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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Istorie : Communism- Constructii din Perioada Comunista

In perioada lui Ceausescu arhitectura a luat un mare avant. Dezvoltarea a fost reprezentata atat prin contructia a foarte multe cladiri de locuit (arhitectura utilitara).

S-au realizat mari investitii in fabrici si centre industriale,multe constructii sociale : scoli, cladiri administrative, primarii.

Industria militara cat si cea chimica erau foarte puternice, iar ideea de a iriga intreaga tara avea un rol primordial.

Astfel, s-a ajuns ca industria militara romaneasca sa fie a parta exportatoare de armament din lume. Dar poate cele mai reprezentative investitii in constructii, reprezinta Canalul Dunare Marea Neagra si Metroul Bucuresti. Aceste investitii s-au facut atat prin imprumuturi externe (12 miliarde de dolari) cat si printr-o organizare cvazi militara, dictatoriala in sistemele de constructii. Toate investitiile erau planificate existant cincinale prin care se hotara ce anume trebuie realizat si termenul proiectului respectiv. Acestea erau inspirate si hotarate de PCR (Partidul Comunist Roman) dirijat fatis de Nicolae Ceausescu.

Politicul reprezinta forta conducatoare in lucrarile de investitii.Ceausescu a cautat ca prin politica de subordonare a Romaniei atat Americii cat si Rusiei, sa fie lasata sa faca aceste investitii. Ambele puteri economice si militare au cautat sa atraga Romania in sfera lor de influenta si acest lucru a insemnat o independenta politica si militara fata de terti.

Un exemplu clasic : Dunare-Marea Neagra.

Scopul era de a construi unu canal pentru a scurta intrarea vaselor marine pe Dunare. (Reteaua fluviala fiind cel mai economic sistem de circulatie intre Est si Vest in Europa).

Inca din secolul XIX-lea si in special in secolul XX au fost nenumarate proiecte pentru realizarea acestui tel.

La inceputul comunismului in Romania sovieticii erau reprezentati de Stalin. Canalul inseamna distrugerea in masa a burgheziei si intelectualitatii romanesti. Af fost o inchisoare si o sperietoare a poporului roman. O data cu disparitia lui Stalin lucrarile canalului s-au sistat. Majoritatea detinutilor au fost eliberati , iar partidul pentru a nu arata ca acest proiect a fost o nereusita,a initat un mare proces in care trei ingineri au fost condamnati la moarte si executati, considerand ca din cauza acestor trei oameni s-a sistat constructia.

Prin relatiile economice pe care le-a avut Ceausescu cu Sahinsahul Iranului, pe vremea aceea, un « politist » al Statelor Unite si al Europei in vederea stagnarii eforturilor revolutionare a lumii arabe, s-a hotarat ca prin banii iranieni sa se inceapa constructia unui canal prin care petrolul iranian sa fie transportat in restul Europei.

Prin portul turcesc Trebizonda petrolul iranian ar fi ajuns prin patru « pipe-line-uri », s-ar fi transportat prin vase pana la Constanta si de acolo prin noul canal direct in Porturile Germane, Belgiene, Franceze...etc.


Ps. Multumiri Arh. Roguski, prieten drag de familie si sustinator al meu pe perioada Lucrarii de diploma, fara de care aceste informatii pretioase noua tuturor, nu ar fi vazut lumina zilei.

Va urma...

Pensees nocturnes

Dans vagabondage de l’esprit Tiffany K dit :Tous les matins du monde sont sans retour car la ville est belle à proportion qu'elle est féroce…

Je dis:
Tous les matins du monde sont sans retour car on n'a toujours qu'une seule chance.
La vie par sa nature ne nous donne pas une seconde chance... parfois meme pas l'amour ne nous donne pas une seconde chance.


Saturday, February 2, 2008

A la recherche d’un autre monde.

A la recherche d’un autre monde.

