I treated myself to a complete meal. Gobi, alu ki sabzi, Moong ki daal, Chawal, Roti, Salad, Dahi which is not here in the picture.

I'd mention Guddu's name, Guddu aka Nitin Sir who was constantly instructing me on phone while I was making all this. The recipe's are his'. Thank u guddu! Thank u sooo much!

Moving in

It took me less than a week to get all the essentials in the house working. It'd take me another 4 days to buy more essentials, shift my stuff from here to there and organize stuff in the new home. It takes just a bit of planning, some running around and you can have everything working smooth. Ofcourse I am not neglecting the fact that I totally skipped the ordeal of looking for a new home.. I am just moving into an old/familiar space.. anyhow the place is absolutely new if you consider that I'd be looking after it all by myself.

Haa.. anyway tomorrow's update is that I will go apply for internet. Whose name it will be registered in is still not decided. Badi ma has given me recipes to make sabzi and dal. Which reminds me I'll have to hunt for more vessels tomorrow.

I transfer my cosmetics bag, my files, clothes which I dont wear here.. to the new flat.

And tomorrow I will do alot more things. :)

I'll have a new postal address soon :)

Yes, its final.. I am finally shifting into my old home. The idea to move had been in my head since a long long time. It never saw the light of the day because of a number of reasons. But two days back, I got talking with my house people and somehow managed to tell them that its time I moved. Surprisingly, not one of them objected. And consequently, I began the shifting process two days itself. :)

On Saturday, I went maid-hunting. Going by my experiences with maids, I did not expect finding a maid simple. I approached my old maid, the one who worked for us for more than a decade and she did promise to send somebody to my place for sure. The female she sent is pretty docile. She has never worked, she is slow but this one time she cleaned my house, she cleaned it like her own. Maybe it was the first day and her first time, she dint mind putting that extra effort. Maybe as time passes she'd be like others. But so far she looks alright. I am still to work out how much I would pay her. I en quired with my neighbors and they said regular rates were 250/- for jhadu-pota, 250/- for bartan and 250/- for kapde dhona.

Today evening I had an electrician at home who fixed the gas stove and the aqua guard and charged me a fortune for it! I was expecting it to be somewhere around 500 bucks but a thousand and 25 bucks seemed ravenous!! Ofcourse I had my doubts and suspicions and i refused to pay to him, not until I had done doing my detective work. :P

There are two more things, actually three major things that need to be attended to before I move into this flat. The refrigerator needs to be fixed, I need to have a gas cylinder, otherwise how will I cook and I need to buy grocery. Grocery.. whew! I need to make a list of all I need, the basic stuff soon.

Tomorrow I will have the electrician come over in the evening to check the fridge. He said I would need to change the compressor(and charged me 4k for that!) and I told him, we'd try fixing the refrigerator because I don't think it needs the compressor to be changed and he has agreed to do whatever to save me from spending that 4k. Let's see, i'll have to wait until tomorrow.

I am excited about something... something worthwhile, something that I have planned for a long time now. Something that will give me my much needed space, a sense of ease, a sense of responsibility and a lot of boost to my self esteem.

I am really excited. :)

To write it down and keep the suspense is just my way to keep the excitement alive. I post the blog today only because today is the day the dream has begum to materialise. Today is very very important!

Will keep this space updated.