So it's definite now, from September or October on I will be living all alone in a small 1+1 flat near the Podbaba station. No college colleagues, no girlfriends, no parents, nada. Congratulations accepted, though not encouraged.
Just to let you know.
Adam
Thursday 17 July 2008
Monday 14 July 2008
Confidentiality of the blogosphere
People,
I don't know how much I have told you about my friend Anička's personal life, but I would very much like you all not to divulge that informations any further. Although she granted me the permission to talk about them some time ago, under the condition that I won't malign that boy of hers, she somewhat changed her mind now. So please, keep it to yourself. No sharing the secret "with your friends only!", nothing.
Thanks.
Adam
P.S.: I'm attending her birthday party during the 15.-17.8. period. That will be nice, but also dangerous. I'm looking forward to it.
I don't know how much I have told you about my friend Anička's personal life, but I would very much like you all not to divulge that informations any further. Although she granted me the permission to talk about them some time ago, under the condition that I won't malign that boy of hers, she somewhat changed her mind now. So please, keep it to yourself. No sharing the secret "with your friends only!", nothing.
Thanks.
Adam
P.S.: I'm attending her birthday party during the 15.-17.8. period. That will be nice, but also dangerous. I'm looking forward to it.
Thursday 10 July 2008
Housing, OSes, more holiday, work
Hello all,
once again we find ourself amidst a considerable amount of my life. This time I will ponder the questions of housing, flats, college, operating systems, jobs, perhaps some psychologists and maybe something else too.
The main thing that is on my mind is as follow. Our family, amounting for two adults, one me and one brother of mine aged 11, lives in a rather small, 2+1 perused as 3+kk, 63 square meters tiny flat. This is by far not enough for us, we have too much stuff and too little privacy, so my mater has been looking for an alternative since this January or so. We could, theoretically go live to a house of ours situated at the outskirts of Prague a bit behind Kobylisy, where my grandparents live. Some of us, however, are reluctant to do this, as living with one's stepmother under one roof can prove to be quite daunting, and as it isn't as close to the city centre as we are used to be. We can also rent it for a considerable amount of monthly income. So we could either buy a house or flat (we've got the money), or rent one. But because it is not certain, that both grandparents will live much longer (>5 years is not certain at all, especially with my grandfather) (and should one of them die we'd pretty much have to move to this Chabry house to take care of the other one) and because it is not certain, that in three years' time I will not decide that I want to live alone, and because everything is damn expensive and no suitable flats and houses are being sold around anywhere sensible, my parents sort of decided to simply rent a bigger flat and live there until I decide to move to my own place or one of the grands dies.
Sorry for such a long introduction, it was a necessary evil. Here comes the catch. A new possibility was introduced to me last night - they could remain in the present flat where we live now and rent me a small flat in Koulova street, that is near Podbaba, 5 minutes walk from Vítězné náměstí square (aka Kulaťák). It belongs to my uncle and could be rented for some 8k/month. Being 1+1 with a pass-through kitchen, little balcony, little hall, bathroom and toilet, it would be more than comfortable for me to live in. They would probably pay me the rent and energies (heat, water, electricity), but not food (probably) and some other neccessities (clothing, school-expenses, house-keeping expenses) in order to make me take care of myself. And also to give me an incentive to find a room-mate that would pay me some money "for the rent" that I could use for these generic expenses. Once again I stress, that the position of the flat might not be as ideal as our current one, but is still pretty good (5 minutes of swift march to metro, 2 tram lines just around the corner), and I would be within 15 minutes of fast walk of my parents if anything got fucked up.
What I'm asking you is: would you go into this, if you were me? Take care of yourself, cook, do the laundry and pay for some stuff, on the other hand gaining self-reliability, training into life, your own place to live in/party in/anything? Would you try to get someone to live with you? Would you use the loneliness as a kick towards richer social life? What do you think?
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Next thing - operating systems. I have installed Vista Ultimate on this new desktop of mine, but it's getting quite creaky now. I have problems with InstallShield Wizard, sometimes my soundcard stutters, I even had one monitor blackout, it takes too much darned space with all it's stupid updates, it often renounces Unreal Commander as my sole tool of trade and refuses to delete/move stuff with it and it's generally messy to navigate in. So I will be either getting a dual-boot installation with XPs, or simply revert back to XPs. While Adam Jaroš, from whom I have the Vista installation, claims that his system runs without the slightest glitch and with no signs of any errors, this is not the case for me. Now I wonder, whether I should give Vistas one more chance and simply reinstall them, or whether I should really return to good ol' XPs I know so well and am happy with how they work?
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Do you work? What do you do? I still translate and it pays darn well, I must say. Do parents pay you for holiday trips? How about music festivals and such?
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I still do not have anything planned for the rest of my holidays. I am too occupied by making money, playing World of Warcraft and excercising my head over Anička Novotná and her partner's (...who is an outright idiot and should be banned from life, honest, this is not jealousy speaking but simply a common sense. If only you knew...!) case, that I didn't plan anything yet.
