Ashes

A friend of mine asked "If Ashes is to be played biennially, why is the gap between two series not 24 months citing the example July 2005 Ashes in England - Nov 2006 Ashes in Australia - July 2009 Ashes in England"

Ans: Cricket is largely a summer game. England and Australia are in different hemispheres and hence their summer is also different. Because of this, gap between the Ashes series actually alternates between 18 and 30 months.

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One thing in common

that Obama and I did (BTW, I was told it is illegal to climb the pyramids and is prohibited by the Govt. of Egypt)

Love your BEER

I would do what the guy in the 1st pic has done but not what the guy in the 2nd pic is doing - use water to clean mud, why waste beer? (I am upset)

Source: Glastonbury Festival, The Big Picture

Days I have problem with

I have a great deal of problem with some 'days' - Father's Day, Mother's Day, Sister's Day.

WTF do we need to celebrate these? - Fatherhood, motherhood, sisterhood are things that you have to and you do - you can't bloody get a memento for this. Its just crazy.

Its like saying today is my 'Wake up day'

We are supposed to wake up and get out the bed every day and work till we die. You can't get prizes for this.

If ever there should be a 'day' - it should be 'make a difference day' (that difference could be to you, your family, your company, your desk, your bed or just about any thing). Ideally, it would be better if every day of our life is a 'make a difference day'. If that's not possible let us settle at least for one day in year/month/week.

Indian budget highlights - 2009-10

Yet to digest and pass my comments but here is the link to the highlights document if one is interested:

http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2009-10/bh/bh1.pdf