Misconceptions.

Probably I didn’t mention until now that I am from Romania. (I mention in my other blog ,and I even mad some fun about it, but not in this one).

So here in Romania the largest ethnic minority is Hungarian people that make about 6.6% of the population. In the highest concentration are Harghita and Covasna districts. I was one of the extremists that hate Hungarian because of misconception that are very bad people. We had a lot of jokes about them and so on. Probably this has born in to my mind because of the new I heard that the Hungarian from the Harghita and Covasna district want independence. I was imagining that is outrageous, is right in the hart of Romania. How the hell they even can think about that?

So I was not very happy about the think that I have to go to Harghita for my vacation. When I had arrive there I see the name of the train station in both languages Hungarian and Romanian, and I was thinking: OK I am doomed. I had expected from one moment to another that a horde of angry Hungarians come to beet me up for all the jokes I had made in the past. (One of the jokes is: “If you see a back people and a white one drowning, who do you save? You save the back one because the white may be Hungarian.” So you see what my mentality was. ). I had arrived about ten a clock and it was already dark so I was kind of scarred. But nothing was happening, so I imagine that maybe are not so many of them there. I didn’t know where the hotel was so I had to ask. Weren’t too many people on the street so I didn’t have too much alternatives. I pick up some guy and ask him where the hotel was. He had answered me and offer to take me there. But it has a funny accent so I guess that is Hungarian. I answered that I will find my way and fallow his instruction even I didn’t really trust him. To my surprise the hotel was there. So he didn’t want to set me a trap. But there was nobody at the reception. (It was my fault because I arrived so late, in the hotel reservation was written than I had to arrive before 6 a clock.)

To wait until the next morning didn’t sound very appealing to me, I really wanted a room. So I look at the reservation and I find a phone number. I call the number and voice with Hungarian accent answer me. I explain the situation and she tell me to don’t worry it will com in a few minutes to bring me the key. In a few minutes a nice women show up and give me the key for the room and fill up the necessary papers. She didn’t seem to upset that she had to come from the home at 23 hundred hour for me.

Ok. What the hell is happening? Nobody is trying to kill me, even if they are Hungarian. Maybe they are not… they just have a funny accent.

I turn on the TV and notice that most of the channels are in Hungarian, and just a few are in Romanian. Discovery channel was doubled in Hungarian so the TV was no use to me. I prefer the English version. I really hate the thing with translating stuff. I had grown with Cartoon Network in English and I learn English from there. (That why I have Scooby-Doo accent) Now unfortunately is translated and I really hate it. You can’t imagine how terrifying sounds Scooby-Doo in Romanian. It really scares the children’s.)

Next day I realize that everybody around there is Hungarian except for the tourists. But it seems that my ideas were wrong all along. They are really nice people, and we should all get along. Also they explain me about the independence they ask for is not I was thought. What they want is that should be allowed to take care of the may from the taxes there and use it in the right way for the district. Right now the government decides what they should do with the money. And it seems that they make very wrong decisions. (Oh.. I already knew that the money is used in really stupid ways here in Romania like making a cheap highway, that is so bad that it must be repaired next year and, the year after that and so on, instead of making a expensive one that don’t need repairs every day).

So I finally realize that they are not so thick skins like I thought and there demands are extremely reasonable.

Do you remember the two girls I spoken about; there was tourist like but they ware much worse than any of the Hungarian I meat there. One of them was manager of a big textile company and extremely bumptious, like was the Queen of England. She even refuses to dance with me at the New Year Eve party. (Nobody invite her except me. For who the heel was she waiting for, Prince Charming?) And I was extremely upset and annoyed that a Romanian girl can do such of thing to me. (Even I know that I make at least 3 times more money that her just as a programmer). It was almost screw me vacation if it wasn’t for a Hungarian girl that notice that I am so upset and invite me to dance with her. So I have felt much better, and I have promise her that I will come back …. I think I am in love.

Also the waiters ware extremely nice compared with the ones from Bucharest.And they worked hard all night long.(picture of the waiters at the NYE party) So what can I say? I was wrong. I am really sorry! I had some misconceptions.

