Stories

I want to talk a little bit about cheese. This isn’t any story or riddle with some hidden meaning or any epistle dedicated to something or someone in particular, except maybe to cheese a little bit. I simply felt like talking about cheese. There are a few great things in this crazy world we’re living […]

I’m sitting in this living room. I look around and everything looks soviet. The couch, the carpet, the framed mirror covering the upper half of one of the walls and the TV were all contributing to this decorum. The only thing missing was the portrait of a glorious leader wearing a green uniform with an

A new friend enters the scene Now there was this one dude I used to hang out with in my early days of high school. Even to this day I’m not sure if there was something inherently wrong with him, or he simply just didn’t give a fuck about anything. It just seemed that this

People need jobs. That’s what everyone tells you. Jobs come in different ways, shapes and forms in order to match people’s skills, knowledge, attitudes and mindsets. It’s just the way it is. Like a math function. For every x there’s a y.  Jobs enable people to have money. Money enables people to do stuff. More

It was the year of our lord 2020. Late spring to be more precise. A little something called Covid 19 changed everyone’s life and mostly not for the better. 2 months of government-imposed home isolation had just ended and a lot of us living in the big metropolis of Bucharest were yearning to come back

The compelling force of the cosmic empire struck me once again and hit me flat in my face one particular morning in Phnom Penh city. I woke up way too early and as usual, having nothing better to do, I wanted to unwind in the reception of the hostel by killing ogres and other dratted

My best friend (and only friend) from Brazil, Remera, texted me that she’d just booked a ticket to Amsterdam. I hadn’t seen her for a damn year so it was a perfect reunion. We met during her exchange program at my university in the Netherlands and funny enough we became friends right at the very

We used to have this IT cover teacher for a while in high school. Our actual teacher went away or had something else to do or some relative died (I don’t remember exactly and at this point I don’t really give a shit). The point is, once we met this dude, we didn’t want our

I just had one of the weirdest, stupidest dreams one can imagine. And it happened after one night when I was curious enough to go clubbing, just to remind myself why I didn’t go clubbing in the first place. Anyway, the night before isn’t relevant. Just giving some context. It all began when I was