An afternoon at Brikkho Mela — Dhaka's plant fair, greenery and all

Took a break from screens this week and walked through Brikkho Mela — Dhaka's seasonal plant fair, usually set up at Ramna Park or Bahadur Shah Park. Rows and rows of nurseries, each one competing for the loudest, greenest stall.

Why I go

Most of my week is automation pipelines, Ghost APIs, and client deploys — this blog's Blog section is full of that. Brikkho Mela is the opposite: no screens, no deploys, just walking between stalls of bonsai, money plants, and vendors who'll talk your ear off about soil mix if you let them.

What stood out

• How much the fair has grown — more stalls than I remember from a couple years back.
• Vendors from all over Bangladesh, some with plants I'd never seen sold in the city before.
• The price haggling is half the fun — nobody pays sticker price.

Came home with a couple of new pots for the balcony. Small win for the week — this is the kind of thing I want more of on this blog going forward: not just the build logs, but the actual life happening around them. More of these under Vlog.