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2011-12-24T14:38:00.001-08:00

George Cosbuc, a romanian poet

2008-07-06T09:50:00.000-07:00

George Cosbuc (September 20, 1866, Hordou, nowadays George Cosbuc in Bistrita-Nasaud County - May 9, 1918, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist, best remembered for his verses describing, praising and eulogizing rural life, its many travails but also its occasions for joy.

He began tearing through the library of the institution, impressing colleagues with his encyclopedic inclinations, and joined a local literary club, the Virtus Romana Rediviva, an association his father frowned upon as a deviation for a prospective career as clergyman. In 1884, already a well-loved teacher at the age of 24, he published his very first poems in the yearly almanac of the literary club.

He began attending courses at the University of Cluj in 1884, while collecting fairy tales and popular stories, which he rewrote and published to local success. He became so popular that three years later, he was asked to become editor in chief of the main Cluj newspaper, Tribuna.

In 1893, he published Balade si idile ("Ballads and Pastorals") a volume which cemented his reputation. He began dabbling in poetry with political subtext, penning the emphatic Noi vrem pamint ("We Demand Land"), Lupta vietii ("Life's struggle"), and overviewes the debut of yet another literary magazine, Vatra.

He completed the first Romanian translation of Virgil's Aeneid in 1896, and also published a collection of various poems and short stories, Versuri si proza ("Verses and Prose"). His output as a translator is astonishing: within the span of three years, he published large portions of Kalidassa's Sanskrit Abhignānashākuntala (a part of them through German translations), and a new Romanian translation of Homer's Odyssey. He also undertook the translation of various works by Friedrich Schiller.

The Romanian Academy deemed him an "outstanding member" in 1898. He further contributed to literature by completing, a decade later, the epic effort of translating Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy in its entirety.

HAPPY EASTER!

2008-06-06T09:08:00.000-07:00

Q: How do bunnies stay healthy?
A: Eggercise

Q: What do you get when you cross a chicken and the Easter Bunny?
A: A good Easter.

Q: What do you call Easter when you are hopping around?
A: Hoppy Easter!

Q: "Why are you studying your Easter candy?"
A: "I'm trying to decide which came first-the chocolate chicken or the chocolate egg!"

Q: What do you get when you pour hot water down a rabbit hole?
A: A Hot Cross bunny.

Q: What do you get when you cross a bunny with a spider?
A: A harenet.

Q: What did the bunny say when he only had thistles to eat?
A: Thistle have to do!

Q: Is it true that bunnies have good eye sight?
A: Well you never see a bunny wearing glasses, do you?

Q: What did the grey rabbit say to the blue rabbit?
A: Cheer up!

Q: Why is a bunny the luckiest animal in the world?
A: It has 4 rabbits' feet.

Good Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Easter.
Bad Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Xmas.

Q. What do Easter Bunny helpers get for making a basket?
A. Two points, just like anyone else.

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The Date of Easter

Prior to A.D. 325, Easter was variously celebrated on different days of the week, including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In that year, the Council of Nicaea was convened by emperor Constantine. It issued the Easter Rule which states that Easter shall be celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox. However, a caveat must be introduced here. The "full moon" in the rule is the ecclesiastical full moon, which is defined as the fourteenth day of a tabular lunation, where day 1 corresponds to the ecclesiastical New Moon. It does not always occur on the same date as the astronomical full moon. The ecclesiastical "vernal equinox" is always on March 21. Therefore, Easter must be celebrated on a Sunday between the dates of March 22 and April 25.

The Easter Bunny

The Easter Bunny is not a modern invention. The symbol originated with the pagan festival of Eastre. The goddess, Eastre, was worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons through her earthly symbol, the rabbit.

The Easter Egg

As with the Easter Bunny and the holiday itself, the Easter Egg predates the Christian holiday of Easter. The exchange of eggs in the springtime is a custom that was centuries old when Easter was first celebrated by Christians.
From the earliest times, the egg was a symbol of rebirth in most cultures. Eggs were often wrapped in gold leaf or, if you were a peasant, colored brightly by boiling them with the leaves or petals of certain flowers.
Today, children hunt colored eggs and place them in Easter baskets along with the modern version of real Easter eggs -- those made of plastic or chocolate candy.

May Day

2008-05-01T12:22:00.000-07:00

International Workers' Day

International Workers' Day (a name used interchangably with May Day) is the commemoration of the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, and a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement.

The 1 May date is used because in 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, inspired by labor's 1872 success in Canada, demanded an eight-hour workday in the United States to come in effect as of May 1, 1886.

This resulted in a general strike and the riot in Chicago of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the eight-hour workday.

The May Day Riots of 1894 and May Day Riots of 1919 occurred subsequently.

Cluj Napoca Botanical Garden

2008-04-08T08:27:00.000-07:00

The Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden (officially the Botanical Garden of the Univeristatea Babes-Bolyai) in Cluj-Napoca, Romania was founded in 1920.

The garden is over 14 hectares in area, with over 10,000 plants from throughout the world.

It is divided in to ornamental, phytogeographic (geobotanical), systematic (taxonomical), economic, and medicinal sections.

Romanian flora and vegetation are represented by plants from the Transylvanian plains, the Carpathian Mountains, Banat, etc.

Among the Botanical Garden's interesting attractions are the Japanese Garden (a garden in Japanese style, with a brook and a Japanese-style house),...

...the Roman Garden with archeological remains from the Roman colony of Napoca,...

...among them a statue of Ceres, goddess of cereals and bread, alongside cultivated plants that dominate contemporary Romanian agriculture.

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2008-02-15T23:24:00.000-08:00

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United Principalities - The Union Day

2008-01-24T12:38:00.000-08:00

Alexander John Cuza Prince of Moldavia (until 1862)

Prince of Wallachia (until 1862)

Domnitor of Romania (after 1862)

Alexander John Cuza (common English rendition of Alexandru Ioan Cuza; March 20, 1820 – May 15, 1873) was a Moldavian-born Romanian politician who ruled as the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia between 1859 and 1866.

Born in Huşi, Cuza belonged to the traditional boyar class in Moldavia, being the son of Ispravnic Ioan Cuza (who was also a landowner in Fălciu County) and his wife Sultana (or Soltana), a member of the Cozadini family of Phanariote origins. Alexander received an urbane European education, becoming an officer in the Moldavian Army (rising to the rank of colonel). He married Elena Rosetti in 1844.

In 1848, known as the year of European revolutions, Moldavia and Wallachia fell into revolt. The Moldavian unrest was quickly suppressed, but in Wallachia the revolutionaries took power and governed during the summer (see 1848 Wallachian revolution).

Young Cuza played a prominent enough part to establish his liberal credentials during the Moldavian episode and to be shipped to Vienna as a prisoner, where he soon made his escape with British support.

