Manuel Mallia’s Christmas stuff party
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December 21, 2014 at 1:06am
Maybe it’s just that they’re camera shy, but Silvio Scerri and Paul Sheehan are conspicuously not in these pictures. Nor, for that matter, is Ramona Attard.
But one of Mallia’s secretariat staff wrote him a poem and was overcome by emotion as she read it out.
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The Malta Independent features a survey today about Manuel Mallia.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-12-20/local-news/The-Malta-Independent-survey-61-3-agree-with-Manuel-Mallia-s-removal-6736127649
I found the following encouraging.
“And while a majority in all age groups agreed with the minister’s removal, the likelihood of doing so decreased with age. While 74.1% of those aged 18-24 believed that Dr Mallia should go, only 54.5% of those aged 45-59 and 53.8% of those aged 60 and up believed the same.”
Could it be that the young have higher standards and we might yet see the bar being raised in this country? One can dream I suppose.
I wouldn’t be so hopeful. I think it simply boils down to the fact that PN’s campaign for Mallia’s removal was strong online (in particular social media), thereby attracting more younger persons.
Had the Labour Party run an equally effective online campaign, which they weren’t capable of this time but were very capable two years ago, the % of young persons against Mallia’s removal would have been higher.
It wasn’t a PN campaign at all. The Nationalist Party are still woefully inadequate in online communication. You only have to look at the Nationalist Party’s official Twitter account or Facebook page.
The online campaign you refer too was a grassroots campaign – and this time it’s grassroots in its real sense. It was started and fuelled by people unaffiliated with the party, many of whom, I suspect, would rather not have to vote for it at all. Call them the Decisive Minority.
I don’t think any of the parties should be campaigning online at all. Cyberspace is the last true, free Citizen’s Space left in modern politics. It really belongs to the People. What they need to do is to provide the backing arguments. Think of Wikipedia as an analogy. Everyone is free to write whichever article (that’s the People), but at some point you need to refer to some published source (that would be the parties).
We need to #Occupymalta, and I’m not joking.
Don’t make me do it. Don’t. OK here goes.
Poema Epiku Lil Dottor Emmanuele Mallia
O kbir Ministru, dawl tal-Maltin
Avukat mill-aqwa u politiku genwin
Lilek niddedika dil-poezija
B’imhabba lejk u emozzjoni qawwija.
Minn ckunitek inti kont
Thobb il-Ligi, u allura fil-pront
Sirt avukat tad-difiza kriminali
Bi kliem mirqum u accent eccezzjonali.
L-ideat tieghek int ivventilajt
Servizz lill-pajjiz minn dejjem tajt
Fil-passi ta’ Guido l-idolu tal-giovinezza
Il-gurisprudenza tghallimt tapprezza.
Dana ghaliex in kwantu avukat
Inti tesponi dawk l-irqaqat
Li meta ssib ruhek dahrek mal-hajt
Mhux darba u tnejn salvawlek il-b***.
Mela ai termini jien nghidlek evviva
Manuel taghna rega’ issoppravviva
A caldo hsibthom se jeliminawh
Izda fl-Affari Esteri se jinnominawh.
O Ministru, difensur tal-akkuzat
O skuzani ghax ninsab emozzjonat
O kmandant suprem tal-Forzi Armati
Salvani int jekk ta’ libell isibuni hati.
There was an old man called Mallia
Who stuck it to Joe in the rear;
Joe gave him the sack,
Mallia fought back;
Now joseph is quaking in fear.
Prosit. Mille volte prosit.
I, too, am am ardent follower of the poezacci muse. But not that to that level.
LMFAO
you are a gem HP.
OK siehbi
Baxxter for the new ‘Poeta Nazzjonali.’
Prosit!
Had me in fits!
Fqajtni!
Attent kif tuza dik il kelma ghax jahsbu li laqtulek il mera u tinqala xi sparatura ohra
O Baxxter, ja ferh ta’ xadin,
waslet zgur tieghek wara din.
