Look who's here again :-)

Well, here again.

It looks like I manage to post every other year :-) I am not a big flooder, am I? :)

This is Easter, 2012, and I am sitting alone, with an adopted dog only, in the flat of me and my husband. Officially. Because practically I have no husband... Nice long story...

Trainnig still goes on, what is more: preparing for the 2013 Kunoichi Taikai in Japan.

Since it is night now, I am supposed to go and walk the dog last time for today and then wash hair and go to sleep so that I can wake up tomorrow.

But I think I'm gonne come up with new posts soon.

Some chapters in my life are closed and some others are still open. Things changed.

First report after a long time

This is the first time after a long while when I report on something.

Not that there was nothing interesting or my life was a complete boredom, no. In fact, I have never been this busy like in the past 1.5 years I think.

It is just that I did not have time to spend on typing. Not that it's any better now. But some people mentioned my blog recently and noted with a slight smile that it's not alive anymore.

It is strange that they came up with it recently, as I have been thinking about totally killing it.

Maybe I should give it one more try and see if there is still something in it? OK. Let's see.

So the first report will be on the past week which was pretty busy.

Csabi has been away on a retreat again for one week and it gave me the opportunity to arrange a lot of things that I postponed until then. Met up with friends, helped with the travel of some "black-pijama colleagues" to Japan, as I live very close to the airport.

I also wanted to paint some eggs for Easter but by the end of the week I became so exhausted that at the end I did not have energy for that at all.

It also turned out that my participation at the chick-meeting in September is in danger. There will be a very VIP person visiting here exactly on that weekend, and it may be the case that I will have to organize the security team for the time of the visit. Which means that I will have to be in Budapest that weekend. It would be a great honor to have this duty, in the same time I feel a bit of pity because I've been preparing for the chick-meeting for more than 2 years :(.

Anyway, we will see how the organization process will evolve.

Today is our first training in our new dojo. Actually it is not our place, but a new one, and way better then the one we used until now.

Until now we've been in a relatively small classroom of the Buddhist College, 34 sqm, which started to be too small when people started flooding to the training in February.

So we had to move.

The new place is a gymnasium of a nearby highschool. The rental fee is a horror in comparison to the previous one, but at least more suitable for a normal training. Rubber floor, well equipped, there are separate changing rooms for the girls and boys, with shower, AND gives enough place for the running at the beginning of the training :) We really missed it already.

That's it for now, need to get back to pixel- and tag-work now.

Later more.

2 years now...

...since my last post here.

So many things had happened since then and I changed so much, too.

Will I continue blogging again? Well, I don't know, all I can say is: we'll see :)

If I will, I will report on the things that happened during these two years. Bit by bit, just slowly, issue by issue.

Until then,

Have a nice day

The Return of The Dead

We could say so :)

This evening while sitting and relaxing in the bath tube (this in itself is already a miracle) full of hot water I had an extraordinary idea: What if I updated my long forgotten blog? :-)
I am curios how many of my old buddies would even notice it :-)

The truth is that I am baaadly behind with it but I have some great excuses. Life kept me bloody busy - especially the uni.

Every day the afternoons after work are completely full for me. Monday - Wednesday I hold trainings. Tuesday - Japanese class (yeah, I am a private student of a Japanese lady who teaches the language in Hungary. Pretty money consuming but I want to be able to communicate with the Hombu Dojo by the time I can go to Japan again -not more than 2-3 years hopefully- , so I must learn the language).
Thursdays either there is training at Istvan's dojo or meeting with bank advisors to discuss how we could take a loan for buying an apartment. Friday is preparing for the weekend classes at the university - Saturday and Sunday: 12 hours of teaching both days, with classes of 1,5 hours long and having 10 minutes of breaks between them. Quite hectic and exhausting.

