tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203774262012-01-28T03:44:50.287+01:00"Drops of what?" you may ask. If you read the posts carefully you will know what kind of drops they are - a drop of dew, sweat, blood, tear (of joy or sorrow), divine nectar. So, yes, the posts are kind of "drops" or reflections of my life. If you care, read on, and you *may* get to know me. You *may*...DewDropnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-15293599469823143782010-04-12T14:05:00.003+02:002010-04-12T14:23:18.248+02:00

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

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-27782431935260292092010-03-31T15:25:00.002+02:002010-03-31T15:28:38.242+02:00

...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

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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

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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

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-85490045001741044142007-12-14T07:32:00.000+01:002007-12-14T07:49:02.287+01:00

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

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-81894090618290521232007-12-07T17:43:00.000+01:002007-12-07T17:47:00.607+01:00

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...

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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

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-43984305250435009462007-12-01T19:53:00.000+01:002007-12-02T06:51:58.500+01:00

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

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-10359816946151299992007-11-27T07:48:00.000+01:002007-11-27T08:43:09.296+01:00

I have been pretty much under the snow recently...The deadline for submitting two of my home assignments is mercilessly approaching - it is December 5. And I am ready only with one so far - with the religious art history one. I still have to compile the other one about the Kosher rules of Jewish traditions and collecting the raw material is the hardest part of the whole thing because of the lack

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-4927810891713085392007-11-03T19:51:00.000+01:002007-11-03T21:37:20.504+01:00

It's been since quite a while ago when I could l last time update my blog. My life took a pretty busy turn, yeah even busier than it's been before. CollegeSchool takes a great amount of my free time - with making all the reading material and mp3's available online ('cos we record all lectures and seminars in the college and share it online among ourselves so that we can prepare for the exams by

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-22772241049404964682007-09-28T10:40:00.000+02:002007-09-28T11:18:21.197+02:00

Yeah, I know, I know.But it's been extremely busy here since I've returned from Japan. I have been working as a mad(wo)man.I could not update the blog in Japan either because it was such a spinning there, and arriving back to the guesthouse late at nights did not leave too much free time in my hands to update the blog.After I returned from Japan the academic year started here at the Uni where I

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Yesterday we arrived to Japan. The flight was very smooth and pleasant despite its length. We flew from Budapest to Vienna and from Vienna to Tokyo, both flights with Austrian Airlines. I have already been flying with them like 5-6 years ago when I was in Nepal and Tibet and they were very good.Needless to say I was dead scared again, but luckily Peter and a good tranquilizer could calm me down.

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PreambleProbably you saw the videos in the right frame. Not so nice movies - they mercilessly make you face the reality. I am not a fan of ostrich-politics when it comes to animals, in the same time I know that people usually have a hard time with confrontations like this, like seeing such movies. So I put there a warning. But if you are brave and strong enough, you can have a look and see what

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-61031443872943362582007-07-21T20:29:00.000+02:002007-07-21T20:52:28.024+02:00

Oh, yes, I am, indeed! What? You say I was overconfident? :-) well, I know that sometimes I tend to be like that but this time I meant it the right way. We are sweating like a horse, it is so hot here. This weather is completely abnormal, this past week it was over 40 Celsius ever day, today it was 42. The heat wave has arrived about three weeks ago and it is getting worse every day. Or maybe it

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-72017721867847657152007-07-06T21:28:00.000+02:002007-07-06T22:21:52.476+02:00

I have not put down too much about my life recently. I think it is because of two reasons.One of the reasons is that I did not really have time for blogging. Summer Uni keeps me incredibly busy which means that I work 10 hours minimum daily (sometimes even more) plus working on the weekends too, both days. Since about the end of May I have been working every weekend as well, except for maybe one

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I have recently found a great vid on the net about the importance of using the safety belt in the car. It won 8 prizes in Cannes.Great video indeed, have a look here.

