{"id":2661,"date":"2020-04-16T19:09:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:36:23","slug":"jurnal-de-coronavirus-8-pai-ce-ai-facut-bobita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/2020\/04\/jurnal-de-coronavirus-8-pai-ce-ai-facut-bobita\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Diary (8) \u2013 What&#8217;s up, doc?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If, during these risky times, we cannot visit our friends, I\nsay let us visit our enemies\u2026 J))<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years I have been watching carefully the tv sitcom Las\nFierbinti, as this was the program that my team and I kept fighting every\nThursday evening. Never mind what show we had, from pranks to talent show (Next\nStar) or the mask shows. It has always been a strong competitor, one just like\nany producer would wish for, if he or she wants to be always &#8220;in good\nshape&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-c-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"las%20fierbinti%20editate\/eu%20c.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-c-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-c-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-c-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-c.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During one of my trips, when we were still allowed to go out\nwithout the &#8220;paper&#8221;, I passed through Fierbinti village and I decided\nto stop at the famous Las Fierbinti bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s up, doc? Well, nothing can be up, since the bar is\nclosed too, willy-nilly. It is a good thing that, on TV, the bar is still open.\nThis way we can still have a drink and a laugh. To forget a bit about the social\ndistancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cocos-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cocos-a-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"las%20fierbinti%20editate\/cocos%20a.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cocos-a-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cocos-a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cocos-a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cocos-a-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/cocos-a.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A rooster with spurs, bumptiously meets me like a bodyguard\u2026\nThis is his territory and he is not very happy to have uninvited guests. The\nactors from the series are one thing, the occasional tourist, quite another\nthing\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hens know they can count on him, so they completely\nignore me and see to their eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Las Fierbinti bar is closed, the mad house (balamuc)\nis open\u2026 Sorry, Balamuci monastery is open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"las%20fierbinti%20editate\/manastire%202.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had no idea that this place exists, close to Fierbinti. It\nis a monk monastery, that is on the historic monuments list. Built, as far as I\nunderstood, by one of Constantin Brancoveanu&#8217;s great grandfathers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why on earth did they call it Balamuci?&#8230; The most\nplausible explanation is that the name comes from the fact that people who\nfounded the first church here where some monks who were &#8220;crazy about Jesus\nChrist&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the perfect place where, on the one hand, you feel\nvery safe, as there is nobody, on the other hand, you get the time to put your\nthoughts in order. And your fears, as well. And in the phobias that appear\nduring this crazy period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-3-b-1-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-3-b-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2668\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/?attachment_id=2668\" class=\"wp-image-2668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-3-b-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-3-b-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-3-b-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-3-b-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-3-b-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-4-a-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-4-a-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2669\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-4-a-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/?attachment_id=2669\" class=\"wp-image-2669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-4-a-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-4-a-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/manastire-4-a-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I go back through Fierbinti, I see a mailbox on the way \u2013 this is already a reflex, since I have the collection\u2026 But I do not stop. I have a more valuable photo that the one I could take now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/vancica-lisabona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/vancica-lisabona-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"las%20fierbinti%20editate\/vancica%20lisabona.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/vancica-lisabona-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/vancica-lisabona-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/vancica-lisabona.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Celentano, man, are you crazy or somethin&#8217;? Did you leave\nnow, during this pandemia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wishful thinking\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is just a memory from a distant vacation in Lisbon, as Adrian Vancica, not as Celentano, a vacation that brought me a piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/2019\/10\/o-colectie-intangibila\/\">my collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way back, I smile like stupid, alone in the car,\nrealizing how small the TV world really is. You never know what future has for\nyou\u2026 Or the bosses\u2026 This is how I got &#8220;in bed with the enemy&#8221;, so to\nspeak\u2026J I worked with Bobonete\non a project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never mind the fight for the audience, we don&#8217;t hate each\nother, we only have ambitions. And we work together, shoulder to shoulder\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-cu-bobonete-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-cu-bobonete-a-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"las%20fierbinti%20editate\/eu%20cu%20bobonete%20a.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-cu-bobonete-a-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-cu-bobonete-a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-cu-bobonete-a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-cu-bobonete-a-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/eu-cu-bobonete-a.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It does not matter if the village bar is closed or an entire city is closed, it does not matter that our office is closed or the countries we wanted to visit during our holidays, we have something certain: television is always open. At least it can make us to #stayhome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, during these risky times, we cannot visit our friends, I say let us visit our enemies\u2026 J)) For years I have been watching carefully the tv sitcom Las Fierbinti, as this was the program that my team and I kept fighting every Thursday evening. Never mind what show we had, from pranks to talent show (Next Star) or the mask shows. It has always been a strong competitor, one just like any producer would wish for, if he or she wants to be always &#8220;in good shape&#8221;. During one of my trips, when we were still allowed to go out without the &#8220;paper&#8221;, I passed through Fierbinti village and I decided to stop at the famous Las Fierbinti bar. What&#8217;s up, doc? Well, nothing can be up, since the bar is closed too, willy-nilly. It is a good thing that, on TV, the bar is still open. This way we can still have a drink and a laugh. To forget a bit about the social distancing. A rooster with spurs, bumptiously meets me like a bodyguard\u2026 This is his territory and he is not very happy to have uninvited guests. The actors from the series are one thing, the occasional tourist, quite another thing\u2026 The hens know they can count on him, so they completely ignore me and see to their eating. If the Las Fierbinti bar is closed, the mad house (balamuc) is open\u2026 Sorry, Balamuci monastery is open. I had no idea that this place exists, close to Fierbinti. It is a monk monastery, that is on the historic monuments list. Built, as far as I understood, by one of Constantin Brancoveanu&#8217;s great grandfathers. Why on earth did they call it Balamuci?&#8230; The most plausible explanation is that the name comes from the fact that people who founded the first church here where some monks who were &#8220;crazy about Jesus Christ&#8221;. This is the perfect place where, on the one hand, you feel very safe, as there is nobody, on the other hand, you get the time to put your thoughts in order. And your fears, as well. And in the phobias that appear during this crazy period. I go back through Fierbinti, I see a mailbox on the way \u2013 this is already a reflex, since I have the collection\u2026 But I do not stop. I have a more valuable photo that the one I could take now. Celentano, man, are you crazy or somethin&#8217;? Did you leave now, during this pandemia? Wishful thinking\u2026 It is just a memory from a distant vacation in Lisbon, as Adrian Vancica, not as Celentano, a vacation that brought me a piece for my collection. On the way back, I smile like stupid, alone in the car, realizing how small the TV world really is. You never know what future has for you\u2026 Or the bosses\u2026 This is how I got &#8220;in bed with the enemy&#8221;, so to speak\u2026J I worked with Bobonete on a project. Never mind the fight for the audience, we don&#8217;t hate each other, we only have ambitions. And we work together, shoulder to shoulder\u2026 It does not matter if the village bar is closed or an entire city is closed, it does not matter that our office is closed or the countries we wanted to visit during our holidays, we have something certain: television is always open. At least it can make us to #stayhome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[634,632,633,647,307,646],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","category-viata-asa-cum-e","tag-fierbinti","tag-las-fierbinti","tag-manastirea-balamuci","tag-television","tag-televiziune","tag-tv-series","main-post"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ro","en"],"languages":{"ro":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}