Danger coming up. At school the exam period is approaching at an enormous and unpleasant speed. After Christmas and New Year’s Eve I will have to sit and study. However I have certain fears about this namely the fact that I feel very drawnback in comparison to other students in my group. And this causes me much unrest lately.
Remember that I mentioned I am working on a “secret” project? I guess it doesn’t matter keeping it a secret anymore. I am translating the novel {Rules are Rules} by Ragnar Tornquist. I do not know what do I need to have the rights to translate a short story liek that. I wrote an e-mail to Ragnar for permission that is still unanswered. I don’t think I can do much more about this, so when the translation is ready I will make it available on this site, for I think Rules are Rules is very good but the problem is many of my friends I wanted to show it don’t speak English. This was my main motivation when I started to work on the translation. Pity I couldn’t do it the way I wanted to, i.e. with the author’s permission.
Regardless of the fact that Ragnar keeps ignoring my letters I am reading his {journal}. On 7th December he wrote this: “Of course, I could always get uncomfortably personal and start talking about my feelings. But I don’t think any of us want to go there quite yet.” this made me think about my journal here. Do I write about my feelings? Yes I do. (Here it worths mentioning that in my opinion ragnar does as well.) But I don’t see that as a problem. I was asked by one of my ex-schoolmates a couple of weeks ago if it bothers me that many people I don’t know a heck about can look into me. Well, the original goal of this journal was to provide information about me. If someone is not interested he doesn’t read. So simple. And the ones that read do it for they have found something that interests them. And the question if it was a problem that these people can read about my personal stuff as well… no it’s not. At least not by me. And if the only use of this journal will be that in the far future I will be able to look back and see what kind of a person I was now, it’s OK. A journal is to store events, feelings, motives, any stuff. Not less and not more.
Just a fast post before I leave for the train. The things I whined about last time are mostly done. ;) And I managed to reach 152 in AO as well, in addition to participating in 3 Tara raids. So successfulness shined over my weekend. Not to mention the very interesting conversation I had with Salvaes - a fellow nanomage adventurer - while waiting for Tarasque to spawn.
And now next week awaits me with many challanges, including a Communication exam. May the force be with me!
I have like a thusand things scheduled forthis weekend and if things continue like this I won’t be able to finish half of them. For example I have a written exam in Communication on monday. Well I have to admit that my current knowledge is… leaky. :) And this is only one of the thousand… By the way it just came to my mind what if the university reads my page secretly as well? I’d better keep quiet about these learning issues in the future maybe. ;)
A cause why I couldn’t learn today for example was the fact that this morning we went shopping to the town with all my family. I enjoyed it very much, spending some time with my parents and browsing for christmas presents, clothes, etc. It had a real Christmas-time athmosphere with bells and happiness all around.
Yo! I forgot to mention it last time but I was officially selected to be IT Coordinator at the last LC meeting we held. :)
Plus the translation of {the website of Komaromy Publishing, Inc.} went online. It was me who did the translation.
Nothing else happened to me I think from then, at least not anything significant. I am highly looking forward to Friday when I can play AO. And I have a website to design as well. (Any more info is resticted :) )
Today I could enjoy the great feeling of satisfaction more than once. I was able to finish all the tasks I scheduled for myself for today. Although I missed a statistics lecture… ;)
In the afternoon I was in the cinema to check out {The Transporter}. Well not the most dialugue-packed piece I have seen in my life, but this is its advantage. After the first couple of scenes the film offers action on action to the end. I had much fun watching it, and I think due to this the movie achieved its goal: entertaining.
I especially liked the part when the camera faced the front of that famous BMW. Like it has eyes looking at you, showing calmness, decisiveness. Very cool.
As far as I see it is not only me who thinks the AO: Notum Wars delivery is a {fiasco}. Well I hope I will get my copy for next weekend as the official velvet tower-building event is held that time. Pretty strange thata guild announces this. However Marlark’s comment explains: “We want to do it cool. :)”
What is more important is that I reached the title level of Wanderer! Clap and hooray! No more silly skillcaps, muhhahahahaha. :D It was a hard work, I could barely see at the end of the uncountably many missions I made this weekend to reach 150. But it worths it I think. With a couple of implants I will be able to cast many new nanos, for example a better heal and Calia’s Form: Parrot. And in Velvet all members hitting 150 get 6 NCUs of their like as a present. So I am totally happy.
