weather report

So, it cooled down to 102 degrees today (one site said it was 105), down from 106 last weekend. And it should cool down even more to 98 by the beginning of next week. This heat is crazy.

From the local newspaper today:

Damned if you go out, damned if you stay in.

“You can’t get out because of the sweltering heat and it is difficult to stay indoors because of power cuts. It can’t get worse than this,” said 63-year-old Anima Banerjee...

The maximum temperature read 38.6 degrees Celsius and the discomfort index shot up to 66.4 degrees Celsius, 11 notches above normal, on Tuesday...

The discomfort index, calculated by taking into account factors like temperature, wind-flow pattern and humidity, bore evidence of the misery.

So, instead of heat index, we have the discomfort index, which is a pretty good moniker if you ask me. Anyhow, do you know what 66.4 Celsius means in Fahrenheit?? 151.52 !!!

Free Home Delivery

Both in Houston and here, whenever Jerry and I are out and see an interesting restaurant, we stop and ask for a menu to take home for future reference. We did just that tonight while on our way to a birthday party. Jerry got a menu from a modern-looking restaurant named Kalimpong. At the bottom of the menu were these words, just as they appeared:

Free Home

Delivery upto

walking distance

I am afraid this blog won't be quite as interesting/entertaining when we move back to the USA.

Hot! Hot! Hot!

It is getting HOT here.
Friday's high according to weather.com will be 106 degrees
accuweather.com projects 108 degrees
and it is not even May, yet.

This coupled with the pollution and power outages that occur 1-2 times a day lasting from 30 minutes to a few hours does not bode well for my eczema and allergies

PRAY for us!

alterations

There is a lady who sets up a sewing machine on the sidewalk a block from where we live and makes clothes and does alterations. Yesterday I picked up a pair of pants she had hemmed along with another pair of pants that she had not only hemmed but also replaced the zipper and button. My cost for alterations on BOTH pairs of pants: 87 cents. AND it was next-day service.

Something you would not see in the US

First, I do plan on blogging about Thailand and Cambodia and I did figure out how to post vertical pictures, BUT blogger is having technical difficulties with uploading pictures, so here is an anecdote that has no pictures...

Last night (around 10:30pm), as Jerry and I were walking home from a restaurant, we heard some loud talking/chanting. We turned to see where it was coming from and saw that it was coming from a group of young men in the distance walking in the street in the same direction we were going. (We were on the sidewalk)
As they got closer, we could see them carrying something.
Well, they were carrying a bed.
And do you know what was on the bed? A DEAD BODY!!!
We tried keeping up with them to take a picture, but they broke into a run, still carrying the bed with the dead body on it. After a little while they stopped, put the bed down in the street and started more chanting and throwing of flower petals. By this time we had caught up and I could see the body - a man - clothed in white with a white flower arrangement on top of him. I had already decided not to take a picture out of respect and just watched. It was surreal.