Chess Theory : Revitalized

One can find the link between philosophy and mathematics. Mathematics can also be sometimes linked to chess theory. But what about the missing link between chess theory and philosophy.

To quote, René Alladaye in his "Petite philosophie du joueur d'échecs",
"It's difficult to imagine two activities wich call for more brain-work than chess and philosophy. Both of them demand a reflection, an exchange, a dialogue, a debate, in which each player or philosopher tries to prove that his or her theory is the right one."

In the same line, one might wonder the art of war can be perfected through the game of chess. The startegy, the mindset, the crisis and the climax.

Chess Theory is constituted by the set of all general concepts developed to understand mechanisms of the Chess Game and in fine to reach a better level playing chess.

A game of chess can however easily be viewed as the journey through life, where the defeat of the opponent will be the attainment of a desired goal in life. The complexities, the challenges, the options, the temptations, the risks and the rewards of every move in a game of chess has to be well measured and timed like many of the decisions we make in every day life with a definite broader motive in mind. This might sound a bit suffocating, it does as I am feeling it while writing, but I believe its all true. Chess theory can be a very important recipe for one's life. Mastering chess theory might just make one a happy sailor in life and a great warrior in the same time.

just another monologue

It’s the same old day everyday
Change, yes that’s what I need
Everyday, all the time
The burgundy sheets, the lemon yellow wall
a wallpaper partly torn but still hanging
stairway to heaven
the call of the idiot box
a cursory look at the study table
guilt and anxiousness
a mixed feeling
resort to the easier and warmer alley
the one that makes you dream
and laugh and wonder
also to think and may be ponder for a while
but at the end, that’s the only change I get
a look beyond the same old everyday.

Brain of a Bengali

I hit the delete button almost like a reflex action when I see the sign "Fwd" on an email subject line. A few however manages to escape. Here is a survivor from last week.


A Bengali walks into a bank in Delhi and asks for the loan officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to Kolkata on business for two weeks and needs to borrow Rs.5,000.

The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for the loan, so the man hands over the keys of a new Mercedes parked on the street in front of the bank. He produces the title and everything checks out. The loan officer agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan.

The bank"s president and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the Bengali for using a Rs.30,50,000 Mercedes as collateral against a Rs.5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drives the Mercedes into the bank"s underground garage and parks it there.

Two weeks later, the man returns, repays the Rs.5,000 and the interest, which comes to Rs.15.41.The loan officer says, "Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely,but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multi millionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow "Rs.5,000"

The man replies: "Where else in Delhi can I park my car for two weeks for only Rs.15.41 and expect it to be there when I return"

Ah, the mind of the Bengali...

This is why what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow :o)

Delicious ambiguity

A few favorites, right from my bookshelf.

Testimonials: A few close friends of mine (not an exhaustive list off course)

Prosenjit: Prosenjit is one of my closest friends. He is as hard working as it gets; a very sincere, ambitious and dependable person. At the same time he is also very emotional and sensitive. If you find us together you will normally be hearing conversations about Indian economy, sports, our careers and TAX (since we both are tax consultants).Prosenjit as we say is "gyaner bhandar" about two things: world politics and sports. He even knows whats going on in the political front of Lesotho or ethiopia!! Its really annoying when he uses a computer and you need it for something. Most of the time you will not get it until he is done with reading all his favorite newspapers. He recently figured out that his risk taking nature is losing him money when playing poker and now he is learning to be patient and call the right bluffs. However, he is a grown man now with a top notch corporate job and he feels that the time has come to slowly think about settling down. I always wish him all the best in life!!

Sucheta: An amazing person she is, a childhood friend of mine, although sometimes ominously hyperactive she does give a reason to cheer for her companions and more often than not comes out with flamboyant colors of alacrity. Until recently, before she loomed on the horizon as a sensitive, solemn and easily incensed person, she was light-hearted, non-chalant and how can we forget her slapdash haymakers. But she is on a personality workout schedule now with the main focus being on patience, effervescence and acceptance and Im sure we will find her coming out of the cocoon in no time with her big smile and ever-irritating hyperactiveness....but folks we like her that way. This testimonial was long overdue and Im just glad that I can jot down my random thoughts, incoherent should I say, after repeated comminations from the "demon" herself. (JK)

