First of all, if you wondered what 28 days after is… it is {28 days later}. I wrote the English title incorrectly, sorry about that. Least it was good for the fact that I needed to dig up a link for the movie.
Lately I am not very joyful for some reason and I compenstae this by watching films all the time. Yesterday I saw {Chicago}. I had high expectations because of the 13 Oscar nominations. The movie entertained me for sure. Luckily they didn’t try to dub it so I could enjoy the original English speech and songs. (I doubt a movie like this can be dubbed at all…) The film itself is very good in atmosphere. The dances, the songs and the moves of Zeta-Jones and Zellweger are fascinating and also the behind the scenes parts are. A strange world, where corruption, blood and murder are presented to the joy of the audience dancing and singing. Should you have commited the largest crime against the law you can still prove innocent. Publicity and money is stronger than anything else. You are free to choose if you like it or not, but Chicago and lately the whole world works like this.
Now if you read a post from the beginning to the end empty your minds as something very different comes: {Spirited Away}. An anime nominated for the Oscar. I saw it today morning (As it is supposed to be a child-movie.) and I found it very entertaining and enchanting. If you saw only European and/or American animated films this will be unique for you too. It somewhat resembles to an Alice in Woderland story in Japan. But this film is more than that. It even has blood in it. Have any of you ever seen a disney animation with blood in it? Plus it lacks the sugarsweet candy ending. All is… enchating, there is no other word for it. And not only for children around 10.
Looking out of the window I see the sun setting. The walls of the houses are turning reddish-yellow. Time flew by for when I sat down outside it was springtime sunshine. My stomach also warns me of time so I am off to eat.
No update for a long time. It’s entirely my bad, and the reason is pure laziness. I have always had something else to do rather than updating and I chose the former. Not that there weren’t anything to write about, on the contrary I saw movies and played some AO and had experiences worth sharing. It’s just not that easy to sit down and write them down.
I haven’t read Ragnar’s journal for a while now which I need to do soon out of curiosity. However when I last read he wrote about a very interesting plan of his, namely that he is writing a script (I guess this is the right word for the writing out of which movies are made) from the novel Rules are Rules. The one I have translated. It would be immensely awesome to be able to watch the movie made from that novel. I would feel special. :) Well, it might cause troubles as well as I had no written permission for translating… Anyway even if it will be made into a film it is an event of the future still.
Last week I saw 28 days after. Being Fallout 2 one of my favourite game I liked the movie very much. It somewhat made me think of Resident Evil as well because it starts at a point Resident Evil ended. The film was thrilling, it makes you feel uneasy in your seat. You can truly understand what insecurity is, when you are alone or only a handful of people around and you are too afraid to shut your eyes and sleep even. This movie is a must for post-apocalyptic fans.
Yesterday’s event was the Hungarian Anarchy Online meeting held in a restaurant. I spent a good time there chatting about our recent experiences on planet Rubi-Ka. It is nice to meet the people who are behind the characters ingame. However they kept joking on me being the only one out-of-guild person. I wasn’t absolutely positive if they didn’t mean it seriously sometimes.
It’s Sunday and here is a short update. As short as Sundays are. Unlike Mondays. Mondays are dark, grey, long and exhausting. Getting up at the crack of dawn, watching as the trees run away from the window of the train, going to classes and stay at the uni late in the evening then go home and fall to the bed and sleep like a log just to wake up next day for the same schedule. Long. 52 words in a sentence.
Today is a special day, as my former English teacher used to start her class in grammar school. It’s Women’s day today. Get up all males of the world and buy flowers to thank the women that we are here. For all of us was helped to life by a woman and we all seek a woman to complete our lives. Plus females are just terribly cute… :)
As we haven’t already found out how can we transport material on the internet I cannot send flowers or anything on this medium. What I can is text. So here is a part of a {Hindu legend} that - in my opinion - is one of the best definitions of the women. Have a happy day y’all out there!
I was wondering if I should have written this post before having a shower or after. I decided to choose the former no matter showers proved to have a boosting effect on my thinking. After shower I will be just more tired and longing for a soft bed than now.
I have seen two movies lately: Death Ship and The Sweetest Thing. Death Ship reminded me much like Blood 2. you know, the computer game famous for having sooo much blood in it that turned out to be ridiculous at the end. Death Ship wasn’t bad really but the story could have been stronger. There was more in the story than revealed. It lost being interesting at the end and didn’t keep up the tension. The ending wasn’t very much to my liking either.
The Sweetest Thing I watched because I didn’t want to do anything serious this morning. It was exactly what I expected though at some points a tad too dumb… I guess the movie is aimed to be funny and romantic out of which fun is sometimes there but no romance at all. If you just came out of an exam, your brain is flushed empty and you want nothing more than sit in an armchair and switch yourself odd to standby mode, this is your film to see.
Ok, I am off to bath. And then sleep. Sleep long, undisturbed and deep. /The last word is written in a manner as if the owner of the diary had jumped instantly from his seat, putting the pen down and closing the book in an instance. A spot of dropped ink is visible, too./
Back again at university and I had my fair share of those unbelievably tiring and exhausting Monday-Tuesday combos again. I had to notice that while I am longing here like a shell of a robot only attending lessons without his soul present the outer world didn’t stop. Many things have happened lately.
Firstly some great news: The Longest Journey - the game that rocked my world; that meant an experience unrepeatable - will have a sequel. Yep, TLJ2 is in production with the old team that created TLJ. And being that 2 in the name it will be more beautiful, more detailed, more entertaining and just more perfect. At least it is promised.
