Money, Suncrest Hotel and the fucking Italians

It's an interesting marketing gimmick st. valentines...probably sometime ago one bloody restaurant owner decided it would be fun to add yet another excuse in the year to charge shitloads of money for roses, wine and meals..Needless to say he got what he wanted...And here I am the day after st. valentines (singles day) thinking back about my st. valentines dinner..

Knowing of the rushing queues that such events would enlist..I decided to book early at a hotel/restaurant for a dinner with my better half...Having seen suncrest's hotel menu at La Pavillon restaurant I decided to book a table for 2. I drafted an email and after checking for clear details and instructions on how I should be contacted back in order to confirm the reservation I sent the emails..





2 weeks and a half later i still got no reply...So i called..after an endless voyage around the bloody hotels pabx I finally gave up and instructed reception to call me back with a reply. Eventually they called and confirmed..Come the 14th..we arrived at the restaurant to find that it was disgustingly furnished. Well disgusting in a manner of saying as one would expect that a st.valentines dinner with a bloody special and rather non romantic st.valentines price would be accompanied with a nice restaurant filled with red heart shaped balloons, along with red streamers, candles and roses to complement. None of this..except a few hearts cut out of red cardboard by a 3 year old. and a couple of red ballons (ordinary ones).

The food: well this wasnt bad..However for one thing, their buffet tables leave much to be desired...both cold buffet, main course and carvery area have very little space between the bowls were the food is held and the bulbs that light it up were to insert your hand or plate in order to take food or receive food (in case of the carvery).

The food was good...Amazingly there was no chicken to speak off whatsoever...a poor choice when one considers that chicken is the primary food of quite a number of people.

What really made the whole experience not so good was the fact that even tho this is a: ST. Valentines dinnner, with a st.valentines price and st. valentines decorations, the hotel saw fit to still make residents at the hotel eat in the same restaurant as us...resulting in a very large disgustingly load and loathsome group of italians..After they had had their go..the buffet looked like it had just been ran over by a group of baboons that had been in their trees for some 6 weeks cos of floods....The mess was amazing...


bleh...rant over..had it not been for passing the evening with the person I love, I wouldnt even have bothered...



My 2EU cents (that''s all i can afford right now)

Il-Juwrovixin hoj!

I'll be honest, I didn't watch the semi-finals yesterday :$ *looks away ashamed* however this morning, like the patriotic member of the Maltese society I am, I directed myself to a (or is it "the" ? ) Eurovision Malta song website...found here





heart attack right in this blank space -->






Ok, I'm back to life...God that's an ugly site...I mean with all the money they spend on doing the actual show couldn't they spend some cash on creating a nice look of themselves online ? Anywho! navigating around the site I found a page with youtube links to all the songs in the semi-final this year..AHA!...would have been OK had it not be a direct capture from someone's telly sitting in the sitting room tuned onto Super One! I mean not that it would have been any better on Net ( I despise both), but atleast they should have been a direct capture of the event. Further more they are not all from the same user, so some are from La Qomna Qomna! if you prefer that kinda show...

KLINSMANNNNNNNN!!! *300 like shout*


Oh yeah, to make justice to the artists I started watching some of the bleeding videos...Some points we (me and my alter ego) would like to make:

Klinsmannnnnn, you need to learn how to mimic playing your guitar well..the chords should vibrate if you hit them hard enough (we know it's a recording sweet mummy's boy :) )

Mary Spiteri, please go get a facelift, wrap yourself in a bag and go live a normal life, you're past your sell by date, europe is cheap but not _THAT_ cheap

Klinsmannnnnn, get a hair cut - EMO -

Jean Claude somethingoranotherwhatsyourface - either the version of your song i watched was really bad or you were more out of sync than a Japanese technicolor cartoon!

Klinsmannnnnn, duuuude, guitar too low, arms too short, you look like you're in a fit to scratch your balls

Anyways, that's dealt with, I don't know who passed the rounds and I'm pretty sure I won't care to watch it anyway..And don't say I'm not patriotic...It's the love for my country and the pitying look from other european countries that leads me to this action...Italy! Good on you! on the other hand, Sanremo pffft!


Mewt!

Here we go again! Pc Woes!

Happy Christmas to me! or is it ?

well after the latest bash of games that I can't run properly..wait lemme do a list:

CoD4 - Barely runs at 800x600 everythign on low
UT3 - Don't dare try it
GOW - Har!
bioshock - lowest works :)

theres probably a never ending list but these are simply the ones that interest me. Anyways to keep this post short, my aging P4 with accompanying 6800gs isn't coping anymore with my needs. (A very respectable machine however :) ). So hey presto! i found myself going round ultramalta's and razercomputer's website for parts to buy and boy was i surprised!

