I miss my previous P.G: My current address is ‘Village inside a metro’

It’s a fine Monday morning. I woke up today with mixed feelings. I am indeed happy that I took ample of rest on Sunday but at the same time sad that I didn’t go out to have fun. I don’t remember even a single weekend wherein I have stayed indoors, for all the happenings malls, restaurants and other hangout places where only a stone’s throw away distance from my previous P.G and I dint have to think twice or thrice before deciding to get out and having fun. It always happened in an ad-hoc manner, as I knew no matter how late it would be, I could make it back home safely in the night. My place was in the heart of the city near Brigade/M.G road Bangalore: Richmond Town to be exact.

Now when I am sitting down to pen down my thoughts about my current place of stay, I am more than frustrated about this new development in my life. It’s funny but it’s always the case that we badly start missing things we had, only after parting with it. For instance, I don’t remember even a single day that I hadn’t complained about the P.G that I was previously staying at. Except for the construction work at the entrance and the small poorly lit lane connecting the P.G to the main road, everything else about that place now looks perfect. ‘Picture perfect’ surprisingly!! But at that time I was waiting to jump out of it and I always used to complain about the maid’s cleanliness n laziness, the cook’s culinary skills or rather the lack of it, the owner’s indifference on top of a bout of other complaints. At least in comparison with the new ‘organized’ P.G facility that I have landed myself in, the previous place seem like heaven. I used to pay only 4500 for a two sharing accommodation with unlimited wifi in the heart of the city earlier, while now I have to pay a whopping 7000 for a similar facility and that too in a ruddy jungle which is miles away from civilization. And what do I get for free with that? – Tonnes of cockroaches. So many of them that even the Pest control team doesn’t seem to have a solution for exterminating them! Sounds like an FBI mission? I think even they’d go Bonkers trying to wipe out the species from my room. Boy, they are intelligent, annoying and hard to eliminate. For these creatures, ‘Baygon’ is like perfume and Naphthalene balls like ‘Pedas’. Thus one could say I have shifted my stay from a room meant only for humans to one which is an example of a perfect ecosystem. So ‘romantic’ to say – “Man becoming one with nature and living in ‘Harmony’ with it”. Grrr… It does good only to write poems which school students will later find traumatic studying and end up cursing you for having written!!!
And just when I think about getting out of this mess by going out for a movie or something I realize that the nearest movie theatre is only a ‘few’ kilometers away. More than the distance, it is the lack of enough public transport facility that’s the issue. In fact on Saturday while returning from the city in the night, I had to take an auto, and then a Tata Sumo cab, and then a bus and finally ended the ‘very adventurous’ voyage with an expensive auto ride. Phew!! Although I can technically say that “I am staying and working in Bangalore-The happening metro”, I wonder if I am staying in a village. Maybe the accessibility of a village is much better than this location which is in fact near the IT hub area. The very worry about how I’d get back to this part of the city or rather this village in the night, thus leaves me with no option but to romance with those tentacles all through the day!:-(

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~ by Meera on October 12, 2010.