Why in the world would anyone ever subject himself (and in some very unfortunate cases - herself) to such a gloomy appearance. It doesn't look good, never did, never will. Brad Pitt couldn't pull it off, neither could Ashton Kutcher. So for humanity's sake, take it off!
YES - Basic grooming of facial hair
Come on people, you can do it! Just take a look at what an improvement a lack of moustache makes!
Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are – how many times have you heard this, and how many times do you shop for certain types of food just because you think that it would make you feel a bit more interesting to the ones around you?
I for one always look at what the people in front of me have bought when I’m at the cash register in the store. I have discovered a few typologies already: the burned out mothers who buy ‘basics’ such as flour, milk, eggs and butter in bulk (no, seriously, it’s like they’re planning on cooking pancakes for the entire population of China!), the couple who have been dating for 4-5 months max and who buy an eggplant, fondue cheese and a bottle of red wine, or the preteens who buy a can of coke and a lion bar.
But there are so many more categories! There’s the food snobs – how I hate the food snobs! I have this idea (I’m pretty sure it’s a fact, but I need more palpable proof to confirm it) that there is this certain category of delicacies that only snobs, the French and gay people like, and that they are in fact not delicacies, but crap – there, I said it. Take sushi for example – it’s made out of vinegared rice, sea weed and raw fish. It is a death wrap of disgusting and somehow people swear that they think it’s delicious. Well I swear I played charades with Elvis last night, so I’ll believe you when you’ll believe me. It’s like a person saying he drinks vodka straight because he likes the taste, and not because he wants to get drunk. I call bullshit!
Then there’s the more unfortunate category of people who are regulars at McDonald’s or KFC for lunch. And just like C.K. Louis said about Cinna-buns, there’s a certain category of people who go to fast food chains for lunch. You don’t see a diversity of people sitting in line, talking about their last session at the gym. They are the people who earlier that day stood in front of me at the grocery store and bought frozen burgers, 5 bags of chips and a six pack of coke. A friend once told me that if he worked at McDonalds and a very fat person would order the extra large combo (as they so often do), he would bring the fatty a salad, and if the pudding face would argue that it’s not what he ordered, my friend would say “it’s not what you ordered, but it’s what you deserve for giving up on life!” Take a hint McDonald’s HR team, these are words of wisdom!
And I’ll leave you with one more category, one that makes my insides turn: the other end of the food spectrum aka the health freaks with a slight touch of gourmet. The things that they cook need half a page only to write down the name of the dish. It’s never pasta, but shrimp and pasta in a sweet, buttery, Amaretto sauce with sliced almonds, broccoli, and carrots decorated with fresh basil leafs. Aaaaannnndddd my soul just stabbed itself repeatedly!
Conclusion? Stop trying to impress and just eat what you want – unless you are me and “what you want“ means you want to stuff your face with everything, all the time – then just don’t! We haven’t gone through millions of years of evolution to go back to eating raw meat (and being proud of it), but that doesn’t mean we have to go from human to killer whale either.
Thank me later society for putting such healthy ideas out there!
Annett my dear, this one is especially for you:) I hope you will like them all, I chose my favorite Romanian hip-hop songs while growing up and a few new ones.
Also, at the end a bonus, Suie Paparude, they are not a hip-hop band but I will give it a try, makybe you like them too. Suie is probably my favorite Romanian band.
Maximilian - Supereroul tau (Your superhero) - I love to listen to this song at work:) love the beat
Maximilian - Sophie - maximilian looks super hot in this video with the hat and the glasses but he is actually pretty ugly :P
BUG Mafia - Ridica-ma la cer (Raise me to Heaven) - one of my favorite hip-hop songs of all times :) I think I was in 5th grade and listening to this song before bed :) - I have always been a gangsta!!!:P
BUG Mafia - Fara cuvinte ( No words) - this is a song BUG made with Loredana, trying to get the great response they got years ago with Ridica-ma la cer. I don';t think they managed to do that ...the video is also super sad.
BUG Mafia - Cu talpile arse (Burned feet) - another obsession of mine (from 2 years ago) I was listening to this song for like 20 times a day:) - the video is suuuper weird!
BUG Mafia - Strazile (The streets) - this song is from 4-5 years ago, I still love the beat and can rap you this song anytime of the day:) - i know all the words by heart:)
Guess WHo - Tot mai sus - this is a super hit now in Romania, it's cute but super commercial - not real hip-hop.
