Aducem Furtuna lui Yanni la Bucuresti?

Nu se prabusesc copaci si nu se infunda canalizarile. Nu cad retelele de telefonie si nici internetul. Nu se precipita edilii nicaieri....

Furtuna asta ravaseste doar interioare, nu si fatade. Are tonuri inalte si tonuri joase, e allegro, dar si lenta, ca mangaierea apei... Nu am vazut pe nimeni, niciodata, manuind o vioara atat de delicat ca Samvel Yervinyan.

As vrea sa vad furtuna lui Yanni, live , la Bucuresti si stiu ca se poate, pentru ca il poate invita oricine.




Yanni - The Storm - The best bloopers are here

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Today's #2: Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You

I remembered this tune on my way out of the house and I came back to look for it...and found the video with Joe "Perfection" Satriani -- as someone called the guy.

Have to mark it down, as i think it will turn into a wedding gift for my school desk mate.

Today's: Katie Melua - Just Like Heaven

I love the scratches that instruments bear on their skins...They show someone loved them a bit rough, but they were touched in their lives...and a long life that can be! Follow the marks on the cello :)

"Just like a dream..."

@Twitter, I love you!

Image courtesy of James Reeve







...and really I do...and if I could write a song, I'd dedicate it to you.

Today I experienced the proof that social networking is not simply a past-time meant to drive some IT admins up the wall (although they rarely care what you do, as long as their boss doesn't complain).

A while ago, as I was sitting in a half-furnished office in India, talking to two of the most professional people I know, I had an idea that i promised I would turn into reality.
The idea was fun and catchy...and most importantly...innovative.

So there I am, going back with my little treasure bud in the head, asking around who can help, getting everyone and everything together, brushing off the asperities and creating the final proof of concept.

Days later, a guy connects with me in LinkedIn, I realize he was a person I should have met, back in India, and he follows me on Twitter.

His profile is intriguing, so I browse around a little bit and I find out he likes music, as much as I do (and I am fanatic!!)...and he can also play the music he likes..

So I get his music and sign my presentation in an original manner :)...oh yeah, I used it as a background for the pitch.

Bottom line: there is no pitch like a personal pitch, and there is no better reference for detail than a social network that a person uses regularly.

So, at the end of this day, dear @Twitter, I love you....

Today's: Alexandrina Hristov - Numai tu

This is my "today's" , with beautiful inflections of Alexandrina's voice...

Butterflyli ... la Atelierul de paine -2

Nu ma surprinde faptul ca Violeta primeste oameni straini in Atelierul sau de paine. Are un zambet cat o lume si o rabdare pe masura.

Culmea e ca dintre toti cei prezenti, cred ca eu sunt cea mai afoana la a prepara ceva comestibil...si am castigat, pare-se, concursul (pe motive clare de estetica a produsului, ceea ce confirma faptul ca marketing-ul face totul:))

Marturisesc ca imi umbla prin minte chestii amuzante, destul de des...si ca "Butterflyili" castigator s-a nascut printr-o combinatie dintre bancul de mai jos si medalionul de la gat:


"Un american, un englez si un moldovean naufragiaza pe o insula si sunt capturati de canibali. Seful canibalilor le spune:
-Stiu ca nu ne intelegeti modul de viata, cultura si ne considerati cruzi si inapoiati. Ca sa va dovedesc cultura mea va invit sa-mi spuneti un cuvant strain si daca nu-l voi sti va las in viata, iar daca o sa-l stiu… va bag la cazan.

Americanul, paralizat de frica, vede un fluture zburand si spune “ce inseamna butterfly?”.
- Aaa, pai asta e simplu: fluture, spune canibalul si-l baga pe american la cazan.

Canibalul ii face semn apoi englezului sa se apropie si sa-i spuna cuvantul ales. Si englezul, mort de frica, vazand fluturii zburand spune “butterflies”. Ghinion insa, canibalul stie ca e vorba de fluturi si-l baga la cazan.

Vine si randul moldoveanului. Cu frica in oase, cu gandul la cei doi care fierbeau in cazan, abia baigui “butterflyli”. Sta canibalul si se gandeste si nu reuseste sa inteleaga sensului cuvantului.
-Ma dau batut, te las in viata, dar spune-mi si mie cum se traduce “butterflyli”, spuse canibalul.
-Fluturili, raspunse usurat moldoveanul."


PS: ar fi trebuit sa joc si la loterie azi, ca sigur castigam ...

Multumesc pentru onoarea de a fi impartit atelierul:

Violeta Dinca
Cristian Sutu
Sana Nicolau
Marie Jeanne
Gramo
Mazilique
Gianina Corondan
Comanescu
Elena
Sorin
Simona Bogdan

Cycling the city at #Bikewalk 4

Image courtesy of dorai

Hey...it is a painful experience...it was a long wait and a nerve-breaking agreement issuing process.

It was the best crew to cruise around with: the guys of Bikewalk #4, roaming the city, having it asking questions, smiling and admiring.

I'm sure next time we won't be ~ 100, but so many more :)

Today's: Sting's Seven Days

I absolutely love the story it depicts, I can almost visualize Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" along with it...

Challenge? Try a seven days ultimatum when you love someone :))

Love Story meets Viva la Vida

What can be nicer than browsing around blogs and finding cool stuff? It is just like browsing through pages, or even shops (for the more down-to-earth-woman-of-the-day) and seeing the perfect ... thing.
Here is something I found on Cricket's blog, who seems to have found it on Pandutzu's blog...


LOVE STORY (Taylor Swift) Meets VIVA LA VIDA (Coldplay) - Piano/Cello - by Jon Schmidt - Click here for more free videos

Chocolat -- a matter of "taste over matter"

Been to Chocolat recently (the one on Victoriei), perfectly inserted in the scenery of the "cool spot" Bucharest.
I have a number of places where I enjoy moments with friends and I come back for more, every time for a better experience with "les createurs de gout".
I like the Lipscani area, although most of the business owners over there have no idea what "repeated business" can mean to them, especially when it doesn't...repeat...

After a 30-minutes-delayed salad, served as if customers represented some sort of turbulence that needed to be overcome with a grin, I was craving for something sweet and ...special.
I had in mind, yes, Chocolat, with a shade of nostalgia for a place in Paris where I tasted the best chocolate ever...

Chocolat in Bucharest is all about taste. From the very moment you step in and the waitress looks like a porcelain doll, to the exquisite offer of goodies, to the atmosphere, the smell of tea and the availability of the beer made by Belgium monks...

Yesterday I have witnessed a moment that had never happened under my eyes in Chocolat, but it was a confirmation experience, actually, and this is what drove me to write this post. The porcelain-waitress dropped a glass of beer on the new pair of jeans of a gentleman at the table next to mine.
The guy immediately reacted, protesting in an angry tone, but not aggressively towards the girl...I noticed her move away with an embarrassed look and then returning with another glass of beer, a cake and a whispered apology.

In a matter of few minutes, every trace of the "nano-disaster" had disappeared, the guy was laughing with his friends about it, the girl was smiling and serving French customers and I have felt as if I were somewhere safe, close to Land of Tolerance and Common Sense.

It feels good to see that Bucharest has this type of places, this type of staff, this type of customers...I will not think of emigrating every two days now...maybe I will think of it, every four days, though...

Romania - seen through the lens

There is an image i have found on Cezar's Blog, that took me back in time to my childhood. I had forgotten such a scenery was actually commonplace to me, a lifetime ago.


It is of amazing beauty...this great image that Ionut Tarcea shot, somewhere in Romania.