Returned during the rule of Prince Grigore Alexandru Ghica, he became Moldavia's minister of war in 1858, and represented Galaţi in the ad hoc Divan at Iaşi, acting under the guarantee of the European Powers in the wake of the Crimean War to nominate a prince for Moldavia.

Cuza was a prominent speaker in the debates and strongly advocated the union of Moldavia and Walachia. In default of a foreign prince, he was himself nominated in both countries by the pro-unionist Partida Naţională (profiting from an ambiguity in the text of the governing Treaty of Paris) and elected prince of Moldavia on January 17, 1859 (January 5, Julian) and, after street pressure changed the vote in Bucharest, of Wallachia on February 5, 1859 (January 24, Julian).

Although he and his wife Elena Rosetti had no children, she raised as her own children his two sons by his mistress Elena Maria Catargiu-Obrenović: Alexandru Al. Ioan Cuza (born between 1862 and 1864 - 1889), and Dimitrie Cuza (1865 - 1888 suicide).

Thus Cuza achieved a de facto union of the two principalites. The Powers backtracked, Napoleon III of the French Empire remaining supportive, while the Austrian ministry withheld approval of such a union at the Congress of Paris (October 18, 1858); partly as a consequence, Cuza's authority was not recognized by his nominal suzerain, Abdülaziz, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, until the December 23, 1861 (and, even then, the union was only accepted for the duration of Cuza's rule).

The union was formally declared three years later, on February 5, 1862 (January 24, Julian), the new country bearing the name of Romania, with Bucharest as its capital city.
Cuza invested his diplomatic actions in gaining further concessions from the Powers: the sultan's assent to a single unified parliament and cabinet for Cuza's lifetime, in recognition of the complexity of the task. Thus, he was regarded as the political embodiment of a unified Romania.

Assisted by his councilor Mihail Kogălniceanu, an intellectual leader of the 1848 revolution, Cuza initiated a series of reforms that contributed to the modernization of Romanian society and of state structures.

His first measure addressed a need for increasing the land resources and revenues available to the state, by "secularizing" (confiscating) monastic assets (1863). Probably more than a quarter of Romania's farmland was controlled by untaxed Eastern Orthodox "Dedicated Monasteries", which supported Greek and other foreign monks in shrines such as Mount Athos and Jerusalem (a substantial drain on state revenues). Cuza got his parliament's backing to expropriate these lands. He offered compensation to the Greek Orthodox Church, but Sophronius III, the Patriarch of Constantinople, refused to negotiate; after several years, the Romanian government withdrew its offer and no compensation was ever paid. State revenues thereby increased without adding any domestic tax burden.

The land reform, liberating peasants from the last corvées, freeing their movements and redistributing some land (1864), was less successful. In attempting to create a solid support base among the peasants, Cuza soon found himself in conflict with the group of Conservatives.

A liberal bill granting peasants title to the land they worked was defeated. Then the Conservatives responded with a bill that ended all peasant dues and responsibilities, but gave landlords title to all the land. Cuza vetoed it, then held a plebiscite to alter the Paris Convention (the virtual constitution), in the manner of Napoleon III.

His plan to establish universal manhood suffrage, together with the power of the Domnitor to rule by decree, passed by a vote of 682,621 to 1,307. He consequently governed the country under the provisions of Statutul dezvoltător al Convenţiei de la Paris ("Statute expanding the Paris Convention"), an organic law adopted on July 15, 1864.

With his new plenary powers, Cuza then promulgated the Agrarian Law of 1863. Peasants received title to the land they worked, while landlords retained ownership of one third. Where there was not enough land available to create workable farms under this formula, state lands (from the confiscated monasteries) would be used to give the landowners compensation.

Despite the attempts by Lascăr Catargiu's cabinet to force a transition in which some corvées were to be maintained, Cuza's reform marked the disappearance of the boyar class as a privileged group, and led to a channeling of energies into capitalism and industrialization; at the same time, however, land distributed was still below necessities, and the problem became stringent over the following decades - as peasants reduced to destitution sold off their land or found that it was insufficient for the needs of their growing families.

Cuza's reforms also included the adoption of the Criminal Code and the Civil Code based on the Napoleonic code (1864), a Law on Education, establishing tuition-free, compulsory public education for primary schools (1864; the system, nonetheless, suffered from drastic shortages in allocated funds). He founded the University of Iaşi (1860) and the University of Bucharest (1864), and helped develop of a modern, European-style Romanian Army, under a working relationship with France.

Cuza failed in his effort to create an alliance of prosperous peasants and a strong liberal prince, ruling as a benevolent authoritarian in the style of Napoleon III. Having to rely on a decreasing group of hand-picked bureaucrats, Cuza began facing a mounting opposition after his land reform bill, with liberal landowners voicing concerns over his ability to represent their interests. Along with financial distress, there was an awkward scandal that revolved around his mistress, Maria Catargi-Obrenović, and popular discontent culminated in a coup d'état.

Cuza was forced to abdicate by the so-called Monstrous Coalition of Conservatives and Liberals. At four o'clock on the morning of February 22, 1866, a group of military conspirators broke into the palace, and compelled the prince to sign his abdication. On the following day they conducted him safely across the frontier.

His successor, Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, was proclaimed Domnitor as Carol I of Romania on March 26, 1866. The election of a foreign prince with ties to an important princely house, legitimizing Romanian independence (which Carol came to do after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878), had been one of the liberal aims in the revolution of 1848.

Despite the participation of Ion Brătianu and other future leaders of the Liberal Party in the overthrow of Cuza, he remained a hero to the radical and republican wing, who, as Francophiles, had an additional reason to oppose a Prussian monarch; anti-Carol riots in Bucharest during the Franco-Prussian War (see History of Bucharest) and the coup attempt known as the Republic of Ploieşti in August 1870, the conflict was eventually resolved by the compromise between Brătianu and Carol, with the arrival of a prolonged and influential Liberal cabinet.

Cuza spent the remainder of his life in exile, chiefly in Paris, Vienna and Wiesbaden, accompanied by his wife, his mistress, and his two sons. He died in Heidelberg. His remains were buried in his residence in Ruginoasa, but were moved to the Trei Ierarhi Cathedral in Iaşi after World War II.

Cluj Napoca Central Park

2008-01-08T09:52:00.000-08:00

Casino

Merry Christmas!

2007-12-11T11:04:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas Image

Avram Iancu Square

2007-11-15T09:42:00.000-08:00

Outside and inside of the National Theatre................

............ and in front of the theatre is..........
...........Avram Iancu statue and the Orthodox Cathedral.

