Piracy !

While i was thinking of a subject to talk about , piracy popped into my mind yellnig pick me ! pick me ! How could i resist ?

Actually that’s not totally true. Here’s the roots of it. A few days ago, me and some friends were at the mall…we had in mind two things…bowling or movie. Because it was tie between the bowling fans and the movie fans we played rock-paper-scissors and the movie won, so we went to see a movie. But that’s not the point. The point is during the time we thought about which movie to pick, i was totally uninterested because i’ve seen 90% of the movies that were at that moment in the theatre. But i’ve seen them on my computer, i’ve downloaded them. Which is stealing. So, how do i show my gratitude towards the movie makers, how do i tell them i love their work, i don’t know…but i’m sure that excludes illegal downloading.

Back in camp Dan told me every song that he has on his cell phone was downloaded legally, from sites like iTunes , where each song is 0.99$ each.

I’m not entirely a pirate. For example I go to see movies in the theatre, but just worthy movies — the last one that i’ve seen in theather was Zodiac , a few days after , the copy of it was on the net, but i didn’t feel sorry i spent 6 $ for seeing it in the cinema, because i’ve liked it, furthermore,i liked it so much that i haven’t downloaded that copy even though i would’ve liked to own it, but i guess when you do such things, either you buy the dvd either you don’t — , some of you mai pity the americans for having to pay forevery thing they download .
But come and think about it…how much is a monthly income in the US and how much is here ? Maybe for them spending a dollar on a track is something they do regularly , and i can bet they don’t feel sorry for that dollar , for not spending it on something else

Above, is a random ad against downloading. Taking it further, maybe you’ve seen the South Park episode — i can’t recall its name — when the kids try to download something illegaly and in the next second the police is at their house having them arrested. Maybe in reality is not that critical but still….my guess is that americans do fear ( most of them ) to download because they might get caught, and i think the consequences aren’t mild. So they preffer to go see the movie in the theatre or buy the dvd rather than commit crime ( cause this is what illegal download is ) [ you should check this video ]

Then again, we as romanians don’t have a consistent monthly income, therefore we can’t afford buying original stuff. Is this just an excuse or is it really true ? I can’t decide.

I talked in this article just about the movies , but you know there are lots more….like, tv-shows,books,software,music videos … music. I don’t know if i will continue. I surely know this won’t change anything but maybe all i’ve wanted is to just share my latest opinion about piracy.

Back

ok,i finally got back from the countryside, place where i’ve spent my absence.The abstinence from pc , including internet sucks cos now when i’m back i have to check all the sites and blogs for updates and it’s not comfy cos normally i check them every day and take some time reading/viewing them now i have to read/view them in quick time and this thing sucks hard.
And yeah, i spent my Easter in the countryside. It wasn’t that bad as it sounds, i could at any moment go and take the bus or the train to Bucharest and in a hour i would have been here but i said what the heck, i went there last time in December so it’s kinda long time no see if you know what i mean. I don’t particulary like that place but i have to go no matter what. But it’s a good part,wait, i took some books with me and i almost finished them, that’s a good thing.

When it comes to reading i must have a quiet place, a place where i don’t get bothered easily and frequently,that’s why i cannot read in the bus, or in the tram, or in the personal car ( my dad uses too much the car’s radio and i can’t read because of the music), i think i can better read in the train or plane ( the plane thing i haven’t tried it yet ) or boat i don’t fucking know…the thing is i need to be isolated from the rest of the world when it comes to reading. Cos when i try to read and i don’t have the proper atmosphere i tend to read 3 lines then look away from the books at the others, at what they are talking, and when i come back to my book i can hardly stray to read those 3 lines again and again and again…. i am very peculiar in some ways.

Anyways i saw that the bookaholics plan a meeting for saturday, i’ll be there no matter what. No matter if i am the only boy around.Heh. I wonder how it will be….ah,i think i’ll just have to live and see

Tonight i MUST finish Guns of Avalon, i must.

