• “Home made pasta + Tea  instead of pizza + expensive milk shake and talking”.

• “Wine from a Nasik instead of a French   DOMAINE MARC JOMAIN OR  CHÂTEAU ELGET”

• “In house/In hostel room parties (with old monk) instead of pub or club parties”.

• “Working late in the office instead of usual eyeing-the-perpendicular on the clock”.

• “At work, act as if the future of the company depends on your performance today”.

• “Invite for a really late birthday party, very few might turn up”.

• “Total defiance—Refute the concepts of gravity, earth-is-round and similarly  the concept of birthday— call it illusion and maya“.

• “Imagining a religious life ahead instead of thinking like a Liberace”.

• “Wining about lack of money days before your actual birthday, instead of saying birthday is just another day”

• “Lying about birth date, saying it was misquoted by family, instead of lying about age.”

• “Recycling old stuff feeling their newness instead of looking down upon them”

• “Acting very old, wise and “practical” –valuing creativity for once, saying “ I want this birthday to be “different” “

• “Shower the wisdom of “Happiness doesn’t lie in materialism, let us think about killing Buddha”

• “Talking about the bad effects of alcohol and smoke, and sounding like the owner of a Tea estate by talking about medicinal value of Tea.”

• “Indian obsession with cola-chips-cake, 3C as I like to call it, might do the trick.”

• “Inviting people for a normal dinner in the name of “traditional dinner” and mixing “bhang” (an Indian version Cannabis) in the food.”

• “Referring to thesaurus instead of dictionary for the entire day.”

• “Girl friends don’t fall for all these things (at least in my experience), so you have to be really creative then, say lying about death of a person who has already signaled off.”

• “Women are more smart (lets face it guys), remember there might be more birthdays to come and women can ruin your life if you don’t keep that in mind.”

• “In India, you will find two kinds of women, North-Indian and South Indian—they both behave similar after hearing the word “birthday”, so my information was redundant, I know that.”

• “As for me, I would spend my recession-time by stewarding in other’s birthday parties and picking up condoms and bottle corks from their swimming pools.”

Cant think of more right now, welcome to comment and add to the list, you never know……