My Musings

ARUN and his family lived in Shastrinagar, Adyar, on the 3rd floor since last 18 months. We found it difficult to climb the three floors. Gayathri's parents and other relatives also found it difficult to climb. We were looking a for a I floor or Ground floor house for them. During July 2015, Meera mami told us about a house in Shanti Avenue, Radhakrishnan Nagar. On 21 July we two were shown the house. Two bedrooms, a large hall, two bathrooms, kitchen. Good house. Ground floor. Shanti Avenue is a dead-end road, so no traffic. We liked the house and informed Arun. They came and saw the house next day, on 22nd July. They too liked it. Rent is 17K + 1 K as maintenance. After the month of Aadi was over, Arun-Gayathri performed the Paal kaaichi kudiththal function on Friday the 21st August 2015. We two, Krithika, Aditi, and Arjun also went. Vijaya performed it. On 26th Aug Wednesday, they shifted their luggage etc to the new house. From that night, they...

ARUN SHIFTS TO BANGALORE. Arun got a job at Bangalore and he joined there on 1st August 2012. He left Gayathri, Sowmya , and Sriram at Padur, Chennai itself for the completion of the Academic year 2012-13 Sowmya and Sriram wrote the entrance exam at Vag devi school Bangalore on 15 Dec 2012; Sowmya was successful but Sriram is to write again in Jan 2013. He wrote on 19 Jan 2013 and got admission. Arun paid 41900 for Sowmya and 41500 for Sriram on 26 Jan 2013. Thus the School admission formalities were successfully completed. He decided to shift to Bangalore by end-March and he started his preparations accordingly. He finalised a house (2nd floor) at Marathahalli, Bangalore by 1st week of March. Rent Rs 13000.00 and advance Rs 70000. He paid the advance and did the paal kaaychi kudiththal on 13 March. We went to Padur on 2 March and stayed there for 6 days. His home articles were packed on 28 March (we two went there). The packers (ICM Ltd) were tocome by 11 AM but they came at ...

Arun - Gayathri booked their flat with XA realtors nearly 18 months ago, in late 2009. The plot is at Padur village, in Old Mamallapuram Road (OMR, now Rajiv Gandhi Salai) 22 kms away from Thiruvanmiyur. The registration papers were signed by Arun at Tirupporur on 19 Nov 2009 (read here). The flat was ready and the Key was handed over to A-G on 5th April 2011. Even though A-G wished to have the Gruha pravesam in Feb/March itself, the builder wasn't ready; finally the GP at the new house was performed on 17 April 2011 (details here). Once GP was performed A-G started with the woodwork (modular kitchen etc). New electrical fittings like split AC, fans, lamps were bought and fixed in the new house. Date for shifting was fixed as 4th June. As we two had shifted to Thiruvanmiyur a week earlier, we went to A-G's house (10 minutes by walk) by 10AM with lunch. We were ready but the packer didn't turn up. He promised he would come the next morning at 6 itself! Next morning...