Havas Svájcban/ Szilvia in Switzerland

Sway with me...

2010-11-23T01:46:00.002+01:00

It always takes me ages to find this video... now i share it here :)

Only you have that magic technique! ;)

The mathematical formula of happiness

2010-02-15T22:39:00.003+01:00

I know it has been a long time :)
No excuse, just life was running with me :)
I dont even know the last time, i wrote here sth...

I am reading a lot - actually, i was even thinking of opening an other blog - and there only writing about the books i read and the impacts, the thoughts.

Well... where to start?
If you have'nt seen the movie from Nick Cassavetes - My sister's keeper - than you should defintily watch it!

OMG!

I read one of the review where they were mentioning Nick Cassavetes - as the living advertisement of Kleenex...

Well... for sure, I was crying like an idiot while I was watching that movie.
From the 3rd minutes of the movie... during the whole time...
There were several parts, I had to watch again, as i missed it while i was crying like a baby.

Than, I learnt, that this movie is based on the book from Jodi Picoult.
No need for more, I went to one of the nglish bookstores here, and wanted to buy it...
Then, i learnt, she has already written some other best sellers.

Her novels are real page-turners, and also her style is to pick a moral question, which should be from the beginning very black and white... than she manages to twist the characters, the story lines, the relationships in a way, that it shadows everything grey...

Amazing!
Now, I am reading her novel, titled Nineteen minutes.
It is about a teenage boy, who shooted 10 people in one of his schoolday.
No need to say, this book is full of surprises, and i am always trying to swallow back my tears...

In this novel, i read an interesting thing: about the mathematical formula of happiness.
At that point, i had to stop to comb through this theory. I surfed a little bit on the net, and - as unbeliveable as it is - i found several different formulas.
Apperantly, scientists wants to put everything in equatation.
(I found also an article about a mathmatical formula of LOVE - this formula tried to modelize different scenarios of love - depending on how much emotion/romance is involved, also, running the logic in case of 1 mistress or even in case of more... Twisted minds...)

Anyway,s back to the mathematical formula of happiness.

The main ones:
H = R/E
That is:
Happiness = Reality / Expectations

So, to increase one being happy, you need to either improve your present, or lower your expectations. :)

Bulit by a similar logic:
H = R/N
Happiness = Resources / Needs

Or:
H = S + C + V
Happiness = Biological set + Conditions + Voluntary activities

Last:
Happiness = P + 5XE + 3XH

For this, we need a simple paper and pen - you need to answer 4 simple question by scoring each according to how true is it for you: 1 - being not at all - 10 totally true for me

1. Are you outgoing, energetic, flexible and open to change?
2. Do you have a positive outlook, bounce back quickly from setbacks and feel that you are in control of your life?
3. Are your basic life needs met, in relation to personal health, finance, safety, freedom of choice and sense of community?
4. Can you call on the support of people close to you, immerse yourself in what you are doing, meet your expectations and engage in activities that give you a sense of purpose?

Than:
- add the score of the first 2 questions - the result will be "P"
- the 3rd question stands for "E"
- 4th one for "H"

So, now, put the numbers there:
Happiness = P + 5XE + 3XH
Max is 100.

What is your score? :) How happy are you?

Btw... I dont know, if it is only me... but 5XE - i could read it as SEX ;)

So here is my - very scientific formula -

H = F + S + S + M

Happines = Friends + Snow + Sun + Mountains ;)
Based on my last weekend - in France.
Oh boy! What a weekend! :)
More picture to come - once i also get them from the main organizer :)

Stay tuned.. I feel more active for further notes :)

bisous

October

2009-11-08T01:31:00.003+01:00

October is always the worst - but still somehow the best - period during the year.
Let me explain.

October is the busiest, we are closing the old fiscal year, and starting the new one. This means, we have to prepare for the sales letters to be released before end of November.
This year, however, we had an even more agressive readiness plan, countries have 3 weeks to release the letters to the sales force.

On the other hand though, this rush, the stress, the ongoing movements, the long office hours (with ordering pizza in), the continous phonecalls, meetings, trackings, that's what it all makes it so great.
Ok, I am not saying that it is not awful, but i like it... i like it more comparing to the days when there is nothing good to do.

So, work.
October is all about work.
I had my 4th contract started Noember. It was uncertain what i am going to do after December.

I went to interiews, I got job offers, in poland, in Wien, in Ireland... not just from HP, but from companies outside...
There was also one quite good and serious in Geneva too...

Everybody was suggesting me, i should just go for it, and leave HP behind...
Howev,er somehow, i just can not do that.
It is a love&hate relationship.
Sometimes I could just stand up and run away, leave my boss behind, and leave the whole thing in a deep shit... but who deosn't feel it from time to time at work?

It is however strange, I admit, that they first can not offer me any position. Than - out of nowhere - exceptionally, I could get a contract for 2 months! 2 months!!! I am that idiot that i take it, so yes, i deserve what i get.
Than, they offered me a position in Poland!!???!!
In Poland?? I mean, why not than back in Hungary???
What's the difference?? Seriously... They thought I would take everything...

Than, exactly on the same day when i had my extrnal interview, and it was obvious that they want me and i also liked them a lot, on exactly that day, my boss was telling me, that ever since he otld me there is no way i can stay with this team, he was devasteted, and he was so sad, so he was fighting for me, for me to stay... so i should be happy and grateful, that he was fighting for me a lot... as a headcount..

ààààà

so, those political games.. i dont like...
you are either good at what you do or not.
the rest is politics.. which.. unfortunatly.. part of the game.
So yes.. don't hate the players, hate the game...
but...
it is a vicious circle, the players determine the game...
aawhh

anyways, if recent hirings happens.. than life will be very very strange at work..
And i keep on asking myself what did i do.. why did i deserve that?
If that is charma.. than i really should apologize for all my mistakes...

But... bottomline is: I accepted the 2 year contract, I am happy. but also I think this is the minimun, and i think of it as an other chance, an opportunity to finish and accomplish my goals, why i came to switzerland at the first place. (hm. afterall, sth sticked out of those aiesec years... ;))

Also, October was special, as my childhood friend (our friendship just turned 18.. ;)) and her boyfriend visited me :)
It was so good to see them.

And you know, when you are spending lots of times with married people, you keep on thinking marriage is missing from your life, than when you are spending lots of times with single ones, you keep on thinking, partying is cool...anyways, so it was just great to see them together, couple. spenidng some really good time together... having fun, long discussions.. so yes, it was fun :)
Missed you Reka!!!! Can't wait for that hot wine... ;)

Guess what... : Gruyeres... love that place ;)
I have been there like 6 times.. or more :)

September

2009-11-08T01:11:00.004+01:00

Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of Summer...

Somehow, this is the song that pops in my mind about September...

And of course my mother's birthday
and the palinka festival at home ;)

But still...
you wish the summer could always be here...

But, during the autumn, we went to hiking, Zermatt, Gelmersee and other wonderful places in this amazing place - Switzerland... ;)

August

2009-11-07T23:48:00.004+01:00

Hahahaha ;)
August an other trip.. GREECE!
With my tripod stool! ;)
Love them!!! ;)

I don't even know what can I say...
It started with a 1 hour delay at the airport...
but even before.. there were signs - bunch of signs- that this holiday is a bad idea...
As if we were playing with our charma...
Train - bus issues before traveling, accommodation in Crete (don't ask...), Saloniki instead of Athens, everything ,everything showed this holiday will be a disaster.

But, of course, knowing 3 of us.. it is impossible.
We did have our downtimes, however, the whole week was just amazing.
Greece!
The sea, the whole adventure, the FOOD, Pavlos, the restaurant owner, Skiathos, above all Skiathos... it was amazing ;)
To sum up:
"Raise your hands... it's more fun that way"

Despite of the break up&the change we all went through, best tripod ever...

And hey, friends are those, who will bring the spade to dig, in case you want to hide something... but also friends are those, who tells you to stop if there is a slippery slope and you lost control! They are the real friends, because they want you to grow...
they might shock you at first by telling you the truth that deep down you knew as well, just somehow didn't want to realize, but later -if you are not that stubborn - you do realize who is right. ;)

I do want to repeat it... ;)

Can't wait for December, for an extended fivesome ;)

July

2009-11-07T23:08:00.004+01:00

Hello, hello...

Yes, I am sill alive.. i know i haven't been active for ... erhm... 4 months!!!

Sorry for that.. really...
it was just summer time, than a little crisis, i had to get through, but now it is all settled, i am fine, just fine.
So, november Saurday night, and i am at home as a couchpotato.. even if my friends try to convince me to get my big ass out for a few drinks.. but there is no such a thing as "just for 1 drink...".

so, instead, i can write until Megavideo lets me in again to watch Lie to me... (10 more minutes.. ;))

July - was amazing...

I went to TUNISIA!!!!

It was sooo great! I really missed Julia, and it was soo great to see her, catch up on 7 months of dramas, funny and hialrious stories, gossips, work and everything. I missed that a lot.
And, of course, I needed that couple of days alone, out of Europe. ;)

Arrived Thrusday night, went for the best choxcoale thing in Tunis, tried to talk a little, but some guy was hiting on us - Julia was extra cool - as usual, so it was fun ;)

Than Friday, the girls went to work, I stayed at home a little, than decided to go to do some siteseeing.

Well.. i felt like "Szucsi vagyok Dombovarrol"...
Like when a little girl from a village ends up in the capital, gets out of a taxi and looks up and around -. all surrounded by skyscrapers...
Only that in Tunis, I was surrounded by yellow cabs, arab people, arab culture.
Still it was fun.
Of course julia told me everybody goona ripp me off, as it is sooo bovious that i am a stupid naiv tourist, who doesn't even speak french... ;)
However, what they didn't know is... that i got trained in Morocco. ;)
I was acing so cool :)
at least that's what i thought... anyways..
unis was fun and i was nice.

Than in the evening, we went for a party at Julia's friends place. (spanish/mexican/ gang - as always ;))

We were drinking, and playing "kings" (which I will never play again.. hahaha)

Than Saturday there was a foam party close to Tunis - the famous foamparty in Hammamet. Cool! :)
Sunday was just chilling and BBQ, farewell of some of the inerns. sad day ... :( But i got some of the insides of the inerns lives... and i just hope i didn't ruin J.'s reputation a lot ... i can't help, when ppl ask me about life in Geneva... :D

And Monday went to Carthago and Sidi Bou Said. Beautiful.

It was great fun, and very very nice to see Julia again ;)

Some - public - photos:

Màshol nem lelsz hàzat, hazàt...

2009-07-27T22:29:00.002+02:00

It seems October is my date... it has been always a turning point for me.. don't get it...
anyways...

I am on youtube... and Eszter showed me this song from Szandi - yes... that teenage girl from the 80'2-90's. Now she grew up, and tis song is just soo moving...

"There are stilll bigger miracles then dreams waitnig for you..."

"You could live anywhere, there is still magic,
but you could feel, it's only a beautiful delusion..."

Képzeld, hogy szállhatsz,
és száz földet bejárhatsz…
Nincs társad más, csak a szél…
Képzeld, hogy szállhatsz,
és minden szépet láthatsz,
de a legszebb út hazatér…

Várnak rád álmoknál nagyobb csodák,
fény vár az árnyak közt, ha szíved jól lát.
Várnak rád többen, mint kívánhatnád;
máshol nem lelsz házat, hazát.

Refr.:
Élhetnél bárhol, van még varázs,
de éreznéd százszor: csak szép csalás.
Távolról visszatérnél, visszaálmodnál,
látnád, hogy több az otthon minden mámornál,
minden múlt bent él, bent fáj.
Hozzád bújt sok tél, sok nyár…

Képzeld, hogy szállhatsz,
az ég ma téged választ.
Ha társad nincs, mennyit ér?
Képzeld, hogy szállhatsz,
fent megkapsz minden választ;
ahol indultál, ott a cél.

Várnak rád álmoknál nagyobb csodák,
lesz út a kincsedhez, ha szíved jól lát.
Várnak rád jobban, mint kívánhatnád;
máshol nem lelsz házat, hazát…

Refr.:
Élhetnél bárhol, van még varázs,
de éreznéd százszor: csak szép csalás.
Távolról visszatérnél, visszaálmodnál,
látnád, hogy több az otthon minden mámornál,
minden múlt bent él, bent fáj.
Hozzád bújt sok tél, sok nyár…

Moroccan Odyssey

2009-06-21T19:32:00.003+02:00

After a few months of planning, finally we managed to visit Morocco. Visit??!! One of the best vacations I had since a long long time. :)

Planning - yes, everything started with the planning. First of all, we just wanted to go with Eszter for a weekend, to check Casablanca, go to the desert for camel trekking, than back to Geneva. However, 2 girsl in Africa... well... we decided we need a MAN... so asked Andras to join us. But of course for him, to have a look at the return of invest... it had to be extended from a long weekend to a 10 days excursion, visiting the imperial cities, and the ocean as well.
I have to sa,y after I saw the detailed agenda, with the budget in an excel.. i was like: No way... I am not going to get up before 9 on my vacation.. nooo waaay!!! But than the guys convinced me. :)
I will write down my experiences, and some suggestions for future visitors - as if there are sooo many people interested in this :)

1. day: Fying Geneva - Casablanca

Who cares, that our airplane was: jet4you, a never heard charter company... who actually borrowed the airplane from hello! - from an also very well known swiss company.
The ticket was reasonably cheap, however, we could have got it cheaper, if we had bought the tickets a bit ealrier than March. The flight took 3 hours, and as we entered to a different timezone, overall it took only 1 hour.
At the Casablanca airport, we had to get some money. It is prohibited to have dirhams before. Well, it turned out, that it would have been better just using an ATM to get some cash, instead of exchanging swiss franc or euros.

The taxi from Casablanca airport to Casablanca center was 300 MAD. We didn't even tried bargaining. Actually, we asked.. but they were very strong, and told us this is the general price at night.

At Hotel Central in Casablanca, we hada really adventorous experience. The receptionist was high like a kite, than our room was dirty, musty and small... so we asked for a change, the one on the roof - at least, it was better ;)

2. day Fez

After we managed to rent a car, we were heading to Fez - to the city where the King is living, population is 1 million. Actually Fez has become a tourist destination in the recent years, which I can totally understand. It has soo much to offer.. and actually, we didn't see enough.

As soon as we entered to the city, one big guy, wearing pink -shirt, on a small small scooter has just followed us -. started knocking on our car window, and shouted at us: "Hotel, hotel reservation". We tried to explain him that we already had a reservation, we don't need anything, only a guide.
Well, it turned out, he has a "brother", who actually speaks English, and he will show us around.
Well... yes.
Travelers or tourists? 0 -1 - definitly typicall stupid tourists. :)

We ended up at the Hotel, he recommended, but no regret at all, the place was amazing! really beautiful treasure in Fez - New Fez.

Actually, this shows, that even if you don't have hotel reservation beforehead, you can just go there and find something. It is pretty nice.

Abdol - our guide was a young, 22-year old arabic, who was about to study medicine and become a brainsurgent. n the meantime, he was ahowing us the Medina in Fez. We could get lost in the souq, the closed market. The streets of Fez's Medina is part of the World's Heritage. It has 9000 streets, oftenblind ones... so it is really handy to have a guide. Though, it might be that when oyu enter to a shop with an official guide, the prices raise high, due to his commissions.

Well.. we could not know everything. :)

In Fez, we also saw the leather district, and the factory where all those mosaique fontains are made. Really beautiful.

In the evening, Abdol took us to a fantastic, finger-licking dinner. Copious Moroccan dinner!
Seriuolsy, only the starter would have been enough. ;)

During our stay in Fez, they had the prestigous music festival. It was fun walking around the people.

3. day Middle Atlas - Fez - Merzouga -Erg Chebbi

This 460 km was truly the best part of our trip. Maybe, because all the panorama was still new for us, or just simply because in the Middle Atlas, after each turn you could find different view ofthe environment: a hidden oazis, picturesque red stone mountains, palmeries, date trees, etc.
Ifrane, Ziz Valley really beautiful places. ;)

Seriuosly, if we didn't have to hurry to catch our appointment with the barbar's for the camel trekking, we could have spent 1 night somewhere inbetween, just to truly enjoy the view and the way down to Merzouga. Actually, in Erg Chebbi, the guides were really nice and they were waiting for us, so we could stop for taking breathtaking photos.

We stopped in Midelt - just to fresh up a little. Well, Midelt is really dangerous, and there is nothing to see/visit. We only stopped for a quick lunch, but already false stones were offered. Terrible. We literally had to fly for our lives. ;)

In Merzouga, there is not much to see, that's why we went directly to Erg Chebbi. The people of the Hotel were really nice. Before Merzouga, there is a small - few km- offroad, we have to take, to reach the beginning of the desert. The hotel stuff came upfront to us, and we could follow the 4*4 witho our normal car. But there was no issue with that.

Of course, all the people were really nice, they offered us mint tea, and we could fresh up a little, before our camel trekking.

Oh boy! The camel trekking was ok, fantastic to see Algeria, the yellow/orangish sand dunes, everything.

But the best was, when after dinner, we went up to one of the dunes to see the stars, the moon, and we were scruching our toes into the Sahara, where the moon was shining, the sky was covered by millions of stars, amazing!

To tell you the truth, it was a really moving part, I could feel an inner peace, and really it was a very great hour of my life. :) I was thinking a lot there... a good meditation place. :)

We slept under the blue sky, and woke up at 5 to climb a bigger dune to watch the sunset for there.

Unfortunetly it was a bit cloudy and windy. But I still really enjoyed it. ;)

4. day High Atlas - Merzouga - Tinerhir - Gorge Todra

After returning from the desert, we could take a shower, and than after chilling at the hotel - mint tea and drums - we were heading to Tinerhir, to Gorge Todra.

The way in the High Atlas was also really nice, but we expected much more, after saw Middle Atlas. Anyways, we arrived to our hotel in Tinerhir, and had a wonderful late lunch.
Unfortunatly, the weather was not that nice, so we couldn't start hiking in the Todra, only managed to visit the village.
Well... how shall I say that? The most agressive carpet sellers, really lots of small children begging for a stilo or for anything else.. really .. not the best experience.

Not to mention, that almost everybody felt sick... so... we didn't really do a lot.. just chilling and eating ;)

5. day Gorge Todra - Dades Valley - Oarzazate

The next day we were up to some hiking. 4 hours hiking in Gorge Todra. This is a very good mountain to climb , also for professional climbers. For us, it was a nice hike, visiting a nomad family accepting the mint tea there, seeing a 14.member family living in a tent, not knowing how old the girl was, not knowing the time, the date, the month they were. Truly a different world.

After freshing up at the hotel, and having again a very luxuriant lunch, we were heading to Oarzazate.

Before that we had a D-tour in the Dades Valley, in the Dades Gorge by car. Beautiful again, however, the hairpin bands made my day a little... ;)

6. day Marrakesh - Ait Benhaddou

The next day, we were heading towards Marrakesh. Before, we stopped in Ait Benhaddou - the palce that insipred several famous directors, for example the Gladiator were filmed here with Russel Crowe!!!
Well, I have to say the place is better in the guide books, but still worth visiting it. :)

Than we arrived to Marrakesh, where, unfortunatly Eva had to leave us, as she - as usual - had to go somewhere else.. actually to India for a business trip ;)

This girl is just amazing!!! Full of energy and always on the roads!!! :P

We managed to have a little look at the caotic central market of Marrakesh, and had a very good dinner again ;)

7. day Marrakesh

Our accomodation was in the best Riad I think. The location was a bit dangerous, specially in the night, but after a couple of getting éost in the medina, we found it quiet easily. ;)
The owner is a morrocan woman with a german husband. ;) They are soo lovely and funny. :)

The room was really a 5star, and the service was also great.
The best, is however the roof of the riad. What a night! :)

Marrakesh is exactly as I imagined, full of people, full of caos, the central market with its 3 MAD freshly squeezed orange juice.. oh boy!! ;)

All the sellers, with bargaining, and negotaiting, and nobody knows where Hungary is... ooooh boy!!! So much fun, so great!
We did some sightseeing trip and had lots of fun.

