no writing, just waiting June 21, 2007
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this is what i feel right now…
i have no idea how long it will still take to get my work permit…i should leave Romania next Saturday…but who knows…my work permit file was issued 3 weeks ago, so it should be ready in 1 week at most…an Swiss are usually precise:P
so i am just concentrating on relaxing myself and trying to make time pass in a easy, nice and comfortable way, enjoying the last days with my family…thinking about what else should i buy for these months away…
i have no idea what happens if i don’t get the work permit in time and i will be there 1-2 weeks later…for sure there will be no more transition period:-s which sucks…but well…i will just have a longer vacation…
and enjoy the little beautiful things life offers us…like my mom’s cheese cake from the oven, that smells wonderful, and i can’t wait for it to be ready in 15 more minutes:P
want a piece of it?:P
free as an eagle June 16, 2007
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i am done with my exams…and i think i will pass all of them…actually i should better say that i am positive i will pass all of them:)
6 hours in the bus…my butt feels a little overused:)) and i am really tired but i don’t feel like sleeping…i am finally having the vacation i was looking forward to…i can’t sleep…so i am listening to some house music with really good beats, and reading about “what means beautiful web design” – it is a wonderful book…God these guys really know what their talking about!:) gorgeous…i am almost having an intellectual orgasm…haven’t had one like this since i read “the end of management the begining of organizational democracy”…and that was before CELDS…hehe:) looong ago…
not too much to say:)…i am just enjoying my freedom…and soon i will hit the road…cause the visa process is moving…but until then…i just feel like trying some good wine with my good mood:)…i will take a glass from my precious Alsace/Elsa’s reserve;)…uuu sweet Gewurtzraminer here i come…wish u a nice evening too, at least as good as mine B-)
and…Prost!
racing for exams June 15, 2007
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tomorrow i have an ugly exam….the subject is not ugly…the teachers are…ugly (=totally not interesting)…and the exam is ugly because it is in Bucharest (3,5 h from here)…and it is at 8.00 in the morning!!!…my God…
so..i thought about it and thought about it and decided not to sleep in Bucharest tonight, but to take the 4.20 a. m. bus and get there in time…so i will have an interesting night…i will finish the exam at 10.00 a.m. and getting to Pacii will take me 25 minutes and then 3 more hours to home…this means i can be home by 14.00
…just in time for mama’s lunch… that sounds good!and then…i will get a backpack and go to Sibiu…3 h more:P but i will see some nice stuff with some old friends:)…but this is happening only if my friends find accommodation…if not i will just take one of the late trains…at 2.00 in the night:P or …otherwise…I’ll just stop in Pitesti and spend some quality time with some other friends…
too much fun? i don’t think so…until now i felt like a monk…a learning monk…a geek monk:))…so this is my last exam…i hope i will get rid of it…for good…which means passing it:))
wish me luck!
with calm you can….even beat burocracy June 14, 2007
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very important…i bated up the Romanian bureaucracy…with a lot of patience…and calm…because all those clerks seemed as if they were close to menopause…screaming around without any reason…but i know a strategy;)…it always works…if you speak calm, smile to them, and talk with low volume…they will shut up to hear your low voice…relax because they see you are not in a hurry to have all those papers “now” like everybody wants them…and then they relax and smile…you give them a happy moment and you get your stuff and no one is fighting no one…this is the problem in this country…everybody says “i want it now”…well we have to learn to be calm, plan things, respect people, and say thank you to them, even if “it is their job”…and then we will be a happy nation…and we won’t be angry that the Government wants to make the retirement age 65 …because …the most important thing…we will live longer;)
those ladies told me i was the only person that was not in a hurry…i even told them that i could come and get the papers tomorrow…they were so surprised…that they help me out with more interest then for any other client…
and then…i had to send all the documents by post…so i went to the post office…and staied in the cue…and there was this guy behind me…that seemed in a hurry…and couldn’t sit still…checking his watch…and i was getting annoyed so i told him that he could get in front of me if he is in a hurry…cause i can wait (it would have meant 10 minutes more but no negative energy behind my back, right?:)…and he was surprised that “someone could say something like that”…and he calmed down…i guess he was…”in a hurry to nowhere interesting”…as all the people in this country…
i guess Bucharest people are the one that have the record in this…probably most of those ones from the “rat race”…have sad to themselves ..”stop thinking and start running…now!! and you will manage to catch up with Prigoana and Iri…”…so wrong…inner peace is the key…not running and swearing at all those that are not running…especially at the underground:)…there is a train in 5 more minutes…anyways you won’t get to your target in time…it is Bucharest…it was built for people to be late…Transportation ministry should send some young people to learn “on the job” what trains mean…from Deutsche Bahn…
Life is what you make of it! June 14, 2007
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today i felt great!
