Diwali in America

I wouldn't have known it was Diwali but for the few calls from friends and relatives. We woke up as usual, had our diurnal dose of corn flakes and I went to lab. Had a lot of work that day, so came back later than usual. By The time I reached home at about 9 o'clock, Gera, my roommate was already there.
Tired, we had no enthusiasm to cook anything special either. I don't even remember what we had!

Later at night we were reminiscing about last year Diwali at IIT, and the year before when Gera suddenly started, "Abe this doesn't feel like Diwali. Lets do something"!

After half an hour of brainstorming on "how to have fun on Diwali," we finally agreed on making rasmalai. As with all excited-new-grad-students-away-from-home, we had an improvised recipe inspired by half a dozen websites (including a 6 min long video on youtube! ) within ten minutes, and it took another ten to execute the concoction. Gera was universally chosen to be the guinea pig in case it turned out lethal.

It turned out to be awesome! :)

PS: A belated happy Diwali everyone. Hope you had fun.