Archive for the ‘Life stuff’ Category

“Friends” (1994) – a TV series with a sad ending

I just watched, fourth time, the ending of “Friends” (1994) – TV series, which is the last episode. Actually not the whole last episode, but the ending of that episode. It will make me feel a bit better sharing this with the world.

Warning: Spoilers ahead! +Continue Reading

My favorite articles

What articles I do like?
1. “Unhappy Meals” by Michael POLLAN (see the abridged version in Romanian);
2. “100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do” By Bruce BUSCHEL (part 1 and part 2).

Happy reading!

Three recent things in my life

Find out below three things that happened to me. +Continue Reading

“Once a customer, always a customer: how to deliver customer service that creates customers for life” – Chris DAFFY

Recently I got to read “Once a customer, always a customer: how to deliver customer service that creates customers for life” (revised third edition), a book by Chris DAFFY. +Continue Reading

About being negative

I’m such a negative thinker, that whenever I look at negativism as a whole, I immediately switch back to thinking positive. I just see too many negative things about being negativistic. Weird, huh?

How do I see the voting system?

There are three types of votes I will talk about in this message:
a. Political vote;
b. Voting on Internet systems;
c. Voting on casual events (choosing a team leader, for instance). +Continue Reading

My thoughts on parental thinking from the children

This blog posts focuses on a personal observation of mine regarding the Parent – Adult – Child model (from the Transactional analysis model). +Continue Reading

A reason to fight for being a genius

I’ve read in the winter of 2008 an article about getting to be a genius: “You too can be a genius (if you can spare 10,000 hours)” (Daily Mail).

I kept thinking about that article, and I want to share it with you. Here come my thoughts on this article. +Continue Reading

Why posting on forums is overall bad and what is still good about them?

I’ll post below my view on posting on Internet forums and what I have learned out of this. +Continue Reading

Our life: trying to shape others to be just like us

We often see this happening in life: we have a pattern of thinking, others have a different pattern of thinking. What happens when the two collide? How do we solve the difference? +Continue Reading

Why watch cartoons?

I like watching cartoons, although there is not one specific cartoon I like in particular. Find out below why cartoons are lovely thing to watch (for me at least). +Continue Reading

About evaluating results in sports and what can you learn from this

This blog post is on two sports: chess and football. More specific, it’s on how does an outside observer (typically) analyzes a game of chess or a game of football. +Continue Reading

How much of me is of Romanian origins?

Last week I was at a conference at National Peasant’s Museum. Costi ROGOZANU put a question to the audience that really struck me: How much of you is really Romanian? How many of the things that define you come from Romania? How do you spend your time in a Romanian-specific way? How much of the music you listen to, of the books you read, of the web sites you visit are from Romania? I think that the question was a mere discovery-inducing one, it meant nothing on love-your-country idea (he didn’t specifically ask us to be patriots, he just put an intriguing question to think about). +Continue Reading

How much are MBAs valued in some Romanian job posting web sites?

I was thinking the other day about a full-time MBA program. So, I decided to have a look on what’s the market request for such a program. Find out my discoveries below. +Continue Reading

Take action: sign the Prague Declaration

Thanks to Vladimir TISMANEANU, I found out about the Prague Declaration. You can read the full text.Prague Declaration banner

I think you should do an useful think for condemning communism and sign the Prague Declaration! +Continue Reading

Power – the ultimate driver in human interaction

Join me in my discovery of what power means to life. +Continue Reading

What would a man learn from an all-women’s aerobics class?

Yesterday I went, for the very first time in my life, at an aerobics class. There were all women, we had some large gymnastics balls to play with and we did some exercises for about 40 minutes. I won’t bother you with details, but what impressed me most at that class was the sheer optimism and happiness from the trainer. She always smiled (sometimes with a very large smile), she was comforting, and she cared. Leaving sports apart, this was a lovely experience. And always in her conversations she tried to make me (and others) feel good. That’s it for today.

What I love in this life? Twelve things for a me that I like

I’ll write in this blog post about the things I love most in my life. Simple things, complicated things. But the things that matter most to me (in less-than-random order, which is to say from most important to the least, but still, important). +Continue Reading

Is a vision a nice and abstract dream or a hard-anchored necessity?

In this blog post I’ll try to make it clear if a vision is just a wish or a necessity. +Continue Reading

The most important thing you should avoid when writing a Press Release

I was thinking the other day what would be the one most important thing when writing a press release. Join me in my discovery. +Continue Reading