Yesterday ( no , no Beatles here )

Yesterday i had a great day. Sunday’s never pleased me yet this sunday was again, awesome.
Saturday night i got asleep at 2 am i think after a failed try to watch a movie ( maybe i was too tired) and most surprisingly i woke up the next morning at 7:40 AM ! This is fucking outrageous ! Come on ! You wake up in the weekend like it was tuesday or other day ? And i did it like i hadn’t alarm clocks driving me nuts like every other morning still i woke up at that hour that should be banned once and for all. Then i checked the internet for news, new posts, new torrents….things which i check daily ( i think it has become a reflex ). Right, so i really was boring awefully myself at home and somehow i managed to obtain from my significant other a walk in Cismigiu. And we really had some great time , the weather was warm and sunny, the park was crowded but we found an empty patch with a bench and people walked across it rarely.

After i got home , at nearly 5:30 pm a buddy called me and said he was getting kinda boring himself and why shouldn’t we meet or something, cos there were no much things to do at home. I said ok ( i work very good with these unplanned getaways, if it’s something spontaneous i won’t resist it ) and after a quarter of hour we met. We walked and talked until 22 pm in the night but amazingly my feet were like i have never walked that day, no pain no nothing. Great ! Then we fetched ourselves a beer and sit on a bench and talk about things regarding life….And i have to admit i love this kind of discussions.

So as you see i had a really nice weekend, this because i hadn’t stayed home alot. Maybe this’s the reason…maybe next weekend i’ll do the same and see the differences.

Until then i hope to get my hands over that Amberrrrrrr…..

A Saturday Night Out

When somebody sais a day it’s his or her day i might get a little confused about it. I mean what’s the deal with this day of yours ? I really didn’t get it till now…
So, some time ago ionuca said friday it’s truly her day ( happy happy joy joy things happened then for her and therefore….) I had an idea to proclame saturday as my day but not every saturday was “happy happy joy joy”-full and i was a little sceptical.
But today i can say that surely saturday it’s my day. It’s the first day of the weekend when you can stink of laziness how much you want, you can go to bed late cos next day is still weekend so you don’t have to care about this thingies you would normally care if it were sunday, let’s say.
So today i saw 300 at home, being surrounded by a couple of beers, some peanuts,chips….imagining i was at the theatre. Then a mate called me and asked me what do i do this night , i said nothing cos i really hadn’t have anything planned , and then he said we could go to Preoteasa cos there’s a club he wants me to join.
We arrived there at 6 and some Pm , of course being late but nothing bad happend. Let me tell you what’s all this club about.
There are this young men staying in a theatre room and talking about day to day problems, reflecting above other problems and generally helping each other. It’s not like AA, it’s much…stilized and real serious. Today’s topic was friendship, what makes an ordinary guy a friend, what qualities friends should have, what are your qualities as a friend, fake friends, real friends…stuff like these. Pretty interesting. After the meeting was over we lingered on talking to each other, making new friends, hy my name is…., hy…my name is… , stuff like that, starting to know each other ( me, cos i was new there).
I left with a good impression thinking at the next meeting which will be somewhere in May i think. Anyways, we really need a place where people talk with people about people-ish problems and issues.
Then i took the trolley home and it was super empty, and me and my friend kept laughing at random persons in the bus, for our enjoyment of course. They had nothing to say, just muttering and that’s all.
All in all, saturday’s my day so be original and don’t copy it.

Salvation #2

Today i felt great. I woke up in the morning around 11 am, then i layed in bed neatly another 20 minutes and after that i really started and began to walk around the house like a freakin’ zombie.
Dad was of course, doing what he knows best , watchin tv. So of course i found him laying on the couch like potato and handling professionally the remote control. After a quick small talk he proposed me to go to Billa. I said i’ve had it with Billa and propose him back to go to Auchan. cos Auchan it’s new in my neighborhood and i’ve never shoped there before , i think i proposed Auchan just for the curiosity. He accepted after he protested ( cos my dad is just like that , if he find a place near the house , which is clean, cheap and not crowded he’ll go there till the end…he has no sense of adapting to the new things…..so i had to lead a great battle to convince him). Of course he muttered all the time that it’s too crowded, that it’s a long way to walk , stuffs like that. After i hold on to my nerves bravely we’ve managed to fetch all the things we’ve needed ( “We could get all this things from Billa as well” – “Yes,dad,we could…but we’ve not, haven’t we ? ” – “rrr…” ). Then i arrived home somewhere aroun 1 pm.

