Mice!!

Eeck! there are two mice crawling beneath my office desk! They’ve eaten all my cookies and now are after my shoes! I called IT to help me, but they send me someone over who handed me a form I have to fill in to get some people to “de-mouse” the place. When all I wanted was to get rid of the mouse in my drawers at that very moment!

You’d think that in a building worth half a billion euros, in the dealing room (where I am located) where my team pays 40′000 euros a month for my place there, that they could have a mouse problem under control

Atleast one should look on the bright side: its kind of funny, it can make you laugh at the situation and at life

Make you forget about all the other things around you which are going on, and which are defenitly not funny.

Oana

 

Romania

sorry for delays in post, am with work in Romania, and with a lack of internet connection. Will get back in the coming days with some pix of home

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passing a Friday at work

my tooth still hurts….

Today i had an intense workshop since 8am!  Thank God it lasted only until 12:00, but let me tell you after 3 cups of coffee and no breakfast i was pretty dead by the time I crawled my way to lunch.. and after that my tooth started hurting and i really could not concentrate on anything…

But the good thing is that my boss informed me (without any initiative on my part) that next week when i will be going on our business trip to Romania (it is scheduled from Tuesday to Thursday) I could work from home on Friday and stay over the weekend with my family in Romania. ::Sigh:: I love my job. Im not trying to boast or anything, but i probably have the best boss in the whole world… ::tear:: <3

By the way I’m not sure I mentioned enough times that I got a brand new Nikon D40 this week and that im so psyched and in love with this camera that I’ve taken almost 500 pictures ever since i got it. I will post some of those pics tonight, if not tomorrow morning to show yah’ll my hidden artistic talent

 

cheers,

Oana

Modern Dentistry..

… is amazing. I had my dentist appointment today, the doctor told me to open wide and in the meantime made 2 fillings, yes… two!
And after he was finished, he casually told me that I have to make another 3 appointments over the next 1 month so that he can: perform a root-canal, change a filling, work on some cavity, etc.
I went in there with a small tooth-ache and got way more then I bargained for!
By the way, since I got home I’ve been listening to this amazing play-list on Georgi’s site. Georgi, I’m addicted on you

Oana

Learning dutch..

.. is like learning some alien language. It has some similarities to your language, when looking at the symbols there is some vague familiarity, you could even break your tongue and try to pronounce a word… but for some reason the human brain just can’t grasp the nature of where its coming from.

the “G” is pronounce like this: chhhh, not like grrr,, but more liken when you have a peace of popcorn stuck to the back of your neck and you try to disloge it by rubing the back of your tounge against the back of your neck and blowing! ::CChhhhhh!:: Now try to pronounce: Grag gedan! (which means You’re welcome!)

But i’m having a good time during my dutch classes (which are Monday and Tuesday from 18:30-21:30) and i do feel like i’m improving. And once you get used to pronouncing all the g’s and r’s and aa’s and oo’s, it kind of grows on you

Here is more on dutch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language

At work, preparing for the weekend (yes, I know its just Tuesday!)

O

Softness

Reason for my distraction of the past couple of months…

Work & Ambition

So for more then 9 months I’ve been working at ABN AMRO in Amsterdam…

I love my job and my team, and especially my manager has been a great blessing on me. He’s mentored me throughout the entire process. I’ve admired my mother all my life, and nothing will ever get even close to her, but one level below that is my current manager.

I realized I haven’t properly written in this blog for ages! Its just sometimes you don’t really feel the need, sometimes you need to concentrate yourself completely on the life as it is happening, without feeling the need to share some parts of it. There is the need to protect it, to feel in complete control of it.. but i’ve realized that I havent kept in touch with SO many people, and even thought my live surrounds itself almost completely in Amsterdam, I dont want to break away with Bucharest, wtih people who are still living and working there, and with the people who are abroad.

I year ago I was living in Armata Poporului with Georgi, going to the market every weekend, and enjoying the final moments of being a student and that excitement that great things are about to start That was a great year…

Do you think you will ever come back to Romania? Damn, its seems so hard, now more then ever, to think of that moment. Because as you are living abroad, its impossible not to build your life around that place: the perfect partner, the perfect job, the daily habits you get used to, the friends, even the damn weather, … or maybe the idea that even thought there might be amazing things you could do in Romania, true greatness needs to be achieved here first: between three computer screens and a ticket to Frankfurt.

But in the end its only love that keeps you behind. Always. Or keeps you coming back.

Today its raining cats and dogs in Amsterdam. As usual. Damn weather.

And i also had some liquorice. For first time I ever enjoyd it…

O

at work

My boss is on holiday for the past 2 days.

Worst of all, its 1 week before the Christmas holidays, so our Romanian business partners have all stopped working. Lets just say that the usual can’t take a breath working environment has significantly slowed down.

Today, having nothing more challenging to do, I have planned every step of my Parisian weekend (as I am going there to celebrate romance).

The big question is: can one create (and enjoy) romance by completely ignoring what the inevitable future holds?

How long could 40 hours last? What would you do with 40 hours, knowing that those would be the last moments…

I know, you are completely baffled. It is difficult to make you understand without having too give too much away. My life has become pretty secretive ever since I’ve moved to Amsterdam. But maybe this gives me a little security.

Georgi always says that I live my life too intensely, that I burn everything like a flame. Love and pain. This is why I can’t make my happiness last. Its always in short doses. 1 month, 10 days, 40 hours…

I wish I could be a little bit more rational, a little bit more strong.

O happy day!

Just a note to let everybody know that today I’m having the best day of my life.

*****

be prepared… be very prepared… I’m BACK!

O.