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Sunday, January 27, 2008
Three Years of Blogging
I started Words of a Broken Mirror three years ago! I can hardly believe so much time has passed since then. I wrote a couple of posts in Romanian, then switched to English. It was a good way to practice and allowed more people to interract with me. And this was a great choice. Cause I met the most amazing people from all over the world. You can meet them too, just browse through my blogroll!
Last year in May, my wonderfull friend and sister by choice Trisi got a .com domain as a present on my name's day and I built a new home for WOBM over there. But as this blogger page was home to my ideas, torments, songs playing in my mind, to my happyness and sorrows, to my friends' comments for so long, I kept it going long after it went out of page rank (let's all thank Google again for their nice little algorythm).
It is however time to move on. It's impossible to keep both blogs running and provide meaningful and frequent content given my generally crazy schedule which apparently is going to stay busy for ever. I won't delete the posts or restrict visits in any way. This is where my blogger identity was born and it still is a great place to look through forgotten little thoughts and happenings.
I will keep posting on my photoblog, I won't transfer anywhere for now. So keep going back to see the Views of a Broken Mirror posted daily (at least that's what I want to achieve there).
I hope this change won't turn you into strangers and that you'll continue to drop by and see what's new on WOBM. I know I'll keep meeting amazing people over there and continue the amazing experience I've started three years ago in the blogosphere. See you all around!
P.S. On this bloggiversary, I give you one of my favorite songs: Depeche Mode, Precious. Enjoy!
Precious and fragile things Need special handling My God what have we done to You?
We always try to share The tenderest of care Now look what we have put You through...
Things get damaged Things get broken I thought we'd manage But words left unspoken Left us so brittle There was so little left to give
Angels with silver wings Shouldn't know suffering I wish I could take the pain for You
If God has a master plan That only He understands I hope it's Your eyes He's seeing through
Things get damaged Things get broken I thought we'd manage But words left unspoken Left us so brittle There was so little left to give
I pray You learn to trust Have faith in both of us And keep room in Your heart for two
Things get damaged Things get broken I thought we'd manage But words left unspoken Left us so brittle There was so little left to give
A while ago, Safiya asked me to tell her a few things about me. Randomly chosen, no real given direction. So after a long time, I am finally doing what I promised her.
- I really cannot watch horror movies. I am too afraid and get way too scared. And when I am dragged to see one, everybody who's with me laughs at me. My jumping off the chair in fear is actually quite hilarious.
- I started taking Latino dancing lessons. With a tango twist :)
- I am back to daily reading habits. When I quit that, I feel really awful.
- I want to children: a boy and a girl. But I am also likely to have twins (family thingie). What if they have the same sex? I have not decided what to do in that case.
- I am addicted to milk with chocolate. It's the only thing I drink at work.
- I dream of having my own business and making it work :D I also have more specific plans on this issue, but will share them later on :P
- I have a lot of online friends that I haven't met in person and I can't wait to do so sometime, hopefully in the not so distant future.
The list below came in the company's jokes folder. It contains easy and crazy/stupid/funny solutions to life's major problems. Read on and enjoy!
If you ever happen to choke on an ice cube, don't panic, just pour a mug of hot water down your throat and the cube will instantly melt.
Are you a wild person? Do you cut your fingers when chopping vegetables? There a great solution for this problem: just ask a friend to hold the vegetables for you while you chop them.
Do not waste your life fighting with the life partner over the toilet seat's position: use the sink!
Is your blood pressure rising? Just cut a bit into your veins and it will instantly drop in less than 2 minutes.
If you place a mouse trap on your alarm clock, you will surely not fall asleep after stopping the alarm!
The best remedy to excessive caughing is a dozen of laxatives, as your body will surely be very affraid to ever start caughing again.
Is your tooth hurting a lot? Just hit your finger with a hammer just as hard and you will completely forget about the aching tooth.
All people seem normal untill you get to know them...
If you wake up and have a hard time breathing...congratulations, you have one more chance!
Be good and loving to friends and relatives, as you never know who you need to help you out with the dirty works when you're stuck in a bed!
D has recently bought a wireless router so that we can use our computers at home without and also get connected to the Internet at the same time. Before we ordered it, I wasn't that keen on this little acquisition of ours. But afterwards, when we were both trying to get the same damned cable, I changed my minds.
Now that it's up and running, I am having an incredible time working on my laptop from my own desk! And all our three computers (on PC and two laptops) can be connected at the same time. Oh, and don't let me forget one more aspect: the lack of cables to be spread everywhere and the ease of just taking your laptop and moving around with it is to die for! Yes, the wireless router has gotten to me...
We all have our darker moments when we feel alone, left out, under appreciated, mistreated, misunderstood, and generally bad. What we'd like to do is hide away until we feel better or until something good just makes everything look bright and sunny. Most of the times, this is impossible. We have to get ourselves together and fast. And leave the hiding away and contemplating our wounds for later on.
So here's what I do at such times:
go see a friend and listen to his stories for a while
tell a short version of what's going on
call my mom
make a special play list of songs that calm me down
stop for a second and think a bit of those with real and bigger problems
allow my generally optimistic self to take over and drive
enlarge the importance of other aspects of my life
get something tasty for lunch
buy myself something nice if I have enough time
Update: News like this one beats everything on the list. Congrats Sim!
What do you do in such cases? What sets you back on track?
I found out of PC Worlds top of 25 sites to keep an eye on via Sorin. I took a close look at some of them and here's what I found to be interesting or useful when spending most of your awake time online:
Wayfaring allows users to create maps for events, trips, day to day routes etc. Maps can be shared and viewed by other site users.
Swivel is the place to go for any type of research results, with graphs as a twist. It can turn out to be pretty useful for projects needing data.
Clipmarks is some kind of Stumpleupon with some cool extra features.
BlogBackupOnline is useful when your web hosting service or the free platform you're using does not satisfy your backup needs. It's a simple way to feel safer with your blog's content.
Approver lets you have certain documents distributed to an entire group to have them reviewed and approved.
Picnik is the site to go to when you need to edit a photo fast and have no photo editing software installed.
As you can see, only six of them. But take a look at the whole list and select your own favorites. Happy surfing everyone!
After reading Piled Higher and Deeper, I never thought I'd run into another comic strip that was relevant to me to the extent of having me start reading from episode one and keep me going and going.
And I did. It's called Questionable Content. It has everything: geeks, shy people, smart people, ironical and even cynical people, drama, love, parties, fun, dinners and coffee shops. Oh, did I mention a professional dominatrix mother in all of this? It's fun to read, hope you like it as much as I did.
I made Turkish coffee this morning. Strong, as I've always loved it and eventually got my 10 minutes drinking it, while you were looking at me, drinking yours. We left for work then, with my little Mushroom. It took longer than usual, but who cared? The music was as loud as it could be so that I was still able to hear you. And I could not stop smiling.
I love it that you like some of the songs I'm keen on. It actually increases the pleasure of listening to them. And then I got to work, where I took not breaks for about 3 hours because I was afraid I will never finish my pending tasks in four hours only. But I did. In less time. Some more little tasks to attend to and then I will get out of here and go enjoy my afternoon. Some more work and some studying planned, true, but the feeling I am not trapped in the office is sooo awesome!
This morning is simply perfect! If any of you would like to start the day with Turkish coffee, here's a tutorial. And a photo showing you the brand I tried. If you are Romanian and want to buy it, try Gimma.
Name: Alina Home: Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania About Me: "This is my church. This is where I heal my hurts". It's also where I feel free and my preferred means of expression. See my complete profile
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