Shaping your dreams!!!

'Looks good.. but still it's not going to be as good as an Apartment' I said staring at an empty land near Tambaram... Disappointed, my husband headed towards home.. ' The toughest job on earth wud be convincing a woman' , I could read his mind :-)

'No, a separate house is alwayz better' my husband loud and clear this time.. I started again.. 'An apartment is alwayz soo good .. u get to know a lot of ppl.. safety and security is there.. neighbours.. playmates for children.. association to take care of everything... I can never get all these in a separate house.. hmm..if its a separate house, then the location should atleast be City sort'... I said... 'No way... Noise.. Pollution .. Crowd .. I can't bear them everyday ... and also a city sort separate house crosses our budget.. ' he said...

I was determined not to compromise on 'City-Sort' locations and 'Apartments' and my husband on 'Non-City-Sort' locations and 'a 'Individual house' .. After a lot of no-no arguments we ended up in one option.. tho' it meant little compromises for both of us.. The option was "An Apartment in a Non-City-Sort location"...

The next spot in our house hunt was Chennai Pattinam .. I still wonder y they named it so.. it was well well far from 'Chennai' .. but u never know, just as the real Chennai was termed as Old Chennai and a New Chennai was formed.. one day it might also become 'Chennai' .. The looong car drive was good.. But even before we reached there, we wanted to come bac.. Not to make the whole trip a waste of time, we got down at the site which had only compound walls by then.. spent some time talking to the person in-charge there and came bac.. the trip was so tiring that we put our search on hold for the next few weeks..

Weeks later.. we were browsing some online ads for aprtments in Perungudi, Thuraipakkam, Medavakkam, Pallikarnai, OMR.. and I called almost every one of them enquiring the square feet rates... Some rates were really head-spinning rates.. Some builders even hung up the line, saying 'We currently do not have projects for ur budget, mam'... That was so disappointing.. So we increased our budget by 5L , hoping to somehow manage... The next try was a Property Fair.. That made us feel a little better.. but still none of them looked like our dream apartment .. The same drawbacks.. either the distance or the budget..

When we were almost near the exit.. we saw that all bright poster in a stall... a little, it looked like our dream apartment.. But check out my next blog to find out if it was really our dream apartment .. :-)