What friends can do....

A normal day in the life of a commom householder, a city dwelling householder would be like this... Morning rush, travelling unscathed to work and reaching the work place in one piece and then be prepared to endure and remain sane at the most impossible demands from your boss, which even superman would find stumping going by the time given to accomplish - read as " by yesterday" and then there is always the office politics and favoritism ( the dumbo bootlicker who gets to take the foreign assignment plus all the good perks, while you remain slogging at your desk with added responsibilities ). The sad part is, the agony does not end there.. the saga continues. On your way back home, once again expertly navigating your car/bike through the maddenning crowd and jam-packed roads, you get rammed into by a bloke (who is perhaps in a hurry to meet his mates in hell). and he has the gall to probe you on "who issued you your driver’s license" or "where you originate from" and such highly blood-pressure raising questions. Many a times, you wish you hadn't taken the bait and responded back, but the natural response is to give equally biting remarks which end up in either a brawl in the middle of the road, or at least staring matches – which is a surefire recipe for causing a traffic jam and result in a 100 horns blaring at one go.
Once you’ve gotten through this scenario, you go to a grocery and as luck would have it, you are invariably way back in the queue. Big supermarkets are not the only places where people are teaming up to stock their homes with groceries and stuff, even smaller grocers are doing brisk business and the queue is milling everywhere. They say – people are losing jobs, getting paid less, are spending less, then, I wonder what most of them are doing in these shops and why are they stocking all this stuff? Well, all this done and what still remains is the mammoth duty of maintaining your cool at home when you see your teenagers room that looks like the joint efforts of a few typhoons, tornados and hurricanes... plus the blasting music and the phone that is forever stuck to your kid teenage son/daughter's ears. All this done one has to have the endurance to carry out the motions of every day chores at home and at last...no not yet over !! – You have to stay up and see the depressing news channels giving details of which millionaire got buried, which company shut down, the low and lower and lowest levels reachable by share market indexes and finally, last but not the least - You CANNOT let your spouse down by hitting the pillow right away – meaning have the energy to please your spouse too !! ( If the spouse has the energy too - that is a million dollar question !!)
In between all this, one cannot afford to forget to have the patience to deal with the moods of different family members and make sure that issues are resolved amicably, however small or baffling it may be. Take the example of your mother-in-law who wants “OUT”. Out of what -? Well, she finds the maid is sloppy and inefficient and so she wants out of having to supervise the maid. Going by the shortage of maids faced by the entire neighborhood, not to mention the scarcity of finding reliable and honest ones, you are bound to find this complaint totally unjustified and told just to spite you, still, can you dare to snub you MIL ? NEVER. You do that and you can be assured of sulking faces both from MIL and your spouse who will await an opportunity to take it out on you at the drop of a hat.

So, what does one do to unwind ? After all, duties as a spouse, father/mother, son / daughter..is never ending. So, one must take out some private time. Its called "FEEL GOOD TIME" . Who to share this time with... mom - NO, dad - NO, son/daughter - NO, Spouse - NO.

Only and just Friends - ALLOWED. FRIENDS are the best medicine.

An outing with an old friend – just window shopping or a quite lunch away from family and office friends – is Just what the doctor prescribed.
Well, if one has the luxury of taking a couple of days off, nothing like spending time with your friend(s) at a resort like Melur Meadows. Come March 2009, there will be short stay rentals available. A place so peaceful, calm, tranquil and all chores taken care of by the housekeeping staff, what more rejuvenation does one need to unwind and relax completely?
A relaxing day playing indoor games, catching up with other residents, a lazy day reading in the gardens under shady trees amidst ponds, beautifully mowed lawns, trees and only bird songs to break the silence. A fabulous menu at the kitchen and hobbies and events you can participate-in, if you feel like. A life changing holiday.


Not only cottages on short-stay rentals, but to buy and rent out too !

Check out http://www.melurmeadows.com/ for all further details. Cottages starting price as less as Rs.8 Lakhs.