Than, at the evening, we went out to a bar/club, had lots of fun, meet with local people. Really great. ;)

And again... the roof of the riad.. is just... unreciteable ;)

8. day Marrakesh - Essaouria

We left the car in Marrakesh, so after that we had to rely on public local transportation and taxis.

Aslo, it meant, that we were finished with the traveling, it was all about chilling.

During our way to Eassaouria, we had to stop, and we saw a really funny guy with his instrument, singing and enjoying himself. It weas hillarious!

Essaouria is next to the ocean, and agin, Andras didn't really feel well, so we left only the 2 of us, with Eszter, visited the port, the beach, the medina. We met a local cool guy, who likes to be called Delphino. ;) You can imagine, a blackish guy, full of muscle, acting as if he is really the local god, very cool guy. ;)
But, hey, he was fun, but a bit childish, and gets pissed off easily... specially when things are not happening as he expected.

But he dances well. ;)

In the evening, we sent Andras to hammam, so he can enjoy it a little. The strong massage from a huge black guy helped him... apperantly.

9. day Essaouria - Villa

The next day, we also went to a hammam... well... our experience were different than Andras'. But we also enjoyed it.
That's true, hammam is there for the arab women to wash, clean, and aslo clean thier souls. Still.. it was interesting to sit where the other women wher bruhing their teeth.. anyways, we dont talk about this.

After this, we left our accommodation and went to a Villa.
Oh boy! That accommodation.. was just amazing!!!
Really beautiful, and a bit remote... offside of Essaouria, but still worth it.
The whole place were ours.

10. day Essaouria - Casablanca

Than, we went back to Essaouria, had some chilling hours before our bus left to Casa.
So, we stayed in the beach, reading, chilling. ;)

The way to CAsablanca were a hussle... 6-7 hours in the bus..oh boy...

And agian, bakc to Casablance - we saw the medina, central market, etc.
But.. Casablanca is not that beautiful.

11. day Casablanca - Geneva

Our last day, we ran to visit the Hassan II. Mosque - a true masterpiece - amazing.

Than again, we had to run to catch our plane to Geneva, it was amazing. Guess, who were the last one on the check-in??

Seriously.. :)

In Rick's Cafe: Travellers - Tourists: 0- 2!!!

Overall, our trip was adventoruos, we saw amazing things, ecepereinced the desert, got lost in the squods, got discount while bargaining ;)

I loved this vacation!!!

Next destination: Greece than Tunis. ;)

Thanks a lot for Eszter and Andras for the photos, if it were me... well... ;)

bisous

Szomszedok - form my childhood

2009-05-27T23:51:00.003+02:00

This is about a hungarian TV show, that was basicly not just a simple TV show... but gave a correct overview of the hungarian lifestyle in the 1980's. The TV show was broadcast during 12,5 years.

Watching it now on youtube is one of my favorite activites nowadays. It is just HILARIOUS!!!!
And look what I 've found today:

I keep looking for the rest... ;)

Future...

2009-05-17T20:10:00.002+02:00

Maybe because this weekend i was watching a lot of TV series... (like Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, Private practice...) or maybe because of the long, long disucssions and chats i had with some friends, virtually or in person... ;) but these days i am very nostalgic, and thinking a lot about the future...

And than I came to this site, to write down some of the stuff, but than i read my "slogen" under "About me " section:

"Life is short,
Break the rules,
Forgive quickly,
Kiss slowly,
Love truly,
Laugh uncontrollably,
And never regret anything that made you smile."

And I realized that I should follow this... I should just live accordingly... life is short! :)

everything will be fine, just fine. ;)

So many things i would like to write about.. my upcmong trips to interesting places, Morocco, Greece, Tunis, my work at HP, my friends from high school who visited me, some great conversations I just recently had, all the people who I really really miss... and Geneva, the city, just a station for everybody... just stay here for a while, than move on, go forward... yes, a group of lonely, small, isolated islands...

Connections are fast made, friendships are more intense, but still... at the end... over...

oh.. again, i am in this mood... nothing can help, just a big ice-coffee.. the way i love it ;)

and an other movie.. ;)

promise, next time longer and more concrete... ;)

bisous

Never judge a book by its cover...

2009-04-15T22:30:00.002+02:00

Not only that Les Miserables is one of my absolute favorite. .but this song... is also...
And her singing it... oh boy! :)

And aslo in the beginning you can see and hear, everybody is laughing, a girl rolling her eyes...
and a minute after she sings the first line...
oooh boy...
:)
Indeed, extraordinary! :)

PS: Embedded is disabled by request at youtube..probably due to the millions of hits in youtube ;)

Random thoughts from google analytics

2009-04-02T23:40:00.004+02:00

As 1st of April was yesterday, and I didn't do any foolish stuff, I thought I can share with you some statistics about my blog.

Yes, I am tracking my blog... who knows, maybe if I got enough "clicks", I can ask for advertisements and i will get rich :D
hahaha

Anyways, first thing we could see from the google analytics is the Map overlay.

It shows your visitors from all over the world.
What a surprise, that I have the most visitors from Hungary and Switzerland ;)

The second thing I check are the key words... the one that one put in search , and than my blog is the referal site...

well...
just "google" going out in Geneva...
my blog is the second hit...

more important... if you type: beautiful camerunian girls, my blog is the first hit (after the ones that are paid advertisements..)

So that would explain why I have visitors from Cameroon...
(of course, you have to miss-spell cameroonian girls to camerunian... ;) )

I found this hilarious... ;)

bisous

Hungary, I love you as you are!

2009-03-29T17:23:00.003+02:00

I have already heard a lot about this beer commercial, but haven't seen it yet...

Until one of my friend posted it...

This is amazing!

So true, and this video gave me the creeps all over my body, my tears are falling....

I don't care at all that the original idea was coming from Canada...

And on youtube you can also find more and more parody about Hungary. Of course, I agree we should also see Hungary through a distorting mirror, and I am always the one who cam ake fun of herself in a sarcastic, grotesc way... Sure.. but just people needs to understand also those, who are living outside of the country. They are missing it a lot, and it makes them proud, and homesick, and goosy, and yes, PROUD!

I watched it like thousands time already... and still can not get full with it!

Oh, boy...! What a weekend! ;)

2009-03-24T21:00:00.005+01:00

Last weekend I went back home...

I had to get some injections... (hep A+B... stuff like that... as we are going to travel to Africa... .;)

And no, i didn't have to get those vacines because i was traveling back to Hungary, as some of my friends applied... saying that I changed...now I become one of the burgouise.... hahaha...

So...

Recently I took a very clever facebook quiz: "What type of alcoholic are you?"

The result was: Avarage Hungarian - of which I am very proud!

It means, that for me weekend parties start on Thursday...

We went to say good-bye to our awsome-st australian friend, Fiona...we ate fondue, than we went to Mulligans.. she also did sing a song!

After a few hour sleep, I was heading to Budapest... ;)

On Friday night I had a great party with Sanka and some university friends...

Still waiting for THE VIDEO!!! ;)

And finally, I know also, what's going to happen in August!

Yes... Zsicu & Zsozsi's wedding!!!

Can't wait for it!!! ;)

(And neither for the hen's night... :P)

AND!

Also, after a few hours sleeping, I was bumping down to Jaszbereny....

to the annual

"TRADITIONAL SPRING CELEBRATION PARTY..."

Maybe, because I missed the last 3 traditional parties,

or maybe , because I haven't slept a lot,

or maybe, because I missed Hungary (&my friends...) soooo much,

but.. I can't tell you about this.. the whole athmosphere, the people, the food, the drinks..

Oh, boy!

You have to experience it!

From 9 am on...

17 kg of sheep...

20 liter mutton-stew...

outside,on fire...

sun is shining (sometimes..)

lot's of cans of beer...

lots of Jagermeister...

than some whisky&coke... (which we could have missed... but anyways...)

No wonder, that we were already in a good mood at 11... ;)

Bally - THE host; Beci - THE cook

friends I haven't met since 3 years,

friends I really missed,

people I have just met...

Oh boy! What a weekend!

Sysy, SuTi, Bally & me

Weekend stories...

2009-03-10T21:42:00.005+01:00

A week ago we went to Gstaad - the Hungaraian maffia: Andras, Eszti, Norbi, me - and the greek intern, Dimitris. ;)

The original plan was to visit the Iglo-cave, Iglo - restaurant and hotel over there, (300 CHF for a room..and they have to build it again every season...)

but than the weather was sooo great, that at the nd we didn't eat inside, instead outside, under the sun.
(I think Jägertee is something avaiable only in Austria...I've never seen in any swiss or french ski resort...)

So, we did some sledging..
Yes, back to the childhood...
But, maaan, slediging is hard... and it is very scary.. and you can not always turn.. and it can be very fast...
Ok, sometimes it can be also very slow.. and tiring...

We did 2 rounds.. it was really funny :)))

First, i was alone...

Fairy & Froggy are back

The second round was more fun, we went with Andras together, oh boy... we were fast, and once we fell a huge.. :))))

Than, on this weekend, Tompi & Enid came from Zurich to visit us... They went to the car show.. (biggest in Europe..) tried to apply for test driving, and they checked all the cars... I have no idea, how could they spend their 5-6 hours...

Anyways, than we went to dinner...

Peter, Enid, Monika, Csizi, me, Alberto(PT), Elodi (FR)

The place was ok, it is rather for cocktails.. (mojitoooo) I guess: The 3s... in plainpalais...
After we went to Scandale - for celebrating Carissa's birthday, then we ended up in Shakers... And.. of course, we had to bump into 9 other hungarians...

But in Shakers I had soo much fun :)))

Alberto was very great, I hope he'll forget what we discussed... We actually had a deal, the party in Zurich will be on me (partly)... khm... ;) well... one is for sure... the expectation now is high... :DD
Aida managed to get us free shots: uzo on flame... hahaha... Just smile to the bartender guy ;)

A few weeks earlier, we had Ravaka's graduation party :) Oh, boy! What a party! The theme was 80's party...

Aaaand... I went to a french movie... ;)

Ok, it was: He is just not that into you...

But, VF - means: Version francaise...

hahaha... Lucky me.. the movie is nto a drama, and also the discussions are easy to understand:

"Tu es mon exception!"

"Je vais coucher..." - "C'est une invitation?"

hahaha... hilarious... ;)

And, it means, that when Aida is in Budapest, I can take her to a hungarian movie... ;)

bisous

You can't touch the Swiss

2009-03-04T19:38:00.002+01:00

I got this video from a collegue... check it out.. it is funny... ;)

Hungary, where are you sinking?

2009-02-09T23:06:00.003+01:00

It is shocking...I am speechless.

Can't find the words regarding the recent happenings in Hungary.

A well-known, famous romanian handball player, who plays in a great hungarian team, was stabbed in the heart, and died on Sunday.

It is shocking...

Nobody believes that such a terrible thing could happen nowadays.

And yet, the second or third comment of that news was already: yes, the socialist government's other achievement...

Come on, people... !!!

And, this comment was also made by one of my classmates at the university.

He is now doing a PhD in a well-known, prestigous university...

Seriously...

I am fed up with the government too... but seriuosly... this is ridiculous..

How is that again the fault of Gyurcsany?

Pff.. people should think a little...

I don't agree with the policies the government applies on the minorities ... (let's face it... on the gypsies either... ) but PEOPLE!!!
Seriously!!!

I really hope that whoever did this terrible thing, will be punished... as he deserves it.

I am also glad that the police managed to arrest them...

can not even imagine, if only half of those things are coming true what the newspapers and he people in the comments are writing ... revange with 100 - 300 ex-soldiers... and they are all waiting in front of the hungaraian border...

Seriously... this is the world we live in?

Pff...

Snowattack - skiing week

2009-02-09T22:13:00.008+01:00

As a great tradition, with my favorite ex-flatmates (everybody from UNIV211) and some other friends we go skiing for a week.

Last year we went to Gerlitzen, Austria...
This year: Puy Saint Vincent, France.
This is a small skiresort in the south of France...It takes like 8 hours from Geneva to get there... including of course 2 hours just waiting in Grenoble.
Anyways, despite all the problems I had with the train - pfff... we could not leave Grenoble because of some techincal difficulties...
And as we were stucked there more than an hour, it was more likely that I lost my correspondance to an other train...

So... guess what?
The train company decided to extend the way of my original train, and take me to my final destination...

Pff.... I was exciting some kind of a compensation, let's say, a free accomodation in Gap, or that they make my second train wait...
But this.... was shoxking.

This would never happen in Hungary.

So, finally, I got to Puy Saint Vincent (after the train I should get a bus as well... the traveling took me like 20 minutes.. in serpentie obviously... So i was very close to ... well..whatever...

When I got to the place... it was amazing: everywhere snow, and white, and huge huge mountains... oh.. loved it.. and of course Kristof and David was already waiting. ;)

The guys who I was supposed to take care of... ;)
Well... actually, it happened on the other way around.. they took care of me... cooked for me (best dishes...), helped me with the luggages, took care of me in the slopes, in the parties, even let me play UNO all day... ;)
Not to mention all the other great things, I learnt form the guys...

Guys, thanks a lot!! hahahaha...
And, yes, I know, you did all, what I should have done... but you guys were just simply...the best :)

Betti reserved a room for us, I was very glad for that too... as I defintily didn't want to sleep on the corridor... as Balazs and Farky did... ;)

Actually, I have to say my friends didn't really like the food that I brought with me... (the original, perfect cheese that is consumable till 11 February or the original, swiss Hütten Lunch with its weired smell... anyways...)

We figured out to have every night a dinner-competition, each night on e of us should cook something, and we are going to be the judges.
At the end of the night we decide, how many scores the cooker deserves....
Well, I have to say.. Kristof should have won the competition....as he cooked for us and took care of all of us..., yet, K, you should have cooked the soup on the first night...not the spaghetti... ;)

Yet, I am talking...

The one, who is such a great "leader" that managed to delegate the cooking, and let the others (Vandi&Jege, Maresz&Zoli) make us a traditional hungarian dish.
Ok, ok, to tell you the truth, I was responsible for baking the met - that means: check the meat in every 15 minutes with a folk... ;)

And actually, I did it for a greater good...

Nobody wants to taste what I cook anyways...and they shouldn't. ;)

So, we went out almost every night... ;)

Farky, Maresz, K - dancing

Ok, one thing I didn't tell you yet... Snowattack was basicly THE Hungarian party ski camp.
That means that a hungarian TV channel came with us, we were like 3000 people including some great artists (like Megastar whichever-winner Gaspar Laci..pff..and other never-heard famous "stars")
This week there are plenty of reports broadcast specificly on this camp.

So, yes, as a party ski camp... the parties were good.

K&Bandi...crazy-crazy Boogie night ;)

And... it had been snowing for like 3 days, we were worried by the end, how we gonna get back home, but, yes, it was fun!

I missed those guys, and it was good to see them again, talk to them, and experience lot of new things... I have broaden my horizont with some very funny, sometimes disgusting, sometimes tiring, but defintily awsome stories... ;)

K, Bali, Farky

I love ya all! ;)
(and gonna cry soon... ;)

Yes on immigration referendum

2009-02-09T00:11:00.003+01:00

Well, well, well...
Long time no update.. I know.
So, here I am...back from Snowattack - skiing week in France - it deserves an other post... ;)

On February 8th there was a referendum held in Switzerland for extending the right of EU citizens to live and work in Switzerland...actuallly it was for renewing the already existing agreement allowing migrant workers into Switzerland and extending it to Bulgaria and Romania.

Despite all the negative campaign, swiss voted yes...
59,6% of the voters backed this deal.

It was quiet a big deal.. as the EU has already indicated, if Switzerland would vote "No", the EU would use the guillotine clause and will cancel also the first package of bilateral agreements.

There were some very interesting negative campaigns as well... mainly by the ultra-rightist Swiss People's Party.

I understand that in this economic downturn swiss are also afraid of a huge wave of immigrants, and that poor romanians and bulgarians are taking the jobs instead of the swiss, since eastern europeans are cheaper labour.

However, the free movement goes on the other way around too... Swiss people are allowed to work in the EU as well, and cancelling all the bilateral agreement would not help the trade within the EU too...

Actually, it goes like this:
- you earn the most if you graduated in St. Gallen University
- then the rest of the swiss universities
- then the french people
- then the rest of the world...

So, of course, the fear of huge influx of eastern europeans is understandable...

2009

2009-01-11T00:30:00.003+01:00

Great Pre new years eve and new year s eve!!! :)

kisses

December

2008-12-28T18:38:00.007+01:00

Hey,

Well, in December I got my degree (finally), I said good bye to 3 of my good firends in Geneva, meet again my high school firends and had great parties, long (late night) discussions, worldchanging ideas, sport (ahm..sauna...), work, concert, work, museum, work and alcohol, strike, and lots of Christmas and family and candles...

Shortly, that was my December...
(and i still have a Pre-New Year's Eve party and the New Year's Eve party...)

For some great music, just click:
Music

On my graduation with my family

Julia's farewell party

High school reunion (Budapest & Győr)

I think I am just crazy.... ;)

2008-11-18T00:02:00.005+01:00

Had some time back in November... and now I found out that I started creating a post... so.. it's time to publsih it ;)

Good to have famous friends...

Yeah, famous family... Oh, boy... my little brother..

It shuldn't have been Beckham...

Croatia - Warholish... me, Sysy, SüTi ;)

Friends visit meee!!! :)) (100th posts...)

2008-11-08T17:52:00.005+01:00

Not that end of October, beginning of November wouldn't be busy enough... ;) (year-end closing, new year start up, quota setting, quota deployment, closing preparation for december payment...)
BUT, also 5 of my best friends visited me!!!

Sysy, Kristóf, én, Móni, Isti, SüTi

I am sooo happy they were here, however, I was not the best host actually...
I had to work several times...
But, I managed to take them to my favorite restaurant ... despite my very good advertisement skills (i.e. kind-of illegal restaurant, 2 kind of food: with or without meat! ;)

After the 70's party at CERN:

we managed to go to Gruyeres!!

I missed them soo much!!!
And still..
I think I have homesick... :(
They wanted to bring me home...
And you know how it is, the more you hear sth, you start believing yourself too...
Soo... who knows? :)

Big boss in Geneva

2008-10-20T21:25:00.004+02:00

Well, October is the busiest month for me.. I would say...

We have the year-end closing, H2 closing, the new fiscal year quota setting, quota load, deployment guidelines, training to the countries, etc. Really interesting, but tough period. However, I don't want to complain, because this is how I like working.
Under stress.
I know that as I am so lazy, I don't do anything till it is not burning..
Than I am working on 200%...
Ok, some may say the key is time management.
I agree... I do...
But it doesn't work for me.
I tried several methods, DO-IT lists, prioritizing, rating methods, still... my best performance is under pressure! :)

That's why I was happy - ok a little bit threatened too - when my new boss arrived to Geneva for a 2-days training.

IT WAS AMAZING!!!

