Bye Bye Velachery

Actually amidst lot of assignments I am writing this post. But u see we can’t let go off nostalgia that easily sometimes.  Nostalgia according to me relates to places and sometimes to people belonging to that place. No no this post is not about nostalgia. OK coming straight to the point without creating anymore confusions. We shifted to our  new home at West Tambaram. Previosuly we resided at Velachery. I know its bit too much to feel nostalgic when I have not even gone out of the city but u see a change of place esp home no matter what the distance is will definitely leave its own  memories. So here’s what I feel about our ex-Home.

So many good things happened here. One of the happiest moments is that our kid was born here that too after 2.5 years of long wait.  Since the hospital happened to be immediately next to our apartment I completely felt  comfortable throughout my pregnancy.  Whichever of part of the globe I may go I can’t forget that hospital forever. No no I don’t mean to advertise but it is really a patient friendly hospital and I am thankful to Dr. Balakumari throughout my life for having helped me from day one till my delivery. I have to mention the hospital’s name here. It is K.S Hospital and it is mainly gynaecology related. Though it is a very small one but one can get a good service here.

We almost spent three full years at Velachery-home. It took almost six months to have a conversation with my neighbor whose house is just opposite to mine.  She was also working and I was also working and both of us dint have kids initially. U see, kids do the magic of bridging the gap between anything and everything.  In that apartment there are three blocks and each block has four houses so totally twelve .Sorry one of the block has five houses so thirteen houses. It took one year to know the people who reside in my block and another one year to know all the residents.   Before our daughter was born,  me and selva will come home at around 7 PM and on weekends we will we reach sathyam cinemas even before the gate watchman reaches there. After movie we will go to some mall and do heavy window shopping and sometimes real shopping and then return home at 10 PM. This kind of life pattern din do any good to my research as well as to building a rapport with the apartment residents.

It was exactly after five months of my kid’s birth I started knowing people around me. I used to give her breakfast, lunch and dinner in the car parking area. My kid is such a finicky character and she wont  eat her food inside home. I would say one of the most challenging task in the world is to feed one’s own child. That too my kid wants at least a dog /cat/cow/crow/pigeon and 2 humans around her while eating.  Also, in parallel, I have to spin small  small boring  mokka stories.  All these conditions need to get satisfied to get that bowl empty. If I empty her food bowl, then  my day is done. So people started interacting with my kid as well as with me during our food time.  Many kids of our apartment started even helping me to get my kid to eat. So cute of them. I started realising how dumb it is to not even knowing  the neighbors. The worst part is that they all have noticed me already . Really  embarrassing. So at last as usual I ended up getting good people. We invited all of them to our daughter’s first b day. My kid is 1.10 yrs now and she got so much of friends there .Felt really heavy to leave that place. It is almost a week since we left that home. Still my daughter is reciting her friend’s name. Me and my kid will always remember vaishnavi, lakshita, tanisha, arya, sohan, sowmya, ajay, alein, adelin and nadhu and these kid's moms as well.

I learnt some good things from here. I learnt to do the house hold works on my own as most of my neighbours do it on their own. I was once frustrated when my servant maid left the job and I was searching for a new maid but I ended up realizing that  depending on somebody  esp for house hold work is always a stress.  I developed guts to manage it on my own and many of my US-UK friends manage their home with kids on their own. So even I learnt this and I am managing things on my own with enormous mental relief now. I have planned  to do all the house hold works on my own even after I start my teaching career. If I really practice this then this gyanothayam definitely blossomed at Velachery.

Other than these we will miss our nearby kayenthi bavan, vadai shop, Hotel sangeetha(Selva’s favourite) , thalapakatti.  Importantly phoenix mall was very near our home but now we need nearly a 40 mins drive from Tambaram (I know this s a bit mokkai feeling).

Hope we get to meet good people as usual here at Tamabram too. Let us see how it goes. Thanks for reading.

This is the link to our daughter's first b day album which was celebrated at our Velachery home https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/108987716244841277901/albums/5807292032255528641?authkey=COy3g-ijk6jwpwE