Day 2 @ Thane.....

I dont exactly classify as Animal/Bird Lover now.. But then i had nothing against them either... Till... We moved to Thane...
The day we moved in we encountered just abt 200-300 cockroaches, several dozen pigeons and a few other unknown-to-me creatures, comfortably settled in the place we were to make our home !
just imagine the horror of waking up in the middle of night to find cockroach kid crawling over u !! Yucks !!!!!
We got a maintenance guy to clean a duct and there was a family of pigeons there.. I closely witnessed the evolution of an absolutely ugly looking baby pigeon to equally horrible looking grown up pigeon ! It was dirty, horribly smelly and it was trying to create various percussion type of sounds ! The only interesting part was the way, mom pigeon guided her kiddos to and fro around the window sill for about a whole day, till they could fly away :)
I almost forgot to mention the stray dogs on the road, in the parking and everywhere !
They are supposedly harmless ! but i hate them nevertheless... They never fail to scare me, even thou they may be barkng among themselves... !
Some things have a deep impact on ur impressionable mind... No wonder then, this shifting episode has thus made me a part of 'I hate animals' gang !!
Anybody wants to join me ??

The packing....

'Packing' actually speaking shouldnt have been much of an issue.. Reason being we were going to use the services of movers and packers..
But... :)
Well.. pune home being our own, there was a place for everything and everything was in place !!
Just one yr we've been there and the stuff we'v collected amounts to Oh-my-Gawd kinds !
So there was a 'discussion' over every piece of china ! The discussion would be somewhat on these lines -
Hj : Hey, we dont need this cutlery right ?
Pj : What ?? Lets not go over it all again.. We need this when mom or aai comes..
Hj : Hmm... N what if there are no lofts in the new place ??
Pj : Leave that to me... I'll manage..
Hj : (Reluctance showing large on his face) Alrigh... Put this in one box..

And so, after a lot of - 'do we carry this, do we not carry this' kind of discussions, A-308, as we fondly refer to our pune home, was ready and packed in boxes..
We couldnt shift most of the furniture, because its fixed, custom made things, without any thought of shifting out...

Seeing the whole of our 'sansar' in boxes made me kind of philo.. I suddenly realized, there was a sub conscious attachment i was packing along...
I was attached to the place, the people and the city...
well... but change is an inevitable part of life and so we moved on....

This n that.....

Just noticed, my last update here was in Nov 09..
Well well well... its been a yr :P
Dec just rushed past.... Celebrated first wedding anniversary with my significant half.. Jan was as usual.. time to be conky... This yr we did not make any resolutions ! I welcomed the new yr sleeping :) so 2010's gonna be a sleepy yr for me i guess.... Feb and March went into a lot of introspection n change management kindda scene...
We shifted our base from Pune to Thane...
now thats a major update.. N more than one posts coming up on the shifting episode !right now... listening to the irritating pigeon sounds, trying to make sense of the stuff still lying around me :(
and wondering if i'll actually anytime need any of the papers, i've so carefully preserved ?
More on this coming up soon...