You have always had that one dream of owning your own house - something that is all YOURS! A little nest of your own - to cook your choicest food at any hour, to throw parties, invite friends for staying over, dance, play loud music and of course the singing in the shower at the top of your voice! So did I! I was moving away from my own home - moving away from the warmth, love and care of my family, as I had landed a job in another city. I was on my own from now on! It was a scary thought, VERY scary! A new city, new people, new environment! Everything NEW!! Yikes! Luckily for me, I was not totally alone, my friends from college had got jobs in the same city in the same IT Park - 6 girls and 8 guys. At least somethings were old in a good way! :D
Even though leaving our respective families and moving to a new city was very difficult, we didn't have a choice and thus we started off to Chennai - The land of the scorching sun! It was a place with new language, English communication was slightly difficult, also if you did not know Tamil, it definitely was quite a problem! Luckily for me, what are friends for?! ;) We decided to stay together in a paying guest facility, and we checked out one which we found good enough and started staying there. It was all nice and and new for the first couple of days, but then started the complains! The food was not good - either too spicy that you actually would breath out fire or too oily, and we all know how girls are with oil in the food! :D We started eating from outside regularly - extra expense, and not so great for health! Another problem was, we are a set of wildlings, playing loud music and randomly shaking a leg at any song is a ritual - and singing out aloud to it! A late realization that it was not possible with your peace and quite loving neighbors who complained to the PG owner who gave us a lecture on the DO's and DONT's really started to get on our nerves. The final blow came when 2 of my friends found their laptops missing after we got back from work. That was it! We decided to move out of there and find an apartment of our own - where we could eat what we liked, at any time we wanted, sing and dance to our hearts content and at mainly - not have our valuables stolen!
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The guys were already settled in a rented 3-BHK in a lovely gated community - with a pool, a gym and a kid's play area and all! They suggested us to try finding a place in the locality - we went there and checked the place - quite safe a place for 6 girls to stay - with families nearby and not so near that they would complain of loud music! The cost was more affordable for 6 of us pooling in for all our expenses together and thus it was a dream come true!! We moved in immediately and it was the happiest moment of our care-free freedom filled life. All 14 of us - hanging out together practically all the time - at work and at home - Going to the movies for the night shows, walking on the way back home at 12 in the night - 6 girls at midnight walking on the streets - it was like we could actually bend the rules (of course when you have 8 guys with you, nothing seems impossible), celebrating all our birthdays together, having parties with music and food that we made and actually liked, hanging out in the kids' play area (sneaking up actually, for having a go at the swings when nobody was looking) - this was endless fun! It became a home away from home in all ways, a live party all the time! And thus it was #StartANewLife for all of us, with the happiest continuing (rather than ending).
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