Entertainment on the road.

The most modern buses in Malta have flat screen televisions in them. On these TVs, Smart TV advertises by showing normal people on the bus watching television programmes like the Guiness World Records, or a football match. That would be some pretty cool entertainment while riding public transportation, but I do have one question.

Just when the fuck are programmes ever actually shown? In my 45 minute bus ride from Cirkewwa to Msida I saw the same two things on the screen, over and over again. One was of the Smart TV advert, and the other was of Peppi Azzopardi killing a couple of cockroaches and mice for some pest control company. There's only so many times I want to see Peppi take off his gas mask and nod at me. Zero times.

If I were the driver I'd just remove the flat screen and keep it at home. It'll do everyone good, that shit was torture. Smart TV isn't so smart.

They're good old chaps, really.

So I get on the bus this morning, the driver's a young guy, he passes by another bus and screams "AW MY FRIEND!" to the other bus driver. He does this with another bus driver before I get off the bus for University.

As I'm on the bus back to the flat in the afternoon, once again I hear "AW MY FRIEND!", this time coming from another bus. It was the same guy.

See, they're not all that bad. Bus drivers can be friendly too.



"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY BLOODY WAY!!!!!...... MY FRIEND!!"

Find it and win a prize.

I've been on like half a dozen buses in the past couple of days. And each bus has its own different buzzer to signal the driver to stop. Everytime I go on a bus I spend a few minutes trying to find the damn thing. They come in many forms:

• You pull a rope, an old bell rings
• You pull a rope, a more modern buzzer rings
• A big black round button
• A tiny round black button on the ceiling
• The elevated part of a strip in a more modern bus
• A big red square button on the a pole of (what I believe is) the most modern bus, with that really annoying sound.

I don't know if there's anymore, but I swear that the past 6 buses I've been on all had different buzzers. I'll probably run into yet another one tomorrow. Perhaps I should start taking pictures. And perhaps they should make less types of buzzers, ones which are easier to find.

Mirror mirror on the wall.

The "horror" film Mirrors. Is it good or not? Well here's my opinon.

Warning *Spoilers start here.*

The movie starts out good enough, a dude running away from something and ends up dead with an open throat. Which got me thinking, this movie's going to be pretty gory. In reality, it's not. Apart from that scene, there was only one other such scene, where the main character's sister rips off her own jaw. Now that was pretty damn disturbing, and with a scene like that you'd expect the movie to be packed with that kind of stuff. But no, it's not. That's the only gore. However the film did have its share of scares, like the burning people in the reflection. It's an okay movie overall, but definitely not one of the scariest.

*Spoilers end here.*

This morning I caught the wrong bus for university. Actually, it was the right bus but it was going the other way. In other words, I ended up in Valletta instead. However I had just enough time to catch another bus and make it in time for my only lecture of the day.

There's one thing that I think is worth a mention. It's something I never knew existed but it's sold here in Malta. Sliced white bread with no crust. And each slice is twice as long as a normal slice of bread. Hats off to whoever thought of it. Not that I don't like the crust, but when it comes to little kids, such bread is so convenient to shut their whiny traps.