New year's Resolutions part 4

I just realised today that it's the third week in Jan and I didn't do my resolutions...
Maybe because is the first time in my life when I don't have a winter holiday for Christmas and New Year's and in stead of laying somewhere thinking about last year's adventure, the targets that I have set for myself and how many I have reached, this year I was working!
When I thought about my transition to the "working lifestyle" I always thought the hardest part would be getting used to the non-stop working calendar with 16-21 day of Earned Vacation per year, when my entire life has been spent between a long summer break, a short winter break and an Easter break...
So here I am, facing the first one. I didn't take it as hard as I thought I would, but that's because I'm in India and I didn't even feel that Christmas has come and passed and I think I realised that I'm in the new year a week ago...
So, that being said, let's go back to the well-known routine:

Step no 1: Check last year's resolutions:

1. Keep my scholarship;
- I did!

2. Do an awesome research and a good dissertation 
- Not so much...I had a really good and difficult idea for the dissertation paper and the research, I connected with the right people who opened a very difficult path for me ( I would not be able to even enter a hospital if not for these people - yes, my focus was doctors and residents), then I faced the hard medical environment. But that was not the thing that kept me from completing my research and paper, that was the time. I was not able to completing a good, real (as in "not fake") research in the time that I had left, so I had to make a choice: either finish the paper, but not at the level that I was aiming or not finishing it now - so, I decided to put a pause to it and restart it when I'll get the time (because now I have the connections).

3. Get the USA Embassy visa to spend another American summer, figuring out what I want to do with my life after I return (phD?, job?, internship? another MA program?, psychotherapy module?, Iasi?, Constanta?, Cluj?, Timisoara?); 
- I did it again! I went for another summer to USA, but this time everything was so much better, because I had last year's experience, I knew the town, I had a good first job and for a month I didn't even need a second one, and afterward I was able to choose a job that I would enjoy doing. So, since I always wanted to know what it's like to be a hostess - I did that for my second job. And I met some amazing people, starting from my bosses, to my colleagues and the customers.
And somewhere around May-June I figured out what I wanted to do next with my life, so all the anxiety went away, so I was able to enjoy life after that moment (Thank you mom&dad for being so supportive and trusting my decisions even if they did not seem the perfect ones at first!). So I went to USA planning on having a nice time, working, putting some money aside, to prep for the next step in my life: an international internship in HR, in a multinational company (point 10 on my last year's resolutions). And for this I would like to thank ASFI and AIESEC for prepping me and making my plan get the shape of reality! So, I searched for the right role and company to start my career and discovered the perfect match for my requirements: TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) - I felt in love with it (yes, I felt in love with a company) and decided to go on an HR internship at TCS and just TCS, no matter how long it would take me to get accepted. So, I applied (to what seemed to be a great role) and waited, and waited...and when I was thinking about applying for another position ( not so great, but still in TCS - HR) I received the congratulations mail: I passed the first round of selection. After that, there were lots of interviews, and finally, after 3 months, I was congratulated for being selected for the internship. So, I went straight home and applied for Indian visa ( which was another challenge, as you might have read in the "One Step Closer" post).

        For USA I have a very long wishlist: Seattle, San Francisco (Stanford University), Las Vegas (Grand Canyon), Washington (Holocaust Museum), New York and Boston.

I'll be happy if I check off the list Stanford University, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone, Boston and San Francisco.
- The only regret I have for this year's American experience is that I didn't get to do all the travelling I was planning, but I am sure I'll go to the USA again, and I'm sure that the Holocaust Memorial Museum will be waiting for me there.

4. Manage better my time (and go to bed before 2 a.m.);
- I did manage better my time, and I ended up going to bed at 1 AM, which was a great step forward!

5. Go to the gym (get fit) !!!
-  Failed this one. But I walked a lot and I went cycling a few times (Thanks IVelo and Green Revolution!) Maybe this year, since we have a great gym at our office...

6. Eat healthy and drink water;
- Totally failed this one! I think I reached the peak of my weight since EVER, but I'm working on the psychological angle now, so I'm making the first steps (which are the hardest). At least, I started drinking water (and now I actually like drinking water).

7. Read a lot; 
- I read, not as much as I would like to, but I realised at some point that my targets are unrealistic for a 24 hours day. I did discover some amazing books this year, so less the quantity, greater the quality.

