Salary Man Tale

Flying: The art of sitting back and relaxing

2011-02-20T03:14:00.000+05:30

If God wanted me to fly, she would have given me wings and a million miles preloaded frequent flier card. It might looks like a simple sentence but holds lot of meanings. I believe God is a woman. This is because of my feminist belief and that is the way it is in my household. As to my belief in God, it depends on the extent of crisis or the times when the captain switches the seat belt ON during

Words and Meanings

2010-12-27T08:29:00.001+05:30

Words are the very essence of life. It has always been my plan to hone the craft of writing them and make money out of it. I listen to words very carefully, especially when I have broken my commitment of getting the wires from Wii and PS3 fixed for the 227th time. My choice in the matter is limited. I always listen to my wife. Every time I promise, I really mean to do it. However, something

Cult Fiction

2010-12-11T10:54:00.002+05:30

When I was between jobs, one of the career options I had before me was to start a Cult. The basic structure of the Cult is the same everywhere. Here is a non exhaustive list I made: Smile enigmatically. Get a contract signed before hand with all the cult followers. Speak with pregnant pauses (and also ensure that only pauses are pregnant). Make sure that private retiring quarters are not spy-cam

Fuzzy Logic

2010-04-25T12:15:00.004+05:30

The collective IQ of my household is 58,732. On hearing this, Please do not rush to us to solve important problems like the best way to make a volcano famous or which is the next country Brad Pitt should adopt from. This is because as a family we are normal folks with average intelligence. However we have really smart gadgets to help us out to increase the collective intelligence. It normally

Mid life desires (Not crisis)

2010-04-17T10:40:00.005+05:30

I have answered the most important question in life here. Why the heck middle age is called the middle age? Folks who are still in school; I am not referring to the time period in earth where hairy people rubbed stones to make fire and poked each other with spears instead of facebook. Gee, they did not have facebook at that time; losers. I am talking of the age when your parents can embarrass

Life Rules

2010-03-27T17:43:00.004+05:30

Life rules could be a great name for Sitcom, but here it indicates the rules of living. If you think this would lead to salvation or make you extremely successful then stop reading. Most of the rules are applicable only to me. Hence do not practice at your home. It has taken more than 15 years of domesticated training and I still have not mastered many of them. As they say life is continuous

Turning Forty

2009-09-19T18:06:00.004+05:30

I turned forty very recently. I was looking forward to it with trepidation as I have always heard that things will happen at 40. Actually, in my case, Things started not to happen. Here is a list of thoseEnlightenment did not happen. I was told that I will attain enlightenment on reaching the momentous age. I in turn can dish them out to all especially to pretty young ones. I slept with a

Frequently Asked Questions

2009-08-11T09:16:00.004+05:30

I have been growing in my popularity. My blog hits have gone up by 100% from two to four. In order to satiate the innate curiosity of my fan, here are the answers to the Frequently Asked Questions. Discerning readers might have noticed the singular Fan in the last sentence. It indicates only one person; me.Why are you called SalaryMan? Do you have any superpowers?SalaryMan is the name given to

Balance of Power

2009-08-04T08:24:00.003+05:30

This is a flash back. Some of the events mentioned in this post are embellished and could be a figment of my imagination. My wife definitely thinks so. I would let you decide.I was newly married. Being married was bliss. I could not understand the lament of many of my married friends. Life was a bed of roses except for the aunts. One of things which I abhorred about being newly married is all

Bringing Reality into life

2009-07-28T08:29:00.005+05:30

All the bright minds in the media industry are figuring out how to bring more reality in to TV shows. They are trying all kinds of stunts like getting actors to bathe under an artificial water fall or getting participants to bare their souls. The actors are ecstatic for getting a real opportunity to remove body odour through natural means. Baring is extremely important in reality TV. If life

Running Jacks have a podium finish

2009-07-26T11:25:00.012+05:30

I live in a very beautiful community called Jacaranda in a large apartment complex - Brigade Millennium. We formed a running team on the fly (with in 24 hours) to take part in the 4 x 5 KM relay race. The race was a mock up to the corporate relay race - Urban Stampede to be held two weeks later.It was at a resort called Olde which is close to the Bangalore International Airport. The team

Desperately seeking

2009-07-22T09:02:00.003+05:30

I am desperately seeking illustrators for my blog. If you like my blog, draw well and do not have any hopes of getting paid, you fit like a T to the job description. You might be mildly famous though with around 500 hits on the blog every month. Please get in touch with me at google mail id; jaiseeker.

