Articles filed in 2008 June
Tarheel Ramblings calendar finally arrives !
Lee of Tarheel Ramblings held a contest last month in which I was the first to come up with the correct answer. The prize was a copy of a Tarheel Ramblings Picture Calendar.
Before I go on, I have a confession to make. I put off buying a calendar because I thought it would be the traditional January 2008 to December 2008 calendar no matter in which month it was purchased. I thought I’d instead buy one in November this year to get a 2009 calendar. Boy was I wrong as you will see.
The package actually arrived on Thursday. But since no one was home that afternoon, I had to pick it up this morning at the post office.
City council kills Lister Block deal
This morning, CHCH news reported that The Hamilton City Council met Wednesday night with LIUNA, the current owners of the historic Lister Block for a round of talks to buy the building. This time city proposed that LIUNA would agree to build a second phase next to the building, if the city bought restored Lister Block.
The proposed second phase would hold a senior’s residence and several retail shops. It is estimated to bring $600 000 a year in tax dollars back to the city.
قصيدة مليباري
Today’s post is in Arabic. Let me correct that - broken Arabic. It’s a poetry (I found in my e-mail inbox last week), that is a narration by a Keralite (a person from the state of Kerala in south India), who recounts his miserable life in Saudi Arabia. It’s hilarious as it captures the flavour of Hejazi Arabic but in a broken and accented form. The story actually is sad and very true.
Keralites form a majority among the population of foreigners especially in western Saudi Arabia and have become a stereotype among the South Asian population. They are commonly referred to as Malabari in the Gulf because the majority of Keralite Muslims there come from the Malabar region . Their language, accent and to some extent their gullibility, make them irresistible for the rest of the expatriates to poke fun at them.
The Mosaic Picture Meme
I saw this meme in Kathy’s Junk Drawer and this is the coolest meme I’ve come across thus far. This meme was originally created by Bud, who changed the rules slightly.
Football Fever 2008 !
Being a life long football fan (that’s soccer to you NFL/CFL fans), I get this fever during every World Cup, the Euro Cup and to a lesser extent during the Asian Cup and Copa América.
Euro Cup 2008 kicked off today and the first game was played between Switzerland and the Czech Republic. The Czechs won the game by scoring 1 goal in the 68th minute. The Swiss did have a couple of chances of making a tie, but their confidence was largely shaken after the Czech score.
Within the next hour another game will begin between Portugal and Turkey, which will be played in Geneva. I’ve been posting live game highlights and scores on my Twitter.
I don’t have a favourite team among the Europeans because it’s very hard to predict. But their football is always very entertaining.
Since I don’t have Cable TV, I’ll be watching the games on OMNI-TV, where commentary is mostly in Italian and a few games will be broadcast in Portuguese, Polish and Greek. If you live in Ontario, you can follow the schedule on the OMNI-TV Website.
