Life Tip #1 - Birthday Candles

When you a placing birthday candles on a cake, make sure that you put them the right way up. The base of a candle, once lit, burns faster and more brightly than the wick-end of the candle.

This achieves a number of things:

• The candles burn much faster - you need to belt out "Happy Birthday" just a bit quicker
  
• The cake looks a lot more exciting covered in flame - always good unless it's ice cream cake
  
• The cake gets covered in wax - never good
  

I wish I had photos from the birthday cake I witnessed on the weekend. Classic.

Additional:
I looked up Happy Birthday on Wikipedia and did not expect the copyright issues around the song to be so ridiculous. Still the words come out of copyright at the end of this year. Woo!