Chennai - Base Branch

It's been around two weeks since I came to Chennai. Had travelled from Vizag along with Mom and Bro - They were to spend their winter vacation with Dad at Kalpakkam and I had to join at my base branch. On the day of reporting, we(dad and me) started early and drove down to Shollinganallur. The roads at OMR were quite dusty. I was allocated to RTSC (block for Retail domain) at Karapakkam.I wouldn't have minded working at Shollinganallur too; the campus was quite beautiful.

I took temporary shelter at Vijay Pratap's room. It was very kind of him to accommodate me apart from two other of his friends - Pavan and Ashok. The hunt for a room continued for three days and we looked for rooms in Velachery, Thiruvanmiyur and Thoraipakkam. I personally loved a duplex at thoraipakkam and had almost confirmed it but we couldn't finalise it. Karapakkam was where we finally got our place of stay. We rented out 4 one BHK (read 1 bedroom hall kitchen) flats at a rent of 4000 per month/flat. With four of us staying per flat it was quite affordable and the bargaining skills of Mukesh had brought down the broker's commission from 16000 to 3000. The poor chap wanted a months rent as advance :)

60k is the advance we paid altogether. The room is a 10 min walk to office and with 14 of us staying together, I hope the days ahead should be fun.

The office at RTSC is an 8 storeyed building with well maintained corridors and cubicles. There is a gym which we plan to make the most use of. Our daily routine at office presently is to sign in the register and stay confined to the library and canteen as we are on BENCH. Some of us have already made reservations to pay a visit back home.

I am going home tomorrow to Kalpakkam where I would be joining Dad and Mom for their trip to Ooty and Mysore.