moving

Just came home after helping Estelle move her stuff to our new place and having a wonderful dinner on Schweizer Strasse. This week has been a very busy one.

I started going through my stuff at home a while ago and this week my little flat reached a state where I was happy to invite people over and show it. After unsuccessfully advertising in the company and the Austrian mailing list (they never sent out my email ...) I entered the details on www.wg-gesucht.de as suggested by Blanca (THANKS!!!) on Tuesday. The stupid thing was that immediately after entering I had to go to the post office to pick up a book I ordered for my parents and I was stupid enough to leave my mobile at home. I had 5 missed calls and 2 messages once I returned and many more called once I arrived at home. In the end I showed the flat to 10 people - most of them wanted it. And as it turns out, they also want my furniture so I will make quite a good deal on it in the end - well, good enough to buy some new stuff for the new flat... We will decide tomorrow who gets it so I hope to close this chapter very soon. I have loved the time spent in my little flat and I will be leaving it happily now that it has been cleaned and my stuff sorted and lot of it thrown away.

I will write about the new flat once I move all my stuff over and will show some pictures soon. Now I have to prepare for the weekend as we go hiking tomorrow and I haven't even packed anything. After that I go to bed as I am tired like hell. I am sooooo tired the most I could achieve at the moment is similar to what is shown on this video. Good night!

the kingdom

Finally a cool movie at the sneak preview!!! And as nobody wanted to go with me, I went alone. The movie is one of the tensest movies I have seen in a long time. Is "tensest" even a word? I am not sure, but what I mean is similar to what happened to me when I watched Match Point and got completely angry. Only this time I stopped breathing for a while, put my fingers in my mouth and started chewing my nails off - which I never do! It kind of starts crazy - you hold your breath for a while then it slows down and then it speeds up. And even as the end of the story is very American / Hollywood style, the last sentence of the movie manages to make you think and summarise the f***ed up situation we are in at the moment.

I absolutely loved the opening credits - I found them on youtube so you can watch them here. Of course I don't know how much of this stuff is true but it is certainly well made.

sometimes you have to see a movie twice ...

... to really like it. I just finished watching gladiator and I must admit I enjoyed it a lot. I remember going on the first night it came out in Vienna many years ago to the Haydn cinema and being really disappointed. It starts kind of boring but becomes very passionate and the music is simply amazing. It is interesting to see how soundtracks get re-used as it has the same title melody as pirates of the caribbean - which was shot three years later (Hans Zimmer this time). Plus I guess it influenced also 300 - which just came out last year. Very cool.

What else happened today? I finally checked out facebook and went to the Städel museum. Now I am going to bed to start the week not too tired. It is a strange feeling to have probably spent the last weekend in my current flat.

I am finishing this entry with a video I found on youtube that will only be understood by my Hungarian readers (so basically my parents as my brother never remembers the address of my blog). It's very funny because what happened is that there is a song from Scandinavia that is basically of course not in Hungarian but it can be read in Hungarian in which case it consists of small Hungarian (well, more or less) sentences - of course completely bullshit if read together, but the sentences more or less make sense by themselves. Very funny in a geeky way. Good night!!!



Oops - almost forgot. An orangutan called Sibu prefers tattooed blondes to female orangutans. Read here. No Joke!

lazy saturday

The party at Leire's place yesterday was a lots of fun. Excellent food, excellent wine (unfortunately not only excellent but also too much ...) and a lot of old songs. I also managed to push my bike home after the party - which was a real effort with all the wine circulating in my veins. Spent the rest of the day going through my stuff for the move, checking out hotels in Athens and this new tool called twitter.

Now I am going to have a short fiesta before going to 6ixty2 to meet the others. Enjoy the weekend!!!

weekend :-)

It's Friday night and I am very much looking forward to the weekend after a busy day. Believe it or not, I did a lot today. Now I am off for a very nice Spanish dinner.

Check out this video - I think it is hilarious - turn up the volume to catch the full impact of the hunt!

find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it

a fascinating talk on happiness and terrorism that made me put "The Selfish Gene" on my amazon wish list.

quick update

No updates in the last month although lot of things have happened - or maybe this is the reason ...

Anyway - I have taken some serious progress toward reaching a borg-like status by purchasing a GPS tracker device so I can start geotagging my life and the pictures I take along.



Also there are some cool new tools on the net that I am playing with - so there might be an update soon...