Thursday, July 26, 2007

Le Tour de France 2007


It has been another edition of Le tour de France; this time starting from London, going through Belgium on the way to Champs Elysees.
I've been watching it since long time ago. In fact it's a funny story: at the beginning, when I was hearing radio and TV reports, I was immediately switching to something else, as it looked like lose of time. And I became addicted in the past years :), as a rule for summers when I had TV or internet it was Le tour pour cete appres-midi. It's relaxing stuff for holiday, sometimes taking me to sleep; other times energetic, making me to go outside in search for some sports activities (as I hadn't got a bike until this year). The views, the TV commentaries, the fight at the end of each stage, the break-outs, the joy brought to the audience on the places it passes by ... it's impressive, it's different that other sports.

This year I was really amazed to see the white jersey (the best young cyclist), Contador, fighting and playing "cat and mouse" with the yellow jersey. Despite all the doping argues and disqualifications, I kept the wonderful image of Le tour, due to the places it passed by (Col du Galibier, Col d'Aubisque, Col de la Colombiere, Val d'Isere, etc), the fights and speed on climbing and time trials, the team work and strategies.

Unfortunately, the arrival on Champs Elysees caught me on the couch, and not in Paris as I wanted. I had in plan a trip by car, but now I was smiling when I saw the traffic jams around there. I was really happy to recognize almost all the places in Paris that le peloton passed by and the images from this spring came back to my memory; it was really great week-end back then with Madalina (I hope you still have the todo list for next trip :) ), Mihaela and Luci.
No worries, it's time to get a finish in the incoming years. Until then, Ula we have a tour of the Netherlands to see.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Is there more?

As I was enjoying my yummy red gooseberries after another biking in the dark night, a thought cross my chaotic mind: is there more?

I've done some great stuff (at least for me they are), I felt really fantastic, people congratulated me, showed their friendliness towards me. Also I've done some huge mistakes, I've been incredibly stupid, felt like a looser, people were angry with me, disappointed or begun ignoring me. I've been given friendship, love, hate.
Besides all of these there was the feeling that something is missing.
Be it good or bad, I had feelings, I've done things, they had feelings towards me, we've done things, they shared living with me.
There is something more to be done or felt. It looked like all of them weren't so real for me. Even if I was completely into one way or another, something was missing for me. A piece of the puzzle wasn't at it's place and I could saw the table behind it.

Now I was asking myself: is there more? That something is real, is it achievable?

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Say what?