Musings of an Idiot

Back of the Y

There is this completely anarchistic NZ TV show which I found titled, 'Back of the Y' and it is hilarious and outrageous while being gross, ultra-violent and sick. This show was made in 2001 and I recently discovered it on DVD at the local video store and glad that I did. Definitely not for the faint hearted or politically correct people. If you don't laugh at any of the episodes then I would say that you have lost all hope in life.

I have been slowly shifting stuff to the new place and I am amazed at how much stuff I have accumulated in just 3 years time. Hopefully the shifting will be complete this weekend; which is when we move into this new place. I managed to score a second hand drawer for storing clothes for five dollars - which is a bloody good bargain.

On a completely different note - yesterday evening was painfully hilarious experience for me. Benji and me went out to the nearby shopping centre to grab some dinner. Northcote has a good asian population and that reflects in the diversity of the shops in the shopping complex and eating joints. But the one thing that I usually complain about is that the cuisines are kind of modified to suite the local taste buds - which means that anything that says 'Hot' is not really that spicy and if it says 'Medium' that means it is most probably bland. So instead of going for the main stretch of eating joints we decided to try this chinese restaurent that was hidden away amongst other shops. I looked at the menu and decided to try one of the chef's special - which had 3 chillis drawn next to it. You can see where I am going with this...

The majority of the patrons of the restaurent were chinese and only 3 people besides us weren't chinese. Well, when the dish came it was a complete shock to me - all I could see was this massive plate with small pieces of chicken hidden away amongst lots and lots of red chilli. The dish was dry and 'HOT'. It was a great struggle finishing off the dish despite my well developed taste for eating hot spices. Benji tried a couple of chicken pieces from that and it was way too hot for his liking but I managed to somehow hunt down all the chicken pieces from the chillies and eat them. In the end the plate was still full of red chillies glowing in their full bodied redness- on closer look, it almost felt like they were laughing at me. So the lesson learnt from the experience is not to order anything which says 'Super Hot' when ordering from a place which cooks authentic regional cuisine. Anyway - visualizing the dish still makes me sweat, so will leave that thought alone.

On a more somber note - we are living in a world which is inching towards a full blown war threatning to spread across countries and continents. And the repurcussions to the world economy and societies are huge. There is a saying, that I saw on a sign outside someone's office, which said 'Don't underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.' And I think that holds true when it comes to governments and countries. The middle-east conflict is just threatning to be that breaking straw. Let's hope that this doesn't escalate into a repeating pattern of violence for the human civilization.

Good night for now,
Amit

Labels: Food, Random, TV Series

posted by Amit @ 8:41 PM