The House Hunt... (Part II)
The House Hunt ... (Part II)
Sorry people for not posting for this long (Not that many of you would have been eagerly waiting, but what the hell !.!) So not wasting any more time I shall continue with the Narration of the ordeal of the House Hunt which I had undergone.
The Saga Continues ...
I had been looking around various online forums to find a place ASAP, and after exhausting all the online channels, I went back to the traditional methods ... Bought the paper "AdMag" for 10 bucks and sat down at the dining table, leafing through the pink and white pages of the Classified. Man! this was going to be tough job. After shorlisting about 15 different Ads (Mind you, I was biased towards the happeneing areas of BLR and also gave preferance to Ads posted by the opposite sEx), my (traitor) friend and I started off the phase II of My House Hunt.
House 1. NandiDurga Road:- The house looked Ok from outside. The owner who I had spoken to earler, was a lady of around 27 but din stay in the same house. This three storyed building housed only Bachelors, one at each floor, but was currently Locked. Would come back to this one later.
House 2. JayaMahal:- The house we visited belonged to very old woman who lived with her even older Mother. I was being offered only a single room and the entrance was through a narrow passage which ran all around the house till it reached the courtyard at the Back. The rent was supposed to be around Rs. 3000/- (For a single Room MAN!). The old and the older lady seated My friend and me in the small room and thus began the interview.
She : Do you Drink?
My Friend : NO!
Me : yes.
She : Do you come home late at night? Say after 9 P.M. ?
My Friend : Sometimes.
Me : always!
She : Do you bring girls home?
My Friend : NO WAY!!!
Me : not often, I usually go to their places...
She : Actually I have no problems with all these but you see mom doesn't like all this...
Dude! this one was pathetic. I practically took off after her last statement. Next stop, Ulsoor.
House 3. Ulsoor:- This one was very promising as it had been chosen by roomate. Mr. Ashwin (The House Owner) from Ulsoor came to meet us. He sounded like a pure professional. 10 Minutes past the time we had agreed upon, he appeared, and how he appeared. It was like an elephant riding a tricycle. Motorists gave way as we followed him through a maze of in-roads and no-roads and came to stop in front of magnificient 7 story house. I was impressed but the impression did not last long as we climbed the stairs all the way to the terrace. There were 2 rooms 1 kitchen and 1 loo, each one in one corner of the terrace and could have easily been rented out as a separate room. We left, promising to return in an hour with the Advance!
House 4. Somewhere in Cox town:- The guy turned out to be a Broker, he came on a lumberetta (For thouse of you who don't know what it is, it as an antique scooter from the pre-Independence days) in a one way, and took us back the same way. Against the onslaught of the oncoming traffic, we came to an Array of houses. A room and a toilet each, they looked more like the pegion houses that you see in the old hindi movies. I was feeling hungry, we left.
House 5....
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House 14....
Just din feel like looking anymore and to top it all, it started raining. While we chilled out at 11th Cross in Frazer Town the phone rang, owner of the First house was now available. So it was decided, the first house it was gonna be, looking around was just a formality, guess I was destined to stay there, alone. Wonder what else is in store for me?
It's been a month now... And I work more and stay at home less.
And you know why!
Sorry people for not posting for this long (Not that many of you would have been eagerly waiting, but what the hell !.!) So not wasting any more time I shall continue with the Narration of the ordeal of the House Hunt which I had undergone.
The Saga Continues ...
I had been looking around various online forums to find a place ASAP, and after exhausting all the online channels, I went back to the traditional methods ... Bought the paper "AdMag" for 10 bucks and sat down at the dining table, leafing through the pink and white pages of the Classified. Man! this was going to be tough job. After shorlisting about 15 different Ads (Mind you, I was biased towards the happeneing areas of BLR and also gave preferance to Ads posted by the opposite sEx), my (traitor) friend and I started off the phase II of My House Hunt.
House 1. NandiDurga Road:- The house looked Ok from outside. The owner who I had spoken to earler, was a lady of around 27 but din stay in the same house. This three storyed building housed only Bachelors, one at each floor, but was currently Locked. Would come back to this one later.
House 2. JayaMahal:- The house we visited belonged to very old woman who lived with her even older Mother. I was being offered only a single room and the entrance was through a narrow passage which ran all around the house till it reached the courtyard at the Back. The rent was supposed to be around Rs. 3000/- (For a single Room MAN!). The old and the older lady seated My friend and me in the small room and thus began the interview.
She : Do you Drink?
My Friend : NO!
Me : yes.
She : Do you come home late at night? Say after 9 P.M. ?
My Friend : Sometimes.
Me : always!
She : Do you bring girls home?
My Friend : NO WAY!!!
Me : not often, I usually go to their places...
She : Actually I have no problems with all these but you see mom doesn't like all this...
Dude! this one was pathetic. I practically took off after her last statement. Next stop, Ulsoor.
House 3. Ulsoor:- This one was very promising as it had been chosen by roomate. Mr. Ashwin (The House Owner) from Ulsoor came to meet us. He sounded like a pure professional. 10 Minutes past the time we had agreed upon, he appeared, and how he appeared. It was like an elephant riding a tricycle. Motorists gave way as we followed him through a maze of in-roads and no-roads and came to stop in front of magnificient 7 story house. I was impressed but the impression did not last long as we climbed the stairs all the way to the terrace. There were 2 rooms 1 kitchen and 1 loo, each one in one corner of the terrace and could have easily been rented out as a separate room. We left, promising to return in an hour with the Advance!
House 4. Somewhere in Cox town:- The guy turned out to be a Broker, he came on a lumberetta (For thouse of you who don't know what it is, it as an antique scooter from the pre-Independence days) in a one way, and took us back the same way. Against the onslaught of the oncoming traffic, we came to an Array of houses. A room and a toilet each, they looked more like the pegion houses that you see in the old hindi movies. I was feeling hungry, we left.
House 5....
.
.
.
.
.
House 14....
Just din feel like looking anymore and to top it all, it started raining. While we chilled out at 11th Cross in Frazer Town the phone rang, owner of the First house was now available. So it was decided, the first house it was gonna be, looking around was just a formality, guess I was destined to stay there, alone. Wonder what else is in store for me?
It's been a month now... And I work more and stay at home less.
And you know why!
