As you have noticed, the Sunday Brunch is missing and I’ve been awfully quiet for longer than I usually am. Well, the simple reason is I spend most of my Sunday in a police station as some idiot hit my car. He was the guilty one, he got a fine, but I still was forced [...]

Time: 8.10 am. Temperature: minus some centigrades. Speed of my car: about 20 km per hour. Road: icy.
And I almost killed someone. Old lady, barely walking. With ice on the road, she just started crossing the street, no traffic light, no marking, no nothing. She just did not look and crossed. Thank God for the [...]

I see each book as being deeply connected with the culture it comes from. Therefore, I believe when translating a book, the translator of choice should do a little background research, ask around, and basically get to know the author and his/her culture. Just knowing the language is really not enough.
Especially when the book is [...]

In Bucharest? And not to have to worry all the time during the party? Then I have one advice for you! Stay away from the Glamour club!
Glamour has a pretty cool interior design, an amazing location, it has plenty of space for people to dance. At first glance, it seems the perfect place to organize [...]

We’ve all heard of bloggers who were arrested, of bans on certain free blogging platforms (as a matter a fact, Shi has written extensively on the Blogger.com ban in Pakistan). But the countries where it happened did not scare us much…Egypt, Pakistan, not all that bad, and they were solved soon enough.
What about Italy? Would [...]