Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist

I was alerted to this video and it was too good to ignore. I am therefore posting it online for your viewership!

Society and the young

Interesting post from Nestor Laiviera, a 23 year old University student in 4th year of reading for a Bachelor of Communications Degree. I think there is much truth about this. And how many times have we heard it? (U iz-zaghzagh ta' illum.....)

Defining the younger (and theoretically more enlightened) generation as ‘frivolous’ and ‘immature’ only ultimately belittles the society that creates them, and only serves to hinder the generations that follow.

This comes from a students' blog found online on The Times.

Down with gas

I have been suffering since Friday when a realised that something was wrong with my bowels. I started taking some pills and eat drier food. It seemed to be getting better but then on Tuesday, the pain and WC visits were too much to ignore. So I went to the doc who told me that I had gastric flu. Lovely. It is not easy to eat dry food, crackers, plain bread etc. especially if you are cooking yourself. Yes, my parents are away in Germany and so we have to do the cooking ourselves. I shall be posting some images of the good food that we prepared, thanks to my sister's photography of course.

My God is that real?

By late 2008, it will be the highest man-made free-standing structure in the world. Interesting to note that the proposed height is still a secret, though it is expected at 816m.

Have a look at the tower website and you shall get more impressed. Furthermore, wikipedia suggests that other competing high rises are in the pipeline; all are to be located in the Middle East

This should further confirm the rising status in the global arena of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

Xmas lights at the cost of...?

Di-ve.com has just published the following:

Christmas street lightning gets discount
by Chris Galea, di-ve news

VALLETTA, Malta (di-ve news) -- November 26, 2007 -- 1225CET -- Enemalta Corporation has amended its scheme giving a discount to street lighting during the Christmas festivities.

The Corporation will be giving a 50 per cent discount on temporary services for the decoration of streets during the festivities, a scheme which is expected to cost Enemalta around Lm5,000.

Under its previous scheme, Enemalta used to give the first 50 units consumed for free, which effectively represented a reduction of less than Lm3 on the expense. This scheme had last year cost Enemalta less than Lm300.

The Corporation augured that that the contribution would help to further embellish the commercial centres during the festivities.

Xmas spirit apart, this is surely not the way forward to reduce energy consumption.