I am pretty sure that for each one of you, there must be a favourite place where you would love to live. It can be your own home, a rented home or some holiday destinations as well.
For me, the most treasured place I have ever been is the flat where I lived during 2018-2019. Rather than an apartment, it was a home of my dreams.
I relocated from Trivandrum to Cochin, post our wedding in 2014. During 2014-2017, we resided in two different homes/ villas in and around Kakkanad. I strongly believed in the old line of having some soil of our own to plant some flowers or veggies in our home. Hence, I was totally against the modern concept of living in tightly packed, multi storied buildings (as per my nephew, flats looked like castles. Anyways I hated those “castles”at that point of time).
All those conservative concepts of mine turned upside down after the release of Tamil movie “Theeran adhigaaram Ondru” starring Karthi. The movie narrated the story of a gang of dacoits who attacked people in lonely houses and killed them in a brutal and unmanly manner ( If you haven’t come across this movie, pls click here to know more). After watching the film, we both felt little scared to live in our villa which had a large vacant plot behind. He told it's better to move to a flat having better occupancy. But, I was not ready to shift to a flat at any cost due to my so called conservative concepts and kept on avoiding his words.
After one week of the specified movie release, I noticed some construction materials like metals and cement sacks were unloaded in the vacant plot behind our home. I then came to know from the neighbourhood that a flat construction will be commencing soon there. I felt little unsecure at this point of time, the reason being I would be left alone at home during evenings and the loneliness might extend till midnight due to my hubby’s busy schedule.
The same night I could not sleep well and whenever I was trying to sleep, the killing scenes from the above specified movie haunted me like anything. From the very next morning onwards, I insisted my hubby to look for a new flat (which I felt will be secure than our villa). We then started searching for different flats utilising various real estate Apps like Quikr, OLX, magicbricks etc. Since we both were working in infopark, a flat within two or three kilometres was our priority.
As per my memory( my memory is not so bad as you assume😄), we started searching for flats from 2017 October beginning and we went on viewing different flats in Kakkanad locality till November end. In fact, it became a daily routine for us to cover at least 2-3 flats every evening after office. We needed a fully furnished flat and that made the things worse. It was hard to get furnished flats within a reasonable rate. Above all, as lalettan stated in movie “ Rasathantram”, the home we love to live should also love us back”. This was the toughest part for me, since I didn’t find the so called love with any of the flats we viewed.
Time passed by, and finally by December, I saw an ad in magicbricks and contacted the owner. We were asked to have a look at the flat and decided to visit there as well. The flat was located near Infopark and hence it was a " perfect loca" for us. It was on a Saturday evening we decided to view the flat, located on 17th floor of a 21 storied building with 3 bedrooms and in-fact, fully furnished. We saw the interior pictures and was well impressed with it. We got the keys from caretaker and went upstairs in the lift.
The moment I entered the flat, I got that Dèjavu"feeling. Someone was whispering in my mind “you have been here earlier”. I walked inwards and first thing that struck my mind was to have a look at the balcony. Balcony door was covered with curtains and I pushed the curtains to the sides. I can't express the beauty of outside view here. I mean,my words won’t be enough to express that feeling here.
It's not exaggeration or anything. The sight of the sunset from the balcony swept off my feet and we decided to put a full stop to the flat searching process.
It took another 2-3 weeks to get the agreement done and we moved into my wonderworld on December 31,2017. To begin with, it was a good start since the new year was just a few hours ago and we were very happy to settle in. We waved good-bye to 2017 and looked forward for a wonderful year ahead.
As the days passed by, I realised that I was totally in a happiest, comfortable zone of my life. I was always in love with colourful blends of dusk and dawn from my balcony. Every evening I would rush to open my flat door just to see the setting sun. The flat amenities were simply superb like the pool, gym, basket ball court, football court and in fact a mini theatre and hence was a total package. I loved each and every moment I spent there, day and night.
And like icing in the cake, I came across one of the greatest treasure in my life, my own neighbour, companion, best friend and a lot and lot more- Tintu, my Tintumol. More than a neighbor, she meant a lot to me. We used to have chit-chats from balcony and long evening walks together. She took care of me whenever I fell ill, and the same happened in return. It used to be part of my daily routine to make a visit to her home every evenings after my work and share day in my life stories to her (yes, those were infact day in my life....I love to be a story teller whenever I find a patient listener). Whenever I was busy to not peep into her flat, we used to have long chats over the phone as well. In fact, my hubby used to ask what is so much to tell over the phone while you are just sharing the walls.(Men won’t understand the happiness of those talks over the phone...😁😁).
Our life was moving happily and in fact many fortunes came to us while we lived there ( Yes, I’m superstitious). We bought our new car, my husband got senior level promotion and finally got the opportunity to move to UK while we stayed there. The final fortune in this list did hurt me a lot - since I have to leave my flat as well as my beloved friend. The onshore assignment came in December 2018 and we moved out by Feb 2019. It was with a heavy heart I bid farewell to my flat and Tintu.
Even though miles apart and days has passed by, I can always tell that it was my favorite place I ever lived. And not even a single day passes without thinking about my precious days spent in that 17th floor apartment.
