Not a lot...

not a bad ol' weekend really. Went out on friday night after work and got quite drunk but got the last train home as I INTENDED to go biridng on Saturday morning but I woke too late the next morning so went to the gym instead... headed out to Costco afterwards with Nina, Steph, Lisa and Theresa to get some food for the Shirahama trip next weekend and to get some stuff for myself also. It's a big warehouse, a bit like Musgraves back home, so it's in bulk and it's cheap...

Intended to watch the Lions game but the Irish bar I went to was SHUT!!!! Obviously run by Japanese as who in their right mind would have an Irish bar shut when there is a sporting event on involving Irish folk!!! Pissed off about that but thankfully I didn't have to witness the blatantly horrendous treatment to BO'D and watch as NZ ripped us apart! To be honest, with that Langer in charge of team selection, it's no surprise we lost. Why in all honesty would one pick a team predominantly made up of players who haven't performed in 2 years?? The Grand Slam champions had hardly a look in!! Ashamedly biased...may as well call it The English Lions and Those We Conquered....gobshite...let's just hope he gets it right for Saturday!! I'm still annoyed by team selection so I'll leave it there...

Went to see Batman Begins on Sunday after visiting Japan's Biggest Outdoor Free Market...what a disappointment that was (listening to Vincent Browne's last show this summer, he's losing the plot and it's great...fantastic journalist in my opinion), it consisted mainly of kids selling crap clothes. I did buy a cool cap which I wore with pride all day mainly to keep the sun off my head and neck, it was very hot..

Anyway, went to see Batman Begins and thought it was quite cool. Certainly the best one in the series so far..Christopher Nolan did a great job. One of the reasons why I liked it so much was because it tied in his training, how he became what he became, the finding of the Batcave, his association with the League of Shadows and his meeting who will become Commisionar Gordon and the start of his Batsign...excellent stuff...would go to it again. Bale was excellent as both Bruce Wayne and Batman.

there's my two cents worth...could go on about other stuff that has got on my *$@# but it's late and Robert Fisk can wait...

Later


ps: am going to try to set up the blog to link into other sites I like and also my photo homepage (homepage.mac.com/markcarmody - check it out)

BIRDING NOTE: Little terns flying around the harbour area today, flying in quite close so got a couple of photos but haven't downloaded them yet...