Today, I did something what seemed impossible to me 1 year ago. I finished a Half Marathon. The timing is not very impressive, but trust me, for a newbie, this one is a huge achievement. Now there is no stopping. A Full Marathon is not far, and training for it has already started.
Ironically, when I returned home, and read the newspaper, tomorrow is "World Heart Day" So should I say "Thank you" to my heart ? or say "Sorry" for making it struggle on just before his day ?
* I've been working on this since a year now. But finally, my room mate came up with the write up. I added some snaps, and modified the content to make the blog more memorable. This blog is written by a guest writer Rohan (Bunnu) who was also a resident of #883 and is written with Rohan as the 1st person. This blog is dedicated to all the lucky guys (and few gals) who were the "victim of fun" in #883. A special thanks to our land lord Diwakar a.k.a 'D' for his kindness and patience to tolerate us in his house. Here is the story....
For those who know "Good bye 695" it can be a sequel...
Our contract for 695 was getting over by August 06 month end. We could have extended it by paying revised rate of 10K. We opted for the other option and quest for new home was began.There were 3 of us, Me(Rohan), Dahsin(Nishad) and Sappya(Swapneel).
Our main condition was house should be near to the office.After searching in ad magazines and papers we came to know about House no.883,near East end.
When we saw it we found it bit small area wise.Though area in which it was built was convenient one. After discussing for a short while we decided to take that house on rent. And a new era of my stay in Bangalore was began. I would have been more than surprised if somebody had told me this will be one of your finest stay. I must admit that for first few days I found it bit small.Very soon I realised it was big enough to give us a memorable stay. In the meantime our friends Jakya, Busaan and Vinya also found a house nearby.That triggered amazing memories spent together.
For the first 3 months Sappya used to stay with us.He used to study all the day:-)
The house saw the Birth of Magician 21!dahsiN.He used to learn new magic tricks of his own and then we were victims of his experiments:-) He has mastered the this art by now.So many videos are evident for it:-) Again most of them are taken in 883. After Sappya left the house, one of my friend Barvya arrived. The house saw so many events like late night bakar,patte sessions, bday bash of different kind, world cup hawaa. I remember most of the bdays were celebrated in different fashions.I loved the way Dahsin brought triangular caps having cartoons
over it for all of us. It was amazing feeling to celebrate bday of a 24 year KID:-)Another memorable bday was of Chaaandya's, to whom minimum 10 empty boxes were presented as gift.
So many of our friends had the Privilege of staying in the house.Sunnya,chandya and Chaaandya will top the list.
Once, there was a naming ceremony done for each one of us, based on what we did,
1. Swapneel : Gurappan Palya (due to his Guruji abilities)
2. Rohan : Dhery Circle (In Marathi, Dhery = Belly)
3. Omkar : Crazy Frog, Dungya (Crazy frog for his body language, and Dungya in memory Mr. Raj Singh Dungarpur for changing his statements every other day)
4. Amar (Jackie) : Jakkasandra (Just because his pet name matches with an area in Bangalore)
5. Chandya : Kuchka Futana (For his cunning and witty humour)
6. Diwakar (Landlord) : D (Based on RGV's Movie "D")
The house witnessed so many things related to 'Food for thought'.Correct, all the things related to food, whether we brought N no of Idlis or planning to go to our favourite hotels, finding reasons to treat a Mosumbi juice @ Cool Corner, or an even better reason to enjoy ice-cream @ Pick 'n' Move.
I remember one evening when dahsiN managed to throw out a mouse.Mouse tried his best to survive from dahsiN only to be swept away by dahsiN in one shot.Needless to say, he never came back. At the time of World cup our house was full of friends and wafers,chips,cold drinks, never to forget the famous "Vicks World Cup" and unlimited fun.All these things were enough to convince our landlord that the no of people staying in the house was more than 8.:-).We tried to convince the landlord that it is impossible to fit 8 people in a 550 sq feet 1BHK without anyone noticing ! But instead of warning us about the 8 people conundrum, D calmly said," You want to stay 8 people, stay. But you will have to pay extra for water bill !!!" After cherishing every moment over here finally time came to say Good bye.I had to shift from Bangalore to Mumbai.
I left the house with heavy heart on 29th of sept. I decided to visit the house sooner.Hardly a week passed and I came to know about Barvya's transfer to Pune.Suddenly Dahsin had to bid adieu to 883 in very short time.Finally he packed his bags and shifted to his friend's house.
10 months are over by now still we find it hard to have a conversation in which 883 is not mentioned.
For those who have never visited the 883, this can be just a story; but for those who have stayed there it is far more than just a blog.
The last footage and some small memories from the house. (I had tears while making the video)