Guess Who - Locul Potrivit ( The right place) - the kids at the beginning of the song sing a communist song that little children used to sing in school before 1989 (the communist song is about the future and how they will follow the good example of their parents and will make all dreams become reality and make their country super extra nice).
Puya - VEstul SAlbatic (Wild Wild West) - this Puya guy has good lines, i always liked them, his beats are too oriental though, I am not a fan actually, but he is all the time at the radio. this song is about Romanians that leave the country for different reasons and how we all come back every vacation cause we can't stay away for too long. he also says that we always talk shit about our country when we are in it and when we go abroad we miss everything about it. so true! I do the same!!! The video is funny cause it;s actually a compilation of short videos young Romanian migrants made:)
Puya - Undeva in Balcani (Somwhere in the Balkans) - this one is super funny as well, too bad you don;t know romanian! the song is making fun of Romanian society. a line is: Europe thought we are coming to visit, surprise we came to invade it :))) another super true line: we drive cars that cost more than our homes and spend in clubs more then we actually own.
Since I've been a little kid I had a great fondness for snails. In Romania, we had this nonsensical song that we would sing to make them come out of their shell. To this day, I still don’t get why we were telling the poor things to go drink murky water from the Danube River as part of the song. But I’m drifting. The reason I liked them so much was that we were told that snails went through life carrying their house on their backs wherever they went, so they never had to miss anything.
Years later, I find myself feeling a bit like the snails of my childhood. Being torn between the East and the West, with my fondest memories as a child and teenager in Romania and the raging twenties spent abroad, I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that “home” has become a state of mind rather than a particular place. It had become the Skype conversations with my friends and family rather than my old room, a trip through the mountains and a day spent by the lake rather than my high school, college or master’s – it has become something that I carry with me at all times rather than something I have to travel towards.
Whether this is good or bad, I cannot say yet. I always thought it’s good to have roots, not only wings. I’ve felt sorry for the people who are too international and who stay silent when you ask them what they consider home. I like that I get furious if some uneducated moronic A-hole insults my country, but I also like the fact that I am not entirely shaped by the place I come from. I am Romanian but I’d like to think that there are other things that define me more than my nationality.
In reality I’m a bit less optimistic than this. I leave Romania with a little bit of heartbreak every time, but I know my life is not here anymore, at least not entirely. But now, with less than 24 hours before heading back to the cold, noisy, diverse, fast and arguably fun Brussels, I wish for the same thing I always do before I depart: that time would pass just a bit slower for the little snail who carries his house on his back.
I've been home for 2 weeks and a bit and in the car, I had the chance to get in touch with Romanian music again. Not my kind of music but super catchy and perfect radio music in my opinion.
Listen to them carefully, they will be all over Europe...if they are not already :)
As for the guys....they should watch the videos carefully :P
This is not a finding from a research i conducted but a way to vent on populistic findings such as the one I saw on facebook today : "Yes, confirmed, Barack Obama has more than twice as many donors as he has jobs created in America."
Yes, he has twice as many donors as jobs created and let's say paintings painted because IT WAS HIS JOB to get donors and IT IS NOT his job to paint paintings nor create jobs. He could help as much creating jobs as he could let's say...... help find the cure for cancer. Yes he can maybe help give more money for research but if the researchers fail in their endeavor during his mandate we cannot blame Obama* because he didn't find the cure (you can't actually blame the researchers either but that is another point).
We are not in Louis XIV' times anymore, the head of state is not THE state anymore. Yes the head can have an influence, but as we all know from our own bodies even, the body/the heart/the legs/the arms sometimes fail to listen to the head (you can take me as an example, many times my fingers texting didn't care at all about my head telling them to NOT PRESS SEND :P).
So I think it is time for all of us to wake up and realize that we are all to blame about our problems and we are all in this to fix them. There is no single person in this world that can take them away from us, no matter how much he/she would want that. You know what I want to tell all these people that think a president can solve their money problems? DUDES!!!!! You have watched too much Superman! There is no such thing in real life! Leave the hero action movies and go find a job, go to school, get a qualification, send a million CVs if you have to! Because life is unfair but not brutally cruel (at least not in the Western world) and if you are good at something and you are really looking to find a job, YOU CANNOT FAIL! So stop making excuses and blame others for your own shortcomings. Yes it make take some time, yes you may need to adapt, yes it is a hard job BUT (in a democracy at least) you are the only one that has control over your life, thus the only one that can truly help you. For example, in communist Romania almost everyone had a job; if you were unemployed they would find you something to do. But did you have control over your life? NO! If you were a musician for example, could you have stayed one year looking for someone to listen to your song ? No, you would work now in a shoe shop because this was the only thing available that met your qualifications. Your true profession was not needed? No problem ,you can sell shoes in a shoe store, as long as you were employed, the system didn't care. Would you be happy then? NO! So stop expecting THE PRESIDENT to get you a job, moron!
