January 27, 2009

kebaps/qebaps have teeth and claws



According to the BBC, "Research by the UK's Food Standards Agency in 2006 found that 18.5% of doner takeaways posed a "significant" threat to public health, and 0.8% posed an "imminent" threat."

January 25, 2009

one of those midnight medieval questions you can't remember

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The original conversation was about names people give to their children but we ended up trying to figure out what were the names of Skanderbeg's siblings! - especially the name of his sister. Yes. None of us could remember them or her and we could not find it on google (Nita eventually did find the name of Skenderbeg's sister).
Milot even called three friends of his to ask them "Who were Skenderbeg's siblings/sister?" - two of them did not answer (possibly asleep), but one did. She told him that "Mamica" was Skanderbeg's sister's name - she even said that she was going to name her child Mamica. It was so funny because she must have thought that we were joking, but we weren't at all. But we laughed.

Here's what we found:
Pal Kastrioti. grandfather / Gjon Kastrioti. father / Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeu). the name that started it all / Vojsava. mother / Mamica. sister / Stanisha. brother (i think)

Here's what I just found to complement the writing at such late hour:

January 16, 2009

it could have.

out to Mavrovo until Monday.
wanted to post these, but could not find the time.


January 04, 2009



Snow fell during the most of today and yesterday and just before the new year settled, with temperatures down to -20degrees Celsius. On New Year's eve, we were riding with minii down town, and surprisingly ran out of gas and had to make an emergency parking maneuver. A fire-cracker, not the standard size but a large one, exploded under the car's chassis. The pipe that links the fuel tank and the engine was torn open, and leaked fuel.

We were lucky enough that the exhaust pipe did not heat too much, because it might have lead to a fire.