Living

2009-07-21T12:18:00.005+05:30

One of the most influential thought I have ever imbibed is that Life does not have any automatic purpose. One needs to infuse life with purpose. Setting a goal and achieving it, creates a tremendous sense of accomplishment and a mental orgasm. Here is how I achieve it.RunningAll it requires is a pair of shoes and will. The Universe provides for the remaining most important equipment – Earth. I

Blue to Red

2009-07-15T08:49:00.004+05:30

This is to warn that this post is not about Matrix. You will definitely not learn Taekwondo in fifteen seconds. Your life will not be changed by reading this. This is about changing from Blue to Red. I have always been a blue person. I always felt that blue symbolized the corporate cool. It coincided with my personal goal of ending up in the top freezer in the corporate world – The ultimate

Post dated wish

2009-07-08T11:24:00.002+05:30

We all have post dated wishes. If you are thinking “I do not have one”, you might be right. I mentioned “We” the way royalty of yore used to address themselves in plural, like “We will partake the food, take some rest and hunt some wild animals”. In order to placate Mehr-un-Nisaa (Nur Jehan, for those who slept through their history class), Jehangir addressed himself once in Singular “I”. If

Not competing with Mark Spitz

2009-06-28T12:19:00.005+05:30

This morning I was given a very important assignment by the Master of the House (Radhika). I could have written Mistress to appease all my girl friends who are hard core feminists. However Radhika would not have taken kindly to the moniker.Here is the result of my preparationI am NOTa. Competing with Mark Spitz.b. Competing a role rejected by Abhishek Bachchan, even though stubble might fool you

Learning by Watching

2009-06-23T19:42:00.002+05:30

It is been a habit for me to learn something new every year. The resolution for this year is to learn swimming. It is not that I have never tried learning it before. I have a solid foundation in theoretical skill of swimming. This has been acquired assiduously by watching the TV show Baywatch. Watching the bay on TV is not only therapeutic but also is educational. I was always moved by the

Until Death

2009-06-16T17:23:00.005+05:30

My cousin lost her Grand Father recently. You will not find him in history books, but he left a mark on every one who came in touch with him. His singular achievement was to create a family which is a team. I am yet to come across another set of folks who are related by blood or marriage and celebrated life enormously. It is almost like magic. He instilled values like simplicity, gratitude and

Love at Nth Sight

2009-06-09T10:23:00.002+05:30

The person who came up with the phrase Love at first sight was definitely not a mathematician. All of you know that Life is unpredictable. Love can happen at the second, third or the seventy fifth prime number sight. Hence, as a Mathematician it is easier for me to write "Love at Nth sight". I am an official card carrying Mathematician because I visit Wolfram Alpha at least once a day. It is from

Salaryman takes a break

2009-06-01T08:27:00.003+05:30

This week SalaryMan takes a break from writing. I have an excuse - completion of Sunfeast 10 Run in Bangalore in 55:13. I always feel connected. The race made me feel that more with 7000 feet striking the pavement. I also feel proud to be in a country where a previously unknown person extends a helping hand without a second thought. At the finisher's lounger, we were caught without a camera. We

Creative Writing: 4 lessons you can live without

2009-05-27T09:08:00.004+05:30

Michael Martin, the British Speaker had to resign for his handling of the “The Expense Report” scam. There is a lesson for all of us in this. First is it does not pay to be a British Speaker. It does not pay to be an Indian Speaker too. I have been one along with billion plus of my compatriots and have not been YET paid for speaking. On the other hand Bill Clinton gets paid millions of dollars

Current Events: You might be shocked

2009-05-20T09:04:00.004+05:30

We had a running joke amongst the students when I was studying at B School. Studying is definitely a overstatement given the courses I had taken; Modern human dilemmas, Movie appreciation. The second one was not a course run by the institute but by us students. The joke was;Me: I have stopped reading the newspapers these daysFellow movie goer: Why?Me: Same headlinesFMG: What?Me: Times of India (

Figured it out: Do not play jeopardy at home

2009-05-08T11:48:00.003+05:30

I am sure that figures less than 10 catch people’s attention. It is the reason one comes across multiple pieces dispensing knowledge. The texts in blue are my thoughts while reading such pieces.6 ways to get the job you wanted: It does not work if you want to be a male lead in a Priyanka Chopra movie. It did not work for AB Baby or John Abraham either. They got the movie part but only each other

The Axe Effect

2009-04-28T10:43:00.005+05:30

If you think this blog is about the job cuts due to recession, you could not be more wrong. It is about growing pains.It was a huge struggle when I was growing up. Imagine having the same daydream every moment of life – Scores of women chasing me. It is like having a remote with only one channel button. This was an anathema for a guy who changes TV channel every 5 seconds. I am actually waiting

Right Choice, Baby

2009-04-20T09:29:00.009+05:30

It is vastly surprising that Decisions gets made these days. Right from Coffee to Matrimony there are Six billion choices.“When I was growing up” was the first choice for me to start this piece. I replaced it because my wife strongly opines that the process of my growing up is not completed still. I believe that a Man has to stand up for himself some times; especially when I have not told Radhika