thinking of life...

Recently, due to unforseen family events, I have done some thinking on life and the dimension of time.

Until the early teens, you most probably have no idea of time, or past, you just want to get older so that you can drive your dad's car, or so that your beard starts to grow and fellow teen girlies would not laugh at your baby face.

Come your twenties and suddenly, people you know start to get married. They may be mates your age or older than you. You think, something is telling me that I am about to get married soon. Once people get married, whoaa kids start coming.

I skipped the phase on growing up kids, teenage-kids related problems, my own mid-life crises and my little babies getting married and having their own kids. But then...

So I skipped some 30 years and arrived at the retirement age; you finish work, get a pension and start enjoying your life. You have loads of time to dedicate to yourself, your grandchildren and a million of other pursuits. What happens then? You start attending funerals, fellow pensioners, people you got to know sitting on the bench in the village square, people you knew since you were at univ, or a teenger or earlier. And after every day which passes, you ask yourself: am I next?

How can you still ignore climate change???

I have just an article on The Guardian regarding climate change. Oh no! Not again! Well yes, actually this week I have read quite some things about it, new and worrying discovers. The lateset one I read today, regarded the melting of ice in Siberia and the resultant release of methane and carbon dioxide which are 'stored' beneth the Siberian permafrost. Methane is also a greenhouse gas but is calculated to be 23 times more affecting at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. And the article goes on....

But what worried me most is the following paragraph:

The news of the danger posed by rising methane levels comes after a week in which scientists outlined a series of disturbing developments in climate research. These disclosures included news that nearly every wild animal in Britain has extended its range northwards as the country heats up; ice cores from the Antarctic have revealed that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are rising at an unprecedented rate; and analysis suggesting that the world has less than a decade in which to halt global warming before it reaches a point of no return.

Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1869000,00.html

Heard that? It said less than a decade. OK it is a suggestion but with all this going on, I do not think we may be far off than that! A decade... I will be 33, hopefully with a kid or two... living in a planet called Earth which is experiencing a totally new life. Yes a new LIFE. Never before has such a large amount of GHG been in the atmosphere, and its consequences are already being felt and seen.

A point of no return... I have that phrase, bring to my mind the image of somebody throwing himself off a cliff...one step into the void, a giant stride and he's off....NO RETURN.

We've got rain!!

Finally, I must say, we have got rain! Yesterday was a hell of day, rain did not stop falling and thunder and lightning could be heard/seen almost continuously. Just to give you a picture the Met Office reported that in the between noon today and noon yesterday was 23.4mm.

I love rain. I love the smell it leaves behind. I love the fear it instills in people wandering in an petrol-fuelled car, the fear in people leaving close to known 'rivers'. Yes, rain, it wakes up a dried country after a scorching summer, giving life to seeds buried in the ground, waiting to sprout up. The time of the year I love most is on our doorstep, and that is October and November, when the air is still warm to go around in T-shirts, the grass is green and the odours are fresh.

Rain => Life => Happiness

Italian pictures of Italian guys

I have finally uploaded the pictures of the italian guys who came to Malta. These pictures are available at:
http://www.4shared.com/dir/822869/632ec65b/Gianluca_and_Antonio_a_Malta.html

Unfortunately, this is a temporary storage facility and deletes files/folder/whole account if there has been no download activity for the past 30 days. Most online storage website do this, which is acceptable.

Anyway I am adding some of them to this blog, and these will remain here permanently for sure!

What the steam is STEAM?

Steam is a gentlemen's club. First thoughts?

I had the opportunity to see what its like, what goes on in there last Friday. Last Friday, some friends of mine went to a bachelor's party, you know the last night out for soon-to-be-married guys.

Apart a good meal, our Bachelor, whom we dressed in a nappy with a huge dummy was totally annihalated with fresh cream in front of Havana, one of Malta's most popular nightclubs. Imagine the crowd....

After going to 7 Rooms and drinking an awful lot of vodka red bull, we went off to this Steammy thing.

Ok, so to enter you need to pay but we were special guests. The club itself is an 80s style place, with revolving globes and flashy lights, comfy sofas, lots of poles and the 'action section'. All over the place were foreign ladies, hardly dressed, talking to men looking for business.

The business was: OK you pay me Lm 5 min, and I lap pole dance in front of you, or lap dance with you 'privately' in the other section of the club. Oh and by the way, it is Lm 5 per song.

Now some maths, commercial song is on average 3 to 4 minutes long....WOW now that is some rate. Anyway, it seems that business is done with this rate since the girls are coming and going, talking to guys in the ear and convincing them off. Hit me if am wrong, but I estimate that my mates spent altogether around Lm 125 and we were 8, two of which, me and another did not bother.

My reason: you cannot touch, you cannot feel them, you cannot see it. She moves on you to make you crazy and to want more, so then another song passes... Guys guys there is the real thing.

And since you are actually doing nothing apart from getting horny and sweaty, does this qualify as an act of infedelity?