Friday, January 13, 2006

Another Reason Tonight Simply Has To Be A Horror Night...

Happy Lohri Everyone! Yes, another festival half the people don't seem to celebrate or know about...I looked into it and found it's very similar to Halloween so in my opinion it cements the idea of watching lots of creepy films tonight!!!



Here's a summary of what it's about -












“Lohri — the long-awaited bonfire festival — falls in mid-January. The earth, farthest from the sun at this point of time, starts its journey towards the sun, thus ending the coldest month of the year, Paush, [finally! Yipee] and announcing the start of the month of Magh and the auspicious period of Uttarayan - January 14 to July 14. On Lohri day, children go from door to door singing and demanding the Lohri 'loot' in the form of money and eatables like til (sesame) seeds, peanuts & jaggery [trick or treat!]. In the evening huge bonfires are lit in the harvested fields and in the front yards of houses. People gather around the rising flames and throw puffed rice, popcorn and other munchies into the fire, shouting "Aadar aye dilather jaye" (May honor come and poverty vanish!)" [just like a scene from The Wicker Man!]

So Happy Friday 13th to everyone too and about tonight the murder mystery didn't go as planned - you have to pay for it & we were to lazy too write one! So if anyone has any other games they'd like to play bring them along and see you all tonight...

4 comments:

Jean said...

Ok, now I've just been given monkey nuts at work – if that's not a sign of Halloween what is??!

Jean said...

ha! Did AIESEC even know about this trainee? Last I asked there were no trainees coming...typical.
I will text you Sam's number you can enquire about the address rather than publishing a personal address online & inviting lots of weird stalkers...!

Unknown said...

Thanks Jean! Definitely a smart move considering my line of work.

Jean said...

Germain,
I know your Internet access is limited & you have no phone...I will be leaving 38 at approx 7.30, if that suits you we can all cycle/get a rickshaw together?