Salsa Zone

I'm learning Salsa from Michelle Badion at the UW Experimental classes. I'm pretty interested by the moves I learned so far. Here is the sampler, well not a video tape yet but just more ramblings :).

• Dont do basic steps at any point the easiest thing to make the follower feel that she is going places is to keep doing half turns all the time.
  
• If you are in a close hand position and want to go to open arm position then do a half turn to get in that position.
  
• Basic step 1-3, turn - turn - turn 5-7, Back Step 1, She 2 goes, Back Step 3, he goes 5, back step 6, she goes 7, basic 1-3 : Is michelle favorite turn!
  
• Fancy turn: raise her arm- 1, back turn 2-3, turn her around to side 5-7 and she is locked in to you, front step 1,-3, turn her out 5-7 ...
  
• Side step has three turns: Full swing (one and half turn) outside turn, Half inside turn, full inside turn.
  
• Side step is like basic 1-3 and step on side on 5 and 6-7 is the turn or she goes to the other side (ie half turn).
  

Thats all for Salsa as of now. I have to write the step in more detail and there are quite a few i forgot ;).

VaiBHAv's Homepage The UCSC all in one web-page, which i so dearly and nearly need to update. Its time to thing of a webstrategy, there is a craze nowaday of blogging. Atanu Dey, keep one for his ramblings, and seems folks have started aggregating desi bloggers!

Blogging is a great concept as it serves the purpose of keeping a daily dairy and a list of web-marks. But i dont know sometimes I would like to write things which are just for me not public and i love to use a book and a pen...it promotes thinking. I havent been convinced of the digital thinking capability, thats one of the reason why i ramble here :).

Btw, some one said a nice thing yesterday
People keep talking of Digital Divide but what about TV Divide, Radio Divide why wasn't there one!

~laterz

Split it

Fitness Challenge 2005 Describes a nice way of how exercise should be split up. I'm going to split the way I exercise in two One day do chest and back and Other day do Biceps, Triceps and Shoulders. Abs and Cardio should be done everyday.

Primarliy I have to figure out more chest exercises. The above link has some nice suggestions which i should explorer.

Lego Mindstrom in .NET

Check:http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/research/lego.NET/. I have done a lego networking protocol and software development this brings back the old toy memories !!

Time and again it seems to be really really difficult to win people. I wonder what how trust incubates. We seem to trust people in about couple of minutes while even after a life-time one fails to trust a sincere person. Is trust a two way handshake? or Is it a culmination of events. Lessons in inter-personal phsychology!! :)

Mark pointed out that inspite of declaring my self as half Catalan i didn't ask forgiveness in the language. So here i go, "Perdoneu-me, si us plau". Its has really been great hearing from friends after a long time. Every once in a while many small glitterring and tittering remenisces of mates makes one feel better :) but keeping in touch strengthens that bond.

On an unrelated point i'm interested in looking at alternative ways of authoring in modern times. The same ol' traditional way of sitting, organizing ones thoughts and then pennning then down can certainly be bettered!! I remeber Jason at UCSC had an interesting idea of having a spider run through some of onces unrelated ideas and make a poem for you. He claimed this to be a good working material to render the poem better, than the traditional mode of the dreamers. Any other relevant efforts?

Shyamapana

Its Shyampana Day - the last day of Parushan. Here is what i would like to say to all my buddies..

Dear Friends:
Liebe Freunde

Of late I've really been guilty of not keeping in touch. So here is the reason - what better, a festival!! Yep it’s the "Shyamapana festival". Shyamapana is a festival of forgiveness; it’s popular in folks of Jain faith. This day culminates a week long fest of repentance called as "Paryushan". To quote an article :

"For 357 days of the year we carry out our responsibilities to our business, our family and our career. We live a very busy, worldly life. In the process, we accumulate a lot of mental and emotional clutter. We gather unnecessary baggage of pride, fear, animosity, greed, ego and delusions in our thoughts and feelings. So Paryushan is the time to clear that clutter and make a bonfire to burn that junk, that rubbish which is corrupting our minds, our lives and our relationships. The Jains have designed the special eight days of Paryushan as a time of reflection, purification and renewal."

So over the last year if I would have hurt your feelings in any way or form, please forgive me – “Michammi Dukdam” (“Verzeihen Sie mir bitte”) and give me mandate to start a new score J!!

Take Care…

Cheers,
Vaibhav
~~My Jain Influences~~