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Nostalgic

October 4, 2008
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There is an elementary school just near the dorm where i live. I guess this isn’t worthy of noting except if there is something abnormal about it, but still i’m writing about it. Friday after waking up at the sounds of the fire alarm (people were cooking in their room and their work caught in the pan, setting the alarm off) i sat in the window of the kitchen, waiting for my toast to roast, looking out at the children playing on the school grounds. It just struck me that how free and careless their life is, and how unaware they are of this. At least i was, even in my high school years, only seeing the pile of stuff i had to do, and indeed had done, though in the last year i tried to catch every opportunity to do whatever i can while i’m still officially a “kid”, unconsciously sensing what a strain the university will be. Not as if it’d be that hard. Sure i’ll have to read all the stuff from the past month before the exams, but i think i’ll still have less trouble with that than many of my fellows.

Today walking home in the morning (i once again ended up in the bed of someone not identical to me) i’ve been shocked how great it was to walk on the overpass before it was finished, walking and chatting evening-long with the girl whom i seriously loved… The past year was so great, so free, so careless… I’d be happy to live it again. Sure with minor changes, if i could manage that without causing a butterfly effect.

Online again

October 3, 2008
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Past week i couldn’t connect to the net from anywhere else but the computer room of the dorm where i’d moved on monday (the price is one fifth of the other room i rented, but the community is not half as good), or the university lessons where i could go online. Not as if i couldn’t live without it, i’ve been doing quite well with no access… But if everything goes as planned, from midnight tonight i’ll be able to connect from my room, and that’ll be fun. The only real problem was with being unable to use my own laptop for net is that i don’t know some of my passwords (random generated ones), so i couldn’t access some really important stuff. I’ll have to use complicated ones i can remember…

Culture

September 30, 2008
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It disgusts me a lot, when a woman acts absolutely un-womanly. For example today in the morning, on the way to the university, one of us went into a store to get something to eat, and we waited for him outside. There sat a couple, drinking (i guess something alcoholic), and the “woman” burped, such huge ones that i couldn’t first believe it (i couldn’t do one such without drinking at least four pints of beer). Then again and again.

Somewhat reminds me of a “woman” i’ve seen last week: spitting. Spitting really interesting amounts of unknown material better left unknown… I was astonished. And disgusted. Why are there such people? Why?

Cocoffee

September 22, 2008
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I’m drinking right now something new: cocoffee as i call it, which is created as follows… Take a mug of at least warm water (milk will do just as well), and put three teaspoonful of instant coffee (one that’s really coffee, not some insteresting materia, which also has milk and sugar and who knows what else in it), four teaspoonful of cocoa and as much sugar as you’d like (i usually do it with one teaspoonful). It’s dark, almost as if it was chocolate, has a nice coffee-ish flavour and generally tastes great. Try it if you want.

Really untitled

September 21, 2008
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Today all day, instead of studying, writing a german essay or practising spanish or C++, i’ve been reading manga (the usual saturday load of Bleach and Naruto), learning the basics of InDesign and chatting with people over the usual instant messaging systems and plurk. If i’d been studying, i’d been solving linear equation-systems and working on understanding vectors and set theory terms while solving even more equations, this time related to set theory. And learning german and spanish vocabulary, writing an essay in the former and doing beginner exercises in the latter. Instead i’ve become familiar with the Lab colour mixing, learnt a bit about a more professional level of publishing works and tried to do a good design. As expected on first try, i failed, doing a layout that strangely resembles a professional design i’ve seen not so long ago. At least i’ve played around with fonts, positioning and colours. And seen some great artwork while browsing my feeds.

Days pass

September 18, 2008
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Sunday i was at home… monday too. But monday evening we went a bit crazy with my roommate: we went out to buy something to drink, and i ended up with a bottle of Finlandia vodka. He bought a bottle of Sierra tequila. So long it wouldn’t have been that crazy—we could’ve spared the spirit and then we could be drinking them even now. I suggest you can sense the conditional tense: the crazy thing was that we finished those two bottles that very night. I guess i don’t have to say how drunk we were… It’s not easy to remember everything (i guess i can’t, however hard i try), but i think it’s better this way.

The next day naturally i was a bit overhung… So to say. Though my phone tried to (and indeed did) wake me, i just pushed the red button and went back to sleep—even though i really wanted to wake up. Thus i skipped the first part of my first lecture, but who cares… Later on the day was not as bad as it could’ve been. I wasn’t near as overhung as i could’ve been. And what’s even better: i wasn’t even tired as i usually am on so long days. (I had lessons until half past nine.)

