Thank you Aaron for a beautiful performance, all your friends/fans are proud of you!
Star Charles
08 Saturday May 2010
08 Saturday May 2010
Thank you Aaron for a beautiful performance, all your friends/fans are proud of you!
09 Saturday Jan 2010
Posted Family, Miscelanous
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It’s good to have friends, many friends, all sorts of friends, close reliable friends, friends you’ve known all your life, childhood friends, best friends, friends that call you many times to make sure you are ok, friends that would do anything in fact to make sure you really are doing ok, neighbor friends that give you sarmale when you are really craving some, friends that visit you in NYC, friends all around Europe, school friends, work friends. International friends. Friends you go out with, friends you cook and watch movies with, girlfriends you go dangerous shopping with, friends that say you are like their mother cleaning and picking up things after them. Confidants. Friends you admire. Crazy friends. Crazy lovely friends. Friends you would like to see more often. Actually, most friends I would like to see more often! Some stay, some go. Some are worth it, some show you every day they are definitely worth it. To some you write every day, even three times a day, some you call, some you hear and see on Skype. And to some, and I am very lucky to be amongst them, their mother is their best friend.
So, thank you all for always being there!
11 Saturday Jul 2009
Posted Miscelanous, New York
inAny person that moves to a different country, or a different continent, faces many trials and tribulations, one of which is making new friends. You basically start a new life. Or start a second life that is parallel, and has almost nothing in common to the old one. You learn to adjust to a different culture, lifestyle, traditions, people, and language.
I remember when I first came here. I only had a few acquaintances and had to learn everything by myself. But, generally speaking, as time goes by, and you transition from the tourist status to a New Yorker, the excitement wears out a bit, you now live here and you have to make it work, give it your best. The first 6 months were the hardest, I remember I lost like 10 pounds, and I was already thin to begin with. I missed home, and as much as I fitted in, in many ways, there was a culture shock that took a toll on me.
However, after three years and a half, things changed and I’ve made so many more friends here. It struck me a few days ago that I started bumping into friends and acquaintances on the street, which would have never happened before. Mind you, NYC has a population of almost 8 million and a half people (NY State has 19 million people), so to recognize people I know is simply unbelievable to me. At the beginning, I knew more or less 10 people, all of them Romanians. Now, I’ve made friends of every nationality possible, of all walks of life and from very different contexts, from school, from my internship, friends of friends, and so on. NYC is one place where you can meet people almost anywhere. There are not very many places like this.
There is also a disadvantage. Why would I want to meet new people all the time? Why would I want to know of their lives? Why would I want to talk about my life and my story of how I came to be here? I really don’t every so often, especially now, when I am in a leave me alone state of mind. But every time I give it another chance and teach myself to open up, I am glad I did.
22 Wednesday Apr 2009
Posted Miscelanous, New York, Photography
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This Easter was similarly celebrated as last year’s one, meaning a bunch of friends, all Romanians, meeting at Andrei and Otilia’s, cooking together, attending the midnight Inviere church ceremonial, consisting of lighting candles, followed by coming back home to a big meal that starts off with colored Easter eggs and lamb, amongst many other traditional goodies. This year’s Inviere was the funniest ever, especially since one of us was the photographer, Paul, an American (he is in the next to last picture). He observed quietly, somwehat fascinated by the innovation of what was happening, while some others were making jokes in the middle of a fervently Christian Romanian crowd. Somehow, a Romanian Easter in New York doesn’t feel quite like the Easter I know it, and by this I mean the feeling of it, but I won’t deny it was a very special good time.
Hristos a Inviat, we Romanian say, which stand for Christ has risen!
Pictures are made by Paul de Luna, the talented Mihai Badoiu, and the first one is Adrian Aronescu’s – all friends.
19 Wednesday Nov 2008
Posted Miscelanous
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Los amigos son como las estrellas. No siempre los ves, pero siempre están ahí.
Translation: Friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but they are always there.
I saw this commercial text for some juice at bus stops around Madrid. It caught my attention because it’s true.
One of my good friends – Dana – visited me this past weekend, in Madrid. She is currently studying in Amsterdam, and she took a leap to visit me and Spain. She also stayed at my place in New York, when she was in the States. And although we don’t see each other very often, and don’t talk as much as we would like to, I know we will always be friends, and I know she will always have a good encouraging word to tell me. That is what this text speaks to me.
Thank you to all my close friends – you know who you are – for all your support always. Even if we don’t meet and talk often, you are always on my mind and I miss you. And I’m always learning from you, of how to be a better person.
I just needed to say that.