How to Moonwalk ?

Moonwalk - Whats that ?

I am talking about going on Moon and having a walk - No Way !!!!
Well MoonWalk is a kind of breakdance, which make the viewers believe as though you are walking in air without maintaining much contact with the Floor !!

I was watching some videos on youtube about Breakdance and thought- well this Moonwalk is something which seems quite easy and tried my hands on it..

Here is my 1 min video.. where i am practising it..




I dont feel that i can do it very well though, but i can bet - if you practice it 2-3 days, you can surely do it !!!

So people, if you feel you want to learn a different dance, and that too without spending too much time and Energy, then go for MoonWalk !!

Believe me, you will enjoy learning it !!!

How to go Kayaking ?

Kayaking is a real fun !!
I really enjoyed kayaking at Toronto Islands with my friends.

Though it was scary initially, but we quickly learned the ropes and found kayaking extremely adventorous !!

Its really very easy and a very adventorous activity !!

Along with my friends, i enjoyed it for 2 hours at Toronto Islands and i can say without doubt that you can learn it in two hours !!

The next time i did kayaking was at Mount Tremblant which is around 8-9 hours journey from Toronto.


And this time, I was much more comfortable and kayaking was really more enjoyable the second time !!

Here is a small clip that my friend Giri took while i was coming towards the shore:

Thanks Giri for the Clip !!

Since I am not a pro, but a beginner in Kayaking, so If you are a beginner like me, you may have a look at this video: How to Paddle a Kayak and Not Fall Out !! It discusses three simple steps for Beginners..

So Enjoy Kayaking !! And dont forget to wear your safety belt - atleast it boosts your confidence !!!

My GOOGLE Word Challenge !!!

Do you have what it takes to make it in a challenge ??

If yes, then let me introduce you to my Google Word Challenge.

Concept of My GOOGLE word Challenge:

The challenge is that you just need to type two random words in google and the results that you get should be exactly 5.

See the picture for reference, that is - if you type in google "dinosaur dandruff" and click on search, you will get exactly 5 results.

So the challenge is: You have to use exactly 2 dictionary words and get the number of results as 5.

Hint: Use completely unrelated words to make it in this challenge just as i did.

If you can make it in this challenge, then Please let me know by posting it in comments.

Enjoy GOOGLING around !!!!

How to Speak Spanish ?

Hola y bienvenidos ( Hello and Welcome )
I have been taking out some time on regular basis and now feel quite comfortable in this new language - Spanish.
I have learned the basics of Spanish and in this post, well I will not teach you how to speak Spanish as there
are a couple of sites doing the same thing.

Well i will focus on how spanish may help you..

1. For business purpose, lets suppose you get a chance to go spain or to Mexico sometime, well then if you know spanish ( Español ), it will certainly be very helpful.

2. Well learning any foreign language is a boost to your personal and professional skills - and there is no doubt about it !!


3. Hey, if you like a spanish speaking gal or guy, then if you speak spanish, well you may have a good chance. After all if you go for a date with a spanish, well you must know some spanish !!!

4. Well if you want to learn Spanish now. And that too for FREE, then you can look into Youtube videos, just search for 'learn Spanish' and you can learn spanish for FREE !!!

5. Hey did I told you that if you wish you can translate this entire site in Spanish, just by clicking the Spanish Flag on right side using Google Translate.

6. Well Rocket Spanish !! is World famous for their Spanish Courses. You may check their site as well.

So what are you waiting for..

Permite aprender español !!! ( By the way that means - Lets Learn Spanish !! )

Español es muy fácil - Spanish is very easy !!!

Experiments with Adobe Photoshop

Hey people! Today i have some something new !! I downloaded Adobe Photoshop CS2 version 9.0 from Adobe website and did some experiments. Adobe is a wonderful software, infact the best when it comes to photo editing.

Here are some of the experiments that i did with photoshop today..




This image was produced using the Cut Out effect.


You can learn photoshop in just two hours. Its that simple !!! They have some online video tutorials as well.



Lets see some more pictures that were modified using Adobe Photoshop.



This was made using the Glow effect.

There is one place that i found which is for Photoshop Newbies They have some Easy Photoshop Video Tutorials For Digital Photographers.



Let me show you some more experiments that i did..

This picture i have modified using the diffuse effect in Adobe Photoshop.

The above picture is my favorite, and that is because it give a painting kind of effect.
I didnt knew thats there can be some many things you can do with Adobe Photoshop !!



