Heliocentrism
The following lines might be written off as being just a petty little example of me being mean which, if I might add, is perfectly excusable on some days.
For the purpose of this post we will define heliocentrism as being that affliction whereby a person believes to be the sun at the center of the universe. There is no other sun brighter than they are and, oh yes, everything revolves around them. They use sentences that include expressions like "... fix THE problem...", "I've sent you an email 5 minutes ago to which you did not reply". I'm sure you all know the type.
I'm going to leave it be with just a simple recommendation for those who might recognize outbursts of their personality in the words above, unlikely as it might be that the center(s) of the universe would ever be reading my blog. Instead of "... fix THE problem..." use "I have a problem with... [details]". Yours is never the only problem. Never assume somebody knows you have a problem if you don't tell them.
Usaaa!
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| Christian Nasulea - 25.03.2009 | |
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Music Week 3 - Tiesto
To top off a week that started with heavy metal, continued with
symphonic music and had rock and blues all the way in between I figured
DJ Tiesto would complete the picture quite nicely. So, there we were.
Saturday night around elevenish we met up in front of Sala Palatului
and started to blend in with the houser crowd.
Despite the occasional oddity generated by the fact that we realized we
were practically listening to the same song that started 4 hours
earlier it was a lot of fun. Tiesto came on stage well after midnight
and stayed till after 5 am. So did we.
The entire performance was very impressive, both from the audio and the
visual point of view. We came late enough to find standing-up places
behind the technical pit but early enough to be in the concert hall. It
wasn't too hot and it wasn't too loud and it was a lot of fun. Brain to
feet coordination was gone by morning and in retrospect I think the
half kilo of Red Bull I had was the only thing standing between me and
suddenly falling asleep on the floor.
We left the venue just a bit before 6, found our cars and slowly drove
to the traditional Saturday morning carbo-hydrate-rich feeding spot at
Piata Matache. As usual we yelled our order at the nice lady at the
counter, but I guess being deaf can excuse that early on a Sunday
morning. Besides, she's probably used to that by now.
I thoroughly enjoyed the 3.5 hours of sleep I managed to get before Sunday officially kicked off at 10:30. Thank you, Costi!
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| Christian Nasulea - 23.03.2009 | |
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Music Week 2 - Beethoven's 3rd
After Monday's Soulflying experience we thought of diversifying our musical exposure with something different, 180 degrees different. Thus, on Thursday night we went to the Atheneum to see and hear the George Enescu Philarmonic Orchestra performing Beethoven's No. 3.
I enjoyed it greatly, both for the exquisite Beethoven and the mood-brightening Berlioz finale.
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| Christian Nasulea - 20.03.2009 | |
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Music Week 1 - Soulfly
Last night we went to the long-awaited Soulfly concert. As I confessed to my fellow concert-goers, in the beginning I felt like a little flower in the middle of a green field that is about to be trampled by a stampede of angry bulls. I adjusted pretty quickly though.
To give you a sample of what this entire post is about we should probably start off with a Soulfly song. I think "Prophecy" is a good place to start.
I will now move on to tell you that for me the most interesting things were the crowd and the ensuing general concert atmosphere. Being surrounded by hard core rockers didn't just mean there was a heavy smell about the air. There were also rounds of the traditional dance of "pogo" and the occasional guy flying through the air, carried away by the crowd.
Considering all the mayhem and the madness it's probably a bit surprising that no ambulances were used in the making of last night's concert but, truth be told, everything that happened was simply in good fun.
I definitely had a good time! Thank you Cipri and Bogdan for the company and the logistics!
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| Christian Nasulea - 17.03.2009 | |
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Guitars and Skis
We decided to reiterate one of the greatest mountain-going weekends of 2008. Unfortunately, WE decided, but I was the only one who went last year who could go again.
Anyway, the highlights of the trip were the 4 snowboarding runs on Saturday, the 12 hours of guitar playing between Saturday and Sunday, the 5 skiing descents on Sunday and the greatest total craziness of all: descending from the Postavaru chalet with skis on feet and guitars in hands.
Did I mention the perfect fresh snow?
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| Christian Nasulea - 16.03.2009 | |
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Snowing
With the arrival of the 1st of March, and the passing of two weeks since then, I had sort of buried all hope of winter weather until December. Go figure, we're getting some of the weirdest weather you can imagine. It's snowing these big, white, dense flakes and it's sunny at the same time.
