Comments on: Happy New Year

By: John Meilak

John Meilak — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:44:07 +0000

@Graham Crocker
“Leading a country demands experience. Don’t you agree?
A person’s experience increases as one grows older.”

Not necessarily. You see, Graham, the problem is that our MPs’ waistline increases while their experience surely does not. It is evident in the day-to-day blunders they make. Both sides, mind you. We are awed by their supreme intellect, I mean.

To lead a country you need determination and INHERITED skill (you’re born not made to be a leader). Spending your formative years as a Catholic Action president doesn’t give you much experience I’m afraid. I mean, you’d end up losing your other cheek quite quickly.

@John Schembri
One party is a Mr. Bean car complete with a stupid padlock and everything. The driver is even worse than the car. The other party is a battered and beaten Escort which should be driven off Dingli Cliffs at the first opportunity. Don’t worry John, the cars of both parties all come from Hogwarts. They’re as nutty as a fruitcake.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:18:15 +0000

We spent new year’s eve at home too, ordered a Pizza Hut gigantic pizza, breadsticks and chicken wings and washed them down with a good bottle of wine whilst watching the film Seven Pounds (great film)…. and the hightlight of it all was that we did all this dressed comfortably in our pygamas! I cannot agree more with Daphne about what I refer to as the New Year’s eve charade.
Wishing you all the very best in 2009.

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:12:30 +0000

@John Meilak : that is the problem with Maltese politics. One party is an old Ford Anglia running on all four pistons driven by an experienced driver; the engine needs a good tune-up. And the other is a re-bored , renewed , re-sprayed garaged Anglia which is still in the pit-stop, with a young, presumptuous go-cart driver at the wheel. I wish one of the Anglias was Harry Potter’s. That would have been great for all of us.

By: Graham Crocker

Graham Crocker — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:41:44 +0000

John Meilak, that’s why you’re not a Mathematician.
Your logic is screwed up.

Leading a country demands experience. Don’t you agree?
A person’s experience increases as one grows older.
Don’t you agree?
A car cannot gain experience.
Don’t you agree?
Therefore a car has no relation to leadership, because it misses a very important variable.

So using my logic, I’d say a leader matures like a fine wine; you drink a wine too early and it will taste like shit.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:20:27 +0000

@John Meilak,

God speed you!

By: Moggy

Moggy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:17:50 +0000

A happy new year to all!

By: John Meilak

John Meilak — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:28:05 +0000

You don’t go to race in the Formula 1 with an ageing Ford Anglia do you? Of course, the Ford Anglia is very valuable but its time is past. Time to make way for the new.

By: John Meilak

John Meilak — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:54:51 +0000

That’s the problem with parliament then I think. Young people should lead. Old people should be taken care of.

[Daphne – You appear to have a problem with older people.]

By: Sybil

Sybil — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:51:42 +0000

John Meilak Thursday, 1 January 1518hrs
I see that the average age of the people commenting on this post is 40.

Still a lot younger then the average age in parliament……….. I think :)

By: Fluke

Fluke — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:12:47 +0000

With two boys aged three and five, I see no point in going out, or inviting friends over, and anyway I am past that stage when I needed friends to get drunk with; now I can do it on my own:-))

We had a small party consisting of pastizzi, mini toad-in-the-hole , hash browns and tons of good wine. A good movie summed up everything.

P.S. Both my husband and I are around 40.