NB: Title sounds different eh? I have started to learn Spanish online and hence, a small attempt to implement the same in my blogs. Casa el 17 piso means home in 17th floor.
For me, the most treasured place I have ever been is the flat where I lived during 2018-2019. Rather than an apartment, it was a home of my dreams.
I relocated from Trivandrum to Cochin, post our wedding in 2014. During 2014-2017, we resided in two different homes/ villas in and around Kakkanad. I strongly believed in the old line of having some soil of our own to plant some flowers or veggies in our home. Hence, I was totally against the modern concept of living in tightly packed, multi storied buildings (as per my nephew, flats looked like castles. Anyways I hated those “castles”at that point of time).
All those conservative concepts of mine turned upside down after the release of Tamil movie “Theeran adhigaaram Ondru” starring Karthi. The movie narrated the story of a gang of dacoits who attacked people in lonely houses and killed them in a brutal and unmanly manner ( If you haven’t come across this movie, pls click here to know more). After watching the film, we both felt little scared to live in our villa which had a large vacant plot behind. He told it's better to move to a flat having better occupancy. But, I was not ready to shift to a flat at any cost due to my so called conservative concepts and kept on avoiding his words.
After one week of the specified movie release, I noticed some construction materials like metals and cement sacks were unloaded in the vacant plot behind our home. I then came to know from the neighbourhood that a flat construction will be commencing soon there. I felt little unsecure at this point of time, the reason being I would be left alone at home during evenings and the loneliness might extend till midnight due to my hubby’s busy schedule.
The same night I could not sleep well and whenever I was trying to sleep, the killing scenes from the above specified movie haunted me like anything. From the very next morning onwards, I insisted my hubby to look for a new flat (which I felt will be secure than our villa). We then started searching for different flats utilising various real estate Apps like Quikr, OLX, magicbricks etc. Since we both were working in infopark, a flat within two or three kilometres was our priority.
As per my memory( my memory is not so bad as you assume😄), we started searching for flats from 2017 October beginning and we went on viewing different flats in Kakkanad locality till November end. In fact, it became a daily routine for us to cover at least 2-3 flats every evening after office. We needed a fully furnished flat and that made the things worse. It was hard to get furnished flats within a reasonable rate. Above all, as lalettan stated in movie “ Rasathantram”, the home we love to live should also love us back”. This was the toughest part for me, since I didn’t find the so called love with any of the flats we viewed.
Time passed by, and finally by December, I saw an ad in magicbricks and contacted the owner. We were asked to have a look at the flat and decided to visit there as well. The flat was located near Infopark and hence it was a " perfect loca" for us. It was on a Saturday evening we decided to view the flat, located on 17th floor of a 21 storied building with 3 bedrooms and in-fact, fully furnished. We saw the interior pictures and was well impressed with it. We got the keys from caretaker and went upstairs in the lift.
The moment I entered the flat, I got that Dèjavu"feeling. Someone was whispering in my mind “you have been here earlier”. I walked inwards and first thing that struck my mind was to have a look at the balcony. Balcony door was covered with curtains and I pushed the curtains to the sides. I can't express the beauty of outside view here. I mean,my words won’t be enough to express that feeling here.
It took another 2-3 weeks to get the agreement done and we moved into my wonderworld on December 31,2017. To begin with, it was a good start since the new year was just a few hours ago and we were very happy to settle in. We waved good-bye to 2017 and looked forward for a wonderful year ahead.
As the days passed by, I realised that I was totally in a happiest, comfortable zone of my life. I was always in love with colourful blends of dusk and dawn from my balcony. Every evening I would rush to open my flat door just to see the setting sun. The flat amenities were simply superb like the pool, gym, basket ball court, football court and in fact a mini theatre and hence was a total package. I loved each and every moment I spent there, day and night.
And like icing in the cake, I came across one of the greatest treasure in my life, my own neighbour, companion, best friend and a lot and lot more- Tintu, my Tintumol. More than a neighbor, she meant a lot to me. We used to have chit-chats from balcony and long evening walks together. She took care of me whenever I fell ill, and the same happened in return. It used to be part of my daily routine to make a visit to her home every evenings after my work and share day in my life stories to her (yes, those were infact day in my life....I love to be a story teller whenever I find a patient listener). Whenever I was busy to not peep into her flat, we used to have long chats over the phone as well. In fact, my hubby used to ask what is so much to tell over the phone while you are just sharing the walls.(Men won’t understand the happiness of those talks over the phone...😁😁).
Our life was moving happily and in fact many fortunes came to us while we lived there ( Yes, I’m superstitious). We bought our new car, my husband got senior level promotion and finally got the opportunity to move to UK while we stayed there. The final fortune in this list did hurt me a lot - since I have to leave my flat as well as my beloved friend. The onshore assignment came in December 2018 and we moved out by Feb 2019. It was with a heavy heart I bid farewell to my flat and Tintu.
Even though miles apart and days has passed by, I can always tell that it was my favorite place I ever lived. And not even a single day passes without thinking about my precious days spent in that 17th floor apartment.
NB: Title sounds different eh? I have started to learn Spanish online and hence, a small attempt to implement the same in my blogs. Casa el 17 piso means home in 17th floor.