You know, when there is a really good manager in the team, a teamleader... he might not understand anything at all what u are doing... but he has always key questions:
- Who is accountable for that? (RACI questions...)
- What is the aim of this...?
- What is the process/the flow?
- Who and how will control it?

You can always apply those questions.
And it was so great to see our team working together, really working together, in one conference room for 2 days, having real face-to-face meetings.
I totally understand the aim of HALO room (a great product of HP), I get it that we have travel freeze, but still... u can not compare the efficiency of a f2f meeting with a netmeeting or a virtual classroom training... :) Not to mention the evening team dinner ;)
Matching the voice to the face..getting to know some gossips about your team leader ;)

back to serious again:
At the end basically we are all analysts.
At yes, we do things by heart...
And we forgot to stop and THINK OUT OF THE BOX!

And yes, here we are again... aiesec...
;)

And basically Sales Compensation EMEA is the same as aiesec.
(We are going to have a great inner meeting in Germany... and for that we have to prepare our communication and marketing strategy... to reach out for the sales force... very very familiar tasks to what we did in aiesec... ;))

Anyways, so coming back to the big boss...
Amazing, how he can turn things up side down... just with asking those basic questions...
Than with that motivation speech he delivered at the end of the 2 days training...
Well yes, that's why he is the manager, and we are the analysts.

And.. also really amazing, that 3 days passed, and the motivation is back again to normal, our way of thinking is back again to normal. Why???
I want him back! :)

Ok, I think it will help when we get our own direct manager... and we won't be anymore a headless team... :)))

And also about the economic crisis that we are all facing now...
Well, in Switzerland you can also feel it... ;)
Ok, not at all in the same level as in Hungary for example, but definitely impacts our work as well. Who wants to buy a new printer now?? When the growth of countries are slowing down? China for example as well...
Or in the Middle East and Africa... the fastest growing region was dropped by 20%...
shocking...

Or when the political situation is not that stable in a country... how can you set a terget for your sales force knowing all those facts?
How can u implement new compensation schemes?

Don't even mention the exchange rates... $ against €...
Hmm... nice... work is great! ;)

Going out in Geneva 2

2008-10-14T23:59:00.004+02:00

Hmm... long time I haven't written anything...
well.. it was because every weekend basically was the same
What's more, not just the weekends but party from Thursday till Saturday... 3 days in a row... with a Friday working day in the middle...
hmm...

Where to go on a Thursday night?

- Well, first choice would be: Mulligans
Nice, charming, irish pub, with an old friend behind the bar...

Live music, good music... roll and rock :) Beatles as well as other older hits...

It was soo funny, somehow I always wanted to go there... I know Anthony's favorite place was this pub, but somehow the timing was never good for me...
So, the first time when I went there, I bumped into one of my old schoolmate from the french course.
Thanks to my great face memory, (not that it was so difficult to remember an old guy, around 45, gray hairs, deep, deep cigarette and alcohol voice...yes, my type indeed...) I immediately recognized him...
So, I was like: "Helloooo.... what a surprise!!"
Yes, he didn't have a clue.. who am I...
So, i continued... "You don't remember me, do you? French class.. Migros.. 2 months ago??"

And than he realized... i am that Hungarian who was always talking about the famous paprika pálinka, that he almost has to taste on the very last class... :)

So we started talking, and it turned out that he works there... hahaha
Cool! :)
hmm in the meantime i got to know that he went back to Holland, sth happened to the girl he lived with... anyways, i got to know the other guy behind the bar..we played paintball together :)

- Other option would be: Lady G - Lady Godiva, the English pub...

And now, as the beer of the months is Becks... and the price is also good... the pub is getting better and better :)
With good, more nowadays hits music! :)
The pub usually comes up with an idea or a theme for the night: "End of the world party"(=CERN), "Russian night" (=yes, cheap vodka...), "UN party night"(=it was more a usual party...) etc.

- For more than just a beer... visit Shakers.

Actually, I like this place, even if the entrance costs 20 CHF... The entrance fee covers 1 drink (you should choose either Kamikaze or Sex in the sky cocktail...) but this club remained smoking free.... even if now the clubs can decide on their own whether smoking is allowed or not in thier venue...
However, last Saturday the DJ was crap... probably he was drunk too... don't know.. but terrible...

During weekdays they are throwing partys like: Erasmus/Student party, with student friendly prizes of course...

- Krazy party in Crystal

Hmm.. Julia's graduation party... on 2 October...

Sarah (she also graduated on that day), me, Julia, Sylvie, Zuzana in the HEI parc...(i lived in this parc... :P)

yes..then we went for dinner THAN definitely a great party...
free champagne for the girls before midnight... :)

Sylvie, me, Rachna, Julia, Ravaka, Kenza

Than the others went to Java.. but that was on a Thursday... hm Friday workday.. i am not that cool.. yet.. oh boy... ;)

- Sometimes on Fridays, there is Lady's night in Bypass.

That means whole night = free champagne... OR.. any cocktail or other drink for 1 CHF!!!
OH MY GOD!! 1 CHF!!!

Ok, the place is not really my taste.. neither the music..
but for 1 CHF a cocktail... ;) (ok, they didn't have gin nor vodka when we were there... so had to survive the night with "bakeszkokesz"... :D)

- This Saturday we tried MOA... but... there was such a huge queue... amazing...
And it is more out of Geneva... so even if the music is good, we didn't wait.. rather went to La SIP...
3 girls, normal clothes, nothing fancy, and still we got in.. :)
Yes, u should pretend as if u are always going there and getting in... ;)

And my favorite Monday-quote:

"Oh, boy... what a weekend again!" ;)

Autumn - TV shows are here

2008-09-14T14:03:00.000+02:00

From which TV show is it? ;)

The end of the world...

2008-09-09T20:18:00.007+02:00

No, it is not again because I feel really depressed, or it won't be again complaining about the miserable and pathetic life in general...
(By the way, I don't think I was ever so negative...anyways...)

So, now I would like to write sth about CERN , the world's largest particle physics laboratory.
Anyways, CERN is located in Geneva, actually just a few minutes away from HP... ;)

I have some good friends working there... and that's why i know a lot about it...
hehehe...ok, not exactly...But at least I've already heard about those experiments that is happening right now among the walls... or underground...

Actually, in April we had the Open Day, when people, average people like us could visit the uilding, and see how the protons will meet, etc. :)

I think I wrote a post about it... but now I couldn't find it, anyways, to cut the long story short, the Opening Day was on a sunny Sunday. We met at 7 (!) on a Sunday morning, and went to CERN, the door supposed to open at 8... and at 7:30 there was already a huge crowd in front of the gates... CRAZY PEOPLE!

Seriously... who cares what a proton is doing???
Ok, at the end it was really, really interesting... Specially, because we had our own guide, Nikolai was explaining us all the small details about it... ;)

And, we could also win a piece of history... (I really think I've already wrote about that...)

And anyways, if after the first beam injection they could create sth similar what could have happened after the Big Bang... that would be really something...
So, but, why is tomorrow the end of the world?

Yesterday at 9, the LHC, the Large Hardon Collider will be started...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest and most complex scientific instrument ever built and the highest energy particle accelerator in the world. The accelerator is located 100 m underground and runs through both French and Swiss territory.

And yesterday was a very big DAY...A first beam of protons circulated in the LHC.

Even Google went for this event...

So, on Tuesday night we went out for celebrating the End of the world.
We went to Lady Godiva, which is quiet ok place, and it is an English-friendly place...

It was so funny, there was an older cool guy, with a sticker in his T-shirt:
"This is your last chance for sex!"
Last chance in general or with him? ;)

I really thought it is going to be a Cern-party, with all the cern nerdies... no offense... ;)
But it turned out that not all phisysist or computer engineer is an idiot :)

And, actually, we were afraid of LHC.. Large Hangover Coming... ;))

kisses

Sushi, Maki sushi, sashimi

2008-08-28T20:23:00.010+02:00

I am not a sushi-virgin anymore. :)
Yes, I ate row fish, with rice and alga yesterday!! ;)

The place was called "No sushi", hahaha, and the atmosphere in the restaurant was amazing :)
There was music, TV, high bar chairs, and the food was moving on a conveyor belt like in a factor on an assembly line, the different type of food was on different color of plate, and you could take whatever you wanted, than at the end, the waiter came and counted according to the color of the plates...
It was very cool!!!

First, Swati and Julia was really patient and nice to me... they were staring at me only once... if I can handle the chopsticks... (come on, I do knit...) ;)

We made the soy sauce with wasabi... I got to know that it is rude if you waste the sauce, and the sauce is more fore the fish part, not the rice...
Of course, I was using the sauce with everything...

So, here are some more tips I got to know about sushi etiquette...

http://sushinow.com/etiquette.htm

Of course, the first rule says: Do not "whittle" your chopsticks... ;)
Hahaha... you could guess what Swati had to do to my chopsticks...

I also got to know the different types of sushi:
Maki sushi are rolls of sushi;
Temaki is a hand roll of sushi;
Sashimi is raw fish with no rice;

I tried salmon, tune, caviar and chicken as well :)
Traditional one and really spciy one.. I liked the California roll as well - which is definitly not for 1 bite... ;)

And of course, just to be traditional Japanese.. we drunk beer.... no comment :)

To sum up, I liked the sushi, but definitely can not compete with the Hungarian cuisine...
hehehe... I know I have to cook finally for my friends here!
And I do it, no more excuses... promise! :)

Things I always wanted to tell, but than kept them as drafts... :)

2008-08-25T21:25:00.003+02:00

Aug 6 2008
Geneva as a station to everybody …

I am just thinking, thinking and thinking.
Can not sleep.
I cleaned already. Everything. I studied French. Listened to the Mozart musical again and again. (Yes, I am listening to the CD over and over...theater and musicals... I am really missing it from Geneva...

Apr 11 2008
Grown - up things :D
I can't believe it... on of my friend is going to get married... :)))

And we are planing her "bachelorette"party... :)))
That's so exciting!!!

15 girls... i don't want to tell more about the plan.. but I am sure it is gonne be gorgeous!!!!

So, of course I will attend this party.. i can not miss it :)
So, I am leaving to Hungary for 5 weeks... ok... 4... 1 week . working form Budapest, than 1 week in Geneva.. with my parents, and my brother :)
I am excited about that too...
Hope they will like my new studio :)
With my fantastic brand new sofa :)

Than I go home... exams... well that's not gonna be so much fun, but I have to finsih university...
Seriously, this is my last chance, otherwise i will end up without adegree.. so yes, now i am a bit scared... But...I will survive!!! Hope so..

About the wedding:
I am gonne be a bridemate... :)
Isn't it great??? :)
Seriuosly, I am sooo excited :)

March 3 2008
A little bit of everything
Finally I got a small studio and I moved in.
So, I promise (ok, I hope) I won't write anymore about the accommodation/real estate situation in Geneva. That is boring.

Just to give you an idea about my place: It is small, 25 m2, however I have a bathroom with a BATH!!! So, now I can go to lush :)

On Saturday I was cleaning and packing and moving and all this stuff.

December 13 2007
What's going on here?

It is kind of funny that I will get all my information about my family from the newspaper...

:(

- My brother organized a huge Football cup in my city! :)
- My father was also in the newspaper.
- Maybe my cousin's husband will go to Austria... and work there! :)
- My aunt...don't even talk about him.

Nice.... I should go home and catch up with them...seems that I have lots to do...Shame on me...but on them too... :(

I've never realized how famous my family is...I am proud of them!!! :)

3 - RIA - RIA - HUNGÁRIA

2008-08-24T20:02:00.002+02:00

Peking is over, we are counting down for London... but stop for a while and celebrate our wiiners :)

Vajda Attila - Canoe1 -1000 m - "A killer sport"

Kovács Kati - Janics Natasa - Kayak2 - 500m

THE WATERPOLO TEAM :) (3 times in a row...alltogether the 9th gold medal in waterpolo for our team..!!!)

:)

Living in the past...

2008-08-22T16:18:00.002+02:00

I don't know what's going on with me...
On Thursday night I had a really great night with my best friends in Hungary... we were online-drinking ;)
I really missed them, and it was good to talk a little bit finally.

Than later I was surfing on youtube, and found several interesting videos..

For example this one:

I think the techique is amazing.
Ok, for my international readers... ;)
So, the guy is Pal Szecsi, who was a very very famous singer in Hungary in the 1960-70's.
He had an amazing voice. He had a very tragical childhood, and he tried to commit suicide several times later in his life, at the age of 30, he died...(also by suicide...)The 8th attempt was basicly "successfull".
With this song ("Just one dance...") he won in 1967 in a Hungarian Songfestival. Actually, he was always a "topic" in Hugary, he had really a loads of fun, obviuosly girls, women, who always wentr to his grave and brought him flowers, chochlates, etc. Also, women tried to commit suicide next to him...

The girl is a nowadays star singer... if I am right...

And the Hungarian TV channel did this technical trick...great!

I really like this song...

Is there any deeper???

2008-08-21T22:22:00.009+02:00

Could that be even worst?
Not just the Olympics for Hungary, but... everything...
It is just...
NOT FAIR!

AT ALL!!!

Yes, the Olympics...now it is not for Hungary, we don't have luck, we are really bad, we are not in the mood, maybe also this "we-finally-have-to-win-a-gold-medal" feeling freaks everybody out, creates a really uncomfortable atmosphere among the sportplayer, but also that like both sportmen fell off their horses??? We lose in water polo with the penalties??? And we have never won any medal at the Olympics with female water polo...even though we won on World Champions leageu, worldcup, etc. We lose in female handball? Not even lose, but we play really bad! REALLY BAD!
We can not blame everything on the judges...
Ok, it is a fact, they are always against us.
And yes, I know it is harsh, but yes, they are always against us! Commeon, you have to live with that, we always knew we can not count on the referees... ALWAYS....

I really really hope that as of today, our bad luck is over.
I really hope that tomorrow for the flatwater canoe and kayak we gonna do our best, and simply just manage to do the "compulsory task".

And what really makes me sad is that people are now taking it to political level.
Obviously the government didn't support enough the sport.
And the ratio behind that is some fluffy bureaucratic changes what was mad by the current government. As earlier Sport had a Ministry, now it is only a portfolio...
????
COMMEON!!!!

Andras (the Cheese, a.k.a the Csiz), my college and a friend of mine made a report:
Which country won the most gold medal since 1896 in the Summer Olympics Game, if we take into consideration the number of Games each ctry was participated and its population.
:)
It has of course it is own constraints, but it is a really cool report. Maybe I can share some inputs...
1. Estonia
2. Finland
3. Bahamas
4. HUNGARY
;)

From one of my favorite quote:
"Snowflakes - tiny, flying petal miracles"
(A hópelyhek - apró repkedő sziromcsodák!)*
*(If somebody knows a better translation, pls let me know, as I am not sure if this makes any sense as it is a literal translation...)

Of course, if we take into consideration the results of the Winter Olypmics as well, the result would be SLIGHTLY different...

Anyways, so... let's just all hope for tomorrow and Saturday!

"Hajrá magyarok!"

Olympics 2008 Beijing

2008-08-17T17:19:00.004+02:00

I simply just can not believe it!

It is sooo typical.. Hungary is living in the past... and try to live from its gloriuos past...
Ok, it is not necessarily only about sport, because I could mention the politics as well...but still... now what annoys me... is the sport...
The Olympics 2008!

What the hell is going on???

We used to be the swimming nation.... or rather the water-nation...
Ok, the canoe and kayak has not started yet (flatwater) I have all my hope there...

Cseh Laci is amazing... even if Phelps is here...and he won everything...still, he is the "Silver- guy".

And nobody can win against Phelps...
(Ok, dopping is an other question...but... let him be true...let him be the historic icon for americas sport and for swimming as well)

But where are the our other swimmers???
Or where is the fencing team? (you know, Aida or our team???" We loose always...
And than all the news and the media keeps telling about the glorious past...and that the politicians ruined everything.. no money...
"Little money, little football"
Well, yes..no money, no Olympics..
The Hungarian Olympic Committee is nowadays only a travel agency...

Yes, ok, I agree, you need support (financial, and political as well...) but to get support you need results, you can deliver results, if you have appropriate cricumstances to prepare, professional teams, etc that helps you duting the preparatino,, and for that you need money...
But still... where are those outstanding individuals???
Some of them are stars already, or working in a fancy club in abroad, and don't care about the Olympics anymore???
They play very egoistic... if at all they play...

What's wrong with the Hungarian handall team??
GIRLS!! WAKE UP!!!
We have to win against Romania!!!
Ok, I remember, usually that's the same with the waterpolo as well...
During the group matches we sucks, than when it is about death or live, we win..

And, do not dare to blame it on the judges or politicians or past or whatever!!!
Leave them alone!!
Why is it so hard to say: "Yes, we didn't play 100%, I was not there mental, I sucked... our defense was a catastrophe, we didn't concentrate!"

Why should we say that the judges were against us, they didn't give us any fore, the yalways send out with fault all our members, etc???

Come on.. the judges can help a team, true, but not 11 goals... for the second time as well...
conspiracy..
all the judges are against us...
Oh I am so pissed of, and disappointed...

At the end, though, I really hope we are going to win...
1-1 gold medals in water polo and handball, and way more medals in canoe and kayak...
As in Athen...

I live in the past too...

Fete de Geneve and a boat trip

2008-08-12T23:37:00.008+02:00

The Fete de Geneve is over.
It is so strange, as it was 1 year ago, when Eszter and me went to Marseille, then we came back together to Geneva, and watched the fireworks together.

So, while I was watching the fireworks, I was thinking about the last 1 year...
So many things happened...
And on the other hand: so few things happened...
How did I spend this previous last year? If I have to sum up my last year, actually nothing really moved forward...

But, maybe later, I will see these months, these events in my life differently... ;)

On Friday we went out.
Ok, I wanted to go out... but at the end we didn't...
We were drinking and talking at RDL.
We played "I have never..." :)))
So, I got to know some friends a it more... ;)
Good game!

Than on Saturday we went for a boat trip to Versoix. :)
This time we took the car... not the bikes ;)

Our boat: Daniel, Ravaka, Eszter and me

The view...

The Spanish guys: Jose, David and Ravaka

Drink or drive???

I was driving the boat!!! Poor Daniel, he was really patient, explaining me the "physics of the waves..."..stilll... ;)
jajajajaja... it was sooo much fun!!! :)

Actuallly, the idea of renting a boat came from the will to watch the fireworks from a boat!!!
It would have been soo great... but.. imagine, for that day (I mean, the very last day of Fete de Geneve, for the fireworks day) all the boats are reserved till 2012!!! 4 years ahead!!! Crazy Geneva!!!
We could have reserved a boat for 2013... for a Rue De Lyon Reunion...! ;)

It was really great day... the sun was shining, the view was perfect, the waves were ok for my stomach ;)

After a 1,5 hour boating, we had to go back to Geneva for the fireworks... actually we had a "little" traffic jam, as everybody wanted to head to the city center... so, even though Versoix is 15 minutes maximum by car, for us the way back took more than 45 minutes... amazing...

But than we had a great place, from where we could see the fireworks:

The 1 hour long fireworks

During the fireworks I was analyzing my life, my 16 months in Switzerland, thinking about my future, my options, etc. And than, somehow my thoughts went forward to the noise of the fireworks. You know, when the rackets are going in the air, it is loud, and yes, it sounds like guns, or like real rackets...
I was thinking about Georgia and Russia.
I am here in Geneva, listening to that noise, and I am happy and satisfied. And than for somebody that noise doesn't mean the joy, happiness and beauty...
on the contrary...
It was a strange feeling.

