If the stability, ambition and ideological colour of this government have all come as something of a surprise, one aspect of these last 100 days was both predictable and predicted.
"I am surprised," admits Aspect president and CEO, Nassib Chamoun, who is happy to be funded without the pressures of the premature public offerings that litter the markets nowadays.
As London continues to mutate into a place where Caribbean culture is no longer welcome, it's no surprise that this aspect of the event that seems to be more and more bypassed every year in favour of arbitrary numbers of weed dealer arrests.
Laughter and surprise are important aspects of the film.
It is a cluster of five half-moonish shapes whose every aspect surprises.
But the Sherlock Holmes aspect surprised me: when he mentioned a fall, I had a vague memory of pain.
As my new book was launched, one aspect surprised me very much.
Brightkite doesn't want to give away all the details at the risk of ruining some surprises, but one aspect is that if you check-in (or post something like a note or image) at a local Starbucks during "Frappuccino happy hour" (that is, 3 PM to 5 PM until May 16th), you'll get half-priced Frappuccinos.
Some who were not offered surgery disagreed with the decision, but even those who had been offered surgery sometimes volunteered their surprise at other aspects of the process: Mr Adler: I thought 'I doubt if they'll go for knee replacements before they try something less than that'.
Surprise is an intrinsic aspect of change, in particular when it takes place at an accelerating pace with high degrees of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity (VUCA) - or within the condition of post-normality as described by Ziauddin Sardar.
