Brandon Lee Camilleri

How many times have we saved a particular film on a watch-later list? And how much more have we neglected that same list and never brought ourselves to watch any one of them? As time goes by chance is that we never watch it. This movie in particular is in the same spirit but not out of wont. The name of this flick is “100 Years” and shall be released in 2115. It was completed in 2015, however, its producers are reserving its viewing for future generations. The idea was given prominence after the film’s commissioner drew parallels with its flagship drink. There is a particular spirit called “Louis XIII cognac” produced in France and named after the king of France who lived between 1601 and 1643. This cognac is famous the world over for its peculiar production process. It is considered fit for consumption after one hundred years. The batch produced in 2015 will be opened in 2115. The movie is expected to coincide. Needless to say that people from the cinematic spectrum thought of this as...

We are all aware of the minuteness of our nation. We score just less than half a million people and cannot stop but wonder at the sheer volume living in countries such as China, India, the USA and Brazil just to name a few. For the curious ones, the statistics are as follows, 1.44 billion, 1.39 then 332 and 213 million respectively. These are populations that one can board a plane and visit but the context of this article is for populations that unite nations and reside on the web. China’s total population is dwarfed by these two that we are about to discuss and the difference in between is still considerable. When we connect online we engage in this virtual nation be it a social media platform or simply to surf the net. One can definitely assume that at some point nearly every country is connected. Statistical websites indicate that users surfing on Facebook on a single day amount to an exorbitant 1.8 billion which in comparison is vastly more than the population of China. Whereas on ...

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