Tghidx kemm se naqlaghlek
Se nimsah l-art bik
Libell se nwahhallek
Bla flus se nhallik.
Oops, issa x’se naghmel
Ghall-multa m’ghandix flus
Taht is-saqqu hemm biss trab
U vojt huwa l-karus.
Mela l-habs zgur se nispicca
Imma la nohrog insir famuz
Insir espert tal-filosofija
U mal-high society nibqa’ nsus.
Inkella f’xi Sakharov Lecture
Fl-ewwel filliera lkoll tarawni
B’Mark Micallef jidderiegi
L-intelletwali issa drawni.
Ghax l-aqwa mod sabiex tirnexxi
F’din il-gzira tal-haxi sfrenat
Mhuwiex l-onestà jew l-inteligenza.
Jekk ta’ eroj u genju trid tkun stmat
Ftakar dejjem il-motto Malti:
Min hexa mexa
Min ma hexiex inhexa.
Caro Baxxter, tikkonfondix,
Tad-Dafnuwa gabra jaghmlulek.
B’kemm se nisolhok, tistaqsinix,
Butek a caldo se nbghattalulek.
Int ghazilt tinsolentani,
F’wicci imbaghad ivventilajt.
Issa l-qorti dlonk tarani,
Tibla lura dak li qlajt.
Flus kontanti, please, irridhom,
U toqghodx tajjarni fitt.
Sib bixkilla biex igorrhom,
Ghal gos-saqqu jmorru dritt.
U biex naghlaq, parir ta’ habib:
Difrek mieghi ahjar ma xxellifx.
Ghad li llum taht kura tat-tabib,
X’se nkun ghada ahjar ma tahlifx.
Hadtli l-kliem minn halqi.
Prosit kemm taf tivventila l-versi ai termini.
Baxxter you are a star!
Darb’ohra hu pacenzja u aghmel hajku bhal sehibna Franco.
Baxxter for President
Did you see the joker’s new profile photo on Facebook? A picture of himself under the words “Ghaqal fit-tmexxija”.
Great – you made my day.
Baxxter for President.
Paul Sheehan couldn’t attend because he was at his art class.
They are teaching him how to draw guns.
Is it possible that everyone, including HP Baxxter, forgets about the fact that Mallia spent years appearing in court pleading against parking tickets given to tourists, in his role as legal advisor and, I believe, Secretary of the Rent-a-Car Association before becoming a criminal lawyer/lawyer to criminals?
His rise as a criminal Lawyer started following his liaison with Giannella De Marco. Before that he was a nobody.
Lest we forget.
You are right. He had an office in Msida near is-Sesu Garage, and Ramona Frendo was one of his junior lawyers.
Ma’ Aquilina tal-Avis, to be exact.
Limerik:
L-eks-ministru Mallia.
Joseph Muscat għasru,
u irmieh bħal-lumija!
Oħra:
L-eks ministru Mallia
eluf taħt is-saqqu
għandu ħames mija!
She’s still calling him minister.
Baxxter – fenominali as usual.
No, she’s calling him “ministeru”. Freudian slip?
O Alla ta l-avukati
Kemm tiri qlajt gewwa sidrek
Tal-Barrani.
Martri tal-Maltin,eroj tan-nofs miljun.
Bid-dmuh f’ghajnejja
Ghax Prim nixtieq narak
Kmandant tal-Forzi Armati
Ghalissa ivventilat.
Galadarba bla mpjieg
Xi zigg insibulek
Biex tkompli zzid
U tilhaq il-miljun.
The girl reading the poem was a Pulse candidate at Junior College a couple of years ago.
I’m sorry it this Manuel Mallia or Kim Jong Un? I’m genuinely confused.
That bearded man in the photos is none other than Rodnick Abdilla from Bormla who lives in Sliema. His wife and Gianni Zammit’s ‘wife’ are sisters (Widdowson).
Declaring to be proud of having worked with someone for only 20 months is good work-wise as it is a plus for your CV.
But one can’t get to know someone well and on a personal level in just 20 months.
The two situations above can not be put in the same category.