Sourish: Amar beshirbhag bishoyei gyaan khub shimito. Tai majhe majhei amake sourisher daarostho hote hoy. Aaj obdi amar mone pore na amon kono proshno jar shothik uttor ami or theke paini. Amono onek baar hoyecche, je bhul kore hoyeto amon proshno korecchi ja onno keu hole shohoj boddho bhabe amake bojhate okkhom hoto. Kintu sourisher ashim gyaaner sheathe or shokolke tader moto kore bojhanor khomota oddytio. Baire theke dekhle khubi serious physicist mone holeo, ashole or moto down to earth othocho genius chhele khubi kom hoy. Agadh gyanner bhandar, amader boraborer first boy….aar physics ta jaar kaache akdomi challenging noy bole majhe majhei bimorsho hoy jawa photography pagol ei chheletar adorer daaknaam holo phutu.
For those who don't speak Bengali: "Sourish is THE genius. The most versatile guy I have seen in my life. One of my closest friends and a great teacher."

Abhisek Basak: On matters of style, he swims with the current, on matters of principle he stands like a rock (Jefferson would have been very pleased). One of my closest friends back from high school. A "fashion guru" some might say, Basak creates wonders with his artistic and creative abilities. I would need a full book to jot down the adjectives to describe him....but keeping in mind that this is a public testimonial I would wrap it up with a few better ones - eclectic, humorous, graceful, generous, neurotic and well read - these should portray a perfect "Him" who can be full of surprises and yet not conceited or supercilious. At a point in life, one should look in the mirror and be true to his ownself and as George Herbert said "The best mirror is an old friend"..I don't think twice to consider this old friend of mine as a genuine and true friend who if ever stabs me..will stab me in the front.

Sukanya: Sukanya is probably the first friend in my life....I dont know if anyone remembers who their first friend was, it seems they only mention their best and close friends. however, it is true that she is also one of my best and closest friends. a very warm personality, confident, sincere, intelligent and guys dont get misguided by her goofy profile pic...she is beautiful..and hot should I say. As for me Im blessed to have a friend like her, who is so adorable and caring. I wish her all the success and happiness she deserves. May god bless you. AMEN!

Shijin: Close ur eyes and make a wish….
Angelz will b there to blow u a kiss…
They'll guide u and make all ur dreams come true …
Just like they did for me when I asked for a friend like u...

Ritanjan: nice guy...has a thing for bengali literature...dont know how it started, I always thought he used it as a means to impress some ppl...he knows who (including debashish da). frnds call him sheccha cuz of his "shecchashebok" nature..he was really vibrant in school days..kinda got into a shell in high school, but we all knew why. apparently loves saving and can get on ur nerves with his theories behind it, but hey at least he can show off his fat bank balance. he is full of surprises..one being, he started teaching in college when "we" - his frnds, are still in college. now leading a dual life as a lecturer and a student. must be hard but he is one of the most hardworking guys Ive ever met, when he is not having an affair. didnt want to mention this in the testimonial really, but I cant resist..the Ritanjan-P saga was really a trend setter in our childhood days. get to know him, he is full of surprises..good ones. forgot to mention before...sheccha is a die hard AB - amitabh fan. dont even try to instigate him if u ever had anything against the "boss" - the results wont be very pleasant.

Ishani: smartest, prettiest, sexiest, boldest and coolest gal under the sun. u think Im saying this cuz I had a thing for her. find out urself, ull not be disappointed. bestest frnd ever. I know Im on a superlative run here, but its all true when it comes to her.

Sandipto: Pucci..terrific debater no doubt. Law is his ideal career. although I dunno y he is planning to take some other road. I also agree with prats bout his craziness. I was actually amazed (in a good way) when he spent months enlightning lil lamas. But I have to say he is so far the smartest schemer I have met..find it out urself if its in a good way or not. hopefully ull end up on the rite side...Im just kidding, I bet u will. A great friend to keep and particularly when it comes to a need of inspiration and driving force. I wud not forget how he actually made me go thru a lane which I thought I cud never walk. baar khawate ostad..bravo my frnd. hope u stay that way forever...and gluck with ur policy making career (make smart ones, so that ppl like me can survive at ease).

Avishek: Avishek orfe jojo, is my "bestest" friend. He was always there for me during times of joy and ...lots of sad stories. Basically a happy-go-lucky guy who takes 2 things very seriously - sports and adda. Now a third one is added to the list - career. Himself a great sportsperson (ull know when u see his loads of prizes and certificates), jojo has also a very good singing voice. An introvert may he seem in the beginning, but once you get to know him, it will be hard to miss "the adda session". Not a schemer like me, he is a quiet person with lot of intellect who is going steady in a relationship for whopping 7 yrs..my friend you are unbelievable, keep it up.

