Net in here is very unstable, I do hope it won't eat my post...
The AIESEC JobNeked weekend is over - it was very exhausting but pretty much fun as well. Now we cannot stop for this weekend is a JN weekend again. We also have a ball in the university so one thing I cannot complain about and thats boredom.
I ordered some computer parts today. in Hungary there is an opportunity for students that 60.000 HUF they spend on computer parts they can get back from their paid taxes once a year. If the student does not pay tax yet having no income either, his/her parents can use this offer as well. The offer is also available for workers paid by the state like teachers. Therefore I ordered a 2.6GHz 800MHz FSP P4 processor, two 256MB 400MHz DDR RAM modules and a GeForce FX5200 128MB videocard. I need to buy a mainboard later to bulid my little home 'power-plant'. :) Only thing is that the parts need to arrive this year or else I won't be able to get the money back next April. The shop assistant recommended daily prayers. Who knows it might help. (It's also a good idea if you have nothing to pray for include my computer parts in your prayer. ;) ) Not like I prayed ever...
If AIESEC was a machine I'd say its cogs got me again. :) This saying makes more sense in Hungarian, but I don't know the English equivalent. Yet. Anyway I was busy. We seem to have a very tight agenda for our project and time is ticking away very fast indeed.
At the dormitory the net got even worse. Now we can only browse the net with a proxy server set up. However it does not allow anything else to access the net such as e-mail programs or ftp. It does not even allow e-mail attachments to be uploaded via web interfaces. It is quite annoying. Therefore I am posting from the Salthouse again. I do hope the dormitory net will be fixed soon. This hope is somewhat faded by the fact that nothing ever got actually better there only worsened and the usual time of responding to any problem is as fast as an average senior snail.
I saw a {The Medallion} poster in the cinema today. This is one movie I am waiting for eagerly. Not like there was anything special about it or I am curious about it. Nop. It co-stars Claire Forlani. She looks astonishing. Period. And I hope that a movie liek this - I mean a possible blockbuster Hollywood big-production starring Jackie Chan might open some doors for her. I think she deserves to be noticed by makers of movies that are remebered. (P.S. I don't especially like Jackie Chan and his movies... but thats one thing.)
Now it's high time for me to go home and eat. To be honest I'd rather gone home earlier. But an oath is an oath (guess what the subject of the oath is) and here I am and post even if I starve. ;)
I had to accept the fact that currently I don't seem to be able to change the design of sesam.hu to something that is better than the current one and aslo suits me. I was trying to do so today morning but without considerable success. Afternoon I watched Fight Club with my brother. I like that movie. Basicly because I think I understand the point of view Brad Pitt plays: the despise of any posession and the love of freedom. And the idea that respected people of the society became animals during the night and having fun by hitting each other plump is - after all - beliveable. Basicly many times one'd feel so releived if he could just simply smash the face of someone he hates or angry at. It is only our socialisation that prevents us from doing so. But is that always good? Does it not create tension within the people? A feeling of increasing anger and uneasiness that will eventually burst out?
I took the evening train to Budapest and arrived in my dormitory some time after 21:30. I spent the time on the train by translating. I managed to fix my laptop's battery with a simple trick. It is supposed to work with old Ni-Mh batteries that lost most of their capacity. You need a 12V lamp to attach it to the battery. The lamp empties the battery fully and when you recharge it it'll retain its full capacity again. This way I managed to keep my laptop alive for one and a half our. The thing I am translating is not public yet but I suppose it'll go online soon.
At the dormitory I had a disastrous evening. I couldn't help being angry at my roommates for my turned over bed sheets. They told me they had a party on Monday. Cool. But my bed remained a mess since then. Then I broke my cup when I tried to take it from the cupboard. An easy move it is, strech your hand, hold the cup, pull it towards yourself. Mr. Clumsy Me can even mess such simple things up. Bravo. Result: broken china and a lost old cup. Lastly I had to notice that the net isn't working. IT people seem to switch some services like WINS and DNS off during the weekend. Same with hot water. Like we pay only for the weekdays... I managed to access the net with some tricks (setting external servers) so I - and this post - could go online.
