• The grand sale

    Girish called me earlier this week. In a very practised spiel, he told me what good a demat account would do to my life and finances.. and in a very practised way, i said thanks but no thanks..On an average i get around 3 calls a week giving me stories about lifetime free credit cards, holiday packages, insurance etc.. yes, i am kind of a loser, because i think thats way below the average number of calls one gets.. of course, i am a notch above an ex colleague who used to have extended conversations on various subjects with the pizza call center people… 🙂
    The latest mall in the city is the traffic signal.. there they try to sell me goggles, handsfree kits, CDs, magazines and newspapers, wallets, no, apartments i think are still a little way off..And yes, how could i forget!! the traffic signals also house those who try to sell me their deformities, and in the process, perhaps my guilt.. the guilt of having been born with all limbs intact, the guilt of having a house to stay, food to eat, clothes to wear…
    a few years back, i used to be a sales guy, selling broadband… even these days, i become a sales guy occasionally, when i am attending an interview.. i am selling my skillset and trying to negotiate the best deal possible for myself…and thats what i have realised, at the end of the day, its one big marketplace, we are all selling something, sometimes to others, sometimes to ourselves…

    until next time, for everything, theres a price to pay…

  • The World and Me

    Ah, One of those days when i feel i can take on the world…
    of course the world sees many like me on a daily basis…
    The world couldn’t care less..

    until next time, just another global issue

  • Pet

    I saw at least three posts last week on the title, so i decided that even though i have never owned one in my life, i’d contribute my two cents… i am amazed by how a word can so drastically change in context just by its varying forms – adjective, noun and verb…
    as an adjective, i like theories and hate bottles
    as a noun, i am ambivalent, swinging towards hate
    as a verb, now thats another ballgame altogether 🙂

    until next time, petite post

  • The Right wavelength

    I saw the following line in a book, and immediately felt this applied to a lot of my virtual friends and perhaps a few faces i see around me..
    “There was something else too – a hiddenness. He acted like he had something important going on, thaton some frequency of his life beyond the visible spectrum there was great exceitement.”
    Hmm, it might have applied to me too, but even putting on the act is boring 🙂
    until next time, transmission

  • Help, they’re all after my money

    If you happen to be in Bangalore, there are two places you could go for the mall experience(mauling and getting mauled) – Forum and Garuda…. and if its not enough that they have so many shopping options that even people such as me,who have been accused innumerable times of being a miser, are sorely tempted to put a password to my wallet an promptly forget it, they both have shopping festivals running simultaneously.. and everyone but everyone is offering discounts like they were going out of fashion…
    which has led me to the conclusion that they are all after my money, no, not just me, but other poor sods like me who consider the visit to the mall an integral part of an otherwise non existent social life..
    while that was fine earlier, when most of the things on display were easily out of bounds, now that large two digit numbers have been displayed as percentage off, the situation can be summarised by a nice line i read a few days back – “Lead me not to temptation, i can find the way myself…”
    until next time, ratting on the malls