ioana
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- Name: ioana
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
I experiment with myself and the world around me. I always seek for that small sparkle of what's real and authentic in things, people, nature...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
My uber music
The reason I’m tripping over my laptop at the office is the uber music played by my two favorite web radios! It gives me rhythm and energy as I gracefully write an article or I complete an elegant brand strategy. Humming is an unwanted side effect, but since my colleagues aren’t complaining (too much) I can just ignore it and focus on the happy feeling!
Both are from FG Radio, a French station hosting some of the best DJs in the world, like David Guetta, Antoine Claraman, Bob Sinclair, Roger Sanchez and my very own favorite David Vendetta! The music is alive, thrilling, exhilarating, the mixes are pumping, beating, twisting!
The first is FG Chic - Paris blackmusic, as they call it, soulful garage deephouse & R’nB
The close 2nd runner is FG Dance by Hakimakli - International dance music from the ‘90s till today
Savoirez votre musique!
Both are from FG Radio, a French station hosting some of the best DJs in the world, like David Guetta, Antoine Claraman, Bob Sinclair, Roger Sanchez and my very own favorite David Vendetta! The music is alive, thrilling, exhilarating, the mixes are pumping, beating, twisting!
The first is FG Chic - Paris blackmusic, as they call it, soulful garage deephouse & R’nB
The close 2nd runner is FG Dance by Hakimakli - International dance music from the ‘90s till today
Savoirez votre musique!
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Finally, yuhuuuu!!!!
After long debates, ideas, scheduling and rescheduling, finally we bought the flight tickets!!! Dodo, Oltea and I are dropping in Asia this summer - ready or not, here we come! :D
This is our itinerary, if you're in the neighbourhood we'd love to catch up with you! Arriving July 26, departing August 13 :D
This is our itinerary, if you're in the neighbourhood we'd love to catch up with you! Arriving July 26, departing August 13 :D
I miss Asia so so soooooooo much :)
Monday, May 28, 2007
Saturday, 5 am
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
In '77 and '69 revolution was in the air
I was born too late into a world that doesn't care
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Belated 1st of May
Actually I worked on May 1st, but before that I had 3 wonderful days of chill-out with friends and I wanted to share them with you. We went to Casa di Popesco, a stylish mansion in the surroundings of Campina, this Hamptons of Romania :)
We basically cooked, ate, drank, slept in the sun and chilled our minds and bodies. For those of us more active there were some episodes of kite launching and bow and arrows! But we (I)mostly just slept in the sun :)
sooo lazy, sleeping in the sun
We basically cooked, ate, drank, slept in the sun and chilled our minds and bodies. For those of us more active there were some episodes of kite launching and bow and arrows! But we (I)mostly just slept in the sun :)
eating yummy yummy food in the fresh country air
sooo lazy, sleeping in the sunproof that I can cook! my task was to rub Indian Coconut Oil on the chicken...no chicked were injured during this experiment!
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Just a usual day in the office
I’ve been telling a lot of you about my uber-cool job and team. Let me just illustrate a day in our office, a usual Friday, with a lot of phone calls, stress, deadlines!
Below you can see a part of our team together with Richard – our Managing Partner (guess which one is he? :)
Below you can see a part of our team together with Richard – our Managing Partner (guess which one is he? :)
Friday, May 11, 2007
Urban blues
Today is a chilling Friday in our office. I’m mostly doing paperwork as my thoughts fly away to different places. The fresh beauty of the city mesmerizes me these days. It’s like I ache to pace along the little paved streets, along the broad sided boulevards, along the flourished trees in the parks. It’s sunny and warm outside, the air is fresh and still.
Tranquility.
I feel like walking through a postcard, with everything around me silent and motionless. I can no longer see the crowded traffic, I can no longer hear the noisy cars. I am the only one moving. I feel I’m loosing myself in stillness and sepia blurs.
Saudade.
I’m listening to a silent music, the Fado. It breathes soul into me, slow motion around, and colors my surroundings. A music of beauty and creation, music of birth and soul!
