Yesterday we decided to meet director-turned-papa Anchal Kumar and friend Manav Kapoor for lunch.

We ended up at Zyka (Raheja Arcade). We’d heard that it has really good Gujarati thalis, but on Sunday. Being a Saturday, we decided to risk the North Indian thali they had on their menu. Bad idea. The food was strictly OK, with the starter (ordered separately) being quite good. I think next time around it’s going to be A-la-carte.

By the time we walked out of the restaurant, it was pouring cats and dogs. We ended up waiting in the Arcade for an hour. We then decided to risk the rain to get to our cars and drive over to Lal Bagh. By the time we arrived, the rains had simmered down and we were able to explore the beautiful garden.

We left with a bunch of saplings. Anchal did most of the sapling shopping, with us settling for a rose plant. I do intend to return as the Bagh [garden] as it’s simply beautiful.

All in all a good day

The last two days are a blur, except for the fun bits with BD. Let me be kind, and rewind.

House hunting is an art, not a science. Logic plays a part, I agree, but much less than the whims and fancies of the darned civil engineer and architect. How else does one explain the really insane apartment layouts? All bathrooms in a house had 2 entrances! One house had beautiful rooms and a spacious hall, but the kitchen wasn’t enough for 1 person to stand in. Sigh.

It all began when I visited Bangalore a week prior to the one past, and couldn’t finalise a house. The one I wanted went to someone else, and I was left with a lota in my hand.

This weekend I decided to take Shruti along to look at houses. We went and saw a few, but both of us had a gut feel about this particular house which was evading us through out the day. We had made 3 visits to the site, and even had a car-in-the-mud adventure that ended with 5 of us pushing the car out. That should have told us something!

But we persisted and finally at around 7:30PM we got to see the house. I loved it, as did Shruti. We decided to come back the next morning to see the house in natural lighting. It didn’t disappoint. We booked it on the spot!

Shruti (my lucky charm) made all the difference, and we got the house in a zippy!

Now the boring and tedious task of actually packing up Pune and moving to Bangalore begins.