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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hello??? where is my royalty for quoting me??? I charge per word basis you know that?
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 of course you need to account that most people in question here were not born in US of A so you will need to add the 12-n-half or 13-n-half hours, if you really really want to cut the cake at exact time the person was born!
yes, of course the time difference!!
Ok Tulika,
What is you "time" of birth?
Swati
& btw where are the pictures?!! :X
One should note that we celebrate birthDAYOFTHEYEAR not birthTIMEOFTHEYEAR. So I believe people like to start the celebration as soon as the DAY of celebration starts. The question now is whether you decide to celebrate it on the start of DAY in the place the person was born, or the place the person is in? Frankly, I dont care ;)
hmm, celebrating day of the year!!
But a person has technically not spent 25 years in this world, untill that exact time of birth has passed. Guess its too complicated and being in different time zones complicates it more. We can just leave the celebrations the way they are.
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