We had the first major snowfall of the season yesterday. I thought i would wake up to bad roads and slippery driving...but, the snow actually seemed content to settle on the trees and appear pretty and not 'black-ice' the roads. I was able to really enjoy the drive to work today...and i am a snow lover (i just hate to drive in snow thats all! ;-)Vegas is on the horizon right now....my policy?

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1133152787263168512005-11-27T23:34:00.000-05:002005-11-27T23:39:47.273-05:00

I had found this site while browsing the other day. I thought it might be useful for students in search of valuable hard to find textbooks. This is a collection of free textbooks from around the web. The site is non-commercial, easy to browse or search, and has links to hundreds of free books and educational sites in a variety of subjects. Users can leave reviews of the books in the

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1132801796967475022005-11-23T22:06:00.000-05:002005-11-23T22:09:56.976-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!Me off to Pennsylvania...Shall be back in a couple of days.Thought of the day (for me) : Is Age really a measure of Maturity?I sometimes still feel like i think like a teenager... and yet sometimes, i surprise myself at how well i deal certain situations and people. However, i am not sure if people around me feel the same way!

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1132684981815824482005-11-22T11:17:00.000-05:002005-11-22T13:43:01.850-05:00

It seems so simple: three letters standing for energy, mass, and the speed of light, brought together with the tightness of a soundbite.Yet what it encapsulates is still hard for scientists to grasp. Einstein showed in a handful of lines that as you accelerate an object, it not only gets faster, it also gets heavier.Are we seeing any such revolutionary scientists who brainstorm fundamentals like

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1132549561777798162005-11-20T23:40:00.000-05:002005-11-21T00:06:01.833-05:00

I have to go shopping early on the black friday morning this year. We were pretty amazed at the ads coming out on some sites like bf2005.net( i do not know if this is legally chargeable!) But it has definitely helped my friend (for whom i will be shopping this year), since he is going to India and has a big list of items to tackle.As for me, planning to get a 250GB USB high speed Portable Hard

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1132546397899036972005-11-20T23:00:00.000-05:002005-11-20T23:13:17.930-05:00

I had been reading a lot lately about Google Analytics. Now, thats an interesting tool! But, it is not available to Public right away. You have to subscribe and wait for your turn on the waiting list. Yet,....it might be worth a wait. After all, its from Google! :-)

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1131723625641209552005-11-11T10:09:00.000-05:002005-11-11T10:40:25.690-05:00

After realizing that hanging on to some thoughts subconsciously actually narrowed down my thinking considerably, i decided to let it go. And i have not achieved that completely yet. But i am trying! (sorry for not mentioning the actual thought -- but since i am trying to let it go....i thought it would be best not to mention what it was! :-)Leaving that topic aside, let me not deviate anymore

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1131570970150806552005-11-09T15:57:00.000-05:002005-11-09T16:25:50.930-05:00

Who AM I ????The most rhetorical question...isnt it? Or is it called "Self Discovery"? Since when did we have to know what we really know?Since when did we have to grope in darkness as to what we really are?Since when did we start losing touch with our own self????On a crazy afternoon at work, i suddenly realized something. I had held on to something so subconsciously, that i wasnt even aware of

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1131334060609055602005-11-06T22:22:00.000-05:002005-11-06T22:27:40.623-05:00

I got interested in football nowadays(thanks to a close friend)...not to brag abt my new SONY plasma hdtv ;-) but, its amazing to watch the game on a bigger screen...nowadays, me and my friends make it a point not to miss the Sunday Football...always at my place! :-)I did watch a few football games live, with the audience, at TTU...but i never really understood what was going on in the field. I

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1131035081663425242005-11-03T09:38:00.000-05:002005-11-03T11:46:28.663-05:00

I recently put up a counter on my blog, just to see how many people hit my page everyday. The numbers are pretty good ( i am bragging a bit here :-)). Although i cannot say where the hits come from, i at least know that some other humans read my blog! So this is where it gets interesting. When we read something, people like to know what others think about the post. Its Natural! So it would be

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1128957625286347612005-10-10T11:11:00.000-04:002005-10-10T11:36:29.260-04:00

I keep returning to this amazing place again and again... This time it was to see the peak fall colors inside the white mountains of New Hampshire. True to its word, the entire forest was at its peak color and ablaze with reds,golden yellows and bright Orange. Plus, we were literally walking in the clouds,since the mountains are at pretty high altitude.Yes, we had clouds beneath us and it felt

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1127930505272720612005-09-28T14:01:00.000-04:002005-09-28T14:01:45.286-04:00

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1126663210350953242005-09-13T16:36:00.000-04:002005-09-13T22:19:11.366-04:00

Hey folks,I am finally back from my trip to YellowStone National Park. And i cannot fine more than ONE word to describe the experience - "AMAZING"!!!!I was so awed by the place that I have now started working on making a full fledged movie file on the YNP. I had more than a thousand pictures taken and therefore would make very good content for it. Also, i was very happy again with my camera and

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1125459636246266702005-08-30T09:36:00.000-04:002005-08-31T00:26:50.100-04:00

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep" - Thus spake Robert Frost almost a century ago. I only came to know very recently that the woods he was referring to was the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. Now, how many of us know that? I was lost in these lovely, deep and dark woods all this weekend, driving the BEST machine on the roads yet (the Infiniti FX sporty SUV), on the scenic

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1124219055951068472005-08-16T14:52:00.000-04:002005-08-16T15:14:07.886-04:00

I sometimes feel pictures are worth a thousand words. Here are a few pictures showing the Independence day celebrations here in NewYork-New Jersey. The unanimous religion of being an "Indian" is so popular here...Mera Bharat Mahaan.

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1124218257494816082005-08-16T14:46:00.000-04:002005-08-16T14:50:57.500-04:00

Skype is currently the number one consumer VoIP application and boasts more than 30 million registered users.Yahoo is now stepping into the competition with rumors that it would come up with something that would match Skype or maybe even better! A new Yahoo! service could certainly step up the competition but Skype appeared calm about the rumours.

Sandhyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10672673081734940842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818281.post-1123616046922079812005-08-09T15:29:00.000-04:002005-08-09T15:34:06.930-04:00

After a slight confusion, we finally decided we were going to the YellowStone National Park, instead of the Grand Canyon. That only increases my happiness either way...And on a different note, it was only today i realized 2 things about remote desktop connection:1) Only a XP Professional can act as a remote Host..and NOT a XP home2) There is a remote desktop Web client...in case you dont have

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