Peles, a romantic castle

2007-10-02T03:03:00.000-07:00

On 22 August, 1875, the foundation for Peleş Castle, the city of Sinaia, and indeed for the country of Romania itself was established. The construction site, the Peleş Creek Valley, was bought on this date by ruler Carol I (Carol of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1866-81, later King of Romania 1881-1914). Several other buildings, annexed to the castle, were built simultaneously: The Guard's Chambers, The Economat Building, The Foişor Hunting House, The Royal Stables, and the Electrical Power Plant. The "Sipot" Villa was constructed later. This would serve as the work site of architect Karel Liman. Liman would later supervise the building of Pelişor (1889-1903, the future residence of King Ferdinand and Queen Mary of Romania), as well as of the King's Ferdinand Vila in the Royal Sheepfold Meadow (the actual Sheefold Meadow).

Peleş Castle was designed in the neo-Renaissance style, first by German architect Wilhelm Doderer and later by Johannes Schultz (1876-1883). Later additions were made between 1893 and 1914 by the Czech architect Karel Liman. It was originally used as the summer residence of the royal family. It also serves as the burial site of King Carol I when he died in 1914.
Until the completion - in 1883 - of the Peleş Castle, King Carol I and Queen Elizabeth lived in Foişor Villa (where King Ferdinand and Queen Mary also resided during the construction of Pelişor Castle). Even King Carol II lived in Foişer Villa when he was King of Romania (1930-40, except in 1932-3 when the hunting house was destroyed by fire).
It is also important to know that Peleş Castle shelters one of the most important and most valuable painting collections in Europe, almost 2.000 pieces. After King Michael's abdication in 1947, the whole Peleş complex, less the homonymous castle which was opened for tourism - became, for a short time, a creation and resting place for Romanian cultural personalities.

The castle has 160 rooms, notable among them are: Big Armoury Room; Small Armoury Room; Florentine Room; Reception Room; Moorish Room; French Room; Turkish Room; Council Room; Concert Room; Imperial Suite.

Inaugurated in 1883, Peleş Castle is not only a pleasant place during summer time; it has been conceived to be also a national monument, meant to keep the trophies of the Plevna victory, which explains the simple but majestic style. The castle's courtyard - Bramantes type - with a fountain in the middle, in the most accurate Renaissance style, pleasantly surprises the visitor. The courtyard has a merry decoration, made out of plants and flowers; all round, the building's facades are animated by elegant drawings. The interior of the castle is a true wonder, due to the beauty and richness of the sculpted wood and the stained glass windows. As you get in the vestibule, you are on the Honor Staircase, in front of the most important rulers of old Romania: Holy Stephen the Great, and Michael the Brave. In a proud attitude, wearing whether a fur cap or with the gold crown on their heads, they impress through the brilliant dressing, in which the white of ermine blends with the emerald green or the red of the large mantle. On the right and on left side of the two rulers, as servant knights, four shield bearers carry the Romanian Provinces escutcheons. Inside the Queen's library, over the groups of children symbolizing poetry and science, there is the image of Ulfilas (311-383 a.d.) a Goth religious ruler, from the northem side of Danube River, translating the Bible in their language and bringing his contribution in spreading Christianity, a Christian apostle of the Romans, and the image of Dante Alighieri, the creator of western poetry. Passing the library and getting into the dormitory, we will meet the image of Genies and Allegories of Painting and Music, as well as a series of legendary themes. Inside the apartments reserved for the honor guests, a number of coat-of-arms were shining through their heraldic abundance, speaking about the ancestors of the Royal Family. But among all, the glass paintings from the Peleş Castle are, beyond any doubt, the most profound and shining. Here, the subjects are taken out of Alecsandri's poetry.

DRACULAs castle

2007-09-03T04:51:00.000-07:00

The Roman amphitheatre

Where the city of Hunedoara stands today, Stone Age tools were discovered in the hill near the castle called Sanpetru (Saint Peter) and in the surrounding villages. The region was very rich in iron, which had been extracted in the area since the Iron Age of Thracians and later, in the Thracian and Roman times. The remains of eight Dacian iron furnaces have been found at the Sanpetru hill near the castle. The proximity of the city to the network of fortresses and temples in the mountains of Orastie, and the discovery of important monetary treasures of Dacian coins and Roman imperial coins testifies to the importance of this site.
After Dacia was conquered around 102 AD and turned into a Roman province, the iron-rich region attracted the attention of the Romans, who began to exploit it by building furnaces. A "Villa Rustica" emerged in Teliuc, a Roman castrum on Sanpetru hill, outpost of the legio XII Gemina. Other Roman artifacts were discovered in the city area, and also in Pestis, where the remains of a Roman village were discovered.

Corvin Castle at Hunedoara

Built in the 14th century, on the place of an old fortification, on a rock at which bottom flows the little river Zlasti, the castle is a great building, with high and diversely coloured roofs, towers, windows and balconies adorned with laces from carvings in stone.

The impressive size and architectural beauty sets it among the most precious monuments of medieval art, subsequent developments mixing Gothic style with Renaissance and Baroque. It has an impressive bridge, countless towers, a number of interior courts, and two large halls, "Knight Hall" and "Diet Hall", as it housed the diet of Transylvania for a very short period.

Vlad Dracul, the ruler of Wallachia, father of the notorious Vlad Dracula (Vlad Tepes also known as Vlad the Impaler or Dracula), was imprisoned here, as he had fallen into disgrace of Hunyadi, not providing the help promised in the battle against the Turks. (Dracula, who had once been traded as a hostage to the Turks by his own father, later became a protege of Hunyadi and took over Wallachia shortly before his mentor's death of a fever). The castle and surroundings are often used by international film companies for the production of movies about medieval times.

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2007-08-16T07:11:00.000-07:00

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Video Google

2007-07-15T16:27:00.000-07:00

This site does not host the videos; it only links to them at Google Video.

Enjoy them! This videos are really, really cool!!!

....................Matrix Ping Pong

...................Copperfield Parody

....................Ryan vs Dorkman

.........................Mario Live

............Halo2 meets the Muppets

..................Secret Asian Man

.................Afro Ninja so funny

.....................Karate Master

Panorama of Cluj Napoca

2007-06-14T08:41:00.000-07:00

This is my place.

Settlement at Cluj-Napoca reaches as far back as prehistoric times. After the Roman Empire conquered Dacia in the beginning of the 2nd century, Trajan established a legion base at a Dacian settlement known as Napoca. Although it was founded as a military base, Napoca grew rapidly as civilians settled nearby.

Hadrian raised Napoca to the status of a municipium, naming it Municipium Aelium Hadrianum Napoca.

The locality was later raised to the status of a colonia, probably during the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

Napoca became a provincial capital of Provincia Porolissensis and the seat of a procurator.

