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     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 ;)

Be a child!

     There's been not so much going on lately, but somehow there's still been a lot.
     I had my first exam during the first semester's session at univeristy yesterday- at English- the easiest one- the one meant to raise the moral, which it certainly did ;) There are five more exams to go. I feel confident about them, well, maybe not so confident about Econometrics, but still- expecting them with a lot of hope.          The session will finish on the 2nd of February, with a couple of weeks left until the Individual Europeans, which will be held in Yerevan and which will open the chess season for me.
     I have been a child today and I have really enjoyed it. It's a nice feeling- being taken care of and who can make it better than your own parents? Even though we can feel it less and less with the years that pass by and turn us into grown ups, parents never give up on being parents for their "already no so childish children". It may be annoying and generally, it is annoying, but from time to time it's just nice to enjoy it.
     As I read in a very interesting course- "Transactional Analysis", which is an Erice Berne's theory, every person has 3 models of behaving: the child's one (which is about emotions and feelings), the adult's one (which is about pragmatic thinking, logic and rationalising) and the parent's one (which is about morality).They normally succeed one after another multiple times a day in every human's being personality and they trigger certain behaviours.
     Well, today, I've been mostly on the "child mode", feeling lots of emotions and not censoring myself on expressing them. I felt like shouting at an asshole- which I successfully did, I felt like being helpless and I received a loving hug, I felt happy and gratefull and I don't hesitate a minute showing it here!
     Don't waste all your energy on trying to be an adult 24/7! It is very interesting and relieving to be a child!


xoxo from Iasi ;)

Happy Dance

     These days since I've got home should have been "Heaven on Earth" and instead I've caught a cold and in the same time I have to study for exams day by day with my cold making a "happy dance" every time I don't understand something. Econometrics can be really tricky when you don't recall anything from the last year's course of Statistics... Well, I hope that I'll get through with it until tomorrow, when I have to submit the paper.
      I still haven't written anything on the Anand-Carlsen match. It is not as spectacular as I expected it to be. Carlsen has a clear edge and a +2 already, I don't see how anything can change- I guess that we'll have a new World Champion in some days.
     That's all for now... I'll return to my battle with my cold and with my one and true love "Econometrics" :))))
     Wish you all a healthy and nice end of week!

xoxo from Chisinau ;)