Registering a second-hand car in Romania

The newly-installed minister of environment in the Government of Romania, Nicolae Nemirschi, does not agree to eliminate the tax of car registration (taxa de prima inmatriculare), for Romania should not turn into a car graveyard of Europe. The phenomenon began after 1990, when many citizens would buy second-hand cars especially from Germany and has increased in intensity with the aderation of Romania to the European Union in 2007. In order to increase the sales of Dacia cars, the romanian brand, and to avoid the pollution that second-hand cars would give, the Gouvernmnet has set up the disputed tax.

Nicolae Nemirschi has stated that the qualities of a car should be in the level of exhaust release and not in its "age". The minister has proposed a plan similar to that applied in many european countries: there should be created a number of "rings" surrounding the big cities, and the access towards downtown should be restricted more and more, depending of the level of car emission control.

It is now left to the citizens to see if the project should work or not.

I also love some things...

1. Nichita Stănescu` poetry and his profound blue eyes.

2. The theatre.

3. The colourful, passionate life of gipsies along with the everlasting story of their beautiful Zaraza.

4. The beach, the sand, the ocean, me swimming y hablar espanol con los nativos de un pays latina.

5. The mountains and the snow.

6. My dreaming of the interbelic Bucharest.

7. Me, myself and I cuddling in bed late in the morning in weekends.

8. My getaways.

9. Parties in the PUB with tequilla.

10. My life and things I do in the pursue of an accomplished existence.

11. The way the Military High School handles the liberty of movement.

10 things I hate about you

Firstly, you should take notice that YOU is not a person, but my whole small pittiful Universe. Moreover, I request you dont`t take it personally.

1. Stop staring in my life and begin minding your own business.

2. Why complaining about the weather when you´ve been waiting for this warm summer rain since always?

3. Coke addiction.

4. I´d rather you talked less and drove more since you own a cab.

5. Do you really detest your own country? It means you detest yourself.

6. Is it so hard for you to understand the disparities between us?

7. You´ve lost your tenacity on the way. Stop underestimating yourself!!

8. Leave that cell phone away at least while I´m talking to you!!!...and also leave the others, I´m trying to express myself here!

9. From time to time you should remember that vanity is the greatest of all sins:P

10. Are you laughing me out?!You´better not!...

Mobile phones and pagers are nowadays items used by almost everyone, whithout which we might find ourselves in the impossibility of communication; we might find ourselves secluded indeed. It is said that we are contemporaries in the century “of information” and it’s been long time since information was transmitted through humans’ live meetings. However, for us and the upcoming generations, this technology has turned into accessories “in” or “out of” trend.
To my regard, mobile phones and pagers should not be banned from school, but introduced as clauses in certain rules for students. These communication “tools” are essential for our serene survival nowadays. We need to be kept in touch with everything and the possiblility of making contact at any times with certain people can be life-saving. Parents are at peace with themselves when they know their child can call them or the authorities if they are in trouble or simply they can get the assurance their loved-ones have reached their destination safely. Though, the discussions that have gone on and on on this topic refer to the over-usage of these apparatus, mostly during classes, usage which is refeacting into the disturbance of the program, of the teacher or of the other classmates. A cell-phone ringing at those times is not only annoying, but also wrong. I believe the silent mode is a solution for this problem.
Another aspect is represented by the manipulation of all adolescents, people at the “life-training” stage into wanting newer and more professional devices, irrespective of their percentage of facilities usage. The need of being accepted into different “stylish” groups is directly proportionate with the amount of trendy items you can bring altogether, fact that is not benefic to the psychological development of children. They need to trust in themselves for their own “internal memory” instead that of a cell phone equiped with an mp3 player whose music you never update.
The primordial importance of these “keep-in-touch” hi-tech has been stated above. If I were to balance this importance with the low points of it, I were to incline to the benefits. And don’t ever forget that in the virtual world the future is always unpredictible, but auspicious.

Vanity is the greatest of all sins

What do we regard nowadays as values to guide us towards a happy, or at least accomplished life? Should you ask me, I will deffinately agree that vanity is the greatest of all sins. If you analyze it, the course of a mediocre life can be assembled to a Monopoly game at a human scale. Money and real estate rule our Universe and values are being counted as we count the numbers in a bank account. Exarhu's editorial from today's edition in EVZ has awaken inside me thoughts I have often let out, but never in wtiting. A way too sensible text for him, in a totally different style, deep and restrospective. He says he imagines happiness as a dance with his friends. Truth be said! Going back in time I find myself thinking of the uncountless moments of "luxury" if I may say so, trips I took, places I've been, moments that I wish I could share with my close ones. The real essence of things has its settlement in the times where you truly live. And you don't truly live in your car, waiting for the green light to come, swearing every Monday and prasing every Friday, getting your paycheck and making loans after loans to have all the confort you need (or everyone has). The human race seems to be damned to make compromises. There are a few only that benefit from the priviledge of doing their thing with pleasure and making profits from it. Most of us are to live normal and to wait for the short week end, where we can either spend some quality time with some real friends or waste it with the ones that are of interest.

The experience of writing a magazine.

Many of my acquaintances may assert this is a somehow outdated subject I'm writing about, but I still am pretty proud of what my writing team and I have achieved. Being a journalist is a chore that may bring some to the edge since readers unconsciouslly set their own standards when reading an article. It requires talent and a wide vocabulary to fuel one's talent, and of course a rough documentation on the subject. But, all in all, it requires objectivity. Anyway, I still live under the impression that we lacked objectivity. This spring, Academia Catavencu, a journal in my country, Romania, has given our high-school the opportunity to struggle ourselves into writing a supliment of their magazine. The compulsory task?... Put down in writing whatever bothered us: adolescence, school, the system?!:)) However, and gladly, it did not turn out to be 7 pages of teen frustrations at all. Considering our experience (NONE) we did well.

So, what are the steps of putting together a magazine?

1. Get a team formed of people ready to brainstorm

2. Scoop, sneak, find your subjects

3. Assign a number of subjects to each person

4. Start writing and while doing so make sure you are updated to your colleagues' work.

5. Read your stories among yourselves and find the best output for each article

6. You will need pictures right?

7. Make sure each page represents a different category of subjects, you don't want to make a mess of the general look, don't you?

8. Review and send it to print

9. Wait for your acclaims. haha.

While writing you will also want to promote yourself. Spread the news of your magazine. Make them curious. You don't want people to be surprized by the coming out of your articles, but to be anxious of their apparition.

So go on, I encourage you to find where to write if you feel like writing;)