Sayak: Sayak is a great person and a true scientist...Im not joking, he knows his physics really well. A great friend to keep...however dude I still dunno why u didnt upload a pic man. At least get a micky mouse or sumthing upthere. peace !

I wish I could fly

"Wish I Could Fly" (Roxette)

Halfway through the night
I wake up in a dream
Echoes in my head
Make every whisper turn into a scream

I dreamed I could fly
Out in the blue
Over this town
Following you
Over the trees
Subways and cars
I'd try to find out
Who you really are

In the middle of the night
Cool sweatin' in my bed
Got the windows open wide
Thinkin' about all the things you said

I wish I could fly
Out in the blue
Over this town
Following you
I'd fly over rooftops
The great boulevards
To try to find out
Who you really are
Who you really are

I wish I could fly now
Wish I could fly now
Wish I could fly now

I wish I could fly
Around and around
Over this town
The dirt on the ground
I'd follow your course
Of doors left ajar
To try to find out
Who you really are
To try to find out
Who you really are

One of the few things I would love to do....

I just went through the list of 100 greatest Novels of all time, Observer 2003. I have hardly read around 20 books from the following list. Theres so much more to enjoy in life...but in so little time. Work sucks!!

1. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
The story of the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza has entranced readers for centuries.

2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
The one with the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair.

3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
The first English novel.

4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of Swift's vision.

5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding
The adventures of a high-spirited orphan boy: an unbeatable plot and a lot of sex ending in a blissful marriage.

6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson
One of the longest novels in the English language, but unputdownable.

7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
One of the first bestsellers, dismissed by Dr Johnson as too fashionable for its own good.

8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
An epistolary novel and a handbook for seducers: foppish, French, and ferocious.

9. Emma Jane Austen
Near impossible choice between this and Pride and Prejudice. But Emma never fails to fascinate and annoy.

10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Inspired by spending too much time with Shelley and Byron.

11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock
A classic miniature: a brilliant satire on the Romantic novel.

12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac
Two rivals fight for the love of a femme fatale. Wrongly overlooked.

13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
Penetrating and compelling chronicle of life in an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France.

14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
A revenge thriller also set in France after Bonaparte: a masterpiece of adventure writing.

15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli
Apart from Churchill, no other British political figure shows literary genius.

16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens
This highly autobiographical novel is the one its author liked best.

17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff have passed into the language. Impossible to ignore.

18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Obsessive emotional grip and haunting narrative.

19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
The improving tale of Becky Sharp.

20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
A classic investigation of the American mind.

21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
'Call me Ishmael' is one of the most famous opening sentences of any novel.

22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
You could summarise this as a story of adultery in provincial France, and miss the point entirely.

23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Gripping mystery novel of concealed identity, abduction, fraud and mental cruelty.

24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
A story written for the nine-year-old daughter of an Oxford don that still baffles most kids.

25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott
Victorian bestseller about a New England family of girls.

26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
A majestic assault on the corruption of late Victorian England.

27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
The supreme novel of the married woman's passion for a younger man.

28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot
A passion and an exotic grandeur that is strange and unsettling.

29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mystical tragedy by the author of Crime and Punishment.

30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
The story of Isabel Archer shows James at his witty and polished best.

31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Twain was a humorist, but this picture of Mississippi life is profoundly moral and still incredibly influential.

32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
A brilliantly suggestive, resonant study of human duality by a natural storyteller.

33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
One of the funniest English books ever written.

34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
A coded and epigrammatic melodrama inspired by his own tortured homosexuality.

35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith
This classic of Victorian suburbia will always be renowned for the character of Mr Pooter.

36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
Its savage bleakness makes it one of the first twentieth-century novels.

37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
A prewar invasion-scare spy thriller by a writer later shot for his part in the Irish republican rising.

38. The Call of the Wild Jack London
The story of a dog who joins a pack of wolves after his master's death.

39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad
Conrad's masterpiece: a tale of money, love and revolutionary politics.

40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
This children's classic was inspired by bedtime stories for Grahame's son.

41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
An unforgettable portrait of Paris in the belle epoque. Probably the longest novel on this list.

42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence
Novels seized by the police, like this one, have a special afterlife.

43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
This account of the adulterous lives of two Edwardian couples is a classic of unreliable narration.

44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
A classic adventure story for boys, jammed with action, violence and suspense.