8. Watch classic movies (any suggestion where I can find some?) and watch the new ones only at the cinema, with friends;
- Classic movies - same as last year: I increased my classical movie horizon by two.
- Watch new ones at the cinema, with friends - that I did and it was a great way of getting together with my friends (different friends, different kinds of movies), I'll definitely keep doing this (in India, is not even a choice! :))).

9. Go to lots of concerts;
- I went, and for that I have to thank my ASFI friends for bringing me, one way or the other, to 80% of the total attended.

10. Find an internship abroad and/or a volunteering opportunity abroad; 
- Best idea I have ever had! And I actually figured out a way of doing them both! But about this, I'll keep posting the whole year!

11. Visit A. at Cluj;
- I did!!! Yuhuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Thank you, A for being such a great host! It was amazing to see Cluj for the second time, but through your eyes (way better!).

12. Enjoy France and Paris with M.!!!
- I most certainly did! Thank you, M!!! Could not imagine a better person so share my French and Paris experience with!

13. Go on a short trip with my gals somewhere in Moldova
- We did not go anywhere together this year :( Still on the list though, and I think is going to become a priority once I get back home - since all of us are already working now...

14. Make a difference;
- I like to think that I made a little difference, through the ASFI projects that I was a part of. 

15. Contribute to the ASFI's growth and of its HR department;
- Again, did not reached my target, but I think I was able to bring the awareness, curiosity and ownership into my HR smurfs. I look at this generation's smurfs and if I helped shape at least 5% of what they are now, then I can be very proud of myself!

Step no 2: Make new resolutions:

1. Set realistic targets for myself!
2. Have a great experience in TCS, learn all that is possible, bring my perspective to the table and score a great performance (and maybe stay a little bit more?);
3. Explore as much as possible India's touristic attractions;
4. Discover some hidden wonderful places;
5. Get to understand the culture;
6. Balance my life with work so that points 2, 3 and 4 can be achieved at the same time;
7. Get at least 6 hours of sleep per night;
8. Drink 2 L of water every day;
9. Slowly give up on sodas;
10. Learn a little bit of Hindi;
11. Bring a great contribution to the Maitree Sandesh School initiative, make a change for those wonderful kids!
12. Learn and start practicing meditation!
13. Reach inner peace or at least start walking the path towards it;
14. Start the 30-days challenges;
15. Enjoy life, laugh a lot and appreciate the people that I meet on my way and keep in touch with my home-friends.

Maroon 5 - Daylight (Playing for Change)
  

One step closer

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In case you thought I was kidding in my last post, about moving to India, I wasn't!
So, now I'm in Romania, finally home - in Sulina. I say "finally", because when I left USA my plan was something like this: arrive in Bucharest on the 19th, at night so that I can be at the Embassy gate at 10:00 a.m. next morning, with all the necessary documents for the visa. The visa process will take 7 business days, during which I will enjoy some time with my family, home, in Sulina and maybe get tanned a bit, because the weather is so nice.

But, things didn't go according to plan: Except for the one way plain ticket that I bought from Bucharest to Mumbai, all the other documents did not meet the requirements of the Embassy...my letters from AIESEC Iasi were scanned and printed, all the documents from TCS were e-mailed and I did not have the contract between me and AIESEC Iasi (it wasn't necessary - the purpose of the AIESEC Iasi letters was to certify that I was a member and that I am going on an internship, in India). Also, the "nice" lady that I talked to (unfortunately, despite what you might think she is Romanian) told me they needed the plain ticket for the return flight, even though I had a letter from TCS which clearly said that the company will provide it and the health insurance! Can you even buy a ticket a year ahead? And if you can, who does that?!

So, I took a long walk trying to get back from the shock I was into...because when I left the apartment in the morning I had a smile on my face thinking how lucky I am that I got back while it was still summer...I sooooo didn't see what was coming!
And I want to explain myself, so that is clear why I was in shock, when you might think "How could you NOT see this coming when you didn't have the original documents?!". First of all, on the Embassy website it was not specified whether they wanted the originals or not and the lady that answers the Embassy phone (the same "nice" lady) told my mom to check on the web site and hung up! Also, inside the Embassy (which is not like the US Embassy) they had this information papers on the walls... on one of them was the list or required documents for the Business visa (that I'm applying for) and it was written back on white: all this documents can be sent by fax or e-mail, original documents are required only in special cases. (I guess I'm officially special, right?)
And the thing that was most shocking was the fact that when the lady gave my documents to be checked (after she gave me back some of them), they came back with the note "Incomplete documents" not "Original documents required" or something like that...and SHE WENT BACK to the guy and asked "But don't you want them to be originals?" !!! Guess what he said...of course it was "Yes"...

