With this level of childish, rut-stuck inanity, the rehabilitation of Valletta shall go far
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September 2, 2013 at 7:24pm
I cringed when I read this thing below, to which somebody sent me a link.
Across a lunch table, this sort of thing might be momentarily amusing, but context is all – and here we have somebody entirely unable to adapt his thoughts, remarks, observations and anecdotes to the context.
“My grandmother’s cook” – oh spare us the tripe. The white trash at Labour HQ might be conned into thinking that you were raised in a Valletta mansion with a retinue of servants, Kenneth, and you might well have conjured up a Gattopardo fiction far removed from reality, so as to entertain the troops, but some of us know the facts.
So just stop it, for everyone’s sake. This pantomime is now long past its sell-by date.
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I can’t avoid noticing the similarities between Kenneth Zammit Tabona and Franco Debono.
Both are so detached from reality that it verges on neurosis. Both are committed ‘mammoni’ who lives with their mothers and who have never been able to form a normal romantic attachment to another person.
Both think highly of themselves way beyond the norm. Both have huge inflated egos and think the world exists for them alone.
Both think that they are some sort of divine gift to Maltese society and that they wonderful talents have been underutilized. Both have weak, vain, self-serving personalities which is why they were targeted by the Pied Piper of Burmarrad.
De haj sosajiti hed kuks in de past but now dej hev free apartaments
“my grandmother’s cook” is the sort of thing people like this man say when they wish to let you know who they are in the scheme of things.
Is the PN for real?
Are they trying to hit the headlines for the wrong reasons?
1, Opening a coffee shop: http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-09-02/news/pn-hq-to-have-coffee-shop-not-restaurant-2480537602/
2. Will Government be buying LPG on behalf of Liquigas and Easygas?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130902/local/pn-welcomes-libya-oil-procurementdeal.484590
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130902/local/malta-strikes-oil-procurement-deal-with-libya.484551
3. Moving Independence celebrations to Independence day.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130902/local/pn-moves.484550
Now that’s constructive opposition fare.
Quo vadis PN?
Nahseb ahjar kiteb fuq l-INCENSAR.
Imbasta “high class”. How could he stoop so low.
His grandmother’s cook! Well, they certainly didn’t have a cook in that tiny flat he lived in with his mother, two corners up from Tanti tal-gelat, until he made enough money selling paintings without VAT receipts to buy the flat he owns now in St Julian’s.
Or did he buy that with his early retirement handshake when HSBC bought Mid Med and shed him?
SICKENING.
I’m interpreting everything as a bad joke in this country at the moment.
Kemm waqa fil-baxx Kenneth Zammit Tabona.
Shame on you…….
As far as I know this custom has its origins in Sicily.
It’s also commonplace all along the Eastern Mediterranean shore and the Levant.
Well, the first project in the rehabilitation of Valletta is the re-decoration of that government apartment in St. John’s Square according to the tastes of Kitten from Malta.
Yes. Then they’ll fit a cat flap to Piano’s city gate so Kitten can make his grand entrance.
http://www.di-ve.com/news/arts-scholarships-scheme-ceremony
The mother of all double chins and a suit ha tixpakka.
Tbahhir derives from bahhar, to depart or to send someone away. Tbahhir had nothing to do with the Evil Eye.
It was carried to symbolically drive out the devil from one’s home. The pan carrying the smouldering olive leaves was systematically inserted under beds and other pieces of furniture, and into every nook and cranny, while the family group recited the Creed.
The practice survived at least up to the late 1950s.
But precocious, pre-teen Kenneth was already above all that it would seem. Now he is busy making up for it late in his life by living by the Joseph Muscat Credo: First I, then Me, then Myself, and to hell with everything and everyone else.
“Tbahhir” has nothing to do with bahar (sea). It comes from “bhur” which means aromatic herbs such as incense. Various herbs were burnt to smoke out the evil eye from houses, a very ancient and widespread tradition not confined to the Mediterranean.
Tbahhir is actually derived from the Arabic word ‘buhuur’, which simple means incense.
Although out of context with the above article, may I quote the Malta Independent as saying : ‘The agreement, Dr Muscat said, would start to come into force when Libya RESUMES NORMAL OIL PRODUCTION, adding that this was expected to occur in the near future.’
What a farce !
Read what Reuters had to say about Libya’s oil :
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/27/us-libya-oil-idUSBRE97QOTT20130827
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/us-libya-oil-pm-idUSBRE97ROQW20130828
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/01/us-libya-oil-stability-analysis-idUSBRE98009Q20130901
How could he possibly embarrass himself on the world’s most popular music-news blog?
Mr Lebrecht, an extremely successful London-based author and cultural commentator, is followed by a wide community of top players from around the world, radio producers, art professionals, serious art lovers…and Kenneth Zammit Tabona.
Lady Grantham a.k.a. Kitten From Malta
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Ghar-id Dud Street,
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Malta
I wonder if one can burn old bow-ties in place of olive leaves in this smokey ritual against the evil-eye?