final words . . .

Let me quote my teacher's final words:

"Imre,

You got an A for the class. Congratulations! Your exit test score is 51. You are such a smart reader and writer. I am very happy to study with you and this class this semester. Keep up good work.

Good luck to your new job at Orlando.

Ms. Song"

FriKKin' A man! frikkin' A ! ! !

Ikea in Orlando

For the folks in hungary it doesn't mean anything, i know but who ever got stuck in florida i k e a became a legend. A legend that grandparents passed over and over again through generations. Well, good news, last year it opened its gates to the public finally in orlando (which is in the middle of florida!). Please celebrate the historical moment with us as we paid a visit to the fantastic furniture store today . . .

the day after tomorrow

the day after tomorrow I won't be in my 20s anymore. I'll be exactly 30 years old. my only promise was a tattoo for myself when i'm 30. since I couldn't find a usable one that's not gonna happen :D

bonsai is dead

our little bonsai tree died :( but another one showed up from the soil a couple of days ago . YAY!

Bonsai Watch Numero Dos .

YES. The Bonsai is indeeeeEEEd alive. Yesterday I noticed an itsy-bitsy-tiny green thingy coming out from the dirt ;)

First day at school . . .

People from all over the globe except from australia and the north pole. We had to take another english test. Never enough.

Bonsai Watch

Probably the smallest present that I got this year is a Bonsai Tree. I should say, bonsai seed . . . it will take more than a year to grow it :) - stay tuned for more info ...  

it is christmas time, yet, again :)

Christmas should be the time of love and peace, however, our last couple of days were not without events.

I couldn't keep my promise from last year, which was to finish Christmas shopping in November :) so only had one day to buy presents for everybody. I had to do it good. Good and fast. As I was flying through the mall with bags in my hands realized that I could leave the stuff in my car and continue the hunting.

As soon as I stepped outside, recognized the well known mushroom-cloud, about 15 miles away from the shopping center, very VERY close to our neighbourhood.

"Did I forget to turn off the oven?" - ran through my head. But I did not bake anything on that morning. Shortly, after I put the bags in the car and headed back to the mall - "Calm as a Hindu cow" ;) 5 minutes later Alison called me and informed me that a Chemical Plant exploded on the other side of the bridge and they are evacuating the people in a 5 mile radius.

I, like a mad man, stormed out of the mall, texted mom that we are OK, pushed the metal to the pedal (or vica versa ;) and flew across the parking lot. I had a dog to save.

Long story short, fortunately the fire department was very successful and was able to put out the fire in a timely manner. We didn't have to leave the house. YAY!

You Rang M'Lord?

My favorite old TV show :)

new nikon, old piano

so many things happened in the past 2 moths, I don't even know where to start. first off, finally I got my new digital camera Nikon D70s so technically there is no limitation to my crazy ideas now ... the camera is awesome way too many buttons and settings. I'm reading the handbook like a magazine every day :)

I attended on HES' first art show (hosted at his house) please check out his work. His paintings definitely make your brain-gears turning.

By the way art: finally I uploaded my grandpa's video to uToob. Take a look at it as well :D


We got a piano. Stand-up-straight-piano or something like that. Long story short ... we got a piano ... YAY! I can play the moonlight sonata. the first 8 notes .... haha

Aaaaaand somebody got knocked up. check back for more details later ;)

Our new vehicle . . .

like '84 - by leZ

Here is the first video (as far as I know!) from LEZ who dared to do something with Mr. Kodai's music ;) ( with a song called Gone). I know both of them for many years, they've been good friends of mine quite a while. In the first couple of seconds of the video I thought (just as was expected!) I'm gonna see a NIN type of clip. Well, surprisingly it's not the case. I really did enjoy it and I even showed it to Ali who quietly said: "It's different". Fortunately it IS different. Good job guys, and ohh yeah, here is the piece: uTube

Newly weds game

Yesterday was our first appearance on this very famous show. The only difference was that we played with our friends (mostly married) about 6 couples. Let me tell you folks WE DID RULE the whole game from the begining till the end. We knew everything: first date, first kiss, the most hated behaviours and clothing materials. That's what an hour in the immigration office with a straight faced officer does to a married couple. Oh, and by the way i love my mother in law but under the given circumstances she reminded me of a japanese rooster. Sorry ;)

Where did my Björk ticket go?

