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Let me do this quickly, before the New Year Party :) For those who are already in 2019, sorry :) I am doing my new year eve party at my place. But what about Christmas?! Yes, I know that Christmas time is family time...why? I just want to do my things with out worrying that the family is feeling left behind. I have my own family now to spend time with - and a dog #odri #dogdaughter. So, eventually I found myself in our car taking the last trip of it :) Christmas no.1 - after a 1 and 1/2 hour drive, everything was OK, we had something to eat, to drink, we went out at the pub for a couple more beers, dodge a street fight and then, back at the house we ate a little more and drank  little more, around 2 AM went to bed - fire in the fireplace, the smell of wood in the room, my girlfriend by my side, the dog between us, making the bed even smaller......perfect night to wait for Santa. Christmas no. 2 started at 12:00 PM the next day, with a drive of 1 and 1/2 hour towards the sea side. Pe

In 2 day times I go a number of years old :) I did not prepared yet. My girlfriend is anxious to bake a cake, to organise a great party for us to feel awesome on the 16th of December. She makes delicious cakes and she has a vast variety of recipes in her head waiting to be cooked :). My friends are waiting for me to invite them and everyone who knows about this day will celebrate with or without me :)) Now, let`s talk about me: I came up to a point when my birthday party is not what it used to be anymore. You know, all that party in the club, at my house or at any other place, bar, pub, friends place, beach, sky-slope, etc. I am almost done with all of that. And I am not getting older, but I just want to spend quality time with her(my girlfriend) and perhaps with a couple of my close friends, but not necessarily on my birthday :). I feel that we have to take it a little bit slow just to enjoy the ride, the life and the love that is around us....oh, and the dog Odri !!! Just as I wri

So, I wrote a couple of things about the $ and the € and today I wondered about one specific thing. Why almost 92% of the faces on the banknotes are of men and only 8% of women?  I thought of this because Romania takes in consideration to join the € party (switching from LEI to €) from 2024 which is not a good thing for us, making us to look even poorer :)  1€=4.6 LEI !! The second thing that made me to write about this is that in Romania people are disgusted of coins, using most of the time banknotes.  Coins in Romania are not like € cents, but more like $ cents - small and insignificant :) On the other side, € coins are valuable, 2 coins of 5 € each are 10 LEI:  a cab fare, a lunch at the office, a bike rental for 24 hours, a phone charger that you can acquire at the traffic lights, etc.  Banknotes, the people`s weapon/aid in life. We all know more or less about our history heroes, including female-heroes - yes, there is a lot of women-power in the books and that`s about it

I know we all use our smart phones to write stuff, and I am OK with it. But when you work with numbers and with different currencies...what is your biggest need? If you don`t know, I am going to tell you that the biggest need is the € sign on your keyboard! :) But first I want to tell you a smart way of getting an alt-code short-cut to the € sign: "How to type Euro Sign by using its Alt Code value € §         Make sure you switch on the NumLock,  press and hold down the  Alt  key, §       type the Alt Code value of the Euro Sign  01   2   8  on the numeric pad,  release the  Alt  key and you got a €  Euro Sign . Above mentioned procedure is not applicable for MacOS. To type an Euro Sign on MacOS, press and hold down the  alt (option) key and then type letter  E ." *this is the property of  https://www.alt-codes.net/euro_alt_code.php It did not worked for me :) maybe I did something wrong, but whatever.....I hope it will help you guys ;) Anyway, back to

Every week-end we go out, party with our friends, stay late, drink a lot, have a head-ache in the next morning and then.....go to work and complain about fatigue! Let`s take a break people!! Why are we doing this?! Why do we need to go out of our homes every time we have some spare time?! I did the opposite this week-end, and I feel great at this moment. It is almost 11:00 PM and I am well and not at all tired. Being a longer week-end - in Romania, St. Andrew holiday is on the 30st of November - I wrote about this HERE  - I had one extra day off-work. Friday: woke up at 8:00AM to give someone a lift to the airport, got back home, fed the dog and crashed on the couch. Did not turn on the TV and grabbed a book - Pelinul Negru - a book about Chernobil and the life after the nuclear disaster. Instantly I realised how I want to spend the whole day. It was a lovely Friday, with a late breakfast, a power nap around 3:00PM and a couple of movies in the evening. Awesome! Saturday mo

