Bohemian Rhapsody

Today I would like to remember the sunny weekend I spent in Bucharest.
     I will not speak much about chess, as we took only the 3rd place, though the 1st one was expected from us. You can check the results here :http://chess-results.com/tnr135027.aspx?lan=1
     Instead, I will talk about the great time I had there :)

With my friends, Roxana Anton and Raluca Sgircea

     Bucharest has something special when summer. I like it's bohemian air, one can never feel weird on the streets of the Old Center. There's the place where I just enjoy being myself.
     I indulge myself with anything that crosses my mind when there: smoothies, ice-creams, "difficult to spell" names of coffees... and the smile never leaves my face ;)
     What I like about all these Romanian Club Championships is that all my friends gather and no matter of "who beats who" we go for a coffee afterwards :))

 

     xoxo from Chisinau ;)

10

     How to start better the day than with a big coffee and an omelette? Well, I have smth in mind, but better to keep it for another post ;)
     My last days can be characterized easily by: learning, eating, studying, coffee break, learning, sleeping and so on... There might be some more coffee breaks, but you've got the idea.
     I've never been so motivated to study and get good marks since I'm in University. My only goal used to be just to pass the exams, not putting to much effort into this. But guess what happened now- I got two "10"s (the maximum grade) at the first two exams, the "Business English" and "Communication and Negotiation in Business" (thing that never happened since I'm in University, I had 9.72 or 9.50 before) and I got very motivated to continue this way :D I guess that good results and successes stimulate one to want to achieve even more.
     I have the "Management" exam tomorrow, it is not as easy as I first imagined it to be, but I still have some time for revising. The exams keep getting more and more difficult, with the "Finances" and "Econometrics" ones to come. The last exam will be at "Organisational Behaviour", which is intend to be quite easy.
     I haven't played chess for more than one month- a thing that happens to me rarely, but I feel good this way. I will have plenty of time for chess after my session ends. It doesn't mean that I don't follow Wijk though :P It is nice to watch Aronian smashing more or less everyone!
     These being said, guess what- back to studying! :D

xoxo from Iasi ;)

Where's my soul?

     It's been an amazing month, a month I've spent at home and I've really enjoyed it. It's been some years since I didn't want to leave from Chisinau. I used to come for a week and then to run away as fast as I could. Once you taste the freedom- you don't want to give it away. It's the first time when the demand "Be home until 11" hasn't bothered me. I've got used to the sleepless nights I get every time I come here (I tend to find too many things of which to think about when here), I like the ritual "The one who wakes up first makes the breakfast" - I take advantage of it as many times I can :))))) I soooo like when the coffee waits for me in the french press :D I can trade my soul for it. My soul? I feel like I've already traded it without being fully aware of what I've done...
      I'll miss the "kitchen meetings", when I'd go to have a tea at 2 am and I'd find my dad already there :) Why can't I be in more places at once? There should be invented a way to make it happen.
      I don't know where I want myself to be in long term: here, there or somewhere else... I want to be there now, I belong to somewhere else and I'm here-funny...

     Well, as for now, until next time, Chisinau :)