Monday 23 March 2009

Welcome to Turuntum – Alice’s Apartment

Alice has no satellite tv, her internet is rigidly connected to the landline, restricted by the length of its lifeline. Her laptop is her only music station, listeners need to feel content with its moderate built-in speakers. Her apartment is old and the noisy air-conditioning takes ages to cough out cool air. The bulky TV in the living room is alone with no DVD player, and needs to rest one whole day tomorrow if you switched it on today. Nonetheless, Alice’s apartment is the favourite hang out for the very few who received her invitation.

Alice’s apartment has a peculiar name – Turuntum, and there is no known record of how the name came about . The fringes of Turuntum are covered with tropical vegetation and beautiful wild flowers. It is an enchanted forest resting right at Alice’s backyard where monkeys are swinging from tree to tree and lizards camouflaged.

Her balcony opens up to a panoramic view of the sky, layered only by the strongest plant life that grew tall and fast enough to gain the sun’s foremost affection.

Every day, at precisely 7:30 p.m., a great band of swallows will magically appear, forming a circle in mid air before her balcony for reasons unknown to Alice.

On a windy day, the pink flowers in their temporary animation will fly pass her window pane before returning to its source.

Alice likes it here.