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I’ve always loved fooling around with Firefox add-ons. It’s a huge amount of fun – if you have the time for it. Well, with the upgrade to Firefox 3.1, I lost a whole lot of my favorite add-ons. I suppose they have to be updated before they come back. Meanwhile, I also discovered some [...]

Here’s a list of videos that have chiftitelli choreographies or moves. I’m also including ones that don’t necessarily take up chiftitelli but are helping me dance better to the rhythm and improvise to it. These are just videos in my own collection and there probably one or two out in the wild that I [...]

This couldn’t have been an easy instructional video to conceptualize. The number of videos that take up slow moves or taqsim or moves to the chiftitelli rhythm, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Quite obviously none of them does a thorough job because everyone still keeps talking of wanting a taqsim [...]

Some little kitties will go to a lot of trouble to look back and up at a person’s face. A few notches more and Biki (sister to Kini) would have toppled right over on her side. Actually, this kitten hasn’t yet got over her puzzlement at people’s faces being eventually connected to their feet. She’ll [...]

…there’s a whole collection that make my toes curl and my teeth grind. There’s no logical or even sane reason why I hate certain words, but I just know that I do. Unfortunately, a colleague who’s always eagerly scanning the horizons for something to bother me about knows what these words are and now he [...]

Thanks to Discovery Channel and National Geographic, I’m never swimming in no sea and never ever flying in anything — man made or otherwise. As a matter of fact, I’m reconsidering walking as well.
But my friend Jean is braver. Every now and then she takes off from her hair styling job (or play, as she [...]

My dance room is a place of beauty and a joy forever. Or so I thought until I made the deadly mistake of videoing myself. Wha…? This was nothing short of disastrous. My snake arms looked like they wanted to crash to the floor in a tired heap. My lotus hands looked like I [...]

You don’t have to know her to see the gentleness and strength in her face. For almost fifteen years Sharda has had the unenviable job of keeping my apartment clean and everything organized exactly to my fussy specifications. Sometime over all the time I’ve known her, she decided, quite on her own, that my house [...]

Did you know Noida had a skyline? I discovered that two nights ago at our office party on the terrace of our office building. The breeze was caressing and balmy, the people even balmier. I distinctly remember a few looking outright embalmed post a few drinks, but that’s another story.
Gazing at that skyline, you wouldn’t [...]