tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47924572299188568852024-03-12T21:13:03.385-04:00Also Sprach ZamolxisAşa Grăit-a Zamo.ca, the descendant of a Dacian God; teme personale, culturale şi sociale din Toronto. Patria mé îi limba romgleză. Formerly AlsoSprachZamolxis.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-92146488789093108362019-09-25T12:00:00.011-04:002019-10-28T07:42:54.718-04:00Cumpanasu at OUS Diploma Mill<span id="description">Recently, a new candidate for Romanian presidency, Alexandru Cumpanasu, has finally undergone more media scrutiny after having had to make some candidacy-related disclosures. We look into some of the claims made by this individual (whom we strongly dislike) and track down the most likely “university” he is attending, linked below in sources.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/09/cumpanasu-at-ous-diploma-mill.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-31048064194090928242019-07-22T13:00:00.000-04:002019-07-22T14:41:46.736-04:00Dinamo Hurting and Diaspora News<span id="description">This blog has a Romanian Diaspora focus, so it’s only natural to go through the diaspora news. But our diaspora is everywhere (much like protochronist Dacians), and some have even returned, while some feel “exiled” in their own country, so we’re not going to discriminate. Especially since we keep hearing bad things about Dinamo, one of the 3 major “national” soccer teams while I was growing up.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/07/varatece-summer-diaspora-news.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-28046194569531898102019-06-11T14:39:00.001-04:002019-07-16T13:52:48.223-04:00facand bac cu piticu<span id="description">One of my long-term fantasies has been to write the Romanian baccalaureate (aka “bac” / “bacul” / “bacalaureat”, a comprehensive exam you write before the high-school diploma). I haven’t had the time, but I’d like to.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/06/facand-bac-cu-piticu.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-38655969213369490312017-01-11T01:00:00.002-05:002019-05-13T10:29:28.679-04:00Adamescu SWATting and Kovesi Plagiarism<span id="description">Another article (after <a title="Odalisque PM Sevil Shhaideh" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/odalisque-pm-sevil-shhaideh.html">Sevil</a>) that does not give me any particular pleasure but must be, nonetheless, written is on Kovesi and the ethics of her thesis. More specifically, how things we said about <a title="The Greatest Plagiarizer in SE Europe" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/09/the-greatest-plagiarizer-in-se-europe.html">Ponta</a>’s should apply to Kovesi’s as well, yet few of us have the courage to maintain that kind of consistency in our own convictions, let alone demanding that Kovesi does in hers.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/inconsistencies-xix-kovesi-plagiarism.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-69251769863043060782016-12-10T01:00:00.004-05:002016-12-10T01:00:03.190-05:00PISA 2015 III: conclusions and what to do<span id="description">Based on my mistaken belief that there may be people reading this, I go ahead with my recommendations, after the <a title="PISA 2015, or Eastern vs Western education" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/pisa-2015-or-eastern-vs-western.html" rel="first">intro</a> and <a title="PISA 2015 II: more on Asia" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/pisa-2015-ii-more-on-asia.html" rel="prev">Asia</a>. PISA is not just a set of tests, it comes with suggestions and recommendations.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/pisa-2015-iii-conclusions-and-what-to-do.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-26260519459052793092016-12-09T01:00:00.001-05:002016-12-20T09:45:21.348-05:00PISA 2015 II: more on Asia<span id="description">After <a title="PISA 2015, or Eastern vs Western education" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/pisa-2015-or-eastern-vs-western.html" rel="prev">briefly going through the just-published PISA 2015 results</a>, here we expand on our knowledge of the top-performing Asian countries, which share some important characteristics.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/pisa-2015-ii-more-on-asia.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-42015084312612115272016-12-08T01:00:00.010-05:002016-12-08T21:02:15.925-05:00PISA 2015, or Eastern vs Western education<span id="description">The results of the latest PISA testing have come out. Will I manage to write about the educational styles in Canada (which is 4th, tied with Finland, after Singapore, Japan and Estonia) and Romania (48th out of 70)?