Also, as I mentioned, we are in the middle of a flat purchase. Or rather at the beginning just yet. But we definitely need to move from our current place. Renting would be at least as expensive monthly as paying back a loan in monthly instalments. And the landlord can kick you off any time, while the same risk is not there when you are in your own flat. But the economy is currently in a very bad situation in Hungary. It is getting worse and worse, people are bitter and getting more and more desperate, so I would not be surprised if we would end up with a civil war in 2-3 years. How could we get this far?? Anyway - I am trying to prepare as much as possible.


This afternoon the good old Kungfu-Master Skyped me for a video chat for what I was pretty surprised, but it was very good to talk a bit, even tho he was clownish :-))) although it suits him very well :-)) I don't like overly serious men (and women), who themselves cannot turn into clowns every now and then in life. This kind of child-like open sense of humor is very much needed for a healthy mind, so that one can get over some of the major obstacles in life.
Anyway, the fact that he bought a new webcam made me think again - I wanted to get one since already long ago but I was always too lazy to go and find a good one... maybe it is really time to get one now. It would be so cool to videochat with mom too... she has a webcam but I don't have, so it's always me who can see her but she cannot see me. Not to mention my other work-contacts and precious friends ;-)

This week Csabi is attending a retreat in the meditation center so I am free (YAY!!). I really love freedom and cannot exist if I have too many chains around me.
Now that he is not at home I can sleep without the shutter and can wake up by the morning light and the birds' songs. There are a lot of thrushes living on the trees in front of the house that we currently live in.
I noticed that I can sleep better and can wake up fresher if I wake up by the natural morning light. Csabi cannot sleep at night if the shutter is not up - but then I cannot wake up fresh :) Now I can have a lil' break and actually sleep well at long last... :-)) YAYAY!

Rain of exams

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

I am not dead yet but am very close to it ... :-)

I have an incredible amount of notes and mp3's to listen to and read for the exams, together with the home assignments, so I cannot really blog before I finish with them.
So far I am doin good regarding the exam results - I had 7 exams of which I passed 6 of them with 5 (equal to "A") and only one with 4 (B). I am a bit dissatisified because of this, but it's just because I can be really hair-splitting sometimes :-P
However tomorrow comes the hardest of all exams - history of philosophy. I can't tell you how much I hate this subject :-) this is the only one subject that I could happily live without. Anyway, in case of this exam I will be happy if I pass it at all.

So until about the 20th of January no blog entry is expectable here...

Wish me good luck..

Bookworm

I think I have completely lost my mind.
I made appointments for this weekend and this coming Monday with some of my tutors at the uni to take exams in advance. As some of the exams would be held at the end of January, exactly when I am in Sweden for a seminar.

So I took days off for today and Monday and I study study and study as a madman.
These are going to be two very difficult exams, one is about the Buddhist philosophy and the other one is about religious ethnology. The first one is not so difficult but includes a huge material, the latter one is not so huge but is very difficult.

So now I am uploading some of the mp3-s recorded during the lectures, so that my coursemates can listen to them and prepare for their exams for January. Then I go to the National Szechenyi Library which is the biggest library of Hungary - everything that was ever published in the country can be found there. I try to study there and collect material for my home assignments.

Huh, time is flying by very fast - it is time for me to prepare and leave.
I'll let you know about the exam results.
Stay tuned...

Veni, Veni Emanuel!

I've been coding a lot today - my brain is completely burnt out.
So as a relief, I was listening to some choir music.

Veni, Veni Emanuel! - by the choir of the Saint Stephen Basilica. This is one of my all-time favorites, both to listen to and to sing :-)

Enjoy...

a looooong day

I had a very hard day today.
There was the annual Santa Claus party in CEU and I took a day off to help mom today at the uni selling silver jewels which she is a reseller of.

Despite the holiday, I still had to do some very urgent work so I decided to go to my office before meeting her at the uni, so I arrived to the office at 7.30. I should not have done so. There was a server breakdown and nonne was able to log in the network until almost 10 am. So I basically woke up early and came in from outside of Budapest for nothing. So I turned on the radio and cleaned the office.

Mom arrived at 11 am so we went to the main hall of the uni and put out all the silver on a table.
At 3 pm I joined the CEU choir for a last rehearsal as we had Christmas performance at 3.30 in the main hall. The place had great acoustics so the performance went very well despite the very few rehearsals that we managed to do.
After the performance (which was very successful) one of the choir members invited me to join the choir of the St Stephen Basilica (one Hungary's 2 greatest and most famous churches).
I would love to do that but it turned out that the rehearsals are on Wednesdays when I hold trainings. So unfortunately it will not work :(
Which is a pitty because I love singing (and I think I can sing quite well; btw, I am a soprano - yeah, despite my deep everyday tone).

After the performance I went back to the jewel desk and stayed there until 5, when we packed up everything, mom went home and I went for training in Istvan's dojo.
I was dead-tired by that time but I really wanted to make it because I could not go to his trainings in the past 2 weeks due to writing my home assignments. (I already submitted two of them so now I start the another one about the customs of covering women by the rules of the Islam.)

I was thinking of writing about the guys who train with me but I am so terribly tired now that I rather go to bed and let myself faint into the Bardo of the dreams.

Good night, laterz...

Alone

Family is gone for the weekend to Tar, for a Buddhist retreat - whew, what a relief, I am alone home.
I am quite a lone wolf sometimes, I need solitude and privacy very much. I miss Csabi a bit, but I cannot deny that feel quite good now. Especially with this glass of semi-sweet wine here :-) I however did not have too much of rest until now.
I have just sent one of the assignments to my prof and I am supposed to send the next one on Monday the latest - I realized that the deadline is not Wednesday but Monday. !%+"+%/

Friday I took a day off as we got some new furniture from parents-in-law and I had to help bringing it home and installing in our room. After then they immediately left so I had to sort out the old and unused stuff and make sure they land in the waste bin. I am pretty good at throwing useless things out - even if those are memories from others.
I don't want my place to look like a museum :-)

So I got rid of two huge plastic bags of female cloths and a big box of jewels that I have not used since quite a while ago. I give the clothes and the jewels to the homeless and poor.
I finished making some order only today, so in the afternoon I cleaned up the whole apartment and now it feels good to stay in a clean and tidy place.
After then I quickly run over to the confectionery in the neighbour street where a few days ago I ordered a huge cherry-yoghurt cake for my mom. Tomorrow I go and visit her - today she is 55 years old.
So tomorrow early morning I leave again with 2 kgs of bean, 1 kg of walnut and a huge smoked trotters in my backpack - she loves bean soup with this smoked meat.
I will have the cake with me too and will greet her. I am not going to stay long as I have to get back home before 4 p.m. Csabi is expected to return at that time so I need to cook some dinner for him.

Also, thanks to this huge cleaning - sorting project that I did all day today and yesterday, I was not able to work on my other assignment about the Kashrut, so now I go and start compiling it. Tomorrow hopefully I can complete it and can send it on Monday, if everything goes well.
Then I will feel more relieved and hopefully I can finally respond to some emails which have been waiting in my mailbox so patiently for about 2 weeks now... Shame on me ...
Mark-knight, please bear with a lil' more patience, email is going to you as soon as I finish with this terrible assignment... (and send me your up to date snail-mail address ;-) )

B4 I forget: This week I managed to go to the only one Panasonic service shop in Budapest that has USB cable which is compatible with my digital camera. I forgot mine in the Tenshiyama apartment in Japan :-( I was thinking for a while whether or not I should ask the SlumLord to find it and send it to me, or if it was easier for everyone if I went and bought another one. I decided by the latter one. Who knows when the SlumLord would be able to make it :-))
So now finally I managed to get the pics that I took this year in Japan.
As soon as I finish with this second assignment I will put them on the blog, so patience, my dear fellows...

Kung-fu master, you are on two of them, I will send them to you soon :-)) Btw, I hope you got my greeting card ;-) Congrats, Old Goat! ;-)