Saturday, April 28, 2007

What a Polish Dinner Looks Like....

My dear and awesome friend Joanna prepared last Saturday yummy stuff :-) Here it is:




that's the wonderful and talented Joanna :-)

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Celebrity Look-Alikes?

come on, you can't be serious?!!!

http://www.myheritage.com

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Friday, April 27, 2007

Poveste sentimentala - Sentimental Story


This is my really really unsuccessful try of translating a poem by Nichita Stanescu, my favorite Romanian poet....and if it doesn't make sense to you, don't worry, that's Nichita Stanescu

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Then we started seeing each other more often

I was sitting on one side of the hour

you, on the other side

like two solitary handles of an amphora.

Only words were flying between us

Back and forth.

You could almost see them swirling...

Suddenly

I fell on my knees

I plunged with my elbow deep into the grass

Just to watch it

Being bent by a word,

The same way it bends when a lion is running.

The words were swirling, swirling back and forth

And the more I loved you

The faster they went, repeating

The structure of the matter...as it was in the beginning

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Sunday, April 22, 2007

WiSo Fest

As announced earlier in one of my posts, last night was the WiSo Fest, in Kornhaus. Had to wait for Vlad to get off work and at around 1 a.m. we hit the party, eager to dance... don't wanna say that the music sucked, but.... okay, I WILL say it: the music sucked, but it was still a lot of fun (especially after Vlad had to go to get Roger in, past the security guards)...needless to say that Roger was barely putting 2 words together :-)


...and it all ended at 6 a.m. after a night of partying, having fun, playing darts and talking about taxation in Switzerland.

here, for your amuzement, some pics














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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Reema Samaha

Watch this story: it really impressed me!...it all makes no sense...
Watch student's father remember his daughter's love for dance

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A Hero - Israeli professor killed in US attack and "I'm just glad I can be here"



The title should say Romanian professor, as Liviu Librescu was born and raised in Focsani, Romania, emigrating with his family to Israel in 1978. This news really shocked me and made me think a lot of the things happening in my life over...
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Apr. 17, 2007 7:17 Updated Apr. 17, 2007 17:22


Israeli professor killed in US attack


By JPOST.COM STAFF AND AP

As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 76-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday's shooting at Virginia Tech College that left 33 dead and over two dozen wounded.

Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, threw himself in front of the shooter when the man attempted to enter his classroom. The Israeli mechanics and engineering lecturer was shot to death, "but all the students lived - because of him," Virginia Tech student Asael Arad - also an Israeli - told Army Radio.

Several of Librescu's other students sent e-mails to his wife, Marlena, telling of how he had blocked the gunman's way and saved their lives, said Librescu's son, Joe.

"My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from his home outside of Tel Aviv. "Students started opening windows and jumping out."

And here is what you see when accessing the Virgina Tech University Homepage, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics:
http://www.esm.vt.edu/
May he rest in peace...
Watch CNN's coverage - I AM JUST GLAD I CAN BE HERE

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Things I've Recently Found Out

Should I start with the last thing I found out?...or with the first?... here's a list of things I've recently realized (not necessarily in this order)
1. Looking for a new app. is no easy job...
2. You could probably (...probably) succeed in teaching a dog how to count/ spin/ sit/ wave/ bow/ roll over/ retrieve/ .... (you can fill in if you want), but YOU CAN'T succeed in changing a man rsp. make him do what you'd want him to do... If anybody has any idea on how to do it, PLEASE PLEASE let me know
3. I am still not sure what this is all about, but recently I've been thinking why in the beginning of a certain situation I feel totally eager to experience something, I can hardly control it... but once I've experienced it, I feel no desire to further pursue that thing/situation...I know, I'm really vague in explaining it...
4. My friend Medi is smart, beautiful, generous, calm, nice, compassionate...and has since yesterday a new haircut :-)

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Monday, April 02, 2007

All Around the World

For those of you who didn't know that yet, I love Barry White :-) (plus, as you can see, my mood's kinda lighten up)

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