Status report

November 5, 2010
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Lately i’ve been doing a lot of coding, naturally on the blog engine. If all goes well, i hope to get it finished this month, now that i’m really getting the hang of it. True, even if the engine will be complete, migrating all the posts so far will take another nice while considering it has to be done manually. Before anyone cries out, it’s intentional: the categories as they are now will be gone, replaced by more content-oriented tagging. Also, for japanese posts the url-safe conversion of the title has to be done by hand as well, since it’s pretty much impossible to expect a computer to be able to figure out the correct reading for an arbitrary japanese phrase. Not to mention i like to make my own words every now and then.

For example, lately i have to write the kanji 定 quite a lot, and i started writing it in a more… flowing way (rough representation).

Also, ever since it’s been getting colder, my hands were drying just like leaves. I was sure that it’s about the humidity, because in the summer my skin was all right, but i didn’t really test it. Then, today after the preparations for tomorrow’s university festival, we went to eat dinner together and five minutes after we entered the place my fingers weren’t dry anymore. So as soon as i got home i put a liter of water on to boil, and it works. Hell yeah.

Still a Shippuuden qc to go for today.

Dream of the otaku

November 2, 2010
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Gaiman’s Sweeper of Dreams should either do his job properly and sweep it all out or let me remember it long enough so that i can write it down properly. Remembering the fact that i had a cool dream and nothing else is plain torture.

What i remember is that you’d get something like my dream tonight if you took the kanshu of World Embryo, Nagato Yuki from the SOS Brigade, Kobasen from the Law of Ueki and the style of Fairy Tail all in reality. I wasn’t there in body, just as “the camera”. There was this little girl who has powers, i don’t know exactly what, but at least in certain places she could trigger something like a closed space that Haruhi so loved to create. There was also the Nagato-style girl, who the other girl fought and defeated earlier and couldn’t speak. There was (i think) a guy too, much like Ueki’s Mr. K.

I only remember the very last part of the dream, in the night on some abandoned mountainside parking lot. It was the very same place where the girls fought long before. The girl prepared for the “swipe”, the Nagato-girl clang on her arm so she asked “do you want to come along too?” The next is a full-fledged battle between the girl and something that looked as if the D-Reaper infested a kanshu and took Nagato as an example for body.

Then i woke up.

To code

November 1, 2010
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Lately i really feel the urge to finally complete the new blog engine, but during the day i just can’t get myself to concentrate and code. That’s why i thought it was strange that yesterday after doing nothing all day in the night suddenly i started to code like crazy (rewriting the user class from scratch and stuff). So today i decided to test it, and the first experiment proved successful already: although all day i didn’t feel like coding (i tried) and was watching Fairy Tail all the time instead, now that it’s past eleven pm, suddenly my will and energy to fight code.

So i start. (The only problem is, tomorrow i’ll have to get up a bit earlier than usual so that i can get back from Kyoto on time for the afternoon japanese class…)

Éhség

November 1, 2010
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Megértem a Shiki vámpírjait, megértem Gluttony-t (FMA) és megértem a shonen-mangák folyton éhes tipikus főszereplőit. Meg a Samurai Champloo szereplőgárdáját.

Valaki megmagyarázhatná, hogy ha olyan degeszre eszem magam, hogy fél órán át ha akarnék se tudnék lehajolni, úgy tele van a hasam, akkor hogy lehetek egy óra múlva olyan éhes, mintha egy falatot se ettem volna? Hogy?

Már nem mintha sok kéne hozzá, hogy beteljen a gyomrom, két szendvicsből vagy akár két narancsból is jól tudok lakni, de egy nap ha a gyomrom szerint ennék, legalább hatszor-hétszer kajálnék. Akkor meg, attól tartok, hiába mondhatom büszkén, hogy vagy egy közös pontom Stockinggal (éspedig hogy akármennyit eszek, nem tudok egy-két kilónál többet hízni-fogyni), annyit nem bírnék kigömbölyödés nélkül.

Ennek eredményeképpen szinte folyamatosan éhes vagyok. De sebaj. Gáznak tartom morogni egy pókos képre, de még gázabb lenne, ha az éhségemet nem tudnám megfékezni. Nem vagyok én Kirishiki.

Things i learnt today

November 1, 2010
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First: no Western Union in Japan. Okay, that’s a bit of over-exaggerating, because it’s available in Japan, just only around Tokyo and Keihanshin (京阪神: Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe), not in the countryside like Hikone. Or Nagoya. This is somewhat surprising considering that in my hometown of less than thirty thousand you can find a WU agent without problem.