If somebody tells me last year that I will fall in love to a Hungarian girl probably die of laughs, and never believe that I can do such of thing. Now I am hoping to meet her again as soon as possible. Probably I will go back there on Saint Valentines to be with her.

ATV ride.

Just how I had promise , I will tell about the my vacation. So my mother convince me to go with her to vacation, I was indenting to keep working at some projects I had. But I was finally accepted to go with her but I was still intending to come back next day. But because I was pick up two girls there I was decided to stay one more day. Seems that it was a bad decision, seems that the girls wasn't so fun anymore. So I have learn that not allays what seems to be the truth is the truth. So I was in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do.... but some ATV's pass near me. So I assumed that I can rent an quad for a ride. I asked when I can rent an ATV and I finally find where. Is about 20 Euro for an hour, kind of expensive but I was very curious how it is so I rent one for 2 hours. Until now I had drive all kind of terrain vehicles: motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, an tank and a train. So I expected to be extremely easy to drive an ATV, almost like a motorcycle.

Wrong !!!! In the first 20 second I was the ditch near the track. I had felt so humiliated, everyone was looking at me. I get back on road and start thinking what I did wrong. It is very hard to steer and every bump in the road force you in a wrong direction. I hold the handle bar tight and try again. After a few seconds I realize that I can't handle it. So I asked what to do. Should I give up. No way !!! So I asked myself again what is the problem. At low speeds is hard to steer because of the high friction between the wheels and the ground, and when the road is earth road with lot of bumps. So I decided to accelerate. I am going to brake my neck or save my honor. At higher speeds it's a lot more simple to steer so my driving get better. After a few laps I get used to so i decided that I am ready for an off-road ride. The renting company it will not allow you to go off-road without a guide (That is in the price of the renting). So in case you kill yourself the guide to bring back the quad. So I go to the guide and tell him I am ready. I pick up a route and start riding. A 3 hours route by foot take us 45 minutes. It was relay nice.

I started from here and I go somewhere ....

... up there.

It was a a serpentine path so that thy take it so much, even it look easy. Unfortunately I didn't make any picture from up there.

And now some advice how to ride the quad. First I have to explain the controls. The handle bar for searing must be hold really tight. The throttle is not like a motorcycle. The motorcycle throttle is contained in the right-hand grip on the handlebars and twisting the grip towards you increases the speed.The ATV has a thumb throttle that you have to push it forward to accelerate. There are two brakes in the right and left of the handlebar for the front wheels. On low speeds it can help searing pushing only one brake. At high speeds pushing only one brake and will help you make circles. (Spin around in place) The third foot brake is for the rear wheels. I recommend using that one for slowing down. Be very gentile with the brakes because otherwise you will drift. Always keep some distance to the one in front of you, otherwise you will not see anything because of the dust or snow. Also sometimes the rear wheels can trow rocks and dried wood. Don't try to be brave, heroes die young. Always use the safety equipment and the gloves are mandatory even in summer, otherwise your hand will freeze in the matter of minutes.

Happy new year.

I was out of town for this NYE and this is my first post this year. So: Happy new year !!!

I had some fun this vacation. I was riding an ATV (quad) and is was so cool. I will tell you more about this latter.



@Lizze: I add you a direct link in the link list. And when after I finish posting to my blogs I will take a look at how you spend NYE.

Thank you

Thank you guys for commenting on by blog. I starting to loss hope that is somebody out there reading my blog. I feeling much better now, that I have some comments. My work colleague told me that it has a lot of comments and visitors and I had none.
After Lizze give me a comment seems that I had a lot of visitors,the comment seems that bring me luck. Also I fallowed the profile and I found a really nice blog. Unfortunately today U really hadn't have any time to read it all but is very nice.

By the why: It was a joke with the thing that I am going to sue Blogger. Thank you Blogger that you exit. And don't worry ... I am not going to sue you. :)

I can't take it anymore.

I intended to no longer post this year but I can't support. I have to post, it the blogger addiction. I started blogging to get rid of a old addiction and now I have a new one: posting on my blog. Even I know that nobody reads it I need to post. I have nightmares, if I don't post something before I go to sleep. I can't work if i don't post something when I wake up. I hate it, it shouldn't suppose to be so addictive.



