What I had expected

I had expected nothing and I have expected it all. I did my best to live my moments here as pleasant as I could but I do have several things I would do in a different way. Hmm, maybe that sounds a little too rough. What I really mean is there are some things which I would have done but time did not permit it. Come on, tell me how an asshole I am for saying what I just said: I did have 4 months at my disposal but 4 months are not an eternity.

The Internship

This was the reason I came back to Bucharest. Going back home for the internship was something which I simply had to do as there was no way of sustaining myself financially in Aarhus. I had my internship at Eau de Web and this internship might have been (more than a tad) lifechanging. The expectations I have had in regards to the internship were not fulfilled and I am more than happy for this outcome: I simply realized web programming is not something I should completely focus on. I also want to give huge thanks (and hugs) to all the people at the company for the way they treated me and their cooperation. I know I can sometimes(often..) be a very-hard-to-cope-with person but they adopted me fast and I am glad to say I have made some very good friends over there. Whenever I will get the chance, I will most definitely pay them a visit after their work schedule to grab a beer/juice and have a talk.

My Friends

I have made some acquaintances and have lost some friends but let’s face it, if one loses a friend, that was not a friend in the first place so he didn’t lose anything. As a genious once said, shit happens and there is nothing we can do about it.

Miscellaneous

I saw a lot of movies at the cinema (Please, for Christ’s sake, don’t make me list them all…) but the last one was the one that left a mark on me: Alice in Wonderland. The mark it left was not due to the movie itself but to the place I saw the movie: the Samsung IMAX in a Romanian Mall. Having a 25 metres by 18 metres screen, it was the best 3D experience I have ever had at a movie. There was a downside however since it can’t all be perfect: the subtitle was 2D and although I don’t need subtitles in order to watch a movie, once you have them on the screen, your eyes are used to move and read. No, you can’t read a 2D subtitle with the 3D glasses if that’s what you are asking. My eyes still hurt after this experience…
Oh, did I mention I have to wear glasses? Yeah, I went to an eye doctor and it seems I have to get myself a pair of lenses/glasses with the following attributes: -0.5 for one eye and -0.75 for the other. Therefore, if you see me on the street, wave to me and I ignore you, try yelling.. you might be more successfull

Pool

I played a lot of pool. And when I say a lot, I actually mean A HELL OF A LOT! In Victorian terms, that’s equal to a number close to 200 games in 4 months. My best score was on the week before now when my friend started the game, didn’t pot any ball, it was my turn and I potted all my 8 balls in the same series of shots, making this my best achievement so far. Wish I had a place to play some good pool in Aarhus (yeah, the price is also important).

Epilogue

That’s about it. I’ll probably just post this article as soon as I get home and now I’ll finish my battery playing some Dirt2 or something. I forgot to put my headphones in the hand luggage and I can’t watch CSI: NY Things are worse though: I forgot both my toothbrushes back home (the one I have at my home and the one at my girlfriend’s place). Guess I’ll buy one more and make this a premiere: having 3 toothbrushes and yellow teeth at the same time. Hurray!

Say you have variable a = ’2′ and b = 2 and you want to compare them. The way I did it was adding the same value to both variables, thus changing the string variable into an integer by adding a filter. Might not be the best solution in the world but it worked.

Not working:
{% ifequal a b %}
HTML stuff 'round here
{% endifequal%}

Working:
{% ifequal a|add:"0" b|add:"0" %}
HTML stuff 'round here
{% endifequal %}

It does look a little bit silly but it might do the trick if you’re too lazy to change your views/models.

I find myself in between job, internships and freelancing and I have to prioritize them as needed but I assume it’s going to constantly be a temporary prioritization.

And just when I thought I managed to regulate my sleeping hours, this shit happens: after waking up at 6:30 in the morning and going to bed at 12:30 in the night, I wake up at 2 AM being more awaken than I ever was. Might be because of all those tiny details that cross my mind every now and then.

Hope it’s gonna get warmer in Bucharest when I get there. Not that I would be hot or anything…

Denmark, see you on your national holiday, the Ascension day, on the 13th of May.

So, now that I am confident that you guys understood what life is like (fuck, if that doesn’t help you, just make a comparison between this picture and this other picture), you can read the other bla bla that I am going to post around here like:

• I’ll be in Romania between the 28th of January and the 13th of May, doing my internship at an awesome company (I might try to make a trip for a Hypocrisy concert in either Vienna or Sofia)
• Advanced Photoshop Techniques that you may not be aware of
• Thousands of Photoshop Brush Collections
• Got a 10 at the 3rd semester project exam and I’m waiting for the 3rd semester subject exam (it’s either I get a 2 or a 12, depending on which subject I draw from the hat)
• I miss my girl.
• I’m just waiting for things to go on their usual downward path. I literally know that I am at the peak of the quality of my life so that’s why I ain’t so happy about it. I am usually an optimistic dude but you have to know where you stand and not get over excited.

And to my few readers: I’m sorry for the lack of posts in the recent time. Meh, there’s no particular reason for that: I still care about the 2 of you, it’s just that I realized that this blog doesn’t help me improve my personal life nor my professional life and I assigned it a smaller number in the huge queue of my priority list.

You might be wondering what’s the deal with the Anathema wanna-be quote in the title. If you want to find out the answer to that question, don’t worry, you won’t find it here. Not fully, anyway.

One of the best decisions one can make during his online interaction with other people is logging (archiving) all the small bits and talks with other people. When enough time passes by and you get to read those, it is easier for you to realize how you and the interlocutor have changed throughout a period of time. As lame as it may sound, it might be one of the few available sources for your own personal development: realize how you were like, admit who you are at the moment and define what your future destination is.

Life gives most people equal chances, you just have to realize when it is the time to take advantage of them. And I won’t miss them, that’s for sure. I just have to make up my mind: which way do I want to go? To the south or to the east?

The idea behind this portfolio layout came out of nowhere sometime this morning and it wouldn’t leave me alone ever since. For the past month, I have made at least 6 or 7 layout mock-ups in Photoshop but none of them seemed worthy of the “Victor’s Portfolio” title

And now, I have to ask: What do you think about it? Don’t be shy

I miss the times when I had something to blog about but it seems that lately my schedule spins around doing nothing, going to school and going to work. Actually, the reason why I am going to school each morning is that I don’t have anything better to do at home so I’m going to school to find out something interesting and well, to see some new faces. God, this has never happened in high school, has it?

I need an opinion or two from someone who is registered in AIESEC and has used their internship programmes. I am not sure if it’s worth paying 100 Euros to subscribe to the service of finding an internship.

Aaaaaand I miss Brasov, Bucharest and Constanta. A lot.