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A lot of things happened to me in the past one-two months and I do not feel the strength to describe everything in details, so here is a short report on some issues... more to come a bit later.Summer University is going on with full speed which means that I work through the weekends as well as doing 2-3 hours overtime every other weekday. As the admin of the e-learning site I am really not bored

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-4891134179698341822007-06-03T09:40:00.000+02:002007-06-03T09:50:09.373+02:00

Sorry guys for not blogging so often and not really getting back to any of you recently, I have been extremely busy.I have read about priorities recently on your blogs, and currently I am also dealing with such issues. In my case the priorities now are work and physical and mental health, so everything else comes only afterwards. Not that I am at the edge of nervous breakdown :-) It is just that

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-30554559315504017502007-05-29T16:39:00.001+02:002007-05-29T16:48:02.246+02:00

It seems that only one kind of warrior can stand the mud in front of the Japanese: the Hungarians :-)And so far it seems that we ruuuule!Although the tools are questionable - but I have heard somewhere: "in war and love everything is allowed" :-P Considering this: I bow with respect for the Japanese "warriors" - they are a good example now of how to treat the opponent even if that uses "sneaky"

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I had a very busy weekend now.On Saturday I attended a seminar in Veszprem, lead by L. who has just returned from Japan. He's A.C.'s student (let's put it this way) and showed some things he learned from A. and the Shihans in Japan.I think I got what he meant to show as a principle but I saw a lot of inaccuracy in the techniques, in kamae, most of which would put you in a critical situation

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Last weekend's seminar with P-san was very good. I risk saying: even better than last year. We did a lot of KKSDR henkas, also a lot of knife fight, bare hand plays and a tiny little bit of tieing.On Saturday I practiced with K., the Iranian guy. Although he lacks the basics, he has the talent I think, at least after the first 1,5 hours he started getting the feeling and did some very nice

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Although this week has been a short one -as we did not have to work no Monday and Tuesday because of the Labour Day- I felt as if I have been working a full week.I have been spinning at the uni like a a madman during the whole week.We had electronic seminars this week which allocated a lot of extra work to me to cop with, given that I am the admin of the e-learning site of the Summer Uni.Finally

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-57078259505251729992007-04-29T13:47:00.000+02:002007-04-29T22:52:07.214+02:00

Recently I started practicing horseback riding.One of our friends lives at the countryside near to Budapest in a valley, called Anna-Valley. A simple and poor place - I mean there is no stone house, only a wooden pavilion where he lives with his wife and two kids. There is a beautiful spring with crystal clear water running behind the house. They have horses, goats and poultry.The guy is a

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It's been long ago since I last time posted anything here.I have been pretty busy recently, which means that I am under a very massive and demanding workload often working 10-12 hours a day.Work issuesI work part time for the computer center as a coordinator, organizing all the computer education from alpha to omega for the students in the uni, and I do another part time work for the Summer

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-67012883093899012552007-04-09T13:11:00.000+02:002007-04-09T13:32:11.749+02:00

Having a long weekend.Yesterday Cs and me went to the Open-air Ethnic Museum in Szentendre, the Gem of the Danube.There were thousands of visitors there visiting the programmes organized in the Museum upon Easter. See their website here. We've been walking there for about 6-7 hours before we went home.Today I am not int he best mood. This is the first Easter in a long time that I did not paint

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On Saturday Cs and me went to Hajduszoboszlo, to the wedding of Cs's long time friend. I offered long ago that if he ever gets married I will say some poems and now I had to fulfill my promise. But we were invited anyway.I have bought a pair of casual shoes on Friday 'cos I did not have any. They were all comfy. However by the time we took the train in Budapest they completely tortured my feet,

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We had a seminar with D this weekend. It was of course about KKSR Ryu.We took like 2-2 techniques from shoden, chuden and okuden levels and have been examining them and their different henkas.These were basically, Kataho, Kubiwa,Yume Makura, Tobi Chiga, Tatsu Nami, Fusetsu, Kaeshi waza and there were a few more which's names I don't remember at the moment, but we were not bored.We did lots and