So, I went back to the apartment trying to figure out how to get away without the original documents from India! I e-mailed TCS and told them about the problem, called my mom and told her to send me the contract that I signed  with AIESEC Iasi and talked to the International Exchange VP of AIESEC Iasi to send me the original letters...Thinking that I'll give it another shot with the original documents that I have here, hoping that Monday there would be another lady that wouldn't care so much about my case.

So, the company called the Embassy trying to negotiate with them, but it didn't work, they still wanted the originals. Also, AIESEC Iasi was at a conference and nobody could send me the documents until Monday morning. But, I had another idea - have the documents signed and stamped at AIESEC Romania - and that worked out.

So, Monday morning I had the contract, the original letters, the plane ticket and the e-mailed documents from TCS. But I was out of luck, again, - there was the same lady - this time she was actually nice, but she remembered me and didn't miss the fact that the TCS documents were not original.
So, I went back to the apartment with my tail between the legs...and decided to get other things done while I was waiting for the papers from India (which, despite what I thought, would get in Bucharest in 2 or 3 business days).
So, I went to a Clinic specialized in tropical diseases and got my shots done. Also, I got a great news: I am hep A&B free for the rest of my life!
After that, TCS sent me an e-mail saying that it will take longer for the documents to arrive because AIESEC India had to sent one of them to the TCS headquarters...In the mean time I discovered that it wasn't mandatory that I was the one to submit the documents!!! So...I asked someone I trusted to submit the documents, once they arrived, and went home after spending 9 days in Bucharest and one in Tulcea.
(To be honest, when I started this post I was home, but now I'm back in Bucharest to pick up my passport.)

So, if you  are a Romanian or Moldavian AIESECer going to India, make sure that all the documents from India are originals and that apart from what you can find on the website, you also need to have the contract between you and AIESEC (in English), before you get to the Embassy to apply for visa.

And now, for something completely different:
 Edvin Marton - Victory
   

Life is wonderful...

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I hope you had a beautiful summer, full of ... things that make you feel peaceful, joyful, accomplished, appreciated, ... - happy, because I had.
I've been living (like I said in the last post) in Jackson Hole, Wyoming - U.S.A., but this year I took it easy, I didn't work like a crazy person. I enjoyed the time spent here: I went out every Saturday, a walked around town, I looked up to the sky, I bought a bike and went everywhere with it...I discovered a lot of beautiful spots that were under my very nose...I made a lot of friends and got to know a few great folks, and I'm not finished!

That's why I just want to say that I am grateful for this amazing life I have and thank God and all the people who made all this happen.

So, I'll be here for two more weeks one more week and then I'll take a quick run home to spend a little time with my family and friends, because on the 3rd of October I'll be in Mumbai, INDIA to be a part of the Talent Engagement Group, in the Human Resources department of the Tata Consultancy Services!!! And I'll be there for a year...

I don't know what I did to deserve it, but my biggest dream just came true!
All I need is someone to share all this joy, luck and blessing and my life will be perfect, but I know that this part will come too...If there's something I'm sure now more then before, is the fact that with patience, hard work and optimism you will get everything that you want, so hold on to that dream!

This song is perfect for what I  feel right now:
Jason Mraz - Life Is Wonderful (live)
   
 Vezi  mai multe  video    din   muzica

First day of the rest of my life!

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I don't know if I'll ever feel like talking about what I've been through these few months that I have been absent, for now I just want to share with the entire world my new and sincere smile, the energy and passion for life that I have been missing all this time.
And all these because I released myself from the stress-generating activities that were present in my life, and tomorrow I'm going HOME (I haven't been home since Christmas), and after that I'll pay a short visit to my friends in Constanta, and THEN ... I'll take off to USA again!

