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Hell of a day

Or rather a day of hell. It all began with me going to sleep a quarter past three in the morning, after winning (with an ally) a game of Munchkin. Before that we had the freshman’s eve in the dorm, which was pretty much fun, we ended up second place. Enjoyed it more than the uni’s freshman’s day for sure. And it’s also good because we’ve been having fun together with the people we live together with. We started the game with a glass of delicious and very strong plum spirit (the traditional hungarian home-made “kerítésszaggató pálinka”). I can’t recall drinking anything so noble and pure in a long time.

Before going to sleep i set my phone to wake me at eight, because i wanted to come home with the bus at eleven. I just forgot that if the repeating of the alarm is turned on, it won’t ring on other days than the checked ones. And friday is unchecked, because i usually don’t wake early. So i slept, and had a nice dream (i can’t remember the dream itself, just the feeling that it was something fun and such) and woke around ten. And even this way i missed the bus only by a minute. Guess how much fun that was. So for the waiting i bought myself two National Geographic mags, a hungarian and an english edition, which i read all the way home.


Days and fails

Not exactly how i planned, but not that bad either, thanks for asking. In my free four hours i checked an exhibition of cars from the traditional retro age (’40s-’70s), bought milk and bread at the local Tesco and brought back the Dune Messiah i borrowed monday from the nearby library. The exhibition wasn’t exactly how i expected it to be. At first, i didn’t know it was about retro cars—rather thought it’d be about concepts and such really interesting stuff, especially since it was the design week not so long ago here. It wasn’t bad anyway, just not what i wanted to see then, and not at the price i’d ever be happy to pay for something unexpected. You can go and see the cool cars for yourself, they have a website too.

But at least i could buy what i wanted in the Tesco. It’s surprising how disgusting people can get, supercilious and rude and… the typical jerk—it’d be if it wasn’t a woman. How’s the universal word? Butt? Anyway. I was really tempted to annoy that chick out of her skin, enrage and humiliate her, but i managed to withstand it.

And i couldn’t borrow the Children of Dune because someone did so before me, and hasn’t yet returned it, so i’m Dune-less right now. And dead tired. In the morning i didn’t have a (co)coffee because i didn’t have milk for it, so i wasn’t surprised i was like i woke at dawn, but that i’m again like that at 11pm, after drinking a tea, that’s a surprise. I really need to go to sleep “early” today.

Tomorrow i’ll skip about the half of my math intro lecture, and will probably be late from the practice too because i’ll be attending another lecture on cloud computing and sociology one of my teachers told me about. It’ll be dozen times more interesting than that math stuff.


Día de los muertos

The day of the dead. It’s so much different here than in the States or especially in Mexico. Every year we go out to the cemeteries where my maternal ancestors are buried, to another town and a village in the county. Today i didn’t go, and naturally i regret it–as always when i don’t do something. I wanted to stay to study, either learn spanish or do my homework to be “handed in” next week, but i instead just lay on my bed and read. And read. Oh, and i also read.

But before that i played a bit with my computer, because my firewall messed up, and it wasn’t exactly the simplest thing at first to figure out what the problem was and then how to solve it. Finally i managed to uninstall and reinstall it, and works fine ever since. Its luck.

I was reading Frank Herbert’s Dune. I read the first about thirty pages yesterday, but the remainder of the first book (roughly three hundred pages) i read today. Instead of working, naturally. It’s almost as addictive as the spice.

I’ve also read this week scanlated chapters of Bleach and Naruto, and it left me with controversial feelings. The Naruto was better than the Bleach for sure, but the happenings are not exactly of my liking. I just hope it won’t turn out as it did last time. And in Bleach, i finally want to see a bit of the desert world again. I’m reading the Dune, after all.


Sidenote

Today passed by quickly. In the morning i (regrettably) didn’t do anything worth to mention, except going with my parents to buy broadloom carpet for their room. We ended up with a nice, bright-coloured carpet, i think it’ll go well in their room, i think it kind of matches them. But ever since, we’ve been working on laying it down, so we had to carry wardrobes all over the room, from one corner to the other and back, depending where we’d laid it down already. Was a nice training, i’m thinking about going to the gym every monday anyway, so this went as warm-up.

I made myself another bracelet (again), but i think i’ll just give it to someone as present because it’s once again a green-black composition, and i already had two of those, and i don’t like it when too many similarly coloured ones are on my arm. I’m considering one with black and orange, but couldn’t yet find any third colour, that’d look good with both and i haven’t yet over-used it. Oh, and it’s an advantage if it’s dark. There are two chances: either i could pick such a colour from those i already have or buy a new one. I wonder.

Oh, and before i forget: House MD is hilarious and deep at the same time. Now i can get it why so many are addicted to it. And if i’m at addiction, i can say i’m addicted to Yui’s album Can’t buy my love—it’s just fantastic.


Rebirth

It’s all going to get new meaning. I’m going back and still forward, moving on to a pure next stage, an empty sheet. Lately i’ve heard it way too much how i changed—for the worse or the better was left unclear, but the situation indicated the former. I couldn’t understand that at all, since i hadn’t felt anything like that. I was myself, maybe more than ever. But now on the bus home i started to wonder. Was this really me? I’m too alike my blog. I hope i can form myself just that difficult.

