Yesterday night was bad. I had the worst two hours on Anarchy Online ever. An argument, heated to the top, exploded and caused a massive internal crisis between clans. This is most regrettable. The main problem is Tarasque, the dragon, and his loot. I saw my friends teasing and hurting each other, clanners turning against clanners.
And my personal problem: net access. My time on the net is over for this month. This is the end. La finita comedia.
These two things pursued me to the decision to leave my newly created organisation Radiant Heart. The leadership was given to Knightsabre a while ago, when it became clear that my limited online time affects the evolution of the clan in a very negative way. But now I left beacuse this way I am useless, incapable of anything. Sadly.
A little happiness: double {Ferrari} winning at the {Hungarian Grand Prix}. I was a Ferrari-fan since I first started to follow the {F1} races at the age of 6. This means Ferrari won the F1 Constructor's Championship too. Well done! :)
Finally the - yet unfinished - site of Radiant Heart is up and can be seen at {http://members.lycos.co.uk/radiantheart/}. I am delighted, satisfied and tired. :)
Yesterday afternoon I experienced something that - I am absolutely positive about this - will remain in my memories for a long time. I saw the movie: {A Beatutiful Mind} ({IMDB}). It was astonishing, shocking and gripping. The best film I have seen in a long time. I was surprised at the way how Russel Crowe played {John Nash}. I saw Crowe in the {Gladiator} ({IMDB}) as well, and I couldn't really imagine that he is capable of such performance. The other thing that surprised me was the point when it becomes clear, that Nash's friend at the university who played a most important role until then was nothing more that a pure imagination of a sick brain. This renders the watchers thoughts of the first part of the film obsolete in one hush. Incredible.
I don't think this movie needs to be writing about. Go and see it, everyone!
Yehaw! I got online! :) Just in time before I became unsaveably psychic for writing an online journal for myself (as nobody could read it). From now SeSam.hu is available on {sesam.web.services.hu}. The site will be moved to {www.sesam.hu} as soon as my two-week waiting period for the registration ends.
Besides this good news I am very busy creating the website of Radiant Heart. I am not very skilled in image-editing this is why I progress slowly. I am tired a bit as well.
The weather status is unchanged. It's raining again. Affects my mood as well, I am melancholic and sad. I have a sneaking headache in my head too. It's not strong enough to apply some medicine on it, but it is still there... creeping... lurking... aww. :(
My 40 hours of Internet for this month is gone. Considering it is 14th today, this suxx. Deeply. I will surely go mad if nothing happens to change this unbearable situation of the Net access here. I would have work to do, i need to grab pictures from Anarchy Online for the site, but offline there is no chance.
My only happiness is a new adventure game: {Syberia}. I just started it, and had not too much time to play, but it still seems a masterpiece. I will write more about it, I am positive, if I finished it.
I hope at least you, others, out there have a better day.
Busy day again. Radiant Heart started to grow, we have six members at the moment. I have started to design a website for the guild as well. I am continuously designing websites. First SeSam.hu, now Radiant Heart's. This can be a good thing, but flashing HTML and CSS codes when shutting my eyes are certainly not.
And the weather is bad too. It is cloudy, relatively cold, wet and unpleasant outside. But however thick is the layer of clouds above, I still don't think it will rain. This part of Hungary is the most driest of all. In summer there are three-finger-wide cracks in the soil as sometimes weeks pass without rain. So due to my own statistics if the sky is clouded even heavily there is only a chance of one to nine that it will rain.Thats why I almost never bring an umbrella with me. And this is why I get soaked many times. :)
Yehaw, and movies again. Yesterday I watched two films! :)
First one was {Dragonfly} ({IMDB}) starring Kevin Costner. (The following lines include spoilers, if you want to see the movie, don't read.) This is about a theme that was very popular some years ago but surprisingly still not forgotten: supernatural. Kevin Costner plays a doctor in this movie, whose wife dies in an accident somewhere in South-America where she cures children. However even after her death strange things start to happen. Children in her hospital see weird things in coma, her parrot gets crazy, and a wavy cross appears everywhere, that resembles a dragonfly. (She was keen on dragonflies.) The story starts a little slow but then it folds out and it becomes really interesting in my opinion. there are some thrilling scenes as dead people come to life again, while Costner's wife is using them to try to get in contact with his husband. It is spooky and weird. And the ending is a great surprise. In these kind of movies the ending can be a great disappointment, in this case it is not. The greatest twist of the story is here, it is a real relief and a close. All in all this is a good film, I liked it.
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The next movie I saw - late at night, brrr - was {Resident Evil} ({IMDB}). It is a film based on the video game sequel of the same title. However I have never played with them, as they are mainly console games, and I do not have a console. And the PC version sucks. Anyway this movie was better than my expectations. It starts very impressive. For the first tens of minutes you can't really figure out what is going on and why are things happening in the film. The main characters of the film have memory loss, but so does the one who is seeing the film. The plot reveals backwards as the story goes on, de to the regular memory flashbacks.
The plot is not that unique but this structure makes it unique. And aside from the relatively strong story line, one can see impressive special effects and tons of ugly zombies and creatures that can really frighten you if you are watching the movie alone at night... :) And lastly but not leastly the film stars Milla Jovovich. She runs through the movie in a hot red dress sometimes carrying an axe or a pistol even. She is really amazing, her penetrating eyes and sometimes wild outlook very much suits the character she plays. And when you think you are out, and it is over... well, my friend said this about the film when I got it from him: "It ends so that a new movie could be started right from there."
