Dear friends and visitors, I just wanted to wish you all a Marry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009. Thanks for being part of this little world of mine Your Albanian Blogger, Elvis Don\’t forget to share: Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it [...]
Recently one of the most experienced and well known oncology surgeons in Tirana’s main hospital “Mother Teresa” was arrested on bribery charges. The surgeon’s arrest was treated as a high profile case by the media, and rightly so. The police cuffed him in public as he was coming out of a restaurant near his job. [...]
The liberalization of the visa regime with the EU is a much expected event for all Albanians. We long to be free to travel. Well, looks like things are moving up, but it will still be up to our government fulfilling all the EU requirements, including biometric identity cards and the fighting of organized crime, [...]
Ever since my college days, I had plans about pursuing the next step in my education, but the direction and timing for that were never as clear as this year. Now, four years since I last finished university, a great opportunity arose for me to start my graduate studies in a school and program that [...]
The internet is now a well accredited source of information for all those who enter its doors. Moreover, even for people who live in, and especially outside, of Albania the amount and quality of information available about the country continues to grow exponentially. However, when people first start out searching for websites about Albania they [...]
This morning I got up listening to the news and to my utter disgust and dismay I heard the Prime Minister of the country speaking against one of the MPs using vile and truly offending words. I don’t care to comment any further, if you’re interested in the scandal, watch the video. BERISHA vs Balla [...]
This morning I took my parents and my little four year old nice to the airport on their way to a vacation time abroad. My little nice was so exited about it all. The night before, while it was still about 11 PM, she kept coming to my room to ask me how much longer [...]
The other day I went to get my car’s electronic system checked by a technician. There were some errors appearing on the dashboard that needed to get fixed. In fact those errors were nothing new to me. The car’s electronic system is such that every so many hundred kilometers it requires you to do a [...]