It is very funny how British english and American english use completely different words to mean the same thing, both claiming that they speak "english"!!! One of these words is "apartment", the thing I knew as "flat" for the first 23 years of my life. Now, the point I want to make is that I could never imagine living in a "flat" when I was small...I pitied those people (specially kids) who could not run up and down the staircases, have many nooks and corners to hide while playing hide-and-seek with cousins and have really big open terraces which could turn into lands of fantasy, kind of like Enid Blyton's "magic faraway tree"...all these thoughts actually came because I was born and brought up in my now 82 years old ancestral home.
Life in USA taught me a lot, and the most important lesson, I guess is adjustment. I was in a dorm for 2 years, my favourite Denman Hall, sharing a 1bhk apartment with a completely unknown girl from another country...but, as the girl was too nice, the whole experience turned out to be wonderful and left a good memory (a good memory is like the taste you have in your mouth after eating a good ice-cream... :-)...anyway, so I learnt how to live in an apartment...!!!
After I moved to Seattle, God upgraded me from gradstudent 3.21 to woman 1.0 and my lifestyle changed for the better. Firstly, Arnab is there to take care of me. I have someone to shout at if things dont work the way I expect them to and I dont have to take the decisions that I dont WANT to take :-) Getting a guy to look after you is a cool thing, girls, believe me...I am so much in favor of getting married :-)
Moreover, someone does the tough things suitable only for guys, like carrying heavy bags, assembling furniture...and and and...last but not the least, someone takes care of the finances, hahaha!!!! So it is obvious that I am very relaxed now :-)
This apartment is a good place to live in...the neighborhood is nice and the place is very beautiful with hills and pine trees all around...but to an outsider there is nothing that speciak to it...the extra zing that adds a sweet flavor to me and Arnab is the fact that this is our "home"...the first place where we moved together...
this apartment Y203 will always be special to us...
This apartment has seen the new home-maker, experimenting with new recipes, packing lunch, waiting for him to come back from work, assembling furniture, arranging books (not studying them!!!) and learning to adapt a new lifestyle with a new lifemate...this is my new home on this part of the world