So, I'm very excited, because today is the first day of the rest of my life!

Meet my new theme song:
Zaz - Je veux
   

The Cinderella Pact

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I just saw the movie "Lying to Be Perfect" and it made me face some of the issues I've been dealing for the past...two years and the reason why on my plan of getting to a healthy life style, with a balanced meal plan, workout and enough amount of sleep, I wound up 15 pounds heavier and with the most screwed up diet ever (not only that I don't drink water unless I'm out of everything else, but I have a can of Coke every-God-given-day, I either eat all day long biscuits and cookies and all those products that have no nutritional value whatsoever, or two times a day - at least one of them around 11-12 at night...). It's like I've read all the books about nutrition and health (and trust me, not only that I read them, I memorized them!) and do everything wrong on purpose!

I realized that a while ago...but, of course, then came the question: why do I do that?

At the beginning there was the guilt of messing a guy up by breaking him into a million tiny pieces after gaining his trust and making him believe in love and people and happy ending.
Then, after I got the confirmation that I actually did the right thing, I went back to my screwed up dating scenario: broken boy, fix him up, dump him.
After a while I realized that I wasn't doing that for the good of human kind, but because I loved playing with people's lives, changing them into what I believe is good for them and for humanity, in general. So, basically playing God.
That was fun for a while, until I realized that (apart from what I've said before) the relationship - even if it gets them to where I want them to be - it did not make me, personally, happy.
So, after that I tried to go for the real thing and it didn't work out as I thought it would and, also, I realized I was not as confident as I thought I was...
And ever since then I've been struggling with my SS issues, planing one thing and doing everything to sabotage myself from accomplishing it.

So...Mr. Erickson or Stern or ... Adler, what should I do to get back, or...forward to the better, normal, stable version of ME? I've been telling myself that I don't need a guy to do that, but...do I? And is it weak to need someone? Or is it too...feminist to make it on your on? Ms. Ciorbea told us at one point that men are intimidated by women who have it all and they need to feel... needed. So...Independent and alone or dependent and... dependent? Is there something in-between?

Mree - Blood (The Middle East cover )
   

New Years's Eve Resolutions part 3

After a long and deep examination of  the entire year and the resolutions that I had for it, now I can go ahead and  turn the page for a new one with its own resolutions.

Step 1: Examining last year and its resolutions:

First of all I want to say that 2011 was the most difficult year of my life - the best and the worst at the same time.

1. learn to manage better my time (or at least to manage somehow my time) - I did, I'm proud to say that, even though I have tried before and it didn't work, I started using a daily planner and everything got much easier. 
2. be more organized - thanks to the daily planner I can say I did it, as well. 
3. KEEP MY SCHOLARSHIP - I was tuition free all year long and I am this semester too, but I lost my monthly scholarship in the second semester. I got it back now!
4. get deep into research (2 e-team projects and one of my own) - this resolution didn't go as I planned...Even though I signed up for two research projects with E-team and I was really into them, one went south and the other started doing actual work too late. By that time, I decided to stop waiting on them and get more involved with the ASFI projects. So, when the call came, my schedule was already full with ASFI...So, no research projects last year.
5. take the TOEFL test and the GRE too - didn't take neither...for the TOEFL I started reading about it and doing some practice in the summer time...But, since I was working 2 even 3 jobs at the same time...I did not get far. At least, I put my hands on a great book that will make the job way easier when I'll decide to take it, cause I will take it! The GRE is a different story...I wanted to take it for a very difficult-to-achieve  goal (more likely dream) that I had, but my thoughts about it changed...I didn't close the subject for ever, but it depends on a few things that I can't be sure about right now.
6. dust off my French - I started going to a weekly french workshop, but I feel is not enough for what I want to achieve;
7. get involved into ASFI's projects and maybe coordinate one - this is one of the two things that made my year beautiful and difficult at the same time. I learned so much with ASFI, I got to practice some things that I learned about, I explored some things that I was interested about and could't try anywhere else. It gave me reason to be happy, sad, frustrated, it made me exced my limits, see that I can do so many things and I can GIVE and SHARE. I could go on and on with the things that I gained from my experience with ASFI, but I'll stop here by saying to you - whoever you are - You MUST do this! So, become a volunteer!
8. start and keep restart BUT KEEP a healthy lifestyle (eat right, exercise, walk, use natural cosmetics, DRINK WATER) - some good, some bad, I'l keep working on it - the keep-ing part is the hard one.
9. read more (moooooooooore psychology and a bit of fiction literature) - I did read more, but I want even more!
10. watch classic movies - not quite the level that I was thinking about (only 2, but it's a start);
11. expand my musical horizons - this one I did more than successfully  - I lost count of the new artists that I discovered, the "stages" I went through... ;
12. apply for an ERASMUS mobility - I did not, because I did no. 13 and doing that meant that I couldn't be back in Europe before late October (and ERASMUS mobilities start in September);
13. go to U.S. with a work&travel program or stay in Ro for psychology research and experience in my area of "expertise" - this is the other thing that made my year unique - if I would have to chose just one sentence to describe this experience I would say that "It opened my eyes and expanded my horizons in ways I couldn't imagine - made me change my perspective" ;
14. start visiting Moldova's places of interest from the "273 places you must see before you leave Romania" list - unless you can find Muncel in that list (and you can't) this is a "didn't move a muscle to accomplish it" resolution.
15.  And most important LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH - that I did, fully.

