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weeks fly by… | May 26, 2010

I do apologize ( as usual) for not posting much lately . It’s just that since I moved to France the days are getting way shorter ( looks like a day is made up of 3 or 4 hours lately) . It’s already nearly 4 weeks since I took up my place at ORange Labs and the experience has taken all my life over . The work mates are extremely nice people and work itself is something I’d like to continue doing in the future . The only thing that Lannion lacks of is the social life ( and since my french is crap , you are even more at a great disadvantage )

Last Monday was my birthday and in France is a public holiday ( well I’m lucky to be in this country!).  So I took it easy and also had time to go for a nice jog along the amazing river and its related views . I also got a glimpse of how a typical life of people living in these surroundings is . I managed to peak inside some boathouses and noticed that most of them didn’t even have TV and still lived in quite rudimental situations (mmmm once a Maltese , always a Maltese … we like peaking) .

At work its extremely interesting as during these last 4 weeks I grasped a complete new approach to research , that completely differs to my previous work . Research in industry is more adapted to my own ambitions as it makes my work feel a lot less abstract and more practical. However with all this said I think I will have to rethink of my career pathway in the future .

Yesterday also saw the Maltese hopes for Eurovision vanish ( and also the 400,000 euros Malta spent as its budget for the contest) . All this made me remember when I served for 2 years on the National Council for the event ( Malta song board) . This event is indeed a very costly one and even if Maltese “sigh” at such figures , this is peanuts compared to what other countries put in . I believe the performance of Thea Garrett ( Maltese counterpart in the contest) was good but not impeccable , and even if reading some newspaper articles this morning on maltese press described the voting system as erratic and also alluding at some sort of corruption or “block votes” I believe that the situation needs to be looked at carefully and its time for Malta to update our musical tastes ( together with maybe incrementing the budget)

I hope to be able to write something else very soon

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