« De nos jours, nous rencontrons souvent le besoin de nous connaitre et de reconnaitre les autres existences... »

C’est ainsi que pensait Mars en regardant les etoiles. Ses yeux cherchaient quelque part dans le ciel un lieu de rencontre.

« Je donnerais toute mon energie humaine pour decouvrir cet espace de rencontre avec eux... »

Il parlait biensur , de ceux qui, par qui sait quel miracle, lui inspiraient le mysthere et le desir. Chaque soir depuis toujours, Mars se demandait sur ce lieu, sur cette existence. C’etait sur ! Il n’y avait pas de doutes, que ce Monde que Mars appellait « jumeau » existait ! Et que certainement, quelque part entre la Terre et leur monde a eux, existait un lieu de rencontre.

Le soir suivant, comme d’habitude, Mars ouvrit sa fenetre. C’est a ce moment qu’il decouvrit un coin du ciel qu’il n’avait jamais remarque. Il commenca alors ses etudes sur le ciel et a refaire ses plans et... s’il y avait la-bas quelque chose qui pouvait le renseigner, l’avancer en quelque sorte?

Les jours, les semaines, les mois qui suivirent il ne cessa pas de se demander, de calculer, de chercher des signes utiles a son avance. Ses projets etaient ambitieux, il voulai aller voir, s’elancer dans le bleu du ciel. Il voulait exister la-bas!

„Mais enfin, ce monde existe puisque je le vois, je le sens. Donc je peux l’atteindre”.

Mars etait une personne solitaire et renfermee. Il ne pouvait raconter a personne ses decouvertes, personne n’aurait pu comprendre ses pensees.

Il voulait quitter la Terre, „espace fourmiliere” d’intrigues, coeur avare et insolent qui ne lui apportait aucune satisfaction et qui, malgre ses efforts de rester objectif sur ces propos, simplement il ne pouvait pas. Il avait un sentiment fort contre le monde. Il se sentait de trop et n’y trouvait pas sa place.
Ce qui etait sur pour lui, c’est qu’il aurait du naitre sur une autre planete, une des planetes de la-haut. C’etait pour cela que chaque soir il n’arretait pas de fixer l’espace d’un cote a l’autre,en esperant de decouvrir un signe, un indice pour pouvoir partir.

Partir, etait pour ce jeune homme de dix-huit ans, reveur, conscient, decu, enthousiaste, desoriente, decide, le but de sa vie.

Il croyait que puisque la Terre est un lieu de misere, de guerre et d’infamies, un lieu detruit par les ses habitants, le paradis de jadis devenu enfer; il doit y avoir dans l’espace un certain lieu qui puisse ressembler a ce que la Terre avait ete autrefois.

Mars avait une curieuse conception de la vie.

Il pensait et ses grands yeux bleus continuaient d’examiner le ciel. Le coin lumineux qu’il avait remarque auparavant, paraissait s’eteindre et se rallumer an quelques instants. Ce coin de ciel, surtout quand il faisait nuit, ressemblait a un charbon incandescent.

Il esperait que ce monde inconnu ait tout ce que les humains sur Terre n’avaient plus depuis longtemps: des valeurs humaines, de l’esprit, du respect pour son prochain. C’est quand meme triste qu’un lieu comme la Terre avait tellement peu de chances de survie a cause du chaos instaure.

„Les gens ne savent plus s’aimer!...” C’etait une conclusion triste mais vraie. „L’egoisme et l’intolerence fleurissent comme dans des jardins miraculeux. La Terre devient deplorable!”

... Il laissa de cote ses pensees noires, qui ne lui donnaient rien d’autre que des larmes. Mais il se retira encore plus du monde en ne vivant plus que pour rencontrer le monde „jumeau”.
Ainsi des annees passerent et encore d’autres sans qu’il le sache, la bas renferme dans sa chambre. Il passait son temps a mirer les etoiles et le ciel du matin jusqu’au soir. C’etait pour lui la provocation du hazard et esperait toujours avec le meme enthousiasme la „rencontre”.

