Rugby, white wine and more...

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I passed out pretty early on Friday evening, but not before watching most of Clash of the Titans on TCM. A remake is supposedly in development as I type (from the director of this year's The Incredible Hulk), and for once it's an idea I can totally get behind. Ignoring the cringe-worthy dialogue and horribly dated special effects, the original 1981 film has a lot of potential if it were to be revamped for the 21st Century. I'd love to see Pegasus and Medusa given top-class CGI treatment.

Saturday was largely consumed with Tri-Nations Rugby. I took my digital camera to the game to test it out, and here are some of the results:

What a great day to watch South Africa take on Canada... What? Oh, wait... Crazy Canadians...


Time to sing the SA and Australian national anthems before the match.


Here are some of the local lads in close up (putting that optical zoom to good use):


The match under way... why look, it's the ref stopping play and penalising South Africa for something! Nice man-sandwich though, with Butch James forming the filling...


The end of the game and SA loses... badly. Honestly we can't blame the ref for too much. The Springboks really played mediocre rugby. And what was with that continual kicking to the other side of the field, and not bothering to chase the ball down?

Honestly, I was having more fun watching the guy next to us growing angrier and angrier than actually paying attention to the game. Anyway...


Technically Sunday was our anniversary, but seeing as we were doing the family gathering thing on that day, we went out for a celebratory dinner on Saturday evening instead. Here's where the "surprise" part came in - after a day of discussing going for some "seafood on a budget" at the Wilson's Wharf John Dory's, we ended up going to New Fish Cafe instead. It's crazy expensive, but damn the food and wine is good, the kitchen and service is incredibly accommodating and you have a great view of the yacht moll. So I got my anniversary treat after all..

Sunday was split between World of WarCraft, the Olympics closing ceremony and a family lunch, and it was rounded off with homemade waffles (drowned in chocolate, banana and cream). We also watched the "old" (well, released in 1998) Batman Superman Movie, and frankly it's probably the best of the animated superhero films I've seen so far - catering specifically for more mature viewers. It's also not every day you hear a cartoon character make reference to the Joker making "ha-ha" with Harley Quinn. Definitely worth seeking out.

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