When I started typing the title, I accidentally wrote “Tomania”, the country of dictator Adenoid Hynkel in Charles Chaplin’s masterpiece The Great Dictator. Although it was just a simple mistake, it proves to be incredibly appropriate. In a country of the European Union, Romania of the year 2008, the vice president of the National Liberal […]
On Saturday morning, around 11 o’clock, I was off to a local supermarket on a mission assigned by my wife Crenguţa: to get a list of prices for some 2 dozen products.
The music, the sound quality, the light, the musicianship — they were all exactly how I expected. In other words: the show was great! The event management on the other side — typical for this fucking country: a complete mess.
I was promising you the story of the car crash. A little bit late, I know, but here it is. It’s probably better to start with the picture. On the following satellite view lifted from Google Maps I’ve overlaid a small blue car and arrow to represent me and my direction of driving. The red […]
Tomorrow night we’ll have the privilege to see the great rock legend Robert Plant performing live in Bucharest. I’m very excited and I can hardly wait. I hope it will be great. I haven’t followed his music in the recent years, yet even if I (supposedly) don’t like it, it’s going to be a great […]
I’m on a roll, I’m on a roll, this time, I feel my luck could change Kill me Sarah, kill me again with love, it’s gonna be a glorious day Pull me out of the air crash, pull me out of the wreck, cause I’m your superhero We are standing on the edge Radiohead – […]
This seems to break all conceivable diplomatic protocols, but there’s this newspaper which pretends the Romanian minister of foreign affairs was searched at the arrival in the U.S. just like a common immigrant. His fingerprints were taken, his iris pattern was scanned, he was ordered to take his shoes and his belt off, and he […]
You may or may not know that the recently re-validated president of this fucking country is a moron. And on top of that, a racist moron too.
…in this lame excuse of a city! Satellite photo of the area I live in. Moving the mouse over the picture reveals a detail version. The picture above is a satellite photograph of the area I live in. Roll your mouse over it to see it slightly zoomed in. Near number 1, in a blueish […]
A few years ago I’ve got myself a Certified Professional Authorization (lang=’ro’: Persoană Fizică Autorizată, P.F.A. — I have no idea if there’s any equivalent outside Wacko-land). It’s basically a one-man company, which allows me to issue invoices for my services. I had to do it because my employer back then was paying salaries based […]