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Simple pleasures in life : Getting a shave in India
If you have ever traveled to India, you would have noticed the omni present “Hair Styling” saloons. They vary from a guy sitting under the shade of a tree to pretty expensive “A/C” saloons. Most people in India (esp. the older generation) get their facial hair groomed at these saloons. I took the opportunity of my visit to India, to go to a saloon.. Here is how a shave goes 🙂
- Rough massage on the face with hot water mixed with some lime.
- Slap on some shaving cream (you don’t want to know which brand) and whip up an awesome forth..
- Open an old fashion shaving blade. In the old days, one blade was used for multiple people. Thankfully, they switch the razors for each person now :)..
- Shave twice for an ultrasmooth finish. I don’t care what razor you use (tri blad, quad blade or the new 5 blade razors), you cannot get the same finish as an old fashioned shaving blade.
- Slap on tons of facial cream all over your face.. I managed to glimpse at the cream and it looked like Nivea, but was spelled Nyvea.. Again, don’t pay attention to the brands 🙂
- Nice massage of the face with the above mentioned facial cream.
- Spray of cold water on the face.
- Rub all the nicks (and there will be plenty 🙂 ) with some old fashioned aftershave cake.
- Another dash of cold water on the face.
- Wipe face with a warm towel..
The charge ranges anywhere from Rs. 20 – Rs 100 (~$2) and you come out of the saloon feeling like a million dollars :).. I will try to get some pictures next time..
2008 SuperBowl : Well worth the hype..
The NY Giants put on another exciting show tonight. I usually support the underdogs, and this was a case of the underdogs playing their heart out and winning the game. If I take data from the Superbowl party, I was at, as the sample data for how many people favoured the Patriots vs. the Gaints, I think 80% of the country is pissed off now that the Patriots lost..
Final Score : 17 Giants – 14 Patriots
I kept saying this line from the movie, The Replacements , throughout the superbowl party “Heart.. miles and miles of heart”. That’s what it seemed the Giants had today. Congratulations to Eli Manning, on coming out of his elder brothers shadow and on being given the MVP award for the 2008 Superbowl..
Jaimaica…
My friend, Rich, went on a trip to Jaimaica recently and took a ton of pictures. Looking at the number of pictures, he took, I am wondering what he did during the vacation, other than take pictures :).. Here’s a link to the pictures.
Bollywood, Hollywood and copy cats..
Bollywood and the rest of the Indian cinema industry are pretty creative. Not only in coming up with original content, but also with copying :).. Back in the 70s and 80s, it was pretty norm, for most of the tunes to be copied from western tunes. I am in no way stating that all the content is copied, but quite a bit of it was. Starting from the movie plots, to the music in the songs. Here’s a good example (although the copy sounds a lot better to me 🙂 ).
ORIGINAL : “500 Miles” by Peter, Paul & Mary
COPY : “Jab Koi Baat” in the movie Jurm
Classic Bollywood
Mohammed Rafi is probably, one of the greatest (playback) singers in the Indian history. Here’s one of his popular song..
Internet in the air..
I wrote ~2 years ago, about accessing the Internet, while I was flying at 35,000 feet in the air. Since then, the company that provided this service, Connexion, has declared bankruptcy and everyone pretty much wrote off the market for in-air Internet access. Looks like enough people want it 🙂 and several companies are reentering this market. This article at news.com claims that most of the US air-carriers will have some kind of broadband service available in the next 2 years. Say goodbye to the last “Internet free” place on earth 🙂
Overheard : comments about the Chicago weather
- Each day in Chicago is one day closer to summer.
- There are only two seasons in Chicago, winter and construction.
Save XP!!
While, I am writing about couples smooching over each other!! :), my buddy Ray is writing something meaningful. As he states, Microsoft is planning on ending sales of Windows XP on June 30 2008. While Vista, has a lot of cool features, none of them are compelling for businesses to make the expensive migration. Not only does the new operating system require extensive planning for the migration and training for the tech support teams, but businesses also have to consider the expense of training end users because the interface has changed so much.
And not to mention the 100 different (I am exaggerating!! 🙂 ) flavors of Vista that Microsoft has come up with to make the decision even tougher.
Sign the petition here . [UPDATE : Link has been corrected.. Thx Ray for pointing this out.]