.... Un soir comme d’autres soirs, il ouvrit sa fenetre. Le ciel est tout a coup devenu rougeatre et un eclair de lumiere traversa sa chambre. Il se trouva apres quelques minutes de choc et d’inconscience dans la compagnie de cinq personnes entourees d’une espece de lumiere chaude. Il etait ebloui. Ces hommes avaient une taille moyenne et avaient une apparence humaine.

Mars se reveilla et les regarda curieusement comme un enfant. „Surement, se dit-il, ce sont des gens qui ont appris de mes recherches et qui veulent m’interroger”. Il continua a les regarder sans rien dire.

„Tu nous as contactes et on veut savoir pourquoi!” dit l’un des personnages en s’avancant vers lui. Il avait les yeux verts et les cheveux courts qui se dressaient. Son corps etait fort et imposant malgre sa taille. „Moi?” demanda Mars etonne. „Moi je ne fais que...” et s’arreta en pensant que peut etre, dans un de ses reves le plus fou,ces hommes qui etaient devant lui pourraient etre ceux qu’il attendait depuis son enfance. Il savait que c’etait stupide d’y penser, pourtant il esperait de tout son coeur que ce soient eux qui sont venus a sa rencontre.

„Oui, on a des appareils tres performants qui ont su detecter tes messages venus de Terre, Dit-il gravement. Nous sommes venus a ta rencontre car nous savions que tu n’avais pas les moyens pour nous atteindre. Pourtant je reconnais que la Terre a beaucoup evolue dans les dernieres vingt annees. Nous savons cela car de vingt en vingt ans nous monitorisons l’espace et nottament la Terre pour connaitre ses prores techniques. On desirait rentrer en contact avec des gens sur Terre mais on etait persuade que vous n’etes pas au courrant de notre existence. Tu dois savoir que tu as fait un immense progres en nous contactant, tu as accompli un enorme pas dans le monde et pour cela je te felicite.”

Mars resta interdit. Il avait tant de choses a dire mais, il ne pouvait pas bouger.

Apres un moment, un autre homme de meme taille et aspect physique, vint pres de lui et lui dit d’un ton doux et calme:

„ Cher ami, nous comprenons bien ton etonnement, tu as du nous attendre tres longtemps, masi comme tu dois le deviner, notre planete et la Terre le chemin est tres long.”

Mars reprit son souffle: „Je ne peux pas le croire! Vous etes venus, vous parlez ma langue et ressemblez beaucoup a moi! Mon reve est presque devenu realite!” et s’attrista en prononcant ces derniers mots. „Pourquoi mon ami tant de chagrin?” reprit le bonhomme. „J’ai tant reve de vous, de votre planete, de votre monde qui serait comme le mien! Je n’ai jamais cesse d’y croire, de croire qu’un jour on se rencontrera!” repondit Mars.

„Voici une cassette de notre planete, tu pouras voir tout ce qu’il y a la-bas. On a pourtant des choses assez differentes de la Terre: les hommes une fois lies par la sainte croix en marriage restent pour l’eternite lies a leur femme (c’est par amour qu’il le font non pas par obligation), ensuite les couples partagent tout et la femme supporte le moins les difficultes de chaque jour. C’est pour cela qu’elles sont toujours belles et jamais fatiguees( c’est pour plaire davantage a leur compagnon de vie), enfin le lien qui tient nos Hommes unis est la confiance”.

Ils regarderent la cassette. Mars etait etonne par la beaute et par la ressemblance de cette planete avec la Terre. A la fin de la cassette un d’entre eux dit: „notre planete s’appelle Erret. Ce nom represente les relations fortes entre ses habitants. Nous formons un grande famille, une unite.”

Un autre intervint:

„Qu’est ce que tu attends de nous? Quels sont tes projets? Nous sommes tres curieux de savoir comment tu nous a reperes et surtout pourquoi tu l’as fait?”

