Geez. Every time I check my site I often see very old updates. Past week I was thinking about updating like every day but all the time my laziness won and I postponed it to the following 'tomorrow'. This update I started yesterday as well, but I was forced to leave my computer being a class in the room I was writing. And this time I am having an IT class myself as well. But as I must update I don't really care much about it... :)
I am happy that even if no updates are present I have some extremely loyal visitors that check out for updates tirelessly. Due to this my site passed the magical five hundred visitors. Weeeeee! :)
I also promise this time that I will post things more often. The problem with me is that I tend to keep my promises. So this means I will either update or have painful struggles with my conscience.
This week I saw a movie I was looking forward to: X2. Recently many comics are made into films. Basically I like this idea because it means some refreshment from the endless action moves Hollywood makes. It is not a bad thing if a movie has a story and some ideas unique to the movie industry.
I liked X2 for the idea of mutants. People that have abilities many of us would love to have, though they do not differ from us, humans, that much. The movie also portrays the human nature very well: everything that is different from 'normal' is sick and a bad thing that is to be destroyed, even if the difference can be used positively.
What I didn't like about the movie is that because I didn't see the first part there were many things that didn't make any sense to me. For example I don't know even now what the real special ability of Rouge is. (I hope I know her English name right.) There are also personal connections and past events only referred to but not cleared in a satisfying way.
The other parts like story and shooting were ok. I was expecting a little more thrill and action after watching the trailer but I guess the fans wanted storyline improvements and some meaning instead of non-stop action. And in the end it turned out ok, a fairly exciting movie with things to say.
What was undoubtly successfully implemented however was the atmosphere. For two hours you can sink to your seat and step into a dream world of an alternative future with people which is full of people with special magical-like abilities. Truly awesome.
I am lazy with updates - as usual. I wish I had a computer here at Budapest too, not only at home. The Salthouse closes at 8PM which really limits its usefulness. I think I would be more balanced if I could soothe myself with some at-night AO or anything that requires a monitor to be viewed.
I am again in a mood when I have many things in my head - too much to tell. I need to do tons of things 75% of which I don't want to and the 25% I really want I cannot do. Posting my thoughts is now in the 75% group. :(
It's even hotter outside and now no refreshing breeze blows either.
Yesterday evening I couldn't sleep well again because there was some kind of party held at the common room of the building besides my dormitory. No matter I closed the windows - which made the room hotter than ever - it was still too loud to ignore it. As a result I am constantly yawning as I write and I was late from my first class as well.
What more I made a big mistake. I forwarded a letter about a poll that was already over. Me. The anti-spam-fighter. Shameful...
Speaking of happier things I saw Johnny English yesterday. It was funny but not at all as hilarious as I expected. There were some jokes that were pretty much obvious and I didn't like the story either. Not that a movie like this should have a story but this was dumb in a not-funny way. I was surprised by the appearance of Natalia Imburglia in the movie though. Since when does she work as an actress as well?
the day before yesterday I visited the cinema too - I've got some movie fever it seems. I watched The Recruit. Basically I was interested because of Al Pacino but his role was secondary in most of the scenes. At the end he had a spectacular monologue though. As for the story it started a bit slowly and dull but after the recruited were sent to field excitement grew. Despite of the many twists and turns the story has I still missed something. I don't know exactly what... some kind of whoaaaa-thing, a surprise or twist I couldn't think of in my dreams even. And I didn't like the ending either. Something darker, not this straightforward would do better in my opinion. It is recommended to see if you are interested in the ways of CIA or like spy movies. And Layla looks nice as well. Speaking of her...
Apparently a surprise hits in every movie I see for example in this one I had to realise that the actress playing Layla resembles very much to an AIESECer in our LC. The similarity is shocking, they look exactly the same. I downloaded a wallpaper and put on the desktop of one of our conmputers in the office. Some people coming in thought I did some kind of editing and put Kata's face on a movie poster... :)
If you happen to leave your room and take a stroll outside you can think it is already summer. The temperature is high and only little fluffy white clouds can be spotted on the summer-blue sky. Occasionally a breeze comes that refreshes the air around you. Definitely a weather that encourages you to go out.
Though I am happy that the time of dark skies and rainy days is over for a while but I have many things to do and that prevents me from enjoying the early summer. It also makes me sad that I won't be at home for a while so I cannot play any AO either. On the contrary I will attend the Spring National Conference of AIESEC Hungary, which is as much a strain as fun in my opinion. Plus I made a concept for a new design for {www.anarchy-online.hu}. To implement that I need to add all old pages to the new design, and I realized that it means tons of work... for which I really don't know when will have time.
Not to mention all the school stuff.
Say I am not self-consistent but despite of all these stuff to be done I still took some time to go to the cinema. :) I saw Tears of the Sun last week with Bruce Willis. It reminded me of Black Hawk Down very much in mood and story. What I liked most was the shooting. There were some really admirable scenes showing the beauty of the black continent. And this beauty made a harsh contrast with the cruelty and inhumanity of the war taken place there. Though the American soldiers are showed being more human and vulnerable than most of the movies I still did not feel the film to be a documentary. To be honest I don't know if it was intended to be one, but at some points there are flaws in realism in my opinion. Despite of these I do think it is a good film to see for it is exciting and has something to say though not that clearly.
Fast update comes as I couldn't stand the whispering of the still small voice within...
