Christianity

An important moment in everyone's life: the baptizing day. So it was here, in the City of Alba Iulia, the daughter of a good friend of mine getting baptized.

Holsten

Actually the place is called PUB 13 and it is located inside the historical fortress of Alba Iulia, Romania

Native American Tradition

They are indians indeed, but from South America! What's more, they're traveling through Europe, performing and selling their music on the streets...
I took this shot about a year ago in the city of Alba Iulia - Romania.

Today's joke:

Two guys were talking:
- Did you hear what happened to John?
- No, what happened?
- He stole my wife!

And now some interesting Facts about Texas

Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas .

1. Beaumont to El Paso : 742 miles
2.. Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles
3... El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
4.. World's first rodeo was in Pecos , July 4, 1883.
5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water. Destroyed by Hurricane Ike -2008!
6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston ..
7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America
8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America 's only remaining flock of whooping cranes...
9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
10. The worst natural disaster in U.S. history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane, in which over 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island .
11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20,1969, was " Houston ," but the space center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time.
12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island ...
13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record of 43" in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979...
14. Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by TREATY, (known as the Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of Texas to enter the Union ) instead of by annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same height as the U.S. Flag, and may divide into 5 states.
15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.
16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.
17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper..
18. Texas has had six capital cities:
Washington -on- the Brazos, Harrisburg , Galveston ,Velasco, West Columbia and Austin ..
19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the U..S. which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington DC (by 7 feet).
20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing monument in the world and it is taller than the Washington monument.
21. The name ' Texas ' comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas ..
22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo (an interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies.. They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either have four males or four females.).
23. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston.

Happy New Year, 2009!

Dear blogger friends, I wish y'all a Safe, Wealthy, Healthy and Happy New Year!
About the picture, I took that shot last year in Alba Iulia (December 1st - The Romania's National Day).


Today's joke is more like a facts list! Here we go!

Things to Know:

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)


A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
(Don't try this at home,maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the...?!)


The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.(Hmmmmmm......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains..
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread these crazy facts and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to, maybe even a chuckle.

Let's Pray Together!

I took this shot while attending a soccer game between two major teams from Transylvania (no vampires involved!), University of Cluj-Napoca vs Alba Iulia United. Unfortunately the image has a poor quality, and that's my fault, 'cause I saw these two kneeled players in the last moment and I rushed myself to capture them before the scene was gone. Of course, after downloading the picture, I was totally disappointed, but I find it funny... hope you'll find it that way too!

Of course I got another joke!

A blonde goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards. She says to the clerk:
"May I have 50 Christmas stamps?"
The clerk says:
"What denomination?"
The blonde replies:
"God help us. Has it come to this? Give me 6 Catholic, 9 Presbyterian, 10 Lutheran, 7 Orthodox and 18 Baptists!"

House of Art

I took this shot inside the Alba Mall, the very first Mall in town! I turned it in b/w except the red color, that one is the original from "House of Art" advertisement. Also I added the HoA sign on the car's license plate, as well as on the black (kinda gray actually!) top right corner, which originally was a white corner, and it was disturbing the sight.

Nightwish

A night shot in the city of Alba Iulia (RO)... and the desire to see a different sky! Postworked in Picture It! Premium and Broderbund