Living in USA for 4 months was awesome, but it sucked the life out of me. When I came back, school had already started, so I did not have time to rest and charge my batteries. That's why the rest of the year was very harsh. Thank God for the holiday! Now I'm back to my old self.

Step 2: Making new resolutions

I'll redo the list: 

1. Keep my scholarship;

2. Do an awesome research and a good dissertation;

3. Get the USA Embassy visa to spend another American summer, figuring out what I want to do with my life after I return (phD?, job?, internship? another MA program?, psychotherapy module?, Iasi?, Constanta?, Cluj?, Timisoara?);

        For USA I have a very long wishlist: Seattle, San Francisco (Stanford University), Las Vegas (Grand Canyon), Washington (Holocaust Museum), New York and Boston.

I'll be happy if I check off the list Stanford University, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone, Boston and San Francisco.

4. Manage better my time (and go to bed before 2 a.m.);

5. Go to the gym (get fit) !!!

6. Eat healthy and drink water;

7. Read a lot;

8. Watch classic movies (any suggestion where I can find some?) and watch the new ones only at the cinema, with friends;

9. Go to lots of concerts;

10. Find an internship abroad and/or a volunteering opportunity abroad;

11. Visit A. at Cluj;

12. Enjoy France and Paris with M.!!!

13. Go on a short trip with my gals somewhere in Moldova;

14. Make a difference;

15. Contribute to the ASFI's growth and of its HR department;

...and, of course, LIVE, LOVE and LAUGH !!! 

   
 

 

"Omul cu chitara" invitat Mircea Vintila, 15 dec

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 "Vino cu mine, surâzi şi vino" joi seară în Clubul Presei. Pe 15 dec. „Omul cu chitara" este MIRCEA VINTILĂ, unul din cei mai îndrăgiţi artişti din folkul românesc.

 A început o dată cu "generaţia de aur" a folkului, a participat la primele festivaluri de folk studenţesc, alături de Mircea Bodolan, Marcela Saftiuc, Doru Stănculescu şi s-a remarcat imediat, câştigând chiar una din primele ediţii la care a participat cu piesa Lordul John. A continuat să compună cântece pline de melodicitate şi sens, pe care le îndrăgim şi azi: Hanul lui Manuc, Bade Ioane, Făt Frumos, Mielul, sau Noros Cecer , de pe cel mai bun album folk al anului 2000, „Madama de pică". 

Din 1992 numele lui e asociat cu Pasărea Colibri, grupul care s-a nascut din întâlnirea cu Florian Pittiş, apoi cu Mircea Baniciu şi Vlady Cnejevici, grup al cărei activităţi a dus-o mai departe şi după „plecarea" lui „Moţu".