Mars leurs expliqua tous ses projets et tous ses desirs. Il leurs expliqua aussi ses raisons et comment il a passe ses plus belles annees de sa vie a les reperer, et comme il avait envie d’aider son monde, eternellement perdu dans des atrocites que nul n’aurait pu imaginer il y a quelques dizaines d’annees. Il n’avait qu’une seule reponse, c’etait son desir le plus ardent...

„Je veux venir avec vous, c’est d’ailleurs ce que j’attends depuis toujours”.

Les Erretiens considererent son discours et finirent par deliberer:

„Nous t’acceptons, mais avec une seule condition.”

„Oui j’accepte, peu m’importe votre condition!” intervint Mars.

„Ecoutes, dit un autre, ta decision est tres importante! Ecoutes donc notre condition!”

Mars regarda curieusement et impatiemment. L’Erretien continua:

„Pour venir avec nous, tu devras quitter ton corps, ton apparence actuelle. Seule ton ame est capable de resister aux transformations dues au trajet dans l’espace!”

„J’accepte car ma vie appartient a votre monde et mon ame est claire a ce sujet. Ce que j’ai pu voir sur cette cassette est tout ce que j’ai imagine pendant des annees... Maintenant je n’ai plsu besoin de rever, le reve est en train de devenir realite!...
Qui sait peut etre un jour, je reviendrais enseigner a mon peuple ce que vous m’enseignez aujourd’hui! Ainsi, a cette source d’espoir, la Terre renaitra de nouveau!...”

....Et l’eclair lumineux traversa encore une fois la chambre de Mars. Son ame s’eleva peu a peu comme la fumee d’une chandelle qui est sur le point de s’eteindre...

Peu a peu la lumiere les absorba tous.

Et en quelques secondes, qui parrurent une eternite, la lumiere disparrut...

"Qui nous dit que notre vie n'est pas qu'un reve?" (Descartes)

I found a former colleague of school yesterday in an internet program which allows you to find old friends. And we talked about our former colleagues and that made me search for old photos. It was weird because it seems I have a lot of memories that others seem to forget and there are common memories and different perspectives of the same moment. It is all so weird... things are coming back to me after a lot of time of remembering just a few high lights of all that has been.
I am still looking for one particular photo album that I cannot find because of my moving and all...
But I have found in my secret "lieux de memoire" some photos of the past that show I have really been there and done that for sure! I just have to scan the photos and post them so that other people remember those moments too.

Monday, January 28, 2008

The Brand of Democracy

The Brand of Democracy

After 1989 the Romanian Revolution which led to the end of the communist era, in Romania, the hope and need of progress and human flourish was felt. Romanians had to learn all over again the way towards democracy and liberty. Romania had to cooperate with the other States, to reinforce the democratic values and the values of human rights, to fight against the terrorism and for the stabilization of the region, to develop the economy and to participate to the strategic process of the transformation of the army (the military strategic transformation of the Alliance). It had to be understood that Romania could flourish and prosper in the current international political, economic and cultural realities only if it would cooperate with the Western countries which had a long democratic tradition as well as a long experience in the field of cooperation between countries and nations. One point of view from which we could start our arguments is that: in order to attain the prosperity, progress and human flourish a former totalitarian country needs to base its ascendance on democracy, freedom and cooperation. A new wave of ideas was brought to the attention of the Romanian leaders after 2000 when some international specialists in the Country Branding proposed to Romania a Country Branding program. This program would have ensured a better international image and also would have proven internationally that progresses is and will be made towards the democracy and the western values but also from the economical point of view. The originality of the following arguments consists in approaching this theme from the image point of view: the brand of democracy and its relation to the prosperity, progress and human flourish.