Anyway I'd better sleep now. Tomorrow is Monday and we all know how bad Mondays are. This upcoming one seems to be no exception either.
I am overly tired of today. All day I was desperately trying to create something. I asked for a dynamic webspace with PHP at my service provider. I thought, a new technology deserves a new design as well. So I spent most of yesterday and six hours of today with designing. Result? Nothing: not a single original idea, not a piece that worth keeping. Additional costs: pounding headache, anger, disappointment. I am getting to hate the name Dreamweaver. It is so right you have dreams but what if you don't know how to weave?
Yes, I know I didn't update. Usual stuff. I am lazy like hell and always tired - if not physically then mentally. Should see a doc, mark my words.
Every time I check my site if it is still there (One can't be sure ever :P) I have to realize I haven't posted since ages. This time it is AIESEC that I am busy with. Plus the general problem of no access to the Internet. Basicly it is not that easy to post for me because SeSam.hu is not a dynamic, programmed site but a pure html one. I asked my host about the price of PHP and MySQL but it is skyrocketing for me.
Anyway I am glad to see that despite of all these many visit me regularly. Keep up the good work. :) I have many plans about future posts and other content. Plus - as I might have mentioned it before - I have a very very slow and old laptop. Now I only have to find a way to connect it to the net somehow and I'd have 0/24 connection because there is net access in the AIESEC office and at my dormitory as well.
I looked it up and actually you write committee with two t-s. Well, that is a word I always misspell when I am tired.
It is crack of dawn here. Ok, maybe 8:23 is not the crack of dawn for many people but at the moment I feel so. Yesterday we painted a poster for the first-years to invite them to our yearly 'first-year camp' where they can get to know AIESEC. And I am hungry. Lately I had little time to spend on such useless and trivial things like feeding myself. I am off to eat. NOW! Mwhahahahaaaa! :P
I take a rare opportunity to post because at the moment I am in front of a computer and not doing anythig else but browse. I am glad to inform everyone that I am elected Organising Commitee President for JobNeked, a project in AIESEC LC BUESPA. This means lot of work of course plus I have to attend my classes as well. I can never even chat with the people I used to. Hopefully during the upcoming weekend...
There might be a little bit of silence again. I will be at an AIESEC event during the weekend and I suppose next week will be extremely busy and exhausting for me. I will try my best and post from the university computers though. :)
I didn't forget about the 'thing I wanted to tell' either. I will come up with it eventually. (Some more marketing. ;) )
The start of the month went in a rush as I moved some of my belongings to my new dormitory room. (New means another exactly same-looking room as I had before.) However I have roommates this time which is good because thieving is less likely when four people live in a room. However I am not quite social lately. Not that I am there too often, I spent most of my time in the AIESEC office this time as well.
Today I was at an office where you can request IDs and driving licenses and stuff like that. It is a long process and there is always a massive amount of people queuing up there so it took half a day to get to the officer. My driving license is supposed to arrive within two weeks. I except - or rather hope - it comes earlier because I want to try our car in a longer journey. My brother comes home from the UK next Saturday and I'd like to drive to Budapest and back then.
On Wednesday I passed my driving exam and now I am a happy owner of a driving license. Actually this very first sentence is quite false denying one small obstacle: bureaucracy. This means I will have my driving license in approximately one and a half or two weeks. In addition to spending one miserable day at the office where I am to be photographed by a digital camera and where I need to fill in some forms. (As they have 2 cameras for a town they are damn crowded.)
Today I got up at an unbelievably early time - around 4:30 AM. My family and I accompanied my brother to the Budapest Airport (by our new car) because he went to a two week study trip to the UK. If I wanted to be sarcastic I'd say it is getting to be fashion to go to England. My mother was there this summer as well. I envy them very much... I wish I could go too.
The journey to the airport was interesting though because it was raining heavily and it was dark of course. I haven't driven a car yet in rain. I didn't drive this time either (reasons in paragraph #1) but it looked straining. I guess bad weather came to greet first official day of school that is tomorrow.
Well. When I started t write this post I wanted to tell you about something but now I changed my mind. I am not in the state of putting it into words as I dreamt it should be. This is marketing anyways... come back if you want to see more. ;)