What made me think was the word “philosophy”. I no longer was someone trying to act wise. I was someone acting as a fool. What i meant by being too alike the blog? I changed myself just like last year the blog engine, without any proper planning and work. Just another sketch out of first impressions, and again it took about a year to realise that this won’t go how i planned.

I was way too self-confident. I succumbed to the seven sins: lust, pride, sloth, and probably even the other four (envy, gluttony, wrath, greed). I can say i failed my own ideals. I’m working on myself now. Starting over from sketch, with plans behind and goals ahead of me. I really will live a life without regrets now.

But i’m also undecided. It won’t be easy. I forgot so much… I thought i was always happy back in the spring… Now i’m so unsure, yet sure in what i want to do…


Reanimation

Know the ability of the WarCraft Death Knights to reanimate the bodies of the fallen? Naturally not revive them like the Paladin does, just use the flesh as fighting puppets for a while. This is not the time i’m going to write about that.

Instead gaming, i’m into watching series again (though Bomberman is fun to play with someone). I’ve started with the Bleach movie yesterday, and finished off the latest Bleach, Naruto episodes, and the second one of Toradora. Too bad, i couldn’t yet find the third of that subbed, and i couldn’t watch the second and third Hyakko because the second one was an MKV with subs very hard to read. I’m rather downloading another one (now i watch both Hyakko and Toradora with Mayu-Genjo subs)… Too bad it takes longer than eg a new Dattebayo release, since there are no way so many seeds out there… Whatever.

Oh, and the blog’s going to change significantly. I’ve already more or less finished the future layout (as usual, i at first finished that), and am planning the back-end too. I don’t know when it will be out, but it won’t take very long. I hope this year it’ll be public. You’ll see when that happens.


Controversy

In the morning whenever i have time i read the news feeds my reader collected for me, and one of these is Ars Technica. I don’t want to go deep into advertising them, so i just link the article i read now. The title says it all: “LittleBigPlanet delayed over Qur’an quotes in soundtrack”. Now i guessed that this is some kind of american insanity that the holy book of islam shouldn’t be quoted at all, or else the game would be supporting some fanatic terrorist groups. The strange thing is that it’s right the opposite: islamic people requested the removal of that track from the game, because for them using the words of their holy book as lyrics or accompanying them with music is something offending. I can see the point why, but what’s rather strange is that the Slashdot article about the same matter doesn’t take the trouble to clear that, and you can see that those commenting don’t get the idea either. And some of who do feel offended, because the quotes could offend the religious beliefs of some. That’s the country of tolerance and equality for you.


Gold and silver

Guess what. A year ago i’ve met a husky with silver-coloured eyes, a few days ago another with golden ones. Today heading the way of the gallery i wanted to check out early afternoon, a guy was walking from the opposite direction with a dog. It resembled a husky, only its fur was a bit darker. From the distance at first i spotted the HammerFall t-shirt the kid was wearing, and noted how funny it’d be if the dog had some strange coloured eyes. But as they passed by me i realised that the dog indeed had special eyes: one of its eyes was dark gold, while the other bright silver. That made me stop…


How I met your mother

You know, around the hungarian blogosphere every second blogger is addicted to at least one of the recent american series (House MD, Heroes etc), so i’m more or less familiar with many of them, the titles at least.

Every thursday we have a movie evening in the dorm and tonight we watched at first the Simpsons movie, and after that, since we had still enough time, the very first episode of the series in title, How I met your mother. Even after being exhausted in terms of jokes and laughing my ass off of the movie before, that one episode of about half an hour made me almost fall out of the chair a couple of times. I guess i was not a bit annoying to the others (though we were three altogether), since i laughed out loud on almost every joke–especially the “smurf penis” one (the others didn’t get what a smurf was at first). Seems even a theoretical bit of coffee speeds me up that much.

Since then the first season of the series is in the front of my torrent download queue, though right now not a whole one percent complete.


Trouble in head

I seem to be having trouble with coming home: as soon as i arrive, my head starts to ache, i feel sick and such. Not seriously, just so much that it’s disturbing. And disrupting, when i finally make myself to read all the stuff i’ve written down on lectures and do the homework (the latter especially applies for my german and spanish classes). I’ve been thinking of possible causes, but the only one i could find is that i had way not enough sleep the past week. Every day i went to bed late and woke (relatively) early. Okay, i know i’m studying to become a programmer, and as such i should be a machine converting coffee into code, without any need for sleep, but after a month i seem to be not yet really ready for that. Not to mention that i never been coding that late, rather playing games with other dorm people or hanging out with friends. I know there will be times when i’ll have nights of only C code, but that’s still far away i hope. But right now i want to change a few things: every night go to sleep in the worst case at one am, read more, blog more, code more, go out more, do sports. A bit controversial, since i already have time for hardly anything, and those only on weekends, and now i want to dedicate more to sleep… It won’t be easy, but that’s what i should be learning (instead of solving complex equation-systems): reorganise and optimise activities so that they’ll take up less time.