I call it Marble Palace :)

Frenz here are few snaps taken by me and few grabbed from the web… Hope you differentiate between those.

Now about the place, this is a Jain temple by name “Shri Parshwa Sushil Dham”. It is the second place that took me off my feet after the Mysore Palace. Yes a wonderful place where you can discover yourself, a place where even breeze enters with silence. Though sun glows as much as it could when u enter the place the ambience will chill your heart and soul… I felt it.

One day when I was travelling home (Coimbatore) I just saw this temple. It was night so I couldn’t find out any landmarks nearby. Then after every time I go home I used to gaze out of the window to find out which place it is. It is on the highways after electronic city and before Hosur.

After some days it happened that I felt I should go there somehow. So I just asked my colleague cum friend Kalai if she knows the place and she said she would find out from her friend and tell me. And one day she came back to me and said it is in a place called Bommanasandra.

Then I set my mind for the travel. 11th December 2010, Saturday I got up @ 6 am (Yup believe me.. I got up :P), decided to travel there alone and started my journey. I reached Bommanasandra but had no symptoms of that temple. Then got into Atibele bus again and decided not to get down until I see the temple. Finally I saw it after the place called Neralur very close to Atibele.

I walked down to the temple. Found no one there. I was worried if the watchman would let me in. Was a little afraid but the ambience changed me. I was overwhelmed with the architecture and sculptures all in white seemed like in heaven (Yeah stories and pictures show heaven in snow white na.. :P). I didn’t know how to worship that god so just sat down there admired things around and came back.

This is during some festival I guess… Grabbed it from web.

For those who wish to visit just get into bus number 360 from Majestic or Silkboard and get down in Guest house stop after Neralur, the temple is just walk able distance from there.

Searching never ends…

Yup I know it’s a long time since I have posted on my blog. But the reason for it is silly.. Yeah its because I was busy on my search.

Enough stop imagination… I am just searching for a house for rent and that is all…
But I have realized getting a house for rent in Bangalore is the most difficult challenge.

Just a month before my friend Karthick called me up and said they (Karthick and Vinoth) are planning to shift from the house in which they are staying now (in Bangalore). And when I was just telling about this casually to my mom she said, “Why don’t u also search along with them and shift to a house nearby to their house so that u will be safe...” And just after that I spoke to my friend Suganya who also liked this idea.

Then started our hunt, everyday after office we would go on a hunt street by street in search of TOLET boards or new buildings being constructed. Till today we have not found even a single TOLET board. Pathetic.

But we explored every new building being constructed. We would go there find the watchman ask him for the owners contact number, few would give and few would not.

After all this these were few answers which we got to hear :
1. The building would take few months to complete.
2. Sorry all the houses are already booked
3. Not for bachelors.
4. INR 10k for 1bhk.
5. We are not giving for rent. It’s a PG. etc etc

Few days back one such incident really frustrated me. Vinoth, Suganya and me went in search one fine evening for a house in BEML Layout. We just saw construction going on the second floor of a house. We knocked the door and a lady came out. We asked if she would give that for rent for bachelors and she said yes. Fine we were happy the next question was about rent. She said there are one 1bhk and one single room getting ready. We felt its fine and we shall share the kitchen. And she said the rent would be between 6k to 7k for the 1bhk and 5k for the single room. Everything was fine and we were happy that we have found our place. She asked us to come the next day morning to see the house. I had a peaceful sleep that night. Morning Suganya and me went to see the house with full josh. I would not want to comment on the single room, but about the so called 1bhk – It had a pathway called hall, a bedroom which was half the area of the single room and finally the kitchen smaller than the bathroom. Though the house was very small we felt its ok. The lady came out and said its 7k for that house (ok agreed) , then she continued saying water and electricity bill are separate (ok its obvious) then she said u have to pay for maintenance every month (I wondered what is this maintenance for an individual house) and out of curiosity I asked what it is. She replied saying maintenance for each room is INR 500. So for that 1bhk as she calls it, the rent sums upto to 8500 (7000 + (3 * 500)) excluding water and electricity bills. EKSI..

Apart from all these I used to google for the same and would get some contact numbers and call them and if it was a broker I would say sorry not interested.

But after all these frustrations the scene changed. We went to nearly 3 brokers but they said sorry no house not interested. OMG

The worst part was even a half constructed house in Bangalore is booked and even before the construction is over people start living in these houses.

Finally now we are left up with only two options :
1. To stop searching.
2. Book a house for which foundation is laid. :P

Searching is pain. Never before had I searched for anything like this. Am fed up.
People reading this please give me tips on how to search a house.