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Why do people always rely so much on the new year? Every time NYE is around people have the best excuses for all the things they didn’t do in the past year: “I will do it next year”. So there’s no December I don’t hear “Next year I quit smoking”, “Next year I’ll go to the gim”, “Next year I’ll read more”, “Next year I’ll learn a new foreign language” and “Next year I’m going to be better”.

What’s the real reason for not doing all that in the past year ? And to make it even worse, we blog about this, and make a list with all the next year plans.

I’m no better then anyone else. I’m doing the same. I have loads of plans for the next year. And I’m posting them right now, inside this post.

So, next year:

• I’m gonna learn a new foreign language. Most likely german. If not, italian or french.
• I’m gonna improve my english and my romanian
• Since I have more and more english speaking friends, I won’t blog in romanian any more. Anyone who doesn’t like my english can bite my shiny metal ass. I’m doing my best, and people do understand me.
• Less drafts. I have loads of blog post I wrote and never published them. I’m going to publish all those, and blog more. Oh, and the posts already written, will remain in romanian.
• And I’m gonna completely migrate to Tumblr
• Now, to the serious stuff, I’m gonna try to achieve my comfort zone. Financially speaking.
• I’m gonna finish the projects I dreamt all 2009 long
• I might get a pet.
• I’m gonna use more of my experience accumulated at Firedive Interactive
• I’m gonna attend Sensation White in Amsterdam this summer.
• Oh, I’m going to take a lot more care of my car.
• I’m gonna complete my snowboarding equipment with some proper gear. I’m missing jacket and first layers. I could also use new gloves and goggles. But then I would need new board, bindings and boots.
• I’m gonna do more snowboarding.
• I’m not going to quit smoking.
• I will exercise more.
• And finally I’m gonna make it up to everyone I let down. (the linked one are not the only ones)

Since the mankind people dream about having special powers. Some of them, maybe even mostly of them were about far sighting. I’m not sure who was the first to introduce the crystal globe that wizards, witches, gypsies used for finding out things. Like, say, where another person it.

Imagine this. You have a little crystal in your pocket. You can just touch it and miles, tens of thousand of miles away, someone else hears a noise, of even more, feels a little vibration around him. He then takes his little crystal from his pocket, touches it, maybe rubs it a bit, and then a little little map comes out. The map is no larger then his palm, but yet, it includes the entire earth. Not only road maps. Real world, real people, houses, mountains, lakes and everything. Ok, so he takes this little glass from his pocket, he rubs it, gets his little but complex map and then, he gets a little sign on the map. It is marking the place where you are.

Now, I know that when I was borne, not so long ago, this was considered witchcraft. You could be hanged and killed if you could do that. When did this happened. How come we took it for granted so incredibly fast ? Faster than how we would like the iPhones to work, right ?

And what’s next ? We mostly accomplished everything mankind could dream of. We have immortality left and then what ?

And if immortality comes out tomorrow, how long would it take for us to take it for granted. To forget people used to die and have limited time to have fun and discover things.  And what happens when you take immortality for granted. What would mankind probably dream of ?

Am cateva drafturi care le-am amanat prea mult. Am sa le termin si am sa le dau drumu’ pe rand. Primul este despre excursia facuta de revelion.

De revelion am plecat fara prea multe planuri (si fara prea multi bani) in Amsterdam. Sunt cateva chestii care le-am remcarcat si as vrea sa le impartasesc.

Autobahn in Germania

Pana sa merg prima oara pe autostrazile din Germania imi iamginam cat de smecheri sunt nemtii pentru ca-si permit sa nu puna limita de viteza. Cand am intrat in Germania insa mi-am schimbat total parerea. Nu sunt deloc interesanti, sunt chiar foarte iresponsabili. 

In primul rand drumurile sunt in mare parte putin mai proaste decat al nostru A1. Adica da, sunt pline de gropi. In al doilea rand, curbele nu se pot luat cu mai mult de 150 kmh. Majoritatea curbelor te vor rastura cu siguranta la viteze mai mari. Si in al treilea rand, lumea sare pe banda de viteza, in fata ta, chiar daca tu mergi cu 200 si ei merg cu 120.  Deci accelerezi pana la 200, apoi frana la 120, apoi accelerezi iar pana la 200 si pe urma ajungi langa un oras si hop, limita la 100. In acest fel mi-a crescut mie consumul de la 6 la 12.

Amsterdam

Daca ai impresia ca nu gasesit loc de parcare in Bucuresti, esti nerecunoscator. Amsterdam sta foarte prost la capitolul asta. Locurile sunt foarte putine, iar daca ai norocul sa gasesti, trebuie sa platesti 5 Euro / ora. In avans. Deci daca planuiesti sa te duci la shopping, sau intr-o cafenea, trebuie sa platesti, sa zicem 20 Euro. Daca iti expira chitanta care ai lasat-o in parbriz, in 5 minute masina ta o sa fie ridicata. Garantat. M-am uitat pe geam de la hotel si am vazut cum se ridica o masina la 20 de minute. Probabil fix cat ii lua omului sa ia masina sa o duca unde le duc ei.

Mai nasol a fost ca a trebuit sa parchez pe marginea unui canal (Dambovita gen). Nu suna nashpa daca nu zic si ca nu era niciun gard, si nici macar o bordura. Fara ajutor de afara era foarte usor sa cad pur si simplu in canal. Si apoi cand am coborat din masina era sa cad eu in canal. A trebuit sa calc practic pe sub masina, si sa ma tin de aripa.

In rest, noaptea in Amsterdam e un fel de Ferentari. Un oras foarte depravat. Prostituatele si drogurile legale nu erau de ajuns. Lumea vinde cocaina (ilegal chiar si in Amsterdam) la toate colturile si daca-i bagi in seama devin foarte insistenti. Si violenti, am putut observa.

De asemenea, am fost urmariti cam ca-n filme pe autostrada, cu intoarceri si alte chestii.

Sensation White

Mai am de zis ca am fost la Sensation White, unde a fost exceptional. Nu exista cuvinte pentru a descrie ceea ce e acolo. Trebuie neaparat sa experimentati.

A observat cinvea pe ce strada este sediul social Apple ?

1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino,CA 95014

Later edit:

via Alex Buga: Strada chiar e o bucla daca te uiti pe Google Maps

via Dan Berte: Strada se regaseste si in iconita de la Google Maps de pe iPhone.