The Year That Was - SFV-specific

Time and tide waits for none. One more year is on its way out, yielding place to yet another, with renewed hopes and aspirations.  This is the time for fresh resolutions, some to live by, and others to be written off after a while. It is also the time for stocktaking.

Day by day amenities improved in SFV.  More and more guidelines of community living were getting streamlined. The waste management rep is working with military perfection. The complex is buoyant with plenty of cultural activities. The flora and fauna of the premises could easily be the envy of many other complexes.

The MC members did a commendable job in their respective spheres be it the noticeable one as those above, the less visible security supervision or accounts management. Thus if a best performer is to be identified all could legitimately stake claim. The winner thus will be the MC team as a whole. Kudos.

The occupancy rate in the complex has increased in leaps and bounds. Maybe, before the next academic session, there will be further influx. More the merrier.

Moving out of the building, the 100 ft Vajarahalli Road, which seemed deserted when we moved in, is abuzz with constructions – residential and commercial. Many shops, small and big, have sprung up, not excluding some liquor shops some of which always wear a festive look. The Balaji layout too with its row of shops has undergone a facelift. It now looks somewhat presentable.

The young couple at the SLV hotel is happy serving their ever-increasing customers in their inimitable limited-service style so that they don’t compromise on the upbringing of their two small kids.

Some of the residential complexes in the vicinity display the board, ‘Ready to Occupy”, though “Still to Occupy,” would aptly describe the status. Against this backdrop, the ground digging for one more fairly big complex has just started behind the ‘bottled water station.  Must be an incorrigible optimist. Or, maybe, when the metro work is complete, there will be more inhabitants. As for SFV, Alder, the last of the lot, has few or no apartments for sale.

There are traces of buses plying along the Vajarahalli Road, passing through Turahalli forest side. With more vehicular traffic one has to exercise more caution to cross the road with no divider to provide built-in control to traffic.

SFV security agency is being replaced with a new team – black cats? We shall keep our fingers crossed what is in store for us.

As I hammer out these lines, the New Year eve celebration in the Alder parking area is in full swing after a sumptuous dinner that was arranged to usher 2018. May the year 2018 bring happiness, prosperity and better wellbeing to everyone.

V V Sundaram

Maple 3195

31 Dec 2017