Congratulations, Saviour
Can you imagine how much more bad-tempered he's going to be after long nights with a screaming baby?
This blog is first with the news. Saviour Balzan is soon to become a daddy for the first time.
Better late and pushing 50 than never – and even though I don’t think it’s a great idea to time things so that you’re in your late 60s when they’re giving you hell, staying out all night and switching their phones off, it’s none of my business.
This was obviously one of the burrs in Saviour’s knickers, so the new development might mean he’ll relax a little and stop writing mangled temper-driven rants.
But then again, it might not. Imagine what he might be like after long, dark and sleepless nights with the bottle-warmer, a pack of Pampers and a baby stiff and rigid in that way they get when they cry themselves into chaos and just won’t stop.
Oh dear.
But congratulations anyway, Saviour – well done. Now it really is time to move on.
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Some people choose to complete their life cycle even at a mature age. A lot of separated people seem to be walking into this lifestyle. A source of mind-boggling frustration, not to mention, as you said having to follow them around Paceville when you’re close to seventy.
Children are meant to happen when you’re in your prime, when you are in control of both your full physical and mental faculties and able to cope with the endless burden of stress associated with bringing them up, coupled with the normal routine of life.
However, congratulations are definitely in order here: never too late to be a daddy.
I don’t agree with you. These are only egoistic fathers who, having never fathered even a mouse, now in their late years want to play the fools by leaving young children under the care of who knows whom. Egoism with a capital E. They don’t give a damn about what will happen to their offspring, whom they won’t even see coming up of age. And to have the nerve of criticising all the rest of us as well as true families and not garnered ones.
[Daphne – Come on, having a child at 50 is far from ideal (that’s when you become a grandparent), and yes, you don’t want to be the 10-year-old boy on the pitch with the father everyone thinks is your nannu, but then again what are you going to do – make it illegal? And anyway, lots of people have babies in their 20s and make lousy parents.]
Having had my children in my early/mid-thirties, I can say that were I to turn the clock back, I would have had children at a younger age.
Ask any child of “older” parents what they would prefer, and chances are they’d opt for having a younger set of parents.
I have ”older” parents and I would definitely NOT opt for a younger set of parents. They’re great and I believe that having older parents has made me grow up with stronger values and more maturity as opposed to my friends who have 40 year old parents.
And they’re funnier too..
As the proud 46-year-old dad of a brand new baby girl, I can categorically say this is the best thing that ever happened to me, and also a new lease of life for my whole family, including my other five adolescents.
My congrats to Saviour Balzan, who is in my opinion the third best journalist in Malta. I hope this new arrival brings him as much joy as did mine.
I think that this “Lino Cert” has a multi-personality disorder.
Bingo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKiXiyuTguk&feature=related
Number two is Glenn Dangerfield, and number one is Sharlon Gouder I presume ?
You’ve gone bonkers. The third best journalist my foot. The first you mean, in what I call trash journalism. Just read his weekly rantings in MT and you’ll go to the toilet to relieve your stomach.
Prosit ghalik Lino Cert! Minn jaf x’tbissima ghandek fuq fommok!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
Charlemagne that’s why I say everyone digs his own tomb!
One time there were eight, now it’s six and one of them’s new. What happened to the other three?
I traded them for the brand new baby, of course. Are you not paying attention?
“the proud 46-year-old dad of a brand new baby girl” – i hope she was not second-hand!
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I expect fatherhood will bestow a sense of responsibility on Saviour, The Godfather of Yellow Journalism. Now he can no longer write whatever he likes on whoever, then armtwist and blackmail them if they sue for libel, and horse-trade to get away with (journalistic) murder. Now he has progeny. As The Godfather movie teaches us, the line is drawn when they touch your children. What do you do? You toucha theirs?
Third best journalist in Malta. Are you sure we are talking of the same Saviour, of Malta Today fame.
Congratulations to Savioiur! However, now is the time to examine a bit your life, come to terms with the mistakes of the past, and move on from all this anger.