Joi, nu vă invităm „la o cafea turcească şi-o clătită la Hanul lui Manuc", ci aducem Hanul lui Manuc la voi. De la 9 seara. Faceţi-vă rezervari din timp, locurile sunt limitate! Intrarea 20 lei

Random Gibberish part 4

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I feel broken...like a part of me is missing.
I know I'm still tired from the crazy summer I've been trough, but...I feel like I don't belong here, and all the plans that I had (have and make)  don't make any sense...
I feel lost.
Fix me, please!
I always made it by my self, but this time I can't seem to find the hope, the joy and the energy that always gets me out of the darkness that I surround myself sometimes with. So, I need help, but I'm incapable of asking for it.
Four things were on the top of my priorities: 1. my dissertation paper
                                                                      2. A.S.F.I.
                                                                      3. E.F.C.P. (the university courses)
                                                              and  4. my friends
but I don't really care for any of this things right now...I wanna lock myself into a room, with books, music, movies, red wine and just stay there alone till I get sick of it.

There are so many things going on right now, everything is changing and it's heading in the right direction, but I'm impatient... I feel overwhelmed, like I can't keep up, like I'm not where I wanted to be at this point in my life...I feel like I lost precious time that I can never get back or make up for.

I thought that talking with my thesis adviser would give me the spark that I've been missing and step by step I would get back on track...but talking with him only made me feel even more on the outside, behind.
The task that he gave me (that I knew I had to do even before he told me to) did not give me the impulse that I was hoping for, on the contrary - it mad me even less enthusiastic about getting started.

A.S.F.I. gives me hope, by looking at the new members and thinking about the projects, the activities that I wanna involve myself in and all the things that I wanna do with the new members, all the things that I wanna teach them, and the changes that I wanna bring to the association...but still, when I go home, I thing about last year and all the plans that I had for it and how little I achieved.  Even if we only had a bunch of people to work with, I still blame myself for not reaching the targets that I set for myself. I know this year is my second chance and that turns all the hope and excitement into anxiety and nervousness.

Even though I said that I would start right away to work on the tasks that we have for the final exams, I didn't. I started reading one of the 3 books that we have for one exam and even though I find it very interesting, I haven't read a word since 3 days ago.

And my fiends - Puiu is in Luxemburg, Larisa just came back from U.S.A. and she's changed - I think she's going through something similar to what I'm going through, Anto is cough up with the job haunt, Ioana is busy with classes and her boyfriend and Ana has no clue.

Can you blame me for feeling like this?

Coldplay - Paradise
 
 Asculta  mai multe  audio   house

Concert Ducu Bertzi, 04.11

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Ducu Bertzi vine în Iaşi, vineri, 4 noiembrie 2011, ora 21.00 – Hunter’s Pub (Parcul Expoziţiei, în incinta Casei Vânătorului). 

Preţ bilet: 20 lei 
Preţ bilet în ziua concertului, la intrare: 25 lei

Concert Mircea Baniciu, 23.11

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Concert Mircea BANICIU & Vlady CNEJEVICI


Luni, 23 noiembrie 2009
la Imperium Club (Str. Nicolae Balcescu Nr.24) aka în spatele Tribunalului, la subsolul Teatrului Luceafărul.


Conceptul Monday Night Special aduce la Imperium 2 artisti care nu mai au nevoie de prezentare, al căror renume asigură un spectacol, în adevaratul sens al cuvantului.










See ya there!

Concert Semnal M, 18.11

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Concertul va avea loc vineri, 18 noiembrie 2011, ora 21.00, în Hunter’s Pub (Parcul Expoziţiei, în incinta Casei Vânătorului).


Preţ bilet: 20 lei. Preţ bilet în ziua concertului, la intrare: 25 lei.

See ya there!

My American Experience

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So, from now on I'm going to blog about my american experience and the time spent in USA.

For now I'm just gonna say that I love it here, I like my job and the people that I work with.



 
Details starting next post.

As a conclusion I'll share with you this beautiful song that became my anthem:

Adele - Rolling In The Deep
   
  

I don't know much

Nu mai stiu de unde am luat poza, asa ca imi cer scuze pt drepturile autorului

Just a beautiful song...no projection, no statement.











Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville - I don't know much
 
 

Just...peachy

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 Two perspectives: "normal" people perspective and my perspective.
Subject - Waiting For Forever movie
Normal people cry at this movie, but in the end they say: true love always wins! Great/good movie...
How I see it: He was traumatized by his parent's death and associated Emma with security and love at a fragile age, so that was NOT true love. As for her, she was going through a rough time and his childish way took of the weight of the world off her shoulders...so, for the moment, it was the best thing for her...but after a while she would find him naive, childish, immature and (still) traumatized (with a deeply rooted disorder this time - and given the age of the disorder appearance it would probably be a psychotic type...so, no "cure") and that wouldn't be good for her anymore...cause she was emotionally stable and mature. So, not quit possible in real life.