My great weekends...

2008-08-12T23:03:00.007+02:00

Hmm.. I don't really understand, why only the weekends are great?
My "worklife" is sooo boring....
Anyways...

Last weekend we had an other sporty weekend... with biking in the rain...;)
I hope Ikran didn't get the virus because we were cycling around 1,5 hours in the rain...

First, the plan was to go till Versoix. This nice, small town is around 8 km "far" from Geneva. :)

Versoix

But of course for my very sporty friends, it was a little bit easy, so we decided to meet in the next town, which supposed to be Coppet...
Yes, but Andras is sooo great with the orientation (khm.. the pot calling the kettle black...), anyways, so we went till Nyon. Which is 23 km far from Geneva.

I really enjoyed the bike-trip!!!

The crazy team: Laura, Andras, Xavier, me, Ikran

Have you seen my perfect biking-outfit? Yes..typical...
Than check Andras' out!
And we even talked about doing a bike-trip around the Lac Léman... That would be something.... ;)

We will see...

Than, on Sunday, we went to Chamonix... in the bottom of Mont Blanc.
First, I didn't want to go there, as Chamonix is for the winter, it is a really famous ski resort.
How stupid I was!
OMG!!!
Chamonix is sooo amazing, and Daniel, the expert of the place explained me, that Chamonix is even more visited during the summer than in winter.
We went up with a téléféric till 1900 m, than to the famous "Lac Blanc" we had to hike up till 2400 m! Among rocks!!! :)
But it was amazing...breathtaking view!!!
The funniest was: on our way up to the mountain, we saw 4 guys... with the perfect hiking.outfit ever... seriously, helmet, perfect shoes, clothes, etc.
We were 4 girls... Eszter and me had our "petitit sac", Ikran's T-shirt was not sporty at all!!! :)
And Julie was also very girly... absolutely not for hiking!!
It was soooo funny! :)

But, just enjoy the photos:

The view...

The rocks...

The team: Julia, Daniel, Eszter, Laura, Ikran, Andras, (and Julie...)

:)

At the Lac Blanc

Canyoning - Interlaken ;)

2008-08-01T01:09:00.003+02:00

I thought that weekend worth having 2 different posts...
Ok, and last time I didn't have time to upload all the photos... :)))
Canyoning was also great...We had to wear funny, dirty and really smelly clothes... and a helmet.. I was "Frog", alies frogy... Eszti had "Fairy"... :)
Well... no comment...

Everything started with a 50 m high rappel... with the rope we had to go down to the river... :)

Than we did several jumps, jump into waterfalls, slidging down the rocks, or just using the ropes...

Here is our group, who survived:

"Been there. Done that. Got a T-shirt!"

Lala (GR), Ahmed (EG), Swati (IN), Jaspal (UK), me, Nikolai (DE) & Eszti (HU)

Skydiving - Interlaken... ;)

2008-07-29T21:21:00.013+02:00

I had a wonderful weekend!!!

Yes, yes, yes... I went for an extrem weekend... Amazing!!!!

Of course, me.. who can not sit backwards on the bus, on the train, me, who can not handle the serpentines, me, who can not even look at all the fun wheels, or roller coaster, not even talk about sitting on them...

So, yes, I went up with the airplane for higher than 13000 ft, around 4300 m high, and yes, experienced 36 sec of free fall!!!! :)))
waoooowww.....

AMAZING!!!!!!

And the free fall part was the best...
Obviuosly I had a professional guy behind me... we were bonded together... amazing!!!! ;)

He was great, and also the cameraman was great too!!! :)))

Of course, as soon as the parachute opened, he started doing his own little tricks, that made me sick... but still..this 5 minutes...just worthed it!!!
:)

Check this out:
Before.. I trusted him... and he trusted me too ;)

1 second out of 36 while I am experiencing the free fall :

And the beautiful view of Interlaken, Grims, Jungfrau... :)

We practiced the landing in the air...still... I landed on my butt:

Stay tuned for canyoning... ;)

Finnally...

2008-07-15T23:24:00.002+02:00

So, finally I am back... I was not updating this blog due to several reasons...
first, nothing interesting really happened to me
second, i was than very very busy with my studies (ok, maybe I was rather in a deep selfpityness...)
third, lots of things happened, everything changed, and I didn't know where to start.

So, maybe.. at the beginning??? :)

Yes, I graduated!
I am an economist. - Whatever it is...
You guys can not imagine, how big relief it was for me... ugh...

And... actually, beside the relief I felt somehow disappointment too... (ok, here of course I am not talking about the aftergraduation party in Pest with Süti :)

I was disappointed maybe because I have been working for 1,5 years already, so I can see the real value of my degree... :(
It is really just a paper!

Because of my graduation, and all the exams, etc I stayed at home for more than 5 weeks!
It was amazing!!! I really missed my family ( btw, FAMILY stands for: Father And Mother I Love You) :))), my little brother, who is actually not that little anymore.
He is a real entrepreneur!!! :) and my grandfather of course!!! :)

Than I came back with Eszter, who is going to take over my position at HP.
She reminds me the way how I started everything.
I also had problems with the IT technology at HP, or looking for a flat in Geneva...

I had strange feelings, the transition started, she is going to take over my role, my job, I am going to leave HP.
I am going to miss the core team, specially one of my colleagues! When my boss announced, that I am leaving, she jabbered me, saying that she is going to miss me... :)
That really meant a lot!
She is really a great role model at working!

This weekend we went to Bern and Basel. I can't believe I visited Bern again... it is a really nice, charming little city... but still... and it was rainig again, so I still couldn't check the bears!!! Next time!!! sigh...

Than we went to Basel!!! It was OK, however the interesting thing was the blind restaurant.

The restaurant is called: Blindekuh - as in the restaurant there is as dark as a cow :)

The restaurant is managed by a foundation, that helps the blind people.

We can experience , how it could be living (ok, this case, eating) in totally dark, you are using your other senses.
It was definitely really interesting, however, expensive.
They could have offered more food, anyways.

The whole restaurant was in an old store house, there was completely, completely dark. Ok, when we first entered into the building, there was light at the reception. (and of course the chef is not blind, and in the kitchen and in the toilette there are lights...) So, we had to check the "carte" at the reception, we had to choose there what to order. Than the receptionist called our waiter, she was blind. We had to grab each others shoulder, and she led us to our table.
Everything was completely DARK!!! :)

I don't know, if you have seen one of the episodes from the CSI TV shows... well, there was a crime committed in a restaurant like this... FUNNY :)))

Ok, tomorrow, we are going to have Hungarian plate at the cafeteria!!!
That's why it is important to be friendly with the CHEF, and other kitchen crew members!!! :)))
At HP, we usually have food from all over the world... but we never had a hungarian one, so I always asked from him, when he can prepare sth.
He was asking for recipes... so I gave him a book :)))

I am really curious about the food tomorrow!!! :)

Good night,
bisous

Hopp Switz, hopp...or Höpp Holland, Höpp!

2008-06-20T23:08:00.003+02:00

Yes, it is the Euro2008!

And I am not in Switzerland... :(

Anyways, those matches I saw were great.. the athmosphere was also fantastic!

Ho... imagine, there was a TV show in Hungary, and there was a guy saying in the report, that the only thing he is missing is the "athmosphere" in Switzerland.. that "football fever"...

What the hell is he talking about???

I mean, he definitly hasn't been in Berne, in a holland match.. or in Geneva when Turkey played against Portugal.

Or any match of Portugal... :)))

Coomeeoon... :)))

OR!

Holland against France in Geneva:)

It was great:

With Julia, we painted the french and dutch flag also... :))

Poor Dorys...

NOoooooooo....

I am just watching the Turkish - Croatian match.. i was really prepared for the penalties... than what???

Croatia scoooooreeed.... in the 119. minutes... I mean...

But I was really looking for a German -Turkish match... ;)

WHAT????

1-1

Zuzana, I am thinking about you now too!!!!

What should be in Geneva now????

ohh...

so, have to check the penalties now...

oh.. i am more frustrated now, than yesterday at my final exam... :DDD

Exam period

2008-05-13T13:38:00.003+02:00

It is so typical... I have 2 papers to submit, 4 exams to take, several articals to translate, and still..what am I doing?
- chatting with almost everybody (the neighbors I do not even know, the postman... - i told him really embarrassing secrets too... just to gain some time...)
- comparing my friends on facebook
- watching TV shows--- really silly ones too
- going to swimming
- visiting my city as if I were a tourist --- ok, not in exam period, but I think it is a great activity: you are a tourist in your hometown! Take the photocamera with you, walk next to the river,besides the castle, visiting the cathedral and churches, maybe even a museum!
- and yes, updating my blog :)

I am actually doing everything but studying...

It feels like: I came back, everybody has changed, moved forward, but me, I am still standing in the same point from where I started.
It hurts.

From Hungary

2008-04-18T13:37:00.002+02:00

YEAH!
I am back to Hungary... :)

Ok, just for 1 week, but still... :)

And I am going to a "Cinema fan's night" which means that for 200o HUF, around 14 CHF you can watch moives from 18 in the afternoon till 6 in the moring :)
So, basicly I won't miss any movienight, I can catch up with the 5 missing Wednesdays within 1 day... 8 hours movies... :)))

Than on Satrudaywe are gonig to have: HEN's NIGHT :)

Vandi is going to get married next month, so we have the girls' night tomorrow!
Bandi and Maresz are really really into this topic, basicly they are orginazing everything.
We go back to our univeristiy town where we lived all together... :)))
Lots of fun, stories, and drinks of course!!! :)))

It will be so great to meet all of my girsl finally again!!! :)))

Than on Sunday I sleep, than on Monday have to go to the uinversity, talk to the professors, arranging all administrative thinsgs, etc.
On Tuesday I am back again to Budapest, working very very hard...as today for example. :)

Than on Friday we have our traditional family dinner.
April 23rd is "Bela's day". In Hungary we celebrate name days. :)
And all my male famiymember called Bela. :)

It is gonne be great!

On Sunday ETO will play against a russian team.
It is about the Champinos League..semifinal... female handball obviously!!!

For more info click here!

And I am following this match from from the first seat!!! :))))

Than my parents and my brother will come to visit me in Geneva!!!!

Sooo much looking forward to this whole month!!! :)

3 weeks silence

2008-04-08T18:43:00.003+02:00

Nowadays i am quite busy, that's why no news from my side.

But here i am, again, after 3 weeks.

That's so strange, when i finally start feeling that yes, i am on the right path of my life (in connection with all 3 "legs" : family/friends, work/carreer/university, love) than sth happens and everything collapse.

But so far, so good:
With work, everything is fine, finally i can travel: Barcelona, Grenoble, and again to Grenoble. :)
I got my contract and also my WORKPERMIT, which is a great news, i can stay in geneva for longer.
However, i feel sometimes a little bit left out form some important meetings or happenings within my organization, and that's not the best.
That is also strange, that it seems that my bosses are counting on me only till August. Well, it could be however a good news too.... I have more time to look for a job! ;)
And here you go, I said it..moreover, I wrote it down... look for a job, updating CV, uploading CV everywhere, going to interviews, etc. I found actually a CV-buddy already ;)
But, first step: find a great CV photo.... well... we all know, the first step is always the hardest :D

University:
That was/is the tricky one. I got a call from my university, saying: "Where are you? Are you finishing your studies or what? Cause it seems that you are not registered in our system..."
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

So, yes, that's so meee..... I let everything on the very lst minute...than have to freak out, than calm down, get together myself, and start thinking, organizing, and usually win.
Well... i think i am somewhere getting together myself... long way to go though... but not unmanageble!!!! hope so :)
- 2 paper/thesis to write
- 5 exams (3 difficult one, 2 so-so)
- several translations, presentations
- till May 14 :)

Family/friends:
I am having lots of fun with the RDL guys, for example we went skiing - but it deserves its own post -, we went to dinners - i ate mexican food, indian food, etc. , and we went to CERN too.... but again - other post. And of course lots of lots of great parties - SIP ;), MAD, RDL, or our own private Shakers party :) Oh, and I was in Zurich too... :)

My family will visit me, and I am sooo much looking forward to that!!!! :D

During Eastern, a good old friend visited me with her flatmates. She is DITTKE (yes, yes, from Szeged, we were LCPs in the same term...) from Bonn, and her flatmates.
They managed to prove that my "studio", which is 25 m2, is big enough for 5-6 ppl :)
And be aware, i am going to Bonn soon... :D But just because we couldn't gossip enough!!! ;)

Barcelona

2008-03-18T16:55:00.010+01:00

I've just came back form Barcelona!!! :)))

Yes, yes... I had a business trip there... So, according to the HP policy (try to choose the cheapest solution), I've arrived to Barcelona on Sunday moring, spent the whole day with sightseeing, than on Monday left to the HP site, than on Monday evening came back.

It was cheaper to spend 1 night in Barcelona, rather than flying and coming back on the same day...

It was amazing.

When I was in Grenoble and in Lyon, I followed Coelho's advise: you can visit a city if you just let yourself walk around it... without any goal, or map.

Well, I didn't want to risk that in Barcelona, so the first thing after my arrival was to get a map from a toursit office. I already checked earlier the famous bulidings, and important things I want to see... So this time, even myself was really amazed, how prepared I could be... :)

Anyways, after checking in the hotel... (the guy at the recption was really helpful and nice... ;) ) I made my plan:
- would like to see everything... :)))

What a great goal!!!! :)

I have to say, - maybe because it was 20°C, and the sun was shining- but Barcelona is AMAZING!!!!

I visited some famous buildings:

La Sagrada Familia - it is the big art of Gaudi, ha had been working on that church for 40 years, and it is still not ready. Hopefully it will be finished by 2020...

Arc de Triomf

It 's not a typical Arc de Triomf, like in Paris, but definitly not an ugly one. :)

Actually that was the entrance of the World Exhibiton in 1888. If we walk from that Arc the Triupmph we end up in a beautiful park, with the Zoo inside:

The Parc de la Ciutadella

In the middle of the parc there is a huge fountain:

Ok, to tell you the truth, it was under construction, when I arrived.. so... yes... i stole this photo... :)

Casa Battlo and Casa Milà

Both house was bulit by Gaudi, however, Casa Milà was bulit only by a scatch..there was no plan for that.

Basicly the idea was: not to have any straight line:

You can visit these houses, and also living there is possible.. however, of course for a fortune... :)

What really surprised me, was a hospital, Hospital de Sant Pau.

You can visit it, as a museum... however, somehow I didn't feel approriate to take photos in a hospital...

The famous Guell Parc:

It is also the art of Gaudi - the famous catalan architect.
Originally the park was planned to be a huge park with houses, however, nobody wanted to live there, so as a business it was a total failure. Gaudi lived here with his family.

Tha park is amazing, the branches are also made from this mosaic, there are arcades, and the best view of Barcelona.

Tha famous avenue is the Ramblas.

This street is full with restaurants, bars, pubs, living sculptures, shops, souveniers, etc.

One of the main reason, why I should go back to Barcelona, is the Font Magico, the magic fountain.

I haven't seen the show...so I definitly have to go back there once, ando f course, I missed the bull arena, the FC Barcelona match, the Picasso museum... so lot to do still... :))

So, more information about Barcelona is here in hungarian or in english.

Than on Monday we had meetings, presentations, etc.

I think it was useful, and it was great to meet face to face with some of my teammembers.

So now, at least I can associate a face to each voice... :)))

I am wondering, how others picture me after my voice...

From a business point of view, it was maybe not the most useful meeting, however it was nto that bad... netmeeting, presentation, work, fun. :)

The WW HQ of Graphic Arts is in Barcelona, with a huge LFP museum... (those huge printers, that makes the huge advertisements...) pretty impressive...

I definitly have to go back there once for a demo or a training...

1 month

2008-03-12T17:47:00.003+01:00

Sorry, sorry, sorry... :)

I have this Google Analytics, and with this I can track who is checking, from where, which city, country my blog.
I can even check whether he/she gets from a refering site or directly to my blog. :)
It is so interesting.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I know that there were people in Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, France (ok, that could be Geneva...) Spain, US, and Egypt(?)... who checked my blog recently, and realized that there is no entry for more than 1 month.
Sorry for that. :)

But here I am..back... with all my energy, optimisitc (or miserable) view...

Actually, lots of thigns happened during this 1 month.
- I was back in Hungary
- Then I spent 1 wonderful week in Austria with my friends skiing...
- Then I moved again...but this time into my own studio!!! YEAh!!!
- I got my contract signed till Ocotber.
- I started studying German.
- Peter left HP, I got Csizi, (what a coincidence, he is also from the same university...)
- Anthony went back to Ireland - I missed THE party, however I had "The Last Supper" with him. Anthony cooked!!! :)
Amazing! :)
- I was partying, drinking, chatting, going out in restaurants, pubs, (yeah, we had a vodka -night too)
Ok maybe I should have just written: usual things... :D
- At work: I realized lots of lots of things, I learned a lot, and I think I got back some of my motivation that I thought I already losted.

Anyways, february was fast, we are already in the middle of March... and yes, as it is said in my LinkedIn profile, I am here already since 11 months!!!

Now, I have to run to catch my bus with my new collegue...
So, I promise, I will write a more personal entry next time :P

bisous

Just a short one

2008-02-10T14:25:00.000+01:00

Hello,

I am so sorry, I was not here... however, life is good, life is fun.
Actually, my life is quite the same every day, every week.
We are going to ski every Saturday: with the university for 60 CHF (for externals), 50 CHF for students you can go to France skiing. The price contains: 1 day ski pass, course and of course the transportation. So, really cool price.

I think I am getting better and better, but of course still on blue slopes. :) It's good for me.
Specially when I don't know how to turn (and stop), everybody else is waiting for me on the left side... I am just flying next to the others, straight ahead, down till the town. It was awsome... (ok, crazy) Anyways, I survived and - what more important is - the others survived too... :)
I am wondering how I will survive Austria :)

Besides that I am taking German courses (online...), and still or again looking for an apartment, nothing special.

Now everything depends on the bureaucracy, if the office cantonale de population recognizes that Hungary is part of the EU, than I can stay, if not, than, I have to leave in May.
ááááááááááá

Last week I was 3 times in the gym, and today I go again.

This weekend was great, we went out on Friday... (hilarious story... not for the world wide...however, fantastic... we planned a girls night, than Daniel joined...) He is the new swedish intern, so now at least we have a story with him, so he is more involved in our "community" :)
hehehe

Than yesterday again. :)
However, it was a short one, maybe I am getting older? :)

Or, rather what Anthony said: we are about to grow up... that's why most of the time we have dinners together, or eating together (having brunch) instead of going out, clubbing, dancing, drinking.

We had a great "house warming" party, eating rice (esides lot of other things) with special somalian sauce.. ohh.. that was HOT... :)

Watched Pick up artist...

Now, after 2 parties, I am going to let the poison out of my body and out of my soul. :)
I will go to yoga, than to the sauna and jakuzzi. :)

The Dinner:

Bright side of life...

2008-01-23T19:58:00.000+01:00

Sometimes it is really hard to look on the bright side of life...

But at least I am trying.

Yesterday my bag was stolen. f.u.c.k.

It was in my favorite restaurant (ok, I just love that kind of food in the ERitarian restaurant, where you have to eat with your hands...) In Geneva you have 3 of a kind... So we were in one of those.
I was sitting on the second chair... (so not even on the first, the closest to the door...)

When I put my bag to the chair, I thought it won't be a great idea.
I knew, I felt it.

Anyways, shit happens.

