03 Oct Iceland’s volcano timelapse
The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is...
27 Sep That’s all we need
Admittedly, Maths is not my forte, but I honestly do not think that there’s any way in hell that you can somehow make what happened this week add up. Earlier this year, a study conducted by the European Commission revealed (or rather confirmed), that Malta is...
25 Sep Surviving Cancer
Back in 2006, Deborah Zammit was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was only 35 years old at the time and her two boys were only three and four years of age. “I felt entirely healthy,” says Deborah, “nothing seemed amiss, until one morning, I woke up...
14 Sep Agony Aunt Putin
I’ve always believed that in order to survive in politics one must possess a particular character trait without which politicians would not last the day. Unfortunately this trait is not something we’d look for in a friend, but without it we’d have no politicians and no...
09 Sep Fly Away Little Ones
Today was a special day - the day that the boys of St. Joseph’s Home have been waiting for, for months. This morning, the sixteen boys residents at St. Joseph’s Home just landed in Milan, and are now on their way to Verona. They’ll be travelling...
31 Aug Praying for Syria
It’s hard to even comment about Syria, let alone decide what’s best to do. There are way too many contradictory reports for a common mortal to figure out who was behind last week’s obscene attack, and even when the UN concludes (if ever) who the...
30 Aug How Can I Help You?
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26 Aug Spring into action
This blog is not about civil unions, but a couple of weeks ago I wrote one about the subject, in which I vehemently argued against the idea of having a referendum about this non-issue. My argument was based on the strong belief that minority rights should...
20 Aug Always Out Bullies
Yesterday was my lucky day. I had the honour of receiving a lovely, passionate ‘courtship’ message in my Facebook’s inbox. It was from a man in his late forties who claims to have lost his wife two years ago. He said that she died in a traffic...
11 Aug Money will set you free
This post has been inspired by this week’s edition of our Black Adder style courts of law – the episodes that involved two French men who were found guilty of destroying an already destroyed bench in St. Julian’s, and two men being accused of the...