45. Ulysses James Joyce
Also pursued by the British police, this is a novel more discussed than read.

46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Secures Woolf's position as one of the great twentieth-century English novelists.

47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster
The great novel of the British Raj, it remains a brilliant study of empire.

48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The quintessential Jazz Age novel.

49. The Trial Franz Kafka
The enigmatic story of Joseph K.

50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
He is remembered for his novels, but it was the short stories that first attracted notice.

51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The experiences of an unattractive slum doctor during the Great War: a masterpiece of linguistic innovation.

52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
A strange black comedy by an American master.

53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Dystopian fantasy about the world of the seventh century AF (after Ford).

54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh
The supreme Fleet Street novel.

55. USA John Dos Passos
An extraordinary trilogy that uses a variety of narrative devices to express the story of America.

56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
Introducing Philip Marlowe: cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone.

57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford
An exquisite comedy of manners with countless fans.

58. The Plague Albert Camus
A mysterious plague sweeps through the Algerian town of Oran.

59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
This tale of one man's struggle against totalitarianism has been appropriated the world over.

60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett
Part of a trilogy of astonishing monologues in the black comic voice of the author of Waiting for Godot.

61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
A week in the life of Holden Caulfield. A cult novel that still mesmerises.

62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
A disturbing novel of religious extremism set in the Deep South.

63. Charlotte's Web E. B. White
How Wilbur the pig was saved by the literary genius of a friendly spider.

64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
Enough said!

65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
An astonishing debut: the painfully funny English novel of the Fifties.

66. Lord of the Flies William Golding
Schoolboys become savages: a bleak vision of human nature.

67. The Quiet American Graham Greene
Prophetic novel set in 1950s Vietnam.

68 On the Road Jack Kerouac
The Beat Generation bible.

69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Humbert Humbert's obsession with Lolita is a tour de force of style and narrative.

70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
Hugely influential, Rabelaisian novel of Hitler's Germany.

71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Nigeria at the beginning of colonialism. A classic of African literature.

72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
A writer who made her debut in The Observer - and her prose is like cut glass.

73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Scout, a six-year-old girl, narrates an enthralling story of racial prejudice in the Deep South.

74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
'[He] would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.'

75. Herzog Saul Bellow
Adultery and nervous breakdown in Chicago.

76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A postmodern masterpiece.

77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
A haunting, understated study of old age.

78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre
A thrilling elegy for post-imperial Britain.

79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
The definitive novelist of the African-American experience.

80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge
Macabre comedy of provincial life.

81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
This quasi-documentary account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore is possibly his masterpiece.

82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino
A strange, compelling story about the pleasures of reading.

83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul
The finest living writer of English prose. This is his masterpiece: edgily reminiscent of Heart of Darkness.

84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee
Bleak but haunting allegory of apartheid by the Nobel prizewinner.

85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women.

86. Lanark Alasdair Gray
Seething vision of Glasgow. A Scottish classic.

87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
Dazzling metaphysical thriller set in the Manhattan of the 1970s.

88. The BFG Roald Dahl
A bestseller by the most popular postwar writer for children of all ages.

89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi
A prose poem about the delights of chemistry.

90. Money Martin Amis
The novel that bags Amis's place on any list.

91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
A collaborator from prewar Japan reluctantly discloses his betrayal of friends and family.

92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey
A great contemporary love story set in nineteenth-century Australia by double Booker prizewinner.

93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera
Inspired by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this is a magical fusion of history, autobiography and ideas.

94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie
In this entrancing story Rushdie plays with the idea of narrative itself.

95. La Confidential James Ellroy
Three LAPD detectives are brought face to face with the secrets of their corrupt and violent careers.

96. Wise Children Angela Carter
A theatrical extravaganza by a brilliant exponent of magic realism.

97. Atonement Ian McEwan
Acclaimed short-story writer achieves a contemporary classic of mesmerising narrative conviction.

98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman
Lyra's quest weaves fantasy, horror and the play of ideas into a truly great contemporary children's book.

99. American Pastoral Philip Roth
For years, Roth was famous for Portnoy's Complaint . Recently, he has enjoyed an extraordinary revival.

100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald
Posthumously published volume in a sequence of dream-like fictions spun from memory, photographs and the German past.

Next Up: Munnabhai LLB.

Who can be a better lawyer than Munnabhai, with circuit on his side 24/7. He has all the qualities of a good lawyer in his own tapori way.

