I realize that blogging about me or my life cannot have a real priority, right now. Although I tried, it is by far an activity that, still, does not belong to my structure. Thus I will freeze this blog for now and try to revive it at a later time, should it be the case.
In the meantime I will continue to write about some of my beliefs that belong more to my system than my personal thing-ys, here. I invite all of you there, to discuss about our very lives.
Kudos.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
One day, long time ago...
[About... nothing.]
I decided that I need to have a blog. A new toy, a new approach.
I decided I have something to say. Otherwise I wouldn't need a blog.
I decided that I need to start again as it has been a long time since I haven't been posting.
These days I remembered about this...
I need to start it all over.
I still have something to say.
It has been a while but this time, I will succeed.
Keep your finger crossed.
I decided that I need to have a blog. A new toy, a new approach.
I decided I have something to say. Otherwise I wouldn't need a blog.
I decided that I need to start again as it has been a long time since I haven't been posting.
These days I remembered about this...
I need to start it all over.
I still have something to say.
It has been a while but this time, I will succeed.
Keep your finger crossed.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
One
About how to celebrate one year of marriage in 7 easy steps...
1. Decide that Sony Cybershot T300-B is the perfect gift for this occasion. Then discuss about this with one of your colleagues in US in order to get it directly from there (as the entire pack costs a lot less than it does in RO);
2. Place a reservation request on the exact apartment that you had for the wedding night (at the exact same hotel). Include in the request the exact same cake (a bit smaller though) and a bottle of champagne;
3. Wait for everything to come in place and announce that for that weekend you already have plans so nothing else should interfere with this;
4. Get into a huge fight and cancel everything;
5. Make up the following day and run for getting the plans back in action;
6. Get into the nearest cab and go there - make sure to get your WII console with you;
7. Finale: reach there, check in, get the champagne and the cake, play, relax, jacuzzi, take pictures with your new camera and the sky is the limit.
Happy anniversary!
1. Decide that Sony Cybershot T300-B is the perfect gift for this occasion. Then discuss about this with one of your colleagues in US in order to get it directly from there (as the entire pack costs a lot less than it does in RO);
2. Place a reservation request on the exact apartment that you had for the wedding night (at the exact same hotel). Include in the request the exact same cake (a bit smaller though) and a bottle of champagne;
3. Wait for everything to come in place and announce that for that weekend you already have plans so nothing else should interfere with this;
4. Get into a huge fight and cancel everything;
5. Make up the following day and run for getting the plans back in action;
6. Get into the nearest cab and go there - make sure to get your WII console with you;
7. Finale: reach there, check in, get the champagne and the cake, play, relax, jacuzzi, take pictures with your new camera and the sky is the limit.
Happy anniversary!
Monday, August 11, 2008
Figures and percentages
About ways of seeing things...
During the past two weeks I have been closely connected to the business plan review process and all the involved activities: analyzing the global activity on the first half of 2008, justifying the number of hired persons, presenting the plans for the second half of 2008 and reducing budgeted costs (where from, only God knows). I have transformed live human beings into numbers - figures and percentages -; I have found numerous areas where the human effort was not properly measured; I have found a lack of transparency and visibility which led to my team having a bad image within the organization.
During this time I have found areas from which to cut peanuts. It seems that we need a certain ratios on paper so what I have done was to make sure that we reach the respective ratios. However the way it was put the entire idea was in a certain way... This lack of visibility which I have mentioned earlier it sure does impact a great deal over the current actions and credibility.
Nonetheless, things are moving into the good direction now - all we need is time to show it. And I still have something to learn where letting go is concerned.
BTW: have I told you that this week we will celebrate our first year of marriage?
During the past two weeks I have been closely connected to the business plan review process and all the involved activities: analyzing the global activity on the first half of 2008, justifying the number of hired persons, presenting the plans for the second half of 2008 and reducing budgeted costs (where from, only God knows). I have transformed live human beings into numbers - figures and percentages -; I have found numerous areas where the human effort was not properly measured; I have found a lack of transparency and visibility which led to my team having a bad image within the organization.
