11 Aug
Posted by elvis as Albania & Albanians, Albanian Blogger, Daily Life in Tirana, Entertainment & Media, Internet Related, Traveling & Leisure
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 [...]
18 Feb
Posted by elvis as Albania & Albanians, Albanian Blogger, Entertainment & Media, Pictures & Video, Politics
It finally happened, Kosova declared itself independent from Serbia and is now free to chart its own course for the future. The much awaited Independence Day has now dawned and Albanians everywhere in the world have been celebrating its coming since the day before.
Sadly, I was not able to go to Kosova to witness this [...]
31 Jan
Posted by elvis as About Books, Albania & Albanians, Citizenship, Entertainment & Media
In her speech commemorating the holocaust, the Chairperson of the Albanian Parliament, Josefina Topalli spoke about the benevolent hospitality and generosity of the Albanians, as the two most prominent moral values, of our nation, which helped to save the Jews from the fatal persecution of the Nazis during the II World War.
“Albania was the one [...]
23 Jan
Posted by elvis as Albania & Albanians, Albanian Blogger, Citizenship, Entertainment & Media, Social Issues
The news was sad, but nevertheless true. The famous Albanian singer, composer and producer Eda Zari asked to relinquish her Albanian citizenship for the German one. This was more of an obligatory choice since the German government rules required it.
Eda is well known among Albanians not just for her beauty, but also for her unique [...]
15 Jan
Posted by elvis as About Books, Albanian Blogger, Entertainment & Media, Internet Related, Personal
I’m very sad about this but the fact remains that we continue to experience the same technical difficulties with our Online Albanian Bookstore at ShtepiaeLibrit.com
From talking to the server technicians of our hosting company, they say that the issue has to do with an upgrade of the server, which happened right after the failure of [...]
30 Dec
Posted by elvis as Albania & Albanians, Citizenship, Daily Life in Tirana, Entertainment & Media, Traveling & Leisure
The New Year is quite a major celebration time for all Albanians everywhere. Families and friends come together to be with each other and many preparations are made especially for the dinner on the New Year’s Eve, which lasts for several hours into the New Year day.
The dinner celebration is often marked by large [...]
27 Dec
Posted by elvis as Albanian Blogger, Internet Related, Personal
It has been 10 days now since the server that hosts my Blog “failed due to a severe hard drive failure at approximately 7:30am” on 17 December 2007. Needless to say that the whole thing was frustrating to say the least, as all my websites are hosted on that server and this time of the [...]