El ne felejtsem - Note to self

Reggelt Utolsó mohikánnal kezdeni nem jó ötlet. Szombat reggelt, így hétvégét, még kevésbé. Mert 1) szomorú leszek tőle 2) dühös is. És szomorú. És azzal elmegy az egész délelőtt.

Starting the day with The Last of the Mohicans is not a good idea. Even less so if that morning is a saturday, and so it is the start of the weekend. Becouse it will make me 1) sad 2) and angry. And sad. And that tooks the whole morning whit it.

Na jó nem az egész, mert közben befejeztem egy sapit és kimostam-"kiszögeltem" egy sálat. Jipppí :) Aztán még könyvtárban is voltam és most Shakespeare-t olvasok (Othello). Huh. Austen esti mese hozzá képest.

Well not the whole, i did finish a hat and washed-blocked a shawl. Yipppy :) Also i went to the library so i'm reading Shakespeare now (Othello). Ugh. Austen is kid's tale compared to him.

"Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate. " - Azt mondád nekem, Hogy gyűlölöd őt
Ez ma így hangzik: Which nowadays is:
You said (told me) you hate him. (kb.) - "Azt mondtad gyűlölöd"

És ez három mondatonként ilyen. Az ismeretlen, régies szavak meg a szimbólumok már csak hab a tortán.
And it is like this in every third sentence. The uncommon old-fashioned words and the symbols are the icing on the cake.

Random

Ha a varrónő nagynéném olvasta volna a twilight könyveket, Carlisle lenne a kedvenc karaktere, azt hiszem. Majd megpusztultam mikor ezt megláttam... ("mert gyorsan varr" :D)
If my seamstress auntie have had read the twilight books, her favourite character would be Carlisle, i think. Almost fell off my chair from laughter seeing this.

Találtam egy kupac aranyosságot a deviantart-on - és már megint elrepült az idő...
I've found a bunch of funny stickers on deviantart :) - and run out of time again...

Ez pedig a személyes kedvencem (ma estére) =^_^=
And this is my personal favourite (for tonight) =^_^=

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Tegnap megvettem a karácsonyi ajándékomat. Magamnak. Egy kiló fonal :D Remélem a postának elég lesz az egy hónap a kézbesítésre, a fa alatt már kötözködni akarok!
I also bought my christmas present. For myself. One kilogramm of yarn :D I hope one month will be enough for the post to deliver it, i want to knit under the tree!

Átmeneti lányos elmezavar - Temporary girly insanity

So i checked the cinema's program and went to watch New moon. 'Coz i like 1) wolves 2) forests 3) native americans . Mmmm.
There should have been an order to prohibit giggling. At 80% female audience, i'm not expecting much, but what was going on here was insufferable. The girls sitting in the first 3 rows just giggled on everything and constantly. Ok, not constantly, but in the wrong places sometimes - i mean, what is funny about Jacob sleeping? It was cute, not funny. But the wolves "fighting" over the muffins, then there was some serious silence. Female mind, i'll never get it :P :D

My personal opinions:
Best thing in the movie: i feel a bit, hm, overaged for this boys, but wow there was some eye-candy here. Jacob/Taylor Lautner got a huuuge whooop for taking off his t-shirt :D Every time :D Team Edward had they moment too, though i just couldn't stop giggling (in silence - I do have self-control :D) I always found vampires and they serious paleness slightly amusing. Guess i'm a wolf-girl.
Ah, and the wolves. I love the wolves. They werent too realistic, but still.

Worst thing : i'd like to kick the bottom side of the person/people who put that hair on Jasper. He was downright ugly, especially after the first movies handsomeness.

Biggest lough: "Guy's such a marshmallow". I knew it will come as i read it in the book (in another bout of girly insanity) but it still kicked.

Most annoying: Bella had the same face thorough the movie. On her own birthday while talking with Edward, when being depressed, even after getting Edward back. That's at least three different stages, three very different situations, and in the book, she was different. Ok, maybe it's hard to act it out, but wish they could.