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Yesterday I hade a "date" with Cs, he invited me to a teahouse - but it was me who chose the place. I suggested to go to the "Cave of the Green Turtle", which is run by one of the Hungarian ex- pop-stars, who btw wrote a song which's title was "Sad Samurai" (it is quite a moldy one if you ask me :-) ). He is also said to have tea houses with the same name in New York and Tokio. Maybe I'll drop by

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-14984667770427445012007-03-27T13:01:00.000+02:002007-03-27T13:04:04.447+02:00

"Happiness starts when you stop seeking your own happiness in order to try to make someone else happy."His Holiness the XIV. Dalai Lama

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I finally managed to upload some photos from my phone to my pc.Here are a few good pics. Click them for a larger view. Enjoy...Hannya maskI have brought it from Japan in August 2006.I love evil looking things :-)One of my training spotsThis is the place in Budapest where I usually train on Saturdays, when the weather is good. I love when squirrels are jumping and running above me on the trees :-P

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Yesterday I had to go to Budapest to visit mom. She asked me to dig up her garden.Since it was an important national holiday and based on the October 23rd demonstrations there were severe riots expected for this day again, I decided to go early in the morning. The most serious riots in October happened late in the afternoons and during the nights.Budapest was all silent yesterday and the streets

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Hmm... talk about timing.Yesterday I wrote an email to J san asking him to find out what might have happened to the order that I sent to H dojo early January, as my guys will soon need the membership cards for this year.I sent him all the detailes and he promised to look into it.And just this morning the neighbour came with an envelope that has arrived from H dojo for my name but was thrown in

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The other night coming home from training I. and me talked about my blog, and he said he has not seen it since a week ago or so. I told him he did not loose too much 'cos I don't post too often, when he asked why.Well there are certainly many things that happen to me between two posts, but as you see I post rarely, like weekly or so, and even then I do not always write about significant things.

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This week things speeded up a bit with regards to organizing the trip.At the moment it seems that I will bring 5 people with me and there is one more who is quite unsure. I have the feeling that he won't come. You know, you can just "smell" it from how things are not matching.I got the money for the airplane ticket from three people and I also have the money for mine already.There is just one

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-14923416667278024032007-03-01T21:59:00.000+01:002007-03-01T22:36:36.854+01:00

These days we go through the Kihon Happo again. It is strange to realize how much I enjoy it. I was a bit neutral with it in the past because I did not see on what way could practising Kihon Happo again and again improve my skills.But in the past few months it completely turned the other way around. I see so many possibilities there, so many things to explore. I think that now it started to come

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-19459334210586035722007-02-28T21:30:00.000+01:002007-02-28T22:18:52.716+01:00

Looking back at the last six months (especially the last ~4) that has passed by since I have returned from Japan, I have to admit that things escalated pretty much both in my job and also in my training.In my job I keep receiving compliments and already three units are fighting for me at the university. It has not been like that before.Have I changed after returning from Japan? Do my colleagues

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-18179495489274359712007-02-26T21:03:00.000+01:002007-02-28T21:29:46.839+01:00

The Lunar New Year on Sunday has passed in a moderate style. We had a lot of guests, both members of the community and complete strangers who have learnt about the event from flyers.However we started a with about 45 minutes delay, because the technician who was responsible for setting up the sound and stuff left, who knows why. He was an employee of the venue so we could not do anything about

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This weekend is pretty busy again of course.Yesterday we had the annual council meeting of our Buddhist Church where I also work as a responsible for external affairs.Yesterday we had a lenghty discussion about all sorts of questions regarding the past, present and the future of the Church. In the same time I was also asked to prepare again that incredible amount of Tibetan-Hungarian style cookie

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Probably I should do something in order to slow down the pace of how things are happening in my life. I feel like riding a loose skateboard - a several significant things are going on simultaneously and things are happening very fast.YamatoI have been to a performance of taiko drummers last Saturday. They are the Yamato group and have been on a tour. During their European tour they made like 4-5

