My First Home

Yeah, not the first house though, 305, Arihany Ashrey, Begumpet is definately the first home we had (we is to denote only friends). Started residing in HYD with 1st house in Panjagutta, a scary 7th floor house. A single house at the top of a residential complex and trust me the scariest one. Then moved to C 40 in Majestic Mansion in Begumpet. House owner Mr. Venkat was a nice guy but my then roommate, Mr. Vinay Ghai from DCE (Mr. is not out of respect, but with Sarcasm :-)). Ghai sahab was a roommate, is a friend and a great collegue. He was also part of the Sales Engineers in Sify but in Enterprise Applications division.
Then, we moved into 305 where ICFAI guys Mayank n Anuj were staying with our sweet champu GE friend, Mr. Puneet Sharda. A house which had the facilities generally un-available in Bachelor houses. We had a working Kitchen and cook (Amma) and another maid for cleaning and washing clothes. As a bachelor, I can still say, "the life became much simpler".
Then my 2.8 years in 305 saw people changing:
- First Vinay got a transfer to Delhi since his mom wasnt keeping well n he wanted to study for his MBA
- then Puneet moved out went to kolkata for sometime. during the same time Mayank and Anuj also moved out. Mayank n Anuj helped us unknowingle seeing few nice babes in HYD when Preet used to come to house to visit them!
- Then I had to quickly search for new 5 bachelors for this 3BHK flat.
- Luckily got to meet Shishir Maithani from DCE who was working in Polaris that time. My best ever Sales pitch ;-) helped me convincing Shishir, Hemant Diwedi, Ravi Panjwani and Himanshu Shah (all working for Polaris) to move in with me. 305 somehow survived in my life n in this Blog.
- Then the life was good. All of us had a really good time and enjoyed our lives of 305.
- Then one day Hemant moved to Chennai with CTS.
- Then Mr. Siddharth Khanna, another DCEite, was also moving to HYD from MUM. Panju n him were close because of their intial training at Polaris. Khanna is with Oracle
- Khanna moved in n we were again 5 people.
- Same time we got our cute elder friend Mr. Srinivas Kandala, hailing from Orissa n working for Polaris and loves giving gyan about "blody Indians", also into 305. Zindagi mast ho gayi thi. All of us combined had a great time.
- Then aftersometime, Kandala went onsite.
- Then for few months my childhood friend, Hemant Kumar Singh (Babu) came to stay with us. This is when me, babu, panju and Chirag Dhingra (a.k.a. chiggu - another childhood friend) went to Machalipatnam on bike.
- Then Kandala followed.
- The shortly Panju also went onsite. All these guys went to UK.
- Now it was me, khanna and Himanshu Shah left in the house.
- Khanna got hold of Shakeel Kadam from Pune, working for Oracle, to come in. He is a guy who is the best when it comes to enjoying and chilling in life.
- Shortly another DCEite, Mr. Siddharth Gupta also joined us.
- Then Shakeel left for MUM
- Himanshu also changed his job n went to Gurgaon.
- Now was the time of making mistake. and Bingo, we did. We got Mr. Srikanth (on high recommendations of Amit Prabhaker) also into our House.
- Differences started creeping in.
- Sidgu moved to BLR and then I got Aniruddha Baskaran from Sify into 305.
- Then I left with Siddharth Khanna missing all of us like anything. so I do keep visiting him as n when I find time!! Me and Khanna got into a great friendship once all others had left 305.

BUT ALL IN ALL, 305 is a memory/phase of my life which can never be replaced.

btw, in the pic u see khanna n me playing carrom.