Entries from September 2007

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Soaked for business

What good is a suit, if you are wet through and through? It was raining so heavily that I was really worried about my looks. Fortunately I always have an umbrella with me, the suit seemed to repel water somehow, and since I was twenty minutes early, I could rearrange myself properly in the foyer.
Truth [...]

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Ring-ring

I have two kind of ring tones on my cell phone. One is a pleasant tune, which means “relax, it’s just a friend or a member of the family”. The other one was named “office phone” on the tone list, and it usually means that I have to prepare for an official call. Until the [...]

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

New jobs on the horizon

I left my camera at home again — now, with no borrowable cameras around, I had to take pictures with my cell phone. Today I was at Buda — I had a job interview very near to my first home. I wasn’t there since last year — it’s fortunate that I did not miss the [...]

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Back to Aquincum

I haven’t been to Aquincum for eighteen years. We were taken there as an after-school activity; I remember being simply amazed by the sight. Back then, it was the largest ruin I had ever seen; as a kid, I was also a fan of Ancient Rome. I have read every book about I could place [...]

Friday, September 21st, 2007

To each his own

On Wednesday, while going home, I heard renaissance music on the street. I like it very much (it always reminds my of one of my favorite cartoon series on the TV about our most famous king, Matthias), so I followed to tune to be able to listen it for a while. It turned out that [...]

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

My very last day in the office

It’s quite strange to have an extra evening at the office just to hand over my previous tasks to my successor. I cannot say I wasn’t relieved: I was working for the student unions of ELTE for a total of nine years and it was enough. From now on, GergÅ‘ Varga is responsible for the [...]

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

A lovely challenge

The photos made at my sister’s wedding are finally, finally ready — I never thought it’s so hard to be a wedding photographer. When Bori asked us for the job, I thought it will be a peace of cake — everybody is willing to be photoed and there will be plenty of nice moments to [...]

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Little Evening Revolution

A few thousand people gathering around the House of Parliament, making ridiculous speeches, throwing litter at the congressmen’s and office employee’s cars, occasionally spitting at them while the police is merely watching: that’s what they call a revolution. The police calls it “peaceful demonstration”, I call it pure idiocy.
Yesterday they came up with the bombastically [...]

Monday, September 17th, 2007

More than they paid for :)

Well, the Friday night would have been a bit of disappointment if I couldn’t enjoy myself as a freelance journalist at any party. Making photos in virtually pitch dark, listening to the people, editing the future article in my head — well, it works for me for a whole evening. I almost forgot how incredibly [...]

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Pre-Friday night post

I hate Hungarian bureaucracy — in the last few days I was trying to hand in my tax declaration via Internet. I had to go through far too many ridiculous procedures to be able fulfill my duties as an entrepreneur — when I had to officially authorize myself handle my own tax affairs then I [...]