山図市 - yamazushi

{{ Pheebs }} Filmharmonikusok

2012-01-16T19:57:00.003+01:00

The title refers to a Hungarian Orchestra... but this is a special orchestra, as they are performing movie soundtracks. As you can see on the pic, they are going to perform mainly soundtracks composed by John Williams (Star Wars, Harry Potter, E.T., Indiana Jones etc). So seeing this poster made me drool... and since my birthday is on the same week I asked for tickets for this concert from my parents :)

A dream of mine is about to come true, as I was always found of movie soundtracks, even to the point when I heard a new one and I could tell who the composer was (in case of John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Patrick Doyle, and a few Japanese composers).

So, Papp Laszlo Sportarena, here I come! :D

Pheebs

{{ Pheebs }} New Year's Resolutions for 2012

2011-12-31T16:13:00.003+01:00

Heya!

So, my resolutions. Let me see.

- spend 9-10 days in Scotland (planning is already in progress though)

- keep up with running, loose weight

- learn more about psychology

- keep my friends

- stay silly

- stay alive... you know, it's 2012 afterall... besides, if I ever get to revise my promises this time next year, I'm already there. and i will sing something along the lines: this was a triumph, I'm making a note here: huge success...

- keep a watchlist of the movies I watched/am watching/will watch (right now i only have one on imdb, that helps me keep track of what i want to watch, but it keeps changing whenever i can cross something out)

- move out

That's all folks... that is if there is someone still reading this. If not then that's all future myself.

Happy New Year

Pheebs

{{ Pheebs }} Resolution...

2011-12-30T23:42:00.002+01:00

Oh, my gawd.. just realized it took me what.. 3 years? 3 long years to realize that it's not 'promise'... it's a "New Year's resolution" that you are supposed to make at the end of the year... gotta remember this time :)

Oh, and btw, I don't care if it gets old, but my new year's resolution is 1366 x 768 [insert trollface here]

Pheebs

{{ Pheebs }} Promises for 2011 - revised

2011-12-30T16:50:00.002+01:00

Yea, it's that time of the year again. So let's go through my promises from the end of 2010:

- go on a 1 week long tour around Ireland with my parents by car/or anything else

I'm such an overachiever... really. So we went on a 9 days long adventure to Ireland with my family. We saw Dublin, Galway, the Aran islands, Cork, Limerick. As for the car/or anything else part, we rented a car over there. Not only we did see Ireland, mom and I got so excited about spending time abroad, we went to the UK together not so much later. Our time in Winchester and London was quite fantastic. Later this year we decided to spend more time in London because the last time it was kind of a rush... so we picked up dad (against his will) and went to spend a week in London. So yea... it was a busy year :D and I already booked the hotel for next year's adventure in Scotland (Edinburgh and Glasgow, here we come).

- boyfriend

This is a tough one. I think I will just say here that I had one, no I don't. Hope that's enough for you.

- Swindon

Remains a plan for the next years.

- strengthen my English speaking skills/vocab/learn more idioms

I took classes, provided by the company I'm working at. But I think the 3 trips I had this year did more than the classes.

- driver licence

Ehhhehe.. laterz.

- learn how to make a pizza

I did recieved a good recipe from my friend, but I have to admit, I forgot about this one :D

- convince my friends to go to cinema together more often

I went a lot, just not with my friends. I wish we would go more though. I like it. Watching am versions or waiting for the DVD to come out is not so much fun.

- learn at least 3 new songs on piano

I failed this one :( I have an app on my iPad that I can use to buy piano scores. I bought 3 scores, but have yet to learn them. I feel ashamed, I'm sorry (TT . TT)

- with the help of Nyekk, create the Great e-Library

The Great e-Library is.. well, it's half done :D halfway I realized that it is usable the way it is now, so there was no need for me to continue.

- play squash at least 2 times a week

Failed it. I either did not have a partner or the time. I started running a few weeks ago though. It seems fun, so I hope to keep up the 3/4-times-a-week plan with the bravest mom on Earth :)

- learn how to save up money (the Ireland tour will be a good lesson...) +1 stay silly as always :)

I realize now that this sentence is complete rubbish.. Putting money aside for traveling turned out to be the complete opposite of saving money up. You see it was usually like this: Oh, look I got my salary.. let's go somewhere. And in the next couple of months: ok, my salary arrived, now I can buy the flight tickets/book the hotel rooms/transportation etc. When we were not traveling somewhere, I have to admit I gave every money I have to Apple. 'cause this year I bought an iPhone 4, an iPad and a macbook air. I'm terrible, I know. Nevermind, it's the end of the world next year, so if we survive and 2013 does come, I will start saving up :P

Next year's promises coming tomorrow.

see ya

Pheebs

{{ Pheebs }} Chouch to 5K

2011-12-07T21:51:00.003+01:00

Hi there,

Yeah.. I know. It's been ages since I left a footprint here, I just didn't feel I had anything to say.
I mostly worked or watched tv shows (or tv serieses whichever you like) from the US, so there hasn't been much going on with my life.

One day I woke up and carelessly passed the scale.. and I stepped on it by accident. Then I just wanted to see what my toes looked like and I accidentally looked at the numbers the scale showed. And then I paniced. Is that real? Ok, where are the cameras. I can't weight that much, that can't be me.

So I then took my time to think through my options, which were along the lines:
- play squash -> expensive if you do it more then 2x a week
- go to the gym -> expensive and boring if you do it more then 2x a week

So I got away with this excuse for about a month. Then I realized that it can't just go on like this forever. That was when I went to the Margaret Island to take part in a company training... and we nearly missed the bus on our way back to Nyugati railway station... so we had to run.

We only ran like 10 seconds, but it felt good. I felt refreshed... and tired... after 10 seconds. lol

So I decided to run for.. well.. for run :D
The goal is to lose about 10kg until summer, the first milestone I chose is 5K (2 miles) in 8 weeks. So this means that by the end of the 8th week I should be able to run for 30 minutes continuously.

So this is how I wish to turn from this:

To this:
Ok ok, I will decide what I want to turn into later :D

But (yes, there is always a but), I'm still sick with cold :D so the masterplan will have to wait until next week, possibly Tuesday. But then. World, here I come.

I do need a bit of support here to not give up this plan. As they say, your first 2 miles are the hardest. So please cross your fingers for 2 seconds for my sake :) thanks

Cheers
Pheebs

<< Nyekk >> It's been a while

2011-10-10T11:34:00.011+02:00

Hiii! It's been a while! Doh, the title just said that. So it's been a while since I wrote here.

In this while, I was like mastering the art of positive attitude! First I was like "it's easy", but then I was like "wtf". So I mastered negative attitude instead, it was a lot easier. The only problem with it was it's mostly incompatible with the thing called normal life. So what should I do! Then I found just the perfect thing for me, the CCL life perception. It's cheap and easy to install, you can also get it if you call 0800-123-OMFG-456 now, you can get TWO! Since I Couldn't Care Less, leaves are greener, pebbles are pebbler and puddles are wetter. So everything is better! :D

It's also been a while since I watched some anime. Since nowdays a lot of my work occurs by the time I'm home in the evening. So I thought: what the hell, I will take free time of at work then! :D So I saw this series accidentally while searching for some PHP related stuff (highly coincidental, huh?). It's called Hourou Musuko.
First thing first, the art is so beautiful, it's also so my type, so I so had to watch this! And the music is also nice, and the setting is also school,...and..and! It's got some previews around the net that notes it's about a xdressing boy and an xdressing girl elementary school. Nice one. But it's not your typical nowadays anime with all the skin and boobs and dafuck, it's just nice and slow and about elementary schoolers' relations and discovering the paths of life.
I'm happily watching 1-2 eps while taking breaks in the 'beforenoon' :P

BTW, you know what you call a thing when Mike Rowe gets so dirty in dirty jobs so he becomes a ghoul and starts consuming human flesh at graveyards?...it's Mikerém! (Haha about 2 people will get that!)

{{ mizuki }} Ireland

2011-05-19T15:12:00.001+02:00

Hi, so i went to Ireland last week, and although the blog about it is in Hungarian, if anyone is interested: iremizu.blogspot.com

I'm listening to a live radio sho on RTÉ 2fm, where they have a 2 hours long interview with Andrea Corr :D so interesting to listen to it live!

Mizuki

Andrea Corr - Lifelines

2011-03-16T21:40:00.000+01:00

Andrea Corr Album Sampler by Andrea Corr

{{ mizuki }} I might be slightly mad but...

2011-03-16T21:06:00.005+01:00

... I just bought this online.
This is the Deluxe version of Andrea Corr's new album (out at the end of May). It has fan goodies too:

- The full length album and the dvd of exclusive performances, interviews, behind the scenes, promo video and gallery in unique sleeves.

- 20 page colour booklet with sleevenotes from Andrea

- Set of 4 postcards

- Deluxe hardbox outer, numbered

- Instant grat track received upon order (it was 'From the morning').

Why is this deluxe version special? Well, there is going to be a total of 650 copies of it worldwide!!

I have been a fan of The Corrs for more than 10 years now, and I always adored Andrea's voice.
To be honest I started liking Ireland because of the Corrs to begin with. And my dream of visiting Ireland will come true in the same month as I'm going to visit Ireland with my Mom and Dad this May (6th-15th). I think I'm going to think of this album as a souvenir... a slightly expensive souvenir if you like.

mizuki

PS. Tomorrow is Saint Patrick's day.. which is not only an Irish holiday, but our 3rd year anniversary of learning Japanese with Nyekk :)

{{ mizuki }} I'm a rabbit alright

2011-03-01T21:10:00.003+01:00

Hey,

A friend of my recently suggested to read The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. The book itself is really interesting, but the thing that fascinates me the most is that in the world Pullman created, every person has a so called dæmon. A dæmon is a a manifestation of a person's soul.. just imagine an animal form, that is constantly with you. So you are never alone, there is always someone who completely understands you and your feelings. A companion that helps you through everything.

So I've been wondering what my dæmon would look like, what kind of animal would it be, and found these tests online that you can fill out and get an answer. Those two I picked were focusing on your own personality... so basically on what animal would you be.

Both of these tests showed the same result: a rabbit.
Which is funny why exactly? 'cause my chinese zodiac is also the rabbit :D and 2011 is the year of the rabbit. :D

Your result for The Golden Compass Daemon Test ...

Shy Loving Soul

You are a sensitive and shy person. You want to be loved and liked, but you don't think people actually like you very much, and that hurts to think about. You like to be with your family and friends, who care about you. When you are with them, you can open up and talk and be yourself. Among strangers, however, you are nervous and tend to clam up. People are often surprised at how talkative you can be once they get to know you, because you appear to be so quiet and bland at first. You hide your feelings from people whom you do not know well, because you don't know if you can trust them. With your loved ones you can be more yourself.

Your feelings are easily hurt, and you tend to be easily embarassed. You are sensitive, and your loved ones may even tease you about being a little TOO sensitive at times. When your feelings are hurt, you don't always let on. You don't like confrontations, and you are not the sort of person to throw a melodramatic hissy fit. You just tend to fret over it for a few days, until eventually the misunderstanding is cleared up, or time heals the wound.

Your daemon would represent your shyness and sensitivity, and your love of family, and your tendency to hide your feelings from strangers. He or She would probably hide in your pocket or sit on your shoulder where he/she would whisper comfort into your ear.

Suggested forms: Rabbit, Dormouse, Dik-dik, Sighthound

{{ mizuki }} Beware

2011-01-01T01:45:00.001+01:00

It's the year of Rabbit... so says the chinese horoscope. I'm a rabbit! So, expect world domination.

<< Nyekk >> Lorem ipsum

2010-12-31T23:19:00.008+01:00

Although not as nice as the meetballs below, here is my new years meal. It's hamburger. A native hungarian dish. It's a joint venture of my significant other and me.

The meat is being fried above. So brown and fuzzy.

The final product. Sample, not for sale, rent, or implantation. It's quite tasty and makes you fat.

Meanwhile, Cat is not at all amused by this whole commution. The fact that the decade is going to end in around half an hour is not bothering her the slightest.

{{ mizuki }} Meet my meatballs

2010-12-31T18:36:00.003+01:00

Hey,

Just wanted to show you my meatballs :DD
Three types:
- meatball + picles + cheese
- meatball + picles + cheese + 'csemege piros arany'
- meatball + olive + cheese

It was a team work. Mom prepared the meat, I made the meatballs, she fried them and then I put it together :D

Also, we decided not to drink champaigne this year with Mom (Dad already had some other stuff), so I bought the children edition. It's not really the Harry Potter kind of children edition (you know, same book, different cover)... its just... apple juice with bubbles :D yeah.. i know. I will never grow up.

So.. I wish all of you a very happy New Year. See you in the next decade!

mizuki

{{ mizuki }} Promises for 2011

2010-12-31T10:54:00.005+01:00

- go on a 1 week long tour around Ireland with my parents by car/or anything else

- boyfriend

- Swindon

- strengthen my English speaking skills/vocab/learn more idioms

- driver licence

- learn how to make a pizza

- convince my friends to go to cinema together more often

- learn at least 3 new songs on piano

- with the help of Nyekk, create the Great e-Library

- play squash at least 2 times a week

- learn how to save up money (the Ireland tour will be a good lesson...)

+1 stay silly as always :)

{{ mizuki }} Promises from 2010

2010-12-31T10:53:00.004+01:00

Yes, this year again, let's check the promises I made for 2010:

- finish my thesis and get a diploma with no more delays

Yep, done :) no more delays.. I finished school. It's still a bit weird, but I have to tell you, I don't miss the exams seasons :DD

- work as hard as never to get from intern to full-timer at the company i will work at from february

Done also. I am now a full-time employee at that company, and in charge of a test lab, where we pre-test every change on servers before they can go out to the real servers. It's pretty fun, but most of the time I feel it's a bit too much for me. I haven't got the experience that this job requires :) nonetheless, the job helps me with my English a lot :)

- now I've got the chibi One Piece character figures, the adult version of Luffy and Ace are on the way, Zoro will come too with the help of Nyekk. So I want to collect them all (in adult version) till the end of 2010.

Gotta catch them all! I did buy all of them :) they look amazing on my shelves. The whole crew!

- start learning korean

I started learning Korean with Padi, but then decided to put it aside for a few years. My job is still too new and I have to learn a lot, so usually I don't have time and mood for learning anything else. So I decided to keep only one japanese course to stay in shape.

- read more books (well, this is tricky, because you can't measure it :P)

Hm.. i think i did read more books :D also, I now carry 187 books around with me... since I bought a Kindle XD and I have to tell you, kindle is contagious :D after I bought mine, my friends and co-workers drooled over my kindle and bought one too :)) can't blame them, the Kindle is quite a cutie ^^ I would recommend it to anyone who like to read books.

- find a place and time when we can play boardgames with Nyekk, Padi and nnorbi ^^ I would love that!!

I DID find a place like that. Too bad they shut the place down a few months later XD and then we found a backup place, and they closed it too. Is it a bad luck I sense here?

- and once again, i promise to stay silly as always :)
That's one thing I can't revise... my friends could answer that. But from the amount of puns I usually make... i think i fulfilled this one too :D

Promises for 2011, coming up!

<< Nyekk >> New Year's Vows

2010-12-28T20:35:00.002+01:00

It's already THAT time of the year again. I hope I didn't make any vows last year, cause I'm sure I didn't keep them.

For 2011, the first year of the next decade:
- Swindon
- Read
- Relax
- Play
- +++
- Become older
- Care less

I'm sure I can keep some of them, if not all.

< Nyekk > merry xmas

2010-12-19T13:51:00.002+01:00

Otherwise not much going on as always here.

<< Nyekk >> Ram-ravine

2010-11-01T15:39:00.012+01:00

Ever since Tim-san moved home from Ireland (or even before that, I think), we had a plan to arrange a trip to the so called Ram-szakadek, and pay our visit to the nature, and do some hiking. Time passed, and after almost a year, we got to realize said plan. Although some would argue if it was a good idea to go hiking in the autumn weather, but this particular Sunday wasn't cold at all. For a few occasions even the sun showed up, giving us it's yellowy glare, which while wasn't burning hot, it felt good nevertheless.

So with our party of 7, we met early morning at the train station, and after a short and enjoyable ride on the Hungarian Railways, we arrived on site at around 10am. We couldn't start our trip yet, as between the valley and us ran the river Danube. After the river crossing service (which was conveniently in synced departure with the trains, so wait time was minimal) helped us to overtake this obstacle, we quickly found our way through the local settlement into the nearby forest, where the tourist's route headed.

As obligatory, we took a lot of photos, of which I share a few here. Unfortunately - as always - these photos can't really capture how magnificent was this site, Although most of the route lead us through tenderly sloped forest pathways, the real hardness - and the best part - of the trip lied in following the little river upwards. This was the very river that over time, carved a steep canyon into the mountain. For the convenience of the rookie hikers like us, they integrated steel railings into the sidewalls, they were great help while climbing, but leaves me with a question, would we able to conquer this valley if they weren't there? I will never know.

In the need of regain our strength, we took a few opportunities to rest a little, to eat, or just to tame our heartbeat and dig in the beautiful nature around us. We met a lot of fellow hikers that day, the proof that the weather was more than fit for taking a trip.