I am relay wandering if should I sue Blogger because they give ma a new addiction ? I read the term of service and is no where mentioned the blogging create addiction. So I need a god lawyer for this.



Blogger take care !! I am going after you.



P.S: Sue Blogger for creating addictions is a patented idea so nobody is allowed to do that except me. Kid's don't do this at home.

Just brilliant.

I will marry the first girl that understand the following presentation:(very technical stuff only for geeks)




Long time ago when I owned a 286 computer I had a lot of study about computer architectures. When I have seen this video old memory's was binged back to life. Is just brilliant. I dreamed that some day my hours of study and my technical knowledge about computer architecture will become useful. I was so proud watching this video that I am one of the few people's that rely know what he is talking about. It knows how a PC boots up and about the memory warp around.

So I am serious about marrying the first girl that understand this presentation and has the same filings as me. I don't care how she looks, I don't care how old she is , I don't care anything except that she is able to understand this presentation.

Updated: Seems that nobody want to be my wife... probably this year I am not going to update anything because I will be in vacation. So take your time and watch the movie. If somebody has questions, feel free to ask me. I will explain everything you wish.

Santa didn't come.

Seem that Santa completely forgot about me. Maybe I was a bad boy this year , even I don't think so. I had expected to meet the girl of my dream in the last few days but nothing had happened. Like the usually I am a disappointed. The only girl that called me in the last few days was a old friend of mine, that is nice girl but she has a boyfriend o I assumed is not my gift from Santa. Unfortunately seems that I don't have any friends left. I intend to go out to pick up some girl in a bar but I can't do it alone, and the only friend I had left is engaged and will not want to go with me in a bar for that purpose. So the only alternative I have is to find somebody HERE !.

There is no any lonely girl around here that is searching for a grate guy, like me, to love her ?

Am I the only person around here searching for love ?

P.S: I know this post seems more desperate that is relay is. But sincerely I don't really care about that. Is just what is in my mind for now and I think is just what blogs are all about. Tell the world how you feel and what are you opinions.

For Santa

Dear Santa,
I was a god guy this year and I think I deserve my presents. So I wish for a nice girl that love me and worth loving her. I don't want the a beautifully girl, but I want her
smart and funny.

Spooky. A girl just contacted me on ICQ. I don't know her, and seems spooky. I know that the ICQ is so stupid that is displaying the profiles on the net. But I can't imagine anybody searching on profile list. And that number I give-it only to some serious business partners, and nobody els know it.
Oh. Se told me that she is only 14 year old. I have to say that is true that I like relay young girls. But not that young. @Santa: It is to illegal, try something older please, a 16 year old girl will be better.

Lazy

I am still to lazy to explain what happened. Maybe I will explain latter. Or maybe not. anyway is just before the Xmas and nobody is in the mood to work. I blogged all day long searching for something interesting.

Merry Christmas

Today in the office was the Christmas spirit , so no one was working. I will try to quit smoking again tomorrow.

My firend

One of my friends get upset on me for now reasons and now runs away every time I enter the room. What the hell did I do? I will try to convince him to help me with some technical stuff , this will make him happy for sure.It relay likes to help. And be asked complicated questions.It make him think I need this help.

No friends

All my friends abandoned me and I am filling so lonely. I am extremely disappointed of everything in my life and of everybody. I am in the verge of collapse. So today I will gonna go to sleep extremely early. Also I am a little depress because I didn't manage to fix my car but this is not a big issue now.

I am so tierd.

In the last few days I was feeling so tired. This is probably from the unhealthy diet, to much Coca-Cola and smoking. Anyway the idea is that I am filling horrible and I am not able to post more then a few lines per day. In the last time I didn't manage to do anything useful. Probably I have to take a break and rest.

Standards

I been to a service and they told me that they can't order the v-belt I need because is to cheep.So i decided to change it myself in the parking lot.

I manage to convince my mother to go and buy a v-belt because when I will finish work all the stores will be closed.The spooky thing is that i find the belt in the part catalog and has the specification 9.5X643MM but the one from the reseller that has the same part number but a different size 9.5X650MM. How the hell the same part can has different specifications ? I was thinking that the part number is created specially to avoid this.
I will tell you tomorrow how was working.