The city hall

Internet - Blogging

2007-05-10T13:54:00.000-07:00

Socrates Quotes

2007-05-10T09:35:00.000-07:00

May Day

2007-05-01T05:54:00.000-07:00

Hot Wallpapers

2007-04-08T06:51:00.000-07:00

HAPPY EASTER!

2007-04-05T13:46:00.000-07:00

Spring in town (2)

2007-03-06T05:11:00.000-08:00

Architecture

2007-02-23T13:11:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year !

2007-01-01T02:34:00.000-08:00

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NEW

YEAR

EVERYBODY !!!

National Day of Romania

2006-12-01T01:40:00.000-08:00

On December 1, 1918 (November 18 Old Style), the National Assembly, consisting of 1,228 elected representatives of the Romanians in Transylvania, Banat, Crişana and Maramureş, convened in Alba Iulia and decreed“ the unification of those Romanians and of all the territories inhabited by them with Romania. ”

The Resolution voted by the National Assembly stipulated also the "fundamental principles for the foundation of the new Romanian State":

1. Full national freedom for all the co-inhabiting peoples.

Each people will study, manage and judge in its own language by individual of its own stock and each people will get the right to be represented in the law bodies and to govern the country in accordance with the number of its people.

2. Equal rights and full autonomous religious freedom for all the religions in the State.

3. Full democratic system in all the realms of public life.

Suffrage universal, direct, equal, secret, in each commune, proportionally, for both sexes, 21 years old at the representation in communes, counties or parliament.

4. Full freedom of the press, association and meeting, free propaganda of all human thoughts.

5. Radical agrarian reform. All the assets, above all the big ones, will be inscribed.

The wills by which the heir consigns the land to a third party will be abolished; meanwhile, on the basis of the right to cut down estates freely, the peasant will be able to his own property (ploughing land, pasture, forest), at least one for him and his family to labour on.

The guiding principle of this agrarian policy is promoting social evening, on the one hand, and giving force to production, on the other.

6. The industrial workers will be granted the same rights and privileges that are in force in the most advanced western industrial states.

On December 11, 1918, King Ferdinand signed the Law regarding the Union of Transylvania, Banat, Crişana, the Satmar and Maramureş with the Old Kingdom of Romania, decreeing that

“ The lands named in the resolution of the Alba-Iulia National Assembly of the 18th of November 1918 are and remain forever united with the Kingdom of Romania. ”

Cetatuia Cluj

2006-11-21T09:26:00.000-08:00

I like you a lot!

2006-11-17T13:01:00.000-08:00

All our live we try to impress the opposite sex, sometimes we succed, sometimes, we don't...

When finally we can do something,

something else is happening, a thing that we are not 100% convinced of.......

....and later we have to pay for this moment of "distraction"...

In the end we reach to a moment of desperation,

...and then later we enjoy the "return"...

After that we realize we do not like loneliness and we start all over...So...to be or not to be married? What do you think?

GAMES!!!

2006-10-08T06:59:00.000-07:00

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NAKED CHICKS!!!

2006-09-27T14:08:00.000-07:00

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Amusement

2006-09-21T07:04:00.000-07:00

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Tarnita, Cluj

2006-09-02T03:45:00.000-07:00

The mountain...

Out of town...

Rain and clouds...

Montain horse

Water basin, Tileagd, Oradea

S.H.I.T.

2006-08-25T11:36:00.000-07:00

In order to assure the highest levels of quality work and productivity from employees, it will be our policy to keep all employees well trained through our program of Special High Intensity Training (S.H.I.T). We are trying to give employees more S.H.I.T than anyone else.
If you feel that you do not receive your share of S.H.I.T on the job, please see your manager. You will be immediately placed at the top of the S.H.I.T list, and our managers are especially skilled at seeing that you get all the S.H.I.T you can handle.
Employees who do not take their S.H.I.T will be placed in Departmental Employee Evaluation Programs (D.E.E.P S.H.I.T) Those who fail to take D.E.E.P S.H.I.T seriously will have to go to Employee Attitude Training (E.A.T S.H.I.T).
Since our managers took S.H.I.T before they were promoted, they do not have to do S.H.I.T anymore, as they are all full of S.H.I.T already.
If you are full of S.H.I.T, you may be interested in a job training others. We can add your name to our BasicUnderstanding Lecture List (B.U.L.L S.H.I.T) Those who are full of B.U.L.L S.H.I.T will get the S.H.I.T jobs, and can apply for promotion to Director of Intensity Programming (D.I.P S.H.I.T)
If you have further questions, please direct them to our Head Of Training, Special High Intensity Training (H.O.T S.H.I.T)
Thank you,
Boss in General(B.I.G S.H.I.T)

Until next time..................

TEST

2006-08-20T09:23:00.000-07:00

This quiz consists of four questions that tells you whether or not you are qualified to be a professional. SCROLL DOWN FOR THE ANSWERS. There is no need to cheat. The questions are not that difficult. You just need to think like a professional.

1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?

The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe and close the door. This question tests whether or not you are doing simple things in a complicated way.

2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

Incorrect answer: Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the door.
Correct answer: Open the refrigerator, take out of the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This question tests your foresight.

3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?

Correct answer: The elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator! This tests if you are capable of comprehensive thinking. OK, if you did not answer the last three questions correctly, this one may be your last chance to test your qualifications to be a professional.

4. There is a river that is known to have many crocodiles in it. How do you cross it?

Correct Answer: Simply swim across it. All the crocodiles are attending the animal meeting!

That completes the test!

This question tests your reasoning ability. So...

If you answered four out of four questions correctly, you're a true professional. Wealth awaits you.

If you answered three out of four, you have some catching up to do but there's hope for you.

If you answered two out of four, consider a career as a hamburger flipper in a fast food joint.

If you answered one out of four, try selling your organs. It's the only way you will ever make any money.

If you answered none correctly, consider a career that does not require any higher mental functions at all, such as management, politics, law or medicine.

Unirii Square

2006-07-29T07:37:00.000-07:00

In this picture I am in Unirii Square where you can see the Matthias Corvinus (1443-1490) statue............. ...........and the Catholic Church.
When I was a student this is the place where I learned with some of my former colleagues.
Cluj-Napoca is one of the most important Romanian academic centres. Of course, coffee may help...........or not..........never mind. Anyway, it is a lovely place.

Ethnic stuff

2006-07-11T08:20:00.000-07:00

This photos I've tooked in Bistrita, on the road........
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.........in the Jandarmery museum..............
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.............in Nasaud.................
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..........in Bistrita...................
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.........on the Oradea-Cluj Napoca road..............
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.......... in Huedin.

Borsa, Maramures

Drive or walk?