I don;t know who to blame about this tragic situation in which people expect their president and government to solve all their problems. It's like the chicken and the egg thing; who came first?
Because let's be honest, in a presidential election, they all promise to create jobs, they all promise to give them health insurance, they all promise clean streets and safe neighborhoods and they are so convincing as if they would personally go to every single citizen to clean up around their houses, personally find and jail all wrongdoers, employ every job seeker in a company that runs on Monopoly money (which miraculously works at Delhaize/Walmart) and pay for the hospital bill of anyone that needs a check-up. So why would you not expect citizens to feel raped, cheated and lied to when they realize that this OBVIOUSLY is not the case. But then again, if people were not so stupid to believe such things and even more important, TO EXPECT such things, the runners in the elections would not need to promise such stupid things. I mean, people don;t expect Obama to go on the moon right? They know that would be stupid. So, Obama (thankfully :P) didn;t promise to do that. I can bet a million dollars that if people would actually expect that from a president, they would include that in a campaign. Which would be stupid, right? Well GUESS WHAT! expecting the president to create a job for you is AS STUPID!
My solution? rather than learning an extra poem in school, everyone should learn the responsibilities and attributions of a president. This way, when someone like Obama comes and says I will create more jobs than there are people, everyone would be able to say: you are stupid man, you won;t be able to do that, you have to come up with something more intelligent to fool us! Believe me Obama, this may seem as a pain in the ass, but it will also save you a lot of trouble since you won;t need to excuse yourself for something that was beyond your capabilities anyway. For example you will not be in the situation that you find yourself now, comparing the USA with someone hit by a truck that needs a lot of time to recover (good analogy though, I give you that:P)
*please note that when I say Obama I also mean all other presidents in the world (including my country's president, Traian Basescu)
I've been watching ‘How I met your mother’ obsessively lately, and I must say this show has given me plenty of food for thought! I have already proceeded with downloading Barney Stinson's ‘Bro Code’ app on my phone (there is a ‘Chick Code’ as well, but it is incredibly lame, and let’s face it, I’m awesome), but I must say, the part that really caught my attention was Ted’s Murtaugh list. Named after lieutenant Roger Murtaugh from Lethal weapon who coined the phrase ‘I’m too old for this shit’, it’s basically a list of things one should never do once they reach a certain age. This list is subject to constant change, as you discover you cannot pull of things you were able to pull off before as time goes by.
You know the expression: That’s the worst idea ever, let’s do it! I used to consider myself the poster child for it, but I’m slowly leaving my early twenties behind, and although in theory I would love to still do some of the things I used to do not long ago, I always seem to hit a mental and physical blockade.
So, in honor of the show that I'm addicted to lately, here is my Murtaugh list. Hopefully, if it’s out there, written down, I’ll be more inclined to follow it.
I’m too old for the following:
Calling a skanky b*tch a skanky b*tch in public (I will really miss this one!)
Going out more than two nights in a row
Going to bed without taking my makeup off
Sleeping in a tent (I don’t care how adventurous it is, the first and last time I did it I was almost eaten by dogs and almost got swept away by floods)
Dating anyone younger than me – no exceptions Flavia!!
Considering chips as a substitute for bread
Considering Coke as a substitute for water
Not applying sun screen because you think that’s for sissies
Piercing any part of my body
Wearing ‘I heart boys/cats/my girls/partying/dancing etc’ t-shirts. I mean come on!
Stalking people on any type of social network. I really am too awesome for this.
Taking people who confuse Bucharest with Budapest and Romania with Bulgaria seriously
Listening to empowering girl songs – ew ew ew
Going to a rave party, or anything that resembles a rave
Taking the stairs instead of the elevator because ‘exercise is good’. Go f*ck yourselves!
Watching videos of snakes, centipedes, tarantulas, alligators, piranhas and sharks and thinking they are totally awesome! What, don’t you judge me!
Watching the Gilmore Girls – it’s cute, I really do like it, but high school is over.
