Noboborsher Agam Shubheccha

Yes, yes, I know it's not the new year yet, but since the world did not have enough sense to make the 15th of April fall on a weekend this year, we made do with the nearest one.

A bunch of us got together and made lunch; well, to be honest, it was 4:30~5pm by the time we finished, so it was nearer dinner than lunch, but we did quite a good job, methinks. The luchis were perhaps less than perfect, to say the least, and we forgot to add salt to the alu-chocchori (promptly rectified at the table), but overall, not a bad attempt. Ingredients were acquired yesterday at Bharat Bazaar and Stop & Shop - I bought myself some Chawanprash¹ and a bag of michri². In traditional Indian style, the shop closed 15-30 minutes before the listed 9pm closing time - apparently, when they said that they closed at 9pm, they meant that they expect to leave at 9pm, which meant that they started turning off the lights at about 20 minutes to 9.

Things I experienced today:

• This piece of Bhojpuri music: link
• An Indian rip-off of Thriller, phonetically subtitled in English: link
• Where do you go to my lovely (Sarstedt) - listened to it again after a long time: link

Also, YouTube ads suck. They need to target them better. I keep getting these ads for "Learn how to write HTML and CSS" -_-

References:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chyawanprash
[2] Couldn't find a single definition anywhere. Will update with link / description.