In English it is a little bit easy to realize what agile learner is all about, so I am going to make this article first in Romanian and maybe in the near future in English - just to keep the habit of this internationally known blog.  Asa ca, despre ce e vorba cand auzim si discutam despre Agile Learner?! O sa abordez situatia punctual si pe sistem de intrebari: 1. Ce inseamna agile learner? Un om cu o minte deschisa, cu un apetit constant fata de informatia noua, fata de orice provocare, fata de aproape orice domeniu de activitate.   Definitia nu este din DEX sau din vreun alt dictionar tradus, este definitia pe care eu o acord acestui termen. 2. Ce motivatie are un agile learner? Motivatia sta in atitudinea pro-activa vis-a-vis de procesul insusi de invatare care il inspira in mod constant si flexibilitatea exprimata prin dorinta de a avea succes in cat mai multe domenii.  Intervalul de timp de care are nevoie pentru a isi insusi elementele necesare indeplinir

Romania has it`s own soul-based party on the 30th of November. It is happening under St. Andrew day and it`s a riot. St. Andrew is known to be the guardian of the Romanian people and the man who taught us the Christianity way. It involves garlic, a lot of garlic, bread, holly water, candles, the holly cross, onions, wheat, and other evil combinations of all the above! There are a lot of legends around this "black-holiday" in which we all can be attacked by ghosts and dead people spirits, and all of them are native. Until now, a lot of people were doing various magical-rituals just to be safe. Them, the house and the animals near them( in our days we can translate this into pets :). A little bit late, on this day we were able some-how to communicate with the spirits from the world of death. Another cute thing to know about our grand-grand-grand fathers :))....they were sorcerers :)) All the single ladies( singles and virgins - it`s a must) could find out something about

About 2 hours ago, my first team-building ended. And it was all fine until the last panel: feedback. This is the only thing that can go so wrong! But this time was something different. The two day workshop went dandy and all of us were looking forward to our flight back-home. Next, the issue pops: “please, we have to give feedback to one another!” So, we are 6 colleagues, our leader included, and here it goes: first one is done and we survived. I choose to talk next and I do it my way, straight-forward but with a little bit of precaution still. I had the situation under control and chose to say it all, pro’s and con's and what I considered that should be improved. I mentioned that we were 6, but I did not told you that I am the only man in the group. So, with that out of the way, we continue to listen to the other 4 co-workers. Female vs other female, woman-leader vs woman-employee, one on one, stay strong, oh my god, emotions vs nervous states of mind! It is this r

You know that row of seats in the airplane that are placed near the emergency exits? As you get those seats, you get a lot of responsibilities during the flight. You have to be vigilant and very very careful. It doesn’t matter if you are nervous or it is your first time flying, because it is going to get worse once the flight crew approaches and starts explaining that there are separate instructions just for you. If and only if, in the highly unlikely situation of one dangerous situation during the flight you have to take action - who knows, you just might be the next Bruce Willis, saving everyone - you have to rotate the safety wheel and push harder on the emergency door to knock it down. But wait, when you have the door opened you don’t just jump off and run away, nooo! You are also being told by the crew that you have to help them to evacuate the all the passengers that are seated near your emergency door - see, actually you are the door master and the savior of the poor

New house bought, a bank loan that needs to be paid, a dog in the yard, one old car in front of the house that keeps on going like a charm, a "half big pay-check". Let us compare to: house, loan, yes pet/no pet, car, "big pay-check". It sounds really good and at first glance that is a definitely YES, I WANT THIS!! But do you? Leave for the office at 8:30 AM, work work work until....and now it gets tricky and things move in two directions. One direction is that in which you can work until 06:00 PM and half an hour later to park in front of your home and get busy doing home things and all other types of things you do outside your work-life. Eventually you end-up in front of the Netflix screen when you browse shit for 30 minutes and fall asleep. The other direction is that in which you work until God knows when, let`s translate God`s hour into 8:00 PM but you feel that your big success every month is that 5 figure pay-check you discover in your Internet banking app

How many other story books for children can we come up with? How many? I was today at the international book fest in Bucharest - Gaudeamus . I went there just for a special event held by Vellant Publishing House . I was there a little bit earlier and while browsing trough the publishers expo corners I realised that there are so many story books for children that even I, as a grown up and a future father, did not know what to choose. For me to be sure that one story book is suitable for a small child I have to read it before :). I know that in my childhood we had some story books and ended-up learning them as a poem. The Forest Fairy-Tale, Mother, The Beautiful Flowers, Catrina and the Giant Nap, The Story Alphabet, The Boat with the Peacock Tale, The Small King, The Summer Story, The Spring Story, etc. - those are my translations in English of the Romanian version - I know, as you  do, that the proper names do not translate - but I did id for your amusement. All those titles sound