Well, if you couldn't figure it out by this picture . . . Hmmm i feel sorry for you. I know most of you (okay okay all of you) wont understand why, but it was worth every penny. It took me about 3hrs to put it together while me and my loyal servant (bubba) and my beautiful wi-fi were fighting against blood-thirsty insects and night time creatures.

Ali's ASL Website

Not much was happening around our house lately. We made a little garden in the back yard and put come red mulch(?) down. Looks pretty good. We created a website with Ali for her ASL (American Sign Language) Project. That's all for now . . .

dog poop and transformers ... etc

yesterday was our second anniversary with Alison. we picked a romantic cartoon-comedy (A Scanner Darkly in Hungarian: Egy Sotet Fenymasolo). it was a very interesting movie but if you want to see a breath-taking action just go and get a ticket for the Transformers. Since I'm writing about movies. I had to look up a preview which caught my attention and turned out to be the next big vampire movie in this coming December. I Am Legend.

everything else is the same, last week we went to alligator-wrestling ;) nobody died. pictures later.

Oh, yes. Almost forgot. Last night in my dream I was back in Hungary looking at a dried out dog poop. FYI the dried out dog poop in my country is white :)

"if you have a hungarian friend ...

... you don't need an enemy." - this was from a documentary (according to one of my co-workers!) I was so mad I had to look it up. It is true :) at least that's what THEY say (they means ... everybody else than hungarians ... ) however during my online "digging" I found a very cool website about huns around the world. Let me C n' P (copy and paste ;) ) just a little piece of this article:

- The universe is vast, containing myriads of stars, many of them not unlike our Sun. Many of these stars are likely to have planets circling around them. A fair fraction of these planets will have liquid water on their surface and a gaseous atmosphere. The energy pouring down from a star will cause the synthesis of organic compounds, turning the ocean into a thin, warm soup. These chemicals will join each other to produce a self-reproducing system. The simplest living things will multiply, evolve by natural selection and become more complicated till eventually active, thinking creatures will emerge. Civilization, science, and technology will follow. Then, yearning for fresh worlds, they will travel to neighboring planets, and later to planets of nearby stars. Eventually they should spread out all over the Galaxy. These highly exceptional and talented people could hardly overlook such a beautiful place as our Earth. - "And so, " - Fermi came to his overwhelming question, - "if all this has been happening, they should have arrived here by now, so where are they ? " - It was Leo Szilard, a man with an impish sense of humor, who supplied the perfect reply to Fermi's rethoric: - "They are among us," - he said, - "but they call themselves Hungarians. "

change a flat tire with a shaved left knee

That was my agenda for today. First of all, why would you shave your left knee? my question is ... why wouldn't you? it is not a new fashion craziness in North-Florida nor in Milwaukee.

How it happened? I was boogie-boarding about 2 weekends ago and I accidentally hit my left knee on a tiny sandbar. It was not severe, just a little blood here and there. i was absolutely not worried about it until this weekend when I actually played table-tennis (ping-pong) for hours and once during a game I fell on the floor. My healing wound opened up and started to bleed real bad. We had to put a band aid on it. Still no pain, no problem 'till the moment my in-laws and my wife decided to torture me and wanted to take the band aid off my very, i repeat VERY hairy leg. Indescribable pain and rage against everybody ... after this experience I chose to shave a weird square form around my wound for the next band aids. it helped :)

flat tire. I was driving home today and I heard a strange hissing sound from outside of my car for a couple of seconds and bum-bum noise afterwards. my tire just blew out. it took me at least 3 hours to put the spare tire on it. i had fun, have to admit.

To fly into the future . . .

So we went up to wisconsin this weekend (actually we are still on the way back) to see ali's little sister's (courtney) graduation ceremony. It was ok we had fun i played ping-pong and bocce ball with my in-laws watched some movies and ate a lot. Right now we are in charlotte, north carolina which is an airport from the future. Neon lights a harley davidson store and couple of nascar cars and my special favorite a pianist playing the piano man in the middle of the hallway . . . I am looking for an R2-D2 like cleaning robot vacuuming the carpet around us while apologizing for the inconvenience . . .

Court