During this time I have found areas from which to cut peanuts. It seems that we need a certain ratios on paper so what I have done was to make sure that we reach the respective ratios. However the way it was put the entire idea was in a certain way... This lack of visibility which I have mentioned earlier it sure does impact a great deal over the current actions and credibility.
Nonetheless, things are moving into the good direction now - all we need is time to show it. And I still have something to learn where letting go is concerned.
BTW: have I told you that this week we will celebrate our first year of marriage?
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Sometime weeks ago
About a small vacation...
Quite a few weeks ago, actually, in late June... My wife and I together with a couple of friends (they really are a couple) went on a trip to Greece. We got into a car (dear old me, it's been a while since I last saw my car) and drove all the way down to the beach of Katerini (approximately 80 km south of Thessaloniki) for about 5 nights. It was a great vacation although a bit exhausting as the girls insisted in visiting all of Greece within 6 days: Mount Olympus and Dion in one day, the Meteora the next day, the Waterpark in Thessaloniki the next day and finally the Mediterranean Cosmos (quick trip around the biggest shopping mall in the Balcans) during another one day. Add one day for the trip to Katerini and one day for the trip back and there you go: 6 days.
The two male representatives of the group insisted to stay for at least one day on the beach of Katerini as it is one of the nicest beach in Greece. And we obtained it: two hours in the second day (from 6.00 PM to 8.00 PM) and two hours in the last day (same time interval). Of course, the result was that we got back having the same ten as when we left, but none of that mattered as we had quite a nice time over there.
One side note though: the Bulgarian drivers are just insane... So pay attention while you drive in Bulgaria!
In the end the trip was a well deserved break from the overloaded workdays that I currently run into. I got back at work and for a week I needed time to update myself with the latest news and email exchanges.
But I sure would like to go on another vacation for one more week... Until next time, I salute you.
Quite a few weeks ago, actually, in late June... My wife and I together with a couple of friends (they really are a couple) went on a trip to Greece. We got into a car (dear old me, it's been a while since I last saw my car) and drove all the way down to the beach of Katerini (approximately 80 km south of Thessaloniki) for about 5 nights. It was a great vacation although a bit exhausting as the girls insisted in visiting all of Greece within 6 days: Mount Olympus and Dion in one day, the Meteora the next day, the Waterpark in Thessaloniki the next day and finally the Mediterranean Cosmos (quick trip around the biggest shopping mall in the Balcans) during another one day. Add one day for the trip to Katerini and one day for the trip back and there you go: 6 days.
The two male representatives of the group insisted to stay for at least one day on the beach of Katerini as it is one of the nicest beach in Greece. And we obtained it: two hours in the second day (from 6.00 PM to 8.00 PM) and two hours in the last day (same time interval). Of course, the result was that we got back having the same ten as when we left, but none of that mattered as we had quite a nice time over there.
One side note though: the Bulgarian drivers are just insane... So pay attention while you drive in Bulgaria!
In the end the trip was a well deserved break from the overloaded workdays that I currently run into. I got back at work and for a week I needed time to update myself with the latest news and email exchanges.
But I sure would like to go on another vacation for one more week... Until next time, I salute you.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
A new beginning
About a new challenge...
A long awaited new challenge has begun. The sad - but in the same time challenging - part is that there are so many things to build after being totally torn apart by others. We'll see how this works out.
Peace.
A long awaited new challenge has begun. The sad - but in the same time challenging - part is that there are so many things to build after being totally torn apart by others. We'll see how this works out.
Peace.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
180 degrees spin
About unexpected events that can change your life...