I do hope it will be. I pray that all these promises will come true. But there are two things that make me uneasy and unsure. I am not yet sure that TLJ2 will come out for PC. If not, that’s a disaster. An end of the worlds as I do not have the money or the intention to buy any console however cool they are.
It is also said that TLJ2 will feature less speech and dialogues. I have heard this from many people that there were too many dialogues in TLJ. I don’t think so. Playing an adventure game is much like reading a book for me. It is just much more complex, more detailed as it has voices and pictures. I loved the long dialogues when you could really leave this world and got transferred to Arcadia or Stark. The charms of TLJ lied in the dialogues, the logical, exciting and well-built speeches of the characters. Please, if you make fewer dialogues, don’t let the TLJ spirit fly away.
Side note: My opinion considering multi-threaded adventures is quite the same: I don’t think a game is bad just because the riddles have one solution and you can progress only one-way. I take these as stories, I don’t want to interfere, I like the way it has been written and I solve the puzzles to see it unfold. I don’t like the fact either that players want more endings just to fit their needs. Let there be one ending, either you like it or not but that IS the definite ending, the one that has been intended by the game creators, and the one that they think best suits the story. It is their game after all. If I want a story that fits my view of the world I write one or at least think about one. When I play an adventure I’d like to see how they see the world. Adventure is not an RPG, you are not April Ryan when you play TLJ, you are an outsider, a spectator, a watcher who can whisper into April’s ear to help her. And what happens next or at the end is not your choice. It is defined by fate, the fate intended by the game designers. Again it is like books.
Secondly… well I am a little confused. About me. Lately I feel I do nothing productive. I mean something that I start, work on and then realise. Learning has nothing to do with productivity it seems, I attend lessons, some dull some interesting, but I see no end. Economy has also nothing to do with productivity. Economists don’t create anything. Their sole function is to optimise and see the future. I mean to find out what goods will be looked for. There is no morality in them. If you somehow find out that many people will look for child-porn videocassettes, an economist would advise any company to sell child-porn. That’s the way the world works, anything is sold if there is a demand. Drugs, cigarettes, weapons, everything. And as an economist, you help keeping this up. No matter you like it or not. Don’t think I would like to do this all my life…
Lately I am getting a little lazy about post-writing. Last week I worked a lot with the AIESEC computers. They needed a total reinstallation and that took a long night to do. And sadly there are still some drivers that need to be searched for. It is really amazing how old and unrecognizable parts are in those machines…
During the weekend I tried to live lightly and recharge my energies for the upcoming week. However I didn’t have time to read. I miss reading much as in old times I read a lot and now less and less. The primary cause is the lack of time. When I arrive home in weekdays I am too tired to do anything other than sleeping. In weekends I have my computer and the net to surf, and my family to chat with.
I like reading in a quite place with some snacks and a glass of tea. Quiet can only be reached at home, because in my dormitory there is three of us plus the corridor is always buzzing with noises even late at night. And the pile of unread books by my bed is growing larger and larger as time passes…
The weather is tricky. The sun is shining but it is cold outside and the wind blows as well. It is Wednesday, that means I survived the first two most difficult and tiring days of the week, but I am drained in energy very much now.
To my great sorrow today won’t be an inch shorter than the two days before. I have tons of things to do.
And I have an emptied mind. No words to tell, only thoughts awaiting to be formed into words. :(
Sunday has passed, slowly and silently. Sundays tend to do that, sadly. This time I decided to travel to Budapest on Monday morning instead of this evening. Laziness rules the world. ;)
This afternoon I saw Novocaine, which proved to be quite interesting. It involved surprisingly much sex and violence to a comedy, and it was rather frightening than hilarious at some points. I liked this small mixture of genres, though the crime thread wasn’t very smart. The character of the dentist is well formed and Steve Martin’s play makes it even better. He is persuasive in the role of the dentist who is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Altogether the movie is fun, you can spend a nice one and a half hour watching it.
Well, see you next week. I don’t promise more posts. All I can promise is that I will try. I haven’t had such a down yet that I couldn’t promise that I would try. :)
Hm, the clock has turned to midnight, so read all tomorrows todays and todays yesterdays.
I’ve doing bad with updates I admit. I slept, played AO or just did nothing instead. The Old Gaffer in The Lord of the Rings says “The work you never start takes the longest time to accomplish.”. And updating did take long…
But as a compensation today is declared Big Update Day. ;) I redesigned the look of the {Stuff page} and added a link to the {AIESEC HUngary} site, too. AS a matter of fact there should have been another update, the translation of an Excel tutorial but I was dumb enough to forget to copy it to a disk so it is still at the Salthouse. One day I’ll forget to eat and die a shameful death, mark my words.
Since a couple of days all the lights went out in the tunnel that connects the pavement in front of the university and the tram stop. As many times I have to go home late in the dark I have to pass this tunnel as well. It is quite an experience because almost no light is able to penetrate thugh the exits so down there is like you lost your eyes. Being deprived of seeing, our best sense is very unpleasant I can tell. It is not like when you close your eyes, you cannot unmake your ability with that. In that tunnel dark is heavy and dense. Blindiness should be like that.
Plus I had an extraordinary experiece travelling home. I cought a train that goes to Romania. No offense to anyone but that train is one of the dirtiest and worst of all on this line. (I don’t say why nor judge, just state!) The train was strange for the first sight: no Romanian coaches. I knew something is not right at the very moment. Boarding the train surprises continued. It was relatively clean and looked like it has recently been renewed. It was heated and the lights were on. Most unbelieveable! And that shocked me mostly: there was paper towel in the toilet. Don’t laugh, on this line it is definite luxury! :) Well, ok, water didn’t come out of the tap, but everything cannot be so perfect… :)