Somebody up there must have laboured hard for this whole set up…
Bringin me here..:) to Pune.
When I stepped in Pune, we were a bunch of guys(who didn’t know anything about pune) and one girl(me). Fortunately,a far off relative had arranged for temporary stay… a small wooden 18th century hotel, flanked by coconut trees , located virtually on the edge of the railway track. Although technically very unsafe.. it was our first hideout. U must know what it feels like getting a shelter @ 1 Am in a new city..
Finding a place was like all we wanted to do for ourselves then. We took to the streets, calling, drudging, laughing.., sometimes tense..going from place to place in search of that one, where we r now. For some of us the search ended in a few days. For some like me, i got a temporary(a better temp this time
)one. After 3 months i settled in
on where I am rt now.
People here are great yaar. My first project was awesome.I even started learinin Marathi a lil. The team was mostly as young as me,irrespective of age. Work was all same,work till 2, 3 am , come bak, leave in the mornin again. After 5 months, it ended- it was short term and power packed..hehe. My Second project was like any other project but things started changing. I had moved to a flat, started doing a certification on weekedns in Mumbai, commuting on weekends,
working more on weekdays… wooofff. It was one hell of a time. Since the certification was on my topic of interest, I basically lived the whole week in those two days-sat & sun 9 to 6.. and smoking the mumbai wind afterwards, deep into my lungs..and abdomen. Pune @ dat time became a roomate, who is good to live with on weekdays, but at the end
of the week it was mumbai that I turned to. Actually bcoz I had to.. bt enjoyed like i wanted to. It was a rapchik rush hour- those 5 months. The biggest technical gliche of my life occured then. At the end of 3 months, we were given a
few projects( for which we wre supposed to work on vmWares) . Guess what, I was proudly & partly an owner of a lovely flat in an awesome society, but sadly of my laptop too- Noel.
Noel is pretty tough,ignorant, stunted(hardly 30 GB HD) & earlier belonged to Alzheimer(256 MB). Shez a great friend but not at all a techie. I had a pretty hard time doin my projects..That was one time realized that I needed an upgrade more than Noel….;)
But I did it , u know ‘beg , borrow, steal’- always works.
Gradually, everything settled down around me.. we, who came here together became friends, good
friends now.Got bindaas roomates. Last coupla months I was released from the project. It was horrible in there, same
stuff, things changed everyday, lotta confusion.. & to survive u had to copy paste in a new way everytime..hehe. Or at least I could not make sense of it all, I had drifted to the other side of the sea by then.. Not anyone’s fault.
Pune was such a home to me by now. No testimonials in its praise.. Its like a very hot girl whoz not crazy… unbelievable. You can see her, feel her & talk about her. Cant write about her…Shez just awesome. Pune has the best climate I have ever experienced..Its like being cozy on the breasts of a saree clad ‘Girl’- always .. comforted and warm. Everybody around is so young,adventurous; never low on ’spirit’ –
, sometimes its like a Utopian world… More than
that a place with a Soul… jus like those of our villages.. long lost.
What’s bad about it? Commuting & Houses could be expensive, even food.
But dude, its the best place for wanderlusted souls, artists,ppl having a hobby, to study, hangout; in short Creative & Earthly and a Great place to live and have fun! Whoever wana revitalize must breath in here.. hehe.
Now you know why I wrote the first line… seems like someone intentionally arranged the whole fantasy called ‘pune’ around me just so that he could disrupt it all or take it away from me and be happy about it.. Oohh what saddist fun..Bet its been just as tough for her to make me leave Pune as it is for me to leave it. Or may be dat someone is me …love you – Pune.