Second: oranges are durable. I had three oranges in my fridge for over half a year, and they were still edible, except for one being paper dry. Made my breakfast (i forgot to buy cereal yesterday and didn’t feel like eating sandwiches).

Third: related to the first, a new word: 国際送金サービス. I had to explain somehow what WU was supposed to be to people who never even heard of it.

Fourth: working out for an hour with only two oranges and water in your stomach is fun.

Thanks for your attention.

Law of Ueki and Fairy Tail first impressions

October 31, 2010
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I needed something to watch. I need the mood to watch Tudors, i need time to watch Hustle, and everything else is just one episode a week—not to mention Bleach and Naruto are more of “professional interest” than of entertainment… I stopped watching them both ages ago, now i only quality check our hungarian fansubs for them…

So i looked around and started watching two series that seemed interesting. First is the Law of Ueki. Back when it was running i suggested that we sub it, but yet i didn’t get to watch it. The green hair of Ueki and his power to make trees out of trash seemed very interesting. Too bad so far (after six episodes) the series is simply dumb. Ueki is pretty much the only normal character, everyone else is either frickin’ annoying (see Mori Ai, which is a nice name (Forest Love) by the way for the “manager” of a tree technique user) or way too dumb to be funny. I’ll go on watching, but if it will be this stupid all the way, Ueki’s story will be the first series i actually drop…

On the other hand, Fairy Tail rules. I’m not reading the manga (yet), so don’t come at me with how it’s different or better or whatever. The anime rocks for sure.

Autumn term

October 31, 2010
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I guess it’s just about time to write about how university (re)started this semester. To sum it up short: boring. I have no classes on monday and just a sole japanese on tuesday, so i pretty much have a four day weekend every week. Followed by three days when i’m in school nine to four… Most of the subjects are either boring or simple or both. There’s only one class where i don’t want to sleep (a math class with a typical nice old math prof), and two where i don’t dare to sleep. One of those is a statistics class where the teacher either goes on about various programs that we could use for statistical purposes, or writes equations on the blackboard without explaining any part of them. I guess he expects us to know what he is supposed to teach us, as per japanese standard. The other class is one about stock market and related topics, which is actually interesting. Well, it would be, if the teacher sped things up a bit. This way i can take nice naps without missing anything. The rest (micro, macro, management, bookkeeping lectures) are the usual: since there’s only an exam in the end of the year, it’s not easy to take them seriously. I already wrote about my english classes. Also, there’s this one class, where not only the topic is freaking lame (meaning of work) and the teacher’s saying nonsense all the time (catching your friend’s hand if he stumbles is volunteer work according to him), but the teacher himself is so annoying i really have problems not killing him. Speaks all the time as if we were a bunch of retards. The only class that i would skip without regret if he wasn’t checking attendance. This way i just put on my headphones, turn on the volume and rest. Still better than being annoyed to death by that way of speaking.

Eragon movie

October 31, 2010
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Years ago i bought the Eragon book as a present for my Cousin Itt Senmaiel. I myself didn’t get to read it, but it seemed interesting with dragonriders and stuff. Of course they made a movie out of it, but i fear we’d’ve been better off without it.

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Starbucks espresso roast

October 30, 2010
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I’ll put this short: i’m the espresso guy. Thus, i loved this roast. It’s exactly how an espresso should be: bitter, bold, strong. Even if you make it into a drip coffee or a more diluted espresso, it still has its characteristic taste and touch. But to enjoy it in its true, it is to be made into an espresso. And a wonderful one it turns into, let me say. There’s not much to elaborate on here: if you like espresso, you’ll love the Espresso roast as well, if you don’t, you won’t.

Autumn here again

October 27, 2010
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Yesterday, walking to school, i looked up at the cloudy sky, let the crazy wild wind swirl around me (let’s say i’m a potential airbender) and i felt a mad grin spread on my face. It’s autumn again, my world. The japanese are complaining non-stop about how cold is it, while the temperature’s just right—though if i don’t want to catch a cold from the wind, i’ll have to take my leather jacket out of the closet.

Autumn doesn’t feel separate from winter at all, not for me. It feels like home. Gray clouds, wild winds, long shadows, fresh sunlight. Five o’clock tea. Longer nights, more quiet, more cold. The one thing i’m not afraid of this year is love craze coming at me in the autumn… No chance. (Prove me wrong.)

Autumn’s here again, and it’s beautiful as always. The wildness of the lake, the raging winds, the swirling leaves… Though i’m afraid all the fallen leaves are cleaned up way too quickly by zealous caretakers. Walking in fallen leaves during the autumn is just like walking in the snow during winter. Cleaning kills it all.