Raymond Duncan Gastil in „The Comparative Survey on Freedom: Experiences and Suggestions” explains which are the measurable elements to obtain the degree of freedom and democracy in different countries. Two indicators allow the measurement of these values: the political rights and the civilian freedom. Thanks to Gastil’s studies we have a starting point in the analysis of the Brand of Democracy. It opens the way of the study between the brand mechanisms and those of the political democracy. But it is essential to talk about these two elements because the progress of the societies as they are today is due to these two elements: the democracy and the brand; and these factors lead to prosperity, progress and human flourish.

Raymond Duncan Gastil was preoccupied with the intuitive system which evaluated the levels of freedom and democracy, as they are described by the political rights and the civilian freedom in the tradition of the Western countries. The study was made on the period 1975-1989 for different countries, but the answers are still interesting as a guidance line of the future studies. According to Gastil the freedom has always been understood in comparison with the democracy. There are systems with limited freedom and systems which offer a lot of freedom in order to be democratic. „ The party system is inefficient and the lack of party discipline means that the majority of senators and representatives cannot be asked to answer in front of the electorate for the success or the failure of the successive governs. [...] The poor societies which have two classes separated by a large difference have a weaker democratic performance.”[1]

The political rights are concentrated around the designation/election of the representatives: free and correct elections, political campaign, and the distribution of power, more than one political party confronting themselves in the campaign, the negative votes, and the right to auto determination, decentralized power and consensus. Among the civilian liberties Gastil includes the freedom of the media and of the literature from censorship, public debate, the freedom to gather and to manifest, the freedom of the political organizations, the rule of law, the free state, the freedom of economic activities, the freedom of the religious institutions, the private organizations, the personal freedom (property, travel, family, marriage), the freedom of socio-economic inequalities and the freedom against the political indifference and the corruption. These elements are opposed to the systems without popular process as the inherited monarchies and the totalitarian regimes as the communist one as it happened in Romania till 1989. The choice of designating a political representative and the choice in general is a factor which leads to prosperity, progress and human flourish. Gastil insists on the political elections in order to point out their role in the constitution and maintenance of democracy. These elements are accessible and allow the evaluation of the democratic character of the state. The measurement of the democratic rights can also be helped by counting the negative votes. The majority of the democracies are homogenous. The federal democracies have elaborated methods to separate the divisions of the state in order to be able to govern themselves. The problem of the centralization was that the political boundaries continue to make the citizens feel like strangers in their own country. The auto determination was strictly related to the way in which the political power was decentralized. An interesting point is how the political decision-making depends or not on the majority and if the consensus between all groups is sought when major problems of public interest are debated. “A democracy should be more than a society based on winners and losers. […] The informal distribution of power has a particular importance in order to judge the degree of success of the democracy of political parties which is based on the legitimacy and the will to attain a national consensus”[2].

Even if Gastil’s analysis was made on a different period, the theoretical elements of his thesis are still useful for the analysis of the relation between freedom, democracy and the brand.

The Brand of Democracy can be interpreted in more than one way. The democracy can be a brand because the democracy is wanted and promoted, it has a theory and there are strategies issued from this theory in order to transform a state into a democracy. A second interpretation can be that the democracy gives to the public the possibility to be creative. The brand of democracy can be analyzed according to the relation between the commercial brands and the way the political democracy works. This parallel shows in fact the factors that lead to prosperity, progress and human flourish, from both the political and marketing point of view.