Best change compared to the books: Charlie. Maybe being the most mature actor among so many youngsters does the trick.

Overall, not bad, for me this book was the weakest among the four, so i guess they couldn't do much with the movie either. Looking forward for Eclipse and the big fight :)

Múlt hét - Last week 2. - London

Aaand on sunday (november 15) i went to London to meet a friend, and as we met at Victoria station at 10.50, we were just in time for the Changing of the Guard, wich starts at 11.30. At first we didn't see anything, but as time passed and we hold our ground and people left, we got a pretty good view. They were wearing they winter mantels again (last year we went london at january...) so no red coats again. But it was bice to watch.
After that we ate at the London Eye, and walked along the eastern bank until the path run out, then crossed to the west bank through the London Bridge.
I was surprised about the number of churches we saw, both small ones

and a really big one (i think it's Saint Paul's, i wish i've been in a better mood and had taken a closer look)

up to the Tower, and then i came home from Fenchurch street. I got a terrible hadache, as always when visit a real big city at daytime, i just cant stand the crowd and noise. But i was at home at 6 o'clock, and it was a nice day, and a nice week, overall :)

Múlt hét - Last week 1 - Poppy day and Christmas opening

(Ez most hosszú lesz :) ) (Loong post :) )

It was so busy (erm... at least for my standards) that i couldn't pull my thoughts together.

First, we had Poppy day, i mean Armstice day or Remembrance day, on the 11th of November. At 11 o'clock the whole factory stopped for two minutes. I don't remember if we observed it in the recent years, but maybe just i was away, i usually visit home in november.
So we just had the machine broken and i asked the setter to help, when he said with an oddly solemn face, in a low voice, that we will have to wait. I asked, and he explained - i already knew about this day, i saw it on the high street a few years back when it was on a saturday, and also read about it. The natives know about it too, but we foreigners were quite unaware of it, so i had to explain it about 5 times...
After we went back to work, we had a conversation whit the setter, i asked a few things, told him a few things that were different at home in Hungary and we agreed about the stupidity of the loss of so many lives even today. I mean all the time.
I was relived too, when he said that this is for both sides, for all sides to be exact, so not just the heroic british dead, but for anyone, anywhere. I told him that this was always a strange thing for me, being here and knowing that my country was on the other side, but this will not bother me anymore.



After this, on saturday (the 14th), i went shopping, and saw a small but fabulous parade on the High street. Literally fabulous. At first i thought it was a belated Poppy-day parade because of the brass band leading the procession.

There were all kind of cartoon and fairy tale figures following (and i had a very stupid angle to make pictures),some imperial stormtroopers (very impressively patrolling),a big and funny deer,

Santa's Grotto with real deers!

... small deers too :)
Cinderella's carriage drawn by two big and beautiful horses, the big bodied type whit the hippie legs - they were very agitated by all the drumming and music and crowds, the coachman could barely hold them back - but soooo beautiful... i just llllove these kind of horses :)

and a few more drummers


Actually the White Witch was there too with Ginarrbik but i messed up that pic.
They where advertising mostly, i think, one of the big shopping centres and at least two stage plays (Cinderella and Narnia) but it had a very "Official Start of the Christmas Season" - feeling for me :)
Especially as in the same week, all the blue-and-silver decorations wnt up - blue and silver, as the city's colours are blue and white. I still prefer the grees-red-gold combination, but this year the decor is pretty, unlike last year when it was simply colt and ugly. We have sparkles now, and it helps a lot :)
Plus the german christmas market came back again with the little wooden shops, oversized pans whit every kind of sausage, and half a dosen different kind of sweets booths. And of course the glühwein stand, whom sell Jägermeister as well. All set for Christmas :)

Otthon - At home

... úgy három héttel ezelőtt :)

... about three weeks ago :)

