Monopoly

Yesterday was another night of monopoly.

b'day surprises

So how do u surprise a person on her/his b'day when the person knows what is the usual thing you do and you are intent on doing the usual thing. In our case, b'day cake at mid-night and dinner party next day. And what is this thing about cutting cake at mid-night!! Not everyone is born at mid-night, and cutting cake at 12 is same as cutting it at any other time. If you want to cut it at exact time a person become 1 year older (or should we say more experienced as we no more want to get older), should we not be cutting the cake at exact time the person was born?
And now the surprises, well, lets say efforts to give surprises... Are they worth all the effort of hush-hush, breaking into homes etc. etc. So yesterday we almost decided not to even attempt any surprises, as Ravi puts it -
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In order to uncomplicate the ubiquitous philosophical uncertainties that a birthday boy/girl goes thru about old age, married/unmarried life, prospective career moves, bosses and advisors and team leads, allgorhythms, saturday nite dandiya, nirvana, the universe and everything...it was en masse believed that one less uncertainty (read surprise) in life would be healthy! Opponents to the above-mentioned theory please stand up!
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Angels and Deamons - Dan Brown

Another of the typical Dan Brown novels. A thrilling adventure in middle of unknown facts about christanity. The story line is good, there is not a mystery per say as Da Vinci Code, but unknown adventures in each page. It starts somewhat slow as usual, when the professor is explaining same things again and again about the long lost cult Illuminati. But it gets faster once we have past the beginning and things start moving at great speed. Its hard to put down the book when we reach the core of the plot. I spent the whole sunday just sitting and reading, convincing myself that I am too sick to do anything else. The real thrilling story actually ends 100 pages before end of the book. The last 100 pages were a great disappointment to me, its just a endless drag of same statements repeated infinite number of times, some small things happening in vatican after everything is over. Though author has not failed to hide still more surprises in those pages, but the content around those small surprises gets too boring. I would say a must read, but if you are short of time, you will not miss by skipping though the last 100 pages.