Monday, February 06, 2006

Last weekend

We didn't leave town this weekend. We did go and see the movie Big Mamma's House 2. The movie was just the sort of guilty pleasure, stupid but funny movie you'd expect from Martin Lawrence, but watching it in Fiji was an experience. The audience responded with huge amounts of laughter at every gag, and the sassy back-talking kid got a huge reaction. It reminded me of the movie Reel Paradise where an annoying New York film geek goes to Fiji to show movies. It has some great scenes of the Fijian audience going crazy over physical comedy like the Three Stooges.

Later that evening we were lucky enough to see the only two minutes of the International Rubgy League Wellington 7's that really mattered. The sudden-death overtime where Fiji beat South Africa to win the tournament.

On Sunday we were invited to a BBQ at the house of a professor at USP. It was nice to have some socializing and meet some new people. But mostly we watched hours and hours of the new Battlestar Galactica on DVD, along with a little bit of the old one for good measure.

4 Comments:

At 9:40 AM, Blogger CS said...

Sounds like a great weekend. Hope you don't mind if I snoop around your blog every once in a while; retiring to Fiji (or other south sea island) has been a fantasy for some time. No doubt the reality is not quite as idylic as the dream, but from the viewpoint of Texas USA your blog is exotic and intriguing. Added you to my blogroll as well.

 
At 5:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

the last two days have been kinda sunny with a hint of spring. Otherwise it has been a super rainy winter in Oregon.
I went to portland and saw Slim Cessna's Auto Club at the Mt. Tabor it was frikin killer.They are punk-hillbilly-gospel-rock.
You know the genre.
Anyway i am going to portland on tuesday to help chuck move to 67th by my old house.Sounds like you are settling in. tell R to eat lots of vitamin B the bugs hate it.
JP
P.S.
Seattle lost the superbowl.

 
At 1:20 PM, Blogger Peceli and Wendy's Blog said...

Hi Rose,
Guess you are connected with the USP. There's a tall guy there that dresses up - I saw him at the Oceania Institute checking out the paintings. He wears a blonde wig, short skirt, tiny blouse, chunky sandals. Don't know whether he's a professor or not. A vavalagi -(European).
Thanks for looking at our blog. Don't think Google search guys have found us yet, though I noticed one tiny mention of Mali Island but it got mixed up with Mali - a country in Africa!
W.

 
At 4:07 PM, Blogger laminar_flow said...

Bula Rose,

Glad you enjoyed Fiji's win.

L.A is next and the Fijians here are going ape.

I've linked you to S.I.F.M.

BTW, Would you like to join the
Fiji blog network?

 

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