Democracy as we said before is about freedom in general but also freedom of choice. The citizens of a democratic state have the choice. They have access to a large number of possibilities, the freedom to chose and change their minds in all the aspects of their lives as consumers of anything ( services or products), this is what makes them prosper, progress and flourish as human beings and as individuals members of a group. All this is possible because of the freedom of choice and of its results (in both ways of the comparison). Everyone goes to vote at the elections as everyone chooses a brand or another, supports or not a brand, is loyal or not to a brand. The results of our choices may come immediately (where the brand is concerned), later or never (in politics). Giving to the public the creative power, in the sense of giving them the power of expressing oneself and the right to chose is one of the major roles of the brand which works due to the communication between the brand and the client and vice versa. The brands work, can be developed and survive only in countries where they can find enough freedom; the freedom to create, to chose, to be in competition most likely to be found in democratic countries. The brands need a free market economy and to be able to share the wealth in order to sustain the development of the prosperity and the work places. The brands have appeared when the economy developed and the people’s possibility to learn, work and earn money in free countries, where the need of choice and competition came naturally. The history of the brands allows us to understand how they were able to touch the public’s emotions and desires. The messages of the brands introduced the public, since the beginning, into an ideal world, a better world, as the democracy did. The brands transmitted messages about well being, progress, and happiness and in general about the future and what could be. These all could be possible only if the consumers could financially afford the products and services or if these products or services where accessible (in the communist Era there was no choice because the international brands were not accessible). The brands are younger than we may think. As the specialists in this field state, in the States the brands are almost one hundred years old but in Europe they have almost fifty years old while in some countries they are just an ideal. The brands are the proof of the economic progress.

For many people nowadays the brands represent the freedom of choice of products and services of a better quality and the choice of a better quality of life. In the mature economies the brands answer to the social the psychological and spiritual needs of our lives. And the sensitive way of answering to these needs creates the evolution of desires and aspirations of the public. These desires are a part of the complex dream of prosperity, progress and human flourish. In the brand democracy the consumers vote when choosing a brand, when they buy products every day. There is a two ways relation between the consumers and the brands. Their communication and mutual trust are imperative.

The Brand designers have to be in a permanent relation with the clients, they need to prove the quality of their services and their long lasting motivation in order to last on the market. If the Brand is directly related to the democracy and to freedom, then there also must be an ethical contract between brands and clients, based on respect and vision and quality principles which are based on the values and principles that the people appreciate and value the most. The Brands are also a promise of the prosperity and progress of the consumer’s life.

Some brand experts[3] consider that the brands are more democratic than the formal democratic institutions including the elections and the government. If a consumer is not willing to purchase a brand because that consumer doesn’t like it anymore, he or she is making a statement, a choice visible at that moment. The people, who vote for a candidate, lose their power of choice until the next elections and also the power to influence the present of the politics. We can also say that there is no control on the future of the promises that the politician make during their campaign. No one can know for sure that those promises are going to be kept. Meanwhile the brand needs to keep its promises in order to survive and to grow. Both the client’s vote and the profit are a kind of return of investment because the existence and the prosperity of the brand are related to the consumer’s vote (as a source of profit). The profit is generated by the client’s satisfaction. The affective and value capital produce profit if the promises are kept. This can also be said about the politics in a certain way, but the profit is more difficult to be measured and it takes a lot of time. The relation between the brand and the consumers is closer than in the case of the relations between the public and the politicians. The Government doesn’t need the consensus of the electorate on every single problem; some of them are not even debated in public. They don’t need a vote on every case. The Business seems to have won the race with the politics in the role of force of social change. And a government should be more responsible and more sensitive to those who gave them a voice if they were to be considered brands.

The brands are reinforced due to the fact that they answer to the public needs. The governments arrive at the top of the power and keep it also because of their capacity to threat and punish (as would Foucault say). The politicians receive the votes based on their promises during the campaign and the brands receive the votes for the results of their work. The votes for the brands are renewed very often as the brand opens new lines on the market or launches new products. While in politics there is the law of “all or nothing” in the case of the brands there are no winners and losers. From the vote received for a political program there are no details about which part of the program finally received the vote. The rate cost/benefit is easier to calculate in the case of the brand. When voting for a brand the consumer pays directly to the cashier. The relation between the candidate’s vote and the taxes cannot be calculated. As a conclusion, in order to improve the government’s brand you have to improve the democratic process, reinforce the law and the rule of law and the transparency.