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-55108635076658542422007-02-11T18:34:00.000+01:002007-02-11T18:55:25.124+01:00

I've been thinking a lot about Friday's happenings because I really wanted to go for that seminar. But I will never know why things had to happen the way they did.Was it a fortunate or unfortunate event? Who knows that?There is a Chinese story about the same question:"Once upon a time there was an old poor man who had an old horse which he worked with on the fields. Once the horse somehow broke

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-72068649833571727272007-02-10T12:21:00.000+01:002007-02-10T13:15:11.971+01:00

At last I did not make it to Brussels.Believe or not, I decided to cancel it in the very last minute, literally speaking already after boarding, with my belt fastened in the seat.After we finished boarding we have been waiting for getting ready to take off when a complete blackout came. Everything stopped, the engines too. It was quite surprising - I've been flying more or less frequently but it

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Tomorrow we leave for Brussels.Again as always, I am already scared of it, even now my feet are full of adrenalin.The more I fly the more I am afraid of it. Silly, isn't it?Can anyone recommend me anything about how to get rid of this paralyzing fear? I am getting tired of it lately but I cannot get over it. One thing that can help a bit is that S. had to take a long flight as well these days

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Yesterday RI and me visited DJH's dojo again - we decided to visit them once a month.The training was good but the guys were *very* violent. I mean they could not control themselves.We did different techniques against a grab and punch combination.As far as I noticed - and RI shares the same opinion - both this and last months training was rather SFR-style than KKSR. Way too SFR style. Probably D

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As you can see I added a pic to the right coloumn.I decided to add new images to my blog, depending on what mood I am in and also observing various special days.The next one which is due very soon is Valentine's Day on the 14th of February.It is said to be the lovers' day, so I decided to add a picture which expresses what I think love between a man and a woman is really about, and how I live

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This weekend I was a real slacker. I have not had the chance to relax this much since about a few weeks ago.Besides cooking some yummy bio-lunch for myself and after making some reform-style pancake stuffed with vanilla puding, I have thrown myself down to watch my favorit series on TV - Stargate and Eureka.I also did a litle sewing - I had to change the patch on my gi and had to change the

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This past week went by with meetings. I had several meetings where I work at and this coming week will be no different. I will meet the IT unit and discuss that project manager position that they mentioned. Also the summer uni wants to take me over in full time so it seems that I may even get out of the situation with good cards. I just have to be very careful, not to get into a situation where I

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A bit about training stuff.Before I go into some whining: I really enjoy the trainings in RI's dojo. There is one thing only that I miss - the rough play. Sometimes I like it really rough ;-) But lately I started playing with B. this hard way and the good thing is that she also enjoys it :-) lucky me :-)I. can always show something new and we learn all the kata systematically, on a much better

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I have not been able to blog lately as you may have noticed. Things kept me really busy at work - I got so burnt out every day after work that by the time I got home I was not able to sit down and type anything.Our uni has just started setting up an e-learning server and beside sharing the course materials with the students, the depts would like to deliver some of the courses/classes online.

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Last night I've been up until 3:00 a.m. The hot Ylang-Ylang bath relaxed me completely, after then I always feel like living in the world of the 1001 Nights Tales. :-) I love oriental scents, from this aspect I am quite a romantic person I think :-)Today I crawled out of my bed at 11:00 a.m., but only because I have to finish cleaning up the flat until family returns from their meditation

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These past two weeks were crazy like hell.I've had heaps of works in the office and after work I usually had meetings after meetings - stuff that I did not have time for in December cos of the holiday rush.In the meantime it turned out that maybe the Kungfu Master can have an opportunity to study hopefully for free at the uni where I work, so he applied. I hope he can make it. It's pretty

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I started blogging exactly a year ago. Looking back at the time that passed by since then, I have doubts if blogging had any point at all. Of course sometimes it was very good to write things off my chest, but the entries I post are always far from complete. They reflect on things that happen to me only from one or two aspects. Anyway, I still think it has more pro's than contra's, so I'll keep

