Dear readers,
“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
As some of you know, I have decided not to access my Yahoo Messenger account anymore (March 1, 2009). In fact, I have decided to use the delete feature. FOREVER! (https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user) Drastic? Yes. Does it worth it? Big time! But… there are a few details I miss. I’m listening to “Metallica – Unforgiven 2″ (embedded below) and reviewing the fun and unique moments and some of the most annoying ones.
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Dear readers,
Question: “What is the date of expiry of validity for a secret?”
Recommended background: “Madonna – Secret” (embedded below)
Inspiration: Validity (Romanian – translated in English below)
In the last week, I have been haunting the web, jumping between blogs, reading ideas, viewing different writing styles. Analyzing; processing; thinking. Even if they talk about wine, about things or about ideas, all of them have something in common: they want to express themselves. This expression is more or less personal; fictional; cryptic, is more or less who they are. Even in cases when the online persona is totally opposite from the real life counterpart, this persona wants to express a message. And I reached a person who wrote 99 things about her (Romanian). Unusual blog – it is mostly about “Top 5″ various bits and pieces. But among all these bits and pieces, I found a message that challenged my neuron…
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Dear readers,
“If you come home as happy as you leave, you have had a good vacation.” (Part 2 out of 6)
Recommended background: “Dub Incorporation – Rudeboy” (embedded below)
Not drunk and not tired
The vacation is over. I had fun. I had relaxation. I laughed. I was amazed. I felt. I thought. I drank. I slept. I ate. I lazed. No sex (after all, you cannot have all the ingredients). There were some not so joyful moments, but overall I declare it not a perfect one, but a good vacation.
In one’s life, there are rare moments in which the perception of things is overwhelming. It is caused by a multitude of small pieces gathered and mixed together to form a uniform and compact feeling. A feeling which is rarely lost and it persists with the same intensity over your life and actions. I had such a moment watching a mountain lake slowly being covered by fog.
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Dear readers,
“If you come home as happy as you leave, you have had a good vacation.” (Part 1 out of 6)
Starting today, I’m in a vacation (a seven days one). At the moment, I’m in my home town, in the house of my parents, in my childhood house; listening to “Pink – Funhouse” (embedded below – HD version). The plan is to leave in three (3) hours away from the cities, into the mountains. Don’t expect hitchhiking, nor conquering the Omu peak (2505 meters, Bucegi Mountains, Romania), it will just be a car ride enjoying the fairytale of my country, sightseeing, sleeping in campings, making barbecues, drinking natural juice, breathing clean air, having more or less talks about everything and nothing. It will be 7 days of family time. I have mixed emotions.
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Dear readers,
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
A few minutes after a moment was gone, Tudor (the “uncut diamond”) started writing an answer. An unique style he has: he wrote it in 10 minutes, no looking back, just writing and then clicking that “Publish” button. I do not say for nothing he’s “uncut”, nor I compare him with a “diamond” because I have a biased opinion about him. In the same time I was reading his answer, I gave the link to a few people I respect. And… “as much as I love to learn, I must at a point choose my very own way, the road that only I walk” (Quicksilver).
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Dear readers,
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Guess what I’m doing now? Mainly the same and different, this time listening to “Amy MacDonald – This is the Life“. The same: embedded below; different: made some tweaks to the embed window (a little larger and a boarder and a blueish color theme) – let me know what do you think about it. I have the belief that one has to search people who talk about great things, for people who think about great things, for people who do great things. I still believe in it, but…
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Dear readers,
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior!
I’m in my room, alone; listening to “Fool’s Garden – Lemon Tree” (embedded below) and thinking (again) about random things. One week has passed since I began my journey in the jungle of personal blogging (took me 5 hours to write that previous post and another 3 hours to mess with a killer template). One week of thoughts, emotions and trying to figure out the “bazillion” settings and gadgets and tweaks of the WordPress platform. 7 days I was like DeeDee from Dexter’s Laboratory: “Uuuuu… what does this button do?”.
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Dear readers,
I had more than a year and a half to think about this post and here it goes…
… I’m in front of my notebook (Acer eMachines E510); listening to “Poets of the Fall – Carnival of Rust” (embedded below); trying to ignore the insane high temperature from this random campus room and I have (again) no idea where to start… emotions – too many of them; ideas – soon to come; people – each of them unique; events – funny or serious ones… so the conclusion: this blog post = my first personal blog post = just some random thoughts.
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