The relation between the brand and the democracy is not a new one. The father of modern American democracy, Thomas Jefferson, never imagined the brand of his government in a non-agrarian society. A part of the brands of consume are born as the Jefferson’s world disappeared. In the XIX-Th century, the massive migration of the population towards the city showed that the consumers didn’t know anymore where the products they purchased came from. The brand’s evolution made possible for them to know who the producers are. The brand made possible the opening of the markets in order to be accessible to as many consumers as possible. All these factors made the evolution of the market possible. The trade gave power to the Western countries. It is there that the modern democracy evolved (according to the theory of the development of the world economy[4]).

Between Gastil’s list of liberties and the brand specialist we can find a common idea: the freedom to have a passport and to earn money (in order to be able to travel) are essential freedoms that are directly related to the brands. The people who travel are individual ambassadors who transmit the cultural values of their country of origin. In order to prosper and to flourish and to be happy, people need to learn more and to travel more in order to learn things that they wouldn’t be able to know otherwise.

By measuring the democracy of a country according to Gastil’s indicators we can find out which are the chances for a brand to have success in that country. On the other hand, it has been proven by the current studies that the brand is the result of the most democratic process possible. The brands would not exist without the active participation of the consumers, their votes are visible and measurable at any time and without these votes the brands would disappear.




[1] Raymond Duncan GASTIL, “The Comparative Survey on Freedom: Experiences and Suggestions”, On Measuring Democracy, ed. By Alex Inkeles, Ed. Transaction Publishers, New Jersey, 1991. p.23.

[2] Raymond Duncan GASTIL, “The Comparative Survey on Freedom: Experiences and Suggestions”, On Measuring Democracy, op cit. p.31.

[4] Andrew C. JANOS, “The Politics of backwardness in Continental Europe 1780-1945”, World Politics, Vol.41, Nr.3, April 1989, pp.325-358, http://links.jstor.org.

Friday, January 25, 2008

For pet owners ( special thanks to whom may have wrote this)

"To be posted VERY LOW on the refrigerator door - pet nose height...

Dear Dogs and Cats:
The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort. Dogs and cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.

For the last time, there is no secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine,
meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years --canine or feline attendance is not required.

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough!

And, to pacify you, my dear pets, I have posted the following message on our front door:

To All Non-Pet Owners Who Visit & Like to Complain About Our Pets:


1. They live here. You don't.
2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. That's why they call it "fur"niture.
3. I like my pets a lot better than I like most people.
4. To you, they are an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and doesn't speak clearly.

Remember: Dogs and cats are better than kids because they:

1. Eat less
2. Don't ask for money all the time
3 Are easier to train
4. Normally come when called
5. Never ask to drive the car
6. Don't hang out with drug-using friends
7. Don't smoke or drink
8. Don't have to buy the latest fashions
9. Don't want to wear your clothes
10. Don't need a gazillion dollars for college, and...
11. If they get pregnant, you can sell their children"

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

L'Etudiante


Sophie Marceau dans un film d'amour. L'Etudiante est un film avec beaucoup de charme. Sophie Marceau joue le role d'une jeune femme qui est en train de se preparer pour son Agregation et devenir professeur, elle rencontre dans une telegondole au ski un jeune homme musicien et compositeur qui va la surprendre. L'histoire de leur amour commence avec une rencontre banale mais ce transforme dans une histoire pleine de passion. Comment vont les deux skieurs faire connaissance? Vont-ils trouver des points communs? Une histoire d'amour entre deux gens completement differents qui peuvent peut etre se completer?

Sophie Marceau intr-un film de dragoste. Studenta este un film cu mult sarm. Sophie Marceau interpreteaza rolul unei femei tinere care se pregateste de concursul de "agregation" pentru a deveni profesoara. Ea il intalneste pe El intr-o telegondola pe pista de ski. El este muzician si compozitor si o va surprinde. Povestea dragostei lor incepe cu o intalnire in aparenta banala si intamplatoare dar se transforma intr-o poveste plina de pasiune. Cum vor cunostinta cei doi skiori? Vor gasi ei oare puncte comune pe care sa cladeasca o relatie? Este o poveste de dragoste intre doua persoane complet diferite dar care se pot completa?

