Silviya Krasteva

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(Don’t) look back in anger II
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Silviya Krasteva
May 5, 2009

(Read the first part here.) "It ain't over till it's over." Pushing the gas pedal on your organizational skills and the break on all the rest of your life results in going through the very last weeks at supersonic speeds. It's a shock.

Cracking the AUBG code: (Don’t) look back in anger I
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Silviya Krasteva
April 26, 2009

As I am writing this, I haven't really had more than 5 hours of sleep per night over the last couple of weeks, and I have just returned from a play I was in. If the level of adrenaline in my system could be a negative value, it probably would be.

MORONISM: Sarcasm shall prevail
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Silviya Krasteva
April 8, 2009

Four years ago my first roommate, then in More Honors, was telling me how More Honors was actually a mock-show and how cool it was to get nominated. Then I didn't quite get her point: how can it be a MOCKery, but at the same time, COOL to win? It can't. That's the point. However, year after year people made huge campaigns for Google, Future Leader, Man of the Year or Mojo nominations.

Cracking the AUBG code: In praise of being the talk of the dorm
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Silviya Krasteva
March 21, 2009

(Updated March 22, 2009) Skaptopara dorms: the place where the crisis hit first. I'd even argue it was initiated here. People just stopped minding their own business, and went into other people's, thus leaving their own unattended, and, eventually, going out of... BUS, and into JMC (the dream of many!).

Cracking the AUBG code: Patches and dispatches
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Silviya Krasteva
March 6, 2009

Since my poetry-writing abilities were questioned, I decided to dedicate myself to exploring the universe of blues and rhyme by attending the Poetry and Blues recital organized by Professor Vladimir Levchev. You may not have heard of it, but it did happen. Around fifty people attended. It was one of the most interesting events I've been to this year.

Cracking the AUBG code: In the air tonight
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Silviya Krasteva
February 14, 2009

(With the help of Mr. Burt Saxby)

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Come get drunk at the SG party
And I will show you my colors too...

Cracking the AUBG code
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Silviya Krasteva
February 5, 2009

This past week I was let on many great secrets. If I had a diary, it probably would've started ink-bleeding from all the mysteries of life I would've shared with it. And then it would've spontaneously set itself ablaze.

Twilight blackout
Movie review
Silviya Krasteva
February 1, 2009

Although vampire movies seemed to have lost their popularity after the “Queen of the Damned” mania in 2002, Twilight, which opened in cinemas last November, appeared just when we were all craving for some supernatural romance over Coke and popcorn.

BudaFesting 2008
Sziget, Hungary
Silviya Krasteva
September 25, 2008

 

After some 15 hours of bus-tripping and ill air-conditioning (say nothing of the five hours I spent on the Serbian border, because our bus broke down), I arrived in Budapest. They say one should always look for the golden mean, and in that case it was definitely Obudai Island on the Danube, right between Buda and Pest, where Sziget Fest has been taking place every first week of August for the last 15 years.