Sinaia's Club Fusion
We went clubbing to Sinaia last night and eventually ended up in Club Fusion. They were incidentally celebrating the club's first birthday.
It was mostly if not only house/electronic music. Altogether a good club.
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| Christian Nasulea - 01.07.2007 | |
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Cloak and Dagger Airport PickUp
Friday night we took almost 5 hours getting from Bucharest to Comarnic.
It all started last Sunday when Roxana called to tell me she was planning to come back from Belgium 4 days sooner. She asked me to pick her up at the airport and said I was to tell no one of her plans. I did just as she said. Late on Friday, among many other variables that lead me to change plans many times, I got a call from Alinuta saying she'd just found out and she wanted to come with me to the airport.
I managed to pick up Ancuta and Alinuta and officially leave Bucharest around 9:15. We got to the airport in about 30 minutes.
After a reunion at the airport worthy of Andreea Marin (Ancuta didn't know Roxana was coming until seconds before she saw her) the real adventure began. We stopped in Ploiesti for some late dinner and we went to meet Laura, Dan and Andrei. The best part was that Roxana conspired with Costin's sister to track him down so that we would find him going about his nightly business with his biker friends.
We eventually got home around 1:30 am.
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| Christian Nasulea - 01.07.2007 | |
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California Dreamin'
We saw California Dreamin' last night at the Movieplex. I had heard it was a good movie and I had been trying to see it for quite some time.
I have to say I agree with the reviews, it was a good movie, definitely worth seeing. I believe that any story deserves credit when it succeeds in bringing out some sort of emotion in its viewers, be it happiness, saddness or whatever. To simplify this particular idea let's just say that the stronger the emotion the better the story.
In the case of Cristian Nemescu's California Dreamin' the predominant emotion was embarassment and judging by the principle listed above it was a very very good story. I will try to explain.
You can read an abstract of the story here. The embarassement part is related to the way the Romanian characters behave in the movie. It was the kind of behaviour that probably everyone has seen in this country or that some of us have perhaps even indulged in at one point of another. It was about doing things so ridiculous it's hard to even imagine how some people can even get those ideas to begin with. Many people seeing this film might get the idea to emigrate.
You probably won't be able to get the full picture unless you go see the movie.
Memorable quote:
Upset Girl: "He was just trying to get me into bed. I'm so stupid and ugly."
Friendly Boy: "Oh, don't say that, you're not ugly!"
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| Christian Nasulea - 29.06.2007 | |
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48 Degrees
I returned to Bucharest today around 2:00 pm. As I was waiting at the
stop light at Grozavesti I got the idea of checking the outside
temperature on the car's computer. I thought it was broken.
Two hours later I found out they had measured it in other places in Bucharest and actually announced it on the news.
That's right people, we had an actual temperature of 48 degrees Celsius today in Bucharest.
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| Christian Nasulea - 26.06.2007 | |
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The Red Mountain Plaque
One very cool and interesting thing we found during our weekend trip was a plaque (attached picture) displayed on a wall inside the Red Mountain Chalet (Romanian: Cabana Muntele Rosu).
The plaque shows there was an expedition from the school in Comarnic that reached the chalet in 1972, possibly on foot since the Red Mountain is only 3 or 4 valleys away from Comarnic.
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| Christian Nasulea - 24.06.2007 | |
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Sunset
I might be developing a bit of an astronomical obsession. Today, in Comarnic, the sun set at 8:05 pm. I was wondering when it would set if we weren't surrounded by mountains so I found the answer to be 9:04 pm, almost an hour later.
The source of the information was timeanddate.com which has a few other pretty interesting things to offer.
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| Christian Nasulea - 24.06.2007 | |
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Weekend Fun
We (Costi & Myself) were planning to go camping this weekend. It didn't quite play out as planned but I'm not the man to mind too much. Yesterday morning the sunny, hot weather we had gotten accustomed to was replaced by a monsoon-like storm with gale force winds, heavy rain, hale, thunders and lightning. The storm seemed to go away several times only to come back stronger.
After lunch the sky cleared and it was all nice and sunny again. We decided to drive to Cheia anyway, even though we weren't planning on spending the night there anymore. On the way we stopped in Urleta at the Cherry Festival and we visited the Zamfira Monastery. Around 9:30 pm we arrived in Predeal through Brasov. I spent the night playing guitar with Andrei until about 4:00 am.
Today we all had a nice relaxing walk through Predeal so I guess it turned out to be a really good weekend despite the discouraging start.
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| Christian Nasulea - 24.06.2007 | |
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Summer Solstice
I was really looking forward to announcing the big astronomical event
of the summer solstice on my blog. Unfortunatelly I've been through a
lot of debate on when I should do it.
To lay the discussion to rest once and for all here's a Wikipedia article on the Solstice.
The truth is the summer solstice isn't always on the same date to begin
with. This year it just happened to be on Thursday the 21st.
I'll be spending Midsummer camping in the mountains.
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| Christian Nasulea - 22.06.2007 | |
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Google SketchUp
More of a note to myself really. Yesterday as I was trying to dream up new ways of designing cooler things quicker I suddenly remembered a very nice piece of kit I was playing around with more than a year ago.
The name of the wonder is Google SketchUp. The place you can find it is the Google SketchUp Website.
Like all things Google it's free for the most part and for any wannabe 3D designer without the pretentions of being a pro it's the perfect choice.
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| Christian Nasulea - 21.06.2007 | |
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Hunt of the Lost Astral
As it happens every once in a while, every 4 months to be more precise, we forget to pay for the cable subscription and they disconnect it... as a gentle reminder, nothing more.
Well, they disconnected it about a week ago but as we don't really have time to watch any TV at all nobody bothered. Today, I thought I'd step up and go pay, a simple task as you might think (so did I).
I went to the Astral agency where I took care of this problem last time only to find that it was closed for rebranding (UPC bought Astral). There was a small sign on the door with a few addresses of other agencies. I memorized the addresses for those that seemed to be the closest and off I went. The address of the first one I tried to find was Ghencea 126-132. I found number 36 and then lost the numbers completely. When I checked the map later it seems 126 was just 2 blocks down from 36.
I then tried to find Drumul Taberei 96. I almost had it when I decided to ask somebody for directions. They sent me 4 intersections further to where another Astral agency was located saying that was the closest one. I checked the map. The agency I was looking for was just behind them. Why don't people keep their !@#$% mouths shut when they don't know something. I guess they were just trying to be helpful.
Anyway to keep things short, two hours and a quarter tank of petrol later my mission was accomplished. The TV should live again tomorrow. Now we just need to have the Internet fixed by our wonderful (NOT) ISP and everything will be perfect.
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| Christian Nasulea - 19.06.2007 | |
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