Nokia UK Promotion Scam in Albania
Today I got a SMS on my cell saying: Congratulations, your cell phone has won 500,000 paunds in the onging Nokia UK prom. For claims Email: coordinatior.nokiaprom”at”live.com or call +447024038551 Well, being acquainted with different scam schemes I went directly online and searched for “Nokia UK Promotion Scam” to immediately find out that this was [...]
The winter is here, right?
While most of Europe has been experiencing a very cold winter, here in Tirana the winter has been rather mild. Only these past few days the temperatures have gotten below the freezing point during the night. The snow is always held back by the mountain ranges surrounding the city and it rarely snows in. Only [...]
New Year’s Dinner and My Family’s Turkey Tradition
The New Year’s Dinner tradition continues to be one of the major times of the year when Albanians like to eat a lot and gorge themselves on all sorts of foods and drinks. Though it has diminished somewhat, I have to admit that this is true in my family as well. But most importantly, recently [...]
Estimating the Costs of Living in Tirana, Albania
In the past few weeks I’ve had a couple of people write to me to ask about the costs of living in Albania. While, I am not the expert in this case I did a little bit of research to put together some information on the living costs for a single person living in Tirana. [...]
Do you notice any similarities with Albanian TV channels?
As I do every morning, even today I was roaming around the net to some of my preferred sites when I stumbled upon this post by Seth Godin, who is well known marketer. Anyway, the topic of his blog post was “the problem with cable news thinking”. In his post he goes on to give [...]
Sorry, I can’t hear you, I’m deaf and I stink – of smoke!
Well, though that is not true for me, it can be so if you hang around Tirana’s pubs and bars, especially around the Block area at night time. Elevated levels of music noise and smoke-filled rooms are an all-year-round problem which gets worse in the colder seasons of the year. Meanwhile, music noise levels are [...]
Earthquake shakes Tirana at 11:50 PM
The night of Sunday, September 06, 2009 at exactly 11:50 PM an earthquake shook the buildings in Tirana. It was not strong enough to destroy anything, but it could definitively be felt on the 4th floor of the apartment building where I live. To me this was my first experience aware during an earthquake. The [...]
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