Failday

September 15, 2008
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I wanted to do a couple of things today, but out of five, three ended up not how i planned. First i went to the dry cleaner, where my parents sent my coat for cleaning and repairing, but the dressmaker forgot to do the pockets too, so i couldn’t take it yet. I wanted to bring back all but one of the books i borrowed from the library, but they told me i have one more at home—one i thought i brought back a month ago. Then i wanted to buy batteries for my laptop, since the current one, as the linux says, “has only 24% capacity”, thus “is either damaged or too old”. In the store where i checked, after waiting for about ten minutes for them to figure out what batteries are fit for my laptop, they told me that a new battery would cost about 25000 HUF (approx $150), and it’d take three or four weeks to ship. That’s “no thanks” category for me…

Linux

September 13, 2008
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Linux won’t become my favourite operating system anytime soon, that’s sure. I may not be geek enough, but it’s no fun when i install an operating system and i have to spend hours worth of time configuring and installing such basic stuff such as mp3 codecs for the built-in media player (i wonder what it can play out of box), accessing other partitions or just using the network.

Ubuntu is a great choice if you are lucky enough to have a network card it supports. Too bad for me, it recognises neither my wired nor the wireless card, so it’s totally useless, since i spend most of the time with network activities or coding. Without network access i couldn’t update or install any more software, so there was no point to mess around with it anymore.

Yesterday i decided to try out openSUSE. The live cd surprised me: my wired network actually worked! Since i’m not at home now, i’m connecting to the net on wired network (thus i don’t know if the wireless’d work), so i could install stuff and use it… With not much success. I couldn’t mount my NTFS partitions normally (i even tried editing the fstab manually), nor could i play mp3 files, even after installing the suggested codec for the built-in player and lame too. And it wouldn’t import any of my settings from Windows (Ubuntu did). After a day of googling for fixes of various minor annoyances, i decided that whatever people say, i’d have to spend a lot more time in front of the screen (thus going “kyub“) to get adept at using linux. Until then i’ll just stay a lame music-maniac philosopher journalist with a strange addiction to php, who uses Windows. Still.

Ages

September 12, 2008
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The middle three days of the week are and will be really tiring for me. As of now it seems i’ll be on lectures and stuff from 8am to 10pm with at most four hours free midday. Now after the first week, which was more or less lighter than the upcoming ones, i can already see that the triumvirate of tuesday, wednesday and thursday will be ruling my life in the coming five months… On friday i have nothing, and on monday only one lecture in the evening, that i’ll probably skip not only once.

Except that these days are long, it’s not that bad. Most of the lessons are boring, but there are some where i’ll have to pay attention without pause or else i’ll get lost a minute later. Today i made it without a coffee, but yesterday and on tuesday i had to get one or two (from coffee machine, so it’s neither good nor strong, but at least cheap), probably because those days i went to sleep later than i should’ve.

That’s surprising, because yesterday i’ve been to PASO’s gig in ZP. It was pretty good, not even that could ruin it that i was alone and hungry like hell. They played about the same songs as on Sziget, but still i could really enjoy the “jumpdafuckup” style, the fantastic songs and the altogether great feeling. I planned to join my love on their party organized by her dorm, but she decided not to go after all, so i didn’t either. At least i could go to sleep around midnight, which is better than average…

Brave enough

September 5, 2008
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Yesterday i was brave enough to repartition my hard disk and reinstall both Win and Ubuntu (though i haven’t yet installed the latter). The repartitioning part was fun, because the partitioning software announced some strange error on one of my logical drives and left its NTFS table (or whatever) open, so that i couldn’t continue with GParted from the Ubuntu live cd either. Luckily i could do a chkdsk on it from the Win install cd, so a few hours later my partitions were totally resized and reordered. Since then i’ve installed Win and the most crucial apps (security, browser and media player), and now… well now i’m about to head off in town to buy some notebooks for my university time. I’ll need a couple, i think. I’ll also say hi to my schoolmates, who’re still suffering in the Bolyai high (so i’ll be evil and have a laugh at them). After that i’ll try to redo my timetable, because the one the uni gave us ain’t the best… i have a lecture each week friday 2-5pm—the worst is that’s my only lecture on friday. I hope i can do it. After that, i’ll be installing the creative apps (office apps, webdesign and coding stuff) and fixing my folder structure. And selecting the best of my music.