Szóval azt már megemlítettem, hogy voltam otthon, és repülővel mentem :D Aztán voltam színházban, rokonlátogatni, kicsit bóklásztunk Tatabányán - mert az egy olllyan szép hely - , vonatozunk, összeszedtem egy jó kis megfázást, meg három könyvet. No kb ennyi :)

I already mentioned flying home :D After that, i went to theatre, visited relatives, took a stroll at Tatabánya - coz it's sooo beautyful ;) - , traveled with train a lot, picked up a cold, and three books. In short :)

Theater was fun. I went with my mum, who in the past 1- 1 and a half year became a musical fun, and became acquainted whit quite a few theaters and stages in the capitol, Budapest. But this was prose, not music, so i was a bit afraid that she won't like it or will be bored all evening. I trusted in the actors though, as the theater - Katona Jozsef Színház - has a very strong troup of actors. No wonder this was my favourite place.
It was a bit like going home, or at least to a very familiar and very kind place; all the ugly plastic-marble walls, the too small buffet and hall, the low ceiling full with stage lamps overhead, the small auditorium whit the red chairs... it was all very cozy.
We didn't get disappointed. The performance was a bit slow for me, since i wasn't in theater for 4-5 years now, the pace was slower then usual anyways as this was a russian piece, Barbarians by Gorky, and well, russians in a small town, that's always slow. We had some laughter though - that's another thing i like in this place, they make you smile and think at the same time like nowhere else - and it was overall a very nice evening. Full house of course, whit people standing on the stairs, as usual here.
I saw my favourite actor playing someone rude and loud (and ugly :P) for the first time, and that was strange, like he changed too, i thought; but at the and, when they came to bow (about three times, mum said "huhh, they got a lot of applause!" for which i told her that 3-4 rounds were the avarege here as far as i can remember), so, when they come to bow, each time he slipped back more to being himself - shy and cute - and visibly shaking off the character, the uglyness and grumpiness and all.
I dont know what the others did, maybe other actors do the same though :) I wasn't watching them, we sat in the 17th row, last but one row, bit too far.

Olvasás - Reading

Elég gyorsan olvasok már angolul, szinte észre se veszem hogy lassab vagyok mint magyarul, csak amikor vissza kell mennem és újra elolvasni egy mondatot a nyelvtan miatt.

I'm on a level now in reading english language texts that i can't feel that i'd be slower then while reading hungarian texts except when i have to go back and reread something because of the grammar.

Aminek az a következménye, hogy amikor magyar könyv kerül a kezembe, akkor egyszerűen túl gyorsan olvasok, és átrepülök a betűk fölött, anélkül hogy fölfognám, mit is látok. Koncentrálnom kell, hogy ne csak beazonosítsam a betűket és össszerakjam a szavakat, hanem meg is értsem az értelmüket. Mintha felolvasnék magamban, így viszont kong egy kicsit, nem szeretem a felolvasást, arról tudom, hogy most olvasok, és nem tudok belemerülni a cselekménybe.

The consequence is that when i read a text in hungarian i'm way too fast. I read the letters too quickly without comprehending the meaning. I have to concetrate to not just getting the letters and putting the words together but also getting the meaning. Practically i have to read out for myself in silence, but it makes things a bit hollow, i don't like reading out, it makes me too consius about reading a book and can't immerse in the plot.

Az élet újabb nagy problémája.

Another big problem in life.

:)

Villanykörte - Light bulb

"Hány törpe kell ahhoz hogy kicseréljenek egy villanykörtét?"

"How many dwarfs you need to change a lightbulb?"

Úgy tűnik kettő kevés :) Én beleörtem a foglalatot - az üvegrész a kezemben maradt, miközben lecsapódott a biztosíték -, Kati meg szétcincálta kicsit a foglalatot. Bajonettes, úgyhogy van egy ilyen belenyomod-elfordítod-ottmarad mechanika benne - vagyis volt.