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It's almost Christmas. I've finished with packing all the Honey-bread cookies and the few gifts I will give to a few people.In the past few years however Christmas Eve's and days were a bit lonesome despite that there are always people around me who call them my family. Yeah I know it sounds strange but recently my lonely wolf nature came to light more strongly. Sometimes I just want to be left

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It's been the last day at work today, but during these three days I've worked more than I usually do in a week.I almost finished with all the X-mas shopping, however this year, just like a year ago, I did not make big fuzz about the whole thing. I have so many relatives and friends whom I'd like to greet that it is impossible to surprise all of them even with a small presentSo people will get

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Huh, damn puter... I've put down everything and it all vanished who knows why. Cool, I can start it all over again. Sooo, quickly:I've spent just 2 hours packing all the gingerbread cookies for my friends yesterday after work. By the way, we call them honey-bread as the base of the cookie is honey and there's not even a grain of ginger in it. Then spent another 1 hour at the Post Office. 20

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I am curious what this weekend will bring.Yesterday I left my office early as I attended the consecration of a new huge and very imposing Budo center in Budapest. It's a shame that there were only a few visitors, which was probably due to the early starting time.We started the ceremony at 4 and finished almost at 6, so at the end I had to make it fast to the furniture shop to find a good and

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This morning Cs and I had a passionate discussion about having a family vs. not having.If I look around in my near environment, I see the normal everyday Hungarian families where both parents live in a treadwheel. Given that the financial situation is very far from good in this country, if you want to have a flat and if you don't have a rich relative from whom you could inherite an immovable,

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Yesterday I visited mom again to chop some wood for her and to greet her on her b-day. She's 54 and does not look good at all :-( Life tortured her quite much but honestly I think in most of the cases she can blame only herself. The rest of the unlucky events always came from out of the blue. It seems that trouble always finds her somehow. I never believed in such before, but recently I really

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I was asked to hold the first part of yesterday's training because IR was supposed to be late, due to their military-exhibition at the Expo. I left my office half an hour earlier so that I can be there in time and start the training. A few minutes before 5.30 pm IR arrived so at the end the training started up normally. However after the warmup and ukemi part he asked me to take over the group

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This early morning I was riding the train to work in the same coach with a bunch of teens who might not have been more than 16 but really pissed our heads off. They listened to music on their mobile phones so loudly that there was a painful noise in the coach. Just imagine when there is techno and gypsy-wedding-pop howling from two different radios on full volume in a closed coach full of sleepy

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I've been so busy recently! There are some major changes in the IT unit of my uni so I have a lot of things to do and help with, regarding new IT projects. I hardly have time to have lunch, I have so much work that my fingers almost grew to the keyboard. But at the end I always tear out myself for a while from that mind-killing environment and have a little rest.I did not manage to chop up all

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-39111001541860981362006-11-26T10:20:00.000+01:002006-12-07T09:26:15.227+01:00

Due to the fact that recently I've been very busy at my office and Cs. is changing the operating system on the machine at home day by day, I was not able to sit down and write my blog in the past days.As soon as I will get a little chance to get a constant hold of the keyboard, I'll go on. Patience!(You might have got used to that with me anyways :-) ) Thanks.

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I am trying hard ot find out how to embed the code of the visitor counter into this new template, but I still could not find it out and it is giving me more and more headache. Since the time I have changed to this new template I have not been able to see how many visitors I had, from where etc. It annoys me a bit when I can not get control over some things :-)The other day I saw an ad at the uni

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Last weekend a few of us visited our fellow buyus in Croatia to attend a Hojo-jutsu seminar.This is quite a rarely taught part of our art, as far as I noticed. This is the second time I managed to attend a seminar focusing on how to tie up others the way we do with the Easter-ham.We went by my ex-instructor's car (however I feel quite strange when I say ex-instructor - I still feel very close to

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As you see my blog got a new dress. It seems that Blogger realized at last that they were way behind the other blogger sites with regards to custom design options availability.Anyway, I changed the look of my blog, and since I found majority of the stuff I was painfully missing until now, I decided to wait a bit with moving the whole stuff to another blogger site. I wanna check out what exactly