</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/pisa-2015-or-eastern-vs-western.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-57892605083356318972016-11-04T01:00:00.011-04:002016-11-04T15:06:58.464-04:00Sever Iosif Georgescu sur le strasse<span id="description">About two months ago, Maftei, my math teacher in high school, has passed away (fb-maftei). I felt sorry, and that’s why the expression he used to invite us to the blackboard (“iesi pe straße” or “come out on the straße/street”) found its way in the title of this article, which is about the high-school physics teacher Sever Iosif Georgescu and his (or his kids’?) attempts to erase the negative events of his past. This is the third installment in the Georgescu, Iosif SEVER saga:</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/11/sever-iosif-georgescu-sur-le-strasse.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-9291671248747347032016-10-24T01:00:00.000-04:002016-11-04T12:59:26.669-04:00Sever Iosif Georgescu: Plagiarizing and Hagiography<span id="description">I have meant to write at length on this individual and, as expected, not only that reality caught up with me, but it left me far behind. I never expected for things to go this far, which is why I am revisiting it now.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/10/sever-iosif-georgescu-plagiarizing-and.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-38229734546607511022016-01-13T06:00:00.007-05:002016-02-26T12:15:39.190-05:00Bodnariu, Norway and Parenting in the Age of ISIS<span id="description">The current culture clash about some Norwegian child welfare agency having seized a Romanian couple’s children over physical discipline and the ensuing protests coming mostly from religious groups has a recognizable background: it’s a rehashing of the century-old conservative vs liberal quarrel. I have respect and admiration for <a title="Harald si Dorel" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2011/06/harald-si-dorel.html">Norway and their altruistic, enlightened and generous foreign policy and foreign aid</a>, but this case may be more than just that.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/01/bodnariu-norway-and-parenting-in-age-of.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-64020476162615249032015-05-25T10:44:00.001-04:002015-05-26T14:11:48.472-04:00Poverty and Sadism (Radu aka Ramsay)<span id="description">It’s been a while since we haven’t talked about poverty in Romania and solutions. A recent “debate” caused by an over-the-top article on not giving money to the poor gives us a chance to look at it again and also address our reticence with BDSM practices.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/05/poverty-and-sadism.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-61011040786245285122015-03-26T01:00:00.000-04:002015-03-26T11:15:08.720-04:00Varujan Pambuccian is a bit too zambaccian<span id="description">Finland, the country who is light years ahead of Romania in education, is moving away from structured learning and a Romanian Senator opines that it's BS, which, in our view, makes him a 'zambaccian' or a person who is incapable to understand his mistakes, nevermind assume them, a person whose mindset prevents them from accepting new, revolutionary ideas.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/03/varujan-pambuccian-is-bit-too-zambaccian.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-54154941723896690372015-03-07T07:13:00.001-05:002015-03-08T15:56:34.222-04:00Religion and Choice<span id="description">There are two subjects that seem to dominate the Romanian public sphere (I would say <a title="search all articles for the tag 'blogo.ro-oaie'" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/search?q=blogo.ro-oaie">blogo.ro-oaie</a>, but that's defunct): the religion choice in schools and the New York Times Op-Ed on corruption in Romania. I’m very tempted to make a nice hot stew out of both, but I’ll try to keep each to its own article.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/03/religion-and-choice.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-57510846269951299272014-11-25T01:00:00.000-05:002014-11-25T11:35:10.329-05:00Best 2014 Romanian Invention (via 3M)<span id="description">I have in the past participated in 'Romanians against others' contests (such as <a title="Votati-l pe Brancusi la Galeria Saatchi, cangurilor!" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2008/03/votati-l-pe-brancusi-la-galeria-saatchi.html">Brancusi @ Saatchi</a>, <a title="Cum to Romania" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2013/02/cum-to-romania.html">cum 2 Ro</a>) and never really liked the idea. So I organized quite a few of my own on this blog (guess the relevant category) and again participated in home-grown ones (<a title="gaben si concursul selgros" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/06/gaben-si-concursul-selgros.html">selgros</a>, <a title="concurs roz cu bunici" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/07/concurs-roz-cu-bunici.html">roz cu bunici</a>, <a title="Halimos Leustean aka Levisticum Officinale" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2011/04/halimos-leustean-aka-levisticum.html">leustean</a>, <a title="am chishtigat (era sa) un premiu de blog" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2011/02/am-chishtigat-un-premiu-de-blog.html">verona</a>, <a title="Concursul de economie Publica" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2010/07/concursul-de-economie-publica.html">economy</a>), and that was better. This time, I have in front of me a list of Romanian inventions (<a title="Document opens to the right if you are on the main site: medalii si premii la bruxelles innova 2013" href="http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://www.research.ro/uploads/targuri-si-expozitii/2013/medalii-si-premii-la-bruxelles-innova-2013.docx&embedded=true" rel="gdoc" target="tutub">docx</a>) and I get to vote which one deserves a prize from 3M. You can and should vote as well – see the link below.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/11/best-2014-romanian-invention-via-3m.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-43747784441212605012014-10-23T13:21:00.001-04:002016-01-24T16:26:43.117-05:00bye-bye boobs (Simona Halep II)<span id="description">I knew yesterday, when I started to write about <a title="Simona Halep and Romanian Education" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/10/simona-halep-and-romanian-education.html" rel="first">Simona Halep</a>, that I won't be able to get into the <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2008/04/fiarele-si-leapsa.html#boobs" title="the end of the boobs obsession">gist of the matter</a>. I shall finish my expose of Simona Halep's performance by taking a closer look at her breasts, or lack thereof.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/10/bye-bye-boobs-simona-halep-ii.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-38905136629545825772014-10-07T01:00:00.000-04:002014-10-12T16:38:05.384-04:00Like a Dacian<span id="description">As I’ve been getting closer to a long-planned trip to Europe, I had to face the prospect of more hostility and less-than-enlightened assumptions related to my ancestry. I am quite tired of going through that and have been preparing to start answering the question “where are you from” with “Dacia” – and will be doing so starting tomorrow. With this article, I will answer the follow-up “<a title="souped up Dacia" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2011/03/dacia-tunata-dar-si-reclamata-i.html">isn’t Dacia a car?</a>” or “what is that?” or “where is that?” with “look it up!”</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/10/like-dacian.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-44888104079605660932014-09-17T01:00:00.000-04:002015-03-30T01:18:38.955-04:00Dan Alexe vs Dacopaths<span id="description">I sporadically come across Dan Alexe's writings. He's a smart dude, he's <a title="flight, curajosnicie or courajealousy" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2013/09/flight-curajosnicie-or-courajealousy.html">courageous</a>, and he seems to constantly be bullying "protocronists / dacologists" whom he calls "dacopaths" ("dacopati" cf Romanian original, a term most likely inspired by the derisive and pejorative “psychopaths”). I thought I deconstruct / smite him a bit.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/09/dan-alexe-vs-dacopaths.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-14930602815406353822014-07-23T01:00:00.000-04:002014-07-23T01:00:06.956-04:00Med School or Masters Studies in Romania<span id="description">While writing about <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/07/jihad-jay-abdo-cluj-engineer.html">Jihadi Jay Abdo</a>, I had started writing about foreigners who study in Romania and half-way through I realized that this deserves a separate article. I had previously assumed (<a title="Revista Nature cea imogulata" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/06/revista-nature-cea-imogulata.html">nature</a>) that the Romanian prime-minister’s (<a title="ponta pe plaiul plagiatului perpetuu" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/06/ponta-pe-plaiul-plagiatului-perpetuu.html">Ponta</a>) many scandals, some centered around his plagiarizing of his doctoral thesis will taint Romanian education and significantly decrease its appeal. Further investigation revealed that many are still interested, although it is hard to determine to what extent the scandals have caused the Romanian tuition fees to be the lowest in Europe, or that is due to other market forces. As usual, the links are listed at the end.