In line at the Post Office.

The Romanian postal service


Poşta Română (Romanian Post) is the state-owned postal service of Romania. The company is responsible for the delivery of mail in Romania, as well as the issuing of postage stamps. It also provides a range of other services, including logistics, currency exchange, software development and consultancy services. Poşta Română is a founding member of the Universal Postal Union. In 2004, Poşta Română was the host and organiser of the UPU's 23rd Universal Postal Congress, which was held in Bucuresti.
As of 2005, the CEO of Poşta Română is Gabriel Mateescu


Check out the official link.

Compania Nationala Posta Romana ::: Bine ai venit

Equal time ....again.

Dan and Obtuse, Thank you for your continued fanship.

Obtuse and our female readers, this is for you. My Blog reader says I have 67 followers, and dozens of random hits. But, as for guys. I think Kratos and I are the only two that read it. LOL

So ladies.....................................


Only 18 years old and has just started to model: Alex Ceobanu, junior bodybuilder from Romania.









.........and Dan:


Amanda 22 year old Student from Bucuresti.

No doubt, Romanians are HOT!

Yes, Romanians are very good looking. Speaking as one myself, I cannot lie. We are a damn good looking bunch! lol

This post goes out to the man known as "Dan", and his wife, our very own Stapan Obtuse. I think its interesting how they read my blog as a family. Ill do what I can to keep it interesting.

In our continuing series on Beautiful Romanians here is a little something for Dan.

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Adela is a 21 year old model from Bucuresti. She attends University and models on the side.














......and a little something for Obtuse too.

Christian is one of many Bucuresti models I believe he models for big companies world wide:

Kosovo independence has solved no problems

"Kosovo independence has solved no problems"


27 March 2008

Russia's representative to EU Vladimir Chizhov says Kosovo's unilateral independence has not solved any problems.Speaking to Moscow daily Vremya Novosti, Chizhov reiterated that the order that had existed in Kosovo until February 17 had been defined by Resolution 1244 as temporary until a final solution was found.


“However, recognition of the unilateral independence declaration by thirty or so states out of 200 does not solve the problem. Kosovo’s status will remain undetermined until a stable international-legal solution is found,”

the Russian diplomat predicted. Asked whether Belgrade’s proposal for divided authorities in majority Serb regions would lead to a partition of the province, he said no.

“The Belgrade proposal, to our knowledge, does not mention the issue of partition of Kosovo. It concerns cooperation between Belgrade and the UN mission in the interests of implementing Resolution 1244, which envisages assistance to national minorities,” Chizhov explained.

Asked whether the EU was seeking to extend the powers of its special representative Pieter Feith, as it had done for International High Representative Miroslav Lajčak in Bosnia-Hercegovina, the Russian official replied that this was impossible.

“The framework that the EU is bringing to Kosovo is borrowed to a great extent from the Martti Ahtisaari Plan. He virtually copied it from the Dayton Peace Accords for Bosnia-Hercegovina, which stipulate the functions of the high representative. But, in that instance, the decision was sanctioned by Resolution 1031,” he pointed out.

“In Kosovo, however, there is no international-legal basis for implementing a similar plan. Its initiators, who’ve created some sort of ‘international steering group’ do not have the moral or legal right to claim to be expressing the will of the international community,” Chizhov concluded.

Eurofighter Typhoon

The Eurofighter 2000, or Eurofighter Typhoon as it's now known is a multinational effort by a number of European nations to produce a leading edge fighter aircraft for the next century.
The project has been dogged by political problems from the start which in turn have played a significant role in its delayed service entry date. Originally scheduled to enter service in the late 80's the first fighter is now scheduled to fly before the end of 2001.
Given the changing world situation and the availability of excellent cheap Russian aircraft, the Typhoon cannot arrive at a better time. And whatever it's critics may suggest the aircraft is anything but a failure.

Please check out these links:

YouTube - Eurofighter Typhoon

Eurofighter Technology and Performance : Structure

What is impalement?

Impalement


Definition: Impalement


Impalement

Noun

1. The act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture.



impale


• verb transfix or pierce with a sharp instrument.

— DERIVATIVES impalement noun impaler noun.

— ORIGIN Latin impalare, from palus ‘a stake’.





Impalement is an act of torture or execution whereby the victim is pierced by a long stake, through the sides, or even from rectum through the mouth. The stake would be usually planted in the ground, leaving the victim hanging to die from blood loss. Medieval tyrants like Vlad III Dracula and Ivan the Terrible were quite fond of dispatching undesirables in this way. It was also used as a systematic way of executing prisoners immediately after a battle. Impalement is considered a very cruel and painful death.