On the other hand...I kinda related to Willy...So now, I feel just "peachy". Don't worry though, I didn't stalk nobody, I'm not traumatized or neurotic/psychotic.

And by the way, do you confirm that I overthink things? :))

Worlds Apart - The Mostar Diving Club
 
 

Atelier de origami, 2 iunie

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Joi, 2 iunie oa 18:00, Librăria Avant Garde (pe Lăpuşneanu) împreună cu Asociaţia româno-japoneză Himawari vă invită la Atelierul de origami pentru cei mici!

Sper să ajung şi eu pe acolo, că de'...oi fi şi eu mică în ceva...





Uf, de i-ar vedea pisica (Melodii Gradinita)
 
 

Random Gibberish part 3

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I said that I won't be writting on this blog (except for promoting interesting events)...but I can't do that, not after my long talk with I., the other day, on our walk home from the Ada Milea and Bobo concert (which was mind-blowing!)...
She told me, and I know she's right, that I overthink things, I don't allow myself to feel as intensive as I can and I never do what I feel. What she didn't say is that I do that because I'm scared of being deceived, and so...I take every little gesture and every single word and turn them upside down and inside out, extracting possible scenarious and reasons for their happening...And I don't allow myself to feel as intensive as I can because deep down I belive that emotions cloud one's judgement, and especially mine. As far as doing what I feel...I'm scared of being perceived as ridiculous, or (in guy manners) making him cocky and deceitful (is something about my Ego... ) because I believe, deep down in my unconscious, that if you declare your feelings to someone, you give him/her power over you, you became dominated (I know, if you think this rationally it doesn't make much sense, but...unfortunately the unconscious is not very logical...), and I don't want to be dominated!
Now that I see this written black on white, I can't seem to understand why I'm so scared of being deceived (It would make some sense if I had been deceived in the past, but I haven't, never! So where does it come from?!)...and I wonder what would happen to me if I would actually be deceived, would I handle it or would I break down? I guess I hope I'll never have to find out...

So, back to my long talk with I. ... going once again through the story (where there's no actual story...) I noticed some internal changes about my attitude towards the way I aproach this kind of things (guy things) and I feel good about that, cause the rest is just depressing...
Now I wonder what can you do when you mess up so bad, complicate something that was supposed to be simple, and you believe there's nothing to save...that what you did (or didn't do) could never be taken back (or done) so that the initial story would go on the normal way...(or, so that there would be an actual story). Is there something that you can do?

Enough with that.

There's a thing that I want to share with you and it can be summarized like this "I'd rather regret something that I did, then regret not doing something!" It's the conclusion that I harshly reached last summer (did I express myself correctly there? - I meant to say that I paid an expensive price to reach that conclusion...) and I would like if someone didn't go through what I went through to learn this - so, trust me when I say to you: Do as you feel ! (I feel the need to draw to your attention that I'm not talking about extremes here.)  Don't be like me, cause all the thinking and analyzing will get you straight to Regret's land.

That's enough for tonight...I wanted to say so many more other things, but I'm very tired and I can't thing straight, so there's a good chance that you won't understand what I'm trying to say...

Alexandrina Hristov - De cand am plecat
 
 

Alexandrina mood

Dublin Pub

După concertul Alexandrina de ieri (which was awesom!!!) presimt că o să stau muuuuuuuuuu...ultă vreme doar cu albumele ei în winamp, în palm şi în suflet.
Azi, ascultăm 2 piese:
















Alexandrina Hristov - Printre flori

Poate rău te cat...poate marea m-a minţit...

Alexandrin Hristov - Tu cu soarele cobori


Am căutat răspunsul în culori...dar nu l-am găsit, voi?

Ada Milea şi Bobo, 26 mai

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În cadrul serilor "Omul cu chitara", săptămâna viitoare invitaţii sunt Ada Milea şi Bobo (Fără Zahăr)!!!
Le iubesc "producţiile", dintre care menţionez doar Don Quijote, împreună cu Doina Chiriac - care e şi ea fenomenală. Aştept de câţiva ani buni să îi văd şi ascult live!
Prin urmare, sunt mai mult decât fericită să vă anunţ că joi, 26 mai 2011, îi puteţi vedea live în Clubul presei (detalii aici).