What a fine day for science

Today when i enter the office one college of mine told me "What a fine day for science", you know, the line from Dexter Laboratory cartoons. Is not relay a fine day for science for me. My car broke down. The belt between the engine and the water pump broke. Good that this was happened a few meters from the parking lot.
I had notice something wrong because the light the alternator turn on. But I was suspecting that maybe some wire burn out, or some other electrical problem. But when I was looking under the hood I had notice the belt thorn apart. I guess that I don't had to mention that the engine was hot and vapors come out of all the pipes. Doe's anyone know how to change a water pump belt ?

I will go to order a new belt a little latter and I will like to change it myself but unfortunately I cold outside and I also have to refill the cooling system. This require a ramp for allowing air bubbles to come out, so I can't do it in the parking lot. But it is a service near by. I hope is not to expensive. I really don't to spend money now.

Video cables for connecting my laptop to TV

The cables that I have are the following:

• SCART converter (my TV only a SCART connection , this is usually fund in Europe). This is plugging directly in to the SCART connector on the TV (Big bulky plug). The converter has a switch used to select if the signal is to be inputted or outputted form the TV. The input/output for audio is to RCA (to RCA connections one red and one white for left and right audio signals). The video input/output has two options. One is a RCA (a yellow RCA connection) . And a S-Video connection like the one described in the prevision post.
• RCA to audio Jack. This cable has to RCA connections (White and red) and on the other end a audio connector (identical with the one fund in headphone)
  
• S-Video to S-Video cable.
  
• S-Video to RCA cable.
  

The audio is kind of straight forward. But for video is to variants. I tested first with the S-Video to RCA cable and it seems fine (at least i had a color picture). But I tested with a picture slide show and the colors seems to be very accentuated. The pink looks like purple red, very annoying for pictures, but probably is acceptable with the movies. With the S-Video cable the picture is much sharp and the colors are much more real, but is still not crystal clear.

I didn't try with a movie because I don't have any at this moment but probably on the smaller resolution (like the one used for movies is much better then on my small display).

Doe's anybody can tell me some good movie ?

Video output

I finally manage to make my laptop output the image on my TV set. In this process I become a expert in cables, jack's and wires. My laptop has a S-Video output, this is a round plug with 4 or 7 pins (a lot like the mouse or keyboard plugs). The difrence betweens 4 pins plug and 7 pins plug is that the standard S-Video has 4 pins used for intensity (Luminance),golor (Chrominance) and tow of them are ground. The 7 pin connectors has a additional ground and composite video and this kid of connectors are usually find in laptops and other spooky devices, anyway the 7 pin version is not very standard anyway so is better to consider as a plain 4 pin plug.

Lazy

Today I was very lazy, I didn't do anything interesting.But now I started working. Maybe I will finish my program today. I am still searching for the love of my life.

Hi.

Today I had some fun flaming. You know, Friday is the flame day. Evrybody makes fun of everybody on mail.And debate unimportant problems like "Linux Vs. Windows", "Sex Vs. Love" and so on.

It worked

Yup! It really worked. I just stop and listen for people around me. You can imagine what a new experience was to me. You should really try it some time. New and miraculous new things will be revealed. Also concentrate a little bit and try to answer to everybody with the answer they expect to get from you. Don't manifest your opinion use their own opinion, Also you can use a lot of "I am totally agree!" and "I respect your opinion". Don't use "but" use "and" instead. It may sounds funny at the begin but nobody will notice. For example if you wish to do something else that the thing proposed to you you can say "I am totally agree with your decision and it will be nice to [put your thing here] because [some stupid reason]".

Even if is completely contradictory , if you say it serious everybody will agree.

Funny isn't it ?

Stop talking.

I have decided that I talk to much. So was thinking to shut up and watch more what happening around me. This is one of the key components of NLP: Observation.

Sad

I don't know but today I am very sad. I am still for a miracle to make me happy. But because I don't thing will gonna happen I am intending to find a way to buy an angel. Does anyone know an Angel store. Maybe I can order one online. If not I will find a way to make myself one.