It seems that since I had bought my pc things have changes a "bit" money wise.

An example: I had bought my Xclio Jr Black case for a whopping Lm12 4 years ago...It's a nice case by all means with fan at the side and front, mesh to show off the hardware and associated alien like bars of light >.>

So how come the average case price nowadays starts from Lm34 -Lm38 and rises up to Lm125 and more ? I admit that some cases yes are innovative with heatsinks at the front and other kinky gizmos that make the price worth while..However imo my case had all the stuff needed for a normal case..Made of metal with a door to cover cd drives etc, screwless mounting for optical drives, HDD bay that can slide out, space for extra fans at the back etc.. And it cost Lm12! Holy crap Oo

Seems like gamers have made the Computers peripherals market think they can get away with whatever they want :/ stand up and complain boys and girls!

Im off to look for some more cost savings..it's a budget Xmas after all!

M

Chicken ?

So back to it all... A few months ago I had decided to start writing small reviews about the restaurants/bars/fast food outlets i would be visiting and even though the website I intended never took off...I can always write them here :P

KFC

Chicken..great stuff and so it was...However a number of things chipped the experience.

1) A queue of people waiting to be served and only 2 persons were taking orders..I mean i know your sales figures might not be as high as those of McDonalds, however having more ready to help you clients means faster delivery time making it all the better for the customer..

2) Even though I said 3 times "Variety meal large and Toasted Twister Medium" and the person behind the counter repeated that to me..I still got 2 medium meals..Atleast they offered to change my meal to large for 30c

3) No straws..We did order drinks with our meal however we got no straws and so I had to get up and go ask at the counter myself again..(Is this a side effect of #1 ? )

I think that's that...the chicken was good though..


Food: 8/10
Experience: 5/10


P.S. Experience includes everything - from service to the availability of seats, general cleanliness etc etc..


M

The start!

I have decided to use this blog a little bit more in the future so im going to be wasting some time talking about the stuff that really ticks me off..let's start:

Scan Malta


Right so after a nice night of thunder I find that my year old router took the worse of it and ended up with 2 burnt ethernet ports. Oh well time for a replacement. Scan, being close to home ended up being my first choice. Amazingly enough it would have been faster for me to walk to A to Z then stay at scan. Being the second person in line to be served, it's only amazing that i spent half an hour in queue just because the person in front of me couldn't decide if she wanted wireless internet with her new laptop. I'm sorry but issues like these should be discussed with a sales representative beforehand and not in the Parts/Upgrades queue.

Oh well, A to Z will work fine next time..they're always empty..

It's here!

Well seems like the time's up... I have my car test in 2 hours...Hope i get to make it....the generals my parents are also managed to keep it hidden from me that my car was ready for pickup; my mum told me today..this puts even more importance on the way i drive

I HAVE TO PASSSSSSSSSSSSS :|

WAY TO GO..jekk ma jaddinix nidhol go hajt bih bkollox!


WIld Cherokee! <--- ull soon understand this :o :p

M (mewt) Shumacher -- Over and Out!


<3

Way back to sum it all up

mmk

stuff has moved so fast i havent had time to update this blog i started while i worked at ######..yes I have left that place..and yes I did get a new job (it rocks)..and yes stuff does seem to have taken an upswing for most of the stuff..

One of the things i wish I could save but can't is probably the lucidlan site which I'v advertised in this blog before... In a few words, it's gone...it can be called a lack of communication of whatever..thing is that suddenly communication between gatemaster and the rest of the team stopped.....everyone was too proud to actually spill out the beans so basically it all blew up...the server that was used to host the site seems to have been taken offline also as the ip has changed and all the hosted services disappeared..ah well...of all the mixed feelings i have about this matter i will voice none to avoid any further conflict

Well that's that...over and out for now


M



P.S. Let the bodies hit the floor!

O_0

i mean ok 2-4mbit is reasonable but hey im still shocked till now, i saw the benevolent speed of 8Mb\s for a wow patch in malta.. i'll let you do the maths, i need some water and a toilet :|

Diary of the Major 16/01/2007 - 1411hours

C:\Documents and Settings\####>ping 194.204.115.139

Pinging 194.204.115.139 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 194.204.115.139:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Documents and Settings\####>

not to be mean but....HAHA!!1 !

Diary of the Major 16/01/2007 - 1355hours

It's a fucking shitty day..great from the start, more shit that I had in a week..hope i get a new job soon and leave this friggin place and stuff. the faster the better..oh im looking at making the screen creation process automated so maybe i can save the server when there is a power cut..thx itt

$ man woman

Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

^^

first cheery thing of the day >> thanks thinkgeek w00t!