Romania in the global news

I’ve just discovered a blog recently cooked by Daniel Jianu in ‘meager attempts to keep myself sane. All the posts reflect the bias as someone who was born in Romania, studied and worked in the US for many years and now is living in Greece’.

It is something I always wanted to do, but never had the patience for. I really think is very useful for keeping an eye on post-recent history. Moreover, very intriguing the whole idea behind it ‘keep myself sane’ by posting news about Romania while living in a different country….that would be something interesting to hear about.

You can find more on:

http://romanianewswatch.blogspot.com

and just remember to click every now and then on the links listed in the blogroll here, right hand.

PS: Today I had 75 views on this site. Impressive ….just to feel guilty of not posting more often and more consistent, as lately I went a bit too much in personal stuff.

Coming soon…

Partidul -Ceausescu-Romania

This was the song we used to listen every evening on 7 p.m. before the main ‘news’ program, showing Ceausescu, his family, his working visits in the country and so on. Alsom, on the radio, on national festivities, 23 of August (the National Day on those times), New Years Eve, almost all the time :).

Enjoy it, is wicked!

http://www.ceausescu.org/ceausescu_media/pcr.html

At the same time, I would strongly recommend the above site -www.ceausescu.org to those interested in anything about Ceausescu’s era in Romania. It is comprehensive and trustworthy.

 Partidul, Ceausescu, Romania ! 2:26 Corul Madrigal  Vocal   

Call for papers

The good, the bad and the ugly of Romanians seen by expats, foreigners and Romanians alike, as a cultural guide in understanding Romanians. 

RSB should be  a collective blog, so please don’t hesitate to send your ideas, suggestions, observations and I will post all under your signature. I will keep though the prerogative to delete or not post rude comments or inappropriate content. Debates over particularities about Romania and Romanians are also encouraged.

I am really curious to hear you and see how this project will grow. I must confess that this idea came on last night after few days ago I was reading Spiegel On-line International, where they are doing this research for the Germany Survival Bible and after a conversation with an expat in Romania few months ago, who was telling me about peculiarities he noticed at Romanians and wondering about the British and other nations. So, following the German way, the comments, suggestions and observations should:

• Talk about or describe the specificities of Romanians, Romanian culture and society.
• If you have photos to attach, feel free to send me and I will post it, mentioning the source, if these are related with the content.
• Have you any typical Romanian jokes, anecdotes, attitudes to share here, send them over.
• If you are a visitor just passing by or living here for long time you must have observed strange things about Romanians, alike with lovely charming habits. Share those here.
• I will try my best, in case you have your own blog with things of relevance for this project, to post links to it.
• Your posts can be either long or short, just a comment or a long description of something you noticed and you think it could qualify as Romanian pattern of some sort.
• You can send me your suggestions, ideas, photos, also on my email address to: claudiadarian@gmail.com

Thank you.

(September 08, 2006)

A few things…

I planned a while ago to have a special section with talented Romanians/Romanians I like. This will be exclusively based on my own taste, preferences and subjectivity, so I will refer only to people I find talented/interesting/or I simply like.

I’ll also make a section with Famous/Infamous Romanians where I’ll try to list great Romanians and perceptions/reflections of bad Romanians as those reflected in the international  press lately (particularly British press). We cannot look only at one part of the coin, the good one or the bad one…as everywhere on this planet there are at least two ways at looking at something.

 As you can see, I have also moved the content -almost all!- to a new site: http://romaniansurvivalbook.wordpress.com . I hope it will be better and easier both for me and those who read me and wrote to me so many emails with suggestions and questions. Thank you all, I did not post everything here, as many of you wrote on my personal email and that is not public.