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-1163088028964080402006-11-09T16:43:00.000+01:002006-11-14T23:27:18.455+01:00

I know I disappeared for too long. Life's like this.I am thinking about moving over to another provider - tho I dunno to which one. I keep looking.Today I've got the news that a colleague of ours died because of brain-haemorrhage.It hit me a bit like a surprise, as this guy (52) was one of my greatest admirers at my workplace - I always got some compliments from him, which became more and more

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It seems that I was right when I thought time heals a lot of wounds.I feel that I am gaining back my balance and now I have a clearer perspective regarding my future in training.Time to stand on my own feet it seems. Soke now made sure I won't rest on my ass anymore, in the laboratory-environment of a dojo, in safety, under the protecting wings of somebody. Now I have to do for my own learning

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-1157563639914494512006-09-06T19:11:00.000+02:002006-11-14T23:27:18.134+01:00

Hyatus again, yes I know.I am putting together a brief-detailed summary about each instructor I trained with during my stay in Japan, and also about the things I talked about with fellow budokas whom I have met there. But it takes some time. One by one, step by step. So patience please, my dear fellows.First I need to survive "the storms of the present" and it requires all my strength and will to

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First of all let me jump back to Friday night. After training we returned to T. guesthouse, where K., S's girl welcomed us on the balcony all frightened by a crazy dying cicada (these are really huge monsters in Japan).S. took all his bravery and entered their apartment, while James and me entered ours.After the successful cicada-hunting (we guess) S. and K. were kind enough to invite poor

DewDropnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20377426.post-1156848638606773842006-08-29T11:41:00.000+02:002006-11-14T23:27:17.780+01:00

Okay, back, after a semi-long break.So you wanna hear something about my trip to Japan? Do you really want to? Okay, here it is.I will write about it in more parts to keep you interested and also to avoid endless entries on this blog page.All in all, I can say that it's been a kind of "wake-up trip" for me; it opened my eyes on many ways, mostly training-wise.Aug 3.After packing up everything in

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Well guys, I am back.The trip to Japan was hillarious! As I say in Hungarian: "unconsciously cool".Sorry for not writing about my days but I'd been extremely busy with surviving and digesting all the things that I saw and learnt there.Maybe I will write about my general experiences during this weekend. Until then I need some time to get back to my everyday workaholic life and to wait until things

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Hi Guys,Since I have not been able to send an e-mail to many of you before my departure, I thought I put down here a few words. It will be a very quick one as I have to leaveion an hour and I still want to have some nice Hungarian-style breakfast.So I am off in an hour, and supposed to arrive at Narita on the 4th of August, at 9.40 a.m. local time.Back on the 18th, and arrive to Ferihegy 2A on

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Well, this is the last week I have to spend at work before leaving for the big trip.Things are veeery calm at the moment. Way too calm, I would say. This last weekend I visited my family in Debrecen. I especially wanted to visit them before my departure, as grandma does not look good at all. Her condition is getting worse week by week and I am not sure at all that I can see her alive again. I

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As you might have noticed lately I don't write too often in my blog. I have a few reasons - mainly that I don't feel too talkative. There's nothing wrong, it's just a time when I feel better staying in quiet and keeping things for myself. It is a kind of verbal solitude if I can't make the physical one this time. One needs some private space for recharging, and it is like that for me now both in

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This Saturday was busy, hot and awsome.I woke up at 5.30 am to catch an early train to Budapest. It was a cruelly early time, especially as I went to bed at 2.00 am the previous night, because I've been searching for the string of my bow for hours, as I was suposed to (among others) supervise some archery on Saturday.Anyway, I quickly threw in a cup of chocolate milk and was off for the train. 20

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Just a few words about the past one week.SUN finally started up. Last weeked we did the student registrations at different hotels. I like it big time as this is the first time I can physically meet all those people I've been corresponding with for about 6 months. It's good to see a real flesh-bone individual behind a name. They're usually cool, arriving with overwhelming excitement and enjoying

