All you hopeless and wifeless bachelors, get up and start looking. With PHD releasing “the unofficial bachelors guide to renting a house in Chennai” today, you will never again get a “no, we dont rent to criminals, politicians, drummers, dogs, carpenters and bachelors” reply from your prospective landlords.
Where to look:
- Never call a housing broker. They charge highest money and always give you lousiest house. Remember, brokers always have more information than both the sellers and buyers. They capitalize on that only. Instead start looking yourself.
- There are numerous sources for finding available houses. Start with freeads news paper. Its 10 rupees and full of classifieds. You can even buy Sulekha Classifieds. Call your friends in the city and ask them to find more info from their parents. You get good tips/contacts from them.
- Use company intranet/bbs. Some people may doubt the usage of the same, but believe me, people will trust you if you are from same company.
- Try a shared accommodation. There are AC double rooms along with food, laundry, tv facilities available for a 4000-5000 per month. You may have to share the room with someone else, but that’s ok if you are living alone.
But I am a bachelor:
- You found a place that you liked very much. But the owners are afraid that you might spend most of the midnights hammering nails into their walls or ogling at the neighbors daughter or smoking fags using the bed as ashtray. Don’t worry.
- Start with telling them that you are about to marry. The fact is everyone eventually gets married. It might take a couple of decades for you to get your dream girl / Bipasha Basu, but otherwise you would be married soon.
- Bring your parents in to picture. Tell them that your mother/dad/distant aunts etc would be visiting you almost every weekend. For all you know they might even come.
- Tell them you have a little sister in Anna University/IIT and she is really home sick. She would visit you in the weekend and you both go to golden beach, saravana bhavan and venkateswara temple. For all you know, most the women are your sisters only, otherwise you wouldn’t have remained a bachelor till now.
- Tell them you have no drums, fags, bottles, glasses, flutes, guitars, torn jeans in your luggage. If it helps, carry a “how to learn surya namaskara in 24 seconds book with you”.
- Ask them if their current cable airs Aastha channel. You never know where it can hit them 😉
Oh yeah, I did all of this but with no luck:
Leave your blog address in the comments; I shall wait for the same post from you once you rent a place.
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Ciao Hui,
Collecting Excel tricks under the title “Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition” is a brilliant idea…
Thank you in the name of all The FrankensTeam.
On our site there is a box with a picture and text highlighting:
This is a no-MVP site
we think ourselves “bad boys” a bit 🙂
For those who would like to know why our site is a no-MVP site, enough to click on the link:
http://goo.gl/lxDszY
Thank you again!
Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this (newsletter). I must admit that I rarely read an Excel newsletter (and I subscribe to quite a few) all the way though, but this grabbed my attention and before I realized it, I was engrossed in it. I must also admit that most of this I don’t understand, yet. But, it excites me when I do learn something new in Excel. I can’t wait to see how much of this I can implement into my (constantly-evolving) ‘House Budget’ & ‘Family Medical’ worksheets that I have developed over the past few years! I sure hope to see more of these type of newsletters in the future! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this Hui! I appreciate being included.
I like Tom’s tip a lot. I posted about a tool I wrote to automate this at http://yoursumbuddy.com/tables-edit-query-dialog/
EXCELLENT !
Hui, This post is Superb! More over I have always been a fan of Roberto’s work and have learnt a lot from him.
Here are some of my recent contributions
1. Customising markers in a chart – http://www.goodly.co.in/customize-markers-in-a-chart/
2. Charting Hacks to work faster – http://www.goodly.co.in/5-charting-hacks-to-help-you-work-faster/
3. 7 Date formulas to make life easy – http://www.goodly.co.in/date-formulas-in-excel/
4. Customised scrollbar using VBA – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
5. Adding Direct Legends – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
Hope everyone enjoys!
I like the Excel Ninja Menus.
1. Select a cell or range then move till the 4-way cross appears. Right-Click and drag the selection to another place in the worksheet then, like a ninja, a menu full of skills and throwing stars pops up allowing me to do all kinds of awesomeness.
2. When you click the fill box on a Date and right click and drag it down, a lot of amazing Date options pop up.
I also brand my Excel to remind myself that I’m awesome. In my personal macro workbook I place the following code.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Caption = “SuperKrishna’s Awesomeness”
End Sub
My favorite tip goes along with #17. If you try to copy subtotaled data (and in earlier Excel versions filtered data),when you paste it all the data displays instead of just the summarized data.
To get around this, select your summarized data, click on Find and Select tab and then select Go to Special. Click Visible cells Only and click OK. Now paste and you will see that only the summarized data has been copied.
You can also go CTRL+G and then click the Special icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
What a great idea, Chandoo! I’d love to be included in your next edition:) Perhaps a VBA exclusive version?
@Ryan
I will review this concept about 6 months out from the original post and be sure to keep your site in mind
Hui…
That sounds great, Hui:) I just realized I gave credit to Chandoo for the idea and I should have attributed it to you.
Sorry about that!