In my bag, there was my life...
-my walett with money
-my workpermit, bankcards, monthly ticket, even my Holmes Place membership card, my student cards, everything

The owner saw sth or at least he was suspicious, but too late.
Dorys (the new intern from France) and Ahmed ran after the guy... :)))

So, I hope this black/communist/serbian will give me back my identity cards. :)))

That could happen again only to me.
Today I called the Embassy about my passport, and they were really very helpful and nice.
The woman was really surprised that I would like to travel to 3 countries within 3 weeks.
She said, nobody ever wanted to apply 2 kinds of temporary passport.
Well, here I am.

But I have to tell that Carissa and Chiara were great, Ravaka was really really helpful, Ahmed & DL was fantastic, Emi & Ikran funny (to cheer me up), so...

Thank you guys!!! :)))

I was really overwhelmed with all the hugs, support I got from everybody!!! :)))

And yesterday Heath Ledger died as well.
Post- Oscar for him!!!

The optimistic approach:
- I could change my photo on my HP Badge
(nope>> today I already got a new badge, with the same photo on it... blo...)
- I can get a brand new student card >> lots of space for my stamps... ;)
- I have to go to Bern >> finally I can see the (big, hairy) BEARS :)

And anyways, nothing can ruin my happiness... I just have to watch some photos from last weekend (or some videos...) and all my energy, optimism, happiness is coming back...

So, I have to find the "bideo" to upload it here.... ;)

Zermatt - Skiing weekend

2008-01-21T19:33:00.000+01:00

Everything started with a great opportunity within HP... We can rent a chalet in Zermatt for a very friendly price.
So, why not?
Let's go and try skiing in Zermatt!!!

Yeah!!!!

4 of us (out of 6) couldn't really ski, but who cares?
Among friends... :)
With Julia we didn't even had skiing outfit... :)

So, the fun part started already on Thursday, when I got an email with the subject: Julia bought her stuff!!!!

And she managed to buy all the clothes, and everything that is needed for a "professional" skier...
Yes, but all the clothes were for children!!!

So, in the afternoon I also checked... And yes, I managed to buy also a trouser and a jacket!!!
(Who cares that the trousers are RED, the jacket is ORANGE???)
It is absolutely not important... ;)

Than the only thing that was missing : THE SKI, the boots, the sticks...

We really wanted to buy them earlier... but the shop had just closed before we arrived...
Anyways... :DDD

So, during lunchtime, we quickly went to the town (for me quickly means: 45 minutes to get in, than 45 minutes to get back to HP....) and manage to rent all the stuff!!! :)
Again, for a very nice price!
And also, we got a great deal:
We can try out the skis this weekend, and if we like, can keep them for the whole season... and the price for this weekend will be included in the "seasonal rent's price!!!

Oh...this weekend was amazing!!!!

So, after 4 hours on the train, finally we arrived to Zermatt... Actually in this town cars are not allowed to get in, only special, electronic cars...
So, also the taxis were these special, small electro-cars. :)
Funny!

I talked to them in German!!! Trinkgeld, trinkgeld.. of course :DDD

The apartment was great, even good for more people, not just 6... :)

On the very first day we had ski lessons... :)
It was very useful!!!
And the view!!!
Oh my god!!! Breathtaking!!!
:DDD

(The Team: Anthony, Manuel, Ikran, me, Emilia, Julia)

We had a wonderful lunch:
In front of us: Matterhorn - One of the greatest mountain in Europe, the most famous one in Switzerland, because of its special shape. :)

The sun was shining, it was so hot!!!
We had beers and special Swiss-German "Hubertuswurst" (Hubertus... hmm... ;)

Actually after lunch we were so well, that we didn't really went skiing.

Than for dinner we got Lasagne from Manuel.. Oh.. magnifico!!! :D

On Sunday, we tried out an other mountain... but commeon, that was killing one!!!

We also climbed up till the highest viewpoint of Europe (climbing means taking the elevator... ;)

We were crazy in the whole weekend, just laughing, skiing, eating a lot (as usual.... ;)... fantastic...
:)

One of the best weekends ever!!! :D

We decided to keep our skis, and try to go to France next weekend!!!
I am looking forward to it!!!

And... in February, I go to Austria, Gerlitzen... :DDD

New Year, new life :)

2008-01-13T13:34:00.000+01:00

Long time, I know... :)
However, it was a fantastic 2007 and the start of 2008 is not that bad at all. :)

I won't write about the best moments of 2007, no reflections, just simply a summary, 2007 was a great year, full with challenges, great old friends and new ones. So I am happy.

And for this year, I have my priorities.
- find a great flat/studio/room from February (i know...it is boring...
- go to the gym twice a week
- study german (so, maybe after some weeks, I will post in German Das ist aber fantastisch!!!
- decide about my future... :D This is the best. My contract will end in May, so I have to choose from some opportunities. Now at least I have some... :D I am sure, I won't be spontaneous!!! hihihi

Xmas was great with my family, with my friends...
My mother cooked a lot, so I was just eating, and eating... :)))

Than I was in Pécs, visiting my friends, we went to Villány to wine tasting. This is a great region in Hungary..you should definitely try the red wines there...

Some photos from my time in Hungary:

At SuTi's place, Xmas - Birthday dinner:

"Almost Magic 5" - 1 is missing, 1 is behind us...sleeping ;)

At Flekken - a great restaurant - with my "brother": :DDD

And Krisi & Sysy:

Univ 211/2 reunion:

Half of the "Pre-New Year's Eve" creek:

;)

Crazy girls :D

Oh, prof Misi...explaining again:

Little piggy:

Flying home today :)

2007-12-16T16:01:00.000+01:00

Ok, it is really a very quick post.. .just let everybody knows that I am going to fly today to Budapest!
:)

And than Gabesz will pick me up, and take me to ST. At least I hope so. :)
There I will meet Sysy & ST, my 2 best friends...!!! :)

Than we will talk & talk & talk. :)
I think we have a lot to catch up!!!
Specially in their side, cause my life is nothing special. (jajajaja... ;)

Than on Monday I will check the Hungarian HP, than go out with my friends for an after work drink.
Than on Tuesday I will go working again, but in the evening already heading up to Pécs. :)
To visit my other friends there!!! (I will jump on everybody!!! :P)

Than, Wednesday I have to do some university stuff, than later have to go to my dentist... but no hope, no hope... :(
Anyways, Wednesday evening I am already in Pécs.

(huuu... I have to find my hungarian bank card... àààà)

Thursday poker party, or not, Friday going home after work!!!!!

FINALLY!!!

And than I will go to the old town of Gyor with my Grandfather and we will have hot wine, gluhwine or "vin chaud". :)
This is a kind of tradition between my grandfather & me. :)

And finally I can talk to my brother, and my family as well.

What do you feel when you know more about your family from the local newspaper???
My brother was in the TV, my father was in the newspaper, also my aunt and my cousin's husband.
Nice to get to know important information about my family from the media.
hahaha

So much looking forward to this 3 weeks!! :)))

bisous
Snowy full with energy, smile, hope and almost about to cry :)
Damm it, I need that Hubertus... :)

Ok, last check:
- passport
-code for check -in
-check-in time :)
-hun bank card
-B6 against the plane
-all the gifts
-HP stuff

See you guys in Geneva soon!!! :)

"Carbon dioxide emission rights" for Christmas

2007-12-12T00:03:00.000+01:00

Enid invited me for dinner, for Swedish dinner.

The Swedish interns are really cool, but somehow different. They all work at UN, they are really cool, funny girls... We were talking about Christmas, their costumes, food, university, life in Sweden, etc. It was hilarious!
We also talked about Xmas presents, and one of the girls said that they will get "Carbon dioxide emission rights" for Christmas from the office. (maybe)

Hmm...

I have already heard about this "cap & trade system", and all stuff like that, where companies have certain amount of quotas how much carbon dioxide they can use per a certain time period, and if they have spare quotas, they can trade with them, sell it to other companies.

This right is the same, but for individuals.
According to her, the state has got a report, or some kind of tracking system, where the rights can be registered, and if an individual buys a "Carbon dioxide emission right" than companies can have less quotas.

I was trying to joke with this.
Like: if I have the right than, I can fly more often... Nobody was laughing.

I can not imagine that people will buy "carbon dioxide emission rights..."
Probably if I were rich I would buy rights, and than start trading with companies >> sell the right for higher price... ;) And to ease my guiltiness, I would join to the company "Green Action Day" or "Environmental Day" or sth like these initiatives.

That's why there is a difference between an intern at a multinational company and an intern at UN.

Ok, why am I so ironic???

I think I am already brainwashed.

I would really like to believe that if I bought a small unit of this rights, and told 3 people to do the same, and they should also do so and so on..., than maybe a huge factory would have less rights to pollute, have less quotas, and I would like to believe that a factory - instead of paying the penalty - would seriously pollute less.

I would really like to believe...

Escalade - National Fete of Geneva

2007-12-10T22:43:00.000+01:00

I realized how less I wrote about the swiss people, the swiss culture, the swiss history, and things like that.

So, now here is the time to introduce you the

L'Escalade

Escalade is the national fete of Geneva.
On the night of 11 December 1602 Charles-Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy, tried to storm the town. His "Escalade" was repulsed, (actually by a woman who poured hot soup on the enemy...) and thereafter this patriotic event is commemorated by the Genevese.
(For more info click here)

Actually they have 2 weekends.
The first one is just a race, ok not just, but it is mainly a marathon, where people dress up, and run through some villages.
This year thousands of people came and run!
My flatmate, Adam too!!! We are sooo proud of him!!! :)

The second weekend is always biggest, and actually a really unique weekend of Geneva.
This is so true, I mean, the Old Town is full of brigades on horseback in 17th century costumes, country markets, folk music, fife and drum parades and torchlight marches.

AND!

I have learnt that there is a secret mediave passage, this is opened for public only during the Escalade in the whole year, that is the Passage de Monetier. This takes visitors along the base of the old fortification walls under the Cathedral, offering a palpable look at Old Geneva. Those who brave the passage at night receive cups of hot wine to ward off the cold. Yes, and those who are there earlier... :S

Anyways, we ate soup!Soup de la mere Royaume!!!
This is the special soup, full of vegetables, they serve it in a special pot, on it it is written: Escalade 2007, and if you take it back you get back your 5 CHF, but of course everybody keeps it. :)

Me too, but than I gave it to Joyce, one of the Chineese girl, and forgot about it...
Anyways, hope she has got it... ;)

I forgot to mention that we organized this weekend for other aiesec interns.

Thanks for Emilia for the accommodation!!!
Thanks for Julia for the sight seeing tour!!!

Saturday an other historical event took place: The constructions in front of RDL officially ended, and they celebrated the new tram!!!!

You can not imagine how big relief is it for us. (Ok, not for me anymore, but for the others living at RDL....)
That was one of the main reason why I moved out of RDL... the noise, the traffic, the construction...)
Now, it is over!!!! :)))
There was a huge celebration, cheerleaders and everything! :)

(And, later on, this new tram will go directly to my workplace, so it will take less time to travel always in the morning... ;)

During the weekend I slept also at RDL, (because it is great to be together, to wake up together and have breakfast together... :) but actually it was not that easy to sleep... I always heard all the traffics, the horns, people were shouting, screaming...

Saturday evening of course we went out.
First, as usual, the party starts at RDL, drinking, and now: with Chocolate fondue !!!
That was great! :)

I will bring home also something like that, don't worry!!! ;)

Than we went out to Shakers. It was actually a good party...

Than on Sunday, a few more trainees arrived.. unlucky them... because on Saturday - despite the weather forecast - it was sunny, but Sunday... rainy...

We wanted to go ice skating, instead in the rain we discovered a nice hot chocolate place and a great crépe -place! (salty pancakes.... nyamm...)

Than we saw the torchlight procession through the darkened streets in the Old Town, which led a bonfire. However, it was soooo coood, and we were tired, so we missed that one...

Anyways, to sum up, it was a great weekend! :)

Part of the "Grouppicturreeee!!!"

Life is short

2007-12-07T00:18:00.000+01:00

Life is short,
Break the rules,
Forgive quickly,
Kiss slowly,
Love truly,
Laugh uncontrollably,
And never regret anything that made you smile.

Happy Santa Claus Day!!!!

2007-12-07T00:02:00.001+01:00

I wish all of you Happy Santa Claus Day! :)

When I entered the office, the main assistant gave me 3 kisses and a huge Chocolate Santa... :))))
I wish all my day started like this! :)

Too bad that I will bite the head of this chocolate...
Maybe I shouldn't eat it..
But commeon...for me...a chocolate addicted person???
No way that I can live without eating it...

And it is from swiss chocolate... :)

nyammmm.... :)

Should I laugh or cry???

2007-12-01T14:58:00.001+01:00

I got this video...
Amazing!

Christmas

2007-11-29T19:10:00.000+01:00

It is just 25 days more and Christmas time!!!! :))))

I didn't really feel it till today.
I went shopping and in the supermarket there were lots of Christmas stuff, and of course all the candles, the pine branches, the Santa Clauses, the Snowmen, mistletoes, everything was FAKE. With fake snow on the street and on some trees in front of a famous Hotel.
Disappointing.

But than... today... I saw a small small shop.... When I entered, it was warm inside, there were candles, and the smell was amazing.
I was listening some music coming form the shop, and everything, the branches, the Advent cornices were amazing, beautiful not too much things on them but also not even less. Just perfect.

If I had more arms, I would have taken one.

Next time.

So that's why I changed also my blog photo... :)

The Christmas countdown has started!!! :)

I am so excited and happy!!! :D

Finance or not finance that is the question

2007-11-29T18:52:00.000+01:00

The show must go on.

My "little boss" is leaving The Company tomorrow. Yesterday we went out for a beer, and talked a lot about this 7 months, and of course about our future.

And also Mr. Voice would like to organize sth for him!
He will come from ZH just because of this! He is a really cool guy. Old, but still, cool! :)

Next week I will go out for a dinner/drinks/dances with Mr. Voice. ;)

I will miss my boss. He was great. It was strange, because he knew he is leaving, still he was always helpful - in his own way, but still.

And the coffee breaks, the cigarette breaks... :)
It was always fun.

Not to mention his knowledge.
I can not even imagine how we will survive... in the middle of the closing and just in the beginning of a new fiscal year. Cool.

Of course I can decide alone in many questions... I am an analyst or what. :)

Tomorrow will be interesting.

Anyways, so yesterday I talked to my "boss", exboss, future exboss, and he asked me whether finance is the right field for me or not.
Hmm...

Nice.

Actually, of course I am aware that my analytical skills could be much better, but the job what I am doing right now is very exciting and challenging.

I am coordinating the quota setting & deployment process centrally, and coordinate the tasks and acitivities of the countries in EMEA.
So, it is a cool job. If a country has got a problem, they are coming back to me, asking several questions, I have to investigate, where is the issue, where discrepancy is coming from, than has to communicate it to them.
So, at least it involves a lot of interactions with others, not just "playing with numbers".
And also, my operational task, the monthly accrual calculations and preparation for booking, so this task is now even better, since I got a counterpart for CEE & MEMA region. So I also have to communicate and coordinate our tasks.
So, now I am really happy with this.

I can imagine myself, working in this field.
Even if it is not only analysis.
Moreover, mainly because it is not only analysis.

But, we agreed to meet in 7 months again, and we will see how life is going on with each of us.
Who knows where I will end up.... :)

Maybe I should be more conscious about this, but I still feel I have time.

And who knows?
Maybe I try out myself in the banking sector???

:)

Watch out Zurich, I am coming! :)

TO DO List & Insurance

2007-11-25T17:38:00.000+01:00

I have plenty of things on my TO DO List:

- Insurance (1)
- Escalade organization
- Translation for university - actually 2...
- French course
- Ski renting
- Xmas presents for my family (I have to ask some help from Budapest...)
- Credit card
- Pension
HP related:
- redeem my e-Award points
- do the TRAM
- Xmas party organization
- ask about the fondue

Ok, well, it is doable...
Just my insurance...
unbelievable.

The agent came to my house 3 weeks ago or even earlier, and said: Here is the contract, it is exactly the same what your friend signed, so you can sign it, and that's it.

Hohoho.. wait, wait... Can I hear more about the details?

So than we discussed that for me the best /which is equal to the cheapest, since I have my own very good and cheap hungarian insurance, just there is 1 small problem with it: it is not valid in CH.../ so for me is the best if the "frenchise" which means the self part this is the amount of which I have to pay always for any medical treatment, until I reach that amount.. so this in my case is 2500 CHF.
So than - this is the highest "franchise", I have to pay around 200 CHF per month.

(yes , for nothing...)

Anyways...this is the cheapest. So, I signed the contract and than after a while - 3-4 days - I got 2 letters from 2 different insurance company. None of them was my original company. And both the amount was around 340 CHF / month!!!
F. U. C. K.

And they want me to pay it in one amount till end of this year... so for 3 months aruond: 1500 CHF!!!

Of course, I have the money just for this!!!
F. U. C. K.

So, I called my agent, and he promised me to arrange everything, no worries...Hmm... I would like to see it.

And I already got a letter - a not very nice letter - from the office saying that I have to send them the copy of my insurance contract ASAP, otherwise bad things will happen... (I have to pay... and pay.. and pay...) before Christmas...
:S

So, tomorrow I have to talk to this office (in french) that I have insurance, I signed the contract, just everything is very slow here...)
It will be ok, if my French were great... or at least better than now.
Last week I wanted to reserve a table for 7 ppl.
I was not able to do this in french...
(ok, because it was not possible to do reservations, but anyways... )

Challenges... :)))
I love them! :D

I am so happy that tomorrow is Monday.

Photos about the last weekend

2007-11-24T15:21:00.000+01:00

The team: Nikolai, Manuel, Ahmed, Leonard, Ikran, me, Emilia

Hungarian style... :)

Eastern Europe vs. Western Europe
Who do you think won? ;)

The onion soup....gosshh...fantastic! :)

Perfect weekend ;)

2007-11-18T22:41:00.001+01:00

It is amazing, how great weekend I had! :D

Ok, I was a bit disappointed that the Grenoble trip was canceled, I wanted to go to Grenoble, to see that city, and the office, and also visit Lyon again.
Anyways, next time! :)

So, Friday evening, after a long-long organization, we decided to have a drink at RDL, than go to a club.

So, we drunk at Ahmed's place..for some changes...than went to Ahmed friend's party.
He was first at Hotel Kempinsky,
Well....we had to dress up really. Really nice clothes, black&white style almost, not just simple party clothes.

This Hotel is like the Hilton, or sth like that. So fancy place.
Common...having a party in a Hotel???
No way.
So we decided to leave...and went to Java.
Nikolai was great, he can't stop shouting that I am not over 25...if u are not over 25, you can not enter... Thanks to my student ID...I don't think so that the security checked it that well... so theyl et me in too..

And otherwise I knew the "password"... We were with Ahmed's friend... :)
The party was ok, I mean i have been greater party, but it was fun.

Ok, don't count the fact that a whisky&coke is 26 CHF, or gin tonic same price... :)

Anyways, it was great. I had lot of fun with my party girls, Julia and Emilia... :)

I named Emilia as a party girl too... She deserves it. :)))

But that can stay a party secret. ;)

Than on Saturday I went SHOPPING!!!

I wanted to buy sth to my bathroom, to make it a bit nicer...not to look like as a first-use "toytoy toilette"...

Anyways, at the end I ended up buying everything but carpets, or things for the bathroom.

