Me and My crazy Mind

TutorVista

2010-03-08T20:09:00.001+01:00

Since internet started to be a part of our everyday lives there are several opportunities in education, too. In the last few years, I took part in several conferences on e-learning and online tutoring. I guess this was a great opportunity but to be honest, initially I had some resistance too.My field is the social sciences in the University and there are some fields where I think e-learning and

Orchid

2010-03-05T20:37:00.002+01:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Orchid, originally uploaded by zsoolt. Greetings to the coming spring!

Seal Script

2010-02-27T21:05:00.005+01:00

March Madness and Basketball fun

2010-02-24T17:39:00.002+01:00

During my childhood I play the bingo game with my sister and my neighbours in Tatabanya. These days with the technological advancement, bingo is played online and simply with a Basketball bingo cards like this oneMarch Madness. I am kind of excited about March Madness. It is quite simple as I just fill out the brackets and pick my winning teams. For those of you who have not tried, you might

Joys of having a little baby

2010-02-23T18:57:00.001+01:00

We read about several drugs relating to weight loss and we found one that is safe for pregnant women called xenical. When we visited our friends in July last year, one of Zannnie's friend was pregnant. Ruyi is an old friend of Zannnie from the elementary school and they knew each other for almost 30 years! Of course, we must meetup, for she is a very special and very helpful friend of Zannnie. So

Spring is coming!

2010-02-23T18:53:00.000+01:00

In the coming Spring and nearing to my birthday in mid-May, Zannnie would have been here for three years. It's how surprising she is able to adapt quite quickly to our four seasons here in Hungary. In cold winter like these days, we cover ourselves with more layers of clothings and at home, we normally switch on the central heater almost all the time. Most of the houses here are not equipped with

Little scene from the Irish Easter Rising

2010-02-14T19:38:00.003+01:00

"So on the sunny Monday morning after Easter, as Irish Volunteers and troops of the Citizen Army assembled at Liberty Hall, Connolly's headquarters, Pearse ignored his sister's embarrassingly shrill plea: 'Come home Pat, and leave all this foolishness'! Instead he marched off with his men."Piers Brendon: The decline and fall of the British Empire 1781-1997

Ski holidays

2010-02-12T09:27:00.003+01:00

One of the things we spoke about these days was the ski holidays. It's been snowing quite a lot these days in Budapest. Everyone is discussing about where to go, such as where is the most romantic ski destinations, where in France is the worlds biggest ski areas and so on. Different friends around us chose different destinations. Some to France, some to Slovakia, while some to Switzerland.Today,

Baby shopping

2010-02-11T22:56:00.004+01:00

One of our Singaporean friends who used to be living in Budapest has moved back to Singapore. Partly they choose to return because our friend Evelyn was pregnant and for better and more professional medical services availability in Singapore, they decided to make the move. Her husband Mark was an expat and they were living in Budapest for about two years.Now their baby is about 2 months old :)

How to keep your website safe

2010-01-17T20:17:00.003+01:00

Everyone is talking about it. The recent news about Google's 'intention' to publicly denounce censorship sounded so unbelievable for me. Not just the accusation of the Chinese hackers of launching attacks that is the matter. A big company deciding to take on China in this manner is definitely not a bold move but a cheap way to get publicity in a short few days, in a few words.Theft of

sunset

2010-01-16T11:33:00.005+01:00

We love cheap cruises or round trips in countries that are affordable for us.And Zannnie loves sunset.:) It has a special meaning to both of us for our story begins like this. I was in Bali, Indonesia, to be exact Kuta and I took a photo of its sunset. This particular one caught her eyes. 5898.14 miles away, we are exactly 9,491.88 km apart. However, the advancement of Internet technology and my

Japanese whaling vessel destroyed the boat of green activists

2010-01-06T14:44:00.002+01:00

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's fast new trimaran, sitting dead in the water, appears to have been deliberately rammed and critically damaged by the much larger Japanese whaling ship (the Shonan Maru No. 2), despite claims from some that the Ady Gil rammed it. Here is the footage from the Japanese ship: judge for yourself.(source)

EVERY DAY - NEW PHOTO EFFECT

2010-01-05T19:36:00.006+01:00

We like to take a lot of photos whenever there are photo opportunities especially ever since we bought the Canon camera. Recently I found a site for photo fun and decided to share.Francine sent us an eCard, those that comes with sounds and music. The thing about that kind of ecard is quite standardized and you cannot customize it in a short few seconds. And as usual, Zannnie likes something

Think eggs, think nightmares.

