Long weekends are a blessing. Even more so, when it falls during our favorite part of the year. With Durga Puja and Dusshera ushering a season of festivity, Indians are ready to beat the quarantine blues.

People across the globe have already
mastered the art of having immense fun while sitting at home, from a binge-watch session to home cleaning operation, all of us have found our weekend
niche and are armed up to get the best of this coming long stay at home
weekend.

We are sure that this
stressful work-from-home arrangement would have taken a toll on you the entire week. Therefore, Opoyi brings you five things that can lighten up your well-deserved long weekend.

Throw a Game Party

When life gives you lemons, make
lemonade! (Not literally), I
mean obviously a refreshing lemonade hurts no one, but what we mean here is that
2020 has been playing games with us ever since the onset of it (crying in
the corner),
why not do the same.

The best way is to host a
game night and resurrect your childhood with close friends and family.

From board games like Ludo, Housie,
Carom and Monopoly to interactive ones like dumb charades or an Antakshari competition,
it’s all about getting your people on board and spend the time you have been
yearning for.

You can always make it a
potluck get together, so the entire burden of feeding and hosting the guests doesn’t
fall on you.

Go on, make the invitation
calls, have a gala evening and thank us later!

How about a closet
cleaning session?

Remember the times you unabashedly botched up
the closet when taking out a pajamas or a pair of shorts and that guilty promise
you made to yourself about cleaning it up the weekend that never really came?

Well, that ends now! This is your
time, this is that weekend. Tie hear into a messy bun to clean up your previous
mess by organizing the closet and cleaning up the room. You can even come up
with some indispensible stuff that you can donate this festive season.

Bake a Cake!

Why depend on market made sweets when you can do it at home?

 Or a muffin, or some cookies or some bread or
buns, it never ends. If you enjoy baking or cooking for that matter, create a
recipe of your own, make some easy to go snacks or to make some sweets to suit
the festive vibes?

How about some Roshogullas
or Cham-Cham? A perfect mouth-watering treat for this Durga Puja without adding
on to your body calorie meter and compensate for the sweets you were to buy or
order online?

Also, don’t forget to keep
some of your baked snacks to aid the munching craves during work the entire
week.

Crack open a cold one and
let sports take over

If you’re a sucker for sports
then this weekend is your gateway to a plethora of mouth-watering events that
will be a warm hug during the corona virus-plagued Durga Puja and Dussehra.

In the football-verse it
doesn’t really get bigger than the ‘El Clasico’, the defending La Liga
champions Real Madrid taking on Lionel Messi-led FC Barcelona, on October 24.
For the fans of the English Premier League, Manchester United’s heavyweight
clash against Frank Lampard should definitely make the cut. 

For the connoisseurs of
adrenaline-rushing Formula One, this could be the weekend they witness history
being rewritten at the new Portimao circuit in the Portuguese Grand Prix, if
and when Lewis Hamilton overtakes Michael Schumacher’s 91-win record on Sunday.

The Indian Premier League
with its doubleheaders will sort the weekend for the cricket fanatics. Watch
out for Kolkata Knight Rider’s vs table-toppers Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan
Royal vs Mumbai Indians, the clash of the Blues

Binge Watch as you munch
on a bag of cheetos

Well this never gets old! One
can always opt for the lucrative option of binge watching shows and movies like
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Queens
Gambit, Unresolved Mysteries, and Good Morning, Veronica. However, The Social
Dilemma and Chicago 7, are a must watch with festive season.