A chuva molhava-me o rosto The rain felt in my face
Tranquility.
I feel like walking through a postcard, with everything around me silent and motionless. I can no longer see the crowded traffic, I can no longer hear the noisy cars. I am the only one moving. I feel I’m loosing myself in stillness and sepia blurs.
Saudade.
I’m listening to a silent music, the Fado. It breathes soul into me, slow motion around, and colors my surroundings. A music of beauty and creation, music of birth and soul!
A chuva molhava-me o rosto The rain felt in my face
Gelado e cansado Frozen and tired
As ruas que a cidade tinha The streets that the city had
Ja eu percorrera I've went along through them
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
I quit smoking
16 days and counting! My love-hate relationship with smoking started when I was 12 or 13, and tried my first cigarette. I remember I was with my two best friends, hiding at the riverside surrounding our neighborhood, and had our first ever smokes. Three young girls chocking and coughing, but keeping an aristocratic face and holding our cigars with infatuation...hilarious!
It didn’t take long from then to actually start smoking! At 14 I was pretty much smoking ¼ packs per day. It was the coolest thing since most of my friends were actually older than I, and with a cigar in my hand I felt much more comfortable “acting mature”. At the time I also had to face my exams to enter high school, so stress was on the hand. And we all know how a good smoke can calm you down...
I quit at 16! My tennis coach said it affected my running and movement on the court, so I decide to stop, especially that I was about to play if a few local competitions. It worked quite well, and I never craved for a smoke :)
I started again in the fall of 2005! An extreme workload in the MC (aiesec national board), problems at home, and failing at school put up a lot of stress on me. And I suddenly remembered the blessed relief coming with a deep inhaled smoke. Ever since I simply became accustomed with it: using a 5 minutes cigar break to work out some details with my colleagues, sharing a juicy gossip with my friends over a smoke, waiting for someone, flirting with someone, there are infinite ways of using a cigar.
A bit over 2 weeks ago I decided to put a stop to it! My campaign for a healthy life towards...myself! The strange thing is now it’s different to quit, I need to instill much more discipline to be able not to pick up a pack of smokes. Every time my friends are smoking or my colleagues are rounding up over a cigar break I need to consciously decide NO, I am not smoking NOW! Every day has a long succession of these NOWS....
It didn’t take long from then to actually start smoking! At 14 I was pretty much smoking ¼ packs per day. It was the coolest thing since most of my friends were actually older than I, and with a cigar in my hand I felt much more comfortable “acting mature”. At the time I also had to face my exams to enter high school, so stress was on the hand. And we all know how a good smoke can calm you down...
I quit at 16! My tennis coach said it affected my running and movement on the court, so I decide to stop, especially that I was about to play if a few local competitions. It worked quite well, and I never craved for a smoke :)
I started again in the fall of 2005! An extreme workload in the MC (aiesec national board), problems at home, and failing at school put up a lot of stress on me. And I suddenly remembered the blessed relief coming with a deep inhaled smoke. Ever since I simply became accustomed with it: using a 5 minutes cigar break to work out some details with my colleagues, sharing a juicy gossip with my friends over a smoke, waiting for someone, flirting with someone, there are infinite ways of using a cigar.
A bit over 2 weeks ago I decided to put a stop to it! My campaign for a healthy life towards...myself! The strange thing is now it’s different to quit, I need to instill much more discipline to be able not to pick up a pack of smokes. Every time my friends are smoking or my colleagues are rounding up over a cigar break I need to consciously decide NO, I am not smoking NOW! Every day has a long succession of these NOWS....
I'ma moving 'yall!
Bye bye myaiesec.net, hello nomadlife.org!
Thanks for hosting me guys, I loved my time on aiesec.net :D
You can still find me at http://genuine.nomadlife.org
Thanks for hosting me guys, I loved my time on aiesec.net :D
You can still find me at http://genuine.nomadlife.org
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
The Silence Headphones
Music is such an integrant part of my life that I could not imagine living without it! It’s omnipresent in any activity: I wake up in the sound of salsa, go to the office listening to the radio, work on very different rhythms according to how I need to be – energetic, efficient, chilled!
