No bachelors, Labra, Aloo Poshto, Vegetarian only, Iyankar, Santhome, Kolkota!

Goodbye Chennai, Aloo Kolkota. Me poshto :)
The hotel that I am staying had a Bengali food fest. And a vegetarian one to boot!Met Aloo Poshto, Labra, Cham Cham, the Rosso Malai, Rosso Gulla, Rene Russo (ok, ok, only the 1st 2 Rossos were there, but we do like the third one)

Suvo the man was aghast that a Bong food fest should be vegetarian of all things! But what to do, we are like this wonly. No Movin, your team is safe...

First the house hunt. That could easily have been titled a mousehunt. It was equally frustrating if not more. First endless questions about my being brahmin and why such a North Indian name?! I assured someone that I was brahmin and vegetarian! Wow! Endless auto rickshaw sorties across Mylapore, RA Puram, Alwarpet, etc yielded nothing but pesky questioning, including one case in which the neighbours who held the keys said sorry after I had seen the place and liked it! And when are my parents coming along. And why am I not married yet!? Phew!

And the auto saga continues. I met 2 polite auto drivers who did not ask for the Park Sheraton in return for dropping me off 2 km further down the road! One took me from Mylapore to Santhome thru some weird short cuts, which he knew by virtue of having lived there for 25 years! And I had no clue. And then another one, who had had a little too much to drink and was red eyed, but utterly civil, took us from Santhome to the hotel.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, presenting our house!
We are now designated denizens of Chennai and have an address. Marina beach is 5 mins from the house and we can now run on the beach every weekend. Bombay, we shall come back next year, faster and stronger.

Here's a beauty from The Hindu Property Plus dt 18/02/06, pg 4, ... When Summer Commences, people love to Ice-Cream, Tutty Fruity and Peach-Melba. They also love to move into ... Flats, Bungalows!

And finally, we are off to Calcutta on work for a day. More when we are back.