Wednesday, December 9, 2015

day 101.

16–SD[1], Bedian road,
Lahore Cantt,
Pakistan.

-        All the houses around it were exactly the same.
-        White gate.
-        A small garden to the left.
-        Two steps to the main door.
-        A hallway.
-        This is the living room.
-        To the left is another hallway, separated by an arch.
-        That is the drawing and dining room.
-        Kitchen to the left after the dinning room.
-        Opposite the dining room, within the premises of the living room,  a staircase going up.
-        The first two-storey house, I ever lived in.
-        Opposite the kitchen, beyond the staircase, is my brothers’ bedroom.
-        Stairs, landing, turn left, more stairs.
-        To the right is the sisters’ bedroom.
-        After which, there is a door to the storeroom.
-        Straight ahead, is the door to my parents’ bedroom.
-        Right opposite the storeroom, is the door, leading to the terrace outside.
-        Rehman was the name of our cook.
-        In the living room downstairs, the fat brown Sony T.V sits in a corner, atop a wooden table.
-        The hexagonal top of this dark-brown wooden table is supported by a single leg in the middle.






[1] 5/13 houses that I have lived in, to this day. The second house that I have any memory of.

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