Than adhoc idea came, let's hang out with the RDL guys...so first we wanted to watch a movie...im a real real movie theater... :)But than we had to realize that in Geneva the movies are not with subtitles... :(
Almost all of the movies were in french... :(
So, we went to an Indian restaurant.
The service was creepy, but otherwise I liked the food... :)
I ate sth chicken, the food was spicy but otherwise great!!!

Saturday evening: HEI party: the party is close to my place, like 3 minutes or so, so we went home, start drinking there, than went to the negihbourhood...
Ahh..the music was shitty...seriously some brazilien music.
When they finsihed, we wanted to change for a DJ...but the stupid crowed didn't want to. :S

Anyways, I had fun with my flatmates, and RDL guys.

Than Sunday - the best part! :)

We went to a place called CALM...it is a nice restaurant - café, for eating BRUNCH.

You know the whole idea of Sunday brunch...
You wake up late, go out to a nice restaurant eat a lot, really a lot, and while you are eating, you are chatting, sitting in a nice room, listening to music, perfect... :)

Except that we (ok, I) couldn't make the reservation, and we were 7...we had to wait almost 40 minutes to get in the place, and than they forget some of our orders... it was fantastic.

The restaurant is really nice, it really has the atmosphere for having a perfect brunch.

We ate quiesch...it is something like a bread, or rather pizza...with vegetables and cheese on it.
Great! :)
With omlett, chicken salat, pancakes, orange juice, hot choclate,....
oohh...nyammm... :)))

We ate sooo mucchh.... :)))

Yes, because we have this thing, to share the food.
So than we can eat more, we pay less, and still we can taste more thing, and it is specially good if you don't know what you want to order. Or when you can't decide.

Than we went playing bowling.
And 'csocsó' . :)

Than in the evening we cooked together... :)))

Ok, I brought the chicken, and went for bread and cheese.
(and did the dishes...a little bit)
The rest was Ikran and Leonard. :)

Leonard cooked onion soup!!!
Ohh...amazing!!!
When u are ready with the soup, you pour it into small plates, than put bread in it, and pour a lot lot of cheese.
Than put this whole thing to the owen for a while.
Oh... :DDD

Ikran made sth very spicy with all the vegetables, the chicken, and the "Ikran rice".
:)))

Photos later on... :D

Oh, I love eating.
And I ate so much.
And the best was that we were together, had fun, talked a lot and laughed a lot.
:)

Thank you guys for this weekend! :)

Hope yours was also as good as mine... :D
How was the party in Budapest?
Did you celebrate all the namedays, and everything? :)
The carpet is fine... ? :D

kisses

Wednesday - Movie night

2007-11-15T01:06:00.000+01:00

I am happy that our intern committee is getting more and more active.
We have a new tradition instead of the Poker night. Wednesday is a Movie night.
We already did it twice, and already discussed the 3rd week. So... it is definitely a tradition

We meet 20:30 at Rue De Lyon, so we can start the movie "sharp" at 21:00. :)
We occupied Nicolai's room, his room is the best...perfect for movies...
Seriously, he has got a bed like "baldachin", it is really nice, romantic... There is a fireplace in the room... ok, it is not working, but within the fireplace there are candles....and his screen saver is "fire"... so we may have the impression for a romantic fireplace.

Today we watched A mighty heart

Have you seen that? It is based on a true story, a U.S journalist was kidnapped in Pakistan, and her wife wants to rescue him.

It is after 9/11, with all the terrorist activities and things like that. India is involved, Pakistan, etc.

It is a bit heavy but good movie...

Work, work, work

2007-11-15T00:58:00.001+01:00

Life is nice, life is fantastic:

- Well done.
- Good job.
- Your commitment and dedication is visible.
- I like the way you work.
- Don't worry, even me, I do make mistakes...
- Don't worry, nobody will blame you...you are just an intern

Ok, ok, of course I know, I know that I am just an intern, so I do not have that much responsibility...
But still, it is me...
I am like this... if I do something I want to do it perfectly.
I can not accept mistakes.
And even if I know that is not my fault, that there is sth I can not change, because the guy who worked before me, he did it...still... it is our team's fault, so it is my fault...

And I am worried...and stressed...

Anyways, it is just me.

This period will be over soon, than I can take it a bit easier...

(Heeey....it was me who asked more tasks from the boss...so stop complaining...)

But, Murphy's Law:
- I am not going to Grenoble, to my romantic chataue...
There is a French strike now going on...so no train is available...or at least not for business trip...
Anyways, next time! :D

Do-It photos

2007-11-15T00:38:00.000+01:00

Here are some of the photos from the conference: Do-It

LC Geneva

Can you believe we were around 50 people?
Big LC...cool people... :)

Official Dinner on Saturday with the Geneva -interns
Anthony (Ireland), Emilia (Spain), Me (Hungary) ;), Ikran (Sweden), Zuzana (Czechia) & Ahmed (Egypt)

With Emilia posing for Anthony... ;)

With our well prepared masks...Emilia, Ikran, Zuzana & me

No, seriously, we spent like 2 days to make our masks... :)
Mine is pretty simple...and maybe masculine a little bit...

The whole weekend... it was snowing!!! :)))

So, we played snowfighting:

Me, the poor, naive girl went to help my friend...

And my "friend" was tricky a little bit:

But seriously, the snow was great:

Good night, swiss dreams... ;)

Romantic chateau in France

2007-11-12T21:34:00.000+01:00

I am going to a business trip with Peter to France.

We got a new boss and he is based in Grenoble.

It is amazing, how everything is well-organized.
We had to register to an intern site, where they asked our preferences.
What kind of room do you want to stay: King :), Double, Twin or Don't Care, Smoking, non-smoking, etc.
What kind of car do we want:
as default it was set up: automatic gears... :)

For flying: what kind of food do we like: There were like 15 different opportunity: low-calorie, low-fat, vegetarian, (all kind of vegetarian), Chinese, Mediterranean, or Regular... :D

And the hotel, where we reserved our places is surrounded in the mountains, it is a castle, very romantic. :)

Or at least, that's what I can see from the photos... :)))

And if we are already in France, we will look around in Grenoble and also in Lyon... :)
If Orsi will have time/space for us... :D
So it means that I won't be here on Friday... oohhh... :S

now I can go and talk to my "almost-never-seen" flat mates.

I am looking forward to the Chateau trip. :)

DO-IT, 2007. 11. 7-9.

2007-11-12T20:50:00.000+01:00

Aiesec Switzerland had its 2nd national/international conference this year. Do-It is basically for everybody!!!

For aiesecers in Hungary: One of the best place to go to an international conference is to go to a swiss one. It is very very international, professional, well- organized...

Just to see: In LC Geneva only 5 people out of 63 are "only Swiss". Only means 100% swiss. Everybody else is half of something, or mixture... Great to feel/see that.

But we had a kind of interesting conversation...you have to be very careful with the diversity...

For example if a black guy says after the question: Where are you from? that he is from CH, you never never ask: Ok, ok, but where are you seriously form??? Just because he is black...

About the aiesec content:
They had several agenda for several group of people: newie, leaders, TTT, goldie, returnee, intern...

And Dey was there...He was the chair.
Once he was also a chair at a Hungarian conference, Spring Planning, or something...
You know, the guy from NZ MCP, than Africa GN coordinator, and also PAI... So...great, great guy...

Well..actually he was a little bit disappointing...
Somehow he was not that motivating...at least for me... and also for the last morning plenary he couldn't wake up...
COMMEON!! Former PAI!!!

Ok, it happens, great party...but not to the CHAIR...who was a former PAI!!!
Idiot!!!

For interns, the track was not that well organized...I mean I got the point that we are adults, we are coming there for partying, but not just for that.
We want to get to know our LC, and also sth about Switzerland, funny habits to prove that the swiss people are not that boring... :), other interns, stories about work, hints & tips for the newcomer interns, etc.

Ok, we were not bored, because:

IT WAS SNOWING!!!!

The mountains, the trees, the small streets... it was amazing... :)))
Beautiful!!! :)

As I don't have any camera, I have to wait till the others put their photos on Facebook... :)

With Ikran and Emilia we went crazy... :)
It is PICTURETIME!!! :)))

"Follow the river, river, river...

TO GENEVAAA..."
(because basically the river in Fiesch will become once the Lake Geneva...)
So we were all the time singing this 2 lines... :D

And of course we were playing snowfighting... :)

We also had Masked ball party on Saturday after Official Dinner. :)
Everybody in nice clothes... :)))
It was great!!!
Photos later... :)))

So, it was good.

I am again very sorry for missing the Global Village...Maybe next time I will go earlier to the conference...just to represent/present Hungary. :)

On Sunday we played with the other interns some drinking games...without alcohol, but still... :)
For example "Bumm"... but instead of "Bumm", everybody had to say any word which comes to his/her mind...It is a cool game, you can get to know what the others are thinking about...or maybe not, as on Sunday everybody is very tired. :)

And...we also played the "Alphabet" ... it is like counting, but with words...
So, I try to explain. The first person has to say a word starting with A, the next one with B, etc till Z, than starts again... and if somebody says an animal, the order changed..the circle goes to other way around...
It sounds easy...but commeonn!!! :)))

And, the funniest was, we had a native english speaker from the US.... she always said a word that nobody understood!!! :DDDD

Anyways, crazy people!!! :)

And also some very very interesting conversation about cultural differences, love, men-women relationships... seriously, challenging my worldview! :)

And also there was a session about the internships, what is the value added in an aiesec internship... :)

So, it was a wonderful weekend!!!

Not just because the "cute indians" had a bottle of JAGER!!!
:))))

Now I go and chase some photos... ;)

Just in a rush...

2007-11-08T23:45:00.000+01:00

Tomorrow after work I am leaving to a conference...to an aiesec conference, to DO-IT.

(FYI: This post contains strange abbreviations for those who are not familiar with AIESEC...)

Strange feeling.
I don't know why I am fighting against @ all the time. Aiesec had/has an important role in my life.
And still...inside me..it is a fight...
I know that it is a huge motivation, and everybody is going there to really feel, Yes, this is why I am working like hell every day...this is why I sacrificed sth...
(ok, can you see....maybe my point of view is wrong...completely... it is not about sacrifice sth... It's up to you!

And this motivation part should be shown to the newies...

BUT.... It 's me... who is always making things more and more complicated...

Anyways, now I don't want to go in deeper...maybe it is better if I don't think...just let it go...and we will see....

I have a mask for the party...But I so miss you, Sütty and your creativity.... :DDD

Seriously!!! :)

so, see you guys on monday... or sunday evening..hiopefully full of energy and hopes and plans and motivation... that is usually what the conferences used to give me... and of course i meet always cool people!!!

HP Product Day

2007-11-06T22:10:00.001+01:00

On Monday we had the PSG and IPG Product Day in the office...
Seriously...it was amazing!!!

This event was about our products, it was an exhibition, we got the chance to see almost all our new products, lap tops, printers, touch sensitive screens, new photo printers, huge lap tops, or small ones, the ones those screen can be moved, revolvable screens.. or whatever it is called... :)

There was a quiz as well... I knew all the answers... ;) NOT...but hope i will win sth...don't need to be big one, a camera would be enough... :D

And also I managaed to see our new table.
It is really a table, designed for living room... but the top of the table is basically a huge touch sensitive screen....so the whole table itself is 1 giant computer...the legs of the table consist of 6 computer... :)

Anyways, the screen is awsome!!!
It is not that perfect and welldesgined...yet...you can choose a photo, frame it, drag the size, choose music...

Ok, it is true that Microsoft has already developed that kind of table 1 year ago or so... :)
They use it New Yor or Las Vegas or somewhere in the US in bars...
You can order from the table, pick up your drink form the menu simply just touching the table... cool... :)

21th century! :)
Amazing!

On the other side it was great to see what are exactly our products that I should analyze... Shame on me..and not just me...but we discussed it with my colleagues too that we do not really know about our products...just that it is which PL, which lib item goes to which metric description, etc.

But here is the real business thing.. :)

Later on, in December there will be an HP Employee Xmas shopping day too... so, just let me know about your wishes.. :)
Hope the wheel of luck will help me to win sth there too... ;)

Please let me share with you one of our huge marketing campaign running now...

If you really want something...

2007-11-04T00:39:00.000+01:00

I can not believe I missed the friday party...
Everything started...well...when exactly?
Maybe 2 weeks ago, when I was doing nothing just working every day till the office closes???
When I was not listening to my boss, saying that this small cold could be a virus, ro sth serious???

But you know me..it is just clod...nothing...i drink tea and it will be over...well...apparently not...

So shame on me...

I went through the whole week, managed to lead a meeting, deliver everything before the deadline...it was so exciting...and yes...my battery is not 100%...
:((

So bad...

So on friday my boss sent me home...how could he do that?
anyways, probably he was right...i needed to relax...relax a lot...basically today i couldn't get out of my bed...serioulsy... i ate only tonight...at 22...before i couldn't handle anything...
hope by monday i will recover...

The only thing I regret...is the friday night.. i was so looking forward to meet the crazy dancing girls...
:(((

Anyways, i will check the photos...
:(

and next week we have do-it...the conference... :)

cool!!!

Crisis over

2007-10-31T21:28:00.000+01:00

Unbelivable! :)

I had a training today. It was me (!) who trained the country representatives... because i am the one in the central... funny..some of them has got much much more knowledge than me...
And the same old story: central approach or local view...always different :)))

The problem is that now I am in the central and not in local level... :P
You never know... :)))
Anyways, so just wanted to tell you: the training started at 2:00...

I had a last meeting with one of best colleague from Italy... she really helps me a lot... so:
1:45: let's go through on your slides
1:51: ok, so change this, this, this
1:54: let me check sth...
1:57: change this
1:59: change this!!!

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and at 2:00 i opened the call... :DDDDD

It was so great!!! :)))
Of course it was totally different like a normal presentation... everything depends on your voice! :)

Anyways, I don't really think that it was that bad... ;)

Good learning points in these days... seriously! :)
Basically that's why I am here... to learn, to experience more, to challenge myself in different situations, specially in those areas where I am aware of my weakness... :)

That's why it is soo challenging!!! :)

I love taking presentations...
But on phone???
Funny...

Anyways, today is over, just the Friday one is missing... :)

I will go soon and pick up Kleshi from the airport!!!! :)))

I should really update my profile in LinkedIn... so, find me there too!!! :)

By the way...today it was the last year of FY07!!! :)))
Tomorrow NEW YEAR'S EVE!!! :)))

And Friday we will have a small drinking within IPG to celebrate the Q4 closing...

And on Monday the other businesses will organize "Open Doors" for everybody, so basically we can see our products, our new marketing strategy, campaigns.

Interesting :)

Trick or treat?

Happy Halloween! :)
(HP is a US company...fyi)

I will survive

2007-10-30T20:52:00.000+01:00

I will survive this week.
Today I already had 1 presentation. It was not that bad...
I have good presentation skills.
Yes, but only if I can emphasize what I am saying with my gestures, my hand, etc.
While I am using netmeeting... people can not see me, just my desktop...so they can not see it how confident I am what I am saying...because of my hands...
So they just hear my voice...whixh is not that confident... :S

Anyways, today I survived 1 presentation... it was not that bad...i survived the Q&A session too...the whole thing was less than 20 minutes... :))

I don't like this modern world... I prefer to see my audience...check whether they are listening to me, using the eye contact, gesticulating, etc. Now I have my voice..that's the only tool I can use to make the presentation more interesting...

And as you can mute your line, you do not really have to take care what the other one is telling you...
It would be interesting to check how many managers, or even how many ppl are listening carefully during netmeetings...
Modern world it is...

Tomorrow I will have an other presentation... it will be bigger and more important than the today one...

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I am scared... so please cross your fingers for me... hope...I will survive...

And tomorrow a friend of mine will visit me... :)))
Ok, it will be just a short visit, as he is traveling forward to his girlfriend to Lyon...but still... :) At least now I can hear some gossips!!! :)))
Kleshi, I really need some gossips from home, so prepare!!! :)))

Nowadays, I am always reading Kipling - If.

I really like that poem.

" If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"

"And so hold on when there is nothing in you,
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!""

Change

2007-10-29T20:23:00.001+01:00

Change is good.
Change is necessary.
Change helps to improve, to develop.
But if everything changes in every second????

How can you work like that???

I am getting more and more angrier when I finish my work...than i have to start from scratch again, because everything has CHANGED!!!!

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So, I was so fed up and pissed off, and anyways, why should everything always change???
So, I bought some chocholate...
Some...ooo...some nutella, and 3 kinder eggs...because now you can win Shrek figures... i.e a CAT. :)))

On my way to go home... i was guessing which eggs could have the Cat.... :)
Than I met my flatmate, and gave him one...with 1 condition, if he has got the cat...it should be mine..
Yeah I know it is not that nice, give sth as a present than ask it back... :)
Anyways...so you are not gonna believe this!!! He HAD THE CAT!!!!

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I can not be that unlucky...

But he gave it to me... :))))

back... :)))

Fight or flight

2007-10-28T20:06:00.000+01:00

Oh my God!!! That Heroes was soo good!!!!! :)))
Unbeliveable!!!
Fight agains your biggest nightmare!!!
Fight or flight!!!
That is sooo true!!!
Nobody can fly away from that!

I am soo bored.... really this work is sooo operational... áááááááááá

Just want to finish... have 2 more GTMs to simulate....
will take 1 hour or so...
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Yeah probably it is not the most efficient way..working AND watching movie together.... but if excell is sooo sloow....
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Anyways, the weekend was great... :)

Saturday evening we had "Girls night out"!!! :)
Without guys!!!
It was so much fun!!! :)

We went playing bowling, before that played with this "Csocsó", table soccer or sth like that... and also played with the basketball...
but for just one it is not that funny...so we went crazy and 3 of us were trying to male point at the same time!!! :)
The system couldn't follow us...got confused..but it was sooo cool! :)))

Oh, dammit... and because of this work, now i can not join to one of my flatmates dinner.... he is cooking very well...it smells good... :S Next time! :)

Oh yes, and today the clock adjusting thing was just sooo useful for me!!! :))) After I realized the change... :D
Finally I could use more hours!!! :)))

I hope i can finish soon so i can go for running or sth... i hate being in my room now...

Just a short sign in...

2007-10-27T12:38:00.000+02:00

Yesterday we celebrateed Manuel's birthday... he is from Italy, working also at a hadgefund, and he used to live in Rue De Lyon...

Oh, yes.. the famous Rue de Lyon... :)

We found a really good restaurant...it is basically an italian restaurant, but the owners are from Spain and Portugal. So for us it is just a Spanish/Portuguese restaurant... :)))

And they serve French/swiss food too... We ate fondue, and pizzas... :)

This restaurant will be a definitly must go, when my friends are coming and visiting me... :)))

And, moreover, yesterday it was fullmoon... so beautiful... :)))

Today I have to work.
Yes, I know, it is a workingday in Hungary, so now I am solidariting with my friends, but still... :)
On 1 Nov I am in the office!!!
Not like you, guys! :P

And my first high.-school reunion will take place today... Hopefully i can participate virtually... :)))
Would be so great... :)

Have a nice autumn, enjoy the colorful trees, the sun is shining, life is beautiful. :)

HP

2007-10-25T22:52:00.000+02:00

These 3-4 weeks...terrible... working-working-working....after 2 weeks, coming home every night after 22, i am not able to do anything, just jump into my bed....maybe watch some tv series... maybe not just sleeping, and than at 7 everything starts again...and i was soo fed up with that, fed up that can not finish my work on time, always extra work, but because of the never-ending changes, i am always working on the same thing... :)

so, and i was fed up because couldn't meet my friends, couldn't do the laundry, couldn't go shopping (the shops close at 7...)

