Engineering Manager | Trail Runner | Stockholm, Sweden
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. :)
I have 2 and a half hours left from my 40 hours net, so the only time I can play AO is after midnight (it's unlimited and cheaper after midnight to 7 am). However today I have to go back to Budapest so I won't be able to play at all. This is why I am writing a post.
First of all about the AIESEC TEACH conference. I liked it very much. It was awesome to meet all the Hungarian AIESEC-ers and the conference had a special atmosphere as well. I had the time of my life there at some points. It was great to party with so many people around me forgetting about everything on the Earth. It was great to listen to Dan - the Rumanian guy - talking about feedback giving, as he put his heart and soul to make us, listeners understand. It was great playing table football with some of my LC-mates. (I have never really played it before, only once or twice, so I was a real newbie.) It was great sitting on the train heading back and talking about everything, though everyone was so tired. All in all these little moments made the whole conference a nice memory, one that I will always think of smiling.
This weekend I finally could finish Amelie. I restarted from the beginning and I felt exactly the same I felt last time. This movie has charms. The French language - which I always disliked because of being aristocratic, posh and difficult - really fits the atmosphere. The story is really cute, at some points really funny but sometimes very serious. And the love story of Amelie - unlike some of the Hollywood stories - fells more realistic. My favourite part in the film is when Amelie plays that hide-and-seek spy-game with the photo machine guy. So cute.
Skipping some time we arrive to a day before yesterday. That morning I had nothing to do and I was just browsing the films on my hard drive. I started to watch 'High Fidelity', though I didn't know the title, I had no idea about the style or type of the movie. Well, the film was good. I really understood the main character, he was a little like me (well, he actually meets girls unlike me, but still...). Then when the film ended the great surprise came: 'based on the novel of Nick Hornby'. W00t! I always meet the book and movie: 'About a Boy' however I knew nothing about it. Now I think I caught a glimpse of what kind of books this guy writes, and I may read them. Pity I cannot buy any books, because they are too expensive.
Yesterday I mainly played AO. A kind girl bureaucrat called Chela and my Kinizsi friend helped me to find Mantis Scissors and finally we were successful. The only thing I need is to level to 146 to be able to put it on. Here I have to mention how awesome I found the fact that there are many people who help me free of charge. Really kind people still exist.
Hm. This would be the longest post ever. I felt this would happen as today morning I woke up immensely sad and confused. I hate Sundays when I have to leave my home and family behind to go back to school. Call me a child I don't care I still have better time at home than with anyone. In AIESEC I meet very nice people all the time however they do not know me that much I think and I am not the kind who makes friends easy. And I don't very much like my accommodation either. It's dirty no matter what I do, partly because my roommates don't care about tidiness and partly because as it is one room we use as bedroom, kitchen, hall, sitting room, etc. So however much I try to 'fit in' the university community and life in Budapest I still cannot. Still I feel really really bad.
I feel guilty. :) I decided to miss today's double-German. (Last week the lessons were cancelled and the teacher decided, that as compensation there would be 2 lessons today.) As I see, 75 minutes of German is quite a lot, but 150 minutes is simply mortal. Well, seriously, I do think that my problem with German is caused by the fact, that I already know English in proficiency level and I know how hard one has to work to reach it.
Today I saw a bus of {Star Coaches} two times with a cool text on it. It reads: "Don't panic. This is not Apollo 13. And the driver is not Tom Hanks" :)) Cute.
What I hate most in the world right after German is headache. And now I have one in addition to my sore throat. I really need some sitting in my armchair in front of my computer and play AO... a lot :)
By the way I didn't forget my promise about the TEACH conference, I'll right about it at home I think.
Back from the TEACH conference. :) I enjoyed it very much, and I am planning to write about it a little bit longer. However now - as usual - I have only minutes to write a post as I have a German lesson. Have I mentioned before, that I pretty much hate German? Now I do. I don't like it. I don't like the languages in which I cannot express myself, and German is one of these. on has to learn tons of complex and difficult rules to say even the easiest thing. And not only does the grammar suck but also the words do. They are long, diffcult and very hard to learn. Of course I don't want to offend any German-speakers here, I just want to say that it is extremely hard for me to learn and even more, to speak this language.
I am planning to go home on Wednesday. I am sooo eager to play AO and forget about school stuff a bit. I am also tired because of the exhausting conference-weekend as well.
And now... I must leave to learn... German... *sob*.