My Weblog

View the Romanian version of this page here.
Pentru versiunea in romana a acestei pagini, intrati aici.

Yes, I only have a blog, not an innovation!
I found it hard to start blogging, because I found it hard to convince myself of the reasons behind doing so. It also took me a while until I finally was able to tell the others that I have a blog, because I didn’t feel a strong connecting between myself and the things I managed to write about, from time to time. Perhaps it was the frequency, perhaps not. Now, the connection is a little tighter, but the lack of spare time and the continuously growing price of time are plotting against my personality and my ability to express it.

User-friendly CV
I don’ think it was necessary to start with the fact that my name is Andrei (Andrew); you should already be knowing this, since you’ve gotten here. I am a student, in Bucuresti (Bucharest, Romania), at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Computer Science faculty, since the autumn of 2005.

You can call me Andrei or Mihai (Michael) (by DNS), but I also answer to “ba” (”yo!”) from time to time. The nicknames are starting to become irrelevant and obsolete; if you are curious, check out the Romanian version of this text.

I was born in 1986, in the evening of November 27th, in Galati and I spent my childhood in Suceava, a city much different than the one that it is nowadays, a city that remains only in my memories. Due to some unfortunate events, I moved to Galati in a winter, while I was in my second grade. The things to come proved to be only fortunate effects of this change, that couldn’t have ben any other way different, since this was the course that my life was supposed to follow.

In the years I was in school, I’ve changed my classroom (colleagues included) three times, which has left me lots of memories about those people. They are priceless to me. After the exam, I was admitted to a good high school, the one I chose, and I never regretted my choice. I’m still not sure whether the first years of my life or the years spent in high school are the best memories I have. Don’t get the wrong idea about me, I don’t live through memories, but I live a better life because of them, because they are beautiful, because they motivate me to build new ones from the present. Because I’ve learned a lot from them.

Then, I was admitted at the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, and I don’t regret that either. I adapted to a new way of learning and to a different way of living, in a foreign city.

I’ve always had a passion for technical stuff which, later on, turned out to be a passion for computers. I wanted to have a computer since I was 4, I had the first one at 10 and I still like to play with them, even now, then I press this period key. I’ve been using computers for more things than I can count and I still struggle to discover new ways of using them.

I like traveling, perhaps more than anything and, thanks to certain people that love me, I have traveled a lot. I’m not one of those who consider that you need to see all the beauty of you country before moving on, because I’ve already seen much of Romania. Or, better said, I’ve gotten to “know” Romania better, and I wasn’t impressed. Indeed, sunsets are beautiful, but the sun has a sunset all over the world.

Psychological chart
In my own eyes, I’m a mediocre guy, from a self-oriented expectancy point of view. More precise, from a fulfilled-expectancies point of view. I like to think, even more together with someone that likes it as well. I like to analyze, to comment, to express my opinion, up to the limit where I should stop before starting to judge mindlessly. I try to do as much good as I can around me and, because someone from which I didn’t expect such a thing, once said to me that he took me as his own personal example, I try to be an example for those around me. As much as I can and, often, only to those who deserve. I don’t enjoy hurting people’s feelings, I don’t like unjust people and the only thing I truly hate is pure evilness. I try not to punish think-skinned people and I don’t like to leave bad things as they are. Even if they are humans and even if I an not supposed to care.

Often, I find myself fighting against something or someone, especially when I shouldn’t be doing so or when I should be accepting and uncomplaining. In my opinion if I can to something good, then it’s my duty to do it. And, if I fail, at last I’ve given an example; maybe others will succeed. I have had much more to win than to lose from this attitude and it’s not likely for me to give it up so easily.

I hope I’ll never feel good about myself. I hope I won’t have too many content people around me, to mislead me. I don’t have the purpose or the dream to leave a mark in history. But I know that my life, itself, has a purpose and I want to fulfill it as good as possible. I’m starting by trying to be good.

To be concluded
If you’ve gotten this far, thank you, but don’t rely on these words. I’m not saying that I’m not honest, I’m just saying that you shouldn’t rely on them. Because a page like this one is much too thin for stable image and I am, after all, a human being.

Have you ever seen people with a technical file? I am not such a man and this page is not a file, but only a cover.

All the best!

Andrew