i woke up and i said to myself…Today i feel great! and that is exactly how i feel:)
i didn’t manage to learn as much as i wished for the Saturday exam…but i know a lot about organizational culture…and unless she asks us some stupid quotes…i am ok;)
i managed to keep away from meat…i like it most of the times, but my body feels really heavy with it in my stomach…and is not good!
i decided to wear a short blouse at home, so i will see my belly each time i pass by a mirror (and we have a few in the house;) so the next thing is doing some exercises and i practiced 3 times 10 minutes each:) i will get my abs before i leave:D i am sure…
what else…i saw a documentary about the Golaniada from 1990 …and once more i felt hate for Iliescu…so many people died just for the show:( and TVR1 is showing it now…after 17 years…who is to blame?…no one…just the 50 years doctrine we have been through…”the fear”…and i think…we still have it in us, even now…maybe is not that obvious anymore..but it is there…
Entry for June 13, 2007 June 13, 2007
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so i guess my last “real blog” was the one about me starting my own business…that goes well…
that was 10 days ago…
the rest doesn’t go that well…i was so “quite” because i feel sad:)…my friends already know that when i am not writing anything there is something wrong…
a normal person would say that there are no reasons for me to be sad…in the last 10 days i learned a lot, i sweared to my teachers because they are teaching organisational change but they have worked in the corporate environment for mostly 3 months, then i was in Pitesti, went out with some friends i haven’t seen for a looong time, and then i visited my grandparents in the countryside and now i am back home…
it is really interesting how many friends i managed to meet since i am here…before coming home i thought 1 month will pass really fast so i made a list of “to do’s ” and “to meet with”…well…those objectives are mooore then accomplished and i still have 2 more weeks…
seeing my grandparents was really nice…and they were really glad to see me…
i tried to catch up on friends relationships…their jobs, their whereabouts…a lot of information…and i consumed a lot of energy just because of alot of speaking…
and now i am trying to gather all the papers for the work permit, but i think i will not get it in time, and i will probably stay here more…
at home is pretty strange also…because my parents are so caring…and i used to live alone for the lat 5 years…and this sudden change is nice for a while, but now it is already too much…so i managed to convince them to let me cook my breakfast and wash the dishes…
i am low on money so travelling is quite restricted…i have 900 euros and i will need around 1000 for Zurich…and all the exams expenses…like going to bucharest and back, were paied by my parents…it sucks…i have been earning my own money since 3 years ago…and now i am…i am not unemploied…i am just in a holiday somehow…but this holiday seems too long…
i still have one more exam but i just don’t feel like learning…i can use my will and start learning right now…but…i don’t feel like doing it…so i won’t do it…
i had my last exam on Monday…so i was in Bucharest…it looked…as it usually looks like…full of dust, hard to breath in the traffic, angry people around…i even saw a girl (25)…she looked really nice…swearing like the last bad raised gangster…to a guy (19) that he parked his car on her parking space…unbeliveble what was getting out of that girl’s mounth!!! for Chris’ sake…she was a woman…but i guess women these days don’t know this notion anymore…and she had no real reason to talk to him like that…unbelieveble…
i noticed i feel like this when i stay at home longer then 2 weeks…so this is my maximum time to endure without a change….i need a major change each 2 weeks to keep my mood up…and i need a job…when my brain is not used just feels like thinking about strange stuff and that is not good…so i guess i will never take more then 2 weeks holiday again…so no honey moon…just a honey fortnight:))..ok…my smile is back…i will end here…i will tell you more later…about women…cause i have some interesting observations….