So. Today I am going to the election of the Executive Board of our AIESEC Local Committee. It is quite a big event with many traditions and special enjoyments so I am quite looking forward to it. As for what happened lately I updated the site though it is not visible. I tried to make it better viewed with other browsers not only Internet Explorer as well. In AO I had many struggles wth the new mission system, which - after two emergency pathes - is still not flawless.
Shortly this is it, though I - again - have other thing to tell which I don't have time to. I will need to send an email to the GM of life that a day shall be 27 hours.
Since quite a time I didn't update. Shame on me, hehe. I think it is best seen as a holiday from posting thoughts to a journal. Actually I had a 'real' holiday too, the Easter holidays. So I took the opportunity and played as much AO as I wanted to... and that is a lot, believe me. :)
I started to visit the ace camp where the mercenaries (Ian Warr and his gang) spawn, and managed to get two pieces of the famous azure armor. Like a martial-artist friend of mine said: 'I see you are going blue'. Plus I reached the level 184, which is not title level 6 - as I planned - yet, but I achieved so many other things that I am satisfied. Oh, I almost forgot the most important change. I started to use pistols instead of swords. Though I still think swords are very cool to swing, my experiences proved that a ranged weapon has many advantages, which the melee attacks lack. So I took a deep breath and reseted my sword skills putting all the IP into pistols. And I got a Pain of Patricia gun, too. So recently I have a hard time not to steal the agro from all those enforcers and soldiers... ;)
Last weekend was Easter, too. Not being religious, Easter is not that important to me, but it has the advantage of being a national holiday. What you in foreign lands may not know is that we, Hungarians, have a special tradition connected to Easter. On the morning of the Monday of Easter the male inhabitants of the villages visited the girls in their homes and sprinkled water on them (from a bucket) after telling them Easter rhymes. In exchange the girls gave the boys hand-painted eggs. Not being sprinkled was a great shame for the girls so if they resisted that was only for the show. Nowadays this traditional bucket-using sprinkling is found only in villages, in towns men use perfumes. And instead of painted eggs some use chocolate eggs. What remained unchanged are the rhymes.
I really feel bad. I think I would need some sympathy now, which I really don't get. Yes, this is again all about the stealing. People keep telling me that it is a sad thing indeed, but you should forget it, just look around, there are many things happening in the world that are much worse than that. For example there is a war in Iraq where people lose their homes and relatives not mp3 players. What they forget is that the mp3 player belonged to me while the homes didn't. I don't care about others. Why should I as others don't seem to care about me.
There were times when I was pretty much ok. Like yesterday I really enjoyed the AIESEC sleepover we held. It was fun, and for a short time I forgot the sorrow and had a good time. But when I needed to buy a new recharger for my phone the waves of sadness came again. I couldn't buy an original one but a made-in-china crap recharger only. From now on every time I take a look at that bloody charger this whole fuss will come to my mind in an instant. The mere thought of this made me feel like I wanted to kick and demolish everything fragile that happened to be in my way on the way home. Of course I didn't do anything. A sane man doesn't destroy anything. Neither cries he.
On AO I told the story on the organisation's chat and a guy told me that he thinks dorms suck and on the first day he went to university all his towels were stolen. I had a great intention to kick him at that moment. My god, towels... I had a very expensive machine stolen not a couple of textile rectangles! Of course he wanted to comfort me in a way but no one above a certain financial status can understand that I have no - and I mean no - chance of buying an mp3 player again in a year. Or in two. Or a thousand.
See? All I can do is to be rude to people who want to help (though they don't seem to understand). It is certainly not the thing to do but then what is? I cannot forget what happened, I cannot live it down. I so much wanted someone to hug me and say it's ok. And fuck manliness... I now don't care about the world. Tell me I am uncool, tell me anything you want I do need sympathy.
Catastrophies cause more catastrophies and this chain continues until the end of the world comes. At least it seems like this now. Today morning I wanted to charge my mobile and... yes, you can guess it, my charger was gone, too. I assume the one who stole my mp3 player thought that the charger lying next to it belonged to it and took that as well. So now I have no player and I cannot use my mobile either. This thing really starts to grow on me... I mean I won't have enough money to replace all these in half a year... I hope if not a human but God will punish the damn thief who took my belongings... may he die a painful and torturing death, may the ravens be fed with his eyes, may he get SARS. Forget forgiverness I want revenge!
Terrible things have taken place while I was away at the spring camp. In my dormitory room there are four beds, but I live alone, I have no roommates. This is why I keep everything - even valuable things - on the open. Today morning when I was about to set off to the university I was looking for my newly-bought mp3 player. To my great surprise it was gone. I looked in every corner and drawer but I couldn't find it, although I was quite postitve I left it on my desk. I informed the person who is responsible for the dormitory and he said there was a guy who slept in my room during the weekend. Despite of having been promised that no one-day rommates would sleep in the room, it happened. And likely he walked away with my mp3 player in his pocket. Now the dormitory directors are trying to track him down and question him, but still he can say anything... Needless to say I am very disappointed about all this. I just bought it, I used it at most four times and I was immensely happy I finally got my hands on a portable music playing gadget and now it is all gone. And the chance of getting it back is thin, alike the chance to get a new one. Thieving is one of the worst things to live down...
I made a timing mistake in yesterday's post as I didn't update the day when posting. That was corrected.
As for today I will be short and brief because I am writing in the AIESEC office. We are preparing for our annual "spring camp". I am expecting tons of fun there. The only problem is that I cannot attend the Saturday meeting of Velvet, though I very much want to. Anyway... I guess this is it for now, I need to go.