Apparently two are not enough :) I broke the bulb off the mount - the fuse went off, the bulb was in my hand, there were some spark, and the mount stayed in the socket . Then i called K., she get the mount off but broke the ceramic socket. Its a bayonette-cap thing, which has this push-turn-stays there mechanism - i mean, it had.

Irány a bazár, azaz a Wilko - háztartási bolt - ha szerencsém van és tartanak iylen cuccot; ha nincs, akkor BQ - a naaagy barkácsbolt amihez le kell menni a térképről. Grrr.

So, tomorrow i'll have to go the the wilko - the household shop - if i'm lucky and find the stuff there; if not, then BQ, the big diy off the map. Grrr.

Víz a Holdon - Water on Moon

No lehet hogy én vagyok lemaradva, mármint ha már eddig is tudott volt hogy van... de ha nem, akkor ez tök jó :) Bár nem akkora poén, mint a víz a Mars-on :D

Ok so maybe it is just me lagging behind but i did not know about this being known before (uhh, grammar after midnight...) Anyways, if this is right then it's coool :) Not that big of a joke though then water on Mars :D

Monszun - Monsoon

Talán túl sok a kínai és thai néni a munkahelyen, és az időjárás azt hitte hogy ez ázsia... Bőrig áztam mire kiértem az állomásra. Bár ha jobban belegondolok, már vagy félúton. Szerencse hogy tartok mindig egy pót-pulcsit a szekrényben, át tudtam vetni ugyanis a hosszúujjúm is vizes lett. Csak épp ez még a nyári, lenge, mélyebb kivágásúak közül volt, úgyhogy ebédig cidriztem. Kiteregettem a szék hátára, így szünet végére megszáradt annyira a pulcsim, hogy föl tudjam venni.

Azért estére csak elállt.

Perhaps there are too many chinese and thai women at the workplace and the weather thought this is Asia... so we got monsoon today, if the friday 13th wouldnt be enough. I get soaked in the time i got to the station. Well, thinking again, i get soaked halfway there already. Luckily i always keep a spare top in my locker so i could change as even my top got wet. Only problem was that the spare was a summer one, thin and bit too low cut for the temperatuse so i was cold until lunch. I hanged my stuff onto the back of the chairs at lunchtime so after the break i sould put the top on.

At least the rains stopped at the time we come home.

Berlini fal - Berlin Wall

Idén már többször is eszembe jutott, különböző dolgok kapcsán, hogy "te jó ég, már 10/20 éve". Ez is egy olyan. Őszintén szólva magára az élő eseményekre nem emlékszem, és az elkövetkező években annyiszor és annyi helyen mutogatták, hogy összemosódnak a dolgok.
De azt tudom, hogy akárcsak a többi '89-es eseménynél, ennél is teljesen tisztában voltam vele, hogy mit jelent. Visszagondolva ugyan furcsa ez tekintve hogy 8 éves voltam, de tudom, hogy tudtam :)

This year at multiple times did i thought "my goodness, it was 10/20 years ago". This is one of them. To be honest i don't remember the actual news, and the following years the events were shown so many times at so many occasions that the memories became quiet blurred.
What i'm certain of is that at just like other events in '89, at this one too i was perfectly aware of what is happening and what it means. This is a bit strange now looking back considering i was 8 years old then, but i know what i knew back then :)


Valami ilyesmi az a kép, ami a legjobban megmaradt. Sötét van, emberek mindenhol a falon, alatta, rajta, másznak föl rá és integetnek róla.

My clearest memory is something like this. It's dark, people everywhere, on the wall, around it, climbing onto it and waving from it.

A háttérben pedig szól a Wind of Change a Scorpions-tól - tudom, hogy egy évvel későbbi, és '91 -ben lett ismert, de annyira az esszenciája annak az évnek, hogy ennyi anakronizmust megengedek magamnak.