After an unsuccessful attempt to climb up to a hilltop (and the party nearly came rolling down on the hillside), everyone agreed that it was time for us to head back. The path we used to return to the riverside port was a much easier than the one we used upwards. Almost reached the river when the rain started to fall. Lucky for us it didn't caught us up on the mountain! Having just missed the ferry, we sit in the nearby pub to warm up until it was time for boarding.

From the feedbacks I take it as everyone enjoyed the trip, and is willing to continue on to further ones. Unfortunately winter just settled here, so it will be some time until the next one, but I'm glad we could made this one before the cold and snow.

{{ mizuki }} Weird

2010-09-12T11:39:00.002+02:00

Hi,

Haven't been writing here for a loooong time :/
I'm sick, so I missed today's BGD (boardgame day) with the guys, and stayed home. Listening to 'Chuck' OST... so it can kinda give you a weird feeling.
I decided to clean in my room and just a few moment ago, I spotted my diploma, and it got me thinking. It's been 2 months already, since I finished school and started working full time at EM. I don't know how to form a sentence from what I feel (yeah, i know, the whole paragraph is a mess..), but I will try.

It's like this whole adulthood, y'know, working, never have time for anything, is just a long dream. Like one day I will just wake up and find myself sleeping at Network class... I know it won't happen, but it kinda feels like it. Nyekk and I are having a stressful time at work, I think I got too much responsibility in a short time, and that's what gives me a hard time.

Or maybe it's just that I'm sick and think differently.. I don't know...

Anyways, about what's going on lately:
- we occasionally have a BGD
- sometimes we watch a movie together using IRC and the !sv function of a bot called Inouetan
- squash
- korean
- getting ready for JLPT2 (or 3...since the system changed, or will change)
- eyeing with the tons of books I bought lately (wish I could find the time to read them)

Hope you are all okey. Also I want to make a note to myself here: I hope we will be less stressed in a year from now, and can find the time to meet up more often, and not just because we go to japanese together.

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Handlebar hateness

2010-08-28T19:54:00.001+02:00

This is precisely why I hate sponge handlebar handle...in a week it compressed to 3 mm thickness, and it's hard like hell now.

Published with Blogger-droid v1.5.5.2

<< Nyekk >> Miku

2010-08-08T16:22:00.001+02:00

I got it yesterday for my birthday...adorable!

{{ mizuki }} Bug hunter

2010-07-07T12:41:00.002+02:00

So now, you are like this huh?
Catching bugs.

I promise, we will make it up for you. Now that we don't have to worry about school anymore, we can make time for other fun stuff.

So let's do those things. Like doing geocache regularly. I know these stuff can't really replace the camp, but the camp will be there next year. And knowing that your backgound is safe now, you will be able to enjoy it more.... maybe.

We will miss you, as I said before, camp is not the same without a Nyekk in it :/ Can't you just visit on the weekend maybe?

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> We are not so dead

2010-07-07T08:47:00.003+02:00

Reflecting to the previous post, we are over the final exam, we both passed and graduated from the university. Many say that after you passed, the exam seems easier when looking back, but I wouldn't say it was easy.
But we passed, and that's all that counts, I wouldn't need to think about school for a time now, only japanese.

As Mizuki told in the last post, I did apply for a job at the company she is working for, but in the end failed the last interview, and they didn't choose me for the position. It's sad, it would have been fun working at same firm..
But I got another job offer based on my thesis, I became a bughunter for a web-based dress-up game for little girls. Sounds good, hm?

The not so good part, because of this, I missed the family holiday, but what is worst, I will miss the Japanese camp. It really bugs me, because that's the one event I am waiting for every year, and this year, too, I desperately waited for it. But I can't go, and that's final now. I will sit in an office, looking at source code...now I just had a deja vu...never mind.

So long,
Nyekk

{{ mizuki }} we are dead

2010-06-27T14:54:00.002+02:00

Hey...

just a short post.. We are currently getting ready for our final exam at school. We still have 4 days left, but we both feel like some half-dead idiots, trying to get ready for something big.... We don't even have the mind and willpower to study, so we have an irc bot at the chat who tries motivating us....

But soon, it's all over, and then we jump all day in happiness.. hopefully.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, Nyekk had a job interview at the company I'm working at, so we are now (both of us), waiting for the results.. It would be great if they hired us both ^^ Then we would work together and with Padi.

So, that's all for now. Wish us luck!!!!

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Riding

2010-04-29T15:23:00.018+02:00

Nowdays I spend most of my time doing the programming work for my shitty thesis. It's a really small software for PDA, but I'm not so good at programming so it goes rather slowly. But I have to finish soon, because I will also have to write some 30 pages about it, and by 28th May, will have to turn it in. My mood rapidly went downhill, and still staying down there.

The day before yesterday, I had enough of coding, and decided to take a day off, and went cycling. First I didn't want to stay out all day, just going to a satellite specialist shop by bike. But in the end, it became an all-day tour. The weather was good, I crossed the river on the railway bridge. I like this route, because there are no cars, and beside the trains, it's peaceful and silent. Took some photos of how I'm seeing thing with my freaky helmet mirror thing.

On the next photo, is the ship factory on the river, which I thought long gone defunct, but appearantly still working.

I had to stop at the railway crossing, while waiting for the train, I took a pic of the shiny new (actually it's used, but in good condition) stem I had to buy last week, as the older one doesn't really wanted to hold my handlebar in place anymore :(

Here comes the train.

I also shot some huge pole for Tim, because he is a fan of these structures, and this one looked really mighty with the clouds in the back.

It started to rain lightly, I didn't mind it at first, but soon it became harder and I got soaked. I had to stop under a tree and wait a little. This is my bike, with the new handlebar orientation.

It is very convinient like this, I also moved the shifter lever to the neck of the stem, with no brakes, the handlebar only have the spedometer, giving it a nice and clean look.

I still don't know if I like the handlebar bag: It's convinient to have a bag there, and I can just get it off with a click if I want to leave the bike. But it's not really looking good, ruining the clean silouette of the bike. I think I will decide later if it has to go or not. Later on, I got to the shop that was originally my target, but got hungry, so I rode some more to the nearest IKEA to have some hotdogs. On my way there, I found an old train wagon, slowly eaten away by the steel teeth of time.

Then I headed home, only I took a different route, crossing the park in the center of the city. There I saw this interesting sign, saying "Excuse me (or us)" in hungarian. I'm still puzzled at it, don't know what would be the meaning of it.

Further on the way home, I saw another sign, this time, it was the firm I worked before.

I didn't notice this before, though the sign must be there for some time. After I got home, took a shower, and got back to work.

{{ mizuki }} word jokes

2010-04-19T10:39:00.002+02:00

Have fun finding a solution. When you gave up, you can find them down at the end of this post

{{ mizuki }} Time to forget

2010-04-17T18:06:00.003+02:00

Dear all,

In these past 2 weeks I've been buying new furnitures, redesigned my room.. you could say i started a new life :)

While I was cleaning and throwing away my old stuff... i found my old chat-notebooks. A chat-notebook is a small notebook, that we used to chat in high school. With my best friend.
It was more than 6 years ago now, that we stopped being friends. To cut a long story short she basicly got enough of me and replaced me with another girl. She was my best friend.

Until last week I couldn't really decide if I missed her or not. I wondered if i went back in time, would it been better if I behaved differently? The topics I talked about were usually the same, I can understand now why she had enough of me... yeah, i was young and maybe boring. But I cared about her a lot. I was always there for her when she needed a friend.

So a few years ago she started appearing in my dreams randomly. In these dreams we were still friends. I didn't get these dreams. I was so angry at her. She lied to me most of the times, she was never honest with me, I could never tell when she meant something or just said it because she knew what I wanted to hear.

I realized that I just couldn't let her go since then... can't really explain why.
But last week in the middle of cleaning, I found a chat-notebook. I found it before, but didn't want to read it.. you know, it's like meeting the younger you, that you left behind for a reason.
I began reading it, and laughed at first. Then I seriously got disappointed. Not just in her, in myself too.

In that notebook, we kinda talke about everyone in the class. We talked about them like those bitches in american movies, who think that they are better. We joked about them, talked badly about them. I nearly cried. I didn't remember that i was like this. Even if I had a bad opinion of somebody, I would never talk about them like that. I felt awful...

Then I realized, that it wasn't really me in that notebook. It was a friend of that girl. I was influenced. No, don't get me wrong, I still feel sorry what I wrote in that notebook, but the reason I didn't remember being like that is because after she replaced me, I changed. I built my own opinion about people and throw out hers.

After that I got a bit better. I realized that she was never the kind of friend I needed anyway. I just remembered her differently... I remembered what I wanted to remember. I was blind. So after this, I think I will never dream about her again. I'm over it. And to be honest, I think... as weird as it sounds... that I should be glad she replaced me. If she hadn't, I would be a different person now. I should be glad that she let me go so I would never feel that bad again.

Sorry if this post was boring or weird. I wanted to write it out from myself. It helped me move on. I've got the most wonderful friends one would ask for... thank you!
What I would change if I went back in time? I would stop being so naive and easy-to-be-influenced.

mizuki

{{ mizuki }} sm: roll back

2010-04-14T17:07:00.000+02:00

Damn, today the symantec endpoint protection server that worked yesterday completely died. When i decided to uninstall it, it failed again. BUT when i clicked on cancel guess what? It rolled back the complete uninstallation!!! I guess you could say it cant be killed.. And i still have an hour left here.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

{{ mizuki }} sm: restroom

2010-04-12T16:29:00.001+02:00

Hi!

First of all, sm stands for short message.

Now for the real thing: i took this pic at my workplace, it is on the restroom's door. If you go in, you see the women and men's restroom.
So what do you think it is?? I randomly saw mountains or a rabbit. Can't link any other meaning to this.
What's your opinion?

mizu

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

<< Nyekk >> C.A.T.

2010-03-27T17:48:00.007+01:00

Hi there!
Recently, a lot of things happened, in short, we had an anniversary of our Japanese learning, we held a carcassone party at a board game club, and I got a cat :)

Every year, at St. Patrick's day, is a special day, because that is the day we started to learn Japanese at the language school of ours. Last year we celebrated it at the usual McDonalds where we first waited out the spare time until the lesson started. This year unfortunately, St. Patrick's day wasn't on Thursday, so we didn't go to the McDonalds. We instead cheated a little, and found a Hungarian huszar (it's an old hungarian soldier type, with the horse and things), so Mizu suggested to take our anniversary pic there. We looked at the nearby McDonalds, and they didn't have the webcam terminal, so it turned out like this:

My nameday was coming up, and my friends organized a Carcassonne party for this occasion. Mizuki earlier looked up a board game club, that could provide a room for a day. The room was underground, nice, and soundproof. You could buy tea, and it was very cheap per person. Looking forward for the next time, maybe a M.A.G.U.S. game, or some other board game :)

And finally, I decided to get a cat. I long time longed for one, but I knew it's a big responsibility, but as I got unemployed and spend most of the time at home, it became very lonely. I started to search about the adoption sites, and I found a black oriental shorthair, which was always my type of cat. When I was younger, we had siamese cats, and they have been very intelligent and had a slender figure. The oriental shorthair is almost like the siamese. After the vet checkup and having her chipped, she finally came to live with me :) For the first 2-3 days she was always hiding away somewhere (even under the bath!) Then gradually she calmed down, and now she sleeps on the bed, and follows me everywhere :) The only thing left is sterilization, because the womanly ways of a cat can be rather mindsnapping (I didn't got much sleep nowdays as the result of the constant nightly meowing)

{{ mizuki }} JLPT, iPhone, work etc

2010-03-16T22:20:00.002+01:00

Hey!

Just a short post :)

- Sooooo, we got the results of the JLPT 3kyuu exam :D we all passed ^^ again! So cool :)

- the iPhone feels great, i have a the feeling that it might be the phone i was waiting for nearly 5 years :D I would never thought... i kinda looked down on iPhone owners before. But it's just so easy to love.

- my job is nice too, i have a good time there. I'm working on my own project, which shows results now. I just hope I can be good enough for them, so that i can work there as a real employee from August :)

- a few more One Piece figures left: Chopper, Luffy (maybe, just to have the full set), Nami, Brook. I got everyone else so far :) I also want to buy a Yotsuba figure and I try to find a cool looking Superman, in the size of these figures, but no luck so far. Maybe a Hermione from Harry Potter :DD Yeah.. you see it right.. i got addicted to this thing, called 'collecting figures'. I'm helpless...

- school... it got a bit out of my mind nowadays. It's hard to have a work-mind and a school-mind at the same time, because you have to think differently in the two environments. It's weird no. I started to feel like Nyekk, he said a year ago, that he doesn't feel like he belongs to school anymore. And I just want to finish it, and start my life.. in the real world, where there are different rules.

- day by day, I get more excited... I really can't wait to learn Korean, start kung-fu and stuff like that. But oh well.. :)

That's all folks

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Planetarian ~reverie of a little planet~

2010-03-06T13:01:00.005+01:00

Hi there!
This time I will write my thoughts about the visual novel I read last, the first one in a long time :)

“What do you think about the planetarium? That beautiful twinkling of eternity that will never fade, no matter when. All the stars in the sky are waiting for you.”

These are the signature welcoming words of the planetarium staff member robot companion, Hoshino Yumemi (Reverie Planetarian in english sub). She is a Popular Model, with integrated holovideo recording and playback, social skills and projector control, she is the perfect companion for anyone attending the planetarium. She is hardworking and needs no vacation, like any robot. And even after there is no one left in the world to see the show, she continues doing her job...

The setting itself is postapocalyptic, devastated cities, human population decimated, Junkers - collectors of remaining goods of old times - cruise the uninhabited metropolises. And when one tired Junker decides to enter the department building closed for years, the story begins.
This visual novel is a kinetic one, meaning that you wont have multiple endings, and choices in the story, you just have to read and watch (and in the voice acted version, listen :)) And while the story is a little bitter and sad, I can only recommend it to read it, especially if you like Asimov's robotic themed stories, it is a very touching one, that you won't forget quickly.

<< mizuki >> Usopp figure

2010-03-03T14:46:00.000+01:00

Hey

Just a quick post to test this app on my iphone, and i thought i might as well post some pictures of my new One Piece figure, Usopp/Sogeking.

So:

Mizuki

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

{{ mizuki }} JLPT - still waiting

2010-02-27T11:01:00.004+01:00

Hey!

So it's almost time for out results from the JLPT 3kyuu exam. I just thought of posting here this link.
Nyekk wrote it last year. I remember, we were so crazy about waiting.. because hey, we wrote it at the beginning of December, and we got the result by March?? So, it's the same this year. We know that the result are already in Hungary, we just have to wait for the post.

JLPT, we did it! (2009)

News so far: today, I bought my very first iPhone :) I was so pleased with my iPod touch, i wondered, maybe the iPhone is the mobile I was waiting for. So I bought one. I keep the iPod for a little while, in case the iPhone doesn't work out :)

Hope you guys okey

mizu

<< Nyekk >> Ultra Maniac

2010-02-23T10:22:00.019+01:00

Hey There!
First of all, we did a little overhaul to this place, how do you like it? :) I am still experimenting with some stuff like the in-post avatar you see there <--- :P

This week, I will tell you about Ultra Maniac, a Manga by Yoshizumi Wataru! I recently finished it, and had a fun reading. The story is centered around a transfer student, from the Magic Kingdom, who came to Earth to study in an ordinary school. She ought to keep it secret from others, but she decides to share her secret with a classmate, and that's where it starts to become interesting...
There are 5 volumes total. The first 3 volume is more of a comical story, how magic can go wrong and such, in the background the neccessary love lines are beginning to outline however. By the last two volumes, it becomes centered around feelings mostly. The characters are loveable, the girls are cute, there are no incredibly evil persons here, so it creates a good atmosphere.
While the setting is magical, it is not the general fantasy manga, as magic is mostly done differently, nothing flashy there, no wands and potions. As the author noted, she never did a magical themed story before, so it's kind of a first for her, and that's why she did it other way around. But there are Magic PDA-s, with big RAM (Random Access Magic) :D Cats who turn into humans, and vica versa :3
And finally, the manga has my favourite "outsider" comments, made by the characters. It is when they make comments about the manga or the plotline, or even the author, I very much like those :P
All in all, it was a good read, if you have time, read it, it is only five volume in length. There is also an anime version, which I didn't saw, but as the author wrote in her free talk sessions, it is fundamentally different from the manga, it is more centered on fantasy and magic, than romantic lines. Maybe I will watch that, too. :)

{{ mizuki }} One Piece figures

2010-02-21T14:30:00.002+01:00

Hello!

So I have been told to "hell, post something on your blog, will ya?", or something like that. So I decided to post about the figures I got recently. I did promise this, so it's time :)

I couldn't take good pictures with my own camera, so I borrowed my Dad's super camera :D
Well, I should have used some stand for this, because most of my pictures got really blurry :/

But hey, here is what I got so far :)
Usopp / Sogeking is on his way in Nyekk's backpack, so he will be in my next post only :)

First, Nico Robin. Her cowboy hat can be removed... well, i did make a picture with Zoro, wearing this hat :D He looked super gay XD

Franky, it was hard to take a picture with his face showing :DD because his hands are cannot be moved.. i know, i broke one of them XD

Roronoa Zoro. I think I like this figure themost. It is just plain cool and his expression is so much like him :)

And lastly, Sanji, the "love cook" :D with a removable cigarette.

So, these were my figures. There is still: Nami, Chopper, Usopp (who is on the way), Brook, and maybe Luffy. I say maybe, because I already have 4 figures of Luffy XD none of them are the same size :)

A bit about what's happening to me nowadays:

I got an internship at an American company, to be specific, I work at one of their IT support station, in Budapest. I like the place a lot, it is so much fun. The team I became a part of was very welcoming and nice. They care about me, not like my last collegues. The boss is the kinda boss you would always wanted :) I get salary. I wanted to highlight this, because most of the time, interns does not get payed.
So I will work here until 31th of July. By that time, I have to report what I did at the company, and if they like my attitude and my work, they can offer a full-time job for me :)

Meanwhile I continue to go to school, to finish my last semester. So im 2 days at school and 3 days at work. And I still study japanese with Nyekk :)

So my life got a bit busy, but I will try to continue blogging here ^^

Last thing, I think I will get an iPhone 3G :) I love my iPod touch so much, I thought why buy a phone when I can sell my iPod and get an iPhone, if I like the interface so much.

That's about me for now :)

take care

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Some photo

2010-02-14T13:04:00.007+01:00

Hola!

This post will be replacing my last one, as it wasn't really an appropriate one. I apologize to those I made worry. I will now show some photos, 'cause that's how I feel like doing today :P

Ever since we started studying for 2kyuu (soon our 3kyuu results will arrive I think ^^), learning some 50 words a week became an integral part of our life. For this reason, I upgraded my aging iPaq h2200 PDA which I used as a Japanese dictionary. Earlier I gave him Japanese OS image, to enable written kanji recognition. Now entering all of the words in the PDA wasn't to convinient using the touchscreen, and I saw an auction about a foldable keyboard real cheap, I couldn't resist. A throw in a new battery from ebay, and now my study workplace looks like this.

I use a JWPCE for Japanese word processing, and the incredible JFC counterpart to drill those words.

I also wanted to read more manga and books instead of wasting time with anime and movies, but I can't stand reading on my laptop. I used my PSP to read manga, and it's really great, altough I still longed for seeing the full page without scrolling about, and a battery life that I wouldn't have to care about, just throw the thing in my bag and read on the move. So I got this:

It a Sony Reader PRS-500, maybe it's not the best e-ink reader, but it is so perfect for me, mangas (Sailor V-chan on the photo ^^) and book look beautiful on the screen which is so calm, it's very easy on the eyes. And I didn't have to charge ever since I got my hands on it!

Sailormoon was maybe the first anime I saw on TV when I was younger, and I taped all the episodes they aired on national TV, in spite of the horrible hungarian dub, it brings back memories. Not long ago, I got hold of the original subbed series, all the 200 eps. Here and there I am watching it, and I wanted something that I could wear, as a fan you know. I pushed the thought of a spectacular Usagi wig aside, and went for a crescent moon pendant instead. I searched for one a lot, as I wanted it to look like the one Usagi wears in the R series. And you wouldn't believe...Mizuki's mother just had one that looked exactly like the one I was looking for! And after she heard, gave it to me as a present! Thank You! ^^;;

Under the chain is my beloved Korean chopsticks, I thought they would look good together in the photos :)

{{ mizuki }} Promises for 2010

2009-12-31T10:51:00.002+01:00

Hey again,

So, I see now that I usually put some promises to my list, thta i can't hold onto, so this time I will try to avoid those kind of promises :D

- finish my thesis and get a diploma with no more delays
- work as hard as never to get from intern to full-timer at the company i will work at from february
- now I've got the chibi One Piece character figures, the adult version of Luffy and Ace are on the way, Zoro will come too with the help of Nyekk. So I want to collect them all (in adult version) till the end of 2010.
- start learning korean
- read more books (well, this is tricky, because you can't measure it :P)
- find a place and time when we can play boardgames with Nyekk, Padi and nnorbi ^^ I would love that!!
- and once again, i promise to stay silly as always :)

Now back to translating (-_-)

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
皆様のご健康をお祈り申し上げます｡

mizuki

{{ mizuki }} Promises from 2009 - revise

2009-12-29T10:10:00.003+01:00

Hello!

I haven't been around here lately, but I had things to do in my non-virtual life. I started to work, worked for 2 months. Now that it's time for exams I decided to give it up to be able to pass them. I got an internship in a big company, will start working there from February. Padi wants to work there full-time too, so I cheer for him ^^

So... every year, around this time we start to revise our year with Nyekk, and write promises for next year. I think I will separate them now, so the promises for 2010 will come in 2 days :)

Promises for 2009 - revise

* If Cooper comes home, I'll be a better owner
Well, Cooper got home, he was like a living zombie, but with 2 months of good care, he go back to his late self. If it is possible, dad got more attached to him than before, so my promise to be a better owner ended up as a fail. I realized that I'm jelous to my dog :/ But at least I tried. In the first 2 months, I was the queen of the owners.

* will go to JLPT3 in December
Did, waiting for the results. Hopefully I passed ^^

* and the japanese-chinese camp at summer
Did, it is always the best week of the year.

* make a website with Nyekk, I don't know the topic yet, but I really want to do it.
Fail... mostly because we haven't decided about the topic :)))

* i would like to play the ukulele and kendama (it's not an instrument, it's a toy)
Fail, had no time :( but i can solve a 4x4x4 rubic cube XD

* lose more weight, gain more muscle
Fail, we started to practice Tai chi, but then the weather got cold and we didn't have a place to go with the others.

* get a new laptop
Ehhehe.... well I got a new laptop, the dream of my laptops, and a week ago i got a little netbook for x-mas :) part from my dad, and the following little parts from my future, working self (lol). I love them both.

* will work at summer to get money for my japanese courses
I didn't work at summer, but I worked in the last 2 months. I got the money for the courses by selling things on the internet.

* go to MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) course
We went to this course, but then Microsoft decided that we don't get the chance to go and take the exam, which we were completely ready for :((

* choose my major
Did, my major is IT Security. To be honest I should write my thesis now ^^;;

* oh... will never change the way I am.. that I'm silly
I think I passed it... ^^;;

Hm.. I think I mostly passed. About the failures, I will just have to live with them.

See you in 2 days, take care
mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Protection

2009-11-03T20:26:00.004+01:00

I forgot about this photo last time:

The message of this pic is: You should always protect your PC, or else...grubs and roaches will be all over it, invading on every possible input!

-- Post From My iPhone

<< Nyekk >> Windows 7

2009-11-02T15:33:00.001+01:00

On last saturday, it was windows 7 premiere time at Budapest, and they chose to make the announcement on the Budapest Gameshow 2009. I arrived late afternoon because I slept until noon, but oh well ^^;; I still saw some interesting things, and spent some time with Padi- and Timたち :P I even created a fearful loli in the Sims 3 character generator. I bet nobody had the courage to approach the laptop after I left her onscreen! :D

Then I saw some weird phenomenon, a species that began to spread among us: CS Girls. They head a mean look in their eyes, and their face just shouted "headshot!".

Unfortunately we couldn't spectate this species in their natural enviroment, because most of their time they watched progress bars on the screen. :P

-- Post From My iPhone

<< Nyekk >> Question?

2009-10-25T18:36:00.001+01:00

Needs only one comment: zseni is genius in hungarian.

And you like??

-- Post From My iPhone

<< Nyekk >> ティムCON

2009-10-24T20:37:00.001+02:00

This years autumn animecon got cancelled by the anime club promised to organize it. It was a little unfortunate to everyone, and Timsan already arranged a two week long homestay to include the animecon. So he thought we could make our own little con. With that in mind, we assembled today to visit some anime/manga related shop, and finally settle in the Moonlight メイド caffe.

Not everything has gone as planned, as two of the shops out of three were closed, but we had fun and some food/coffe in the kissaten. :)

Jin had came to, I hope she had fun, too :D She was a little touched to be there, needed some comforting here and there :D

And Hikaru got a traditional Japanese two-heart-ballons-on-the-head hairstyle from Tim. Suits her, ne? :D

-- Post From My iPhone

{{ mizuki }} Still alive

2009-10-15T22:48:00.003+02:00

Dear readers!

Yes, I'm still alive.. although you might considered i was dead and under my desk, since I wrote here so long ago :(
To tell you the truth, recently I was too busy to write here, because:
- was working online (my currnet part-time job is using my internet connection): i can only work at night (around midnight), because the database servers are too busy at daytime :( it caused, that I'm really tired after a few hours of works, so I can't work long -> no sleeping, no money... not a good job, so
- was trying to find a new job, still waiting for replies (i have been waiting for almost a month now, but patience will do good for me, or roses).
- reading info materials about my thesis
- going to class and try to study for them
- learning japanese
- watch dorama... yeah, i usually watch it while im working, since there are 2-3 free seconds in it, so i can do it. besides.. i dont really need brain for my current job.. (the dorama are: Otomen, BOSS, and a Korean one called Triple)
- try to get to know my classmates on my major, because i dont really know anyone, and I felt it horrible. I want to make friends.

So yep.. beside that I can be found at the pori-chat (pori-chan.com -> pori-chat), where i make friends and practice English with other Horikita Maki fans.

And I have to eat sometimes too :D
I hope this chaos will change soon, now I feel that I do so many things I have no enough time for them individually.

Gadget time:
- current mobile: Samsung c3050
- current fav gadgets: HP dv5 notebook, ipod touch
- current gaming consols: psp, ninteno ds
Yep, no PDA this time :) i dont need it, since the ipod can do anything that a pda would (sometimes better).

Hope you are all ok

mizuki

PS: i am terrified TOO, that i will became an item in the virtual reality, it was so much fun to play. And dont be afraid, I will never get a licence, Im sure.

<< Nyekk >> Wired

2009-10-15T19:50:00.002+02:00

Mizu got particularly wired to virtual reality. She did so in the favour of wrecking motorbikes and cars while cruising the cuty at insane speeds. She kinda got "sucked in" by this game, as it's her favourite genre of enjoying-beautiful-city-sightseeing-while-collecting-nearby-roadsigns-and-simultanously-eroding-shiny-paintjobs ^__^

Although did good at the game objectives, after what i had seen, I would be afraid to let her behind the driving wheel of a real vehicle ^^;;; /gomen ^^/

-- Post From My iPhone

<< Nyekk >> Mayflowers

2009-10-12T17:28:00.004+02:00

"I'm so sorry for people who live in lands where there are no Mayflowers," said Anne. "Diana says perhaps they have something better, but there couldn't be anything better than Mayflowers, could there, Marilla? And Diana says if they don't know what they are like they don't miss them. But I think that is the saddest thing of all. I think it would be TRAGIC, Marilla, not to know what Mayflowers are like and NOT to miss them."

It's a little snipplet of the book I am reading now, "Anne of green gables". It's about a little orphan girl, getting adopted into the household of an old couple, who never had children themselves, and it creates a lot of interesting situations, seeing how she slowly changes them. The story is set way back in around the 20's on a little island of Canada. The atmosphere is really lighthearted, and Anne's attitude never fails to cheer me up, she has an opinion about almost everything, a really extraordinary one at most of the time. She always uses big words, ands speaks with dignity, which is funny hearing it from a little girl's mouth. And oh a lot she speaks!
There is no evil in the story, it is more "slice of life" type a book, with aging and developements.
If you like books like this, I can only advise you read it :)

"Somehow," she told Diana, "when I'm going through here I don't really care whether Gil—whether anybody gets ahead of me in class or not. But when I'm up in school it's all different and I care as much as ever. There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."

-- Post From My iPhone

<< Nyekk >> Optical tuning

2009-10-06T20:55:00.002+02:00

You can never spend enough money on safety measures when riding a bike. Of course whats worth doing is worth overdoing. Today I saw one good example:

A bike with this christmas tree look would be impossible to miss on the road. Now that is a bad thing if you are about to hit it with a car, though :P

-- Post From My iPhone

<< Nyekk >> Better than cat

2009-10-04T09:35:00.001+02:00

Of course I'm just kidding, nothing is better than a cat.

-- Post From My iPhone

{{ mizuki }} Busy weeks and school

2009-10-01T13:41:00.002+02:00

Hello!

Sorry about my lack of activity nowadays... i've been a bit busy, and too tired to post here.
I took part in many events in the last few weeks, mostly IT events (Hacktivity and ITBN).

I'm doing a tele-work now, which means I'm working from home, on my own computer, using my own internet connection. I can do it whenever i have time, so I realized that I started to be absent from my usual IRC channels too :(

Because of the events, I didn't have time and the mood to study for school, I even skipped 1-2 classes. But this week, I could finally got myself together.

Oh and something to brag about (like Nyekk lol). I sold my pda and gps and bought an ipod touch (2 generation). AND (with a lot of help from Nyekk), I put wikipedia on it! Can you imagine? the WIKIPEDIA!! :D it's so awesome, when i'm on the go and can't remember something, I can look it up. Like one day, before we had the iphone and ipod, we were thinking about this: what was the name of the greek hero, who fighted against Poseidon. And we never got the answer in our minds, we had to look it up in wikipedia when i got home. No more waiting :D

All in all, the ipod touch is the most awesome gadget I ever had, i can use it for so many things :)

Other infos. I might get the chance to try myself out in a teacher's role. I will try to teach Japanese to a beginner in the language :) がんばります！

I'm still searching for a job, a proper job, not the one i have now :)

The rest of what happened to me was written by Nyekk, so you already know about it :)

take care

mizuki

PS: the greek hero was Odysseus

<< Nyekk >> Last day

2009-09-30T18:44:00.000+02:00

It was a kinda sad, cheerless day today. It was the last day at work for us at The Hungarian Airlines main office complex. We felt we've got fired, and in a way, we've got fired. The work will continue at the airport, but it just won't be the same. We became quite attached to the place, and it feels weird we never ever come to solve the user problems here again.

The place wasn't always this messy, but paperwork grows on you after some time :D This was usually my desk and workstation.

There Is a support related xkcd comic printed on the locker, and a "we're not kidding!" sign >:D

And this is our little surprise for whoever will come to work tomorrow to replace us. I hope they will get the joke ;P

Bye bye lil' office... T_T

-- Post From My iPhone

<< Nyekk >> J-cult day

2009-09-26T17:11:00.002+02:00

First of all, sorry about the mass of postage i have been doing lately, i seem to capitalize this blog for myself,but that's really not my intention :)

But since i got this iphone, posting to the blog while on the go became a more natural feeling. So excuse me anyway ^^;;;

So today we visited this thing called J-Cult day with Mizuchan (in romaji, because my japanese inpit just stopped working. Grrr) It was held by hungarian schools teaching japanese language, for the centenary anniversary of the japanese-hungarin diplomacy repicking their connection. (which was - as we heard - never actually dropped)

We saw many performances, like dragon dance, aikido and kendo show, and our friend, Hikaru also participated in a dance! She is member of a dance club which mixes traditional asian movements with modern asian music. They performed 3 times, I pretty much enjoyed it.

And which was - for me - the most interesting part of the event, they held seminars. The subject were how to improve teaching japanese, difference in eastern and western etiquette, hungarian-japanese diplomatic relations, and the school system differences. I liked them all, but the best was how hungarian horses fit into japanese history :D It was a really inteteresting find.

All in all we had a good time, I'm waiting for the next part of this event chain organized for this centenary occasion ;)

-- Post From My iPhone

<< Nyekk >> Press conference

2009-09-25T10:46:00.001+02:00

I got asked to help out in the IT territory of a press conference held by Hungarian Airlines. It's not particularly interesting conference,but it's held in a very nice place in the heart of the city, a little cafe, on a lake :)

The weather is also very nice,the sun is at full brightness (not the best for the projector, but oh well) I got a cappucino, and hopefully will get some breakfast, too ;P

Update: i got breakfast, looks nice, ne? ;)

Itadakimasu ^^

-- Post From My iPhone

{{ mizuki }} Re: << Nyekk >> Restart

2009-09-22T08:36:00.004+02:00

Dear Nyekk,

You said, no one will read what you wrote, why didn't you use crypto-blog?

I think, the only thing you need, is to focus on one thing, that you like and can grap onto it. I know one thing like that: Japanese. When you do this, you will get power from it for other things. If you let yourself and your thought wander for too long, and let the depression spread, of course you will get more depressed. But if you grab that one thing you like, learning this language we both love, it will give you the power for your other goals. Like... always eat while you are learning Japanese. When you can't/donwanna sleep at night, learn Japanese. When you have free time, work on your Japanese related thesis, and if it's a fail at the start, don't give up! While jogging, listen to exam listening files, then your mind can't go wander again. etc

If you keep yourself occupied, not only at work, it will do some good.

your best friend,
mizuki

tipp: climb up to a hill and shout out those things that bothers you.
PS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHFDa9efCQU

<< Nyekk >> Restart

2009-09-21T23:22:00.001+02:00

First I have to warn you,it will be a long post,and maybe it isn't useful for anyone else but me.Those of you reading this blog (yes,those few) may have already seen post like this from me,about changes I wanted to make in my life. The fact is, I did not changed much of my life since them. Because of that,I got more and more fed up with myself,until this point. My life mostly reduced to work, and then going home, logging onto the net, and waiting for someone to talk to me. After a few months, It became a routine, the kind of you can't break free easily. Yesterday I had a lot of time thinking about my life, do I really need this? And based on this, I have decided to renovate my life, because this is not the only problem I have with it. I need to seriously patch up my personality problems.

The first thing I adressed is physical condition. I started doing regular workout at home during the summer,but maybe for not eating enough to support it, they weren't really effective. Nowdays I realized it's not really muscles that I want. Ofcourse it would be good to look like someone moviestar, but if not, then it's not something I would die for, nevet cared about looks anyways, as long as I don't look shabby. I would rather have stamina, as I get tired just running for yhe bus, panting for minutes afterwards, which is pathetic I think at my age. And starting Thai Chi perfectly fitted into this plan,it's something that gives you stamina. But I wanted a little more, something I could do every day. The problem is after I get home from work, I'm too tired to do anything. Lately I have problems with sleeping (more on that later), so I came up with the idea: I will do some sports before work, as I get up early anyway. So today I woke up at the usual five o'clock in the morning, I got up, got dressed,grabbed my music,and went jogging. I ran around the local streets, not much, only ten minutes. But that's enough for now. I always had problems getting out of bed, now this solves it. After this little round, and a shower, I was fully awake, and it actually felt good.

Moving on, the next thing is also physical, it's about food. After I started working, I began to eat irregularly, having lunch now and then. And I'm eathing a lot of unhealthy food also. I want to be healthier, so starting from today I will make my own sandwiches and food for work. It's also much better tasting :)

The next thing is the only thing I love and earlier I felt that I was good at it. It's Japanese. Lately it became neglected, not that I didn't have time for it at the evenings. I just didn't do it, stating to myself I'm not in the mood now. Now that the exam is so close,and I'm got to the point where i'm strugling with tests, I should seeieously change that. I have to allocate at least 1 hour a day studying.

Than there is the my thesis, to stay on the studying grounds, I'm not really did anything with it for almost a year. But I need to finish college this semester, as it's more and more becomes a burden, and I don't feel I am fitting in anymore. When I go to lesson, it feels like I'm a guest,an outsider.

I already told you about the problems with sleeping, it's not really that I cannot sleep, I can, but I often dream. And dreams are the source of most of my sleeping problems. When I was younger, I loved my dreams, because they were always about something I longed for, and I liked having fantasies about what my life will be in the future. This nature of my dreams hadn't changed at all, only me. Now these dreams tell me about a life I will never ever have, and though it feels good while dreaming it, waking up into reality easily throws me to depression. I am yet to solve this problem, as I really not having much control over my dreams. Until then, waking up at night and staring hour at the ceiling remains.

And it just trails over to the next thing, depression. For me, it's a very scary thing, as I can't control it either, and it really messes up my daily life. Actually I have the worst type, with rapid mood changes. The worst thing about it, is that I don't want to feel sad and down, but I just do. And the more I think about it, the more I slide deeper into depression. And when it strikes, I just lie around for hours having no motivation to do anything. And after some hour I feel pathetic about it which makes me even more depressed. The thing is, now it comes more and more often, now I don't like being left alone, because when i'm with others, i don't have time to think. But when i'm alone, my mind becomes cloudy, and I can't really occupy it with anything else. It helps when I talk with someone, but I don't have many contacts to talk to, and they are quickly get irritated about my depressed state, so i'm left alone again. I thought about getting professional treatment, as depression is genetically inherited, and not without precedent in my family. My fathers brother has committed suicide at the age of 24, and my sister is presently treated with maniac depression. Looming at my present state, i got that bad gene alright. I would really like to get did of this, I was always a cheerful person, and it kills me that i have to endure this.

Some months ago i believed that I have to move to a different place to have a fresh start, to change my life. Lately i realized it's just an excuse, like when you wait for the clock to show round time to get out of bed in the morning. Because it's doesn't imatter where I live, but how I live is more important. So i will wait for the time when it's finally possible for me to get my own appartment. It became a little lower priority over all the other things.

I don't think anyone will read all this, but I just felt I need to finally write these out. I hope that it always reminds me where I must be heading.

Sorry about taking up so much space for this nonsense.

Nyekk

-- Post From My iPhone

<< Nyekk >> Hacktivity 2009

2009-09-19T14:16:00.001+02:00

Heey!

Now we are attending the Hacktivity 2009 conference, we had a little break so I thought about posting about the event in general. As the name suggests it's about security, especially IT security.

It's not about hacking actually ^^ They hold seminars about windows security , network security,and so on. We have got a little bag of advertisement stuff and little おみやげs like screen wiping clothe. The bag even have had a condom with "The security hole" written on it. They are that much conerned about our "security" :D

-- Post From My iPhone

<< Nyekk >> iPhone

2009-09-17T13:01:00.001+02:00

Hey everyone!

I just came here to brag a little about my new iPhone I just got a few days ago :P It's a long and not really interesting story that how I came about wanting one, the roots of the cause are stretching way back to the summer camp.
Anyways, I got one cheap,so it's not without problems,but so far I'm lovin' it ( thank you,mcdonalds)

I just found a cool blogging application for it,while I'm waiting for an office 2007 uninstallation to complete,at work ^^

Hopefully the photo I inserted appears,too :)

Now back to work!
Nyekk

-- Post From My iPhone

{{ mizuki }} The rest of the summer camp :P

2009-08-30T17:20:00.005+02:00

Hello!

So as we predicted, we couldn't write about the camp daily :) poor Nyekk got tired after the 3rd one, and I guess he couldn't continue.

So what happened after the last post?

The food got better :) we had meat!! I don't know, I ate mostly everything (except for liver, I hat liver brr), so we got over of the first day's roasted eggplants (it could have been good... except that it wasn't).
We got used to the place we lived too. It was not a palace, not even a one star hotel, but we could live with it. Because this year's classes were more exciting than the last year's. We had so many different classes to choose from:

- particulas ("dreaded particulas!" //Nyekk)
- listening
- JLPT3 test trials
- translating

These were the classes we had to attend, and as if we were not already tired after all these, we could choose from these optional ones:

- i-go
- calligraphy
- Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese
- watching dorama

So it was really fun! And you would never believe what i have done! Instead of watching dorama at night, i studied Korean XDD Yeah, well they watched Yasha, which I didn't really like, so..

There were only 3 of us who were crazy enough to learn all 3 other languages (Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese), so we had to learn more than the others (3 as in Nyekk, my roommate and I), but it was fun to be able to get a bite from all of them :) Next year there will be Thai too, I heard.

The translating part, where our guest, Naomi-san helped us translating a Hungarian fairy tale to Japanese was a separated class: There were 2 groups (A and B), and one day it started with the A group, the other day with the B group. So our free time was always different, sometimes it was after the test-class, sometimes after the translating-class. In these free times we mostly went for shopping (food ^^;;), or to the beach.

There were two 'adventure' days too. First we went to Veszprem, which is a nearby city. As soon as we got there there rain started to fall like hell, so we had to find some cover. Then we just did sightseeing and all.

The second adventure was in Tihany. Well it was a tough one i have to say! We did hiking! it was 12km long! 12.. KM.. long. I have to admit I never thought i could walk so much, and up to a cliff. If I were not that tired, I would surely shout something from up there :))

We also found the 1st part of a multicache (geocaching), which we let go, because we had no energy to continue. Speaking of geocaching, Nyekk and I brought our caching gps handhelds too. While the hiking, one of our teacher who also lead us asked me if we headed in the cache's direction. I always said where it would be.. then after like 1 hour I realized, that that very cache, that little bastard was at Budapest, and I left the gps in a 80km scaling (_ _)........

At that time, 1/3 of the camp's people went home because of certain reasons, so the hiking group was kinda small, also our teacher and her husband missed the train, so they were left behind T.T

So, all in all, the camp was great. I already forgot how I felt about the place where we had to sleep... ^^;; (no, not really). And we learned a lot again. I remember how much we learned in a week the last time, and I think we learned at least as much this time too.

I heard the next year's camp will be totally different. I don't want to spoil it yet, especially because the plans are not sure yet, but if it will be as our teacher said, it will be great!! I will post about it when the plans are for sure :)

School is starting soon, so I spend my last weeks of the summer with watching One Piece on full speed (means: I watch like 15-20 episodes per day ^^;;;;;;).

Hope you have a nice summer.

matane

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Adulthood

2009-08-15T04:47:00.003+02:00

Daytime, you can always have others around you
Laugh together, play together, pass along the day
Then night comes, and you are suddenly alone
Alone with your thoughts, locked into your soul
You know no one can help you at night
When you think there is destiny,
Only to find out if there is, it has a mean humor
When you notice you can't live your dreams
Only live in them
When you see that the future your heart laid out for you,
Is fake and impossible
When you think love should be happy and warm
But actually it is more of painfull
And you wonder if there is anything good left in life at all.

That's the moment you become an adult.

Finally, Bye,bye childhood

--
Sent from my mobile device

-----------

<< Nyekk >> Japanese Camp - Day 2 - Getting mansioned

2009-08-11T01:02:00.001+02:00

...The day when we got to know that not all disposable cups can be disposed...

If I remember correctly, this is the second day of this Japanese camp
(actually I'm writing this on the third day already, so it's kind of
cheating, but what hekk)

The day started with a headache, a rather disturbing dream, and a long
walk to our designated eating place. It's a small restaurant, where we
get breakfast and lunch. Breakfast was easily forgettable, and lunch
was a surprise: no meat. Our teacher is a vegetarian, at least she
cannot bear eatinh meat. So she ordered menu without meat. Some of us
were not really happy about this idea, but I think if they cook it
tasty, I don't need the meat.

We started our lessons, there are all kinds of them, with teachers
rotating with time. We had listening, tests, and particulas (dreaded
particulas!). Our classroom is on the shore of Balaton, so we have a
good view of the lake from there. In there, we learnt about a new
phenomena (at least for me): Non-disposable disposable cups. The story
is short. We needed disposable cups, but it was Sunday, so they
wouldn't sell us disposable cups, only LEND them. So we had to keep an
eye of them, because they are disposable after all, they have a
one-time-lifetime usage. And on Saturday we will have to return them.

Also, today we had a class with a native Japanese, who speaks only
Japanese, not even english. On her lesson, we have to translate a
story into japanese, it's a spanish tale in hungarian , about a man
called Robert. He exchanged his heart for an iron one, to lose his
feelings and get into the legendary city of fortune. My partner
doesn't understand hungarian, so we had to translate it into english
first, then into japanese.

At the end of the day, we had chinese and korean lessons, they were
interesting, especially korean, we learned the writing system, it was
really logical.

That's all for today, see you tomorrow!

--
Sent from my mobile device

-----------{ Nyekk
[ ]
[ ] NDS - Rulz :P

<< Nyekk >> Summer camp 2009 - First day hickups

2009-08-09T01:03:00.001+02:00

From the previous entry You must know already, how much we loathed for this years summer camp, the unreplacable event of the year.
And it's not a good omen, if the first day starts with minor dissappointments. And all the worst if they are everything but minor.
When we arrived at the place we will stay for the next few days, we just looked the building with a critical eye: it's small, one story height, and looks like a changing room on a football field on the outside. If you dare to enter the front door, you will find yourself on a narrow corridor (narrow, 2 people can pass each other even not so easily). Rooms open either way along the walls. It looked very low cost at the first and second sight.
The first shock was the room, it was narrow, with four unidentifiable substance stained bed, greasy carpet, ona small.window, no cupboard or gardrobe, only one shelf, a table, a fridge, and a small tv-set. I decided to keep my clothes in my bag, founding no place to be appropriate for them. Last year, we had separate bathroom with two sinks for each room, but now we found no thing like that in our room. The "shower room" is on the end of the corridor, more on that a little later. The beds are well used, Padi's have a massive convex hole in his mattrace.
Next, we have a kitchen, where the tables stick with some gooey stuff, and there is a pan with who knows how old grease in it. We didn't spend much time there yet, I don't think we will.
And the last room, the room of dark menaces. The room with the loos and showers. Firstly, the restroom has no sink. There is soap, papertowell, only no sink. It's a weird experience. The girls' have sink, but no soap. All three in the same time seems to be a no go. Then there are the showers, three of them in one little room. There are black penicilin spores living on the shower tray and the tiles. It looks utterly disgusting. We bought cheap slippers to wear them until showering, not to catch some symbiont.
All in all, the place is terrible, we all loathe for our confy rooms from last year at Mako. We have the Balaton here at our feets, but it's just not the same in this rathole.
And all our lessons will be at a different place, and the restaurant where we will eat everyday is 1-2 kms away. So it's a great traning for the body and the soul.
Now I still have to get some sleep until morning, I hope tomorrow we will se much better about the place.

Nyekk
P.s.: My friends are just great, we are having fun here, regardless of the state of this...thing. Without them, I may be at home with the first train.

{{ mizuki }} Japanese summer camp

2009-08-07T19:39:00.002+02:00

Hey!

Tomorrow, after a year of distraction, we go to the Japanese and Chinese summer camp again!! Now with more knowledge and more familiar face :)
This year it's not only Japanese and Chinese, but Korean as well. We can learn Tai-chi and calligraohy, play Go... and we will play carcassonne with Padi and Hikaru all the time :D well.. not all the time, but when we are not trying to memorize 300 new words at the middle of the night :)
Hope you have a nice next week :)
matane

mizuki
who is totally excited

{{ mizuki }} arry Pott

2009-08-03T21:10:00.004+02:00

Hey,

Long time no see :) I'm on a vacation right now (yes..again). But before I got here we had a little magic in our lives :)

So, as you may know, the 6th movie of Harry Potter is out this summer. They first showed it on 22th of July here, and we got to see it on 23th. We, as Nyekk, Padi, Norbi and I.

The title of this blog.. well, movie posters looks like this.. really. We laughed a lot on that... like they can't resize the font to put it on the posters.

The movie was great, I had a lot of fun. It was funny and had a lot of teenage love. I often think that teenage love is being decribed too hot in Twilight, so what they showed us in HP6 was pretty sweet and light :)

I didn't like the end tough, it was a bit too fast and blurry for those who didn't read the book 3 times (like me lol) and they made us to think that Harry was just too loyal and a coward to help Dumbledore, instead of being a rock (because of Dumbledore's charm). But Hermione had a punch line at the last part:
Harry and Hermione is talking about how Dumbledore died and that they must find all the other horcruxes. Then a big silence.. "Ron's okey with it y'know...... You and Ginny". But it felt like. "hey, Dumbledore died, but Ron is okey with it!". Soon after we left the cinema, it became an ending line for everything, like "shit the subway just left, but Ron's okey with it" or "altough i didn't hear what you said, Ron's okey with it".
Also Harry had a scene like he was from a western movie after he drank the Felix Felicis. We laughed our ass off on that part.

Speaking of laughing...

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> 夜のダイヤと九人の勇者

2009-07-14T10:47:00.008+02:00

Once upon a time, there was a lovely Princess, a lone Wanderer, and six fearsome Warriors. They heard about the Legendary Diamond of the Night, and they decided to set out on a quest for finding it. They decided on a gathering place, where all of them coming from different countries could meet. When everyone came together, the Princess told them that a little Fairy is about to come, too, to help the adventurers on the difficult journey. So did came the little Fairy, but she was wounded and she couldn't escort the heroes no further than next fork in their road. There she gave them her good wishes, and cast them a lucky smile before dissapearing from the sight of the group.

The brave party first visited the Garden of the Millenia, said to built by people of a thousands years before time. There, they met a prince and a princess, they were eager to join the quest once they heard about the Diamond of the Night. In the Garden was the Dome of Miracles, the first place our heroes visited in search of clues for the mighty diamond. The Dome held many trials they should face, like getting the egg of a griff through the magical ring, composing magical music in the Room of Noises, even test their strength and stamina in body challenges. The prince of foreign land has succeded great triumph in outrunning his opponents. But after all these hard trials solved, they found no trace of the diamond. So they moved on.

Just on the opposite side of the Garden towered the heights of the Mansion of the Future. They entered with fear in their heart, not knowng what could await them. There the young adventurers met with their distant future. While the challenges before was for the body, these were for the mind, juggling with numbers and tricky questions. Successfully beaten the tests, they gained Enchanted Seeds, and the fabulous Washing Nut. With these treasures in their pack, they carried on with their journey. The Prince and Princess of foreign lands have decided to go on their own way, and thus left the party.

But no hero could do great things with an empty belly, and this was no different with our party. Set our for finding food, they came about a hen stall, and had some roasted chicken to fill their stomach.

It wasn't sooner then the journey came to a fork in their road. The brave Warriors wanted to try themselves in the lowest depths of the legendary Labirinth, but the Princess already knew all about it, and she felt the darkness calling her from far away. The Wanderer, not letting the princess go alone, escorted her on the series of dark tunnels with mysterious noises. Once arrived, they surfaced in a forest. It was a dark and fearsome forest, with bandits hiding everywhere in the bushes, so they had to be very careful on their way. But soon they were standing in the entrance of the Deep Darkness Castle. The Princess and the Wanderer, still feeling the calling, entered the castle. In there, was the deepest, blackest darkness anybody could ever imagine, it penetrated their eyes, ears, and their hearts. The Wanderer soon became distressed, but with the kind guidance of the Princess, they soon passed through the rooms, and saw the light of the night again.

A pigeon landed before them, carrying a message of the Warriors, that they completed the Labyrinth, and found out that the Diamond could be found in Asia, and suggested to assemble the party again there. With this great news, the Princess and the Wanderer set out for finding Asia, which they soon did after a lengthy walk, even arrived there before the brave Warriors could set feet on the land.

In Asia, they found many artifacts, paintings, and many thing that caught the eye, but the Diamond was nowhere to be found. Unfortunately the time was up, and while they haven't exactly found what they were looking for, they all agreed that they spent a very good time together. With this in their heart, everyone began their journey to their homes, the lone Wanderer escorting the Princess to her castle, where she could finally get her good nights sleep. After having the Princess in safety, the Wanderer set out on a pilgrimage for finding a place to stay, touched by the morning lights...

{{ mizuu }} New goodies :))

2009-07-12T22:52:00.003+02:00

Hello!

I haven't wrote here a long time.. Sorry about that ^^;;;

So now, I though why not post about my new goodies :)

Recently we started to learn calligraphy at the language school. It was hard first, but now we got used to it, and I think all three of us enjoy it very much (including Nyekk and Padi). I have fun while writing them. Here you can see my "kit":
a colorful fudemaki (okey... it's a plate liner from ikea ^^;;)), a Japanese brush (horse fur ^^ gosh i sound like it's a wand.. 12" long Japanese cherry with horse fur filling... lol), yeah.. my 四, and Chinese ink :).
Hm... while I went to buy Asian food accesories at a Japanese-Korean shop with Mom and Nyekk, we found metal chopsticks. These chopsticks are used in Korea. I found them more hygienic than bamboo or plastic sticks, and they are a lot more beautiful :) They are also more flat, not cylindric like Japanese or Chinese ones. I like using them :) (the upper ones are normal wood sticks that I used before)

Have you ever saw people playing these devilsticks? They are good for juggling :) people who could playe them always amazed me, and while I studied this summer i kept playing with my pen, so I figured I should get one, maybe i could learn it too. So far, I'm only a beginner, adn can't spin it, but it's a lot of fun :) I got these from my Mom, who found them interesting enough to buy them for me. The Nintendo DS lite it for size comparision.

And lastly :) The special things I got from Nyekk out of kindness ^^ Thanks Nyekk!!
This hammer.. lol.. is a present from his vacation :) you know how characters in anime got a hit by a colorful hammer when they are acting stupid? That's a hammer everyone would want :D but we couldn't find it anywhere. It makes that sound 'poiin'. Now, this little.. well not so little hammer makes that sound too :D I got hit by Mom when she found it... -.- it can be handy when you feel "aww, that was sooo stupid of me".. then you can hit yourself.

And I wanted to show it last, because it's so fantastic ^^ Can you see the lamp at the right corner? It's a present from Nyekk :) it is made from rice-paper, therefore has a very Asian look :) It goes well with my kotatsu & futon pair :) Thank you Nyekk ^^
Hm.. you can see my brush again on this picture, hanging on the wall :DD i put it there to dry :) Next to it, on the left side is (Caroline Corr)-head and (Andrea Corr)/2 XD
On the kotatsu is my new laptop, a HP pavilion dv5. I'm using a Samsung 22" wide monitor :D dorama-watching-perfection ^^
and my beginner 四 kanji :))
Oh, that green thingy on the right side is a dust-collector :D not that it helps.. really.

Nowadays I'm reading the Twilight saga, currently reading 'Eclipse' and waiting for the e-mail, that informs me to go and get 'Breaking dawn' from the bookstore. I never thought I would like it, but hey, it was the same for Harry Potter. And you might know that I'm a huuuuuge fan of that story :D Btw... Harry Potter.. the new movie's gonna be out in 3 daaaaaays ^^Y

So... we totally forgot to tell you about the museums' night :D sorry about that. I think I will be a bastard and let this pleasure to be fullfilled by Nyekk :D your turn mate :DDD

mizuu

PS: recently I got called Rita again, which means my teachers always mix me up with the names Rita or Reka. So far it's ben a 2-2 showdown, if I remember right. To be frank I like them more than my actual name, so I told my Mom she should call me Rita. Then I got to know that if I had a younger sister, her name would have been Rita.. why on earth couldn't she think of that name before??? I think I would be more pleased with Rita :D

<< Nyekk >> More crappy poems

2009-06-26T08:48:00.002+02:00

Sorry about that I lately spam this blog with my crappy poems, but nowdays I just feel like writing them, while on the move. They usually reflect my mood, and they are incomprehensive, whatever that means. So readers, beware!

--

You!

Gently curved body, every inch of perfection
Not a point out of shape
Open in mind, round at bottom
Ebracing the world with two arms
Taking in everything freely
Sometimes trailing behind, but always smiling
Looking unstable, but never falling over
Standing steadily beside
Y and o,
It's U!

--

Spiited away

When You are dead, everything is still
You don't appreciate the pigeon on the windowsill
Not reading anymore news and fictons
Someone better cancel those nasty subscriptions
Not again spilling milk while filling the cup
By this, even the cat will notice that something is up
You won't anymore kiss my forehead
Good, 'cause I would freak out at a kiss from a dead
And You won't be reading this poem ever
Fortunately, because if You did,
You would probably haunt me as a ghost forever!

<< Nyekk >> The cat's destiny

2009-06-22T09:12:00.008+02:00

A stray cat wanders the streets
Not caring of danger he meets
He would be missed by nobody
The sewer would carry his inert body
Once, he lived as a housecat
Kitten of a girl wanted a pet
He gave all his love to her
And she always had him purr
Then as she grew up, slowly
Life at the house became lonely
The girl now gets a boyfriend
She doesn't have time for her cat
The poor cat decided one day
It was time for him not to stay
He wanders the streets since
Keeping the girl in his heart
Until the day it stops beating.

<< Nyekk >> Singing in the rain

2009-06-16T21:45:00.002+02:00

It was raining tonight, and I got soaked, but after all the high temperature today, it felt quite good.

Moreover, it felt wonderful :D

I had a beautyful time today, and it was a good ending, just walking in the warm, silent rain, let the drops fall on me, feel their impact and the wetness. I never thought I could walk alone in the rain happily :) But this time I just couldn't help but smile,and when no one looked, I even skipped a few in my walk ;D

I don't know if the feeling coming through in my writing, but I just wanted to write it out ^^

Nyekk

{{ mizuu }} Use your brain!

2009-06-13T20:32:00.003+02:00

Hi!

So I bought a magazine today, called 'The 3rd millenium" (3. évezred in Hungarian, I'm not sure if 3rd millenium is the right word for it, let's just say the 21th century lol).

Then I found some nice and fun riddles in it. Can you solve them?

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

1.)

( C ) ( D ) ( 12)
( A ) ( C ) ( 3 )
( B ) ( ? ) ( 6 )

What goes for '?' ?

Highlight here for the right answer: 3, see the abc as numbers, then A=1, B=2, C=3. The you'll get the third column by multiplying the first column with the second.

2.)

1982, 2774, 8642, 7076, 1738

Which is the one, that does not match with the others?

Highlight here for the right answer: 1738, if you add the digits, you get 20, while 1738 is different

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I like this kind of riddles :)
take care,

mizuki

PS: if you are afraid of disasters, and you know about yourself, that if you keep reading them, you'll be paranoic - and if you live in Hungary -, don't buy this magazin this month... it freaked me out :DDD

{{ mizuu }} Summer tiiiiiiime!!

2009-06-07T19:42:00.003+02:00

Hello!

Finally!! I finished my exams. All of them! Now I finally have time for everything else :)
Little list of what I want to do this summer:
- take the Microsoft Certificate Exam (Windows server 2003)
- get my Japanese knowledge togerher already..
- learn to solve the Rubik's cube by heart in any situation
- learn to play with kendama
- learn to play Angela Aki's 'Tegami' on piano
- learn to play Iz Kamakawiwo's 'Somewhere over the rainbow / Wonderful world' on ukulele
- start to work with my dad
- Japanese summer camp d(^-^)b
- calligraphy course
- bought many many books lately, want to read them all ^^
- watch the previous and this season's doramas
- Museum's Nights 2009

Yaaaay!! 楽しい夏休みだねぇぇー！

mizuki

PS: アタシんちの男子 rulz!!!!! (*^v^*)

<< Nyekk >> Highest priced cellotape bought

2009-06-03T19:46:00.001+02:00

Hai to you, section of humanity reading this blog!

I would like to inform you a first: the first time I spent a thousand
HUF on cellotape! And it is all the pricey because it is adhesive on
both side!

Well now that humanity's common knowledge had been expanded with this
precious piece of information, let's move on :PP

Mizu just had an exam, hope she passed it, she did everything to do
so. Even become a panda in favor of passing! It's not easy to become a
panda you know! Have you tried it yet?

But another exam coming for her tomorrow. I hear you ask, "already??"
(Ok maybe I just imagine hearing things (^-^);; ) Yeah, it's tough
time know, but it's the price of advancing! Evolution was always
tough. Oh I think I'm trailing away... (^-^);;

So, ganbatte Mizuchan, I know you can make it \(^_^)/
And I will cheer for you! (One, two, three, four five...my name is
Nyekk and I say waii...okok, I will cut it out)

Mata neee, minnachan (^o^)/~
Nyekk

--
Sent from my mobile device

-----------{ Nyekk
[ ]
[ ] NDS - Rulz :P

{{ mizuu }} Exams season and future plans

2009-05-30T15:35:00.002+02:00

Hello,

long time no "see" huh? But Nyekk kept you entertained, I hope :)

I still have two exams left, but I thought I should write a bit here. Just a lil bit.

About two weeks ago I was shocked by the thought of learning so much things in so little time. So I thought, maybe I should try out this "Mozart effect". Do you know it? They say Mozart's music helps you study, concentrate, relax etc. So i choose the songs for 'concentrate'. And it worked!!! I used it since then for studying and it really helped a lot. Thanks Mozart san ^^

A chain of 'let's change' around me affected me so much, I decided to change myself too. So for that I decided (gosh I wrote decoded.... geek me) to be a bit more girlish from now on. For this, I bought skirts! Really.. Kinda the first time in my life ^^;;; I guess Nyekk never saw me in skirt before lol. I wore skirt only once in my teenage life, and i had two pigtails with it. Then my maths teacher asked me something that i couldn't answer, and told me "you got stupid with those pigtails". I was so shocked, I didn't wear a skirt since then :D

The other huge change in my life, that I decided (huh, safe.. now i didn't miswrote it) to continue study after I finished this school. I want to go to another university after that and study Japanese/Korean as my major. I plan to get a job after school and pay for the next school with it.

What do you think?

Now, back to study.. Pentium Pro.. Pentium Pro..

Hope to finish soon.

Ah, btw, we are watching 'Goong' and 'Atashinchi no danshi' nowadays. I love them both. They keep me entertained after a loooong day learning.

mata ne

mizuu (oh well.. this is my chat nickname, mizuki and mizu were already taken :P)

PS: Nyekk, I was still sleeping when you were waving at Daijyoukoen that morning. you should have called me from work. I'd surely say something funny, half-asleep....

<< Nyekk >> Morning

2009-05-28T08:02:00.002+02:00

Hey!

I'ts early morning, and I thought I should write up something while traveling to work. :)
I discovered something new (at least new for me ^o^): If you start your morning with a strech, it's easier to get up.

Ooops someone nearly ran into me. Shouldn't write while walking ^^;;;
In the morning everyone looks like zombies, trailing along their long engraved path, you shouldn't stand in their way! I think it's not a good practice to start the day as a living dead sleepwalker. There are many interesting things in the morning that you should be aware of!

First thing first, you could look at all the different people on the public transport, and guess what could they thinking, what is their occupation. Or just look at all the different dresses and faces. Girls show their true face while sleeping on the bus *wink*

(Almost forgot to change subway lines lol)

Second, smile for a smile. It's easy to get caught in the gloom that mass of people emmit morningtime. Don't! Instead, smile :) I know it's easier said than done, and some may look at you as if you were some freak, but hey, don't care about them! My favourite example is the
newspaper distributor girl I used to see this time of the day. She always looked so alive, and shouted 'Good morning!' at passerbys to offer them newspaper. And she did that with a big smile :) When I bought my drink this morning, I saw the cashier woman weren't in particularly good mood. I thought I should try this, and greeted her loudly, and smiled at her. And she smiled back :) I don't know if I made her mood better, or just for that few seconds, but it worth it anyways :P

And if all else fails, just listen to good music, and be lost in your thoughts (Daijyoukoen, hello Mizu *wawes*), or write a blog entry. :D

Remember: If you start your day with bad feelings, it will get to you and ruin your day.

Now I'm almost at my workplace, so I'm off to call half sleeping people on the phone. And yeah, I should try smiling through the phone. :D

Mata,
Nyekk

P.S.1: This post contains the word 'smile' in excessive numbers, read with care!
P.S.2: Maybe I should put the sentence above to the beginning of the post. Oh well ^^
P.S.3: My smile is freaky.

--
Sent from my mobile device

<< Nyekk >> Peugeot roadbike photos

2009-05-25T10:15:00.002+02:00

As I promised, here comes some photos about the bike I built:

And some about the shine restoration project. The chainwheels were shiny chrome in 1979, but were already full of rust in 2009. I read that if I sand it down with aluminium foil from the kitchen, it will be shiny again. And hell it looks like new after that!

またね！

<< Nyekk >> Work flows

2009-05-21T13:09:00.002+02:00

Yo!

It's been a while since I wrote here. I have found work to do, and kept myself busy with building my bike and watching dorama with Mizu, so I never had time to write here :)

Now I got free time, as I am working now. (Nice controversary huh? :D) So I thought I would lighten you up about what's going on with me lately.

About my job: I work 2 days a week, and in 8 hours, I phone people to query about they missing or incorrect data in my excel file. Nearly 180 lucky people a day :) It's not the most fun job, but it's calm, easy, and you can slack out if you want to, like writing your blog while you are on the phone ^^;;

But from July, I'm in for a different job. Its about IT support on the Budapest airport. I'm a little nervous about it now, but I hope I will fit in ;)

About my bike: I wanted to replace the rear derailleur on my bike with an internally geared hub, because I loved the idea of a simplified chainline, and the ability to change gears while not moving. I bought the hub, and builded a wheel with it, but it turned out that my bike had vertical dropout, so I couldn't adjust the chain tension with the normal chain. I would have needed special half link chain, and other extra parts to make it work with my dropout. So first, I decided that I'm better off buying a new frame. In the end, I bought a whole bike...it's an 1979 Peugeot roadbike with nice shiny chrome parts (they ARE shiny now, they were badly rusted when I got them, but aluminium foil and patience can do wonders :P)

So far I changed the rear wheel, front tire, brake pads, saddle, pedals, and put on a rear carrier. I will upload photos when I get home. I love this bike, nothing feels like the one you put together :P
I hope we will use them a lot, we will do small trainings on bicycle.

Now, it's time to phone another 60 deliquent,
Mata ne :P

--
Sent from my mobile device

<< Nyekk >> Dream

2009-04-12T19:25:00.002+02:00

I wake up. You look at me puzzled. I must have fallen asleep beside You on the bench. I see Your mouth moving, but I can't hear a word. The park is not empty, but silence is around us. You stand up and walk away. I clumsily try to follow. People pass us as we walk down the street, crowded as ever, but no one look at us, and strangely, everyone is heading in the opposite direction. Then something glittering on the floor catches my eye. Gold coins lay there, unnattended, unnoticed. I look around, who could have dropped them?

Suddenly I want to ask someone, somebody, to have permission to pick it up, but no one answers my voice, they are just passing by, indefinitely. Ducking down, I pick up the coins, stand up, and give some of them to You. You couriously rotate the little shiny plates in between your fingers. As I look up, I notice that that we are at the center of the crowd. They slowly back up, step by step, whilst giving blank stares at us. A small empty circle forms in the middle of the thousands of people. I look at You and see the substance of fear in Your eyes. I feel scared, too. What will happen now?

In that instance, the whole street turns under our feet, at first making it dificult to stand, but as it continues, we fall, and begin to slide downwards. With the crowd slowly disappearing, we are all alone. In the distance, a sudden line of white light appears. It begins to broaden, wider, like an opening door, finally making out a rectangle of light in the air. As I realize we are heading toward the door, I have a very bad premonition. I don't really understand it, but words are coming out of my mouth: 'Drop them! Drop the coins!' Just as You drop them, we arrive at the light door, and get blinded by the glow...

The bus is slowly gliding, as silently as a feather passing through the air. There is no engine noise, just an occasional scratching noise. You are sitting beside me. As I look around, there are others around, but I don't recognize any of them. An announcer's voice is coming somewhere from the ceiling. 'Hello, and welcome for those who passed the ordeal. It was just a little test to ensure everyone who gets here deserves it. If you look around you can see it's not an ordinary sight. Please don't be alarmed. That's perfecly normal. We are presently half way between reality and unreality, sometimes passing through the texture of time itself. With these informations in your mind, have a nice trip!'

And with a click, the sound is gone off. Just then, I hear the scraping noise again, its like sliding a heavy cardboard box on concrete. I look outside on the window, to see that the bus is going paralell with a stone wall, and inch by inch, entering the wall. The whole idea of just going through a wall is just frightens me. I want to tell You that I don't feel that it's right, but You are already standing beside the door, curiously eyeing the insides of the wall.

At the other side of the wall, we get off the bus. It glides away. We are standing on a square, granite tiled, all white, it looks very clean. Nearby, there is a construction site, a tower so high that I can't make out it's top, is being built. We are approaching the tower, the builders carrying bucket of cement and water, walk back and forth.

'Stay out of here, it hasn't been finished you know!'

'We should stay back, then.' I hear myself saying, but You already entered the tower. I want to yell after You, but instead, I sneak in, too.

The inside of the tower is mostly empty, besides the stairs, they are going up around the wall, curling up and up, to the darkness. You are already on the first steps, so I quickly follow, although I don't really know where are we going at all. Then we just climb and climb. After a while, the granite stairs are gone, only regular gray stone steps follow. Later on they run out, too. The stair continues with wooden steps. Occasionally squeaks under our feet. I don't want to look down. Instead I look up, and see a bright light at the top of the tower. We must have gone really high! The last five steps are missing, and You are already on the other side, waiting for me to cross the gap. I think about it, and see no way around. I begin climbing the few board fixed to the wall, but just manage to tear one down, and it falls down into the dark depths.

I become paralized, and shout 'I can't go further, I don't want to fall down and die!'

Then I see You, holding out Your hand toward me. For the first time, I hear Your voice, gentle and calm:

'Just relax, we are almost through, just come, take my hand, and you can do anything.'

I try to reach the hand with my right, carefully. Suddenly I feel warmth, and I don't care about falling anymore, just want to reach You. As I reach your palm, and grab your hand, everything gets shattered, the world, the tower, and You, everything is falling apart...

...and then, I'm awake. I get up, wash my face, and start an another ordinary day.

(This post is made by mail...for testing purposes :P)

{{ mizuki }} The lizard wizard khm.. witch

2009-04-12T16:21:00.002+02:00

Hello,

Since I was a little kid I liked catching lizards. You need to be patient and calm enough to do that, which things I really miss when doing other things... So I always felt that catching them will help me improve :P

When we first saw lizards at the Amfiteatrum, near to our university, I told my friends I can catch them, but of course, without proof, it's meaningless... So I tried and tried... but no luck. I thought maybe it was a kid-luck to be able to catch them back then, but after we bought the lake house, I could catch one!! Then another one, and then a really small baby lizard. I felt strength in me lol...
We took pictures with my dad, but they didn't look too good.

Today.. a year later, I finally managed to catch one (which supposed to be the same one I catched last year, because she was calm enough to let me be kina close to her. and yes, I know she is a girl :P, the male lizard of this race has beautiful blue head). I asked dad to take pictures, and here I show you them ^^

I don't know why I just find these lizards very cute. Especially the baby ones. They are hard to catch, because even if you manage to do so, they will simply just slip out of your hands :D And they are brown at that time :)

I wonder how these lizards of this place call me between themselves. Maybe I'm the big silly human, who stares at them and tries to catch them, but they like to make me happy and sometimes let themselves to be cought :D First lesson for the baby ones would be 'don't fear the human who smiles when staring at you' :P

I should poke Nyekk to write something next, now this blog looks like it's only mine :P

mizuki

{{ mizuki }} The story of the swan brothers

2009-04-11T15:24:00.003+02:00

The story of the swan brothers

by mizuki

It was at the start of Spring. Two brother swans swim accross the lake. They were hungry and bored, but remembered that there is a place on the lake, where they can have food and fun at the same time. They slowly approached the spot with not a single sound. They didn't talk. The brothers were right in front of the place with a small house (and caravan) when a group of three (and a dog) arrived.

The weather was warm and sunny, but the three people's mood was dark. It seemed to the swans that they were both angry and sleepy. They always had fun watching these people, and waiting for them to get food. So they stood there and watched.

First the man went into the house, followed by the girl (who seemed like an adult but she was just a nestling, they thought). The woman just froze there, and with eyes like lemons looked around. 'What a MESS!' she said, and as she said it, she headed to the house too.

The girl had her own place, the caravan near to the house. The swans saw her going in the caravan, and coming out with her face in red. She looked angry. She said things like 'gosh, spiders... DEAD spiders and all sort of insects!!' and 'what's in here??? it's all dirty!!' then with some puffs and poffs she started to clean up the place wearin a very unpleasant look on her face. Sometimes she said something like 'ugh' and 'argh'.

Later the man asked her if she wants a thing called tea, but the swans had no idea what tea was, so it wasn't that interesting for them.

Many people came that morning to see the place, that changed a lot in the last 2 weeks. And that seemed to make the girl angrier.

When around noon, the woman asked the girl if she was hungry, she got the answer 'YES!!!' with a rumble sound around her stomach. They ate, but didn't give food to the swans. They got a little mad at the human, but waited patiently.

After they filled their stomach with food the girl seemed more happier and showed the now cleaned up caravan to the woman. She even smiled. 'Food can make you happy' the older swan thought.

With their belly full, they got tired and sleepy, so the woman went down the beach to sunbath a little. The man was kind enough to give the brothers bread (which they really liked) then left the beach.

The girl followed the mother with a green thing in her hand (The book of Oracle - database handbook). She stared at it for about half an hour, but she did it so hard, the younger swan thought maybe she wants to set it in fire. Soon after that, the girl gave up, as the thing didn't catch fire, and left the beach.

Watching the woman sunbathing didn't seem like an interesting stuff, so the brothers decided to sleep in front of the house in the water. They dreamed about a misterious thing called 'tea'.

The End

And yeah.. that was the story of my Saturday, 11th of April, 2009. The caravan was soooooo dirty inside... I haven't been here since last summer. On top of that it was really hot inside, I felt like I'm in a sauna. I'm sitting in the caravan right now, it's really sunny out there and warm, but I opened every window on it, so that the breeze can come in too :) 'well 'ello there little breeze'. Sea Breeze (R)

I should practice Oracle right now, but this story from the swans' point of view didn't let me do it for an hour now, i just had to write it :D

The caravan is clean now, i removed the dead insects and the dust. I really freaked out this morning, because you know... you see the dirt inside and think that you HAVE TO sleep in this caravan at night.... it just made me upset. Dad didn't tell me it was this dirty inside when we left home. After 10 minutes of cleaning I said I wanna go home, because it's just impossible to concentrate at a dirty place right? And i have to study a lot this weekend.

Btw, the swan brothers are still sleeping in front of the house :D they are really sweet :) They were chatting before, with sounds like 'brrrrr' and 'mrrrrr' and 'grrrrr'. I wonder how many people can say about themselves that they have pet swans :DD

And I petted a lizard today... she didn't really liked it, but I always see lizards as miniature dragons ^^, so I always try to catch them here... and to I have to tell you, I'm sometimes lucky enough when they let me catch them :D

So this is the end of this post, hope you didn't get bored. :)

mizuki

{{ mizuki }} Psion Netbook Pro, M.A.G.U.S., hanami and other stuffs

2009-04-08T22:39:00.003+02:00

Hello,

Sooo.. yep, again.. I have a new gadget. It's a handheld pc called Psion Netbook Pro. The reason why I switched my Eee pc with this?

- better and bigger screen

- longer battery life (they say it's like 6-8 hours!!)

- i realized that i don't need Windows XP when I'm on the go, and that for what I need a portable pc is only internet, looking at docs, reading manga or e-book etc. The Windows CE operating system is enough for that.

And to tell you the truth... this little netbook looks so cool!!! And it's kind of unique... you can't see many of them around here. It was a luck to get it I think.

Later if I find any bugs, will post about them :)

If I say 'World of Warcraft' or WoW, I think everyone knows what I'm talking about. You play it online, you fight in a fantasy world with different races like human, elf, ork etc. There is a famous role-playing game here in Hungary, that is called M.A.G.U.S. Recently we started to play it, as Nyekk wrote it before. Our GameMaster is N, that means he is the one who creates the story, the background, the characters that our characters meet etc. He is doing a good job.... you can tell, because we want to play it more often :D

So tomorrow we will play it again. I'm looking forward to it.

AND!!! Finally, it's SPRING!!! The weather is great here!! It's like 20-25 Celsius every day, sunny and warm (but not too much). I like this weather. You can say it's my fav season :) Starting from Monday, everything turned green and colorful, the trees are in full color :) It's interesting to see how they started from pure sceletons and produced these wonderful colors. I think I changed too, because last year it didn't make me so excited... now I can't wait to go to the same garden we watched hanami last year... I hope we can soon visit there ^^

There is nothing worse, when a teacher choose you to be her/his most hated student of the year. Until now I had 2 teachers of that kind. The first one was my literature teacher back in high school. I was working hard at her classes, and I was active too.... but somehow she always gave me bad marks. But one day I gave her a novel that I wrote and asked her opinion. A few weeks later she told me she read it and gave me a piece of paper with her thoughts. What she liked, what she didn't, what I shoud change. She was very kind that day. Then my marks started to be better. Not MUCH better, but better enough not to be that year's most hated one :)

And then I got a teacher like this at the university a few semesters before. The worst thing in this is that she taught me the subject I liked the most... she was mean and bossy. I was happy to get over her. And now.... that i got my major, she is one of my teachers again!!!! Unlucky ne??

List of what she does:

- checks on me after every easy task if I could do them or not (of course I can do them... she thinks I'm totally stupid..)

- searches for little mistakes to scold me :S

- watches me when we are watching movies with Nyekk at school (it was realllllly awkward.. we were watching a dorama, then she spot us from a distant elevator and she kept staring at us!! :S)

- she refers me as 'lady' with irony in her voice, and in front of everyone (I'm the only girl at my major).

- and of course.. she gives me bad marks :S

And then again she teaches the subject I like the most. :/

Did you ever had this kind of teacher? If so, please tell me in e-mail what was she/he like, what she/he did to you and what did you do to make her/him forget you :)

I'm currently reading Douglas Adam's last book (well.. half finished book really) called 'The salmon of doubt'. It's really fun. If you are a fan of 'The hitchhiker's guide of the Galaxy', then you will like this book too. Or if you never read that, but like Terry Pratchett or P.G. Wodehouse or Neil Gaiman, you must read it!!! And don't forget: don't panic and never left your towel at home, especially not on 25th of May, the day of towels, when you need to carry them around to show the world that you always DO have your towel with you :)

take care

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Carcassonne home rules

2009-03-29T03:56:00.000+02:00

I just had a very disturbing dream that made me all sad, I just couldn't sleep anymore. So I thought about writing an entry here on the blog.

One to the city, one to the farm

Lately, as some of you might know, we became kinda addicted to the game Carcassonne, and it became a regular-like activity to play at Fridays after school. After playing a round or two with our newest addition, Burgmeister & nantoka, we found out we didn't really use the new features after all. We thought that we might improve the situation by inventing a home rule set for them. Mizu wanted to bring more "fantasy" and "adventure" into the game. That resulted in a wild brainstorming getting us nowhere :P But a few of the ideas survived after that, even if in a somewhat mutated form.

The final map, you can see some of the modification, most notable the sign on cloisters/cults

We playtested it this Tuesday, it worked pretty well with three players. And we did a four player match on Friday. Well it still has some rough edges, but in overall, it works pretty well. And of course, it's fun, which is the most important. :)
It was a rather long game, and at the end Mizu triumphed with a score of about 370. We weren't jealous, not even a little :P

Our winner is dashing about! I just happen to like this pic.

Next week, we will be going to try out M.A.G.U.S., a Hungarian rpg, with N (in "Mizu notation") as our gamemaster.

N is trying to enchant the dragon by radiating strong magical carma.

I just remembered, the clock jumped a whole hour forward a little while ago. Don't you just hate it when it happens?!

Now I shall get some sleep after all, I got some work to do today. And I got hungry anyways.
またね

{{ mizuki }} Killing your tongue

2009-03-21T14:59:00.001+01:00

Hello,

yeah, it's me again. I just thought I should share a few jaw-breakers we made.
The first one was made in the summer camp:

弟の一昨日のノート。
おとうとのおとといのノート。
otouto no ototoi no nooto.
My younger brother's yesterday's note.

And these were made by me:

佳音の女の子のお中の中の子は女の子かな。。
かのんのおんな　のこのおなかのなかのこはおんな　の　こ　かな。。
Kanon no onna no ko no onaka no naka no ko ha onna no ko kana..
I wonder if the girl called Kanon's belly's child is girl..

実は修二さんは執事です。
じつは　しゅうじさん　は　しつじ　です。
jitsu ha shuuji san ha shitsuji desu.
To be frank, Shuuji is a butler.

I made people say them, most of them had troubles with saying the last one, and remembering the 2nd :D
If you are Japanese or learning Japanese, please try them out and let me know how you did :D

mizuki

{{ mizuki }} St Patrick's day and anniversary

2009-03-21T13:41:00.000+01:00

Hello guys,

So the day has come. The day when we had our first anniversary for our learning Japanese :) It's an easy to remember date, because it's on St Patrick's day ^^ So we though why not do the same things we did last year. MAybe you still remember.. we arrived the place 2 hours earlier, so we went to eat at the McDonald's and took a picture. This one:

So since we had a Japanese class on this day, we went to McDonald's again, and took some photos :) It's interesting to see how much we changed in a year. At the class we did 3kyuu tests and realized how much we still don't know... so it gave us a push to continue the hard work on learning. On Wednesday we did karaoke at class.. Blue Light Yokohama, an enka song, which made us remember the summer camp, and all the good memories.

And Nyekk made me this cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute little Ponyo with cross stitching. Isn't it cute??? I love it soo much ^^ my very own Ponyo. I put her on my bookshelf. (at the background you can see Bijou from Hamtaro and presents from my friend from Korea :)

After that I realized that since she was looking to left, she either watched Luffy (one piece) or Harry's butt... ^^;;;

Gadget update:

- mobile: my old phone the Benq-Siemens EF81... we decided to switch with Nyekk, since the last Sony Ericsson didn't really suited me and my sim card.

- pda: I switched the Samsung i607 and got an MDA Compact II, which can now fullfill my apetite for ppc programs. I have 4 dictionaries on it (eng-hun, eng-japanese, eng-korean, eng-chinese) so now I'm up-to-date :P And many many videos :D like CMs and clips from youtube.

The rest of them remained the same :P

I watched Smallville's 7th season and currently watching the 8th. I was always a fan of Smallville you now. I think I'm an ever more shipper for Clana (Clark x Lana) than Yamaki (Yamapi x Maki) XD

Currently reading Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, which Nyekk already read. It's a fantastic book, I highly recommend if you like sci-fi/fantasy books. We watched the movie Coraline, which was adapted from Gaiman's book of the same title. It was cool ^^ also, if you haven't watched Stardust (again, his work), watch it!!!

Other movie we watched was Hallmark's Legend of Earthsea, and we fall in love with the 'world'. The original book was written by Ursula K. Le Guin, it has continuation too and is similar to Harry Potter and LOTR, tough not as good, but still enjoyable :).

Hope you guys are fine,

Take care

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Nameday present

2009-03-14T20:52:00.000+01:00

I just wanted to show you the present I got from Mizu for my nameday!

What is a nameday you ask? Well it's a popular sidekick of birthdays in Hungary. In fact, like a birthday, everyone has at least one. The days of the calendars were given names, each of them at least one, but in most cases, there can be many. And you can celebrate it like your birthday, if the day matches your name :)

Mizu-chan made me a case, for my recently purchased Jornada 720 handheld pc. It's a handsewed case, very well made despite the fact she didn't have a Jornada for size comparison. I'm sure you can recognize the kanji on it, it has some connection to this blog =-_^=

I'm really happy with this present, I will treasure it, thank you! ^^

<< Nyekk >> JLPT, we did it!

2009-03-06T21:01:00.001+01:00

"It was a dark and rainy night, splashing raindrops sounded on the closed window, like a bored drummer running his fingers in a random rythm on a hardwood table. Then an automatic door slided open, and a man walked in. He weared a long, black coat, the ones you see on secret agents, with the high collar. However, he was not a secret agent, although as a child he often dreamt about as such. Maybe a faint reason why he chose such a ridiculus outfit. The man carried a box, it was roughly the size of the papers they use in the xerox machine. Maybe a little wider. He put the box on the desk by the wall, and started to wait, with one of those looks, when someone is making an important meeting, and the other party has not arrived yet. He was about to walk his eyes over the furniture of the small room, which was by any standards, spartan...but then it happened.
The door to the outside opened with a loud scratch, and suddenly the forces of nature got an opportunity to enter the room, without even asking. The cold wind took a quick look around the room, and after not finding anything interesting in particular, it rested on the heater, silently dissipating. The few raidrops that got in through the open door wasn't that lucky.
Only a little while after they rested on the rubber floormat and started to stretch out a little, a large, muddy boot tripped over them. Then another one followed. As muddy boots rarely walk around by themselves, the present case wasn't different either. The occuppant was rather heavy in weight, and his width accorded to this. He was often told, that double doors were invented for his sake. And he wasn't offended by this at all. He was proud of his looks. His clothes were mostly consisted of a waterproof blueish coat, and a shielded cap. Of course he wore other clothes under the coat, but this was what the first sight observer could tell by a glance. He stepped forward, and towered on the other, who had to look up in order to meet his eye. The spy coated man talked first.
"Welcome. Pretty cruel rain we got here, eh?", he said in slightly crooked, asian accented english. He liked to speak in english, it always felt so official.
"Nothing like California", answered the wide-tower man, slightly shaking his coat, like a wet dog. "So, I heard you a job for me."
The man would looked like any ordinary man, if it was not for his cap, having a sign of a dolphin, holding a letter in its mouth. It was curled around a small lineart version of the globe. That sign, and the POST lettered plate on the side of his truck made this man a special kind of man. A postman.
"Yes...about that..", his voice was now slightly nervous, not sure where to start. Then the box on the table caught his eye.
"It's about this box. It contains very sensitive information, about selected people in a small country. It is utmost importance that the delivery must happen before spring breaks in. There were other boxes like this, but they are all gone by now, this is the last of its kind. Because of this you must be very careful, but at the same time, you must hurry." as he talked, the other man listened, his expression unchanged all along, spreading an aura of professionalism. "We have little time," spy-coat continued, "and there will be ones who may want to stop you, wild dogs, you have to fight the weather, struggle on your way, but you must prevail. Hapiness of hundreds of people are on you."
"I understand." said wide-tower as spy-coat handed him the box. "I will not fail."
And with not saying an another thing, he set out for his truck, into the hard rain. Spy-coat was watching as the other got into the drivers seat. My work is done here, that was as much as I could do, thought himself, as he was heading back on the high-tech corridors of the test correcting facility.
Meanwhile, the truck rolled out of the parking lot, and was on its way to the harbour.
Thus, the journey began..."

Maybe that's not the exact way it happened, but it could have been, because it took sooooo long for the test results to got here, maybe the dogs were half succesful, delaying the postman on his mission to deliver the box.
But last week, we got it finally! Mizu got hers some days later, because they post to the country people first, and later for the city people. For that reason, Mizu had some hard days waiting for her letter, but when she got it (we were on Japanese class) everyone was happy for her. ^^ Everyone has passed the exam, and we fulfilled our expectation to reach at least 90% :P
We had to celebrate this success, so we arranged a little ramentaberu at Momotaro ramen restaurant. We also invited Hikaru (she got her 3kyuu), and she brought her friend, too. We ate more or less of the ramen. (I can almost never finish the bowl, because it is too much for me ^^;;;), then we reflected to the summer camp together. Hikaru told us, that this years camp would take place at a different city. It will be interesting :)

After this afternoon ramen, I am travelling home on the train, but I'm still not hungry :P
Mata ne,
Nyekk

{{ mizuki }} Japanese course

2009-02-20T20:44:00.000+01:00

Hello,

As Nyekk wrote about it in the last post, we had a good day on my birthday. We walked a lot, and it seemed like a very good excercise for my body, although it was a bit cold. But the view worth it :) If you come to Hungary or you already live here, go up to the Gellert Hill, and look down to the city when it's dark. Wonderful view.

I got so nice presents for my birtday ^^ I got a tea set from Nyekk, and a sushi set from Padi, so now I might as well throw a Japanese party :D I got a Japanse point-and-speak book from a dear friend of mine from Japan (thanks Y-chan), which will be very helpful when I go to Japan, since it has all the words I need when asking for information. From my parents I got a mobile (with Nyekk's help, kind of cheap), a Sony Ericsson w380i (yeah I know, I know.. a phone again :D I'm just so helpless), and another extension for Carcassonne (I got it earlier, at the time of the big Carcassonne party) and my childhood's favourite boardgame called Aunt Agatha's will (or Deadend 13th). My grandparents and my aunt gave me financial support for my Japanese courses :) I was so happy. Really, thank all of you ^^

Speaking of Japanese courses. WE MADE IT!!! We found a time to held it, which is good for everyone :D the 3kyuu course will be once in a fortnight (I just found this in the dictionary :D sorry. So I mean once in two weeks lol) on wednesday, and the kanji course will be on tuesday, every week... in the morning. So it might be a bit hard to get up so early, since we got used to get up late and stay up late, so we are like bats. But it worth everything. "Iiiiiiii got my course, I got my major, I got my dog, I got my head, I got my heart, I got my coffee, I got myyyyyy LIFE" (imagine the tune of the song from Hair)... lol I'm such an idiot ('~`);;; (<- thanks for this, Padi san).

Yesterday we had a day off with Nyekk, so I suggested to go to the Japan Foundation's library and read. I read about Japanese culture festivals, saw a lot of pictures from traditional and modern Japanese houses, and learned about calligraphy. While Nyekk tried to understand and translate a book of Chibi Maruko chan, and saw pictures of rooms of Tokyo (rooms of teenagers, artists etc). We were there for about 4 hours. It was fun and somehow freshing to spend half of my day in a library :) We should do it more often.

And today we went to the Asia Center with Nyekk and Padi. Padi wanted to buy soy sauce, Nyekk wanted to buy presents. A Chinese seller told to her assinstant to keep an eye on us. She might thought we would steal (T.T)... it's so not fair.

Chinese..... a few days ago, we decided that in 10 years time, we will start to learn Korean and Chinese :D I wonder if we can fullfill this promise. Now I feel optimistic and really want to do it. I'm interested in the 3 languages' difference and it would be great to be able to speak them all. Well, you can never know what the future holds, but this is a note to my future self: never give up learning languages. But why is that I feel some people who read this now laughs at me? :D Don't do it! I know you are laughing.. yeah, you there. It's not funny.

- Gadget time -
current pda: Samsung i607
current mobile: Sony Ericsson w380i
current 2nd laptop: eee pc
current konsole: nintendo ds
current gps: Garmin Geko 201

uhm... yep. It's kind of a note for me, as you might realized already, I like to change my gadgets from time to time. Maybe a bit more often than I should. I just like when things are changing around me (I stick to my family and friends only). So it feel kind of fresh when I rearrange my room, or my books on the shelf, or in this case, change my gadgets.
What I want to change now is the pda I have, I would like to have a HTC Touch, because it makes me excited to taptaptap the screen of a little pebl like thing :)

Horikita Maki has two new doramas. One is called Chance. It will be about a 22-years-old working adult who starts working at a travel agency. After trying to get into more than 20 companies and several examinations, she somehow ends up in that travel agency and the story picks of showing the hardships she's going through immediately after getting the job. It will be only two episodes, broadcasted on weekends.
The other one doesn't have a title yet, but it will be about a homeless girl, who has to deal with his father's depts and get married to an older man, who has 6 adopted ikemen (good-looking, bishi) sons. Soon after the marridge the man dies and the girl is left behind with the guys. Hanakimi's team will do this dorama, so I think it will be nice and funny :)
So we are not left behind with Maki's doramas.

As for doramas, I will do a Jdorama database as a school work this semester. It's kind of funny right? :D But I felt if I have to do a school work, I will do it with a topic I love :)

We had snow for the last few days and it's awfully cold out there. Now it's already weekend, so I won't go out, except when I have to take my dog for a walk. Btw, Cooper is fine now ^^ He is healthy and looks good, not like a bone-and-skin zombie. And he got a bit nicer to me :) I think it's because I took care of him when he was in the worst state. So now he is really cute :)

Sorry for this mess of information. Tell me if I should write smaller posts ^^;;;;

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Mizuki's birthday

2009-02-13T08:26:00.000+01:00

On Mizukis birthday, we went to geocaching again, because she had a lot of free time in the afternoon, so after school, and after we got ready, we set out for the Gellert hill, to find some takaramono (treasure) for Mizu's birthday :P

Originally, we planned the adventure because of the sunny weather, but when finally we arrived at the hill, the sun was already setting down. However, there was no turning back, we went up the trail. :)

My GPS wasn't the most accurate, and my PDA run out of battery, so we had to use the Blackberry for navigation...which was sort of...picky :P We headed in one direction in belief that we are closing on the cache, only to find out, it's not even in line with us. We walked cirlces on the trails, as you can see on the tracklog. Meantime it got dark. After we trailed around and around, we decided it was time to give up the search. I was a little disappointed, but in exchange, I saw the nice sight of Budapest at night. It was looking wonderful, unfortunately the photos not really show how stunning it looked. As we were already headed upwards, I suggested Mizu we should go to the top, and see the Statue of Venus, the symbol of liberty. She agreed, and we saw not only the statue, but a handful of Korean tourists, too! One of them was very suprised when she heard Mizu reciting some phrases from Innocent Love, in Japanese :P

Since it was getting late, and we were a little tired, we headed down, on foor, until we didn't find a bus stop. :)

Although we didn't found the cache, it was a good evening trip, with some nice sceneries. I had a good time trailing the paths with Mizu :P Happy Birthday!

Nyekk

<< Nyekk >> Blackberry and Noh dance

2009-02-03T20:55:00.000+01:00

Hey minnasan!

Today I will write my first blog entry on my new Blackberry! Mizu already wrote in her entry about how I got it,and I like it so far :) I can almost do everything on this thing on the move, like chat, irc, mail and rss feeds. I even got a geochache software on it,next time I'll try it out and see how it functions in real enviroment.

Anyway today it is not this I wanted to write about.

We just noticed yesterday, that our school's hall had been dekorated with japanese transparents and oriental style photos! Mizu immediately got worked up, and found out it will be an exhibition, and for the opening ceremony, there will be Noh Dance performance. As we didn't see anything like that before, we felt lucky to be there (It was really luck thoughj,because no one has advertised this event >_<)

After the long opening speech, we watched the dance, which was, um, interesting. Unfortunately we did't understand it thouroughly, becuause it was too deep for us maybe. But nevertheless it was interesting to see a Japanese woman dancing authentic no dance. On the second part of the show, she also had a Hungarian sidekick dancer, who was supposedly good, too.

About the Japanese class, it still isn't solved, but I won't lose hope,we will work out something!

{{ mizuki }} Geocaching and Momotaro

2009-01-31T21:47:00.000+01:00

Hello,

Yesterday (01.30.) we went for a little geocaching with Nyekk and Padi. It was Nyekk's and my first time, so it was really exciting!
We decided to bring with us some koordinates to choose from. We started near to my house, a place called Orczy park. Padi said it has 3 caches, only one of them is real, and it contains hints to the other 2.
While wandering we found a place, which is for kids to practice the rules of the roads. I remember cycling there when I was smaller. The funny thing is, it got a little gas station :D

/Nyekk ran out of gas.../

After that, we saw this little wooden house on the top of a tree. I don't think anyone would have the curage to climb up there, but you can never know...

Near to that house Padi found the geo-cache. We opened it to see what's inside ^^ Look:

The little notebook is for leaving a note there for the future geocachers, and you can take a treasure if you leave something else for exchange. We didn't took anything, but left this in the logbook:

2009.01.30.
山図市　－　みつけた

I wrote this to the other logbooks as well. I wonder if the next cachers think we were Japanese....

After that, Nyekk had a little shefting.... exchanging mobiles :) He got a really cute Blackberry ^^ I hope he is happy with it now :P So we had to head from Pest to Buda (to be more specific, to Obuda, which is a bit further). I haven't had much for breakfast, and Nyekk told me the day before that he would treat me with ramen to celebrate that I got my major :) so we went to the Momotaro Restaurant.

Yeah.. if you don't know in Japanese, the three kanji says: Momotarou :)
'Momotaro' is a famous Japanese "fairy"tale. I'm reading it right now, because I got a bilingual picture book from the library (Japanese - English).... it is really for Japanese kids, but it's fun to read. I got 'Grandfather cherry blossom' too.

All three of us ate different ramen:
o Nyekk - Momotaro ramen
o Padi - Spicy and sour ramen
o mizuki - Chiken ramen

Chicken ramen looked like this:

It was so delicious I could cry (do I sound like Shinta-san from Teppan shoujo Akane?!). Thank you Nyekk for treating me ^^

Eating ramen there is not so easy you would think...... the bowl is so huge, it takes an hour to eat it, then you feel like you have rocks in your stomack. So I felt like going home and rest all day. But the others got me to go to the Margaret island to continue the geocaching.

/we should play in the next Power Rangers series.../
On the Margaret island, we had fun at a ruin. Padi jumped here and there, we felt like he could use the power from the PSP game 'Crush'. Nyekk felt like startle me, which you can see on the video. Yeah.. sorry we spoke in Hungarian and I feel like speaking random Japanese sometimes.
For those who are not familiar with the language, here is a little dictionary:
o matte - wait (chotto matte - wait a little)
o hidoi - you evil Nyekk, you scared the **** out of me.... (actually it means someone is evil/bad)
o daijyoubu? - are you alright?
o konaide - don't come
o nagai video - long video
o baka - stupid
For those who are not familiar with the Hungarian language, we were talking about how Padi could use the Crush and that it would be funny for me to fell down from the wall while taking the video...

So we had a lot of fun, try geocaching out if you have to many freetime, it's great.
Sorry Nyekk.. I thought of giving you the chance to write half of this post, but then the wave got me. (but you can write about the nostalgie movie watching thing :D).

Sorry for the long post.... but I hope you like it.
mizuki

PS: Oh and Nyekk found this kinda funny thing on the bus. BKV is the travelling company in Budapest, and they changed their logos. Now if you look really close.... doesn't that subway ikon looks like you are travelling by portal? (Portal is a famous Valve game, where you have a start-point portal gate and an end-point one. The gates look like an oval ring :))

{{ mizuki }} Major and Japanese

2009-01-29T21:25:00.000+01:00

Hello :)

I've been waiting for the school to decide if I can go to my choosen major or not for nearly 2 weeks.
And a few minutes ago I got the result.

I got in ^^ my major will be IT Security, which was my favourite subject in the begining of this university.

I'm soooo happy, yet sad at the same time.

Because my major's subjects are all on Monday. And my Japanese course is on Monday as well. That means I can't go to the course to learn the language. I have the course until March. Then another course will start.

I don't really know what to do. It seems that I have no other choice but to join to Saturday's class until March to finish this course.
About what happens after March, I have no idea. It would make my days really awful, if I couldn't go to Japanese course. Because it's not only learning the language, but to stay beside my best friend.

Now I have to think what to do about it.

Nee, Nyekk oniichan... don't be sad about this. We will figure out something..

mizuki

{{ mizuki }} Floating island recipe

2009-01-24T17:18:00.001+01:00

Hello,

My Mom and I made a very delicious dessert today. Nyekk asked me to put the recipe up here, so here it is :)
It's name is officially 'floating island'! It's a European sweet, and Hungarian people likes it too. It's name is "madártej" in Hungarian, it means "bird's milk".
First, you can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island_(dessert)

So, the recipe:
You will need (for 4 people):

1,5 litre milk
6 eggs
15 dkg sugar
flour
vanilla
salt

Beat egg whites with 5dkg sugar until stiff.

Boil milk. Drop tablespoonsful of egg whites into boiling milk. Turn on other side after a few seconds. They should look like little clouds. Take out the boiled clouds and place in a flat dish. Continue this until all whites are used.

Make a mix with the egg yolks with the rest of the sugar and a little vanilla arome, put a pinch of salt in it too. Boil the milk. Add a little milk to the yolk mixture then put it to boiling milk and cook for one minute. Cool it down in the fridge. When it's cold enough, put the clouds on top of it and serve it :) I put a little cocoa on the top of it to look good.

It's sooooooooooo delicious, you have to try it! Don't worry if the clouds don't look good. It's the hardest part I think.

mizuki

{{ mizuki }} Cooper is back!

2009-01-23T13:27:00.000+01:00

Hello everyone :)

Welcome in this new blog of ours. We hope you like it ^^

On 18th of January, a man called dad that he found Cooper. He bit him (Charlie bit meee...) but after that he saw his collar with dad's number on it.
He took him home... you can't imagine how he looked. He had bubble gums in his fur, he is so slim and weak.
But he's gonna be fine and he gots special care from us.

Hope you are fine too :)
We are looking forward to the detective game day :P

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Carcassonne party

2009-01-23T12:31:00.000+01:00

Hi 皆さん！

It's me again, today I got the results of my last exam, I passed, so now I'm happy, and as of now, I'm free of school.

On my exam day, we held a Carcassonne party at school :P (You can read about this game is Mizu's post further down.)

The carcassonne team, with the massive amounts of snacks showing

We brought snacks (ok, I didn't, but in exchange I didn't eat much ^^;;) and all the extensions we have. It took a little time figuring out some of the rule, and there were some of them we couldn't figure out from the available printed material. For example, the "Count of carcassonne" wasn't that clear, so we leaved it out of the game, but Mizu insisted, that we should lay down his castle on the table, because it looks good :D

The first match took abou 2 and a half hours, with occasional stops for rule interpretation and washroom :P At the end, the results turned out that it was a tie winning between Padi and me, thanks to the "King and robbery knight" extension ^_^

The map of the first match, with some "table extensions" ^^

After the match, everybody was hungry, so we went to eat chinese. From the second match, we left out the extensions that could remove followers from the map. It turned out a different game with and without them. But either way, it was fun, we had a great time! Looking forward to the next time :P

Happy carcassonnists :P

Mizuki also got a detective board game for her upcoming birthday, and I recently bought Cluedo, so we will hold a "Detective day" too, somewhere in the near future :)

またね、

<< Nyekk >> Iceskating

2009-01-17T18:45:00.000+01:00

Hi 皆さん！

I'm at home now, and as the weather is cold, everything is frozen outside. There is a nearby shallow pond, that is completly frozen to the bottom. So it's a great opportunity to do some free iceskating!

The ice was good, there were a lot of people, and it was fun. At first, i was a little unstable, as the last time I skated was ages ago. But later I managed to catch the hang of it, and slided away ^^ Of course I fell a few times, but that's in the game, and it didn't hurt much. My brother and his kids were also there with us, and we played catch.

My brothers daughter and me doing circles

All in all, it was good a time, but now I'm a little tired, and hungry ^^;;;

Ps.: I, too, look forward to see the Always movie in a real cinema, it's like a dream come true. I already enjoyed it when we watched it on a projector, in the summer camp. But this time, it will be waaaaay bigger ^_______^
Ps.2: I have the last exam ~~tomorrow~~ wednesday (somehow I wrote tomorrow lol), so I have to 勉強！がんばります！

Mata ne,
Nyekk

{{ mizuki }} ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日

2009-01-17T00:29:00.001+01:00

Hey,

I had my exam, now waiting for the results. I hope it went well :S Around halfway I felt really bad, I even thought of leaving, but I somehow win against myself and managed to finish my essay. Shiken no kamisama, tasukete kudasai!!!

We went to a presentation today with Nyekk and Padi, we learned about onsens :) We got to know, that both Hungary and Japan are in the top 5 country with lot of spa, also the differences in spa culture.
The presentation itself was really entertaining and funny, I'm glad I went.

It was held in the Japanese Foundation's library (where we can rent books and ready magazines, all in Japanese ^-^V), so after it, we checked out the new magazines and stuff.

The huge thing is, why I decided to write a diary today happened before we checked the magazines.
Being able to watch Japanese movies in Hungary (mostly with Japanese dubs and English subs) can be thanked to the Japanese Foundation. Every months, they provide movies, some of them you can watch for free as well.

So I watched what could we watch the next few months, and there it was:

ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日
02.14.

On Valentine's day!!!!! We can watch ALWAYS in the CINEMA!!!!! (underline it twice more) Isn't it wonderful???? It's like a dream of mine came true :D
I think I remember right when I say, ALWAYS was the first Japanese movie I ever watched, just because Horikita Maki played in it, and instantly, it became my favourite movie of all time.

Ah, and finally I got my hand on 'Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac' by Gabrielle Zevin.... actually I gave it to my Mom right after I bought it (I got it for Christmas btw from my Mom, but I went to buy it :D), but told her to hide it, because I knew it would be too addictive for me to stop, and I had to study. Now that I am reading it, I think it was a good idea not to start it when I was still learning :D

Why this book? Again... a connection with Horikita Maki. There is a Japanese adaptation of this book, with an American director, where Maki plays the heroine, Naomi, and Matsuyama Kenichi (Death Note movie) is another key figure in it. Also I was always interested in the topic - amnesia - so this book is like a 'you-have-to-read-it-you-have-to' book for me. And I really enjoy it very much ^^ Also.. since the main characters are already choosen (Naomi's best friend will be played by Tegoshi Yuya), I can imagine the characters from the book. Anyway... the cast is well chosen I think, I feel like this gonna be a really great movie ^^ Title is: Nakushita Kioku.

Hm... other things. I got addicted to the ending song of One Piece and the Valve game Portal. I think I will try to play it, it looks fun ^^

hope you are all okey! It's extremelly cold in Budapest right now.

mizuki

PS: if there was a machine that counts your words and gives the most frequently used word as a result... in my case the result would be "really", don't you think?

{{ mizuki }} Carcassonne

2009-01-14T16:32:00.001+01:00

Hi :)

I just can't focus on studying and the fact that Nyekk is taking a bath now makes me mad, because I can't blame him (inside me) for not letting me concentrate. No.. just joking :P

So I decided to write about this game. Carcassonne is the best boardgame I ever played.
You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne_(board_game)

(the basic boardgame with extension River)

We first played with it at the summer camp. On the last day we played with it all night till we were so exhausted we couldn't play any longer.

Soon after we got home, we searched for a version that we can play on the PC, and found this very nice game: http://www.carcassonne-online.com/downloads.shtml

(our play in the pc game, Nyekk is yellow, I am green, but I didn't have figures on this place) by Nyekk

We still play with this version, but it's not the same :) since Carcassonne is a game of strategy and it has tiles, the thing that makes it fun for me is that I can talk with my friends while playing, watch their expressions. And it has a different feeling to actually hold the tiles, instead of just clicking with the mouse.

So around Christmas, when my mom asked what I wanted, I said Carcassonne. So did Nyekk ^^ So now we have the game and some extensions, and we plan to do a Carcassonne party at the school (for ourselves and our friends who are interested) to celebrate the end of the exam season :)

So if you can, try this wonderful game out :)

(credits: Sanuka on deviantART)

mizuki

PS:

<Nyekk> vlogging is evil
<mizuu> vlog is evil my bunny is too active and i'm sick
<mizuu> if you sum these what do you get?
<mizuu> = can't concentrate :D
(I couldn't resist watching communitychannel's video log on youtube. Also, KTShy's comics make my sick days better. Check them out if you want to laugh ^^)

{{ mizuki }} exams and ramen

2009-01-12T13:09:00.001+01:00

Hello,

We are trying to apply to our subjects for the next semester at school. Every semester it's the worst thing to do (beside applying to exams), because the website is slow, and we always get kicked out. So far I managed to apply for 3 classes, but Nyekk was not that lucky :((((
So while waiting, I have a little time to post here.

I happily inform you, that I passed my big exam ^^ so now I can finally choose my major at the uni.

I feel like an adult now :D speaking of adults... today is Coming-of-age day at Japan, so I wish a happy day for everyone, who turned 20 at the last year :)

And, one nice thing, that we finally got to taste the real ramen soup ^^ We decided, that if I pass my exam, we will eat at a japanese restaurant called "Momotarou". And since I passed, we went there last week :) It was not cheap, but really really tasty ^^

We watched "Summer Snow" at New Year's Eve. It was really good.... till the end of the last episode :( I wish they wouldn't end it like that. But I recommend this drama, no matter what.
I watched "Beach Boys" while waiting for the results of the big exam. I liked it ^^ Takenouchi Yutaka rocks!!!
Soshite.. we are watching "One Piece" at the moment :) it's very entertaining ^^

I have one exam left, after that I'll be free again :)

And lastly some sad news... that there are no news on Cooper. :( I just wish that he is happy where he is now.

Now, get back to fight with the subjects.

mizuki

Report of success

2009-01-01T01:29:00.001+01:00

Dear fellow netizens!

I gladly inform you that the transition from 2008 to 2009 was seamless, not a second was dropped in the meantime. There are 3.1536e7 brand new seconds for you to live up, use them up as you wish.

Always at your service,
God of Time

{{ mizuki }} 2008 and 2009 promises

2008-12-31T23:05:00.001+01:00

Dear reader of this blog,

So as you already read in Nyekk's entry, we are revising our last year's promises. Here is how I done:

* being silly in 2008 too - I think it's obvious, I should check this immediately
what can i say.. i'm silly. a silly friend for people, who needs me. PASS

* start to learn Japanese from March, and going to give my heart to it
PASS ^^ sometimes it aches to live without a heart, but ii yo

* keep my friends close, and my penpals in touch :I
my friends are close, but I have somehow feel that I lost connection with some of my penpals. I hope after this exam season, they and I can write more letters. PASS/2

* okey Nyekk.. I'm going to study hard for my exams... of course I will!! (I don't want to (TT_TT) )
hey, i'm studying right now as well. PASS

* buy the last Harry Potter book in Hungarian.. there are parts I still don't understand
PASS, and read it too :P

* will post here often (^3^)
hehhhe... FAILED

* kill uhm... burn my most hated teacher with my eyes (Supaaaman!)
i spared his life.. FAILED

* watch Heroes 2nd season, watch jdoramas (yaaaaaaaay! (^v^)V ) and jmovies
PASS, watched Heroes, and watched so many doramas, I couldn't keep up the list ^^;;

* I have a guitar.. but I still can't play on it, so I think I should study some accords
FAILED, sold the guitar... bought an ukulele, but can't play it yet

* going to delete my deviantart account.. bye bye DA!
FAILED, I still have it.. that way i don't have to watch ads when I search for pics

* going to try more jfood and still eat cfood a lot!
haven't tried more jfood, but ate a lot of cfood PASS/2

* would like to snailmail
PASS, whould like to do more btw..

* I should study some English grammar.... I have soo many mistakes :\
I don't know.. I think I practice enough at SNS.

* I would like to draw more... maybe 4 panel strips, I need a drawing tablet then... ($_$)
FAILED, both of them

* would also like to get to know more about cryptograhpy and steganography
bought a book, read it halfway, liked it, but it got a bit boring :P PASS

* need more emoticons, please A-chan, teach me more!!
still need more FAILED

Promises for 2009

* If Cooper comes home, I'll be a better owner
* will go to JLPT3 in December
* and the japanese-chinese camp at summer
* make a website with Nyekk, I don't know the topic yet, but I really want to do it.
* i would like to play the ukulele and kendama (it's not an instrument, it's a toy)
* lose more weight, gain more muscle
* get a new laptop
* will work at summer to get money for my japanese courses
* go to MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) course
* choose my major
* oh... will never change the way I am.. that I'm silly

And a personal thing for Nyekk: I'll stay to be your best friend zutto zutto :) even if you go to work and we will be far away, I'll always be your friend :) Thank you for always being by my side, for always supporting me.. (i sound like i won an Oscar :D). You are a friend, that I never dreamed of, I'm happy to be able to know you. You have to promise me one thing though... 「日本語のキャンプへいっしょうに行くぞ」って　:) okey?

Things I did this year:
- learning Japanese. this fact changed my life so much. it became a hobby, and a new lifestyle. I got to know new people, I got to know new things. I love this all, and I think it is a good sequence of my life. Thank you Ancsisan :) also, went to take the JLPT4 exam. Now my family sees that I'm serious about this :)
- at summer I worked at a computer shop, my first job experiance. Also, from the money I got there, I went to the Japanese language camp, and made new friends.
- sold and bought many gadgets... you can't change the way you are right? :)
- I tried to change my clothing habits to be more woman like.
- got a bunny, lost a dog :(

Hm.. I think that's all.. I'm not a productive human being ^^;;;
Well... my friends, who read this blog. I wish you a very very very Happy New Year! I wish to be your friend next year too.

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> Promises for 2008 - Revisited

2008-12-31T20:28:00.001+01:00

So here I am, only a few hours left of 2008, I will now go through my promises i wrote a year ago. Let's see how a did this year? :D

In 2008, i will...
o ...get my life back together
Managed it somehow, it will fall apart soon again. PASS.

o ...spend a lot lot lot of fun time together with my friends ^_-
Suuuure, it was good, the best times of the year ^^. PASS.

o ...spend more time with drawing
It's just FAIL.

o ...buy a Nobuta style bag ^^
PASS.

o ...go to a japanese language course with Mizu-chan
PASS.

o ...& go to the japanese summer camp together :P
PASS. It's one of my most successful timelines of the year. I'm glad I started.

o ...read more books
Ah, yeah, I think I read...2? :D So this is FAIL.

o ...try to be a little less selfish, sometimes it really gets on me :/
Nai, this is a FAIL, too.

o ...solve the damn rubic's cube ^_^;
Solved it! And I still can. PASS.

o ...learn to play on some instrument, dunno what though (i failed miserably trying to learn some piano -_-), but i would like
Bought a guitar, but that's it LOL. FAIIIL.

o ...watch the horror staring Horikita Maki (Scary!! ^^)
One Missed call? Done that, it was funny. (Mizu was scared, though). PASS.

o ...try to get some kilograms on me :P (So many of you told me that I should :D)
I gained...hold on...5 kgs, that's something now eh? :D Mizuki was more successful with her measurement corrections. But I give it a PASS.

o ...do some regular sport activity, running or rollerskating (Finally I'll have to, i have practically no muscles ^^)
Haha, bought a bycicle, did some ride, but I wouldn't call that regular. FAIL.

o ...giving up DeviantArt, too, they are no fun with all the constraints, and even less fun alone :P
Still have it, abandoned though. PASS.

o ...try to help less people (looks funny, but if you know me, you know what i mean ^_-)
I FAILED that one.

And I FAILed the extra one, too, so let's face it 16/9 PASS, so it's average I think.
I don't know if it's worth to make these promises, I will think about it. Not good at keeping these. And as I practically finished school, I have find work a place to work, soon. (OK, I still have one exam, but nevertheless), so this roughly marks the end of my college days. It was so much fun, it changed my life, and me, too. So I am sad now. Hopefully later this day, as we will start watching Summer Snow, i will cheer up, and end this year merryly.

Happy New Year, everyone.
Nyekk

{{ mizuki }} Cooper

2008-12-30T11:23:00.001+01:00

Hello,

Sorry for not being there to wish all of you a Merry Xmas, but I'll be there to wish a happy new year :)
It's just as Nyekk oniichan said, I study like hell, my brain aches all the time. So he has to play Carcassonne with me every night to power up my HP a bit. Also.. lately he has to watch dorama (Summer Snow) and anime (One piece) with me to put some life in me...

Because..
On 27th, my dog, Cooper lost. My dad took him on a walk, and a car nearly hit Cooper, so he was so scared, he run away. He ran so fast, my dad couldn't catch him, and no matter how loud he shouted, Cooper never stopped again.
Now we are kind of sure, that someone a bit after that put him in the care, because my dad saw a car stopping, then the car went away.
We did what we can to let people know we search for him. Now we can only wait for someone to call.
Please Cooper.. come home. We miss you so much!

Btw... we watched Innocent Love till the end. It was a good drama I think, and I'm glad that Nyekk oniichan liked it too. Now we are watching (as I wrote before) Summer snow and One piece at the same time, so SS gives us good stories and drama, and OP makes us laugh.

jyaaa.. mata ne.
I hope when I next write here, it will be good news.
Also, i have a new year's promise list to write tomorrow. And I will have a wish too, you surely know what I'm going to wish for.

mizuki

<< Nyekk >> If You read this

2008-12-25T02:52:00.001+01:00

Hey!

If you read this, then Merry XMAS and Happy New Year for You! :D

Mizuki is studying like hell for her big exam, so she probably won't come anywhere near the blog nowdays. So I think it's my resort to make best wishes like this xmas one :P

But before the new year comes, I think we might revisit the New Year promises we made last year, to see how much did we achive :D (I didn't check the first post date, but this blog is one year old no! Yaaay, たんじょうび！)

So, later!
Nyekk

PS: We are done with the JLPT test, it wasn't hard, we surely passed, the only question is the percentage. The results will only come in feb-mar T_T Lot of time!

山図市 - yamazushi

{{ Pheebs }} Filmharmonikusok

{{ Pheebs }} New Year's Resolutions for 2012

{{ Pheebs }} Resolution...

{{ Pheebs }} Promises for 2011 - revised

{{ Pheebs }} Chouch to 5K

<< Nyekk >> It's been a while

{{ mizuki }} Ireland

Andrea Corr - Lifelines

{{ mizuki }} I might be slightly mad but...

{{ mizuki }} I'm a rabbit alright

Shy Loving Soul

{{ mizuki }} Beware

<< Nyekk >> Lorem ipsum

{{ mizuki }} Meet my meatballs

{{ mizuki }} Promises for 2011

{{ mizuki }} Promises from 2010

<< Nyekk >> New Year's Vows

< Nyekk > merry xmas

<< Nyekk >> Ram-ravine

{{ mizuki }} Weird

<< Nyekk >> Handlebar hateness

<< Nyekk >> Miku

{{ mizuki }} Bug hunter

<< Nyekk >> We are not so dead

{{ mizuki }} we are dead

<< Nyekk >> Riding

{{ mizuki }} word jokes

{{ mizuki }} Time to forget

{{ mizuki }} sm: roll back

{{ mizuki }} sm: restroom

<< Nyekk >> C.A.T.

{{ mizuki }} JLPT, iPhone, work etc

<< Nyekk >> Planetarian ~reverie of a little planet~

<< mizuki >> Usopp figure

{{ mizuki }} JLPT - still waiting

<< Nyekk >> Ultra Maniac

{{ mizuki }} One Piece figures

<< Nyekk >> Some photo

{{ mizuki }} Promises for 2010

{{ mizuki }} Promises from 2009 - revise

<< Nyekk >> Protection

<< Nyekk >> Windows 7

<< Nyekk >> Question?

<< Nyekk >> ティムCON

{{ mizuki }} Still alive

<< Nyekk >> Wired

<< Nyekk >> Mayflowers

<< Nyekk >> Optical tuning

<< Nyekk >> Better than cat

{{ mizuki }} Busy weeks and school

<< Nyekk >> Last day

<< Nyekk >> J-cult day

<< Nyekk >> Press conference

{{ mizuki }} Re: << Nyekk >> Restart

<< Nyekk >> Restart

<< Nyekk >> Hacktivity 2009

<< Nyekk >> iPhone

{{ mizuki }} The rest of the summer camp :P

<< Nyekk >> Adulthood

<< Nyekk >> Japanese Camp - Day 2 - Getting mansioned

<< Nyekk >> Summer camp 2009 - First day hickups

{{ mizuki }} Japanese summer camp

{{ mizuki }} arry Pott

<< Nyekk >> 夜のダイヤ と 九人の勇者

{{ mizuu }} New goodies :))

<< Nyekk >> More crappy poems

<< Nyekk >> The cat's destiny

<< Nyekk >> Singing in the rain

{{ mizuu }} Use your brain!

{{ mizuu }} Summer tiiiiiiime!!

<< Nyekk >> Highest priced cellotape bought

{{ mizuu }} Exams season and future plans

<< Nyekk >> Morning

<< Nyekk >> Peugeot roadbike photos

<< Nyekk >> Work flows

<< Nyekk >> Dream

{{ mizuki }} The lizard wizard khm.. witch

{{ mizuki }} The story of the swan brothers

{{ mizuki }} Psion Netbook Pro, M.A.G.U.S., hanami and other stuffs

<< Nyekk >> 夜のダイヤと九人の勇者