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when i was young…

vali petcu — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:06:00 +0000

…i built a small business having only my father’s name as a door opener and a few hundred dollars. I wanted to prove myself, and to him, i could do it. I sold it to him and his partner two years later and moved on to other things i wanted to do.

I read all the humorous posts about me quitting my main blog and only source of income to do nothing. Most of them were from people too afraid to take chances and do something else or something more. It’s hard to understand you are willing to leave a secure ground to dive into the unknown. It’s even harder to understand why quit when you are on top and have been so since 2005. And instead of asking or shutting up, most of them prefer to say stupid things.

The good news: two days ago found the idea i wanted, some people offered to back me up, others sent good thoughts and Ursus sent beer.

The Trabant from Debrecen

vali petcu — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 +0000

This is a picture i hold dear. Taken in 2009, while on a shopping trip to Debrecen. I was living in Oradea, near the Romanian-Hungary border, and going shopping to Debrecen outlets on a monthly basis. Every time, that Trabant was there, no matter rain or sun, clean and shiny.

Now i pass by the same place, but the car is not there.

I am the one on the right.

When to quit

vali petcu — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0000

I look at some Romanian journalists and TV personalities as they turned clowns because they did not know when to quit (Cristian Tudor Popescu comes to mind). And some others, that knew when the change scenery, because there was nothing left for them there: some took jobs in banks, some opened businesses: Radu Coşarcă, Cosmin Prelipceanu.

It is important to know when to quit.

Dreaming in detailed lines

vali petcu — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:37:59 +0000

I used to be work as a DTP for a small advertising agency in Bucharest. There I learned to pay attention to details. For instance once i rebuild in Photoshop the hand of a man on a poster. That is why i can’t understand the motivation of people putting online bad pictures of their friends. We all look funny when we chew our food or when we puff our cigars, there is no reason for putting that picture on the web if the person that looks bad in it is a friend and you are a professional photographer.

Did you know there’s a guy with the same name on the internet?

vali petcu — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:20:00 +0000

Couple of weeks ago, some family friend of my girl came to visit us în Braşov. We had a nice time, cook up some barbeque, lay in the sun and chat about life and work. They kinda know I do stuff on the internet, so they look me up on google. After that, they called me, asking the title question. I guess they did not check the images results, they would have fired out teh Vali Petcu people write bad stuff about was the same guy they visited.

There’s a big difference between what people that haven’t met you write and what those you know or work with say.