Tangerine's PoV

This is by far the best movie I have ever seen. So perfectly done, the actors interpreted perfectly their roles, Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins are incredibly great. I won’t tell anything about the plot, just that when you first hear of it you might say “another movie abour prisons”, but this is not about life in prison, is much more than that, much more. Congratulations to all the persons that worked on this movie: you’ve all made a great work of art.

I never buy movies, I admit, but I will buy this one for sure.

And a brilliant quote:

Heywood: The Count of Monte Crisco…
Floyd: That’s “Cristo” you dumb shit.
Heywood: …by Alexandree Dumb-ass. Dumb-ass.
Andy Dufresne: Dumb-ass? “Dumas”. You know what it’s about? You’ll like it, it’s about a prison break.
Red: We oughta file that under “Educational” too, oughten we?

A few months ago I have posted this about Mac users. Why? Just because I was tired of hearing Bruno say that Apple was the best thing ever, etc etc. It’s not that I didn’t believe him, but I was tired to hear that everyday. And I know that many Mac users are just like him, cannot stop talking about Apple. This is why I said that I would never be a Mac user.

A few months later I have seen this speech that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University and my opinion started to change a bit. I don’t care if what he says is true or not, the fact is that he is convincing and that when I listened to his speech I was in a moment of my life when I somehow needed to hear this speech. It made me work harder. It’s very motivating indeed.

Last week I was thinking about buying a new laptop. Bruno was insisting all day long “Come on, buy a Macbook, come on, come on”, and I always said no. I didn’t want a Macbook, I though that for that money I could find a much better laptop. I actually configured a very nice Dell laptop that costed less than the Macbook and was much better. Nevertheless, one day we went to K-tuin to look for a usb hub for Bruno. We entered the shop and I went to one of the shop assistants and told him to show me the offers that they had for the Macbook. In 5 minutes I made the reservation for the new Macbook. When we went out of the shop Bruno was quite surprised about my decision and of course, I told him “Don’t worry, as soon as I get it I will install Windows”. Yesterday we got the laptop and up to this moment it still has Leopard installed, and something tells me that this will not change. For the moment, I’ve got no reason to install Windows.

So, as a conclusion, I am now a Mac user so I take back what I said in that post. I recognize that the Macbooks are very nice to use and touch and that Leopard is a nice operating system, much easier to use than what I expected.

Sim iimashita.

Alex has a new favourite toy. It’s his first toy but he didn’t even look at it until now (he has it since he was 4 or 5 days old). Now it’s hard to separate him from the chicken. They are his first best friends!

This is not an English lesson. It’s just a life lesson, one that took me too much time to learn.

Sometimes I want to turn past into present and I finally get tired of trying and trying and not achieving it. I am perfectly aware of the fact that this is not possible, but I tend to live in the past, it’s just one of my methods to bring the past back into the present thinking that this would make me happier or something. It’s wrong. It took me time to understand, but it’s wrong. I now know that the sun in spring will never look like when I looked at it during the Romanian literature class in college, and my mother’s sarmale will not taste the same as when I lived with her. The reason is quite obvious: I’m not in the Romanian class in college or living in my mother’s house anymore.

The present is never enough, you have it so you don’t miss it, while the past is gone and sometimes you’d like to turn back the time and feel again what you felt in the past, live again those moment when you didn’t have to worry for the rent and other day-to-day responsibilities.

Living in another country made me miss more things that I ever thought I could miss, and this made me want to go back to Romania, but then I realize that if I’d go back I would probably miss living here much more than I now miss Romania. Present is now and here for me, past is gone and I keep all the good memories which come back to me from time to time with a smell, with a dream, with a call, and future… oh, future is brighter than Orange.

This is just a note to tell myself that present might be here, and I might not miss it but it’s much better than past so I wouldn’t change it for any of the good moments I have lived before.