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/07/med-school-or-masters-studies-in-romania.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-43163432468727094402014-07-22T01:01:00.000-04:002014-07-27T17:34:31.091-04:00Jihad Jay Abdo, Cluj Engineer<span id="description"><a title="Jay is a Syrian actor based in LA. with more than 43 films, numerous TV series and lots of plays in 4 languages. Ultimately cast in Herzog's Queen of the desert" href="https://twitter.com/jihadabdo" target="_blank">@JihadAbdo</a> is an L.A.-based actor with more than 43 films, tons of TV series and lots of plays in four languages. One of those languages is Romanian.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/07/jihad-jay-abdo-cluj-engineer.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-37109931401619210782014-05-08T01:00:00.000-04:002014-05-08T10:38:28.119-04:00matricola, emblem of communist kontrol and privacy<span id="description">It recently occurred to me that in my <a title="school repeaters and their uniform" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/school-repeaters-and-their-uniform.html" rel="first">article about the school uniform</a>, I forgot to mention perhaps its best known and most hated feature: the number every student was supposed to wear on their uniform. It’s much like what students wear these days of their own accord: <em>Abercrombie</em>, <em>Adidas</em>, <em>Parasuco, Lululemon, Joe Fresh, Smythe, Guess</em>, but it also had a supposedly unique number and it was compulsory.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/matricola-emblem-of-communist-kontrol.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-21852896031310725952014-05-06T01:00:00.000-04:002014-06-09T06:37:50.822-04:00school repeaters and their uniform<span id="description">One of the stories I wanted to tell is the story of the “repetenti” or “corijenti” in our primary school. Each class had a few of them, more or less equally distributed among the “good classes” and we were all supposed to do our best to “pass” them – i.e., help them graduate, in what today seems like Finland educational equalitarianism.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/05/school-repeaters-and-their-uniform.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-85382168169639564312013-04-20T01:00:00.000-04:002014-05-05T12:48:48.208-04:00The Sc Gn nr 197 Teachers<span id="description"> <p>Somebody, somewhere, posted a photo with a few of my primary school (Scoala Generala nr. 197) teachers. The fear of forgetting gets me to share some memories here.</p> </span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2013/04/the-sc-gn-197-teachers.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-49343996835712348632012-09-06T01:00:00.000-04:002012-09-06T11:08:39.729-04:00Bac Factory<span id="description">The <a title="Romanian education in times of PP-holera" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/08/romanian-education-in-times-of-pp-holera.html">previous article</a> got published before I had a chance to finish it. We shall do this here and now.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2012/09/bac-factory.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-31141517904348312112012-08-22T01:00:00.000-04:002012-09-06T07:21:31.154-04:00Romanian Education in times of PP-holera<span id="description">Transitioning from the old teaching style to the new ethics is hard to accomplish in Eastern Europe. In Romania, it is even more difficult to do so with conniving garbage at the helm of the government. And if you’re wondering, the <em>PP</em> in title stands for <a title="Plagiator" href="http://www.victorponta.ro/" target="_blank">Plagiarizing</a> <a title="ponta pe plaiul plagiatului perpetuu" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/06/ponta-pe-plaiul-plagiatului-perpetuu.html">Ponta</a>.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2012/08/romanian-education-in-times-of-pp-holera.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-5999981228193374552012-07-11T01:22:00.003-04:002012-07-11T13:54:44.203-04:00Bacalaureat 2012: rezultate, barem, subiecte<span id="description">Nu am dat bacul in Romania fiindca am parasit tara in clasa XI-a. Am dat insa examenul de admitere la Balcescu - a devenit ulterior Sf. Sava si am fost ultima generatie care a dat examenul de treapta a II-a. Am fost asadar curios care au fost cerintele de examen si care au fost rezultatele..</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2012/07/bacalaureat-2012-rezultate-barem.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com25