Betterlife - The Diary Game | 25 April, 2025 | Bought sweets for my neighbor and planted new vegetable seeds.

Thumbnail Image:- Our rooftop garden

While having breakfast in the morning, my mother told me that our neighbors had invited our family for lunch. It is a long-standing family tradition or social custom to take sweets or special food for someone when visiting their home.

Since it's not possible to prepare such special sweets at home, these types of food are mainly found in the cooling corners of the market. So, I went to my all-time favorite cooling corner, Bonoful, to buy some sweets.

A branch of Bonoful is located in our area in Bhatiari Bazar. Here, you can find various types of snacks including savory, sweet, bakery and cake items.

Especially, customers buy sweets from here when they have good news or something auspicious. First, I took one kilogram of curd and one kilogram of White Balusha sweet with it.

Seeing so many types of sweets in these cooling corners, I got confused about which ones to leave and which ones to buy because all of them look very delicious.

Sweets for neighborhood

I took two types of premium quality sweets and a slice cake box with them. After bringing the snacks home, I placed them on the table and went to the mosque to offer the Juma prayer.

After finishing the prayer, I had lunch with my family at our neighbors' house. Then, I tried to rest for a while. In the afternoon, after finishing the Asr prayer, my father and I went to the roof of our house to sow some new seeds.

We grow various seasonal vegetables on the roof of our house and this is the time to plant monsoon vegetables. My father brought a packet of hybrid bean seeds from the market. I planted two bean seeds each in the pots, in between the seedlings of different plants on the roof.

while planting bean seeds

The afternoon was spent on the roof of our house. Since it was a holiday, there wasn't much heavy work, and I was spending my leisure time at home.

When I went to have evening snacks, I saw my mother making Thankuni bhorta(Centella asiatica). This is a medicinal plant leaf that is made into a bhorta with onion, mustard oil, and some local spices.

This plant has many medicinal properties and is very beneficial for stomach health. Many people eat it with rice, but I prefer to eat it on its own. I ate quite a bit. Since it's a leaf, it's a bit tough and rough, so you have to chew it well.

Thankuni bhorta

After dinner at night, I received a call from a friend. He, along with some other friends from our area, had planned to go out in their car. I thought, since it's quite hot outside, it would be nice to go out and enjoy some cool breeze.

We went to a place near our area and chatted for quite some time. Since everyone had already had dinner, we only had coffee from one shop.

After the late night gathering, I returned home and prepared to go to sleep. As of today I'm leaving here. Wish you all good health, everyone.