The enclosed picture features the chimney on our summer kitchen engulfed by the falling snow with Blackie in the background sulking to protest the bad weather.
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| Christian Nasulea - 13.03.2009 | |
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I'm Smart
After years of waiting, two weeks ago, I took the Mensa eligibility test. Results came in a few days ago.
It seems I am indeed one of the top 2% or as I like to put it I am one of the smartest 135 million people on Earth.
Yeeeeiii, Chris!!! Congratulations and celebrations are in order! I'm
not buying anyone any drinks to celebrate, though. They tend to kill
neurons and thus make people stupid. Now, we can't have any of that!
And on this note read this.
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| Christian Nasulea - 10.03.2009 | |
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Living Room Island Colonization
Last week, members of the gang, decided it was time to give me my birthday present. If you're thinking "Oh $#!T... I forgot to call him!" relax, my birthday was in October. They just wanted to take their time to pick out an appropriate gift, I guess. The gift was elaborately constructed and presented, but I will only focus on part of it.
The part I'm talking about is a board game called "Colonists of Catan", which I think was a pretty good choice considering the fact that last night we were late for the clubbing meeting because the game wasn't over yet.
Enclosed is a picture of the end of game two, which I won (fair and square, and don't let me hear another word about it).
Thanks again, guys!
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| Christian Nasulea - 08.03.2009 | |
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4 Geocaches in a Single Day... Almost
Earlier today as I was walking the streets of Bucharest with Carmen, keeping my promise to accompany her shopping, we passed a location I remembered seeing on Geocaching.com. It was the first Geocache I found without using the GPS.
Later on, driven by the above-mentioned resounding success, I loaded more GC data to the HTC, put together a team, made up of Cipri and Cristina, and hit the streets again. Needless to say, the second GC took 5 minutes, the third took 1 hour and, I guess we're still counting time for the 4th because we didn't find it.
We had a lot of fun, particularly on the 3rd Geocache. After searching every crack in a gigantic cracked monument, convinced that's where the cache must be, we read the hint which said "it's not the monument" and thus decided the container had to be a sprinkler we found 2 metres SE. The sprinkler was surprisingly well-constructed so it took us a good 30 minutes to "not be able to" open it.
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| Christian Nasulea - 06.03.2009 | |
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Selari Church Geocache
Last night after a very fun, website-related meeting together with Cristina and Cipri we found ourselves wandering the streets in search of a cinema with a movie, any movie. 45 minutes and 1.5 clicks later we found ourselves in front of Cinema PRO, tickets in hand, wondering where to eat before the movie started. What we ate and what movie we saw matters very little.
The movie finished around midnight, and as Geocaching is a common topic in discussions these days, due to my recent blog posts, we had to show Cristina what the whole thing is about. We put in the coordinates for a GC located around the Russian Church, a mere 20m away from the cinema but we were put off by the locked gates, the Czech embassy security personnel and the eerie-looking woman dressed in black, eating an apple in the garden of the church... behind the locked gates... after midnight.
We switched to the coordinates of a GC located near another church, just accross the boulevard. This time we were put off by a big guy who seemed overly-interested in our activities and who was lurking around the area at that unreasonable hour. We crossed the boulevard again and made our way through the narrow streets of Lipscani towards another geocache.
Arriving near the Selari Church we were surprised to find out that we were looking for a regular-sized cache, not like the micro caches I'd been accustomed to. Discovering there was a yard behind the church we immediately concluded it had to be there. We unlocked the gate, made our way in, met the dog, woke up the residents of the nearby buildings with the dog's barking and pretty quickly had to retreat. As I refused to give up we read the hint, looked for clues on the website cache log and only eventually then noticed the brightly coloured box, with "GEOCACHE" written on it, laughing at us from a highly visible "in-our-face" location that had nothing to do with the yard, or the dog, or the little-old lady with the assault rifle (being from Romania I imagine she probably didn't actually have a rifle, just a big mouth, a really annoying voice, and the police on speed-dial).
We signed the log book, took pictures and then we each went our separate ways. I'll leave the rest of the story, religious-fanatic-conspiracy-theory-obsessed taxi driver and all that, for Cipri to tell, if he wishes, on his own blog.
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| Christian Nasulea - 05.03.2009 | |
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