Author: Biencutza
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On today’s menu: Corn
In the summer time, in Romania one of the best dishes is boiled corn. Simple to cook, just put some corn in a cooking pan and boil it for about 2 hours. Then let it cool a little, add some salt and start eating 🙂
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Vegetables-balls
Yes, vegetables-balls, not meatballs 🙂 Ingredients: Zuchini Potatoes Onions Garlic Eggs Flour Parsley
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[Film] Pieta – new Kim Ki Duk movie
The controversial Koreean director Kim Ki Duk comes back this year with a new movie, called Pieta. The trailer looks good. Unfortunately it’s in koreean and I don’t understand a word of it 🙂 The movie will be out somewhere this August.
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[Romania] Vama Veche – young people’s place at the Black Sea
Last weekend a very good friend invited us to the sea side to celebrate her birthday and we spent two lovely days at Vama Veche, somewhere at the Black Sea, about 300 km from Bucharest, Romania. Vama Veche is a small village somewhere at the border between Romania and Bulgaria, at the sea side. Years…
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[Books] Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
If I think about the books that I enjoyed the most, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex is definitely on my top 5. It’s one of those books that got my attention from the first rows and that I enjoyed until I finished reading all the 600 pages. It starts like this : “I was born twice: first,…
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[Books] Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
After some long time of reading Asian literature, I came across a really good African book that I am about to finish. Disgrace written by the South African J.M. Coetzee. It’s a book about the a middle-aged professor who manages to ruin his life and the lives of the ones around him, get’s kicked from…
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[Film] Flickering Lights – how to open a restaurant in the woods and be successful
Last night I saw another great movie from the Dutch director Anders Thomas Jensen. After Adam’s Apples, (I wrote about it here) which I found simply surprising, this time we have Flickering Lights, made in 2000. It tells the story of 4 gangsters from Copenhagen who steal a bag full of money and try to…
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[Film] Nothing’s All Bad !
I discovered a new Danish director, Mikkel Munch-Fals, with a very good movie made in 2012, Nothing’s All Bad. It tells the story of 4 people, with their own lives and problems and how in the end they meet and end up together. Once again a great Nordic movie!
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[Film] The Brothersome Man – the reality is not how we see it
I recently saw again after some years a Jens Lein movie from 2005, The Brothersome Man. Shocking story about a man in his 40s waking up in a town he has never been before, having an apartment and a job there. It got me thinking of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984. Great…
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[Books] Everything is Illumiated – Jonathan Safran Foer
I read this book Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer somewhere at the beginning of this year and I found it simply delicious. It has everything a book should have : humour, adventures, suspense, love, friendship. I enjoyed the subject (a young man from America goes to Ukraine in search of the woman who…
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Summer Readings
Publishersweekley.com posted a list of nice books to read this summer. You can find the list here. Enjoy your summer and enjoy reading!
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Tips for low cost trips
Hostelworld.com published a list of ways you can go on holiday on a low budget. Simple rules, that anyone can follow. You can read the article here.
The Chocolates Of Life 