Hmm ... I can almost smell them ...

Don't you love the smell of burning yankees? I sure prefer it to that of exams on the doorstep. Tomorrow I have my firs exam, optimisation ... it's how lecturers measure the limits of your brain by various theorems and proofs like:


Proof: Since the set F is bounded, f(x) is bounded below on F.Since F 
= ∅, there exists v =infx∈F f(x). By definition, for any
> 0, the set F = {x∈F : v≤f(x) ≤v+
}is non-empty. Let
k →0as k→∞,and let xk ∈F.Since F is bounded, there exists a subsequence of {xk }converging
k
x∈F. By continuity of f(x), we have f(¯to some ¯x) = limk→∞ f(xk ), and, since v≤f(xk ) ≤v+
k , it follows that f(¯x) = limk→∞ f(xk )= v

Surely its not for the faint hearted as it can take over your nervous system and bring you in an overjoyful state that can make you loose urself into oblivion. You know what I did? I skipped those kind of proofs.

Good luck to all starting exams.

Gonzi u Sant: Part 1

Kemm huma qrib l-poplu dawn iz-zewg personalitajiet. Jiklu l-hobz mieghek .... sakem tkun gejja l-elezzjoni (Zeza tghajjat: "Kemm hu min taghna u gustuzzzzz, preparajtlu l-galletini w it-te ta meta gie jzurni ... kemm hu hellu"). Ikelmek wiehed tahseb qijed torqod fuq saqqu tad-deheb fin. Jigi jghidlek kem sejjer tajjeb it-turizmu. Kemm il-lukandi Ghawdex ikunu mimlijin bin-nies. Dan kollu ax kellna notte gozitana u telghu naqa Maltin jiprovaw jaraw xi haga gdida. Fejnhom it-turisti ghawdex? Tlajqt naqa gimgha qabel hlief hmieg fil-pjazza principali tar-Rabat tibda tidubita qieghedx is-Somalja wara xi genocidju ax ma tara lil hadd! Imbad tinzel naqa sal-"pablik konvinjinsis" fil-hin ta meta supost ikun hemm hafna moviment, u idejk ma tibqax thosshom. Dik l-intiena li tfawar l-ambjent ma thallikx tohrog. Il-gas chambers t'Auchwitz tahsibhom gew Malta al btala twila.

U xi nghidu ghal ekonomija tal-pajjiz. Mistaxbin kem sejra tajjeb. L-ewropa qed itina l-istillel fuq l pitazzi ax qed inaqsu in numri. Imma mux tad-defisit biss qed jonqsu tafx. L-ishma tal-gvern, il-haddiema, ix-xoghol. Kull ma sab taht idu bihu. Dawk l-kumpaniji li keinu sejrin tajjeb, flok zammhom ghal-interess tal-pajjiz, tajnihom l-kapitalisti, bazikament lil-Farsons u lic-caqnu. Ghax dawk ta gewwa. Ic-caqnu tant iccelebra li hareg birra gdida (manufatturata l-germanja bix-taxghaq kollox). Iva, insahhu kumpaniji lokali. Opportunitajiet godda? Bejn widnejk. Dahalna somma f'salt, beix infitxxu indahhlu l-Euro.

Qisha din l-imbierka Euro ha tamlilna differnza iktar mil-konvoj ta Santa Maria meta kelna bzonnu. Imbad fir-riklami ta fuq it-TV igibulek tfajla sejra tigri ghal ajruplan u tilfitu ax madonna ma lahqitx qalbet il-flus. As if min ha jsiefer qisu jien sejjer naqbad tal-Linja fis 7 ta filodu, u bix noroqd 5min zejda naraha ghaddeja min quddimi. Ghalhekk iriduha l-Euro? Ma nifilhux naqaw aktar ghan-nejk madonna.

Eh sewwa. kont qed nitkellem fuq Tal-Euro Stores ta' Gonzi. Issa, bihejna dak kollu li kien jigenera dhul, imma it-tarzna zamejniha, ghax dik hadd ma jridha. Dahalna kemxa. nfaqnihom fil-Mater Dei (oropra nobis) u fil-park nazzjonali. Nibdew nizraw l-haxix u jibdew johrogu l monstri min taht dik il-muntanja radjoattiva. Issa jitlaw l-labour (ghax in-nazjonalisti issa kulhad xeba minhom), imorru ifitxu naqa u xi jsibu? Xejn! Kif ha nsostnu l-pajjiz? Noqodu nesportaw l-bigilla u l-Benna dairy products?

Imbad jaqbez Wenzu jerga u jidilha: "Qed taraw? Il-Laburisti ma jafux imexxu! Irovinawnla pajjiz! L-hofra qed tikber."

Mhux ovja ipokrita. jekk ma hallejt xejn. Kif trid tqajmu l-pajjiz issa, jekk sammartlu l-ahhar musmar fuq it-tebut? U l-ohrajn, fl-istat ta' tmexxiha tahom, idli inti kif ha jirpiljaw.

Le Le. Lill-Malta li darba Kienet taghna, nistaw nidulha GG. Bihejniha lill-kbarat, Postna u xogholna haduwulna l-affrikani, u l-Malti irid jara fejn ha jhabbat rasu. ("imma jien preparajtlu l-gallettini u l-vot lilu ha ntih HI!!!!")

Ehe ... GG *boom*.