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The Big Move

After living in my (now) old studio apartment for a little over 3 years, I finally moved into to a much bigger apartment in a new neighborhood.
What makes this move even bigger is the fact that I don’t live alone anymore. I share the new apartment with a colleague/friend. The new apartment is bigger, better, closer to work and the new neighborhood is one of the very few proper suburbs in Bangalore complete with wide, mostly traffic-free, tree lined avenues. The move made sense and I am happy I did it but I miss my old place. It even had a connection with this blog. I started regular blogging with this post about the loneliness I sometimes felt living there and the place made an appearance in the blog from time to time sometimes even with pictures. My old area of Benson Town – Nandidurg Road would also be missed by me. It too made a few appearances on the blog here and here.

What this move also means is that I don’t take the shuttle to work anymore. Though I won’t miss the venom-spewing buses, I will miss all my friends on the shuttle, some of who always listened to my long stories and rants about the smallest of things early in the morning! I will also miss some unusual and funny characters on the shuttle including ‘Loudy & The Kingfisher’, Jesus Man, Laptop Killer, The Twins and Toad (nicknames courtesy me and a friend).

I accepted this move as a challenge. I have never lived in a hostel or with roommates and I felt that this was the last opportunity for such an experience. So I’ve made the move and things have been good so far. I just hope it doesn’t turn out to be a mistake. Wish me luck!

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  1. Derek
    May 5, 2008 at 4:36 pm #

    Hey hows it going you commented on my blog a while back just checking to see how life is treating you

  2. Venu
    May 6, 2008 at 2:23 am #

    The links you have put in this post just made me know more about you :) I’m trying hard though to guess the company on infantry road :)

    Never knew that you were put up on east bangalore, I was always thinking that it was south ! Also judging by the restaurant name that you mentioned on twitter, I kind of know where you have moved now :)

  3. abhinav
    May 6, 2008 at 12:29 pm #

    good luck …i also moved to another house last weekend :)

  4. Raj
    May 8, 2008 at 1:43 pm #

    Derek: Hey, thanks for visiting. Things are good!

    Venu: One of the purposes of my blog is to get people to know more about me. Its good to know that its serving this purpose ;)

    I have always lived in north-central/east Blr. I like it much more than the overcrowded south Blr.
    And I think I know where you live too! :)

    abhinav: Thanks! So u moved too, huh? Moving season eh?

  5. subcorpus
    May 10, 2008 at 3:52 am #

    enjoy the new place …
    i’m guessing u r using redoable here …
    i tried for a while … was bit bulky for me … and some gadgets didint work out for me …
    is everything working sync for you …???
    thanks …

  6. Raj
    May 19, 2008 at 4:02 pm #

    subcorpus: Thanks! I am using Redoable and though it is a li’l bulky, it was the only theme that met all my requirements at the time and it suits my blog too. I had to work a little to get everything running. I especially struggled with the listen module that I use now :)

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