Saturday, June 04, 2011

Bucharest redux

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Many many years ago, when I was keen and enthusiastic and actually used to write things in this blog, I wrote about my first real trip to Bu...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A story

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This is an entirely fictional post about a made up country which is not in any way based on reality, no sirree. Let's imagine there is a...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

The Romanian Education System (2)

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OK, part 2 of my searing expose of the problems in the Romanian education system. This one is the really BIG one. Money. Romania doesn't...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

The Romanian Education System (1)

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I have three major things I want to say about the Romanian education system, of which this post is the first. Up until this year I have bee...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Singing in tongues

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Look! I exist! I blog. Therefore I am? It has come to my attention that more and more Romanian pop bands/singers/"projects"/entiti...
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Monday, February 28, 2011

Look! A blog post!

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February 28th is National Face Painting day in Romania. This annual event commemorates the time in 1474 when Stefan Cel Mare came home drun...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Unprincipled

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Somehow the sight of people selling out their (apparently deeply held) principles is worse than the sight of people who you knew had no prin...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

To the Manor Osborne

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I know someone who, because of depression, hasn't been able to work for years. Some days he is OK, some days not. There is no way he ca...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Emerging from hell

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Like most of the planet, I assume, I spend much of the last 24 hours or so gripped by the scenes from Chile, and moved very deeply by the wh...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Clowntime is over

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Norman Wisdom has died. One of the people who has actually made it into the blog before: http://szekely.blogspot.com/2006/02/wisdom-of-ages...
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