My First Kerala Ayurvedic Massage.

So I just wrote an email to a group of friends about my weekend break in Kerala.. An excerpt from that email..

masseur: Remove you clothes.
me: removed shirt and pant.
masseur: ties a "nada" around my waist.
me: what is this for?
masseur: this is for your special dress.
me: ?
masseur: takes a rather narrow rectangular piece of sheer white cloth and tucks it in from the front leaving the cloth hanging over my crotch. Then says "Now remove your underpant"
me: "aa, remove ..aa.. ok.". So I removed my underpants..meanwhile the white cloth covers up my naked crotch rather precariously :)
masseur: Goes around and pulls the cloth between my legs and tucks it in from behind covering the crack :) Then gives me head massage for a while..then asks me to lie face down on a traditional wooden massage table.
me: lie down gingerly.. taking care that the cloth does not move too much :p
masseur: puts oil here and there.. then unties the nada..pulls down the cloth..
me: Think to myself.. umm..hmm..ok.. nothing much I can do since he is anyways going to charge me a thousand bucks.. so I relax and enjoy the massage.. wondering how he manages to touch and massage ugly black asses of strangers :D

Back in town!

Me back in Bangalore after 5 weeks in Mountain View. Meanwhile stuff that Megha was working on secretly for a while, Amazon Flexible Payment System, has been launched. More later.

The iPhone feels real cool

As it so happens I got the chance to hold and play with the iPhone a week back here in Santa Clara. As a lot of people have already said before..it is super sexy. The high res screen is real real crisp. And the hand gestures like flipping through photos and CD covers is just awesome...feels like its out of a sci-fi movie. Would be interesting to know what happens to the iPods now. The Mac OSx based ones have already been announced.