So, Saturday I slept a huge...i slept all day, and stayed the whole day in my bed...eating in my bed(!), watching 24 and Grey's Anatomy, and House again - because i am addicted...

Than of course on Sunday I felt guilty that I didn't do anything, so I went for a huge walk with a friend of mine, than did the laundry (3 times...:)), then went to the gym, and planed my week, so now i can finish late, but after work, i am still going out...

Tuesday: Sara's birthday :)
Wednesday: German - Hungaraian - Canadian Kebab & Winetasting - that cellar was something extra nice :)

The athmosphere in that cellar was very nice, though the prices were nice too... ;)

Tonight I am leaving, hope to meet Sarah - who has just arrived from Spain for a short visit... :)

(of course till now i was working... but who cares? :)

Next week just 3 presentations are waiting...
Till yesterday just 1...but today i organized 2 more... :)workholic!! :)
and i have an insurance as well...

And i got a glass from Pickwick ;)

So, life is beautiful...

At HP... things are cool...now i know what i do, why i am doing and how should i do that... :)
There is a woman from Italy, she is sooo helpful...really...and...I don't know how, but she knows me already so well... :)
Always the right sentences in the right moments!!! Unbelivable!!!

AND!!!!
MR. VOICE came back!!!
Haven't heard from him in a while...and on Monday... he just called me... :DDD

And there is an other colleague of mine... i am still thinking of his nickname... Krishi any idea more than welcomed! :)

Oh, and by the way: It is snowing in Croatia!!!
No, no, it is nothing to do with any "spy sentence" or something like that...
:DDDD
In Baska.

How was it guys in Croatia? Tell me, tell me... :))))
All the public details...and non-public too... ;)

Khm...well..
ok, not that one :)

I am starting to be too random, should finish now...

Strange, my intention was to write about something...that i feel somehow now that I am far far from Hungary...i feel more the importance of Oct 23 or all other stuff like that... strange...

ok, it is a serious topic, next time, when i am not that "havas-like"

Be back soon,
Hugz

Aliz

2007-10-22T20:44:00.000+02:00

I am still alive...

2007-10-21T12:18:00.000+02:00

Yes, I know.. it is always like that... during the weekdays.. I do not have time, cause I am working... but what if I am working during the weekends too???

pathetic, I know... workholic..that's who I am...

Actually, I love challenges, and I love the changes...but this is unbelivable...that 3 minutes before the deadline..I have to change the whole project... aaaaaa

And my boss is asking: Are u stressed now?
Than laughing, because i twas ME who asked more tasks....
How stupid I am????
Why is that that for me nothing is enough???
I always want more, better???
I should learn...good is enough...

On Thursday, Enid and me cooked for our bosses....
Peter organized the whole Hungarian dinner.
Hmm...

I think, everybody enjoyed it.
My bigboss is now on diet... that's why we cooked Gulash and pancakes....good for his diet... :)))(I left the office earlier....around 2-3, we had to take back some meat, because uit was brown!!!
Unbelievable!
In switzerland...ok, the meat was from Migros, but still...
I was very stressed that we will not be ready on time...
But we managed to do it...!!! :)

Than, when my bosses arrived, one of them said to me:
Oh, how interesting it is, seeing you in the kitchen... :DDDD

Welll...maybe they know me... :D

Last weekend I was at home...again... :)
My grandfather turned 85!!!
So I had to be there!!!

It was great family lunch... I ate sooo much.... but really, so much... :)

And finally I managed to visit my cousin! And her child!!!! :)
Alíz!!
They trusted me to let her in my arms.... well... :)
I am happy that I didn't drop her... :))))

Isn't she cute??? :))))
And look at her design hair!!! :)))
I love her!!! She is sooo small...but how strong!!
She grabbed my finger... :))))

Now I have to find the iron...so have to go... kisses

Things that I like now

2007-10-07T12:59:00.000+02:00

- An email from an old-old friend, I haven't seen him for a while; saying that he is organizing our 1st high-school class reunion (after 5 years)
- My identity test - it is pretty cool actually, i did it yesterday evening (5 factor model of identity) it says very true things about me...strange...
check it out here

- Every first Sunday of the months - the museums and exhibitions are free...- so i will go and check one... (i really miss some culture in my life... theater, musical, poems, or museums...so now i will go to feed my art-hunger... :) and have to find a great theater soon
- New flatmates - Heba, the egyptian flatmate of mine id not coming back...strange.. I totally understand Vesna, who really misses her...of course, they have lived together for 2 years...so, instead of her, yesterday a guy from U.S moved in...he seems to be o.k, and cool... and he pronounce my name the same way as Mr. Voice... ;)
- House M.D Season 4
- Grey's Anatomy Season 4
- I am going home at the weekend :) For my grandfather's 85th birthday!!! :)
- my membership at the gym (seriously, I had CAF on Tuesday...i can not even sit down normally...i really should do more sport...and go to the sauna...)

Things that I have to arrange during this week: (a.k.a. things that bother me)

- insurance (well...i really have to check this out...penalty of more hundred CHF...wouldn't be that good for my financial plans...
- Mdme Girardi and her flat ... i will need my negotiation skills for that
- have to write to my professors... i don't know how long i am continuously postponing these things... what i am afraid of??? about my english -hungarian program, about my thesis(es)... nooo :S Ok,maybe I am afraid, or rather worried about the answer: NO.
She could do that. Just simply says no to all my plans, my dreams, my well-constructed speech (well, email at least). She could freak out, that i didn't tell her earlier, that I am leaving the program, in the middle of the semester... i haven't even paid the fee yet... oh, i am BAD. Very bad...
- maybe (MAYBE) I can not attend our class reunion...ááááááááááááá, have to calculate, and check the flights, buses, hitchhiking opportunities...

Too early???

2007-10-05T18:35:00.000+02:00

I keep saying to myself, to my friends and to my colleagues, that it is too early...
To early to decide, to take actions, to plan..
But...I have to realize that it is not that early. Actually, it is the right time!

Now I am still in the office... yes, fix working hours...and also flexible...Fix from 9-18, but it is flexible when do you want to work more...at the weekends, or at night...

Ok, now i am not workling, tp stop complaining...but we have to deliver the results on Monday...and this f*** system is **** **** slow!!! So the upload is not going, so i have to wait here, and see when it will finish... :)
Anyways...

:)

Spontaneus trip to Neuchatel :)

2007-09-30T13:32:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I was in the down town, organizing my life...paying the rent, informing about the French courses.

It is very interesting, btw, that I tell them, ok, I don't speak French, I studied in the book A1, we finished at the lesson 5.

Than the guy suggested me a course...starting from the lesson 7.
Yes, it should be good for you.

Hmm...yes, it should be good, I will catch up with the others.
Nothing is easy in this life. :)

Anyways, so I was just wondering, what should I do in the rest of this wonderful Saturday, when Shirly called me.
Anthony and herself are going to Neuchatel. There is a Festival, 330 different musical band. If I want to join...
No question, I have to go there.

After this conversation, I realized, that I left at home all my "flat shoes..."...so, I bought one.
(Yes, that's why I like it, I can save money on rent, then able to buy shoes... :)))

Neuchatel is 1h15 far from Geneva, with a nice lake, surrounded with mountains...so, basically a typical swiss city. :) It turned out, that the festival is actually Fete d'enfants...so for the kids... :))) Anthony, Anthony....you wanted this...noe I understand why. :) Your other side.. ;)

Everybody wore some dresses-...flowers, bees, trees, etc. It was very cool.

And all the kids had this small paper stuff...confetti...and they throw it to everybody.
We got a lot too. :)

Of course we visited a church, and an old tower too.
What do you think, if in front of a church there is a red carpet, and than in the 2 sides of the entrance door there are 2 huge flowers, with white ribbon around...?
Looks like a weeding?
Yes, you are right.
For us, it didn't mean anything.
:)
We just entered the church...
Shame on us.
There was a wedding inside.
So we left the church immediately. Without seeing the organ.

Then visited the old tower. Just try to picture this:
An old tower, at the beginning of Autumn, the trees are in different colors, all type of red, yellow, brown, green, small path leading from the tower to a garden, beautiful view to the mountains...
Got it?
Isn't it amazing?

Well, yes, but in reality...graffiti on the walls, not that nice, well-treated garden, and the view was more of a communist-like panel houses...

So, we went back to the Festival, people were not really dancing, but we didn't care. :)
We enjoyed it.

Seriously, all different types of music, latin, brazil, hip-hop, austrian classic (jodlee-ing...), balloons.
It was a nice day trip.

At the end, we arrived to Lausanne around 0:20, the train to Geneva leaves at 0:48.
Ok, so, let's go to the platform, and sit inside this waiting box, or whatever it called.
Anthony: Once I slept in a box like this.
Me: Really? cool.
Shirly: Oh, the train on the other platform says: Geneva.
Me: Yes, you are right.
Anthony: Oh, yes.

1 minute silence.

Shirly suddenly jump up: THE train says: Geneva!!!
and run out of the box.

Hmm....
Oh, yes...so it GOES to Geneva...
and than we started to run as well..

(Anyways, it was so funny it that moment. :)

That was my Saturday trip.

Home, sweet home

2007-09-28T20:29:00.000+02:00

hihihi...what a nice title....it also applies to my sweet HOME, HUNGARY, and also to the fact, that YES, I managed to find a room... for october :)
And I have just created this...

Anyways, so, I spent last week a fantastic 1 week at home, I was in Győr with my mother, father, and my little brother... (he hates when i say like that...he is 21 or what... and my Grandfather :)))

Than I went to Pécs, visiting my friends there....amazing...today they are having their last-last-last final party in the university...
(i am sure they will have more parties at the uni, but not as a STUDENT...)

IT IS OVER.
5 years.
And I am not there. :(

They are graduating tomorrow!
(Just come to my mind, please send me photos about the graduation!!!)

Congratulations girls, guys! :)
211 FOREVER!!! :)

On Tuesday evening, we had "girls night"... :)
I really needed this talk! But, as I saw, all of us hihihi

Than, on Wednesday, great party at Bazis.
If you are in Pécs, never, ever go there...Seriously. It is amazing. Amazingly bad.
And the DJ dared to say - while a well-known party song was played - "Only the old ppl can remember tihs song..!" hmmm.. I think that was the last worst monent that day in that disco.
OLD PEOPLE????

So, yes, I realized....we are old... too old for those parties... it is now time for girls and little boys like 15-18.
Hmm..that's it.

On Thursday I went to Budapest, visiting the other branch of my firends...

It was so great to see how 2 great friends of mine are in love!!! (with each other obviously!!!!) I am soo happy for you guys! :)))

Let me know if there will be anything about the "CLCC"... (closed LC's Conference) or whatever it called... :P

Big kiss to everybody,
I am back to CH... :)

Changes.
I was very afraid, that there will be lot of changes.
Everybody has changed.
I changed.
You changed.

But it is good to see that that certain "fire" is still in our eyes. :))

It should be always like that! :)

All Blacks - The Haka

2007-09-15T23:57:00.001+02:00

STAY BLACK!!!!
New Zealand forever!!! :)))

Seriously...I am scared...poor Portuguese team...

But the mascot is cute...khm..cute? that's a weird expression with rugby...

Looking forward to...

2007-09-15T22:44:00.000+02:00

TRAVELING BACK TO HUNGARY!!!!

Yes, finally...less than 19 hours...and I will be back HOME :)

I am worried that
- I will be late.
- I couldn't take the printer on the plane...
- the chocolate won't be enough for all my friends& my family
- actually that is my biggest fear. So please, if it is really less...just smile..and be happy... :)
- @HP it is not the best timing...I mean it is...but...as I am a big "careerist cow" (the cow is stolen... :)))...the timing won't be convenient ever...
- I still don't have any accommodation for October... so the timing is definitely not the best ... :S

But I am looking forward to that trip, because
- of my brother!!! finally we can TALK a lot about everything... ;)
- of my mother&father!!! And my father will be on holiday on that week!!! yeah!!!
- of my grandfather!!! & of course the handball match!!!! :))) On Saturday! :)
- of my friends
- than the conversations... :)
- the drinks
- the crazy Wednesday party... :)
- going to Budapest for the other band of friends
- I can catch up with all my friends!!! :)))

Oh it will be sooo great! :)

Today, by the way, as a last-minute trip, we went to Lyon! :)
That was amazing! :)

And I had a very strange feeling...
Anyway...so I start form the begining...
I was very upset because of the "flat situation..."
So far I have 2 options:
A:
Close to my workplace, not that far from the city center (that is important, because after a crazy night I can walk home...) (ok, after some experience I promised to myself that I will never walk alone home..but...just in case...)It is a collocation of 5 people, they are cool, young. But...they interviewed me...(and other 21 people)...and it is a very big disadvantage that I don't speak french...or at least I won't say it as "I can speak french.."
And they have a very good plan...every 2 weeks 1 out of them do the shopping for everybody and they eat all the time together.
I mean, it is great. I am a people person, so of course I love eating together with the others, or cooking. But like everyday??? And I can not do the shopping for myself? And what if I have different time schedule?

B:
Close to the station, nice, perfectly furnished room, with my own bathroom... but...with a father and his 15-year-old daughter. She would live there just 2 weeks a month. And...again...I don't speak French. :( And the father was kind of weired, that I have "just" L permit.

So, what should I do????
I think, and I am getting to be more and more convinced that I need my own apartment with my own rules. I have to confess that I am too old for a collocation. (Or I was alone for a too long time.) Or simply I am just picky???
But after UNIV how can I be picky?
Anyways...so in this situation I went to RDL to drink. (to forget and to be cheered up) Than they figured out to have a trip to Lyon.
And as Orsi is there, and since I am kind of spontaneous...I said yes.

We went by car...but...on the highway we stucked into a huge traffic jam...due to some construction on the tunnel...anyway...so while we were waiting...a NZ guy ran out of his car...and started to run...with a penguin in his arms...And he stopped next to the car in front of us.
So, it took us a minute to figure it out...that they want to go to Lyon for the Rugby World Cup...NZ against Portugal....
So, now I know everything about rugby...(I should have known something because of Marek...but anyways...)

So, after 1 hour sitting in the trafic jam, and after an other 1 hour travwling we reached Lyon.
It is a big city, with loads of churches...the guys loved my organ-addiction... :) NOT!

And we ate a huge lunch in one of those small, nice, narrow street with cobblestones. :)

Than climbed up to the basilica the view was great! :)
Then we ate huge huge icecream...ice coffee...the coffee was shity, but the ice cream was great! :)

Than we walked around the city a little bit, than traveled home. :)

Unfortunately I didn't meet Orsi...but later... :)
Because I am jealous... Lyon is great, it's bigger than Geneva...ok, there are no lake, no mountains...but still... :)

And yeah, back to my strange feeling.
It was once when I last time was in Paris...and it was Christmas time, and I was just walking on the Champs Elysées...than the lights - the Xmas lights - was turned on suddenly... it was beautiful..and than I just felt, that yes, I will work in Paris once.
(I don't know, nowadays I am dreaming something, and it turns true...usually I don't believe in these things, but now...I started to be more conscious about that...)
And while we were walking on those streets, and among the beautiful colorful houses, I felt the same...

We will see....

kisses
"A happy-traveling back to Hungary-snow :)"

Erasmus

2007-09-08T19:32:00.001+02:00

Hmm...I 've got an email from the hungarian Erasmus office, saying that there will be a 20th anniversary of this programme, and because of that there is a competition.
Ok, it is not really a competition, the thing is, we have to write a story about:
- the funniest moment
- the most adventures
- the most embarrassing
- the most moving
- etc moments of our Erasmus scholarship life.

What stupid idea is it... All my 5 months in the Netherlands was full with different moments...and each of them was the most of sth...

Seriously...when we were in Berg en Dal, or when the last day with Annamieke she drove us to Nijmegen after a couple of drinks and something else...
The Gay festival in Amsterdam, the corridor parties in Hoogeveldt, the exams and the preparations for the exams... (in an Eastern-european way...), the bycicle tours in any kind of weather.. mostly in rains...eating cakes, movies, squash parties, first and last hug from somebody unexpected, last days, planning our Euro-trip, "the T-story"...yes...all of them was a unique experience, unique moments...I can not write it down on an A/5 paper..not in a way that it will be funny or moving, or embarassing, or interesting, or scary for somebody else...you should have been there!!

Well..maybe the T-story...but that is something longer...

Hmm...I am just wondering, that today this is my 3rd post...well..it is because all day I am not doing anything, just sleeping... :)

Traveling from Geneva 3.

2007-09-08T14:47:00.000+02:00

For Meiringen and Brig check the previous posts... :)
In Meiringen there was the Sherlock Holmes waterfall... :)

Anyways...unfortunatly no picture available about Zürich...

Ok, I have to admit sth... I can not take photos... (that's also an other funny thing.. I am working @HP at IPG which stands for Imaging and Pringing Groups...) Yes.., it is all about photos...) So, after a while I gave it up...it is not a shame, you have to know your weaknesses... so that's why I am always happy when my friends are coming and they are taking photos instead of me... :))) They have such a great eye for such a things...
So, about Zürich, I am still waiting for Alice's photos... :))

In the meanwhile here are some photos about Geneva:

Ok, Geneva is not just about the Jet d'Eau...but I like it so much... my favorite place in Geneva is behind the Jet d'Eau... what a pitty that is getting cold...
The Fathers of the reformation...
The statue of Bocskay can be founded here also...
My friends were here... That was when 7 ppl were in my small room... :)
The pooor egyptian girl couldn't handle it...and she betrayed us...

Traveling from Geneva 2.

2007-09-08T14:14:00.000+02:00

So, now I have time to write down my travelstories...

3. Bern

I have been in Bern twice...once with @, for the transition party... and once with Eszter...
Well...to tell you the truth...for the second time I liked it better...But still I haven't seen the bears... I think I have already written about it...Yes, definitly, that Bern is nice, it is so swissgerman, it is like when everything would stop there...
The fountain...

The famous clock, with its marvelous play in every hour... (at least that was said in my book,...) well, the truth is not that marvelous...after this beautiful description we excpected something amazing, funny play, how each and every animal and little thing is moving...but...

4. Grindelwald - Interlaken

So, when Eszter was here, we traveled a lot... And she wanted to see something typical SWISS...something like in Heidi...do you remember this film? Of course, with the Grandpa, and the goats, the mountanis, the green beautiful environment...well, that is what Eszter wanted to see...
:)
And as a good host, I wanted to give her this. (Fortunetly, she is such a good organizer, that she arranged everything instead of me...) Thanks :)))
So, we went to Interlaken first - which is rather for the american tourists...

American tourists...

Than, to Grindelwald...for hiking...OH MY GOD!! There are 3 mountains.. the virgin, the evil, and I forgot the 3rd one..but you can guess...if these 2...what could be the 3rd one???
Anyways, so it was amazing...
(ok, to tell you the truth, we were not that lucky, I don't really remember, something wrong happened, than we missed 1 train from Interlaken to Grindelwald, than the train didn't want to move after a while...we had to wait for an other one...and in the meanwhile Eszter kept saying that she wants to experience totally the same as it was in Heidi.
(It doesn't matter, that this movie was made in the east corner of Switzerland..and we were heading to the heart of Switzerland.... :))

But, finally after 2 hour late we arrived to Grindelwald...we decided to go for a 1,5 hour hiking.., the initial plan was to go for a 1,5 h hiking, than for a 4 hours one...aha...of course... :)))
Not to mention, it took us 6 hours...around... :))))

But IT WAS AMAZING!!!
BREATHTAKING!!!
We also stepped up to a real glacier...it was sooo windy...and high!!! SCARY!!!BUt interesting what ice and water could do...

Than we continoued our trip...without any goat... :(
Everything was great...we almost finished...when Eszter for the last time said: ok, now, this is perfect...I just need to see an animal to feel like in Heidi.

Traveling from Geneva

2007-09-06T12:39:00.001+02:00

Can you see the little red points where I have been so far?

Yes, not that much..but not bad at all... :)
1. Geneva
2. Annecy (FR)
3. Yvoire (FR)
4. Bern
5. Brig
6. Interlaken
7. Meiringen
8. Grindelwald
9. Brienz
10. Zürich

Let's start with Annecy.
Annecy is in France, 1,5 hours far from GE. Also called as the French Venice.. And right, this small town is amazing....obviously it has got a lake, and mountains around, but the small streets, this old fashioned atmosphere...it is amazing :) And it is not as stinky as Venice... ;)

With Eszter we joined to the group a little bit later...(hmm..why? Because we couldn't find her passport... and why? ööö...because of me...because, last time ,when we wentto Yvoire, I left my passport at home...and I was worried, so we went back for it, which means that we lost half an our from our very important schedule...and I didn1t want to experience the same again..so for security reason, I took her passport too...) Anyways...so, after we arrived, we rented a pedal boat, than cycled in the lake...The only problem was, when a huge boat came in fornt of us...generating huge waves...yes..that was scary a little bit... NOOOOT... rather funny... but later, when I realized that my camera was in the water...well...that wsa not that funny....

Look at the photos:

2. Yvoire

That was an other, typical trip with Eszter. :))) ;)
We rented a bike...and cycled 26 kms... for us, it took 3 hours... Khm...
Somehow I remembered, that for Dolphy the same took 45 minutes...
Ok, ok, we stopped to eat, and stopped to take photos too...

Yvoire is in France too, but you can cícle around the Lac Léman, so it is very cool. It would be better, if we could really bike beside the lake...but it is not possible due to the privet houses, apartments... This 26 km was up and down hill...but it was great! :)
And Yvoire is a middle age city... :)
With the garden, with the castle, with the lake...amazing :)

This is better, than the dutch one, huh?

When the weather is clean, we can see the Mont Blanc... WOW! :)

TBC...now have to go...I am still looking for accommodation from October... :P

Back to usual life...

2007-09-06T12:03:00.000+02:00

Well...summer is over...back to the normal life...no more visitors... (at least not in this 4 weeks...)...just the gym, my french course, and HP of course...
And today...today is a bank holiday in Geneva...nobody is working...except...
Hmm..yes...I am a careerist...I will have a meeting with WW at 6:30 in the evening... and what's even worst.. I am interested in this meeting... so..why not? I can go to the office... :)

10 days, and I am traveling back to Hungary!!!! After 4 months... finally I will see my family, my friends...

Yes, I am counting the days already! :)
And thanks Sysy for the bed, I will use it! :) Sept 19 :)

An other interesting the world is small story:
- On Facebook (i hope u are on it...watch out..u can get addiction...) a guy found me from Frankfurt...saying that he wants to go to Zürich, asking ME for accommodation...
Ok, ok I love Zürich...but i don't know it that much.... So I wrote him back, that I will ask my friends...and asking him by accident, whether he knows from Frankfurt Adam Antal....and what was the answer???
Of course, they will travel together to Zürich!!! :)))
Amazing :)

Hubert, my polish party friend will leave soon.... Yesterday we had a dinner together with all the other friends... Hubert cooked! :)
Can you imagine this? :) It was an American dinner...hamburger with potatos, and salad! :)
But his formal farewell party will be on Saturday...

Hmm...ok, I know aiesecers never say goodbye...but still... :S

HP Picnic

2007-09-01T21:34:00.000+02:00

We are a family...with all my sisters...we are a family...

Yes..HP is a big family...
:)

So, to meet more people, to get to know my colleagues, and because I can not sit on my ass... I was part of the HP Picnic organization team...

We had team meetings every 2 weeks, during lunch time...sometimes longer...
It was great to see how is it going on a professional level...when you don't really have to worry about the budget...of course we had a maximum...for 1 day the budget was almost the same what we have for our "Freshmen-camp" in Balinka for 1 week for example...
YES! I know! Amazing... we are talking about millions... (in HUF...hehe..not CHF...but still)

I was responsible for the donkeys, and for the face painting... :)
Both was a very good success... :)
I am happy, that all the kids were happy...and actuallly the face painting was so famous..that not only the kids, but also adults painted themselves...it was so cool! :)

The picnic was in front of HP, in a huge field...we had hamburgers, BBQ, salad, dessert, icecream, beer, wine, beer, wine... :)
So, lots of stuff...oh.. i am full... :)))

Orsi was here as well, she helped a lot...however, she shouldn't have to! :)))
We took care of the children, who were jumping in this castle-thing, and so on...

Later on I was in the bar... (hm...where else...) serving others..My French is now improving...definitly...
I know the water, the Coke, the Fanta, the Sprite, the ice tea, the wine and the beer in French... (ok, i understand those words if a french speaker pronounce them.. :)))

Anyways, to sum up, it was great....Finally I found some female company for myself...so the lunches will not be boring, and "male sovinistic" anymore... :))) I hope so at least...

Really, to have lunch always with these "macho guys..." well...thanks for the training guys, now at least I know how men are thinking... Amazing. :))

So, back to the HP...
I really like this company, this athmosphere here...

And my manager keeps saying: 8 months, 8 months...
(My contract is till May 2008...so 8 months...)

We will see...too early to think about things like that :)

So, now after a very good organization and coordination, finally we can start drinking...hopefully! :)

And finally I will meet - after a long time - my crazy-swiss-party-girls!!! Julia & Carissa!!!! :))))

Here are some pics:
The big bosses...8th region

Test results

2007-08-26T17:12:00.000+02:00

What Kind of Guy Will You Fall For?
	You would fall for the gentleman. Keep an eye out for your love at your next formal or field trip to the opera. Watch out for bad boys who walk on the inside of the curb and don't hold the door for you, and you'll end up with the guy who's suave, sophisticated, and classy through-and-through.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

What Kind of Drink Are You?
	You are a Whiskey on the Rocks. You are tough and you know it. It takes a long time for people to get to know you but you wouldn't have it any other way. You don't care what people think, but sometimes that turns people off of you.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

What Should You Have Done After High School?
	You should have traveled the world. You're outgoing and you like to try new things. You'd do great in a college environment, but you won't be able to focus on school until you fulfill your inner desires to get out and see the world.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

Which Heroes Character Are You?
	You are part Peter. You're too sincere, but it works for you. Your family is very supportive despite your idealism.
	You are part Claire. You're naive and still getting used to your abilities. Some more experience and assertiveness would be good for you.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

My life in photos

2007-08-25T21:15:00.000+02:00

Marseille

TBC...

Prison Break

2007-08-25T13:59:00.000+02:00

Click on the title!!!

Start to Countdown! :)

Sept 17 in US, so Sept 19 night in Pecs! :)

Addicted...I know...pathetic...

Q1 - Quarterly report

2007-08-14T23:08:00.000+02:00

I owe you guys so many stories...

YEs...3 months has just left...since I am working...
aaaaa

Anyway..August is so far very busy:

- went to Marseille with Eszti :))) (amazing, rockclimmbing...)
- came back with her to Geneva
- had visitors, friends for 2 days... 7 ppl in my small room...yeah!!! :)
- went to Yvoire...by bike..26 km...it took just 3 hours...well...NC
- went to Annecy...almost missed is----because of a passport story ... íeah..typical...
- didn't start loooking for new accomodation
- started my french course...Je m'appelle...
- had lots of concerts, parties, fete de geneva, fireworks, amazing... :)))
- went to Interlaken...again...than to Grindelwald...hiking! :) Love it
- went twice to the sauna....ohhh goood...
- had to bring my lap top home- because now -after I talked to my manager... i have plenty of things to do... :)

The detailed version of these things are coming soon, full with pictures, and gossips... :)))

bisous

African wedding & Camerunian party

2007-07-30T12:17:00.000+02:00

Well, it is not because i have soo many friends here in Geneva...
just all of them are organizing everything on the same day!!!

So, that's why I can not decide where to go, what to skip...But that is never good...

On Saturday I had 3 party invitations...and of course I wanted to attend all...

At the end, I just went to 2...

1. African wedding :)
A friend of mine from Kongo has a friend form Angola, and it was his wedding.
We were invited only the party after the wedding.

It was nice... our host told us not to be late...the invitation said the party starts at 6...so it means everything will be 2 hours late, so join them at 8...
(That's the african way)
Our host were late as well...so it was ok, when we arrived there at 9:30 or later...

(First we checked the camerunian party. but it has not started yet, the hall room was empty, or just a few old ppl were sitting...)

When we entered the wedding party, all eyes were landed at Peter...the huge white...
well, yes...it was interesting...he was scared, that he run out of the room... :)
:))))

Everything was self -serviced, the food was mainly fish...all type and different ways to cooked...

It was good.

oh, yes, there were lots of kids in the party too...oooh...they are soo soo cute...
I need one too!!!! ;)
Really!

The couple:
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The girls:

The wedding party was ended at around midnight, so we were headed to the camerunian party.
By the time we arrived there,the party had been already started.. NOT

Actually, we arrived, ate there - almost the same fish, and banana, and some cakes -
It was actually organized by the camerunian student organization, to celebrate the end of this school year, or sth like this.

Then when the music started, only a few people were dancing, so - obviously - we joined to them! :)

We were dancing till 3... or so... :))

Walter&Wendy
The fridge was not working=WARM BEER ONLY :S

But Nice Saturday night! :)

Jet d'Eau

2007-07-25T23:05:00.000+02:00

This photo was taken behind the Jet d'EAu, and...we saw the rainbow as a complete circle!!!!

Amazing!!!!

ööö

2007-07-25T22:52:00.000+02:00

Well, I read my previous post...
let me know if you don't get the point...

Maybe I left out some important links...

sorry, i am a bit tired... :)))

Thoughts...

2007-07-25T22:34:00.000+02:00

WEll, things with my flatmates are getting better and better...ok, just be optimistic...
I hope so :)

Now I had dinner together with Heba, the egytpian girl... Well..yes, she is crazy...but interesting :)

I really liked talking to her :)
I was telling a story about my borther...then she interupted..what is his sign?
oh, so it is understandable...

Than she told me a story about one of her cousin... she is Aquarius, but this with such an emphasis... than she stopped...
ok..so that's her sign..but what's the story???

I couldn't decide, if it's bad or not...so i hesitated...how to react..oh..really???
with a surprise on my face...

Than she continued... :)

But after this start...we really had a great discussion about cultural differences...
She will move back to Kairo, and she has to live together with her family, untill mer marriege...If she didn't do that, that would be a huge huge scandal...

For us, after the university, it is really bad, if u still live together with your parents...you should start your own, independent life...

I've heard that the Egyptian guys are very polite, and treating you like their sister...
She agreed...but then...

Egyptians are not that gentleman, but they are faithful!!! So polygamy is absolutely not their characteristic...

And she is even more naive than me! :)

I like that in Geneva, that there are so many nationalities, really ppl from all over the world..yes, I know, I am repeating myself, but it is so great!!! :)

For example last time, we were 9 of us, all of us from a different country...and we were talking about prejudice... :)

Lichtenstein.. what comes to your mind about Lichtenstein?
Or:
Ireland,
Russia,
Australia,
Italy,
Pakistan,
US,
Canada...

:)

Going out in Geneva

2007-07-24T00:04:00.000+02:00

I always wanted to write about the nightlife in GEneva...ok "nightlife"...

Well...somehow it seems that such a thing doesn't exist..or atl east not in a hungarian way..

Everything closes at 2. Or even earlier.

That's the biggest problem here, i think.

I won't generalize...so:

1. Paladinum (or whatever it called - a nightclub next to Hotel du Rhone, close to Bel Air)

It is a very very fancy place, everybody wears black perfect mini clothes, guys in suit...
It would be OK, if I were not in my JEANS skirt.... :S
Yeah... I know... :(

Fortunetly the guy we were with, he knew the security guys so they let us in...even me in that clothes.... :)))

Well...inside...really.... 16-year-old guys in suit and 45 year old women with mini... hmm..interesting...

The music was techno, or some tuctuc...
The prices..well to be honest, I don't know...I had my Vilmos in my bag... so we drunk that.. I still have the cups... :)
And my bag stills smells!!! :DDD
(I've washed it already 2 times ...)

Actually, despite the circumstances, I really enjoyed that night!!! :)))

2. Santa Cruz

That's a salsa, latino club...
Not bad...
we arrived around 11...nobody was dancing...coctails are for 15 CHF, beer (small) 8 CHF...

No entrance fee... there are TVs on the walls broadcasting Fashion shows, almost naked women...

After a while, the music changes...no more latin...rather some kongo music :)
Funny.

3. Calipso

It is quite out of the city center..without a car...not a good idea...
Typical black club...hip hop or sth like this music...
not bad actually...

I was there when we celebrated my ex-flatmate's birthday...so it was OK, we had our own DJ, our own music... :)

Next time I wil check Lausanne's nightlife. I've heard there are much better places...well... I think, it doesn't matter...just the company :)

4. Geneva plage - BEACH Parties

Yeah... that place reminds me those days when we has the Garden Party in Pécs, in UNIV, in the dormatory...

Really... openair...next to the lake...huge huge party!!!
I've never seen that many people in Geneva at night than there... :)
Of course, it finishes at 2... but...which is bad... they run out of beer even earlier!!!!!

5. Fétes de Généve

It will take place for 02.08 till 12.08...
Geneva festival, or so...

Great concerts every day, till 1...
than on the last day huge huge fireworks!! :)

6. Pre-Fétes de Généve

That's funny... before the real festival we have pre-festival: 19.07-1.08 :)))

Every night concerts... :)))

For example yesterday I went to a Brasilien concert :)))
That was soo great!!!

Ok, the music and the choreography was more likely to an aerobic lesson than a samba course, but it was great!!! :))
From 22 till 23...after DJ...

7. Summer music festival

Every wednsday and friday we have concerts in one of the parc...

Free concerts, and usually there are world famous stars as well...

Ok, ok, people say that this whole free festival thing is from our taxes...well, yes...but under 25 you pay less taxes...so :) for me, it is ok... :)))

I am looking forward to our next challenge in one of the swiss clubs :)))

Flatmates

2007-07-23T23:49:00.000+02:00

I decided, I won't be mad or angry or depressive..so I won't have abad feelings becasue of my flatmates...but commmeeooon.....

oh my god...

So, it started in the very beginning..i haven't moved in yet, just brought some stuff to my new room, when i meet them...2 girls... 1 from Egypt, Heba, the other one half serbian half french, Vesna...so Heba's first question: What is your sign?

I am Taurus...

Her reaction:
Taurus??? Oh...nooooo...(but this shouting...) I am Libra, Vesna is Leo....non of them matches with TAurus...so she left me...

WHAT???
VHAT????

How could she?

She didn't even know me....just my sign???
I mean, yeah of course I admit, I am a Taurus, a real one, who likes in the ground, not really creative, and hate and afraid of changes... (yeah, I know.. i always challenge myself with these changes...but still)

Commeoon...

Unbelivable!!!

So, after this conversation, Dolphy visited me, and he lived in my new room, while I was still living in my old room. So first he meet them...
And Heba's first question to him was of course: what is your sign?
And it turned out that this also doesn't match to Taurus...and what's more...Heba wanted to convince Dolphy, that this relationship is bad for him...
Hm...friendship not relationship..but still!!!!

I was freaked out...

Ok, I won't mention those little things, when I should always make the dishes, and SHE can just leave all the salats in the sink...doesn't matter... really...

Now Heba is little bit freakd out, because she is writing her thesis now...
so ok, I understand her.. i would be (will be for sure) angry too...

And yesterday, we had dinner together..ands she started to talk about her life...
That she doesn't know what to do, she doesn't know herself, she would like to cry...
She doesn't like what she is doing...etc.
oo...ok..so now what should I do?
we are now best friends?
What can I say???

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So as a good taurus I listened carefully with patience of course.. hihihi

So now everything seems to be ok...

And today she came to me, and said that she is listening the main arab channel, the one that is known as THE terrorist channel in the US. (I don't remember the name of it...)Hmmm...

Now I am a little bit concerned, why did she tell it to me???

She is strange.

Anyway, I am stressed because of her thesis too...the deadline is 6 of August... hope we will survive...

:D

Back again :)

2007-07-22T11:08:00.000+02:00

I know, i know...
just so many things happened...i can not even summarize...

Start at working...
well, now it turned out, that they want me to develop a home page...me??? Can u imagine this???
Yes, this is definitly a huge challenge...me...i can hardly install a program...not even mention a webpage developing...wow..interesting...

Last time, it took me at least 2 days to figure out, what are the basic HTML source codes, how can i make things bold, or how can i make things in italic unbelivable...

Now I can also use a, href codes...and some other...but stilll...coomeeeoon...it is far not enough for making a cool hompage....
Anyway, at least they could see my progress "in the webpage"...but when i showed them, what i did, both my bosses were just laughing...than they told me, that one of them was a WEb master, an other one worked as an IT condultant...

hmm... so for them it takes max 2 minutes...

i hope so, that next week my porject will start with the testing, than it will be very interesting, caues nobody knows anything, we have to bulid up everythnig for 0 :)

I just found the butterfly effect 2... so, see u guys later :)

kiss

Come whatever...

2007-07-09T00:06:00.000+02:00

This weekend i went to Montreux, to the jazz festival..well..rather no comment. :)
It was not that baad...but....yeah..we were not really in the "party mood"...

Than I went to Zurich...to the Zurifest, which is just in every 3 years... it was so amazing!!!
THe firworks...oh my god...the fireworks and the music was totally together..well composed!!! :)))

Fantastic! :)

Than we hasd a great party...what a pitty, that we couldn't meet Carissa and her boyfriend...i belive, i wrote at least 5 sms, or not even more, but in that crowd it was impossible to find each other :)))

Actually, about ZH I don't know much...I haven't seen a lot, the lake is beatuiful, I've seen of course the main square with all the banks, with UBS, obviously! :)

But that's it...and it is ok like this, it was such a great sunday!
Despite the rain, we went to a gym, to a fitness center, the guys went to the Gym, and I went ot the SAUNA!!!!

Ohh my goood.... :))))
That was soooo great!!!!

I had around 3 hours till my train left, so during this time I was in the Sauna, than have a rest, than to the steambath, than rest again, than sauna, etc...
ooohh....
finally!!! That was the thing that I have been looking for so far...!!! :)))

It was strange in the beginning, that the sauna is separated, and everybody is naked...
I didn't know that...I had my swimming suit with me...everybody starred at me: what is she doing here like this???

I know it is much healthier without anything!

So, it was so great, all the poison went out of my body!!!
Finally!!! :)

Just to remember, that was what we drunk:

Oh, Hungary... :)

Swiss dreams, tomorrow WORK!!! :)

Strange...

2007-07-06T20:01:00.000+02:00

Strange feeling...
:(

This blogging stuff is strange...

It can not substitute an email, with huge distribution list...

You know what's up with me..but I don't know what's going on with you...
But I am interested in your life as well...
:(

Strange...

Where is my home?
I am somewhere middle of everywhere, or middle of nowhere?
:(

Whatever...let's go to Montreux and drink, dance, party! :)
Till 4... :)