Cup of Kava

Browsing through my out-dated 2004 Newsweek Encyclopedia Britannica, I found some other interesting things on Fiji.

New Recipes! Kava, or yanggona, is said to have a relaxing effect on the drinker and is a beverage part of the everyday life of the Fijian people. While I still have to make my Gløgg, I'll post these two sites on how to make your own kava:

Kava Recipe 1
Kava Recipe 2

Although I'm ashamed to admit it, I never knew exactly what a mongoose was until I searched Google yesterday.

And now, I'm terrified.

These hybrids of foxes, cats and radiation-enlarged rodents of terror (it's fine if you don't share the opinion, but I'm adding it to Wikipedia) were actually introduced to the Fiji islands to prey on snakes and rats. Nice tie-in, wasn't it?

Also an interesting note about Fiji, taken, again, from NEB '04: Sugar is by far Fiji's largest export and accounts for more than one-half of all exports. They must be off their tits down there with all that cane. Or just a lot of Type 2 diabetes.

Ever want to learn how to speak the language of Fiji? No? Too bad! I found a site that gives a little taste of what the language is like: Check it out here.

The underwhelming Fiji flag

Also, check out this blog based completely on the Fiji culture - cool stuff in there about firewalking!

http://explorefiji.blogspot.com/
Featured artist of the day: Hawksley Workman

I love his music. I was listening to "You and the Candles" today, and it never fails to bring me to tears. His lyrics are so beautiful, I must've listened to it at least five times driving in my car on the way home.

Other songs of his I recommend:

The City Is A Drag
Paper Shoes
Is This What You Call Love?
We Will Still Need A Song
Hey Hey Hey (My Little Beauties)
Safe And Sound
Striptease
Smoke Baby
Jealous Of Your Cigarette (very fun song - check out the YouTube video, it's hilarious)

I'd add Beautiful & Natural to that list, but Jess would kill me. :p Also my shoutout to Melli for that one. But the best thing about this is? I get to see him in concert again on the 26th in NYC! Can't wait. Last performance in Canada was a show/trip to remember. Adam Popper, where in the world are you now.

Don't...touch it.

I'm not entirely sure if it were junk/spam posted to my last entry, but the comment left coincided very well with the episode of Scrubs tonight. Leave it to me to connect trivial comedy sitcoms to such a topic, but [Warning: Almost, sort-of Spoiler Alert] tonight's episode of the new season ended with the topic of death, and people's never-ending fear of it.

Now, like I said, either it was spam or Colleen preying on my rampant and often excessive fear of dying, but the article (which the link led to) was very compelling to me. I don't find any solace in religion and I'm certainly far from believing in a crazy-concocted story tale of any kind of life after death, but I admit, it would be a fascinating thing to research.

Needless to say, I'm still being cryo-frozen when I'm young. There will be no dying here. Just need to find that sponsor...I wonder if Fiji Water will do it...

Anyhow, here's the website, reposted if the poster doesn't mind: Many Lives, Many Masters

Last Night, watched Burn After Reading. I can't express my disappointment, though I do blame myself for over-anticipation and high expectations. Still, they were reaching with that one.

On a better note, I just finished watching Blame It On Fidel. Excellent movie - I suggest it to anyone, especially since it's free to watch instantly on Netflix!

www.netflix.com