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! ;-)