Comments on: Ding-dong hell

By: Leo Said

Leo Said — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:31:08 +0000

@ Sybil

“I think anyone reading your articles got the hint ages ago.”

Sybil, one also gets legions of hints when one reads your posts aka messages.

By: Leo Said

Leo Said — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:28:30 +0000

@ Daphne

“you have no idea how much I hate festas. I can understand why people looked forward to them when it was the only fun they got all year (and the only new dress). But now?”

Daphne, you seem to forget that some persons, and I include myself, still care for a “healthy” dose of “tradition” and “culture”. Even “now”.

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:08:55 +0000

Sybil Sunday, 3 August 2139hrs
“I assure you that it not get me at all just as much as I imagine that traditional village fiestas do not really get you either.”

I am currently being made to endure one or two by my two excitable young children (who, incidentally, only like the colourful fireworks, candyfloss and staying up way past bedtime, but certainly not the awful crowds which are part of the “festa” package). Hopefully, they’ll outgrow them … And no, they don’t like the petards, either.

By: Albert Farrugia

Albert Farrugia — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:24 +0000

The insularity of the Maltese is dumbfounding, to say the least. A certain A Camilleri earlier wrote of his “surprise” that he heard bell chimes in Germany.
Many Maltese, I would suppose the majority, actually think that the sounding of bells is something “Maltese”.
Bells are sounded from churches all over Europe and beyond, expecially in small villages.

By: Sybil

Sybil — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:41:15 +0000

Daphne Caruana Galizia Saturday, 2 August 2040hrs
Mario, you have no idea how much I hate festas.

I think anyone reading your articles got the hint ages ago.
:)

By: Sybil

Sybil — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:39:37 +0000

Amanda Mallia Saturday, 2 August 2227hrs
“Sybil, Sybil – Calm down a little bit. Half Sliema has been celebrating election time for the past 21 years. Are you sure that that’s not what got to you? ”

I assure you that it not get me at all just as much as I imagine that traditional village fiestas do not really get you either.
:)

By: David Buttigieg

David Buttigieg — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:34:22 +0000

@Jane

My apologies for including Swieqi in the list, they seem to be an example to be followed!

By: Kagemusha

Kagemusha — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:37:13 +0000

I simply refuse the excuse, that we are noisy and all that kind of s*** because we are a Mediterranean horde…
No it’s the kind of prolonged childhood… “Of bursting into an adult’s room, screaming, playing drums, using whistles, horns or whatever to attract attention….It’s like saying to the world that watches: We are here! We are here! Watch and hear us.
Roman Emperors knew that lesson too well, keep them people happy as long as they don’t outgrow us.
On the 21 Feb 1848 Parisian intellectuals were clamoring for a reform… for a ‘qabza ta qualita’ and they had this to say. Never, never give power the occasion of an easy success

By: GS

GS — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:05:57 +0000

@ Mario Debono – So you spent the last week of July in Zurrieq for the festa and you say that the surrounding villages don’t hear the sound. Do you think that everyone is deaf. Let me start by congratulating all those who produce fireworks for their artful colourful petards, but no congratulations are deserved for the petards that produce only sound. These petards can be heard from miles around, all through summer we start in June with Mqabba, Qrendi, Zurrieq, Mqabba and Qrendi for Santa Maria and Zurrieq again in September. Some even start at 4.00 am a month before the Festa. I can understand people enjoying the spectacle of the coloured petards, but the ear blasting noise at all hours is disgraceful. I would like to end by congratulating one of Mqabba’s fireworks factories for winning an international competition last year.

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:27:38 +0000

Sybil, Sybil – Calm down a little bit. Half Sliema has been celebrating election time for the past 21 years. Are you sure that that’s not what got to you?

Let’s face it, election time comes once every five years after all, and the noise is all part of the fun – a way of letting go the tension of the previous few weeks, if you wish.

Incessant petards, on the other hand, we could do without. From where I live you have no choice but to hear the ones of Balluta, of St Julian’s, of San Gwann (as I write this), of Msida and all four of Sliema, to mention but a few. That’s 8 feasts in 12 weeks of summer holidays. Yes, if I could I’d ban them.