2009-12-26T16:28:00.001+01:00

Think eggs, think nightmares.

KIVA - loans that change lives

2009-12-25T20:06:00.004+01:00

KIVA's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.KIVA is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.(photo credit: John Briggs)The www.kiva.org was released in October 2005 by Matt Flannery and Jessica Jackley who are the founders of the initiatives.To me the most

Angel

2009-12-24T11:19:00.005+01:00

20th anniversary of the Romanian revolution

2009-12-22T20:50:00.005+01:00

I was 17 in 1989. A highschool student living in Hungary. In 1989, we had a cold, foggy, snowy december and I spent the Christmas time at my father's place in Gyöngyöshalász. I remember it was really cold that winter as I had a serious flu that we even had to go to the doctor.I was not really aware of Romania. My only experience with Romania was my very first trip abroad in 1986 when we went to

Thank you for nothing....Copenhagen Convention on Climate Change

2009-12-20T15:03:00.007+01:00

Ladies and gentlemen! Dear delegates! Thank you for spending almost two weeks in expensive hotels and over rich dinner tables and enjoying the service of the legal Danish prostitutes. I am sure your presence gave a relevant contribution to the annual income of Copenhagen the only pity is that what you have done there on the issue of Climate Change was an embarassing and shameful big NOTHING. I

Skhizein

2009-12-19T16:35:00.000+01:00

Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Bertie on Vimeo.SkhizeinMade by Jérémy ClapinBudget: 100,000€2008 Oscar-Eligible

Manchester United or Chelsea?

2009-12-18T23:58:00.004+01:00

I love football. Yes, I say football and not soccer because I find it weird that they call (American) football a sport where player can grab the ball running with it in their hands too. Football is the sport that is played with feet and that's it!:)And I love a country that has a real 'football life'. For this, I mean when you live in an environment, such as in a city where you can see a great

H1N1 Vaccine

2009-12-04T18:43:00.003+01:00

Today we have got our H1N1 Vaccine in a private medical center in Budapest. Zannnie was pretty nervous, she said she was good, so she didn't know why she has to get an injection:) Actually she doesn't have an all-covered health insurance here so better to prevent a more serious trouble.There is a histery around the H1N1 vaccine in Hungary which has nothing to do with the virus and the flu itself.

Being closed for 23 years in a body

2009-11-29T12:20:00.003+01:00

"I meditated, I dreamed that I was somewhere else"That was the answer of Rom Houben to the question of a journalist (Spiegel Online) about how he could survive the last 23 years being closed in his own body as he was misdiagnosed for more then two decades. Doctors and caregivers thought he was in coma after a severe car accident since he didn't give any respond to the signs of the outside world.

Campus shooting in Hungary:(

2009-11-26T18:23:00.004+01:00

I hoped that it will never happen in my country. When I have heard about the campus/school shooting before in the US I always thought that this was the result of the liberal policy of having gun...Even emphasizing the rights having gun is a mistake in my opinion. Gun is for killing...there is no any other reason to use it! Giving the right to having gun is giving the right to kill! And now it

Stainless steel

2009-11-18T09:30:00.006+01:00

Today we had our weekly meeting, after lunch I chanced upon Amber on the way back. It reminded me about our visit two years ago in Rome where she and her husband lives. Her home is with a very cosy ambience and I remembered very specifically the fireplace. My wife is fascinated with her choice of blomus stainless steel for a lot of the interior decorations. For example, imagine a blomus

The nature of racism

2009-11-14T01:25:00.001+01:00

How the science was used as a tool of discrimination and racism in the XIXth Century. Here are some quotations from British-American books and journals that I found in Piers Berndon’s book about the „Decline and fall of the British Empire”:John Hunt - On the Negro's Place in Nature (published in: 1863)"Apart from a crude knowledge of metallurgy, Africans possessed 'no art'." J. C. Nott - The

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2006-10-03T15:13:59-07:00