A newborn baby is a blessing, but it involves also a lot of hard work and responsibility. One of these is to help this new being grow up in a peaceful and serene environment.
Look to the future
And not to the past
To find those things
You want to make last..Anon
Which memories do you want to last forever?
Madoffi, congrats Sejf, ghadek tajjeb xbin. Issa make sure please li ma semmiex il baby ‘Piano’ biex tippika ma l-ismijiet li ghazel Joey.
Anke ta’ 90 tkun ghadek tajjeb. Ma fihiex xi opra biex ikollox tarbija. Trid tkun tahseb biss fik innifsek u f’ebda persuna ohra biex ikollok tarbija meta inti riesaq lejn it-twilight ta’ hajtek. Ma taghtix kas x’ ser jigri wara. Dik insejjhulha IRRESPONSABILITA’.
@lino, please tell us who are your perceived two best journalists.
Number one is Daphne by a mile, in my opinion she is probbably one of the best journalists internationally as well, Number 2 is Reno Bugeja, he researches his subjects intensively and his interviews are simply mesmerising, Number 3 is Saviour Balzan, some his of ten minute interviews were masterpieces, unfortunately he has lost some credibility with some of his latest articles, but once over this midlife crisis I am sure he will recuperate.
Damn I forgot Lou Bondi ! Correction, Saviour Balzan is my fourth favourite journalist behind Lou Bondi who comes in at a comfortable third place.
It’s fun to have kids, at any age, although I must say that the cross-over point at which you scream stop when they jump on your stomach happens earlier the older you are. Good luck Saviour and partner.
At this point, Saviour should start thinking of early retirement. Jistrieh u jserrah.
Ma tarax!
Let him stay there. And may he have more libel suits. We’ll see then how he’ll cope with sleepless nights and the pressures of having to armtwist and blackmail people to “talk them into” out-of-court settlements.
Paternity should teach this ultra-narcissistic Godfather of Yellow Journalism a thing or two.
Going through these comments I was NAUSEATED at some of them. Dak tghidulu gurnalist?? Lanqas tisthi, Lino Cert? Are you sure you’re OK? Fih gurnalist hey. U min teacher dan malajr sar third best journalist? Jien fuq il-baby m’ jien se nikkummenta xejn ghax dak miskin ma jahtiex. Imma li joqoghdu jifirhulu u jgholluh mas-sema, I just cannot take it, skuzawni.
Ghandu hdura biex ibiegh u miskin hu ma’ min jaqbad, ghax jaghmel minn kollox biex ikissru, ta. U irnexxielu f’ hafna kazi….sodisfazzjon kbir ghalih. Ghad jrid jaghti rendikont l-Alla kemm wegga nies ghas-semplici raguni li m’ ghandux demm maghhom.
Hekk nigu f’ dan, hafna nies m’ ghandhomx demm mieghu imma ma jimlewx il-Malta Today, gazzetta moqzieza, bl-aghar hdura possibbli.
U niskanta kif anki min jikteb f’ dik il-gazzetta l-istess pezza tieghu. Ghalhekk ihaddimhom, ghax il-maggioranza bhalu! No hdura, no party.
Awguri Saviour – stajt stennejt ftit gimghat, madonna…….
Nahseb li izjed ghandha bzonn awguri l-mara tieghu.
Getting personal does not get anyone anywhere. I am sure that it is not charitable to delve into the intimate life of people. Apart from any other considerations, Saviour went through a rough time. I think the best thing is to leave his “private” life alone and comment if you wish on his ideas published in his paper.
[Daphne – This blog is not a charitable institution. Show me somebody who has reached the age of 50 without going through some kind of rough time. And show me how or why Saviour Balzan, in your view, is deserving of the sort of special consideration he has never afforded others and never will.]
Does anyone know the name of the lucky bride-to-be?
Joanna Dowling, it-tifla ta’ Dennis Dowling,mill-familja ‘Budgy’ tal-Belt.
Of Neptunes fame?