Fact consciousness. An insistence on getting the facts, checking their accuracy, and sloughing off the element of conclusion and opinion.

A sense of relevance. The capacity to recognize what is relevant to the issue at hand and to cut away irrelevant facts, opinions, and emotions which can cloud the issue.

Comprehensiveness. The capacity to see all sides of the problem, all factors that bear upon it, and all possible ways of approaching it.

Foresight. The capacity to take the long view, to anticipate remote and collateral consequences, to look several moves ahead in the particular chess gam e that is being played.

Lingual sophistication. An immunity to being fooled by words and catch phrases; a refusal to accept verbal solutions which merely conceal the problem.

Bole to Sanjay Dutt ka acting ekdum mast. Sahi hai baap! Ekdum jhakaas!

The Royal Flush

I started with a J,Q suited (hearts) and he had a pair of 10. We both called the blind. We were the final 2 in the table, head to head. We wanted to be conservative and waited patiently for the flop. The flop was 10(H), Q(D), J(S). Wao!! I wish I had a mirror as I could hardly see my face in his sunglass. I don't think he could even keep a good poker face at that point. The flop gives him a 3 of a kind. Me on the other hand paired up my face cards. I might have foreseen a straight draw at that point. Time to raise it up. We both knew we have good cards and all we wanted was to milk the cow as much as we can before the river is up. He raised it by 20 grands and I had no choice but to call. His 3 of a kind looked really good to wipe up my stack. The turn was K(H). And in no time I was in a straight draw and a flush draw. But he is in a straight draw as well on top of his 3 of a kind. What will you do if you were is his shoes....ALL IN!! That was a huge call and a smart one. All I had was 2 pairs and I am hoping for a flush or a straight at least. If I do get a straight that would be a split pot, as we both will have the same straight, however if I can manage another hearts, I will scoop up the pot. I made the call...ALL IN!! And that means if I lose I am out. It's time for the river and there was a river card, which we will never forget our whole life. It was not just another night of poker, a lot more than few grands was in stake. Something we would never want to lose.

A Perfunctory Smile from an accountant

My typical day:

7:15 Alarm goes off - hit the snooze button. Go back to sleep.
7:24 Second alarm, wake up with heart in the mouth. Realize there is one more alarm to go. Hit the snooze. Go back to sleep.
7:35: Final alarm goes off. Hit the snooze button. Lie in bed with eyes half open, waiting for some noise from the next room.
7:40 Room mate's alarm goes off. I get up to use the bathroom.
7:50 Come out of the bathroom, roommate waiting to use the bathroom. (Although we have another bathroom upstairs, our toothbrush and shaving kit is in this one).
7:51: Get dressed
7:57: Wait for room mate to get dressed.
8:00: Leave for work with room mate.
8:45: Reach work. Smoke a cig before going up.
9:00: Get to the desk, log on the computer.
9:05: Walk to the pantry to get a coffee
9:10: Check email
9:12: Orkuting
9:20: Read the NY times, CNN, Times of India.
9:35: Open up Audit Software
9:40 - 12:30 - Stare at Excel with intermittent checking of email.
12:31 - 1:30 - Lunch (the best/worst part of the day. Best cuz its the most free time I get and also Im normally very hungry by then. Worst cuz I end up spending $10 at least).

1:35: Surf the net - check email, deals2buy.com, nfl and espn websites
1:45: Call a friend for no reason and chat
1:55: Find friends in IM and chat for fun
2:15 -3:30: Start work again. Stare at Excel with intermittent checking of email.
3:30: Go down to smoke and get Starbucks
3:40: Check email, surf some more. Finish any unfinished chatting from last time in IM.
3:50 - 5:55: Stare at Excel with intermittent checking of email.
5:55: Hopefully not much work is left. Even if its there will finish at home or tomorrow. Start packing.
6:00: Bye Bye Deloitte.
6:45: Reach Home and change into home clothes
7:00-7:30: Stare at ESPN or Seinfeld
7:30: Doorbell. Grab the gym bag and goto Gym with friends.
745-8:45: Work out
9:00: Come back home and cook dinner (if lazy get dinner on the way back from gym)
9:30: Back to bed staring at TV.
10:00: Go for a bath. Read a time magazine or "The week" before getting in the shower.
10:40: Goto Bed again and stare at the TV.
11:15: Pick up an unfinished novel and try goto sleep while reading.
12:00 Normally I am asleep.

P.S. This is a typical day, when its not busy season (i.e. Jan-March) and the client is on regular schedule, no rush.