Life's strange

I've got a story for you my friends. A short story about life - how strange it is and how sudden changes it brings.











Two days ago I've spent whole day in Katowice (the nice rainy city where Phil concert was held, you remember Adam :) ) looking for a job. My point was really to find a job there, so I did my best to prepare portfolio (print it out in a nice folder and pack into selfmade cardboard box), went without any previous note and tried to reach heads of all the offices I was applying. I didn't contact them earlier, cause I didn't want to say I'm looking for a job, as I'd finish then as one of hundreds waiting for response and I didn't send portfolio via mail either, as in my opinion personal contact would be best way to convince them to hire me.

And probably it would be like that, if I'd manage to reach at least one of the architects in charge. I didn't. After visiting one of best polish offices placed in this region od Poland (some of them been really well designed) I came back home completely exhausted and mentally wasted. I took a shower and ate supper.

Then my phone rung and it occured that in 5 minutes I've got to decide if I want and I'm able to move to London for a month to work on one of latest competitions won by office of the lady at the top. Wasn't so easy, but I said yes. I had to rearrange all my plans for the forthcoming month, some of them really important to me, but I hope everything will end up well. It has to.

So that's the story. Story about life's jokes, when you cannot find a job in your own country, and suddenly you finish on a contract in one of the best practices all over. Story about the architecture student's life, about the moment when he becomes a bitch, that's able to leave everything and within 3 days move to the other country to work his ass off for a well known boss. To get this short note to your resume, that you worked for him/her, to be still able to find a job in your own country.

But I'm curiuos. Maybe even a bit anxious.

And how's your summer?

Update:
Had a free weekend, so here come some photos:

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shit happens...

'cause it had to happen someday... the guy was fucked up, drunk-and-stone, and didn't see me whereas i saw it all coming. Broke his windshield with my shoulder.
but i'm fine anyway :]
this bike was crap, time for a change!

Chaumont#2

last week's first phase on the site :
shaking the ground of the previous garden, settling the paths , borders and bases of the furniture
quite nice being the architects and the workers at the same time!
to be followed...

stuff

Hello my dear ones,
as some of you might have heard, I spent the first few days of this new year mainly in bed since I am kind of, let's say, immobile. Just one of my feet is doing its proper job, but don't worry it sounds worse than it is, my new crutches are beautiful (aren't they??!) and I should be able to walk properly on one of the next days.
However I've had plenty of time to do something for university and I found something really cool that might show you what computational linguistics (remember? that's the thing I study) also is about, haha.
This toy is about synthetic speech which means you can enter any text (choose the language from the scrolldown menu, there's quite some large choice) either into one of the greeting card shells or here (there's a wider range of voices) and your text will be automatically spoken.
Works quite well even for more difficult words and languages!

Maybe you'd also like to play (well, shoot some bunnies that is!) with the squid alien or create your own cartoon.
Or maybe you don't find this as impressive as I do.
But I had a lot of fun with it today...

(My next task is now to find information about implementing different dialects and emotions into synthetic speech. Sounds interesting.)

Bp's over

Hi friends!
It's not even a week since i'm home and quite many things are happening here after my arrival, and that's why post comes now (for me it should come even later, cause i still cannot find right words to express how thankful i am to all of you who made my stay in Bp so good). But at the same time i didn't want you to wait too long and have the feeling that i already forgot about everything :P No, i didn't.

I can definitely say - those 2 months of summertime were my best ones. Of course i had some incredible time before this summer, of course i was missing few friends around me even now, but i never had such a perfect summer in a sum. And as i like it intense, i liked it even more.

Everyday work (almost everyday, hehe), coming back around 6pm (many times later), having a dinner, doing some sports (till John was there, later we skipped this point) and parties (rarely other activities) in Godor, Szimpla, Corvinteto, Fecske, Buddha Beach, ZP or even in Rio. All that with liters of wines, frocs, sunsets and one but special sunrise at Gellert hill, with all of you guys, yeah that was amazing.

Hopefully you'll contiune with playing frisbee, or start if you didn't try yet and will meet on next olympics, hehe.

Have fun and keep on smiling in Hungary, Greece, England, Poland, Canada, USA, Greece, Thailand, Brazil, Ireland, Australia, Croatia, Norway, Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Romania, Spain, Russia, Turkey, Switzerland and Scotland!

köszönöm
michal

Budapest

credits:
1,2,3, 6,7,8,9,10 Dorota
4,5 John

I didn't take a camera, i will remember things as imagine them.

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who played spaceinvaders?

Had same free time.

*******

newsflash! sorry for being absent so long...
finally done with all the (hard) stuff of this semester :
pics following are from the first and second step of the diploma project, that we do together with this friend next to the site model.
last step was the sketch, submitted last friday after a terrible week (flue+"charrette"), and i just dropped today this fat essay i've been wasting christmas on.







wish you all the best stuff, take care!
L**



ps : +1competition ! Bordeaux Agora 2008 (+board)

we are happy land fill

underground rehearsal and strawberry-bloodspill in our favourite Café cellar;
and some midnight noise and dance on the bridges of tha beautifool Paris;

(excuse the foggy pixels, i came back to use this lousy camera you know)

in an abstract parallel, we move towards a blurred horizon in a foggy school system ruled by gangstas (a kind of mob crew who kicks us out of the building every evening), whereas work is falling like rain (some courses appear in one day, very surprising)...
that is why, i finally don't think i'll be able to join this New Year gathering that is so warmly proposed, it'll be for sure a white christmas ;]

hugs to everyone!

Fell from a truck!

Yippie yay!
Guess what we found on the street just in front of our house today. A working TV!!
Wonderful. The times of useless Sunday evenings have come to an end.

After Tatort and before Zimmer frei!, it's time for Germany's second best "comedian" Dittsche. You can check it on youtube but unfortunately you won't get a word. How sad.

The other thing that makes me happy: Berlin is in sight. Yeah.

See you soon, hopefully there!
-m.

(P.S.: Yes of course, this entry was written in front of the tv. Took me almost half an hour.)

hidden place (?)

weird weird places
void told me
a lot
about density...

Our lovely jungle

ConcreteJungle

so...no dust, nor sun, nor sea here...(Michau, Peter is right, find and watch 'The return' if not done yet!! The movie is a photo gallery, you'll see ;])
Good that the Mikontalo-and-Baltic-Coast-surveyance keeps going on. How'd it go without you?!
Working like never, i'm lovin'it. City eats us. Sounds like some of you are in the same kind of boat, under a better sun.

Flower, area will be soon cleared for landing in Paris!

Berlin, du bist so wunderbar

Just some impressions of good things and my favourite scary S-Bahn station.






The one and only.







[Just a bit of playing with my new scanner... Not too satisfied with the results yet, but it's a start.]