My name is Andrei Botesteanu, and i’ve kept this blog for 2 years now (you can scroll way down to the bottom of the page for information on the blog itself). I write for the lack of a good listener, and also to keep my afterthoughts in line. I generally believe this to be a good exercise in sincerity and disclosure, allowing me to get to know my limitations and myself.
I’ve lived in Bucharest (Romania) all of my life, currently by myself in an apartament my grandmother passed on to me. Although it’s been a while, i have yet to make it my own – but i’m documenting this failure.
I’m generally interested in design, identity, branding and all kinds of things that are not quite art but do communicate. Because I procrastinate less when writing, retiring to do so might be a very productive prospect, but is still far. I’ve made shy attempts to pursue some of these inclinations but with no result. My freehand drawing skills are poorly developed and this is frustrating from time to time.
As life happened, I’ve got a hang of activities that include: translation work, social studies (would love to focus on online behavior – I have a degree in sociology and a postponed anthropology masters’ thesis pending completion), coffeshop stuff and writing (here).
I’ve complicated my personal life as often as I had the chance.
There are strong odds that I’ll review this section and only give it a final form in lack of further opportunities to review. Kindly join me in holding up until then. Thanks!
BIO (7th draft, as of june 2010)
i`ve tinkered with this for quite some time. it’s not perfect and i think i’ll add/delete/rephrase stuff.
1985: born at 10:30 pm (i hear), on February 9th. Saturday, in Bucharest
1986: baby steps; also Chernobyl which had to have some effect on all us babies at the time (i have yet to discover my superpower)
1987: baby talk; Hungarian kindergarten – i quickly forgot everything;
1988: parents got divorced, i stayed with mom
1989: i remember gunshots from the revolution, while i scribbled on the walls
1990:
1991: moved closer to school; first classmates
1992: piano lessons; solved the Rubik cube (peeling off the stickers – i still think this is good thinking out of the box for that age)
1993: cello lessons; boy scouting – neither caught on
1994: cartoon network killed all books for me; got into the good classes;
1995: first computer (kept popping visits on my uncle to play civ and watch him CAD)
1996: lost the weight that earned me nicknames
1997: basketball
1998: France; first kiss; chicken-pops scars; won my last childhood argument with mom
1999: high-school, last to be admitted; basketball team – king of the hill 
2000: good friends
2001: good grades with no effort (as always)
2002: first love; a whole lot of school, a lot less basketball
2003: sex, woohoo!; college (reading everything; joined the student organization)
2004: chose sociology as a profession; found out about blogging and gave it a first try
2005: first love; tongue piercing
2006:
2007: graduated with a study on travian addiction; grandma passed away; moved out, sort of; started an MA in Anthropology
2008: fell in love; started the coffeshop; started blogging all broken hearted
2009: left the cofeeshop; postponed my MA in anthropology; first desk job -junior research executive (qualitative market study)
2010: busted knee – took up cycling (recovery);
stuff i remember but don’t know where to place:
- getting lost (standing in line for rations)
- swimming lessons
- walking in on mom having sex
- being a jerk to classmates
- entertaining as an elephant mascot
about (EN)
My name is Andrei Botesteanu, and i’ve kept this blog for 2 years now (you can scroll way down to the bottom of the page for information on the blog itself). I write for the lack of a good listener, and also to keep my afterthoughts in line. I generally believe this to be a good exercise in sincerity and disclosure, allowing me to get to know my limitations and myself.
I’ve lived in Bucharest (Romania) all of my life, currently by myself in an apartament my grandmother passed on to me. Although it’s been a while, i have yet to make it my own – but i’m documenting this failure.
I’m generally interested in design, identity, branding and all kinds of things that are not quite art but do communicate. Because I procrastinate less when writing, retiring to do so might be a very productive prospect, but is still far. I’ve made shy attempts to pursue some of these inclinations but with no result. My freehand drawing skills are poorly developed and this is frustrating from time to time.
As life happened, I’ve got a hang of activities that include: translation work, social studies (would love to focus on online behavior – I have a degree in sociology and a postponed anthropology masters’ thesis pending completion), coffeshop stuff and writing (here).
I’ve complicated my personal life as often as I had the chance.
There are strong odds that I’ll review this section and only give it a final form in lack of further opportunities to review. Kindly join me in holding up until then. Thanks!
BIO (7th draft, as of june 2010)
i`ve tinkered with this for quite some time. it’s not perfect and i think i’ll add/delete/rephrase stuff.
1985: born at 10:30 pm (i hear), on February 9th. Saturday, in Bucharest
1986: baby steps; also Chernobyl which had to have some effect on all us babies at the time (i have yet to discover my superpower)
1987: baby talk; Hungarian kindergarten – i quickly forgot everything;
1988: parents got divorced, i stayed with mom
1989: i remember gunshots from the revolution, while i scribbled on the walls
1990:
1991: moved closer to school; first classmates
1992: piano lessons; solved the Rubik cube (peeling off the stickers – i still think this is good thinking out of the box for that age)
1993: cello lessons; boy scouting – neither caught on
1994: cartoon network killed all books for me; got into the good classes;
1995: first computer (kept popping visits on my uncle to play civ and watch him CAD)
1996: lost the weight that earned me nicknames
1997: basketball
1998: France; first kiss; chicken-pops scars; won my last childhood argument with mom
1999: high-school, last to be admitted; basketball team – king of the hill
2000: good friends
2001: good grades with no effort (as always)
2002: first love; a whole lot of school, a lot less basketball
2003: sex, woohoo!; college (reading everything; joined the student organization)
2004: chose sociology as a profession; found out about blogging and gave it a first try
2005: first love; tongue piercing
2006:
2007: graduated with a study on travian addiction; grandma passed away; moved out, sort of; started an MA in Anthropology
2008: fell in love; started the coffeshop; started blogging all broken hearted
2009: left the cofeeshop; postponed my MA in anthropology; first desk job -junior research executive (qualitative market study)
2010: busted knee – took up cycling (recovery);
stuff i remember but don’t know where to place: