Tag: english

Meet the Smiths

On the way to Krakow and back we watched two movies on the bus. One was Meet the Fockers, a hilarious movie with a couple of big names like Ben Stiller, Robert de Niro or Dustin Hoffman. It’s not really about deep thoughts or something very philosophic, the only thing it says is what’s neccessary to keep the movie running for two hours. The hungarian translations were good too, sometimes even better than the english originals.

The other one was Mr. & Mrs. Smith. That one had a better story for sure, and seemed a lot more professional (probably because it wasn’t supposed to be a comedy). It’s very full of action, be that action shooting countless bullets and other stuff intended to kill at each other or practicing the activities of a healthy married couple with great intensity. It’s highly entertaining, even making me laugh occasionally (though mostly at scenes where i guess i’m not supposed to laugh, but it was so full of violence or tension that it was almost comical).

Both are worth watching once, focusing just and only on entertainment. Different ways, but the goal’s the same.


Last (not)

Dear diary, imagine what i did this morning! I woke up! The surprising was not the act itself but rather the time: at seven. Well, i should rather say the my phone tried to wake me then, but it wasn’t until seven twenty that i crawled out of bed. I helped some dorm people put the basement level in order for the conference on saturday, and then (after breakfast) the cleaning lady with the common room. (Honestly, i’m such a good samaritan sometimes…) I was a bit surprised when Sors showed up after a phone, though not for my sake, just to study maths with her bro. I went off to the faculty of arts to get my hat back (which i accidentally left on the bus sunday), and was practicing japanese since then. I’m still doing kanji writing excercises, it’s a bit boring, but also funny sometimes, because neither the reading nor the meaning is written there, just the kanji itself… it’s fun to figure out what a totally unknown kanji could mean, or at least how it’s supposed to be read (because then i could look it up in my dictionary), when it’s nowhere to be found anywhere around that part in the book. (I had a good laugh at myself, when looking at an unknown kanji followed by the hiragana “i”, i thought “well, here we got an adjective ending in i“. The funny was that trying to look up an adjective by its “i” ending is like impossible, since two thirds of japanese adjectives end in “i”…) Now come dinner and more kanji.


Perfect

This is just perfect, how everything goes now. Yesterday afternoon the last of my three bad teeth was fixed, the only thing is in two weeks i’ll go back for a roentgen and a check, that’s all. I hope in my life i won’t need to hear any more times the sound of such a drill. Just after i finished at the dentist, i met with friends and together we managed to make a perfect evening. Now i’m totally “i’m lovin’ it” – and that’s not related to that around midnight we were at the local Mac. We tried a new concoction, and it worked all right, was a spirit with wine and Fanta (oh, i’m once again “adverting” a globalisation product), naturally easy to drink and still strong. So… the evening and the night was perfect. And so is now the morning. I woke with a slight hangover, but who cares, this just increases the value of the night, and with a… no, i’m not going to type that (oh yes, i’m going to, it was after a perfect night the perfect girl). Then now after a walk in town escorting her to the bus station, i’ve had a shower and read manga (the usual Naruto and Bleach, but soon the new World Embryo will be out, and i can’t wait for it), and both the Naruto and the Bleach was simply great. I wonder if i could be any happier.


Boring

I just can’t get it why they are teaching us all this crap – naturally i think later there will be loads of stuff building on these we (are supposed to) learn now, but such a rational-realist view is no fun to write about. Today was simply dead boring, the only i did and made sense was practising kanjis and reading a novel by Stanislav Lem. Yesterday we had a nice argument? talk? whatever about religions and our views on that matter (man, how officially this “on that matter” sounds!) and my opinion about a couple of people in the dorm changed significantly. There were people i didn’t even know, but i’m used to that. There were people who said stuff that i could only agree with (in the end, we could break most of the reasons of the only one strictly atheist there). In an hour i’ll leave and meet with friends (what a rare occasion!), and who knows what that’ll turn into, knowing them. The only thing sure is that it’ll be fun.

And yesterday i’ve read about a fun thing “Wikipedia names your band” and i tried it, and here’s the result:

The name, the title, the cover.


Annoyances and nuances

For some reason my sleep tonight wasn’t as resting as it should’ve been. I went to sleep just before midnight, after reading about thirty pages of Alice in Wonderland (which i since then finished), but i couldn’t fall asleep easily. Looking back it seems i was still awake around two am, naturally i wasn’t looking at a clock or anything such that only happens in crime novels, just it felt like ages… It’s strange how similar sleep is to fainting, both comes without you realising much of it. Naturally going to sleep is a bit less uncomfortable than fainting, but to me it seems that they are basically the same, just sleep is a bit more shallow (though i’ve seen (drunken) people sleep so that we couldn’t wake them, just as if they fainted). But not sleeping enough wouldn’t change much in my everyday life, as the past week that’s what usually happens to me. What was more surprising and a lot more annoying that out of 5-6 StarCraft games we couldn’t win a single one (i was playing 2v3, allied with my brother against three computer). Really annoying. Especially that after that i wanted to burn a backup dvd, but it didn’t react to the “Cancel” button and burnt it useless. So i decided to have a tea with some sweets, and maybe watch Yozakura Quartet.


Round two

Second one done successfully, still one to go, but next friday it should be all right. Can’t wait to have this behind me. Now comes learning languages and coding all the weekend, tomorrow evening hanging out with my friends. Tonight i plan to watch last week’s Skins episode, and go to sleep early. Or not.


Round one

Why? Well, probably i wasn’t careful enough. Three teeth gone astray cavity. Bad luck for me… i’ve to get them fixed before april, and the first one (bottom left no. 7) had it drilled and filled (man, like a bad McDonald’s ad “Get a Drill’n’Fill!”), with minor complications. One being me fainting after getting the one-and-halfth shot of (local) anaesthetic. Poor dentist was more scared than i ever will be of any operation, i think. Don’t know what came to me—so far i only had problems with letting docs suck my blood with their bloody hypo. Whatever, this was unexpected for me too. But i’m afraid that she’ll be afraid to give me shots next time so i’ll feel every turn of the drill in my tooth (still two to go, i hate to think of that!), and i’ve got the feeling that it’ll hurt like hell. Simply because of yesterday it started hurting anyway (the one above the fixed one). Hope not. The sure thing, these three turns won’t make me love dentists. At all.


So

I was dead tired up till now. I still am, but now i made myself a coffee as strong as possible so that i could at least do something except for laying on my bed doing nothing. Now i feel that it has its effect, though in an hour i’ll make a tea too so that the caffeine income would be about three times normal. Who cares, i hate to be that… washed.

But i won’t work on my top priority project now. That deserves full attention and a clean mind, neither of which i could provide now, so i’ll rather work on it tomorrow. Today i’ll try to do as much of the remaining of my blog-rework as possible. I’d really want to finish it. I know already that most of you won’t like the new look. It’s way very simple. But at least i did the templating so that it’ll be very easy to change. We’ll see. I won’t change it i think.


Recent music

I can’t wait to hear the new Gathering album coming this spring. I hope they’ll do something of the quality of if_then_else. I’m in love with that. It’s simply fantastic. I don’t know what came to musicians in 2000, but that year spawned great stuff. Just a few examples: the Dark Ride by Helloween, Brave New World by Iron Maiden, Modern Szerenád by Macskanadrág, Wishmaster by Nightwish, Crimson by Sentenced, and i could go on with the list for a long time still.

Now there’s also a nice bunch of great music, but also a lot that disappoint me. For example the new Iron Maiden album is nowhere near the level of Brave New World or Dance of Death, and that’s not what i expected, even though it’s still great.

The new Rage, Carved in Stone’s pretty good too. It’s almost as good as Speak of the Dead, which was simply fantastic (2006 was a great year in music too). The title song, Carved in Stone is very catchy, i was humming it for days now. And there’s more like that on the disc… Great.

All that is left now
Is only names carved in stone
Forgotten heroes underground
Not much is left now
Some rusty nails and rotten bones
The dead heroes names carved in stone

Rage – Carved in Stone

World Embryo

Saturday morning i was just downloading my usual dose of Bleach and Naruto manga from MangaShare, when on the first page the featured manga caught my eye. It looked awesome. (Since then i just go to the front page and reload a couple of times to see if something interesting pops up, eg that’s how i learnt about To-Love-Ru.) It was called World Embryo, and it’s great. And quite difficult to find, because it’s already licensed in the States. (That means most of the manga sites take it down, claiming i could buy it. Yeah, i could, almost as easily, as from Japan.) But after looking around and searching and a bit of luck i found most of the chapters on MangaHelpers. (If you download there, don’t forget to click “thanks!”)

The story is great. There’s a mysterious infection spreading through electromagnetic waves that turns people into monsters called kanshu and those trying to stop them and find the source of the infection, NEFT, their “annexed department” FLAG, but mostly and only jinki users. There’s also a cocoon. The graphics are fantastic, and altogether it’s one of the best manga i’ve ever read.

Luck it’s still ongoing. Bad luck is though that chapters are not released weekly but monthly, but who cares, as long as the quality’s so great! By the way, the mangaka is the same Moriyama Daisuke, who did Chrno Chrusade.