premshree

After living practically out of the office for over a year, I finally have my own place. Pankaj was looking for a place for himself some months back, and he asked me if I’d like to move in with him. I reluctantly said yes—I wasn’t too keen on renting a place then.

The broker guy showed us several blue-pink houses with their USPs being “you can see diamond district from here, saar” and such. We were pissed.

We chanced upon our penthouse—yes, it’s a penthouse, not by Bombay standards, but yeah, a four-floor building is what you get in Bangalore—when the broker was showing us another flat in the same building. We had to rent the place. And we did.

It wasn’t very easy getting the house ready, though. I don’t know why, but there seems to be something terribly wrong with the way folks here conduct business: “yes saar, ready saar, today evening, done”. But of course, it never gets done for a month. Anyway, after giving up on them later (agreeing to bright yellow and ivory white being the same color, etc.), we moved in.

Pankaj and I have been shopping for curtains, cushions and things like that. I’m quite happy about how the place is turning out.

Here are some pictures. Pankaj’s pictures.

My brother seems to have the ability to capture dull, everyday objects and turn it into interesting photographs. I love 'em! And he uses his mofo for that.

Check out more of his pictures here.

Btw, pictures from Daman here.

Daniel Shih has an *amazing* collection of pictures of Taipei 101, the world's tallest building, and the Taipei skyline in general. There are loads of other interesting Taipei 101 pictures in the Taipei 101 Tower group that he started.

The picture seen here is a stitch of three pictures taken during the countdown to 2006. What a sight it must’ve been!