Merry Christmas!

 As I promised in the last post, here's my wishes for y'all a good Christmas and beautiful memories that will last forever!

Now this post won't be long, but it will contain a topic that became one of the saddest I've ever seen. I'm referring to the most recent one of kids no longer believing in Santa. It might have been a case in older years, but this year was the only one that I saw it with my own eyes.

I was scrolling trough YouTube Shorts to pass my time, when randomly I stumbled across a video with Santa in a mall just sitting by his own thoughts. It was a sad thing to see anyway! I was expecting that this would never happen, but I guess the iPads and the iPhones really kept the kids inside.

Now as I was writing this post something really unexpected happened. There were about 15 - 20 cars that stopped on the road in-front of my block, people from all kinds of age groups exited the cars and started singing Christmas song. Not with lyrics, but with instruments. As I learned from my mom, this is happening every year on our street. Which I have to say, it's a pleasant surprise to know! I don't think that this is a norm outside of Europe, or maybe just Eastern Europe, but this in my opinion adds some happiness to the beautiful holiday of Christmas.

Operation "Nordic Lock-in"

 You might be wondering about the title of this post, but it's real, I'm actually doing this!

Now, I might it called it an "operation", but it's more like a personal project were I'm trying to teach myself the nordic way with the help of ChatGPT (and maybe even Gemeni). And ditching the Romanian education way! It might have been improved along the years, but I'm not waiting until I'm like 50 to start understanding what is taught in school.

This thought started a few days ago, when I just found out that the Bosnian Mark is better than the Romanian Leu (RON). I took my question to ChatGPT, and instead of asking the question I had in mind, I started a whole therapy season with ChatGPT on the idea that Romania is a well-done (in the bad way) country when it comes to the management of it and other similar aspects. One of them being the education, which is already well behind most of the European systems. I mean come on! Even Bulgaria has better education (statistic wise) compared to Romania.

My conversation with ChatGPT carried on for the next hours. Until I realized that even if I sent an email to the ministry of education, the change would not happen for the next 20 ‐ 30 years. So, I took the responsibility into my own hands and started this personal project.

I will make sure to keep you guys updated regarding this project on the wiki and also on here. So, stay tuned and fallow the tag "Nordic Lock-in" for new posts about this subject! Also, I forgot to mention that I also started this project because I got a below passing note on the national evaluation simulation test. The real test is in the last week of June, so I think it's the best time to start this!

Also, there are only 4 days until Christmas (I will 100% make a post!), and just 11 days until 2026... Damn, that's sad.

I'm thinking of becoming an animator...

 I recently started to watch someone who I was aware of its existence but never got to watch his videos, that person it's Chipflake, or shorter, Chip.

He is a Britan that moved to Germany for lots of reasons with the main one being to be with his life partner. But I don't want to make this post all about Chip! I mean, read the title.

So, thinking of becoming an animator... This thought came into my head a few days ago when I got to known it's history tough older videos, now to be real with you, I kind of relate to him with a lot of things. One of them being how I sit while using my laptop, like I sit exactly the same! With my legs in front of me. Only recently I tried to sit normally, but there are colder days where my legs are freezing...

Anyways! Now from where does the part of "I'm thinking of becoming an animator" come from? Well just a few minutes before starting to write this post I watched a video posted by Chipflake about 5 years ago. That video is "Looking through my giant box of drawings", posted on 20th of November 2020, this video gave life to a thought of becoming an animator.

Now I don't think I will start to do animation from tomorrow, because there are a lot of things that I need to take into account. One of them being the name I'm using everywhere! If you don't know, the name "IulianArian" is my actual real name. The same name that shows on my ID, on my birth certificat, etc.

Which now that I think about it, doesn't sound good at all in other languages! Plus, the name "IulianArian" doesn't sound that good... Maybe I will eventually change it to something else, but right now I don't have any ideas, plus it will be frustrating to rebrand everything from my YouTube channel to my wiki.

So, maybe in the near future I will come up with a name that sounds good and is memorable.