Usage Frequency: Impalement

"Impalement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Impalement" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

SPAWN!

This funny pic came to me via a member.

Im sure that every parent thinks his or her child is a demon once and a while but the parents of this child must have had quite a shock!

Maiestatea Sa Mihai I Regele Românilor

Maiestatea Sa Mihai I Regele Românilor ("His Majesty Michael I King of the Romanians")



KING MICHAEL (Mihai 1) OF ROMANIA was the only constitutional monarch to lead his people in person during the Second World War. After refusing to act as a puppet king and thereby give legitimacy to the regime Hitler had set up in Romania, the twenty-year-old king led a coup d'état against the Germans that shortened the war and postponed the communist dictatorship of his country. In the first biography of King Michael for many years, Ivor Porter draws on a wealth of primary sources, including interviews with King Michael—whom he first met as a young Army officer over sixty years ago—the Romanian royal archives and Queen Helen's unpublished diaries, to tell the dramatic and moving story of this unique monarch.
Michael's childhood was as grim as a grotesque fairy tale. Born in 1921, one of his first memories was of his mother in tears. The cause of her unhappiness was her unscrupulous husband, King Carol II—who abandoned his family and crown for his mistress but later returned to usurp his son's throne and exile his wife. During the war everything changed. King Carol was forced by the Germans to abdicate in favour of eighteen-year-old Michael. Hitler made Romania a staging post for his invasion of Russia but completely underestimated its new king. On 23 August 1944 Michael, with the support of the Romanian Resistance, led a successful coup d'état against the Germans. For three years—with the Soviet army in occupation, the Western Allies unable to help, and the two main democratic parties virtually destroyed—he hung on grimly to some degree of constitutional democracy until Stalin showed his hand. Ivor Porter tells the inspiring tale of the king who tried desperately to save his country and who, after being exiled by the Communists for fifty years, was finally able to return and tell his people, 'I love you. Don't forget that.'
IVOR PORTER was sent to Romania in 1943 as one of a three-man mission led by Colonel Gardyne de Chastelain to urge the Resistance to rise against the Germans whatever the consequences. Dropped in fog too far from the target, they were captured and imprisoned. Eight months later he met King Michael on the evening of his anti-German coup, 23 August 1944, and he was in Romania throughout the King's resistance to Soviet occupation. Now retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and living in London, Ivor Porter is the author of the acclaimed Operation Autonomous: With SOE in Wartime Romania which was short-listed for the Time-Life/Pen Award for non-fiction.


'Though many people think that not to be allowed back into your country is easier to bear than not to be allowed out of it, this is not true. The feeling of powerlessness and loss of liberty is associated with both.' Rege Mihai 1, c. 1955








PLEASE READ THIS LINK: Michael I of Romania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

AND: Queen Anne of Romania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Poem- Self Destruction

Is life meant to have meaning or is the whole point of life is that there is no meaning no destined way to live no controlled state of being or being influenced by messages or bill boards is life suppose to be ignorance or a brilliant freedom of space and eternity not influenced by a controlling body or set up by humans just like us...Death is just an illusion of living...death just another life beyond life itself so blind we cant see it ,a lot more to offer pick a portal and just jump....an imitation of death -invitation of life just do it and fly....Cant you see heaven nor hell? Tell me this is there any way to live...Anyway to be yourself with this "State of living" embodied imprisoned Cattle we are harvested to mine gold to enrich the government while we sit back and watch...Watch something we can't see happen before use...Then enslavement of man kind Tell me Can you see it? I do....The stillness in the air...The breath of Armageddon so near...Yet further and Further we destroy what isn't the problem starting wars with in war in itself battling fighting changing something that doesn't need change Tell me Can you see heaven or hell? Open your mind and Exhale.... !

By "The D Man" Derek.

