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Mar 2, 2007

Finding a place to live … in Male’ …

Hello ...
Several weeks back ...
I started hunting for an apartment ...
I had not the vaguest idea ...
That it would be this damn difficult ...
First ...
I let my friends know that I'm looking ...
No luck ... there ...
Second ...
I tried the newspaper classifieds ...
I tell you ... don't even try that ...
For some inexplicable reasons ...
All of those ads are expired ...
Third ...
I asked everyone I met for coffee ...
They responded like ... I'm the 10th guy ...
To ask them that that day ...
Fourth ...
I texted almost everyone in my phonebook ...
A handful responded with hopeful replies ...
So I followed these few hits I got ...
I didn't want a fancy place ...
But didn't want a pigeon hole either ...
Something between would've done nicely ...
Along the way I came to the realization ...
That if you wanna a place in Male' ...
You should know the right people ...
Have wherewithal for a superfluity advance ...
Be a diplomatic charismatic negotiator ...
Beat the highest rent proposed ...
Basically ... you need to give up a limb ...
And brutally murder someone to live in Male' ...
You might think this is facetious piffle ...
Do you seriously ... ?
Laterx ...

9 comments:

nass said...

If ur looking for a room in a house, then the best way is go around the area yourself.

That\'s how we do it here in Malaysia. Most houses will have \

whome said...

malaysia and maldives is totally different .. you got only like a 5% chance you will get a place to live ..too bad the extra room in my house is rented out ..

rooms cost arnd 2500 - 3500 bucks .. good luck finding one

jaa said...

Hehe. Good luck mate. It is getting tougher to find a place to live and it will soon get tougher even to find a hole to bury the expired body :P

Spark of Silence said...

Oh well, maybe you could try contacting the owners of the buildings that are under construction and pay something and finalise or something like that? :S I dunno much about rental stuff
Anyway good luck

nass said...

in Male' ?
;-)

ooops!

simon said...

Hey bro
I just realised something. Your style of writing reminds me of a breathless, wheezing and asmatic marathon runner. But it's you and that's really cool. And you're not an asmatic, wheezing and breathless marathon runner at all.

And .. yeah it's getting harder to find a place. maybe you should move to willingili.

ibu said...

Someone else who uses the word facetious.. Yay!

shweeeeet! said...

good luck! =p

maalidivian said...

I thought you are from Male`. Your family might have kicked you out eh?

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