Guys, it's been more than a year since I've showed my face here; literally. Usually, it happens around my birthday. This year, as usual, I was in Athens with work on my birthday, but kept it a big secret, as I wouldn't have wanted any big fuss at work. Now, about a month later, I'm ready with some new pictures, in this yearly post.

These are 2 photos I've taken less than a week ago, from a shooting I like to call Tommy & I. :D 2 vanilla samples here.

Your Romanian blogger salutes you!! Have a nice weekend! :)

This is how I felt a lot in the last few days, especially in the last 24 hours. While I was complaining to two of my friends separately about some misfortunes, mostly sentimental, and my depressed mood, I had a revelation. I was/am Mary! I am. And I'll definitely become her more and more as I'll get older. How true is that character, how true is the performance. Some of you will recognize of course the final scene.

Let's hope for better days. At least the sun is up.

Happy Birthday to me!

While I am not celebrating, I do feel the narcissistic need of sharing this happy event with those few constant readers slash fellow bloggers. Who knew I’ll be turning 24 (shhhhhhhh… don’t tell anyone)?!

I hope I’ll still be around in 20 years (when I roughly calculated I’ll be over with my Best Actress series). I actually hope we’ll ALL be around, but also maybe richer, happier, more fulfilled.

I’m posting some photos taken 2 days ago, just in case you’re wondering how am I doing / slimming :))

PS: If you happen to be someone from work, please keep quiet on the subject matter. I really am NOT into celebrating and while I enjoy being the centre of attention on many occasions, this is not one of them. :)

Just a message :)

I have missed by 2 weeks the anniversary of this dear (to me) blog! It was 2 years ago that I had started posting. I don’t believe in such celebrations, yet here I am and it’s a good excuse to recap things a bit.

It started out of my obsession for ranking, for Oscar and due to my desire of participating in Stinkylulu’s Supporting Actress Smackdown. I had no job at the time, and in many ways this blog helped solving this issue. It’s because here I got to practice my English (I still get to, obviously) and that does help keeping things fresh in mind.

It is great coming back to the blogs, especially when feeling a bit depressed, or sad, it does often separate me from real life stuff.

When I first started, there weren’t this many Oscar ranking obsessed people out here. :) I knew about Stinkylulu’s Supporting Actress passion and Nick (Nick’s Flick Picks) was doing Best Actress, but I discovered his blog later on. Now, everywhere you turn people are doing Oscar categories :) , some with incredible speed, as if it’s some kind of a race. I move slower, I did so especially in my first year (due to all personal stuff) and I really enjoy digesting the categories.

Stinkylulu was a big influence, obviously, and I am forever grateful. Step by step, I started doing this just a bit differently and I’m happy with the way the blog looks right now. I’ve obviously met interesting people here, yet considering “geography is a bitch” (my line), all friendships will probably remain virtual at most.

I don't like my face in this photo, but not a lot of them to choose from :)

I’ve just arrived in Athens for 1 week with lots of work (some might remember I’ve lived here for 4 1/2 months) and it feels strange coming back; it might take some time away from my blogging or maybe not. I have no idea.

So: a bit of patience and thank you very much for reading. May we all enjoy many wonderful Oscar years from now on.

Alex.