Its been one year, four months and eleven says since I landed in London. When I reached this place, I found it to be a far cry from the London I had visited earlier. Yes, Southall is very much different from Knightsbridge that I had visited eights years back on work. One has to literally paste a sticker in this place to say that Southall is indeed in the UK. To me it looks like a mini Punjabi village. Don't get me wrong, now I love this place, but till a few months back it felt like an Indian slum (though Southall still looks like that in a few places!!).
After having lived in Dubai for 33 years, every where I go I compare it to Dubai. Southall just could not measure up. For that matter even London could not measure up to Dubai. Luckily for me, I have become a home body and now it matters less how the outside world is. I have come to like the house that I am in and with each passing day I am adding Chinty's touches to it. Right now the stair way is getting painted and in a few days our entire house will look different.
It's my home, the place I have come to love, the place where my love lives and where we are finding the joys of living together.......
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