Vali Petcu blog

A few minutes, on Kreuzstrasse, right across Victoriapark, we saw a small fox. At first we thought it was a dog, but getting closer, we saw the long tail and the red skin. Weird seeing a fox in the middle of a big city. A few months ago, we saw some rabbits in a park […]

Today at IFA I had the pleasure of listening to Robert Scoble speak in a panel about German and American Bloggers. It was weird somehobw, because he did not say nothing i did not knew and his presenting style is not so flashy (as oposed to Hugh McLeod, for example). I listened to some German […]

In Romania, public drinking is prohibited. And in the center of the cities is strictly enforced. Is tolerated in the back of the streets, in poor neighborhoods. On football games, all the shops near the stadium stop selling alcohol. It’s a shock for a Romanian to see so many people just having a drink in […]

The fun part about living in a half-immigrant neighborhood in Berlin is that you don’t have to speak German. People understand you and they treat you nice, maybe just because they remember the time they come to this country and didn’t speak the language. And the Germans are nice, they probably got used to it. […]

Yesterday, I was at Nordsee, near Alexanderplatz. I like Nordsee, they cook the fish in a great way. So, while I was eating with my girl and a colleague from MediaPro Interactiv, a girl comes up to me and says in Romanian: “You’re Zoso, right?” 2.000km from home, a Romanian tourist recognized me. Turns out […]

It’s so weird, coming from Bucharest to Berlin. Here is so quiet and peaceful, and there it was like a war zone. I still am not used tot it. But it will grow on me and i will look strange at people when i will get back to Romania. Here is a picture from my […]

– einz und funfzin – sorry, ich farstein nicht (i learned how to say “i don’t understand” in german, at least) – oh! where are you from? – romania! – and speak english? – english, french, italian… – parlez vous francais? – mais oui. vous etes francais? – oui. – combien ans vous etes ici? […]

So, first step into the moving is looking for a place to rent. Picked up craiglist and started digging through the ads. I was looking for something around 500€ per month. I found an ad that seemed ok. Contacted the person by mail, Soniko Thomas (sounds like a german name, right?) and found out the […]

Getting ready for some changes, so i am preparing my dot com blog. Hi, i am Vali, a 20-something webguy from Romania!