I had a thing to do today but it was reprogramed to another day. So iwas feeling misserable spending my saturday home so i called my good friend i was telling you about yesterday and i went off to his place. Evil me…he wanted to watch “The Departed” but i was not in the mood to see a movie ( my pc is old-fashioned , therefore it doesn’t play new games..soo….”what games do you have”–”carbon”–”nice”– after a while after playing carbon–”other games?”–”i think i have Call fo Duty 2″–”nice”) but i ended playing madly COD2 and not wanting to leave anymore. It’s a great game. I reckon i MUST buy a new pc … i don’t know…maybe till the next winter i will… .

I still got the 24 rons and i want to buy a book. I think i’ll order Huysman’s book if it’s still avalible. Now i’m writing this post , while i hear the comments from the soccer game ( i’m not into football that much…) and i think i’ll turn on winamp , just to feel better.

Salvation

I seriously was being teared down by this boringness thing i had in the last time.
Yesterday while i was talking to a good mate he told me why we don’t go this night to a pool or something ? he said some of his friends will come and i’ll meet them and it’ll be a great time. I accepted first suspiciously , i who was adapted to pc and internet, but then i really liked it and i hope we’ll repeat this thing. They said next time we’ll going to paintball, can’t wait. Haven’t played paintball yet , so i’m a noob , i hope i’ll shoot somebody, just once .

So yesterday at 7 pm we were at the Polithenica subway station and waiting for the other guys. When they came we went off to the club. we play by pairs. I reckon i’m not as bad as i thought i was at “live” pool…must work a little bit on the technique but just that. We beat them twice but they have beaten us third times. I don’t care about the score as long as we had a great time together.

After that we went to the subway, which was empty ( at 10 pm ) and i loved this thing. Then i staied to talk with my good mate for 1 hour and a half i think. We talked about love,life… very “real” discussion i didn’t have in the last time. Now i’m very optimistic and i hope this mood will last.

i excuse myself for the many gramatics mistakes i have done in this post. sorry. i’ve just drank two beers.

Bullshit

I was joking with some mates today at school that i’ll rename my blog Boring ( or bored … don’t know yet ) , that i will edit the line under the current Rambling ( ” The blog about movies, books and day-to-day life ” ) <- this one. I said i’ll edit it to look like The blog about boring movies, boring books and boring day-to-day life cos it was a lote of boredom altering my mood lately ( i haven’t said nothing about it coming to an end though ) . Of course all was a joke but it’s not a give away idea.

So all the inspector crap i was tellin’ you yesterday turned out to be a big bogus. So i arrived at school with one hour later ( morning sleep rulz ) i had white t-shirt ( *crap* ) as they told us, to *look good*…my ass. White sucks,officialy. So it turned out to be a complete nonsense cos they ( the smart ass teachers ) said to us that them ( the smart ass inspectors ) will be visiting every school class putting *smart ass* questions, thing which hadn’t happend at all. There was no goddamn inspector in my class and as far as i know not in other classes, maybe just droped by to talk to the fat ass principal. So after the whole bunch of lies they told us to tell them , now, it turned out another one. A big one !.
We have a shop in the school from where you can buy different things to eat and drink. Well , the Mecca of all students was today CLOSED so the main theme we talked about was how starved we were and so on….this until some mates decided to put an end to this chaos and went to buy goods from a shop outside school’s area. I first heard that the gatekeeper didn’t let ‘em pass but he let them afterwards.

I hope today, maybe tomorrow i’ll finish Reaper Man . Good so far although i don’t like very much the plot as i like in Mort for example, but it’s a good book after all.

Nevertheless i hate this buggering rain. Make it stop !

I’m bored

I’m bored and i can’t help myself. I searched for solutions to get rid of this boredom but not a single one actually worked. Maybe it’s the friggin weather outside….i mean i like rain but when is raining quietly ( reminds me of the countryside thingies ) and you don’t feel blue and worthless.

Today was quite a nice day despite school , school’s the main problem that can easily ruine or light up my current disposition ( off the record, usually ruines it but that’s other story ). For example today i got a C at Geography and a A at Physics but i’m not happy , of course i had been happy when i took the mark but just then , it’s not a lasting happiness. I hate school for its hypocrisy ( i think this is the way of spelling it…i don’t know and i don’t feel like searching ) anyway , you understand. So i’m tired and had it to the full of school’s hypocrisy …. asa an example : Tomorrow we’ll be in the middle of an important inspection. Today and yesterday they told us the questions that inspectors can ask us and also they told us how we should answer , otherwise it’ll be bad ( for us of course ) Now tell me this is fair and square … cos it’s not all the way. So they told us to wear uniform and all that shit and look happy like our school it’s the fucking best, our teachers are the best ever and shit…..bullshit , crap …. bollocks.

It’s a good thing that school didn’t yet ruined my reading disposition which is great. Discworld it’s fantastic , nothing else to say about it. Tomorrow i might get some money i’m not sure, but if i’ll get it’d be great cos i saw a dozen of interesting books i may buy , but this annoying thing called money stoped me. hahaha…revenge is here boredom , prepare for the worst !
(i really didn’t want to sound like that line from 300 you all know…. but i think it had , hadn’t it ?)

Yay

My cold is like gone, it should be shouldn’t it ? yes, of course it should. A cold does not last more than 2-3 days let’s say , mine lasted 3 days, though enough to piss me off so badly. Fortunately,yesterday i went hard on medicine,teas and stuff and by the night the cold it was weakend but not flewn away. I took the normal , i say, medicine in a case like this , aspirine, some pills for flu like nurofen, something that it’s not so easy to get , codeine, for the neck aches. But there were still leakings and i had to carry some napkins with me just in case of flood. I don’t think even now that it was a down straight cold , maybe something more mild that cold, because i didn’t have temperature or things like that.

But now i’m brand new, my mom brought me some Olynth thing, for the leakings , and now it’s just desert in there, like it haven’t rained for years ) .

Also today i dressed up well, too well i can say for the weather outside, at noon i was almost burning but all this in the name of sanity,yeah sure. As soon as my zipper from the “spring” coat is fixed i’ll wear it , it’s a must.

I just finished reading Shawshank Redemption, oppinions below , i’ll head towards summer right now , Summer of Corruption that is. Apt Pupil.

That’s it for today folks, just another boring tuesday day

Just caught a cold

Unfortunately everybody has to make it through a period like this. When they catch a cold. Despite every severe sickness i can possess, i think cold ( or it’s daddy flu ) is the worst,the meanest, the most annoying. Why ? Well in a beautiful sunny day like….the saturday that just passed you’re all right , no leakings, no sneezings, no neckaches. And then, in another sunny day like….the sunday that just passed you go out to buy/walk/wander something/somewhere , and of course you are not well dressed because what the heck ? the sun is smiling,winking yet planning some monstruous act. So you walk randomly let’s say, not taking this too personal i guess, so as i was just saying , walk neatly with your worries all scurried away, with your jacket unzipped ( not meant to be unzipped , the zipper is broken ) and with a big grin on your face.

Then in just a matter of minutes i can say, the sun hides behind the clouds, the clouds begin to turn dark,grey and very stormy looking , but you say to yourself ‘ ah,c’mon not now , wtf? why am i worrying this much ? it ain’t gonna rain ‘ and then with the first , solitary drops, comes the assault . And you were wearing just a jacket and a tee. Of course the rain is bloody ( no,not wet ) ) cold and you run as fast as you can towards home ( or towards something so stay underneath).

Finally you arrive home practically rained , sure you undress yourself quickly and put your clothes on the radiator to turn them warm.

But of course you FORGET to take some aspirin or some cold medicine , and OF COURSE by the end of the night your nose is leaking like hell, your neck hurts and you feel tired.

Of course i caught a cold.