Well…did that REALLY upset me that much?? Na….because I got a call from my dad saying I had to options to stay at one at my avaa’s house and the other at my other distant relative Satish anna’s house. Now had I been in any of those I wouldn’t bother blogging it. So now you know what transpired.
Now what happened next and how did we land up at the present spot is coming up next….
22nd….The actual search began.
Achyuth had to buy formals and it so happened there is a mall by the name Megamart which was giving discounts upto 50% and was located at Koramangalam. We would be trained at LAKSHYA INFOTECH which is temporarily leased by SATYAM as a training centre as at present there is no training centre at Bangalore. It is right above Megamart. The most important criteria for us was the distance. So that day after having lunch at Andhra Mess we sought their help. They told us they do have PG's but they were exclusively for women but one good thing that happened was they suggested us to take FREE ADS magazine where there are plenty of ads that might assist. With magazine at hand we started rounding off the places nearer to Kormanagalam. Phoning one by one we first listed out all the addresses on a book. With the help of passer's by we judged how to go about from one to other. To make the trip a bit short here is the list of things we got and why they were rejected.
ERC PG HOUSENear
Venkateshwara Hostel
ORACLE Bld. Backside
This is the first one we went to. We were already tired with the day's ordeal. Crossing the FORUM we travesrse through a small lane. We walked on and on and on... I mean it was mentioned in the ad it was 'walkable' so we were like what the heck does walkable mean??. ORACLE building itself looked so far to us. From then on, on further enquiry we had to go furhter half a kilometer. As we reached the final lane where we had to turn leftone guy pointed out a building with SINTEXT tanks and told us the place is nearby to that. It looked pointless to us at that point to continue further as the building itself was really far and we had to walk little more further to that.We wanted to turn back but something held us back saying we were already this far what difference would it make.We met the owner. He showed us the rooms. the first one he showed was on the first floor with no ventilation. Then he told us there is one more at the ground floor itself with open space at one end i mean a window attached to teh outside world. That looked really good. It was fit for three with a attached bathroom.
Mornig hot water from 7 to 10.
With food: 3400
Without Food: 2400
Advance: 2 months advance which on little persuasion he said one month also would do.
Economics:
It looked like we had to take an auto as the distance wasn't as WALKABLE as mentioned in the brochure. Putting 10 for auto up and down that would mean 300 more.
Afternoon there woudln't be food as we would be in the company and the outside food would be 30 minimum. thatwould put us 900 more.
DHOBI: 10 per pair. Assuming three per week, and an extra pair say 160 more.
NET : 3400+900+300+160=4800/- per month.
NEW Heaven Hostels
Opp. ORACLE Building.
This one looked really good in terms of ventilation. It was on third floor. But the only glitch was he couldaccomodate one person in one room. Even in a months duration he said it would be doubtful for getting all together.Apart from that for some 20 odd people there were three common bathrooms with hot water of course.
Hot Water Provision
Without Food: 2000
No With Food option.Advance: One months rent
ECONOMICS:
No auto charge.
Dhboi remains the same.
Added costs would include food with say breakfast 10, lunch 25 and dinner 25 (these are minimum...) 1800/-
NET: 3800+160=4000/- apprx.
342, Bajaj Allianz road
Koramangala
This is also not as WALKABLE as mentioned. We came back to the forum and on enquiry we got to the place in auto with minimum charge that is 12/-. He showed us the rooms and the availability there was two in one and the other personin another room. On further insisting he told he would take care of getting the other guy shifted and making threetogether in one or two weeks time.It is a three storied residential building remodeled as PG's. So at every floor with the usual two bedrooms that a house has remained the same and kitchen, drawing and any extra space that was there was removed and huge woodenplanks were put and in total 4 rooms were set in with three people in each. Two rooms had attached bathrooms which were already filled. The other two were teh ones he was planning for us to get into. For the other two rooms he hadthree separate bathrooms at the ground floor which again was shared by all the floors.Rooms looked bit congested with no ventilation and as i said before TWO in one and the OTHER seperate.
Hot Water Provision
With Food: 3000
Without Food: 2400
Advance: One months rent
ECONOMICS:
Auto charge of 6 up and down per head totaling 150 apprx. per month.
Dhobi remains the same.
Added cost of LUNCH remains the same : 900
NET: 3000+900+150+160=4200/-
KORMANGALAM 6TH block - 10 kms ...DON'T BOTHER
KORMANGALAM BTM Ist CROSS - 5 Kms...DON'T BOTHER (Hari's place is four KMS...)
some two or three again just rejected for above cited reasons.
The next day i.e. 23rd
We were very exhausted with the previous days events, I mean we did lot of walking. So we started the hunt today withkeeping in mind three above probables listed around 11 o'clock. We reached FORUM and began calling the left overs inthe FREE ADS magazine around 12'O clock.