2006-07-03T13:09:00.000-07:00

Today I went to my job, I work in a very important company
where they pay me a lot of money,

and when I came back to my home, a policeman stopped me for speed.
I was trying to say him "I can't speed with my car because it's very
old and it have no power for this!",

but nooooo, he did not even listen to me. Now my driving license is suspended, so I walk, it's more healthy.

Beautiful nature (2)

2006-06-29T06:51:00.000-07:00

Cluj Napoca Architecture (3)

2006-06-24T06:57:00.000-07:00

Cluj Napoca Architecture (2)

2006-06-03T07:20:00.000-07:00

Cluj Napoca Architecture

2006-05-27T09:11:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME !

2006-05-23T06:23:00.000-07:00

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY, so.............

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR.............ME,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

To my birthday I went with my friends to the Beer Festival........

It was an excellente weather, a lot of people, a very good music, music bands....

Everybody had fun!

In thee end we saw fireworks,......... soooo beautiful!

Until next year, I hope everybody have a great day,
every day,
just like me today!

Spring in town

2006-05-12T09:00:00.000-07:00

Back in the 60's

2006-05-07T08:23:00.000-07:00

Hey, I have something to say to you!

Than was more fun than now!

Well,..... I laugh enaugh, so I belive my grandpa!

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1 MAI muncitoresc!

2006-05-01T12:37:00.000-07:00

.....
.................."OPERE ALESE 1985".......................

Din firul subtire si cristalin al Somesului Cald impreunat, sub poalele Muntilor Gilaului, cu talazurile unduitoare ale Somesului Rece, coborit aici pe treptele de beton ale multor baraje, ......

.........lacom, apele altor doua piraie nabadaioase in primaveri de irumpere timpurie, ............

Noua orinduire socialista instaurata in tara a adus si stravechii asezari de pe Somes impliniri nebanuite.............

O noua dimensiune se adauga orasului in ultimii 20 de ani ai socialismului, Clujul impunindu-se in peisajul societatii noastre multilateral dezvoltate ca un puternic centru industrial.

...........Intraga populatie a orasului s-a angajat la degajarea molozului..............

Zona de nord a municipiului se afirma ca un nou cartier, prin excelenta industrial, al carui nastere a fost semnat de insusi presedintele tarii, tovarasul Nicolae Ceausescu, intr-una dintre fructuoasele sale vizite de lucru efectuate aici..............

Era firesc, deci, ca orasul sa se extinda cu noi si noi cartiere, cu o arhitectura moderna, placuta,..........apartamente in blocuri confortabile si aspectuoase, opera a arhitectilor si constructorilor locali.

In ritmurile lor elegante auzi parca cadenta versului blagian: Cremene, bazalt e totul. Blocuri / drepte stau in noapte, cu temei. / Pe stravechea strada ca-ntr-o matca / grele curg miresmele de tei. / Din reverberatii simti cum ziduri / foc de zi in ele mai cuprind. / Dupa steaua care-n bezna cade, / de ferestre - albe miini se-ntind. (Cetate in noapte).

Partidul,Ceusescu ,Romania

Eternal fascination.............

2006-04-19T08:04:00.000-07:00

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2006-04-13T11:54:00.000-07:00

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As far as possible!

2006-04-07T09:48:00.000-07:00

Some examples of why the human race has probably evolved as far as possible. These are actual instruction labels on consumer goods...

On Sears hairdryer:Do not use while sleeping.(Gee, that's the only time I have to work on my hair!)

On a bag of Fritos:You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.(The shoplifter special!)

On a bar of Dial soap:Directions: Use like regular soap.(and that would be how?)

On some Swann frozen dinners:Serving suggestion: Defrost.(But it's 'just' a suggestion!)

On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert: (printed on bottom of the box)Do not turn upside down.(Too late! you lose!)

On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding:Product will be hot after heating.(Are you sure? Let's experiment.)

On packaging for a Rowenta iron:Do not iron clothes on body.(But wouldn't that save more time?)(Whose body?)

On Boot's Children's cough medicine:Do not drive car or operate machinery.(We could do a lot to reduce the construction accidents if we just kept those 5 year olds off those fork lifts.)

On Nytol sleep aid:Warning: may cause drowsiness.(One would hope!)

On a Korean kitchen knife:Warning: keep out of children.(hmm...something must have gotten lost in the translation...)

On a string of Christmas lights:For indoor or outdoor use only.(As opposed to use in outer space.)

On a food processor:Not to be used for the other use.(Now I'm curious.)

On Sainsbury's peanuts:Warning: contains nuts.(but no peas?)

On an American Airlines packet of nuts:Instructions: open packet, eat nuts.(somebody got paid big bucks to write this one...)

On a Swedish chainsaw:Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands.(Raise your hand if you've tried this...)

On a child's Superman costume:Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.(Oh go ahead! That's right, destroy a universal childhood belief.)

See you next time!

Veni, vidi, vici! (2)

2006-03-27T02:28:00.000-08:00

BEAUTIFUL GAME!!! The best game ever!

Rapid vs Steaua (0-0; 1-1) in UEFA Cup and the winner is..............STEAUA!! Steaua in semifinals of UEFA Cup!

Of course I watch the game with my friends and it was, again, noise, a quick waitress and a lot of beer.......

In thee and, in the morning, we were so tired...............

Now I must thank to the brasilian people for their coffee. I drank alot of brasilian coffee, it was soooooo good!

Unfortunately I had to work in that day,

I don't remember much, just I took a quick shower,

but anyway, it's not important. Important is the next game, so see you than!

Veni, vidi, vici!

2006-03-25T06:25:00.000-08:00

In this evening, Rapid Bucharest hard beated Hamburg SV in UEFA Cup! It was a beautiful game, just for taff people!
I watch the game with my friends. Of course it was noise, beer, pop-corn and a lot of happyness in thee end. Boys nows this feeling! Tomorrow i's another day and another game! Tomorrow play Steaua Bucharest, I hope they win the game! So, what can I say, just "Play the bowl !" See you tomorrow!
Wow! Steaua smash Betis with 3-0! In theirs home, in Sevilla, in 1986, Steaua win the game with CF Barcelona and the Champions Cup! I't like in the Alexander Dumas books "After 20 years", 20 years for beating again in Sevilla!
Now they will play with Rapid for semifinals! What can I say? Both teams are from Romania,............. ...........so the taff one will win!

See you in part 2!

Beautiful nature

2006-03-17T08:25:00.000-08:00

This photos I've tooked near the place where I live.

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Eroilor Street

2006-03-03T11:44:00.000-08:00

On my way..............