Apropo, cine merge? Să-mi ia şi mie bilet...că eu până miercuri nu plec mai departe de 100 de metri de cămin. Am luat azi bilete! Sâc!

O bucăţică din Don Quijote

Concert Alexandrina, azi in Dublin Pub!!!

Aproape să-l ratez şi pe ăsta (nu am mai ieşit din casă de câteva zile, încercând să rămân în bula "portofoliu" şi nu mai ştiu ce se petrece prin Iaşi, în afară de invitaţiile pe care le primesc pe Fb)....abia am aflat că diseară de la 22:00 este concert Alexandrina Hristov în Dublin Pub Iaşi.
Biletul este 20 de lei şi se procură de la intrare.

Dacă îl ratam şi pe ăsta cred că m-aş  fi bătut singură...la ultimul concert al ei în Iaşi am aflat a doua zi după, despre el...de data asta am avut noroc!

See ya there (yes) !!!

Memorialul International al Lumanarilor Aprinse AZI, 15 mai

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AsociațiaRomână Anti SIDA, ARAS filiala Iași organizează Duminică, 15 Mai, Memorialul Internațional al Lumânărilor Aprinse. Evenimentul comemorează victimele SIDA și este o ocazie de a informa comunitatea despre HIV și SIDA, de a mobiliza populația si de a o face conștientă că SIDA este o problemă reală care poate afecta pe oricine, indiferent de vârstă, religie, sex sau orientare sexuală. 
În Iași, anul acesta va fi cea de a XIV-a ediție, în timp ce la nivel internațional 2011 va marca cea de a XXVIII-a ediție a memorialului. Memorialul Internațional a fost inițiat la nivel mondial de Consiliul Global de Sănătate și la momentul actual reprezintă cea mai mare manifestare internațională și cea mai importantă mobilizare din campania de lupta Anti-SIDA. Evenimentul se desfășoară în fiecare an, în toate colţurile lumii, în cea de-a treia duminică a lunii mai și este un bun prilej de deschidere spre comunicare, spre încurajarea populației de a avea un comportament non-discriminatoriu, spre informarea întregii populatii cu privire la prevenirea acestui flagel.

Activitățile ce se vor desfășura Duminică, 15 mai vor fi următoarele:
Marșul tăcerii: Parcul Copou, ora 19:00, lânga teiul lui Eminescu vor fi așteptați cât mai mulți participanți pentru a parcurge cu lumânări aprinse traseul Parcul Copou- Fundație- Bvd-ul Alexandru Lăpușneanu- Bvd-ul Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt. Lumânările vor fi oferite de organizatori și fiecare va fi imprimată cu câte un prenume a unei persoane din Iași care a decedat din cauza SIDA.
Aprinde o lumânare!- bulevardul Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt începând cu ora 20:00. Participanții vor fi încurajați să aprindă lumânări în memoria celor dispăruți din cauza acestui virus necruțător, în timp ce un ceremonial de comemorare va avea loc:
*desfășurare de quilturi- pânze comemorative, create astfel încât să amintească de cei dispăruți din cauza SIDA, pe quilt fiind înscrise prenumele, data nașterii și data decesului. Pânzele sunt împăturite și desfășurate după un ritual special, folosit la nivel internațional.
*lansare de lampioane- Pentru a marca memoria celor dispăruți din cauza HIV/SIDA vom lansa în aer 100 de lampioane ( felinare care se pot ridica în aer până la 1200m altitudine). Aceste lampioane vor fi ridicate spre cer ca simbol al solidarității și compasiunii față de persoanele afectate de HIV/SIDA. 
*concert în aer liber- tineri artiști ieșeni vor aduce un tribute victimelor SIDA și vor concerta live pe bvd-ul Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt.

Fii solidar și alătură-te celei mai mari mișcări de luptă anti-SIDA!


Eu nu ştiu dacă voi putea ajunge (încă mai am de lucrat la respectivul portofoliu, dar sper că promovând evenimentul îmi aduc contribuţia la această iniţiativă.)