Straight from the stink-pot in my new house

12: 30 am (late night) - 75% per cent vaastu friendly said my dad proudly today as we shift back to a familiar suburb and a brand new house. No paint and polish smells, thank god for that, but a fine white powdery dust follows us around the house. I am 24, adventurous only to a point where I can come back to my sweet messy room....I feel too old to accept a change in home especially within the same city....anyway, coming back to the stink pot...well, I sit here trying to rid myself of all the spicy restaurant biryani, maggi noodles and fried chaklis we ate today. But the bigger reason is that my new home is devoid of any electricity at the precise moment we decide to end a hard day with some dreamless sleep...we had it in the day, all running and perfect.

3:00 pm - We generously said no to the airconditioning, "being in such a high floor, so much breeze, no?"commented an aunty who had come over to help...while all of us proudly nodded in agreement...and cut to now...12:13 pm...my curtains that were earlier flirting with the wind seem to be in a deep slumber and nothing has moved....its dark, hot, uncomfortable, my laptop that kept me company for a few hours is now dying, cant save him, no power, so I savour his company in the loo which is a scary place to be in if its new and dark and you are still unfamiliar with the plumbing and not to mention - the proper place for the toilet paper....but as sleep eludes me frustration is rising...I try to think of all the self-help books I have read and think about 'meditating', 'switching off' the mind,'the power of the subconscious mind' but none help.

9:00 pm (just as the power trips) My parents fight as mum blames dad for this neligence...my sister is draining one phone battery after the other and I take this as the pefect sign to lose my temper. All of us are spending our first night in our new house in our separate rooms - angry, agitated,uncomfortable, home-sick and highly restless - If it wasnt for the near-perfect vaastu home, I wonder what else could've happened.