101 Cookbooks is a mouthwatering site... Yesterday, while I was surfing through different blogs, in a particular site I found a link to this site. The site has loads of recipes from all around the world (almost) and boy I was really hungry after spending more than 3 - 4 hours looking at those pics.

This site is designed and maintained by Heidi Swanson with help from a host of generous and talented contributors. You can also see Heidi's cookbook collection and directly order them or add to your cart (if u r in a position to possess them :( )

Anyway I found some cool recipes and willing to try soon (but bit difficult to find some of d ingredients)
One most easiest recipe is "Gold Coast French Toast" (French toasts and Bombay toasts r my all time favs)

Click on images to see their recipes

Gold Coast French Toasts

Just look at this chocolate mousse ( my girl-friends' fav dessert - and mine too)

Amaretto-spiked chocolate mousse

I was studying MIS while I was surfing but I could only finish 1 page of 6 slides and I finally promised my self that I won't look @ this site until I finish the note but I couldn't help myself staring @ these mouthwatering cookbook collections........I was starring @ this image for a loooong time!!!!

cherry ice cream

WARNING! - this site is So! Not good for the people who r on diet and willing 2 diet.

Finished three papers and one to go. The last paper (computer vision) was an utter chaos. The prob was not with d paper but with my eyes. Anyway one MIS paper to finish and then THE PROJECT TIME!!!. I'm sooooo lazy 2day and don't feel like doing anything. ( not even blogging!) Yesterday played more than 10 big fish games and I'll write some reviews later......At the moment I'm not at all in a mood 2 continue.

Married to the Sea is full of artistic comics and it's daily updated by a married couple; Drew & Natalie. I have depicted some of d comics...

House fire

Beer before bed

Harp center

Enjoy a daily comic @ Married To The Sea

Today's subject (in the final exam) was Theory of Computing! It used to be my favourite subject of this year although writing regular expressions is bit confusing to me. I understood the subject for a certain extent @ lectures and thought too much studying would spoil my memory( overconfident ). But when my boy friend asked me to write some regular expressions YIPES! I can't even write the most typical ones. So I started serious studying from Saturday eve. There were 12 lectnotes and last nite re-read all of 'em and thought to finish b4 10 p.m. Finally finished reading at 12 and missed Alias. It's d first time I missed an episode of Season 4... and the paper was a crap! So never miss ur fav cartoon, movie or whatever bcos of studying!

After playing Mystry Case Files : Huntsville and Prime suspects I was craving for another mystry solving game. I found a small demo of LAW & ORDER Justice is Served from Big Fish. You can buy this legacy game from Just Adventure. It's a great mystry solving game and the demo will give you a taste of the first half of the game. Victim is Elena Kusarova, a highly ranked player from Ukraine and unfortunately you find her dead at the begining of the game. You are detective Lennie Briscoe's partner and these are the goals you have in demo:

Unfortunately it's only a demo (sigh!!)

Yesterday I found a new way to waste time more effectively! (It doesnt mean that i'm fed up with puzzle games & yahoo games..) Last week I upgraded Yahoo mail (Beta version) and cool! now you can read any RSS feed while checking mails. There were some default RSS feeds provided and Braingle is one of them. Braingle has the largest collection of brain teasers, games,riddles...etc (they say so). I joined the Braingle community because they have loads of small games which you can play online and they arent that easy... Yesterday I played a puzzle game called Beanstalk where we have to plant and grow a beanstalk to go the next level. It seemed quite easy in the begining but you score according to the number of steps you take. You have to move the ingredients to the X mark in the given order and I still couldnt go beyond level 6 :( (have to try today).


I tried few other games like

• Hang Glider - where you have to fill words and keep the hang glider aloft
• Pirate's Booty - like minesweeper (dig treasure, keep up the moral of your crew)
• Word search puzzels - you can create your own one too
• Ofcourse you'll find Sudoku too

To improve your mind go the Mentalrobics section where u can find stuff like memory tests.
If you feel bored (and if all the downloaded games are expired ) don't just idle, go to : http://www.braingle.com/

Enjoy! ( @ ur own risk...)

Found a cool guide to add posts into different categories in the "Code 'n Play" Blog. According to his guide only 3 steps to follow and yes! u have categorized ur posts neetly.

Just visit http://mudali.blogspot.com/ and u'll find the post "Blogger Categories Using Javascript - The Complete Guide".

Under the Duvet - Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities by Marian Keyes

After a long, exhaustive academic period I gotta chance to visit my girl friend at Galle. She was also having an academic break but unfortunately it was her study leave :( So I had to find a way to kill my time; first day morning - no option, started re-reading John Grishams' Runaway Jury! and Dulangi (my friend) was studying Gyn & Obs (that was what i was thinking) but she was giggling then and there looking at her notes. I was thinking 'what's so funny about studying some 70 to 80 boring lecnotes' and had a glance over her notes. Voila! My dear old friend has never changed, she was reading a nicely printed, hard covered book with the title "Under the Duvet". The cover it self looked funny and it was a non fiction (i seldom get a chance to read 'em) At the very moment i asked for that book and she was like "NOooo Way.."
Now what! I gotta grab that book from her smhow & the best way was to blackmail her :)) I made her feel guilty, for reading novels during a study break. ( Low marks, No merit, Internship in rural area, No coming home for months blah blah) Yuppy! Finally grab hold of the book.