Have you ever been in Bucharest? Probably you have. Have you ever been in Cluj-Napoca? Again, you have. Both cities are very beautiful with their own characteristics taking in consideration the geographical area they are in, the people they live in, the public administration and the tourist magnet. My concern and question is next: Why is that every major sport event in Romania has moved to Cluj-Napoca?! I have a few ideas and not in favor for Bucharest! 1. Bucharest is so caught up in the Old Town effect  - that one party place in Bucharest where every people gets hammered, fucked, stolen or beaten. Not all in one night and the order of things happening is random :) The fellows at  IaLoc.ro  might get you one table at every dinner, restaurant, pub, bar, club in the Old Town if you access the platform they built.  2. Cluj-napoca is not so dominated by political fights - and they got time to think about something else. 3. Bucharest is so caught up in  lack of cleanliness, poor

I like women, I like shopping for clothes, I dislike trying on things and I hate most of the clothing stores! As James Brown sang, it is a man world....yeah right! When it comes to clothes for men the situation quickly shifts around. It is not that really a problem but still, how does one store manager lays out all the women merchandise all over the store and for us, James Brown's "people", we get a corner of the whole GLA of the store near the changing cabins and with a lot fewer models?! I noticed this pattern years ago and now I just have to speak out about it, because of my last encounter just a few days ago while trying to get some trousers. Oh man, oh boy, as I entered one store that has a two letter name with & in the middle I tried to identify the men sector. After skipping all the ladies signs, in the right corner there they were. Just two shelves with 20 pairs of trousers at most. A few shirts, a few t-shirts, ties and one pair of boots :) Chances are

Everyone wants a place to call home. Everyone goes to the bank to get a loan for that place. Everyone waits for the building to be finished.  But not everyone knows by who is built. You just get the name of the company that is selling you the place. Now, I Know! By these guys Maybe they are doing a really god job, but where is the safety feature in this?! I know for sure that they realize that is pretty dangerous to work on a 10 floor building just in they're street clothes. Next to my office is a huge residential space in construction - as you can see. They ask for a 3 bedroom flat over 90.000 euros + VAT and they let those people work like this. I am not going to investigate this because I am aware of the answers I will get: "They have all the safety equipment but they do not use it, i don`t know why?" or "I tried to convince them because i really care about my people!" . I don`t actually buy this crap and that`s why I just want to criticise all the c

Recruiters, those individuals that really want to help you and the other kind that forget about follow-up! Friday, 9th of November 2018 i get this message from a human resource department of a company that has a 3 letter name that starts with A. Being active on this network and having the push notifications on, i receive the message and i answer. My answer is a negative one but with a point of view. Taking advantage of this message i try to recommend a friend with high skills in sales and SSM (securitate şi sănătate la locul de muncă) - Safety and Health at Work applications. Long story short, that one recruiter did not gave me any feedback!!! Now the good example. That recruiter that really wants to help another fellow. I am talking about a recruiting agency that stands as a republic :) . from the first telephone call i felt like it was good thing, and it was. I appreciated the process and all went splendid. pus a box of candy delivered to my new office. Now that`s my kind of peo

Am fost la lansarea celor mai noi patru tipuri de bere Becks. Ce am văzut acolo? In primul rând un Muzeu de Artă Recentă , oameni, tot felul de oameni si bere, bere buna din 4 colturi ale lumii - sa ne imaginam ca Anglia e un colt, Irlanda e altul, Germania al treilea colt si Australia ultimul colt. Stiati ca exista somelieri de bere? O echipa de 4 specialisti, nu stiu daca erau condusi de Virgil Manescu , dar el a vorbit foarte frumos de bere. A povestit ca berea a fost descoperita de egipteni drept paine uda fermentata care ii facea pe egipteni euforici!!  Si de aici, in 1516 in Germania s-a pus bazele unei retete pe care orice berar trebuie sa o respecte daca vrea sa fie in rand cu Legea Germana a Puritatii !  Becks Romania a facut toate astea posibile alaturi de niste profesionisti si mai ales cu ajutorul nostru, celor carora le place berea altfel. Altfel prezentata si altfel servita. De un somelier.  Am stat de vorba cu unul din cei 4 baieti cu manusi albe care au vazut ce tip d