What I want to say is that I relay wish to find a girl to to hug her. I relay want somebody to love. Is so funny i know at leas a a hundred girls. That are desperate trying to find a god guy to love them. Even better, they are asking me for my about jerk friend's. I asked myself way I don't scream at them "Hey stupid !!!! I am here, I am what are you looking for !!! I am the guy !!!" ? And the answer is that I can't love a girl that is not able to see something that is in front of her nose.

Augh! My head

My head is hearting like hell. Probably because I smoked half of pack of cigarettes in the last 4 hour. I was writing a program and usually when I working I can't stop smoking. Anyway I think I will make another blog about girls and another about programing and computer science. I am sure that I will have more success with that.

Girls

I don't understand why always god guys never have part of a nice girl. It is a misery for me. All the girls like bad guys. I sometime heard that girls flirt with the bad guy but is taking home the god guy. Is not true.

And again

Next week I intend to start all over again. I am decided that this year I will quit smoking. But this week i have other problems. Like finding a girl to love. Seems that nobody wants to be loved by me. Is so much think I can offer to her.

Reloaded

I think i will try again , after I finish this pack i will gonna try again. I already get used with the stress.

I quit quiting

Seems that I start smoking again. Grate attempt, isn't it ? I will try again next week :)

2 days

Tow day has past and I am still going strong. But i don't know how much time I can resit anymore. I am still thinking of it. I told all my friends I quited and nobody think I will succeed. They even offer me to by cigarettes for me. Great friend's, isn't it ?

One day.

It past a entire day and is still horrible, I am almost on the point of renouncing.

22 hours after.

I past almost a day and is horrible. I have the felling that i don't have air. I thnk about every breath i make.
I had i extremely bad day. In the morning my mother bother me with extremely stupid things. But i manage to survive until now. Half o the day I slept.
I relay hating it.

The big moment

I just finish the second one. The third one I tear it apart. So this is it. The big moment. Is almost 1 December here. Probably the timestamps seems wrong, this is because i am on a completely different timezone. Here is almost midnight.

Maybe you wonder why i made a so big fuzz out of it. The idea behind is that psychological point of view it fouls my brain to think that I made a grate thing so it help me motivating.

Also if you think that instead of smoking less I smoke a lot more before the big day is not a such a god idea. Is not so true because the nicotine helps memory. That means it lock in my brain the idea that I QUIT SMOKING. Sometime you can fight fire with fire, using the addiction against itself.

3 cigarets in 30 min

I still have 3 cigarettes and in 30 minute I will stop smoking for good. I will smoke 2 of them and one I will intend to trow away.

I need support.

I personally hoped that I have a few visitors that's support me. I am a little disappointed. Seems kind of funny I not even started and I already ask for support. I know that it seems kind of lame I really want at least one person that encourage my initiative.

Motivation

Anyway some methods that I intend to use self suggestion and NLP. I will tell you about that some other time. They are very powerful methods that can be used for self improvement and motivation.

Also i hope that this blog will help me if i have enough people to encourage me. I don't have any some far. Not very promising, isn't it ? So i have the feeling that I am all alone, but i am already used with looniest.

Finishing all the tabaco i have.

I am already yo my second pack today, and i still have a half of it. I am intending to finish it until the end of the day so tomorrow i will don't have any cigar. But seem that I forget to get rid of the one from my dashboard and hope it will not cause trouble when I will get in to the car.

Just thinking of it.

I waked up in the morning and I didn’t have any cigarettes in the hous It was so terrifying. But I am still intending to keep my decision. I buy a pack of cigarettes for today, this is the last one. I also noticed that I still have one cigarette in my car on the dashboard; I will get rid of that so it doesn’t tempt me.

I am scared. I can imagine my life without smoking. What I am gone ‘do?

My decision to quit smoking.

I have decided to quit smoking starting from 1 December. This time I intend to quit for good. I am smoking for more than 5 years and now I am smoking more then 2 packets per day, up to 5 packets.

The reasons that made me take this decision are the following:

• It is bad for my health.


• Starting from next year the prices of the tobacco will ingress with 300% in my region.


• No nonsmoking girl likes to kiss a smoker.


• I will be more independent of time send in close spaces.


• I will demonstrate my will.

I intend to follow my process on this blog and maybe it can help others quit smoking and also motivate me.