Having left Romania ten years ago a very angry young man wishing nothing to do with the place, Andrei has since come full circle. He admits to a Romanian itch in bad need of scratching, hence the monthly contributions in Vivid, where he filters the oddest world events through the filter of ''what would Romania do...''. However, he is even less coherent than that on most occasions. Elsewhere in Romania he has been published in Capital, Ziarul Financiar, Dilema, 22 and Evenimentul Zilei. He is a frequent commentator on the Romanian-language programmes of the BBC World Service and appears on Antena 1.

An avid cyclist and traveller, Andrei has ridden his bicycle for 500 miles through Alaska in 2001 and hopes to ride from Romania to France one of these summers. Of the several institutions that tried educating him with only limited success, it's worth mentioning The Leys School in Cambridge, UK, Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, KY, Charles University in Prague and Georgetown University in Washington DC .