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Flat earthers , get your game right or go home!! Do not waste any of your time and get back to your day jobs :) flat earth army, get ready to get sacked! I know this earth is round, I am opened to the Flat Earth Society thoughts and I accept them but they did some experiments that proved them that there is a 15 degree movement of the Earth. They tried it twice, the rotation was still there  :))  At that point they switched everything to trying to explain that this movement of the Earth does not exist..how crazy is that?:)  Actually they just try to have a good catchment of people by just inducing the idea that the Earth is flat. How they do that? They just talk to different people and just tell a story. They are story-tellers and leave the interlocutors to explore this crazy idea of the Earth being flat. They have 19,4 millions videos on YouTube...they call this development of the movement, but I think is just a good old fashioned propaganda. They are people with...

Yes, I know....the change took place in 2018, and if you know about this topic, this post really matters now :) But still, I do not like the game anymore, not like before, not since the 90`s, when I started to play a little basketball and started to watch the NBA season and of course, The All Star Game . Wow, I was so excited every morning the game was on - in Romania the game starts at 3 o`clock in the morning. For those who do not know what NBA is and what means The All Star Game, here it is:  The  National Basketball Association All-Star Game  is a  basketball   exhibition game  hosted every February by the  National Basketball Association  (NBA) , matching a mix of the league's star players - from Wikipedia :) A mix of players from the Eastern Conference vs a mix of players from the Western Conference , that was OK, until a couple of years ago when the two teams were similar each year :). Someone in the board of the NBA said the fo...

Everybody is talking about the new electricity era. But nobody seems to notice that every object that is from the new era is cocaine-expensive. Even if the government of your country usually gives something back if you buy one electric vehicle, they are still expensive as fuck. I want an electric vehicle, I am raising money for it, I am preparing with solar panels - so I could even charge it for free - thank you kind Sun , and may YOU live forever - but even if those kind of preparations are very expensive. I was a couple of days ago on the web, looking for some offers from the local dealers. I was amazed how the prices are still hanging on there - up high. There are millions of cars in the world - in Romania we got near the 100k mark - Tesla is overcoming other "normal"car producers and if something is going well you have to make it affordable for everyone. it is called market share!!! 35000 euros for a Nissan Leaf , yes please! 37.000 euros for e-Golf , yes again!! Bu...

I do not want to present Revolut  because it seems that everyone knows about it. In Romania there are over 100.000 users . I heard about it from my friends that are already huge fans. I am happy with my bank that I am working and I think that everything Revolut does, my bank does it better 😊 What is Revolut ? Just google it and you will find a tone of articles. I am just sick and tired of this topic. I just want to get it out of my system 😊 So you download and install the Revolut App and you are done. So they say… But really, there are costs, more or less hidden, once you go on with your account opening you find out more and more. The first and the most “important” thing that  Revolut  does is…guess what… the national bank exchange rate!?  What?  I am laughing my ass of right now, again, because I know people that use  Revolut  and did not once used this option…because they do not travel abroad!!!! And once you go abroad you have to be ...

I took the decision of buying a house about two years ago. Said and done...the house is on the outskirts of Bucharest, a 30 minute drive to the office, a 10 minute drive to the nearest shopping center. So, it is all good from this point of view. But did I made a good call about investing in a home for 25 years - yes, I got a loan from the bank? Some say yes, some say I did a silly thing, putting myself in that position that I have to stay there for a good part of my life. Those who said NO, have a place rented in which they do the same things I do in my home. I stayed in a rented place for quite a while, but I felt that is time to move on. I see this action of mine a step forward into my life, not a step-back regarding the money I spent. Enough about me, because I am happy with my decision, with my girlfriend, with my backyard and my dog and with my monthly payments for the house :). Taking in consideration some other articles I have read about rent vs buy I can say that half of re...

How is possible that a company can perform with more "managers" than executives? In my early years in labour - 2006 :) - I was "a working piece" of the company and my boss was the "owner", so there were just two categories of people. Those who did the actual work and those who were responsible for the workers. Nowadays, everyone is a team-leader, product manager or even senior manager!! Even if you get hired on a new position in a company, you are project manager. How is that possible when you are the only person in that department 😃😃. Being a manager involves a team that you have to ..guess what..manage :) I am not a manager, at least not the fake one :). On my business card it says Leasing Representative. Those kind of titles are given as a "bonus" or hunted down by weak people. Yes, I said it, weak people who will do anything for a job position that has manager included. When they really are not qualified for the manager position and do ...

A few days ago we got the presidency of the European Union. In a normal society this is huge but in Romania this is one big opportunity for thieves to transform themselves into the son`s of GOD. Taking into consideration our political status and state of mind, this presidency came in the wrong time. I believe that we will make a fool of ourselves.  The social democratic party that leads our country is going for the impossible with this. Maybe you don`t know but the leader of this party is a convicted politician on vote-rigging, that tries to get a "GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD".   He even brought the case to the European Court of Justice over allegations he defrauded the EU. You can`t feel the anger I feel for this man. He just wants a piece of Romania just for him!! And just to give a brief update, The European Anti-Fraud Office is reporting that 21 million euros was fraudulently paid to Romanian officials for road construction. We are the last of the EU countries at bui...

Happy New Year !!! First day in 2019. My girlfriend is watching how Bruce Springsteen is singing his history  on Netflix...good enough! But I, recently saw a title...BLACK MIRROR - BANDERSNATCH and I hit PLAY....damn damn damn.... Netflix has made it to the next level taking it back to idea that the viewer can literally choose different options while watching. Do you want to see it? yes                                 no

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...

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...

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 f...

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! Sa...

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 elemen...

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 ...