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In the attempt to get things here up-to-date, here’s a quick look at the winter season 2008/9. Nothing much happened, except work and skiing week-ends. I re-visited some places I’d been before, and tried out some new ones. In short chronological order:
I ended 2008 with a trip to Zermatt, to see the Matterhorn, a [...]

Euro2008 is over for the Romanian soccer team.
After a brilliantly executed tactical (albeit sinfully boring) goalless draw against world championship runner-up France and a sensational 1-1 against world champion Italy, after one of the most thrilling games in the competition, they lamentably failed to beat a relaxed Dutch squad to qualify to the quarterfinals.
Typical. [...]

Euro2008 (soccer, for the ones who don’t know on what world they live in ) is in full swing this month.
Romania has survived a hard-fought game against World Champion runners-up France, 0-0. For a neutral person, quite a boring game, but from an “involved” perspective it was amazing, especially for the ones in the [...]

finally i realized what snowboarding is approximately about. i thought i knew from the first day, but i was wrong. in the first days all i did was brrrreak, turn, brrrreak, or slide laterally out of control, brrreak, turn, brrreak. this weekend i went with L&C to Flims, for half a day. it is unbelievable [...]

Last night, the Romanian Lucian Bute, IBF world champion boxing for Interbox in Canada, had to defend his world title against a former world champion, William Joppy.
Here is Joppy’s preview of the fight

and here is the outcome

i finally tried it this week-end, after much postponing. it is, like a friend told me, “inspiring”.
i recommend:
1) read this tutorial
2) reserve a lesson with an instructor
3) go 2 hours or so BEFORE the lesson, pick a (VERY) small hill and get used to the board, doing the exercises in the tutorial. you will fall [...]

Dijon’s great touristic attraction for me on Sunday was the game between Romania and Hungary, at the women’s handball world cup. So I drove the 3 hours to the place, managed to get the ticket i had reserved via the internet (collection centers were all closed.. sundays.. so i got it finally from the sports [...]

i had a day. what to do with it? it snowed earlier this week, so i thought to check out a ski resort close to “base”. there was one at ~90km which sounded vaguely known, so i went there. it was closed, though, however apparently there was one open closeby. so i ended up in [...]

another shockingly refreshing surprise during the game i watched last night (on the internet). again, it was steaua bucharest, and again on the receiving end. this time, at the delivering end senegal’s gueye mansour from F.C. Politehnica 1921 Timisoara.

here’s the context: Steaua Bucharest, the best romanian team all-time, played against Universitatea Cluj, somewhere in Transylvania, a team ranked LAST, without a victory.
Steaua was leading 1-0, when this happened:
At the end “U” Cluj won 2-1.This is why some people like football.