Long time no see…:-)
This time it’s the nature of transition that is forcing me to scribble yet another entry after long time inertia. Yes, we moved to our hometown on permanent basis, and it’s this transition that I want to talk about.
Bhavnagar is both mine and my wife’s hometown. We both relished sweet times in Bangalore reminiscing about the old golden days – our school days in Bhavnagar. To outsiders, Bhavnagar is a laid back town. If seen from a resident’s viewpoint, however, it’s a city of decent people with polite manners who are not yet affected by greed of modern times. Living in it along changing times, there has never been a single thing that we are deprived of – be it cable TV, mobile phones or Broadband.
It is this ‘best of both the worlds’ thing that inspired us to see a dream to permanently make it our home since last three years of urban atrocities. It was only a matter of opportunity that I was dying for. It came in the form of exponentially growing freelance work which rained unfailingly to help me decide.
Finally, after our celebrating our third marriage anniversary (May 14) and enjoying along with parents and my maternal grandparents in Bangalore during rainy May (there are no snaps of any event so I don’t want to recollect all that to blog it – accept it.), I completed my notice period in June 2nd week, and permanently moved to Gujarat. Our move was marked by cross-state difficulties as well the usual urban woes from Bangalore, but it was fine and justified, given the end benefit!
Life@home is cool. Work@home is lazy…but smooth 
I work along with Avani after successfully setting up a shared wireless connection. I & Drashti enjoy the evening cool-breeze outings of our seashore small town. The definition of long-drive is justified here, unlike the cramped urban roads where driving is hell. We relish the Gujju spicy snacks – panipuri, pav-ganthiya, samosas – all of it amid my huge family-tree. Not to forget local icecream brands, sodas, and regional sweet dishes – shreekhand, aamras, kheer and what not! Mom makes them with great enthusiasm. Papa – always silent in execution – has taken on long-pending house restructuring. Our grandma, bed-ridden since 3 years, is finally able to rise from bed and talk incessantly. Guests are too frequent to visit, and too impatient to call. They invite us back – but we are still reluctant to go, as I find it bit hard to even spend 8 hours/day in freelance work. Avani isn’t very much different. We are too lazy to even work from home!
What next? A four wheeler will add to the already grown stack of pleasure – a Santro or a wagonR?
