Month: September 2014

If you are like me, you most probably have plans, dreams, aims – call them what you may – and you probably also consider yourself to be quite determined, driven, ready to soar over the clouds.

The sixth edition of Rockestra was held once again on the 27th of September, at the MFCC Ta’ Qali.

“The movement for gender equality was originally conceived as a struggle led only by women for women. In recent years, men have begun to stand-up in addressing inequalities and discrimination faced by women and girls.”

It’s been a while since my last letter to you all. As I’m sure you all know, summer is a mixture of busy and lazy for all of us — for me, it’s more on the "busy’ side, which is just the way I like it.

Fortunately for us living on the Maltese Islands, the end of summer can mean more than just another night out at the clubs getting drunk before lectures resume.

September is not the best time to cram into a tiny bar. The humidity and thickness of the air makes a person want to crawl into a freezer, not squash into a room full of people.

Yes I am going to admit, women are unpredictable. We are bitches. But most of all, we know how to mentally torture someone into going nuts and doing as we say. Most of you guys know this from past relationships. You can almost never win.

With University just round the corner, students are preparing themselves for another year on campus. A typical student spends a lot of time surrounded by piles of books with the only form of exercise being walking to and from the car park.

Finding a Harry Potter fan is, personally, an exhilarating experience every time.

With the new operating system by Apple having made way onto our Apple smartphones, it is very common for most people to think that there barely was a change introduced from the previous OS.

Whether we’re all aware of it or not, we’ve all been subjects to foreshadowing be it in literature, film, or in TV shows. Foreshadowing is, by dictionary definition, "a warning or an indication of a future event’.

If you went to one when you were younger, start ticking off these facts off of your list and start cringing at the reality of spending 13 years in the same school with the same girls.

The 16th edition of the Actavis Lifecycle is currently taking place in Japan. The 23 cyclists and 12 back up crew are currently in Japan, all for a good cause.

“Oh it’s Gascoigne, Gascoigne again, he can finish it here…oh yes, 1-0 England!” These words were a routine for the England fans every time that England played a match.

The 11th  of September 2001 is undoubtedly a day of grief for the United States. It seemed to be a normal Tuesday, until, at 8:46a.m.  American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre at a speed of 470 miles per hour.

Dear boys and girls, one simple question… how many of you have set low standards and expectations in a relationship in order not to get hurt again? We come up with endless excuses to put in shadow all the bad things that our loved ones do.

Another dull, hot summer night inside. As I scroll endlessly and repetitively refresh my newsfeed, I receive a notification, “… has tagged you in a video”. Oh no, my time has come.

One of the great, unsolved murder mysteries of all time is that of "Jack the Ripper’. Jack the Ripper is notorious for having murdered female victims in the autumn of 1888.

The University of Malta (UoM) Futsal Club, a project that was initiated by Kunsill Studenti Universitarji (KSU) and Malta University Sports Club (MUSC) last November, was officially launched on campus yesterday evening, the 5th of September 2014.

In the past few days, an online page with the name of "Raise the Bar’ has been created on Facebook.