Musings of an Idiot

Salads

It has been a beautiful weekend. Lovely weather and what do I do –sleep for most of the weekend. :-) I had planned to be more productive, which included designing Lance’s section of the website but I did nothing except enjoy reading Sandman {I have finished reading the entire series} . It is not often that a popular character gets their story to end in comic book series {how would you feel if there was only a limited story series of say ‘Batman’ or ‘Superman’ and the story for that character ends after that series??}. ‘Sandman’ is without doubt one of the notable exceptions – and I really love it for that. The series is enchanting, thrilling, awe inspiring and definitely makes you think. I am sure that the comic publisher would have started spin-offs from the series but there is no better satisfaction to see a story reach its conclusion. It is a must read, if you can get your hands on it.

Over the past week and half I was conducting my own set of ratings as far as chicken salad at different fast food joints is concerned. Since I tend to eat fast food often I decided that I will try and pick up only salads to improve the green content in my diet, so I picked up grilled chicken salad from all major fast food outlets I visited and here is my list in order of preference {as if that makes any difference to you}

Wendy’s: The best thought out salads and really yummy. I wasn’t expecting much and was pleasantly surprised with the variety of salads combined with the value for money.
Nandos: Yummy. The best grilled chicken salad I had but came second because it is costlier than the rest by about a dollar-dollar fifty cents but well worth the price.
McDonalds: Surprising it came third, considering that I have avoided McDonald’s ever since I came to NZ{I must have eaten at McD about 6 times in 2.5 years}. Good taste and value for money.
Subway: It is like eating a subway footlong minus the bread. Good choice of sauces.
KFC: It looks like an assortment of different things and the packaging hampers enjoying the salad. I ate the potato salad separate from the greens and ate the chicken separate from the greens.
Burger King: Surprisingly my least favorite salad was from BK. It is almost as if they offered salad as an after thought.

Earlier yesterday, I got to a meeting early and it was an interesting experience sitting at a café on K’road, watching the people walk by – almost every person had a story written all over them. Sitting there all I could see was how culture is what we make it to be – we, the people, make a culture of the society. Society is such a strange concept and everything almost seems like an illusion –an illusion that every individual holds on to because our very world view and sanity depends on it.

The netball game was exciting – it was a tie, the score read 16-16. A low scoring game and it was a real thriller because we were winning for the first 3 quarters and then one of our defender went down with a twisted ankle and after that we were struggling to keep the lead. The last shot in the dying minutes was by the opposition and that shot did not go in otherwise we would have lost the game. So it was a lucky shave and I think we were happy with the draw. The good thing, on the personal side, was that one of the small 'aiming' mechanisms in my head seemed to click into place and my shooting ratio improved vastly – I think the only way from here is up.

Watched ‘Wedding Crashers’ after the netball game and it was a funny movie. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson were really funny. Rachel McAdams and Isla Fisher were a perfect fit for their roles. The movie was beautifully shot but it had story strands which went nowhere and slowed the pace of the movie down. But it was still one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time – I think it was way better than ‘Meet the Fockers’.

On a completely opposite end - I finally managed to track down a copy of 'Rushmore' and watched it. This was the second movie by Wes Anderson and a definite improvement over 'Bottle Rocket'- which still stands head and shoulders above most of the stuff coming out nowadays. The movie is a really pleasent watch and a moving experience. This is well crafted cinema and a pleasure to spend time with. Obviously as with all of Wes Anderson's films - you either like them or you don't and I have to admit that I really like his style and humor and quirkiness. I think I prefer such movies over hollywood blockbusters - Wes Anderson's movies have their own niche audience and does not find the need to conform to the 'formula'.

Adios for now

Amit

Labels: Food, Graphic Novels, Movies

posted by Amit @ 8:19 PM