I haven't done a post in some time now. This is because I was obsessed with playing Anarchy Online. Since 2 days I have left Velvet - not because I didn't like it there, I had the time of my life - but I wanted to fulfill my dreams. So with a fellow adventurer and a good friend, {Knightsabre}, we founded a new Anarchy Online organisation, under the name {Radiant Heart}. We aim to be a helpful and kind guild, in which members have a good time and much fun of playing. May we be successful on our quest. :)
I am still disappointed as SeSam.hu is still not online. Semms like the web space provider works slowly a bit...
Yesterday I watched a movie too: Along Came a Spider. It was thrillingly exciting. A well-written story that chained me into the chair to the very end. The story is about a kidnap, but the plot twists and turns so fast in the end that is impressive. And I have to mention the main female character who is played by Monica Potter. To tell you the truth i haven't ever seen the girl in any movie yet. But she looks very pretty IMHO. And she resembles exactly to my Anarchy Online character! :) I hope I can see her again in something...
And there is a movie I want to see. A.I. - Artificial Intelligence. I am highly looking forvard to this piece as it got excellent critics in {Hungary}. Before getting the movie, I checked out its {website}. It is truly amazing! Everyone should try Chatbot! She is a robot with AI that can answer your questions and can chat with you. I couldn't think of a question yet she couldn't answer. I am curious how could she be written... She looks terribly intelligent. Congrats, creators!
I may be insane. I am writing an online journal for myself as it is still offline. Weekend is coming and there is still no sign of my webspace contract. And I am bored like hell. I can't play AO only at night (Damn Matav), I wrote tons of emails to which there is still no answer to read, I read all my books, and I cannot buy any new ones.
I started to play Jazz and Faust, an adventure-game which I got with the gaming magazine ({GameStar (Hungarian)}) I am a subscriber of. I abandoned it soon. It is translated into Hungarian, but the translation has misunderstandings even at the first couple of lines, it has many bugs and the feeling is so much screwed up with the translation that I left it alone. I wish I had it in English. I think I need to visit my friend and get some DVD-rips so that I can kill the time until I can go online again.
A brand new day again. It is pretty cold, the sun is clouded, and the wind blows fiercely. I really need to do something about my internet-problem, it is not the best if I go to bed at 3 am and wake at 11 am. Not at all the best.
Anyway I hope sesam.hu can be online soon, as I have posted all the required documents and now I am waiting for my contract to be arrived. As far as I know I will get a free subdomain while my domain name request is processed. We will see.
I was at the cinema yesterday and saw {40 days and 40 nights}. I had a very good time watching it. It may not be a too mannish view - even at my age (19) - but I liked the part best when they were petting each other with flowers. The idea of being pet by a girl with a flower made me tingle all over... All in all I think the movie had a good balance of romance and humor. It isn't one people remember and talk about for a long time, but the main task - having fun while watching it - was accomplished by it I think.
I wonder what the guys are doing at {Funcom}. {AO} is silent now. No patch or bugfix. This can mean two things: 1) They are all having holiday. (Why not, it is summer!) 2) They are working on a huge patch. (Ack. How will I be able do download it with my 64k ISDN?) In my humble opinion they have many things to fix. Somehow there are bugs that remain in the game however much do people complain about them...
I came home. Yehaw, I am home! Damn, I am home, where I have no decent net-access. The situation of internet access in Hungary is ridiculous or catastrophic. Depends on where you live. Generally there is broadband connection, which is limited to 15 Gbytes of data-transport per month. Or one can chose ADSL. Seems nice? Well, it isn't. ADSL and Broadband are available in around 10 big cities. (However big my hometown is, there still isn't any ADSL.) As a result 90% of the Hungarian citizens have no other choice but dial-up. It wouldn't be that bad if it weren't darn expensive. Monthly fee towards the ISP is 16$ for a full-time access. Sounds good? Hehe, well the problem is with the telephone fee, which is: 280$ per month if you play only after six pm. (Consider that an average wage in hungary is like 500-800$ per month!) And our politicians always whine that no one is buying on the net, the number of net users shrink, etc.
Why is this so? Well, because we have only one telephone service we can 'choose' from. {Matáv} (Hungarian Telecommunications) is the only telephone service provider available. Ubernice.
To help people the Government has recently started to do something. They offered money for Matáv to decrease some of its fees. Well this resulted in some new configurations subscribers can chose from. A 15-hour-net-pack (10$) and a 40-hour-net-pack (34$) was established. Yes, one can surf 40 (!) hours for 'only' 34$!! Wow.
I don't know what I will do. How am I supposed to play Anarchy Online this way? Damn it. :(
Monday. Most people don't like this day very much. I hated Mondays when school was on its way. However now I am not at home. I am currently visiting my cousin in {Budapest} (capital of Hungary). So Monday means nothing else but a brand new day for making a website, watching TV and strolling in the nearby forest.
About the development of my site. I asked for an offer from a local web services provider ({services.hu}) and I hope sesam.hu can soon be online first on a subdomain while I am waiting for my domain contract to be accepted.
Yesterday I watched a {tennis match} (Is it called a match? Or a game? I don't know...). Dukic vs. Venus Williams. Venus won easily to my great sadness. I liked Dukic more. I have an unexplained dislikness towards the Williams sisters. During the match Venus played tennis like a robot, without a smile, without a single emotion on her rock-like face. She played awesome of course, reached balls no one can, etc. But still...
Dukic was more like a human. She started good. However to beat a Williams one needs to play tennis without a single mistake. And even playing so can't be enough. So Dukic's good start wasn't enough either. Dukic played her best, and lost. But she smiled anyhow, and thats why I liked her more. It must be a real menthal stress to live with the fact that however great her efforts are they are still in vain. I hope someday someone will beat the Williams sisters. For - like Bilbo's long life and wealth - their supremity is unnatural, and being so one day it must be payed for.
Go, Go Dukic! :)