Opp. BOSCH 2nd GATE,
KORMANGALA
We had quite a problem finding this place and we had to do lot of communication before they finally relented to meetus in person. We were asked to wait near Anjanaye temple which was near to the lane exactly parallel to the main road FORUM is located. ((remember the criteria is to get a place nearer to FORUM...The distance from that to our traininglocation is negligible...)).
Two guys around mid twenties greeted us on the bike. They were from Andhra and were very boisterous to say the least.Non-stop talking. Went on telling us that they knew some 15 PG's, that food wouldn't be problem at all and that tehplace about to be shown was 2 minutes walk from Trainig center and that it doesn't look like a PG hostel and is moer like a home and that we woudl be absolutely comfortable. The reason i wrote that way was all the things were told atminimum 10 times. Everything was true infact.He took us to the place. The maximum that can fit in that building were 2. It was actually a two bedroom residential houses remodelled into PG. So the adjustment would be two in one room the other in single room that is kitchen roomwhich was remodeled into a single bedroom one with attached bathroom to it. For us there is a bathroom at the other end. So all in all six people would be sharing 2 bathrooms. One within the house and one outside. It looked okay.Again in midst of all these we were reminded of everything.
Hot Water Provision
With Food: 3000
Without Food: 2000
Advance: One months rent
Commision: 1000 (one time payment ...he started with 3000 per head then came down to 1000 per head)
Maintaince: 500 (also one time payment)
ECONOMICS:
Added cost of lunch remains the same: 900/-.
Dhobi remains the same.
NET: 3000+1000+500+900= 5400/- (for first month)
3900/- for the subsequent ones.
NEAR to ORACLE building,
JR JOSE building.
He came down to meet us in car and took us to his place which was quite walkable. It is two storied residentialbuilding. Top floor is where he lives renting the basement. The basement has three rooms with provision for 18 people. The house itself was very dark with dust all around and renovation still going on. Now there were threebathrooms. Two rooms with 8 people share a common bathroom. That's how the present strengh is right now.The rest are yet to be filled after the renovation. There were 8 girls living there and teh owner wanted to convertinto a mens hostel as it was evident that there were plenty of girls hostels all around. So he said there would be a availability from 1st of next month.
Hot Water Provision
With Food: 3000
Without Food: 2000
Advance: One months rent
ECONOMICS:
Added cost of lunch remains the same: 900/-.
Dhobi remains the same.
NET: 3000+900+150=4000/- apprx.
GRAND FINALE ...If you had keenly read what I wrote from the start of the blog bluntly put 1st is what clicked and all the others were rejected purely on the basis of this Bathroom basis if attached or notand many others just because of the distance.On all counts like ventilation, spaciousness, food etc. that looked like a safe haven to us. We went today for hunting with having one as backup that is the first one. This time we took a different root and comfortably reached the placeby walk in around 10-15 minutes. By the time we reached the rooms that we saw yesterday were booked and there was onlyone left with good ventilation. There was small problem as he wanted 2000 as BOOKING ADVANCE and that his MD wouldn't want such a thing to be left emptied without advanced inspite of our assurance that we wanted to move in. He said he would allow us to come back with 2000 in hand and give him by 5:30.
Time was around 3'o clock. ATM was the first place we went to which was near FORUM and that's how we knew how far it was in another route (13 minutes to be precise...). There was very large queue and the nearest ATM was of SBI's and nobody knew where AB ATM is. There was a large queue thereand it took us 20 minutes of waiting to learn there was no money in it. So on phoning to nanna money depositing option was ruled out. Incidentally I met my intermediate friend RAHUL who has just finished training at SATYAM'S Lakhshya Infotech. We wantd to borrow some from him and he was very sorry as the day was still 23rd and that his expenses were ending. We phoned our roommate HARI as it was a holiday for him and asked him to bring the money over. Somehow things didn't work out and we went back to the room, took the money and made our way to the ERC hostel.
Time was 4:50 p.m. Finally we paid the money.Going back through the forum there was a dance ballet going on to promote CLASSICAL DANCE by the group called ALANKRITA (orsomething like that..) We stayed back for seeing them. Good is not a word that would actually describe them. They were very pleasing to the eye and we could see blend of both classical dance and modern music coming together there.The last performance was the best one as the theme was BRAZILIAN martial arts and that was the only one we coudl understand what the dance was all about. After that we stayed back for a while looking back on our expedition and thinking of the life to be.Wanting to share our joy with our fellow mates we decided to give them a treat for being such a nice hosts, cooking for us in the night, sharing mat and pillows, sharign computer and top of all that being very good human beings. I really appreciate them. It is from IYENGAR BAKERY that we brought EGG PUFFS, 1.5 Ltr COKE, Pastries. Coming home we all sat together and toasted our induction and as well as our succesfuly PG hunting. Everybody is happy.
That's how it ended...
I know my travials are trivial to what Srujuna must have gone through as she so eloquently put in her blog but I had my share of excitement and tensions too which I wanted to share with you all. And also I would like this to have this blog as an blueprint for those who are about to SEARCH FOR PG....
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