Soaked for business

I have never been taken so seriously — and I mean seriously — as a professional. Even if I don’t get a job, I got many exceedingly useful pieces of advice for career-building and some really good remarks on my cv. They did provide me some interestingly-looking perspectives, too — now they just estimated me, but in the next weeks they may even find me some actual offer.

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 end of August it meant someone from the office — nowdays it means that someone is calling me about a job.

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 opportunity then to eat hamburger than at my favorite place. The hamburger stand has been closed and an apothecary have been opened at the place of it and the little bar beside.

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. It was sad to see that the local government doesn’t really care about this unique sight.

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.

I did enjoy the music, made some pictures (these are the first ones that were shot especially for the sake of this blog), and continued my way home. In the underground station there were some “revolutionaries”; actually there were three of them, most probably a family.

My very last day in the office

From now on, Gergő Varga is responsible for the affairs of ELTE Online. Since I took care of them since the foundation of the magazine, it’s nice to feel that I never have to deal with excentric and exalted authors and editor wannabes any more. From now on, it’s not me who has to try to squish out perfectly public information from the university. Good luck and have fun, that was the last thing I told him.

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 capture. What I didn’t take into account is that though there were indeed plenty of nice moments, but many of them were unique (and so very important).

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.

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 good it is to be immersed in an entirely alien subculture.

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 almost gave up.

Today I am going to a visual kei concert — when I first read about this genre, one of its strongest characteristics seemed that the bands brake up much more frequently than ‘usual’ formations. I hope I will see M. throwing up :).