2006-02-25T04:04:00.000-08:00

The life way...................... a long list of faces in my life, a lot of this faces I forgot and just a few I remember. I asked to myself: "Who are they, what they want?" Somebody told me: " They are in your life, for a long or short time, for helping you in your way". Maybe it's true but if they help me, where goes my way and what I must to do? Maybe it's a rong way or a good way but I now a thing, what I do, I do and what I will do, I will do! Now I listen Frank Sinatra, "I did it my way".

Pe drumul meu.....
Drumul prin viata..............o lunga insiruire de fete umane, o mare parte dintre aceste fete le-am uitat si abia imi mai amintesc de cateva. M-am intrebat:"Cine sunt ele si ce vor?" Cineva mi-a raspuns:"Ele apar in calea ta pentru o perioada mai mare sau mai mica de timp, pentru a te ajuta pe drumul prin viata". Poate e adevarat dar daca ele ma ajuta, atunci unde duce drumul meu si ce trebuie sa fac? Poate e un drum gresit sau poate ca nu. Un lucru stiu sigur; ce am facut, am facut si ce voi face, voi face! Acum doar ascult Frank Sinatra, "I did it my way".

Manualul Angajatului & Mari Descoperiri

2006-02-12T07:51:00.000-08:00

Cu intrare în vigoare imediata

CUM NE IMBRACAM
Este recomnadat sa veniti imbracati la serviciu conform salariului primit.
Daca purtati pantofi Prada de $350 sau o geanta Gucci de $600 vom presupune ca o duceti bine din punct de vedere financiar, deci nu aveti nevoie de o marire de salariu.

Daca va imbracati saracacios, va trebui sa invatati sa va administrati banii mai bine pentru a va cumpara haine mai frumoase, prin urmare nu aveti nevoie de o marire de salariu.

Daca va imbracati potrivit, sunteti exact acolo unde trebuie si in consecinta nu aveti nevoie de o marire de salariu.

CONCEDIUL MEDICAL
Din acest moment nu mai acceptam adeverinta medicala a unui doctor prin care se adevereste ca sunteti bolnav. Daca puteti merge la doctor, inseamna ca puteti veni si la serviciu.

OPERATII CHIRURGICALE
Operatiile chirurgicale sunt interzise. Atata vreme cat sunteti angajat la noi, veti avea nevoie de toate organele. Nu veti elimina nimic. Noi v-am angajat intact. În cazul în care eliminati un organ, vom considera acest lucru indisciplina la locul de munca.

ZILE ÎN FOLOS PERSONAL
Fiecare angajat va primi 104 zile personale pe an. Ele se numesc sambata si duminica.

ZILE DE CONCEDIU
Toti angajatii vor primi concediul în aceeasi perioada a anului. Zilele de vacanta sunt dupa cum urmeaza: 1 ianuarie si 25 decembrie.

ZILE LIBERE PENTRU INMORMANTARI
Aceasta nu e o scuza sa lipsiti de la serviciu. Oricum nu mai puteti face nimic pentru prietenii, rudele sau colegii care nu mai sint printre noi. În cazurile rare în care un angajat va fi nevoit sa participe la inmormantari, acestea se vor programa seara tarziu. Suntem bucurosi sa va permitem sa lucrati în pauza de pranz pentru a putea pleca mai devreme, cu conditia sa va terminati insarcinarile pe ziua respectiva.

ABSENTA CAUZATA DE PROPRIUL DECES
Acest incident poate fi acceptat ca scuza. În orice caz, este necesar un preaviz de 2 saptamani precum si pregatirea unui inlocuitor care sa va preia atributiile.

FOLOSIREA TOALETELOR
Mult prea mult timp se petrece la toaleta. În viitor se va merge la toaleta în ordine alfabetica. Spre exemplu angajatii al caror nume incepe cu "A" se vor duce de la 8:00 la 8:20, cei cu "B" de la 8:20 la 8:40, si asa mai departe. Daca nu va puteti deplasa în timpul alocat, veti fi nevoiti sa asteptati pana a doua zi cand sunteti programati. În situatii de maxima urgenta, angajatii pot face shimb de locuri intre ei. Superviserii ambilor angajati implicati în schimb trebuie sa aprobe aceasta schimbare în scris.
În plus, acum exista o restrictie de 3 minute de stationare în toalete. La sfarsitul celor 3 minute se va declansa o alarma, hartia igienica se va retrage automat, usa de la toaleta se va deschide si contravenientul va fi fotografiat. La a doua abatere, fotografia va fi publicata pe site-ul companiei la rubrica "Acte de indisciplina", aflata intre "Orar" si "Secretariat", vis-à-vis de "Cariera".

PAUZA DE MASA
Persoanele slabe vor primi 30 de minute pauza de masa, deoarece trebuie sa manace mai mult pentru a arata sanatoase. Persoanele cu greutate normala vor primi 15 minute pauza de masa, pentru a-si pastra silueta. Persoanele grase vor primi 5 minute pauza de masa deoarece este suficient pentru a lua o pastila de slabit.

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Va multumim pentru loialitatea aratata fata de companie. Suntem aici pentru a asigura o experienta pozitiva angajatilor. Orice intrebari, comentarii, nelamuriri, plangeri, reclamatii, frustrari, iritari, suparari, insinuari, acuzatii, vor fi adresate în alta parte.
Va dorim o saptamana placuta.

Conducerea

Mari Descoperiri

Barbatul a descoperit ARMELE si a inventat VANATOAREA,
Femeia a descoperit VANATOAREA si a inventat BLANURILE

Barbatul a descoperit CULORILE si a inventat PICTURA,
Femeia a descoperit PICTURA si a inventat MAKEUP-ul

Barbatul a descoperit LUMEA si a inventat CONVERSATIA,
Femeia a descoperit CONVERSATIA si a inventat BARFA

Barbatul a descoperit JOCURILE si a inventat CARTILE DE JOC,
Femeia a descoperit CARTILE DE JOC si a inventat GHICITUL SI HOROSCOPUL

Barbatul a descoperit AGRICULTURA si a inventat MANCAREA,
Femeia a descoperit MANCAREA si a inventat DIETA

Barbatul a descoperit COMERTUL si a inventat BANII,
Femeia a descoperit BANII........
SI DE ATUNCI S-A DUS NAIBII TOTUL!