Under the Duvet is a collection of personal essays on office parties, shopping, driving lessons, family and many other mishaps faced being a public figure. The best thing is that u can start reading from any chapter u want and believe me u won't give up reading it. It's funny but real!
It's a common fact that women(not all) crave for jewelry, perfume, dresses and fancy little ornaments and for Marian she loves shoes and LTFs (Long Term Friends). Marian has her own way of observing life .

"Some people take to their beds to escape from their lives; Marian Keyes takes to her bed in order to reflect on her life. She really does spend her days "under the duvet," comfortably propped up on pillows and typing away on her Sony Vaio laptop. Meanwhile, her husband of nearly a decade, Tony Baines, keeps the home and business fires burning from a more traditionalworkplace downstairs, communicating with his wife via a dedicated telephone line"
-------------quoted from a reveiw by Bethanne Kelly Patrick

Anyway she was lucky to have a supportive husband like that with so much patience... (there r only handful in some countries)


Extracted from chap 1:
" When people ask me what I do for a crust and I tell them that I'm a novelist, they immediately assume that my life is a nonstop carousel of limos, television appearances, hairdos, devoted fans, stalkers and all the glitzy paraphernalia of being a public figure. It's time to set the record straight. I write alone, in a darkened bedroom, wearing my pj's, eating bananas, my laptop on a pillow in front of me. Occasionally -- it usually coincides with promoting a book -- I am led, blinking, into the daylight, and when I try to talk to people, discover that I'm not able to, that I've become completely desocialized. And as for being mobbed by adoring fans -- I'm never recognized. Once I thought I was, but I was mistaken. I was in a shoe shop (where else?), and when I asked one of the girls if she had any of these sixteen shoes in my size, she looked at me, put her hand on her chest and gave a little gasp. "It's you!" she declared. It is, I thought, thrilled to the marrow. It is me -- I'm famous! "Yes," the girl continued. "You were in the pub last night, you were the one singing, weren't you?" I was so disappointed I could hardly speak. I'd been nowhere near any pub the night before. "You've a great voice," she said. "Now what size do you want these shoes in?"

"Under the Duvet" is hilarious and yes i'm gonna read Marian Keyes' "Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married" soon.

Just pay a visit to Marian Keyes Book site: http://www.mariankeyesbooks.com/index.html

Men always have lot of logical explanations for everything they do (Good or BAD) and they are hard to defend.
This article is about an interesting research :

"Men do have trouble hearing women"

Ok for your ease I'll just quote the article which you can read from : http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1431915.htm

"Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse - women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's.

Reports say researchers at Sheffield University in northern England have discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.

The research shows men decipher female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engage a simpler mechanism.

Michael Hunter as saying, "the female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural 'melody' in their voices".

"This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice," Mr Hunter said.

The report says the findings may help explain why people suffering hallucinations usually hear male voices - the brain may find it much harder to conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false male voice.

The research is published in the specialist magazine NeuroImage."

It's exam time again...My favorite time of the year!
Oh NO! Not because I really love studying (Craving :D ) but because u get more time to enjoy! For me this period means Yahoo games,Yahoo games... entertainment, yeah and extra reading (lec notes). You have No assignments, No projects, No home work...!
Since the bandwidth usage is low during exam times (very few pay a visit to d lab) I can easily download plenty of little games and at the moment I'm really addicted to that stuff.
http://games.yahoo.com/games/front - there u go you have plenty of fun games to download but what's unfair is that they EXPIRE!!!! When you approach the most exciting level (Boom!) it expires.

One of the most addictive games are the mystery Case Files : Prime Suspects and MCF:Huntsville. If u like mystery solving and puzzles, believe me they are eye challenging and u gotta think differently.

Most of the puzzle games have similar kind of procedure to follow but some games get really hard to play when leveling up.

If you want to play loads of games online here's another place to visit.
http://www.bigfishgames.com/ - Big Fish Games.
Lot of downloadable games you find in Yahoo games are Big Fish Games.
Unfortunately I had a problem for some games i have downloaded recently from Big Fish. After installing the game, I was unable to see the content of the first page launched. This is typically caused by personal firewall software or by "Internet Zone" security settings that are set too high. A simple procedure is detailed in the Support Center.

Can't waste too much time cos have to try out the newly downloaded stuff. Chao!

Everything has a begining and here goes nothing!

It's my first blog and bit confused about what to write.