and…guess what…i feel so much better now…and i also got a surprise…i told you earlier i don’t feel like learning…well…i just got the exam questions on my email…see? why use my will to force myself to learn all that shit when i got the subjects and i can learn only a part of the shit….(i say shit because a “filosofy” graduate is teaching us about organisational culture…and cultural differences…after working for a few months in a company in Bucharest…what does she know about organisational culture from working in a SME? and how can she talk about cultural differences in Germany when she has never been there?…amazing people in this amazing country….
night night!
i am so in love with this song… June 12, 2007
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By your side by Morandi:
gift … June 7, 2007
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i am blushing
…cause this is how i feel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZKDq-CvgzY
i wish you a wonderful life!…that’s how i feel that mine is…today![]()
“nobody wanna see us together…but June 6, 2007
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it don’t matter noo….cause i got you
nobody wanna see us but it don’t matter…no
cause wegon’ figh’, wegon’ figh’ for our right…to love…”
this is what i had in mind when i heard some sad stories today…
the lines are so suitable for my cousins stories…
when i was in Frankfurt i had many good news coming from my friends…”wedding news”…many weddings..this summer…and i felt a little…”behind”:)) …but only for a second…
now…a few days ago and today i got sad…got some more news from my cousins…
i don’t know how come, but in my family…i have around…8-10 cousins (of different degrees) among which 5 are guys and are older then me…they used to be my best friends when we were children…and 2 of them got married…their families were not really glad with the girls they got…but they didn’t care..that’s why i sad the lines suit them…
their weddings (1 year ago and 2 years ago) were great and they seemed so happy and it seemed it was going to be “forever”…but now…
…one divorced because his wife was cheating on him while he was making money…also for her to spend…on making herself beautiful…for a…another guy…and there is also a child in between…he is raising him by himself…
…the other one had a love story of 7 years and got married last summer…now he has a one year old child…and him and his wife sleep in separate rooms…and the child is mostly raised by the grandparents…and…she “works in the weekends”:(…
…what i thought first was the fact that my cousins’ families didn’t agree with their choices…i guess their mothers “read” the girls…
…but the second thought was even worse…i am sad that marriages don’t last anymore and the dream of “love forever” starts to loose it’s shape in my mind, it is transforming into fog…and fog is so…something not to trust:(…even though sometimes is really wonderful to walk in the fog to loose yourself, not thinking about the direction in which you are going, not knowing the end of your trip, feeling the moist of it on your face and enjoying every piece of “not seeing”…which sometimes is such a blessing…
…but…i guess the third thought was the worst…what if I might become one of them…either like my cousins….either like their wives:((
maybe these are just some stupid thoughts that came up from some stupid coincidences…but i am still sad…because i don’t want to grow up or how ever you call this…i still want to believe in “love forever”…
i guess…”the show must go on”…is this “the show” nowadays?:(
i will have my own business June 3, 2007
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yes…it is an idea i had a year ago…and i finally found time, energy, motivation and people to start working on it…
i have 1 month at home…it took me around 5-7 days to re-integrate in my home country and to relax and eat a lot of my mom’s food
…but then, of course as a true workacholic i couldn’t just do nothing…is not like me…as i used to phrase it when i was in high-school…”i can’t just fuck time”. I have 1 month to spend at my choice…never know when this will happen again;)
(to be honest i think it will be more then 1 month because te Swiss guys don’t strive too much to get me the papers to get there in time…well they are Swiss…i guess they will never hurry:))
basically if you look at me i am not doing too much…just spending around 10 hours per day in front of my laptop…reading, writing, creating, talking to people and building up networks and dreams…but all this, in 1 month will have the final shape and in 2 months will be REAL:)
i never had the money for it…and i still don’t have it…so half of it is done without the money, just because of my work and my friends’ work. I really thank you, guys!!!
for the other half i will have the money…a part of my salary will get into this project…
and if me and my team are lucky, in 2-3 years we will never have to work again for someone else but for ourselves…
So, my advise for today is…it is not Sunday…but it is a free day…you should make the most of it…think about your dreams and try to make them real! Start working for YOUR future!
i wish you smooth roads,