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Yeah back again, after some hiatus.I've been terribly busy in the past few weeks - as a friend says: I've been buzzing like a bee.Crazyhouse started at work and will be like this until the last week of July. Overtime and overtime and weekend shifts and overtime again - it does not leave too much of spare time in my hands. What is more: it makes the preparation for my next kyu test a real

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Last afternoon as I was peacefully coding a site in my downtown office, with headphones on and listening to Evanescence with full volume, I heard some strange low lumbering that started putting down the music. "Wtf" I thought and looked out of the window and I thought there was something wrong with my eyes - it was a Black Hawk, circulating above the district. "Cool, US put its paws onto this

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I owed this training to devil last night.My instructor's style is quite tough which probably comes from the fact that he works for the "special services" unit and whenever there is trouble, they're called.Thus his style is quite realistic which does not allow us to lull ourselves into the thought of that what we do during training is just playing a game.Whenever we make a mistake he shows us why

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Yesterday I saw an inetersting pragmatic documentary about the latest trends of beauty industry and how much need there is for the exclusive treatments they offer.The film was focusing on anti-aging products and threatment methods and also on the market.It says American women tend to have the most beautiful skin, however not because of their genes, but because of all the treatments they get.

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Attila told me this week to start preparing for the next grade test.It will be held on July 29, five days before I leave behind Hungary for Japan.I did not think he would recommend me going for it now as I think I have not done well during my last test in January (I passed tho), but probably he knows it better.This time I will mainly have to work on sword and hanbo stuff. So now I am practicing

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I was being very cultural, yessss, i try to look educated :-). I was in theatre on Wednesday with my friend, as a Japanese guest theatre company made a performance in one of the biggest theatres of Budapest.It was the Okura Kyougen Theatre Company from Tokyo and they performed two kyougen stories: Kazumo (Wrestling with a Mosquito) and Ne Ongyoku (Singing While Waying).They also gave a little

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It seems that Apocalypse is cancelled again due to lack of interest, just like in 2000 :-)))

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Hehe, I've read here and there that some prophecies say the Anti-Christ will appeare on 6 June, 2006 (6-6-6). Hehe, I am curious what day is ahead of me on Tuesday :))) Maybe we all should take a day off? :)))

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Had a busy weekend - it's getting to be somewhat normal, I would say. Fortunately or unfortunately? Well, I get a lot of money for all this extra work, which is good, but it does not leave much time to rest, which will revenge itself on a longer run, I am afraid.Friday weather front worn me out so I went home right after work and fainted into the bed.Saturday mornign was spent with html coding

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The exam went quite well on Tuesday.There were about 50 applicants for the same department where I applied to.The written exam was held in one of the largest meditation rooms, with a huge bronze Buddha in the middle - it really made me feel relaxed and comfy. We started at 9 am sharp and had an hour to answer the fifteen questions of the test and write a max 2 pages long essay.The test was a

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Yesterday I saw The Da Vinci Code. Interesting one. Now I see why the "Caotic" Church raised its voice against the movie (although I suspected the reason even before seeing it).I liked it very much so I will get the book in my hands when I finished with my exams and read the story. Even tho the end of the story is very probably a fiction only, but the whole thing is kinda "tapping" around the

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Oh yes, I've been a bad girl and I missed Thursday's training. Now, judge me and whip me! :-)I was so dead tired after Wednesday night's dinner and I had a hard weekend ahead of me, so I decided to go home after work and sleep.On Friday I went to theatre after work and got home pretty early, at 22.00 pm.Today I had to go to work again - only 6 hours tho. This overtime period started up at Summer

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Yesterday Toshi san and me finally managed to meet.It seems that every time we want to meet we have to struggle with communication problems which mostly arise from the fact that my mobile does not work in my office (in the basement) or that my card's balance is Zero. But we made it yesterday, YESSS! :)Boy, it was a great evening! Both him and me were hungry, so I decided to reserve a table at a

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Training tonight was not the brightest one for me.I arrived late due to working some overtime and by the time I entered the dojo everyone had a pair, and they practiced tehodoki, with sabaki kata. I quickly warmed up and joined two guys, as a third one. Both of them were beginners and huge ones, over 100 kg both. One of them used to do Tae-Kwon-Do before, and it was very obvious by his movements.

