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Poiana Marului, jud Caras Severin:

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Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, jud Hunedoara:

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On the road [again...]:
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Targu Jiu, jud Gorj:

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Pitesti - Targu Jiu - Ramnicu Valcea - Valea Jiului - Caransebes:

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Poiana Marului .. jud Caras Severin ...

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If ...

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Quotes ..

To do is to be - Descartes, To be is to do - Voltaire, Do be do be do - Sinatra.

You're too good for him. (Sign above a women's washroom mirror)

No wonder you always go home alone. (Sign above a men's washroom mirror)

Beauty is only a light switch away.

"Jacket on = directing. Jacket off = participating. Trousers off = performing."
(A humorous dress code indicator of management working-style.)

"When you ASSUME you make an ASS out of U and Me."

"Everyone gets butterflies - the trick is getting them to fly in formation."

October rainy day ...

Yours trully:



Fall rainy day:

Octombrie ... reloaded

A mai trecut o vara, simt ca timpul trece prea repede, pe nesimtite, si iar este Octombrie. Iar ma simt inconjurata de frunze galbejite, de sentimentul bolnavicios ca vine iarna, o iarna anuntata cu surle si trambite pe la TV ca fiind una dintre cele mai geroase din ultimii ani.

Cateodata ma simt neputincioasa, as fi vrut sa am nasc intr-o tara unde clima sa fi fost mai blanda, sa fi fost caldut mai tot timpul anului. Da, unii vor tipa la mine ca e frumoasa si iarna si imi vor arucna in obraz avantajele anotimpului alb. Doar ca imi permit sa fiu egoista in privinta anotimpului alb, si voi declara ca nu-l prea vreau, poate doar asa o luna, maxim doua pe an, dar cu precizie de ceas elvetian sa dispara orice urma de iarna cat ai bate din palme. Sunt egoista in privinta asta si am sa argumentez prin simplul fapt ca eu sunt o persoana bolnavicioasa, cu un organism nu foarte puternic si un sistem imunitar cam la pamant, pe care il tarai de la o vara la alta. Imi place iarna si mie, dar doar cat sa ma duc la munte, sa respir aerul pur, sa simt zapada sub picioare, sa fac poze [multe, multe poze] ... si cam atat >:)

Imi place sa fiu egoista cateodata, mai ales in privinta lucrurilor care ma afecteaza direct, si nu-mi place sa fac compromisuri in privinta "egoismelor" mele ... am zis !!!