Pune… A rocking city. The hub of the young generation. The IT city. The seat of culture.
Of course there are always speed bumps in the way. There were clashes with our broker. Somehow people don’t remain good-natured after their work is done! Then once we were locked out of home late night. It was a worried hour that we spent outside the door before the owner came and helped us out. There are also the daily clashes with the auto walas who are basically looters in disguise! But well, it takes all kinds of people to make up the world.
Maybe everybody has heard this much of the city called Pune. A small place that’s growing every day. The city where everybody’s heading to.
It’s hard to believe that now I am living in this city on my own! The anticipation and excitement that filled me when I came here nearly two months ago has still not faded out. And I haven’t been to any of the rocking places yet! No restaurants, discs or any of the ‘must-see’ places in Pune. But the experience of getting our own rented flat and looking after ourselves is overwhelming enough.
What should I talk about? Should I tell you about the 15 houses Sunshine, Nautanki and me looked at in 4 days before finalizing on this one? Or the lovely flat we had found in the midst of our search but because of a last minute change of the owner’s mind, we couldn’t get it? But I guess, whatever happens, happens for good. If we had not lost that flat, we wouldn’t have looked at this flat that we are living in now. We took less than half an hour to decide to take up this flat – the quickest we had reached to any decision till now!
Although it’s a bit old – ok ok quite old ( 15 years old actually) – it is charming. As soon as we entered the flat, we liked the atmosphere. And the area is superb. It’s just slightly off the main road. The main road becomes quite happening in the evenings. Everything’s nearby – a supermarket, a cool eatery, Pizza Hut, dance classes, gym, Fab India outlet, vegetable market, good restaurants. And the best of all – there is a Crossword right outside our lane! What can be better!!
I know what’s better. Having all friends living nearby itself. Whenever we feel like it, we gather at anybody’s place and have dinner together. It is great fun to cook and eat together. Here’s what happened once when we got huge sized rasgullas! Thankfully Sunshine and I are not in this video… we were even worse off! This was after the amazing dinner cooked for us by Mummy, who had come to stay for a week with us.
Of course there are always speed bumps in the way. There were clashes with our broker. Somehow people don’t remain good-natured after their work is done! Then once we were locked out of home late night. It was a worried hour that we spent outside the door before the owner came and helped us out. There are also the daily clashes with the auto walas who are basically looters in disguise! But well, it takes all kinds of people to make up the world.
And then we do get to meet some good people. Take, for instance, our owner uncle and aunty. They are so nice and helpful. We feel like there’s somebody to look after us in this new city.
So, although we get tired of the long ride to office and back every day, of getting stuck in the terrible traffic and breathing in the suffocating polluted air in the city, it’s kinda fun here. It’s not very far from home and I can go back every fortnight. My parents and sister can also come here when they want. (You know, Mummy bought no less than TEN sarees when she came here!) There are many friends around too.
And getting our own paycheck and spending our own money on ourselves helps, I guess! ;)
-- Pune, March 27 2011
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