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Hmmm... enjoying a sloooow and relaxed weekend :-) there is nothing better than this :-) okay, maybe a Delicacy of Shomlo in the bed, after a good sex might über this :-) I've been a real slacker today, was watching TV for hours, way too good porgrams on National Geographic and Discovery.The meeting with Toshi-san had to be postponed the other day, due to some miscommunication, so we agreed to

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Busy 3 days and a nice relaxed weekend is ahead of me.Next week my boss is leaving for the US for three weeks, so we work like a madman to complete everything important before his departure. I am to substitute him in his absence, so it's kinda my interest that every important issue gets closed down by then.Also, Summer University is starting up soon which means more and more work every day - I

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Papa's seminar was held last weekend but I never got to post a report on it, I was so busy. Hope you can forgive me this enormous sin :-). The seminar was organized by DJH - the same guy who does the live-training thing that is conducted by N. Sensei directly from Japan.Anyway, I was the only one person from our dojo who registered and showed up at the seminar, which was a little surprise for me

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Hiya Allz, I know I promised a report on Papa's seminar which was held last weekend here in Budapest and was great, but I've been so busy in the past days that I never got to writing it, and it seems it won't be better until this weekend. This week I am very busy with Japanese, we go with big steps and thanks to this whole weekend seminar I was not able to prepare for this week's classes, so

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Öskü Yesterday I was at Öskü to attend the mastercourse of my former theatre. It is a small village and has a very special roundish christian zion (chapel). It was built in Roman style on the top of a hill which is said to have a special spiritual irradiaton.There were about 30-35 participants and we started with a short meditation in the chapel. After then came the warm-up session which was very

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I've been very busy in the past few days and never got to write anything in my blog. I think I don't have to post daily anyway. As I mentioned before, the way you see things may change at a distance of a few days (weeks/months/years) time.Shooting the movie on Wednesday went very smoothly. I took the train at Western Railway Station. It took an hour to get to Pazmaneum, which allowed me to "warm

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This day was going to be very busy, due to an unexpected surprise.As I opened my mailbox in the morning at the office I saw a mail that I received from a Japanese guy from Japan-Guide.com, with whom I have started corresponding just 1-2 months ago.He is an SAP trainer, residing in the UK at the moment, and regularly comes to Budapest to provide SAP training. In this email he wrote that he has

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It seems that things are coming back, like in an endless circle: yesterday the guy I was talking about visited and gave me the screenplay of the movie in which I got a role. The movie will be about a novel of a famous Hungarian writer, and it has a kind of ironic athmosphere. I will have to play with an actor guy I have never seen or worked with before, and there is also a light bed-scene, which

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The other day I've accidentally run into and old egyptologist friend of mine. We have not seen each other for about 2-3 years and even now we had only a few minutes until we both continued our way to our works. So I took the opportunity and asked him about Egyptian hermeticism. He said it was a difficult issue as the original texts are very difficult to translate and percept even for experienced

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These past few days have been very calm. Boss is away at a conference and not much going on in the office either, so now I have a little time to catch up with some web related work, of course with listening to Evanescence in the background. That band rocks. I don't recommned listening to them when you're in a pessimistic mood. The girl who writes the lyrics and sings might have (had) serious

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Yesterday's training was held by Botond, as Attila could not come for some reason. We run a bit as a warm up, also stretched and did a quick series of basic hits and kicks. Also some kamae no kata and sabaki kata.Then we got paired up again. I got together with one of the girls, Zsófi. She's a cool one, tough enough, I mean not a whinning pudding, but of course she does not like being beaten

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