But now so many things and ideas and running in my mind that I need to quiet things down. I’m dealing with 10 different plans from all aspects of my life, solving each one, working on all together. It’s like having some kind of creative Tourettes – I’m spurting out ideas, solutions, plans, mails, desires, everything coming out in one giant incontrollable noisy flow! And the music only makes me even more pumped, hyped with rhythm and febrile!
Silence. I ache for silence.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Thunder Perfect Mind
I found it on Dodo’s blog and loved it! This is a commercial...targeting women...praising women...artistic...sensual...sophisticated...simple...
Prada Woman was the fist perfume from Miuccia Prada, launched in 2005, and the commercial has been specially filmed for this launch. It’s directed by Jordan and Ridley Scott (daughter and father), in Berlin, showing the complexity of a woman’s many facets.
The name and the inspiration came from a poem discovered in the Gnostic manuscripts from Nag Hammadi. Strangely, it can only be found in the Coptic version of the texts. Thunder Perfect Mind is a monologue of the female divinity, most probably Isis or Sophia, since the text has clear Egyptian and Jewish influences. However, it can’t really be attributed to either, as the author, time and place are unknown. Most probably it has originated in the 2nd or 3rd century, and the only sure thing is that the Coptic version has been translated from a previous (unfound) Greek text.
Read below the extracts from the poem, and if you want to read the entire translation of the Poem, you can find it at: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.html
For I am the first and the last.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter.
I am she whose wedding is great,
and I have not taken a husband.
I am the bride and the bridegroom
I am senseless and I am wise.
Come forward to childhood,
and do not despise it because it is small and it is little.
And do not turn away greatnesses in some parts from the smallnesses,
for the smallnesses are known from the greatnesses.
I am the one who is honored, and who is praised,
For I am knowledge and ignorance.
I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.
I am control and uncontrollable,
I am strength and I am fear.
I am war and peace.
I am the substance and the one who has no substance
But I, I am compassionate and I am cruel.
Do not hate my obedience
and do not love my self-control.
I am the union and the dissolution.
But I am she who exists in all fears
and strength in trembling.
I am she who is weak,
and I am well in a pleasant place.
And I am an alien and a citizen.
I am the silence that is incomprehensible
and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold
For I am the first and the last....
Prada Woman was the fist perfume from Miuccia Prada, launched in 2005, and the commercial has been specially filmed for this launch. It’s directed by Jordan and Ridley Scott (daughter and father), in Berlin, showing the complexity of a woman’s many facets.
The name and the inspiration came from a poem discovered in the Gnostic manuscripts from Nag Hammadi. Strangely, it can only be found in the Coptic version of the texts. Thunder Perfect Mind is a monologue of the female divinity, most probably Isis or Sophia, since the text has clear Egyptian and Jewish influences. However, it can’t really be attributed to either, as the author, time and place are unknown. Most probably it has originated in the 2nd or 3rd century, and the only sure thing is that the Coptic version has been translated from a previous (unfound) Greek text.
Read below the extracts from the poem, and if you want to read the entire translation of the Poem, you can find it at: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.html
For I am the first and the last.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter.
I am she whose wedding is great,
and I have not taken a husband.
I am the bride and the bridegroom
I am senseless and I am wise.
Come forward to childhood,
and do not despise it because it is small and it is little.
And do not turn away greatnesses in some parts from the smallnesses,
for the smallnesses are known from the greatnesses.
I am the one who is honored, and who is praised,
For I am knowledge and ignorance.
I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.
I am control and uncontrollable,
I am strength and I am fear.
I am war and peace.
I am the substance and the one who has no substance
But I, I am compassionate and I am cruel.
Do not hate my obedience
and do not love my self-control.
I am the union and the dissolution.
But I am she who exists in all fears
and strength in trembling.
I am she who is weak,
and I am well in a pleasant place.
And I am an alien and a citizen.
I am the silence that is incomprehensible
and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold
For I am the first and the last....