Rob Roy MacGregor

"MACGREGOR DESPITE THEM". The three-word epitaph at the ancient grave in little Balquhidder kirk speaks for a nation. Few individuals can claim to represent the spirit of a nation or culture. Scotland’s Rob Roy MacGregor easily carries the weighty honor of being Scotland’s cultural hero. The combination of Rob Roy’s assigned Highlander traits—fierce independence, cleverness, roguery, strength, loyalty, pride, and bravery—may be defined as the idealized character of the Scots. The traits were assigned by no less than Sir Walter Scott, Hollywood, and the Scottish legend himself. Rob Roy MacGregor was born 1671 along pretty Loch Katrine in Glen Gyle, the valley between Balquhidder and Loch Lomond. Third son of a military officer, Rob Roy fought for Scottish independence on the side of the Scottish royalty—the Stewarts—against the forces of William and Mary at Killiecrankie in 1689. During this time his fame as a warrior began to spread. When the Jacobites—the Stewart supporters—lost their struggle to regain the British throne, many Highland clans were forced give up their names, and many Highlanders changed their names to those of the pro-English clans. When the MacGregor name was outlawed in 1694, Rob Roy occasionally took on his mother’s clan’s name, Campbell, name of a Highland clan that had long supported English domination of the Highlands. Rob Roy exchanged his political concerns for those of hearth and home, building up his father’s "cattle business", which often included rustling cattle from neighbors and surrounding territories. Rob Roy probably practiced the venerable—and widely accepted—Highland techniques of blackmail and bribery to achieve his goals. So normal was the practice that so glorious a military unit as Scotland’s Highland Black Watch, which had been formed in 1725 to guard against cattle thieving, were known accept pay to look the other way. Hard times and lean years forced Rob Roy to raid Scotland’s southern Lowlands for cattle. He became so successful at rustling even entire herds without getting caught that his reputation impressed the region’s most powerful landowner, the Duke of Montrose. In 1711, Montrose offered Rob Roy a business opportunity to buy and fatten up a herd of sturdy cattle, to be resold for profit. But when Rob Roy sent one of his trusted men to collect £1,000 from Montrose to purchase the cattle, the man ran off with the money, leaving MacGregor holding the bag. An angry Montrose declared MacGregor an outlaw, seized his land and burned down his house. For eight years Rob Roy lived the outlaw life, avoiding capture—sometimes by the slimmest of margins—and gaining legendary status in the Highlands. A vengeful Rob Roy—along with as many as 500 supporters—performed many successful raids against Montrose, and once more took up the Stewart cause by participating in several Jacobite battles. By 1720 Rob Roy had earned considerable notoriety for his open defiance of the British and was growing weary of life on the lam. He returned home to his family farm in Balquhidder Glen and attempted to live again in peace. The memories of his enemies were not short, however, and in 1725 Rob Roy turned himself in to English General Wade. He was charged with high treason against the Crown and put in London’s infamous Newgate prison. Like many anti-English Highlanders who were exiled to other parts of the Empire—often Canada, and Ireland—Rob Roy was to become an indentured servant—in the Barbados. However, MacGregor received a King’s pardon in 1727 before deportation, and returned to finish his life in Balquhidder, where he died of natural causes in 1734. Ironically, Rob Roy owes his continued legend more to one Lowland Scot (Sir Walter Scott), two English writers (Daniel Defoe and William Wordsworth), and Hollywood movies than he does his Highland neighbors

THE CHILDREN OF THE MYST.

MacGregor Clan:

In Scottish Gaelic, the old language of our people, "Mac" means "Son of." We of Clan Gregor, are the Sons of Gregor, the Followers of Gregor, and better known as the MacGregors. The name McGregor is merely a shortened (or anglized) version of our name.

Nameless, landless, and outlawed with a bounty on their heads, it would have been easier for our ancestors to have given in and disappeared from history as a clan. Defeat and disgrace, however, are not of the MacGregor nature. [We're the original "Unsinkable Molly Brown" types: "I ain't down yet!"] The clan took to the hills, became known as Clann a' Ched (The Children of the Mist), and fought back. The clan somehow survived.

THE OEATH!