This was made using the Smudge stick effect.

Well one thing i have learned with Adobe Photoshop is that not all the effects will work equally well on all the pictures !! This means that depending on your picture background and amount of light your picture has, different effects will look good on different pictures !!!

Well, you may want to know from where i got photoshop. I am using their try out version which is available at their site for free.

Hope you liked my experiments. Please give me some feedback or some more ideas with using Adobe Photoshop. I am loving it !!!

Algonquin Park - Most Adventourous Trip !!!

Hey people, today i will share some experiences of my life's most adventourous trip with all of you and why its so adventurous, lets see !!
We 5 people planned for a trip to Algonquin Park, which is around 7-8 hours journey from Toronto.
We had to catch the bus at 7.00 in morning. 3 of us( Me, Farhan & Amjath ) reached by 6.45 and there was absolutely no clue as to where the two others were..
The Bus arrived at 7.15 and we thought that only 3 of us are going for trip !!
And guess what - as the Bus started, our two lazy frends came rushing ( Sandeep & Sumit ) - my God there is a limit to being lazy !! anyway, so we started off smoothly.. After two hours our Bus stopped and we enjoyed Hot coffee at Tim Hortons. We had already started enjoying the Fall Colours !! The next stop of the Bus was "Honeymoon Lake" and one of our friends Farhan had some honeymoon making with the Lake !!
Actually, what happened - he was walking on the Wooden Board and asking Sumit to take his picture as he will be walking backwards. And suddenly, in a fraction of second, he was in Lake desperately looking for help !!
Now, on the other side, Amjath was busy taking my picture. But this guy Amjath is really so Cool..
Guess what, he calmly said to me," Hey Ankit, you know this guy Farhan, he just fell into lake "
And i was shocked !! A streamer was nearby which saved him.. Otherwise i was about to jump and save him ( now i am saying so, but at that time we were all afraid !!! )

After this we came back to Bus, and guess what everyone was asking this guy,"How was the water- Was is Cold ?"
One chinese guy asked," Hey man why you were swimming using back stroke ?"

Now we had something to talk about in bus and we enjoyed a lot with this guy !!

There were some more stops and we were enjoying the Fall colours..

.. All the leaves had gone yellow, orange it was amazing !!!




Well, only thing to complain was the movie that we had to watch in the Bus..
Well, you know why? it was a chinese tour bus and we indians didnt knew a single word in chinese !!! Anyway, we managed the torture !!!

Finally, we were about to reach our home in around 1 hour and as i already said that this was the most adventourous journey, so something strange happened again ! The bus driver left us at Missasagua instead of Toronto, and guess what - the tour travel Guide ( Frank) who was with us all-through the journey
went running away somewhere..
We 5 people were stranded in such a cold night and had to come to Toronto via Taxi Cab !!

Well it seems that the journey has finished, but wait, there is something which is to go wrong again..
We got down from Taxi at Union Station and took the train towards Bloor. I wanted to take a pic of all 5 of us in train and so, i set the timer and clicked the camera. its a 12 sec timer. Just at the 12th second, the train Halted, the camera Clicked !! and i just managed to Catch it from the place where i had kept it !!!

Well thats how we have an adventourous, exciting, Shall i say fearful for some- well, very funny journey !!

And guys, we paid 40$ for taxi but driver gave us a 50$ bill, so we had a 10$ party also !!!

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Rubik's Cube and life

Its been a few months when the rubiks cube bug bit me. I was just 10 years old when i first saw this rubik's cube. i tried so hard at that time but couldnt solve it. And a few months back, i came across a video on youtube and got excited about it again after a long period.
it took some pratice in in 2 days, i was able to solve it.. now i can say without doubt that i can solve it in 2 mins..

Well, sometimes i feel that life is like a rubiks cube. We keep trying different things throughout life and keep messing up things but we enjoy the process or sometimes it becomes annoying..
Similarly we try solving the cube, one side will get solved and we move on to solving other side just to find that we messed up the one side that was solved !!

Thats how life is !! we keep doing things and keep messing up things !!
You can spend hours trying to solve the cube and ending up in frustration,
but if you know the algorithm/approach of proceeding with the cube, you can solve it within a minute with a large smile on your face...

Similarly if we know how to go about with our life, life will become a lot easier !!
Perhaps we just need to make an algorithm for our life.....