Un tinar preot trebuia sa tina prima lui slujba, drept pentru care era extrem de emotionat, chiar simtea panica. Atunci, superiorul lui, Episcopul, vazindu-l atit de stresat, l-a sfatuit ca inainte sa se urce in amvon pentru predica, sa puna un paharel de vodca in paharul cu apa, ca sa se relaxeze si sa aiba curaj. Preotului i-a mers nemaipomenit in prima lui slujba, dar cind a ajuns acasa a gasit pe masa o mica scrisoare din partea Episcopului in care zicea:
"Draga Parinte, FiuleMa bucur foarte mult ca ti-a mers atit de bine in prima ta slujba si ca ai tinut cont de sfatul pe care ti l-am dat, dar trebuie sa-ti fac anumite observatii:
1. Din acel pahar cu apa trebuie sa iei mici sorbituri nu sa-l dai pe gat dintr-o data.
2. In acel pahar cu apa nu se pune nici gheata, nici felii de lamaie. In plus, eu ti-am spus sa pui putina vodca in paharul cu apa, nu invers...
3. Nu se foloseste Biblia ca suport pentru pahar.
4. Nu poti sa te stergi la gura cu sutana.
5. Poruncile lui Dumnezeu sint 10 nu 12.
6. Iar apostolii sint 12 nu 10.
7. Cind vorbesti despre cruce nu poti sa spui ca e acel T mare de deasupra altarului.
8. Cind vorbesti despre Isus si apostoli, nu poti spune ca e "Fiul si banda lui".
9. David l-a invins pe Goliat cu o prastie si o piatra, nu poti sa spui ca "i-a zburat curul cu dinamita"...
10. Cind vorbesti despre Iuda, nu poti sa-l numesti "bulangiu".
11. Tatal, Fiul si Sfintul Duh nu sint Batrinul, Juniorul si Stafia...
12. Nu e frumos sa-l numesti pe Papa "Nasul".
13. Faraonul i-a trimis pe evrei in pribegie, nu in p...a ma-sii.
14. Eva i-a dat lui Adam un mar, nu i-a cedat...
15. Magdalena a fost o pacatoasa nu o curva.
16. Initiativa de a invita publicul sa aplaude a fost buna, dar a fost exagerat sa-l inviti sa danseze Macarena, sa faca trenuletul si sa o inviti pe Sora Daniela sa faca striptease.
17. Apa sfinta se foloseste pentru a binecuvinta, nu pt. a-ti racori ceafa.
18. "Casuta" aia este confesionalul, nu toaleta
19. Pasticul se distribuie crestinilor fara Nutella.
20. Cel de pe cruce era Iisus Cristos si nu Che Guevarra
21. Pacatosii, cind mor, se duc in Infern, nu in aia ma-sii.
22. Vezi sa ai mereu chilotii pe tine si, cind e cald, evita sa-ti faci aer cu sutana.
23. Iti amintesc ca slujba trebuie sa dureze circa 1 ora si nu doua reprize de 45 de minute fiecare, iar cel care era asezat linga tine si pe care l-ai numit "travestit cu fusta rosie" eram eu....In rest a fost bine."

File de jurnal: Canada
Un episod adevarat din jurnalul unui emigrant roman in Canada.
12. Aug.: -Ne-am cumparat o casa noua in Canada. Sunt foarte emotionat.: Aici e atat de frumos. Muntii sunt de o splendoare nedescrisa. Abia astept sa ii vad acoperiti de zapada.14. Oct.: -Canada. E cea mai frumoasa tara de pe Pamant. Frunzele au primit toate acele minunate nuante de culoare galbena si portocalie. M-am plimbat cu masina prin natura si am vazut cativa cerbi. Sunt atat de gratiosi. Cerbii sunt cele mai frumoase animale. Cred ca am ajuns in paradis. Iubesc Canada.11. Nov.: -Ziua sarbatorii nationale. In curand incepe vanatoarea cerbilor. Nu imi vine sa cred ca cineva poate sa ucida un animal atat de frumos. Sper ca va ninge in curand. E atat de frumos aici.2. Dec.: -Azi noapte a nins pentru prima oara. M-am sculat si am vazut ca este alb peste tot ca in cele mai frumoase vederi. Am iesit afara, am curatat in fata casei si apoi ne-am batut cu bulgari de zapada (eu am castigat). Cand a trecut masina de curatat zapada am curatat din nou in fata curtii. Tara deosebita! Iubesc Canada!12. Dec.: -Azi noapte a nins iarasi. Masina a curatat zapada din nou. Ne-a blocat intrarea in curte. Aici e splendid.19. Dec.: -Azi noapte a nins iarasi. N-am putut sa scot masina sa merg la lucru. Aici e intr-adevar foarte frumos numai ca sunt obosit de curatat zapada (lopatarie). Din nou masina aia blestemata.
Un episod adevarat din jurnalul unui emigrant roman in Canada.
22.Dec.: -Cacatul asta alb nu s-a oprit toata noaptea. Am bataturi la maini de la lopata si ma doare spatele. Aceasta maimuta cu masina parca se ascunde dupa colt si numai asteapta sa termin de curatat in fata curtii. La naiba.25. Dec.: -Craciun Fericit pe naiba. A nins din nou zapada asta nenorocita. Dacail prind pe obsedatul ala cu masina il omor. Fu.. le ...... ca nu arunca mai multa sare (pt. topit zapada) pe sosele.27. Dec.: -Azi noapte iarasi zapada. Nu ies de trei zile din casa doar ca dau cu lopata intr-una dupa ce trece masina. Nu pot pleca nicaieri, auto este blocat sub un deal de zapada si mai e si foarte frig pe deasupra. Au spus ca la noapte va mai cadea inca 30 cm de cacatul asta de zapada.28. Dec.: -Prognoza a fost proasta. S-au mai depus 50 cm nu 30 cm. Daca se continua asa nu se va topi pana la vara. Masina de curatat a ramas blocata si maimutoiul a venit la mine sa imi ceara lopata. I-am spus ca am rupt deja 6 curatand rahatul ce mi l-a aruncat in fata curtii. Era cat pe ce sa ii dau in cap cu lopata.4. Jan.: -Am iesit din casa in sfarsit. M-am dus pana la alimentara sa cumpar de mancare si la intoarcere am lovit un cerb. Auto avariat in valoare de $3000. Bestiile de cerbi trebuie omorate. Sunt peste tot. De ce oare nu i-au omorat vanatorii toamna trecuta?3. Mai: -Am dus masina la mecanic. Incredibil cat de mult a ruginit de la sarea aia nenorocita care se arunca peste tot, tot timpul iernii ca sa topeasca zapada si tot degeaba.10. Mai: -Ma mut inapoi in Romania. Nu imi pot imagina cum cineva normal poate trai in Canada asta!!!!!!!

