I've been literally and literary tagged

by Irene, in a chain that began here and where I've been before in [RO] ...

but I take it and promise to explain you a little what Romanian literature could do to people like me:)

It's about 5 Romanian novels that made me stay in the house for days (I was little, what do you know?)

so, so, so:

1. almost anything by Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu ( Romanian inter war female author) a little devil made me read her works when I was to little to understand everything...I read the books when I was older too ( Mommy, you should have arranged the books in a different manner on the shelves, so I could reach only literature for my age at that time! )

2. Ciresarii- by Constantin Chirita. Specialised in policiers ( The White Rose, The White Dove, The White Angel), he became famous for this series for children, a group of teenagers have all kind of adventures through the country...solving misteries is their goal. I cried when the fifth volume ended and I read this book for so many times ( I know, we don't have time to do that in a life, but I did it)

3. I also cried when I read In Medeleni- by Ionel Teodoreanu, when I realised I had only one volume to go... I cried when one of the strongest characters, Olguta, that I saw growing up, saying and doing so many naughty things and falling in love died. I cried when Danut fell in love with Adina, since I liked nice and kind Monica, I cried when I saw them growing up and all that childhood charm vanished from the action.

4. Mircea Cartarescu- Nostalgia, I am not denying the Glaring (Orbitor) and I am still waiting for that thick book Cartarescu is dreaming of, that thick you could write the novel name across.

5. 5...5...5…it's not about novels but about autobiographies and monographies: Jeni Acterian, Monica Lovinescu, Ioana Parvulescu, Gabriela Melinescu

final 5: George Calinescu Poor Ioanide and the Black suitcase( even for the moment when one of the richest women during the pre WWII era, now down, in the early communist era, refused to sell one of her best pair of shoes, because she could still find inside them some sand from an Argentina beach)

Guess who's tagged, Gorgeoux?

in the picture, on of the five libraries at the Oxford's Magdalen College.
Where I have longed to go since I was 10, after reading some English literature...

like i needed a confirmation

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Tagged Bucharest

Got tagged by Gorgeoux, gotta live with it..and how I love the idea, since these days I celebrate 10 years from leaving Targu Mures to Bucharest...
10 years of illegal staying here( meaning no Bucharest ID, but I don't mind, neither my employers)
3 places I like in Bucharest: Calea Victoriei with the adjoining little streets, Cotroceni green shadowy streets in May, old Bucharest by night
3 places I hate in Bucharest: Piata Unirii, Electrica headquarters( or any headquarters where you pay utilities at the end of the month), any market except Amzei ( snobbish me)
3 venues in Bucharest where I like going out with friends: Amsterdam cafe, L'Institut Francais( including Cinema Elvira Popesco) a place on the top of the Ascensorul building, where you can see a nice Bucharest panorama( though I haven't been there for years:)
3 things a Westerner would not understand about Bucharest: why there's so much garbagge where you expect less, how comes trucks go almost everywhere their drivers want, with their loading uncovered( e.g the truck I was driving behind, today, loaded with stones), how comes there are no Bucharest Guided Tour Buses( idea, idea!)
Most snobbish neighbourhood: Snagov-Corbeanca-Gruiu
Ugliest neighbourhood: Ferentari- Zabrauti, never been there, though, but the echo keeps me away

I tag Clitemnestra, hoping I will finally get to meet her personally, and hoping too she doesn't hate being tagged...it's a trend, sorry, and I waited so much to be tagged on this issue considering that 10 years aniversary in Buh!


Calea Victoriei pic found here

since it is trendy...

1. grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. write down what it says:
'this great and mysterious universal order'

2. stretch your left arm out as far as you can...what do you touch first?
the window

3. what is the last thing you watched on tv?
a show called " politics, bro!" on Realitatea TV

4. without looking, what time is it?
midnight

5. now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
00.10!

6. with the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
CD player...and Bach

7. when did you last step outside?
2 hrs ago, to the ATM, as I ordered some chinese food and had no cash:(

8. what are you wearing?
PJs!!!

9. when did you last laugh?
this afternoon, at my 5 yrs old nephew's aniversary party

10. seen anything weird lately?
yes...some old ladies who were selling pickles outside my block, cursting a guy who was telling them it's illegal...and what cursts and insults i heard!

11. what did you dream last night?
I didn't sleep last night

12. what's on the walls of the room you're in?
paintings, icons, rosaries

14. what do you think of this survey?
feel like completing a "oracol/ caiet de amintiri" don't know the translation

15. what's the last film you saw?
me, you and everyone i know

16. if you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?
health? oops, impossible

17. tell me something about you that I don't know.
I am so, so lazy

19. do you like to dance?
yes! I am the dancing queen!

20. imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Beatrix

21. boy?
Andrew

As taken from Cosmicopia who got it from Lola is Beauty who got it from someone else, who also got it from someone else and so on.

I've never tried cannabis!

LONDON (Reuters) - Fans of hip hop music are likely to have
had more sexual partners in the last five years while many of
those who prefer classical strains will have tried cannabis,
according to a study released on Thursday. Psychologist Adrian
North from the University of Leicester surveyed 2,500 Britons
to find out how their musical tastes related to their
lifestyles and interests
picture found here

casse- tete chinoise afternoon

spent some hours solving a problem ...Radu dared me, Radu helped me and Radu finished after me... nice idea, a man to finish afer the lady...
well, I guess normally he wouldnt have done that, but he was at work.. lucky me

But what if...

PS Passed it to Alex, the BRAIN...he got stuck...elsewhere than me, while solving..ain't I great?

cartoon found here