As you might have seen I made a couple of changes on the {stuff} page. Plus I am working on a project that is a secret at the moment. You will see what it is when it is ready.
Almost forgot again: I am always joking on my friend that he has no link on his website to mine. Well I don’t have either so now I am compensating for this: {»>link 2 ::Wastedbyte’s site}. Check it out, though it is under constructuion yet. (As always if it’s his site… ;) )
I do hate FunCom. Notum Wars is soon out and it is damn expensive! I mean not the booster pack itself (20EUR is payable) but the damn hyenas ask 31EUR for the shipping to Hungary! I don’t think I should pay 150% of the price of the software itself for the shipping. Ridiculous.
Nothing else except for my anger I guess. I am busy with working (translation) and school stuff.
Out of ideas what to write… work tires the mind without doubt.
I checked out on the net today. Yes, {Broken Sword 3 (BS: The Sleeping Dragon)} is in production. And I have also found the {official website of Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars}, the game which I am currently playing.
What I left out last time is my achievements in AO. So. Fast drums… I succeeded in putting on {Mantis Scissors} and a {Super SOL Fire Type F}! :)))) This makes me a little more lethal than before.
OK, I am lazy, I admit that. I was home and I didn’tupdate at all… though I had the chance. In fact I did nothing I wanted to this weekend. I was home but during the day I felt I don’t want to do anything, all I did was waiting for midnight so that I can connect to the net. I mean whatever I started I didn’t have the fun I expected. Well at least ost of the time I didn’t.
The main thing I came home was the Katie-day at my ex-school. Its name is Varga Katalin Grammar School, where Katalin is Katie in Hungarian. And we here have not only birtdays but also name days meaning all days of the calendar are assigned to one or more names. For example Peter is on 29th June. Back to the point, we celebrate the name day of our school too, which means a gathering at the local basketball stadium where each of the first-year classes do a short performance and the first-years’ initiation ceremony is held plus there is partying in the evening.
As a university student I mainly chatted with old schoolmates and teachers. It was great to meet some people I haven’t seen since our last exams. :) And teachers were also curious about how are we doing at the unis. All in all, we had a good time.
I am reading a book at the moment written by Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson titled: The Age of Propaganda - The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion. As I proceed in reading, I am amused again and again how smart the advertisements are made to make people buy that particular thing. It is awesome that most of the time something in our subconsious guides us - that is manipulated by the advertisements - and not our common sense, however we are positive that we decide consciously. Very cunning.
The reason I am telling this,is that i bought a new cell phone. :) I saw it in the TV this thursday and bought it on Friday. Not at all the usual process I make. However much I like to say I don’t buy things without much pre-thinkig, I did this time.
{[t200.jpg]}To name the subject it is a {SonyEricsson T200} in an icy blue colour just like on the picture. It looks very cool in my opinion, and has WAP in it as well. Recently my cell phone service provider gives unlimited WAP access for around 2€ per month. Thats quite cheap. (Unlike ANY communication-related services here.) So I am exploring the WAP-world…
Last thing that worths mentioning is Broken Sword. I got it as a full game of the magazine {GameStar} last month I think. Man, that game is great! :) First of all, the story it has is believeable, exciting and funny. It has so much little amusements in it, like the game during the install or the jokes in the dialogues. Apart form the not-so-much-up-to-date graphics, I do think this adventure is outstanding. I am highly looking forward to the 3rd part in the series now (BS3 is coming, isn’t it?).
At Uni again… Well today I left my monthly mass-transit ticket at home - of course I only noticed it when I was on the underground - meaning I had to walk back and miss today’s statistics lecture. Bad thing.
Since I had some time since today’s communication class, I settled myself in the cosy computer-room of the Salthouse, visiting all the webpages I wanted to in a month. :)
For example I browsed the site of {Nick Hornby} where I found a cute little test: {Saint or Sinner} My results:
Naughty but nice
Like Katie Carr, you want to do the right thing, but sometimes you just can’t help yourself! Just take a moment to think about how your behaviour affects other people - if you’d be happy being treated the way you treat others then fine, if not perhaps it’s time for some intensive self-examination over a bottle or two of wine. C’mon now, look deep into the window of your soul.
I agree with the above. Its true I always want to do the best and take others feelings into consideration, however sometimes I am unsucessful and look evil. But the two wine idea I liked the most. :)