Back here again. Wappu was really really good and got even better when I got to do some lumberjacking in the weekend. I still prefer a chainsaw over dumbbells whenever I need slow-paced strength exercise.

My Indian contact has been arranging my accommodation for more than a week now, with less than outstanding results. The preliminary reservation was for a serviced apartment in Koramangala, further away from the office than Diamond District. Seasoned readers may remember DD being biblically remote from anything, but that’s not all: my contact person for the apartment would be from the same company that I had problems with before. Yes, they did something about it, but to me it looked more like a show and I don’t want to take the risk. So I asked him to find another one.

Well, no.

It doesn’t seem to strike anyone that I may want different things than some other expat, so I got told all over again how other families have had trouble with “other apartments” and “they do well in this one“. It may be that some people like it in the middle of nowhere, but I want to live close to the place I go to five times a week, especially when traffic conditions are as horrible as in Bangalore.

We’ll see if the message goes through this time and I get to live somewhere even remotely acceptable. I would like to see some results before I leave Oulu tomorrow evening.

Edit: some e-mails later I got what I asked for, so I’ll be having a studio apartment closer to the office.

Tags: accommodation, diamond district, practical stuff, traffic, wappu