In 1589, Deputy Forester of the Royal Forest of Glen Artney, John, 4th Laird of Drummond-Ernoch, had been instructed to provide venison for the wedding feast of King James VI. As he went about his task, Drummond is said to have discovered a band of MacGregors poaching deer in the royal game preserve, capturing a few of them, summarily executing them by hanging them on the spot. It is said that in retaliation, the remaining poaching kinsmen killed Drummond, supposedly cutting off his head, first parading it at the home of Drummond's sister, Lady Margaret Stewart of Ardvorlich (driving her mad in the process), and then taking it with them back to Balquhidder Kirk. [Recent research indicates that it was likely the "hand" of Drummond, not the head, which was removed; and that it was highly unlikely, given the hospitality shown the MacGregors by Lady Stewart on their journey home, that they would have behaved in such a fashion. That would have violated one of the most sacred principles of Highland culture. In addition, the parties supposedly involved were kinsmen—although relatively distant in relation. Oh those transcription errors!]. Now... from the accumulated information, including a deposition given by Alexander MacNab, there are indications that it wasn't even the MacGregors who did the dirty deeds! It may have been the MacIans or MacDonalds of Glencoe who had been caught poaching, and simply another case of drumming up a story to answer the purpose intended: to deprive the MacGregors of all their ancestral lands, which were considerable. Nevertheless, the Privy Council was petitioned "for justice" by Drummond's survivors, and on 04 February 1590 issued a commission to a lengthy list of nobles (Colin Campbell, Earl of Argyle, foremost among them) to seek and apprehend certain named MacGregors deemed responsible. It was further recommended that ALL MacGregors be captured and punished, for if any were innocent of this particular crime, they certainly were participants in other crimes (don'tchya just LOVE the logic?). This commission allowed anyone to use any measure, including the use of lethal force, to bring anyone associated with the Clan Gregor to justice, and it rewarded the captors with half the value of any property which was to be automatically forfeited by any captured MacGregor. Kinda warms the cockles of your heart, don't it? :( Happily enough, though, the fact that the Drummonds and the MacGregors fought side-by-side when the Scots Army, commanded by Bonnie Prince Charlie faced off against its enemies at the Battle of Prestonpans on 21 September 1745 seems to indicate that the MacGregors and Drummonds did not hold each other to blame for whatever DID happen in Glen Artney in 1589. The CAMPBELLS, on the other hand... but I digress...

No history of the Clan Gregor would be complete without mention of the legendary Rob Roy MacGregor—often thought of as sort of a Scottish Robin Hood. Born at Glen Gyle in 1671 (at the west end of Lock Katrine in the Trossachs, on a main cattle droving route from the west), he trained in the cattle business, both legitimate and (oopsie) less so—he operated a "watch," providing security for other peoples' cattle if they paid protection money (not exactly of the "Guido" kind of "family" but more like your modern freelance "security guard." *GRIN*). He was a skilled swordsman, expert in hill craft, exceptionally resourceful, and a Jacobite supporter (sympathetic to the exiled House of Stuart). Because of the proscription, Rob Roy MacGregor assumed his mother's named of Campbell. He married Mary of Comar in 1693.

Happy Easter

HAPPY EASTER (American)

Although I am Romanian Orthodox, I do understand that in this Country you Have Easter this year on March 23rd. So armed wuth that:


Happy Easter!

Please note that Romanian Orthodox Easter will fall on April 27th. I expect that a great many of you will remember to wish me the same when its my turn.

Sebastain

Yesterday Sebastian broke through the fence and went out to meet the mailman. No harm done and the fence is now mended but jeeez, people really should stop taunting him.

The Vampir Metrou Hierarchy

The Vampir Metrou

Hierarchy



Domn-al Vantor



Ministru Luna




--------------------The Stapan Council--------------------




Stapan MotherWolf

Stapan Crio

Stapan Abandinus

Stapan Penlady

Stapan Kratos

Stapan Obtuse


----------Honored Members----------


Trusted bolt holders

Regulars (members)

Friends of the Metrou

Visitors

Poem- Lord Byron (THE GIAOUR)

Vampir Metrou's 100th Post!


Lord Byron

The Pasha at war



This is my 100th post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy 100th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



The Giaour,

This peom has an odd vampiric connection. For the vampir connection go here-

The Giaour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



'Twas but an instant he restrainedThat fiery barb so sternly reined;'Twas but a moment that he stood,Then sped as if by death pursued;But in that instant 0'er his soulWinters of memory seemed to roll,And gather in that drop of timeA life of pain, an age of crime.O'er him who loves, or hates, or fears,Such moment pours the grief of years:What felt he then, at once opprestBy all that most distracts the breast?That pause, which pondered o'er his fate,Oh, who its dreary length shall date!Though in time's record nearly nought,It was eternity to thought!For infinite as boundless spaceThe thought that conscience must embrace,Which in itself can comprehendWoe without name, or hope, or end.

The Giaour ( an excerpt)......Lord Byron

Music review (old)

Poveste de viata (gothic version)

Check out this song on my, myspace http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=78298174 or here on

Youtube, YouTube - Poveste de Viata



Poveste de viata means, Stories of life.


Akcent is a typical boy band, and they are a bit outdated now but, they were once huge all over eaurope. Known more for their boyish playful look, this is their rare gothic/vampiric look that they only tried for this one song. Otherwise they were typical preppy Dolce&Gabanna cut outs.




Same guys as above, minus the spooky goth makeup.


Please check out my links. (warning: song lyrics are in Romanian)

Reader's Contrabution

Thanks for the interest.

One of our very own readers sent this to me. Obtuse is a Stapan on our Council. Her cat must like Coffee as much as she does.




Nice promotion through product placement!

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!


































GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!