I always believed that you are your own guardian and you drive your own life as you find suited. I did not (actually I am not sure that I currently do) embrace the idea that we are all born with a predefined path that you cannot change. I like to believe that I can change my own life and destiny whenever I want to. But is this true? Can we drive our own lives as we want or is there something more to this? I agree, there is a certain random factor in our lives. And by this I mean a sum of events that affect our lives but over which we do not have any power whatsoever. But would this be just a random factor that affects us temporary or is this a real predefined destiny?
Sunday afternoon I was driving back home after visiting my old grandma. I had some plans to clean the car and to spend some quality time with my beloved wife on what I predicted to be a nice looking Sunday evening. However, something that I could not think of happened and ruined everything. I was approaching a regular junction on a 2-lane per way street (I was driving on the first lane). I remember the SUV from the second lane slowing down probably to turn left. I remember the green light. Then I remember the impact... the acute and obsessive sound of my tires blocked on the ground... the 180 degrees spin the car performed after the impact... that helpless feeling that you cannot stop the car sooner... watching the spare tire passing next to my window and then stopping somewhere on the street... and, finally, the obsessive question: was it red???
And irresponsible ambulance driver thought it would be fun to cross the junction on the red light with the sirens off; an ambulance that I did not see because of the SUV; an ambulance that was not even during a mission...
The funny part is that an ambulance run into my car - an ambulance... The only possible thing for which I stop, for which I yield... An ambulance...
A series of unfortunate events made this happen: the irresponsible driver, the SUV, the sirens off. A series of fortunate events left me live and kicking: the strong car that I have, my reflex to try to slightly turn right when feeling the ambulance approaching, the fact that I did not have time to slow down, using the safety belt. Put together, it was an event that couldn't have been predicted and could have changed my life for good - period. One note: yes, the event could have been prevented by me, by stopping the car before the junction, on my green light. However, I refuse to be afraid that at each junction that I meet I need to stop the car because a possible lunatic can appear. I refuse to live in fear that each driver could pass on red. I refuse to be afraid that someone else could change my life.
Or am I wrong?
I always believed that you are your own guardian and you drive your own life as you find suited. I did not (actually I am not sure that I currently do) embrace the idea that we are all born with a predefined path that you cannot change. I like to believe that I can change my own life and destiny whenever I want to. But is this true? Can we drive our own lives as we want or is there something more to this? I agree, there is a certain random factor in our lives. And by this I mean a sum of events that affect our lives but over which we do not have any power whatsoever. But would this be just a random factor that affects us temporary or is this a real predefined destiny?
Sunday afternoon I was driving back home after visiting my old grandma. I had some plans to clean the car and to spend some quality time with my beloved wife on what I predicted to be a nice looking Sunday evening. However, something that I could not think of happened and ruined everything. I was approaching a regular junction on a 2-lane per way street (I was driving on the first lane). I remember the SUV from the second lane slowing down probably to turn left. I remember the green light. Then I remember the impact... the acute and obsessive sound of my tires blocked on the ground... the 180 degrees spin the car performed after the impact... that helpless feeling that you cannot stop the car sooner... watching the spare tire passing next to my window and then stopping somewhere on the street... and, finally, the obsessive question: was it red???
And irresponsible ambulance driver thought it would be fun to cross the junction on the red light with the sirens off; an ambulance that I did not see because of the SUV; an ambulance that was not even during a mission...
The funny part is that an ambulance run into my car - an ambulance... The only possible thing for which I stop, for which I yield... An ambulance...
A series of unfortunate events made this happen: the irresponsible driver, the SUV, the sirens off. A series of fortunate events left me live and kicking: the strong car that I have, my reflex to try to slightly turn right when feeling the ambulance approaching, the fact that I did not have time to slow down, using the safety belt. Put together, it was an event that couldn't have been predicted and could have changed my life for good - period. One note: yes, the event could have been prevented by me, by stopping the car before the junction, on my green light. However, I refuse to be afraid that at each junction that I meet I need to stop the car because a possible lunatic can appear. I refuse to live in fear that each driver could pass on red. I refuse to be afraid that someone else could change my life.
Or am I wrong?
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