And in the background plays the Wind of Change , a Scorpions song - it was written a year later and become a hit in '91, but is such an essence of that year, that i allow this anachronism to myself.

Van még petárda - Still have crackers

Még most is puffogtatnak. Még világosban kezdték.
Akárcsak tegnap.

Still cracking. Started at daylight already.
Just like yesterday.

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Az meg egy másik dolog, hogy '90-es évek Magyarországán felnőve, az első dolog aminek hasonló hangja volt mint ami most megy odakint, az Szarajevó (és más városok) ostromáról készült közvetítések voltak. Több éven keresztül.
Előtte ugye nem nagyon látott az ember gyereke tüzijátékot, csak messziről, meg tévében; aztán az évtized végére azér már voltak városi szintű piro-előadások is, de ott meg ugye látta az ember a füstöt és a kezelőket is a bolt lapostetején. De ezek a hangok nekem még mindig az ágyúzást idézik, különösen amikor nem hallatszik a a petárda szikrázása és sistergése, csak a fellövés pukkanása. És ez a gyakoribb.

On an other side, having been grown up in Hungary in the '90s, the first thing i clearly remember making such noise as this were the reports about the siege of Sarayevo and other fights in the former Yugoslavia. For years long.
Before that there where not many fireworks around apart from the ones shown on tv and some at national holidays so i (we) were not used to it; by the end of the decade we too had shows in our small town but at those one could see the smoke and the men handling the stuff at the top of the groceries store, so one know what they were. But these sounds are still just too similar for me for those canon and gunshot sounds, especially when i can't hear the sizzling and cracking of the firework only the sound of the shots. Which is the case more often then not.

És én csak a "szomszédban" laktam és a tévében néztem, de milyen lehet ez annak, aki ott is élt és tényleg repkedtek ágyú, puska és egyéb lövedékek a feje felett?

And i was living only in the "neighbourghood" and watched on tv, but how must it feel like for someone who lived there and actually had cannon and machine gun rounds flying over their head?

2010

Oké még messze van, de épp most vettem meg a kötős újságom legutóbbi számát, amihez egy mini napló is járt, és belenéztem az utolsó lapokba. És olyan szemétség, hogy karácsony is és újév is hétvégére fog esni!!! Ekkora kiszúrást :(((

Ok, it's still far away, but i just got a 2010 mini diary with the last issue of the knitting magazine i usually buy and turned onto the last pages. And damn, both christmas and new year will be on weekends!! This is so not fair :(((

Bonfire Night

No ez az amit nem tudok lefordítani magyarra, mármint az egy dolog, hogy "máglyás éjszaka", no de mi is ez... Talán az angol abszurd humor egyik legjobb példája.
Először a HP első kötetében olvastam róla, bár akkor még azt hittem, haloween-re utalnak, de nem. A lényeg: 1605-ben e napon egy Guy* Fawkes** nevű fickó vezette összeesküvés megpróbálta felgyújtani/robbantani az angol Parlament épületét és megölni az épp aktuális uralkodót, I. (a skótok szerint VI.) Jakabot. Sikertelenül, de ennek emlékére azóta minden évben november ötödikén nagyobb puffogtatás és petárdázás folyik, mint szilveszterkor. Azt hiszem igazi, rendezett tüzijáték nincs, ez a nép szórakozása :)

* Angolul a guy kb a pali szó megfelelője. Mindkettő személyt, férfit jelent, és egy férfi becenévből alakult ki.
** Igen, a főnix Fawkes neve innen jön :)

Representing the best of english absurd humor: bonfire night. In the remembrance of the Gunfire Plot - a group of men led by Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the english Houses of Parliament and kill the king, James I (VI according to the scots). They failed, but people remember them every year on this day with fire crakers and bonfires. No official fireworks as far as i'm aware - this is the people's fun :)

* the word guy meaning men, person, comes from his name.
** yes, Fawkes the phoenix gates his name from him :)

Hazaút -The way home