Sophie Marceau in a love story. The Student is a movie with a lot of charm. Sophie Marceau plays the role of an young woman preparing her "agreation" exam for becoming a teacher. She meets a musician and composer during a ski trip to the mountains. Their love story stats with a random meeting and it transforms itself into a story full of passion. How will they meet? Will they find things in common in order to base a lasting relationship? They are totally diferent can they still complete themselves?


L'amour est avant tout don de soi ( Henry David Thoreau)

Trois allumettes une a une allumees dans la nuit,
La premiere pour voir ton visage tout entier,
La seconde pour voir tes yeux,
La derniere pour voir ta bouche,
Et l'obscurite tout entiere pour me rappeller de tout cela en te serrant dans mes bras.


Il n'y a pas de remede a l'amour que d'aimer davantage
(Jacques Prevert)

C'est trop bien de faire la chose que mourir d'amour
(Jean Anouilh)

J'ai reve tellement fort de toi,
J'ai tellement marche,
Tellement parle,
Qu'il ne me reste plus rien de toi.
Il me reste a etre ombre parmi les ombres,
D'etre cent fois plus ombre que l'ombre,
D'etre l'ombre qui viendra et reviendra
Dans ta vie ensoleillee.
(Robert Desnos)

Notre coeur est un instrument incomplet
Une lyre ou il manque des cordes, et ou nous sommes forces
de rendre les accents de la joie sur le ton consacre aux soupirs.
(F.R. de Chateaubriand- Rene 1802)

J'ai trop vu, trop senti, trop aime dans la vie,
Je viens chercher vivant le calme du Lethe,
Beaux lieux soyez pour moi, ces bords ou l'on oublie:
L'oubli seul desormais est ma felicite.
(Alphonse de Lamartine- Meditations Poetiques- "Le Vallon" 1820)

Il y a deux choses qui me font jouir: le ciel etoile audessus de ma tete et la loi morale en moi.
(Kant)

All we have to fear it's fear itself
(Roosevelt)

Nu de moarte ma cutremur ci de eternitatea sa.
(Vlahuta)

Je meurs dans ta cendre et tu vis dans ma flamme.
(Tristan L'Hermite)

Uneori mai poetizez si eu ...

De-ai fi tu oceanul meu
As fi eu lumina soarelui arzand
Sau un vant cutreierand imaginea sacra a visului tau.
De-ai fi tu doar pentru o clipa trestia ce plange usor
Pe malul apei, plutind de dor,
As fi eu poate dragostea ce se-nfiripa odata cu amurgul trecator.
De-ai fi tu luna de pe cer
As fi eu poate, o secunda,
Cometa ce te mangaie plapanda
Ca dulcele iubirii efemer.

Noi doi eram ca doua astre paralele, ca doua focuri arzand
Noi doi eram o lume plansa si dureroasa ce inca pluteste in eterul albastru
Noi doi lumina din dragoste si dragoste din chin
Noi doi ca o chitara ce plange un apus
Noi doi ca o vioara ce lacrimeaza-n vis
Noi doi... Ce sentiment puternic! Ce voce fara limite... fara cuvinte,
Ca un acord mut ce pulseaza pe veci vrand sa renasca.

Doar visele ne apropie iubirea mea desarta si rece...
Doar dorul, mult prea adanc ca sa-l mai pot rosti...

Ai fost acel inefabil dulce amar
Ce se duce purtat de val atunci cand sufletul se spala
Prin lacrimi, durere si suspine.

Ma pierd in noapte si uit de mine
Alerg pe catifelatul infinit al sufletului meu ce mii de ori a fost calcat de tine.

Lansare: Arta de a te pierde inainte de a te regasi 20.12.2010

Chopin, Nocturne