INTOARCEREA
File de jurnal: Canada II (intoarcerea)
Un episod adevarat din jurnalul unui emigrant roman in Canada, intors in tara:8 Decembrie 2000 Aterizez pe frumosul Otopeni. Nici nu ies bine ca sunt inconjurat de co-nationali romi-romani care imi smulg bagajele din mana: "Lasa-ma boiarule sa te ajut la masina". Vai ce primitoare tara! Imi dau lacrimile! Nu am lei asa ca le dau dolari. Cu siguranta privatizarea in Romania e pe cale buna.
15 Decembrie 2000 Nici urma de zapada! Cald si bine! Umblu in canadiana (sic) subtire! Ca iubitor de animale, aici e pentru mine: un grup de 10 caini ma inconjoara de fiecare data cand ies din bloc si ma conduc spre tramvai (adevarul e ca ma cam fugaresc). Nu mai duc viata sedentara din Canada cand ma urcam imediat in masina din garajul subteran al blocului. Ce era sa fac! Tentatia era mare caci benzina era mult mai ieftina! Sunt fericit ca m-am intors! Cel mai bun pas facut in viata! Imi caut un apartament!
31 Decembrie 2000 Aproape am uitat cum arata zapada! Ce frumos e! Maine e Anul Nou! Am facut aceleasi aprovizionari ca in Canada dar m-a costat dublu! Ce bine ca am strans destui bani in Canada!!! Inca mai stau cu restul familiei intr-un apartament de 2 camere. In Canada I se spunea "one bedroom apartment" dar aici nu avem incotro si folosim si sufrageria ca dormitor! E sublim! Cu totii ne simtim asa aproape unii de altii (si la propriu si la figurat)!
3 Ianuarie 2001Gata! E cazul sa-mi caut de lucru. Bine ca e soare afara si chiar stam cu geamu-rile deschise caci termostatul termocentralei si-a pus in gand sa ne usuce ca pe mumii! Aici nu-ti poti regla caldura dupa voie. Ce dor imi era de transportul in comun! Aproape uitasem de mirosurile imbietoare! Noroc cu cainii caci am prins si eu tramvaiul! Noroc ca l-am prins si am scapat de caini dar ghinion ca m-am urcat caci am fost jefuit in aglomeratie. Parca era mai bine cu masina!
9 Ianuarie 2001 Mi-am gasit un servici cu 400$. Pe langa media de 150$, sunt meserias! Nu gasesc nimic de inchiriat. Chiriile sunt scumpe, mancarea e scumpa, telefonul ma usuca iar benzina tocmai s-a scumpit! Dar ce-mi pasa mie caci oricum nu mai am masina! De doua zile nu mai avem nici apa calda nici rece. Cica e seceta! Mai bine ningea cand trebuia sau se luau masuri cand s-a anuntat seceta!
3 Februarie 2001 Mi-am luat masina si sunt fericit! A trebuit sa caut in dictionar cuvantul "spaga" si l-am gasit ca slang. Inseamna tip or gratuity cu diferenta ca aici nu poti obtine nimic fara asa ceva. Cred ca toate spagile la un loc fac cat ½ din masina. Nu mai mentionez lupta pentru inregistrarea masinii si nenumaratele birouri la care a trebuit sa ma duc cu tramvaiul. Nu a fost o idee buna cu masina caci benzina iar s-a scumpit. Parca si in Canada fluctua pretul dar si in jos nu numai in sus!
10 Martie 2001 Azi a plouat in sfarsit! Mi-am schimbat deja amortizoarele la masina din cauza strazilor. Apa acopera gaurile si nu ai cum sa le colesti. Nu exista canalizare! Ba da, caci am vazut o tanti luand apa dintr-o balta cu cana si o punea intr-o galeata! Asta da privatizare! Cam ineficienta, e adevarat, dar sa mai zica Vestul ca nu avem initiative! Am calcat intr-o groapa si cred ca mi-am rupt glezna. M-am urcat in masina si, pentru ca nu e automata am apasat pe ambreiaj cu umbrela. M-am indreptat spre Urgenta urmarind o Salvare care, la un moment dat si-a deschis usile si a dat drumul la un om sa cada pe strada. Nimeni nu a bagat de seama. Am ajuns la urgenta de unde a trebuit sa fug la farmacie sa-mi cumpar radiografii, bandaje si un sac de ghips. A inceput sa arate cam lugubru pe aici.
9 Aprilie 2001 Inca nu pot merge la servici din cauza gleznei asa ca imi voi deschide un business de acasa! Nu se poate caci imi trebuie prea multe hartii care se obtin de la 5 birouri localizate in 5 cartiere diferite. Nu am cum sa o fac prin internet ca in Canada! Da noroc ca am masina! Stiam eu ca nu am luat-o de pomana!
10 Aprilie 2001 Ma uit pe geam la masina mea din fata blocului si observ ca arata cam ciudat. Cobor si constat ca era schioapa de o roata si oarba de oglinzile retrovizoare si violata la portbagaj. Chem militia (pardon, politia) si ii astept in statia de tramvai caci nu aveau benzina pentru masinile lor Renault recent achizitionate. Voi vinde masina!
1 Mai 2001 Cald afara iar in casa si mai cald. Acum nici nu pot deschide geamurile caci la coltul blocului e un caine mort intrat in putrefactie de aproape o saptamana care miroase rau si nimeni nu il ia. In schimb, masina mi-a disparut aproape complet. Numai caroseria mai sta marturie a ceea ce a fost odata "masina mea". Daca stiam, bagam cainele putrezit in ea si poate disparea si el! Trebuie sa fi venit Primavara in Canada! Maine imi iau bilet.
2 Mai 2001 Am incercat sa-mi iau bilet dar cel mai curand e pe 15 Iunie 2001. Doamne, cati Romani pleaca! Ii inteleg.
13 Iunie 2001 Imi dau seama ca ACASA e acum Canada unde e zapada cand trebuie sa fie zapada, unde e soare cand trebuie sa fie soare, unde imi pot lasa masina deschisa si cu cheile in ea pe strada, unde caini gasesti doar de cumparat sau pe gratis de la magazine, unde nu sunt injurat pe strada, unde nu sunt gropi sa-mi rup picioarele, unde imi pot controla temperatura in casa, unde am aer conditionat, unde vanzatoarele au placerea de a ma servi si nu obligatia de a imi face un serviciu, unde soarele se reflecta in geamurile zgarie-norilor si nu in gunoaiele de pe strada, unde "spaga" nu exista decat printre grupurile de emranti care vor sa transforme Canada in Romania, China, Uganda, unde lumea iti spune "Yes, please", "No, please" si "Excuse me" in loc de "Da nu vezi, de ce mai intrebi?", "Nu ba!" si "Uita-te ba pe unde mergi bai ochelaristule", unde in caz de urgenta sosesc politia (in masini), pompierii si salvarea in acelasi timp. Poate nici Canada nu e perfecta dar macar acolo mai sunt inca oameni care luptapentru acest lucru.
1 Decembrie 2001 E clar ca toate greselile se platesc! Nu am realizat ca am depasit cele 6 luni cat aveam dreptul sa stau in afara Canadei si prin urmare mi s-a refuzat intrarea.