I’ve recently bought a Nikon D40, along with Nikon AF-D 50mm f/1.8 and Nikon AF-S 55-200mm f/4-5.6 lenses. Please make sure you visit it here: Stefan Isarie’s Photos.

We’re thrilled to make it public: we’re expecting a baby girl. Mi is pregnant in 7 months now so the baby is programmed to arrive in the mid of March. Her name will be Amalia Teodora and she will be the most beloved and spoiled kid in Isarie’s family

We had a chance to visit London, UK the last week and we accepted! What a fantastic journey! First of all, it was our very first time to travel by air plain! I must admit that I was pretty scarred when the plane took off but all in all, it was a great experience to fly!

London had an interesting effect on us. While we learn from the people of the countries we visit, London people taught us the tolerance for all the people we see on the streets and we’ve met regardless their religion, sexuality, dresses or the way they think. Also, the strength of British humor hit us many times and we laugh out loud!

There were a few terrorist attacks [ some info here and here ] that made us avoid some zones in London, but we haven’t been affected otherwise.

We took The Original Tour as our London tour of choice but, unfortunately all the day rained so we had to skip the majority of the many London’s attractions, except Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and London Eye. We are not sure why London Eye was closed to public… This was my biggest disappointment Maybe due to terrorists attacks or bad weather.

What we really got us impressed on London was the way everything is marked up making almost impossible for us as tourists to get lost. The maps were at hand in each subway station and the bus stations were clearly marked with the name, next station [ or what’s towards ], maps and all the buses touching that particular station! You can easily get lost in my home town, Iasi, though it is a quarter of London.

Anyway, one on another, amazing experience, fantastic services, nice people, good shopping! We will definitely go back there and in the other zones of UK! And who knows, maybe we have a future there!

A few pictures we took while being in London can be seen on my Flickr account!

What happens these days in Romanian mass-media in connection to the death of Liviu Librescu [ his resume ] in the incident took place at Virginia Tech University is simply disgustful! They reference him as “Romanian professor” while he has nothing to do with Romania as long as Romania’s political system made the professor to seek out his meaning outside Romania’s borders.

Who leaves his home town or country but the one who is in deep moral, pecuniary and political conflict with his country?

And now they claim the “paternity” of this professor who is an outstanding engineer and researcher! Outragious!

Yesterday, I’ve see on some Romanian TV talk-shows fellow Romanian professors who claimed to knew Liviu Librescu and they are cherish his memory! Nothing but a discusting way to simply stand in with Liviu Librescu! Why don’t we Romanians know anything about this professor? Why haven’t these professors made anything to broadcast Liviu Librescu’s work and research while he was alive? And now they claim they knew him? How far and how much can this deceitfulness can go? I am deeply discussed!

Very interesting is the fact that US mass-media, like CNN, reference Liviu Librescu as “An Israeli professor […]” while the origin of Liviu Librescu is in fact Romanian…

The bottom line is that mass-media is doing its arduously job of assuming paternity of the great people in terms of its interest and not in terms of accurateness and terseness of informing the general public. And this is as dirty as mass-media can be…