This is probably it for now,
have fun living,
Adam
P.S.: I've downloaded Magikano (fun), Cowboy Bebop (kinda mindfuck), Ouran High School Host Club (fun), finished Jeeves & Wooster (the BEST!) and started downloading The Scrubs (said to be awesome) and resumed watching House MD. Contact me if interested.
once again we find ourself amidst a considerable amount of my life. This time I will ponder the questions of housing, flats, college, operating systems, jobs, perhaps some psychologists and maybe something else too.
The main thing that is on my mind is as follow. Our family, amounting for two adults, one me and one brother of mine aged 11, lives in a rather small, 2+1 perused as 3+kk, 63 square meters tiny flat. This is by far not enough for us, we have too much stuff and too little privacy, so my mater has been looking for an alternative since this January or so. We could, theoretically go live to a house of ours situated at the outskirts of Prague a bit behind Kobylisy, where my grandparents live. Some of us, however, are reluctant to do this, as living with one's stepmother under one roof can prove to be quite daunting, and as it isn't as close to the city centre as we are used to be. We can also rent it for a considerable amount of monthly income. So we could either buy a house or flat (we've got the money), or rent one. But because it is not certain, that both grandparents will live much longer (>5 years is not certain at all, especially with my grandfather) (and should one of them die we'd pretty much have to move to this Chabry house to take care of the other one) and because it is not certain, that in three years' time I will not decide that I want to live alone, and because everything is damn expensive and no suitable flats and houses are being sold around anywhere sensible, my parents sort of decided to simply rent a bigger flat and live there until I decide to move to my own place or one of the grands dies.
Sorry for such a long introduction, it was a necessary evil. Here comes the catch. A new possibility was introduced to me last night - they could remain in the present flat where we live now and rent me a small flat in Koulova street, that is near Podbaba, 5 minutes walk from Vítězné náměstí square (aka Kulaťák). It belongs to my uncle and could be rented for some 8k/month. Being 1+1 with a pass-through kitchen, little balcony, little hall, bathroom and toilet, it would be more than comfortable for me to live in. They would probably pay me the rent and energies (heat, water, electricity), but not food (probably) and some other neccessities (clothing, school-expenses, house-keeping expenses) in order to make me take care of myself. And also to give me an incentive to find a room-mate that would pay me some money "for the rent" that I could use for these generic expenses. Once again I stress, that the position of the flat might not be as ideal as our current one, but is still pretty good (5 minutes of swift march to metro, 2 tram lines just around the corner), and I would be within 15 minutes of fast walk of my parents if anything got fucked up.
What I'm asking you is: would you go into this, if you were me? Take care of yourself, cook, do the laundry and pay for some stuff, on the other hand gaining self-reliability, training into life, your own place to live in/party in/anything? Would you try to get someone to live with you? Would you use the loneliness as a kick towards richer social life? What do you think?
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Next thing - operating systems. I have installed Vista Ultimate on this new desktop of mine, but it's getting quite creaky now. I have problems with InstallShield Wizard, sometimes my soundcard stutters, I even had one monitor blackout, it takes too much darned space with all it's stupid updates, it often renounces Unreal Commander as my sole tool of trade and refuses to delete/move stuff with it and it's generally messy to navigate in. So I will be either getting a dual-boot installation with XPs, or simply revert back to XPs. While Adam Jaroš, from whom I have the Vista installation, claims that his system runs without the slightest glitch and with no signs of any errors, this is not the case for me. Now I wonder, whether I should give Vistas one more chance and simply reinstall them, or whether I should really return to good ol' XPs I know so well and am happy with how they work?
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Do you work? What do you do? I still translate and it pays darn well, I must say. Do parents pay you for holiday trips? How about music festivals and such?
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I still do not have anything planned for the rest of my holidays. I am too occupied by making money, playing World of Warcraft and excercising my head over Anička Novotná and her partner's (...who is an outright idiot and should be banned from life, honest, this is not jealousy speaking but simply a common sense. If only you knew...!) case, that I didn't plan anything yet.
This is probably it for now,
have fun living,
Adam
P.S.: I've downloaded Magikano (fun), Cowboy Bebop (kinda mindfuck), Ouran High School Host Club (fun), finished Jeeves & Wooster (the BEST!) and started downloading The Scrubs (said to be awesome) and resumed watching House MD. Contact me if interested.
Thursday 3 July 2008
The big post, as promised and postponed several times
Hello people, or those of you who read my blog in the very least.
First: the setting. I'm sitting in my comfortable, adjustable, very prominent chair, typing on my new desktop, as my laptop is still broken, it's raining cats and dogs outside, I'm having my tea done and meanwhile I'm sipping refrigerated sangria, thus further fueling my mild drunkness that, as usually, lingers around from two days ago.
Now, the trip first. I went on a cycling trip with Vocta, Tomba, Slev, Hořec and Mikee. It was quite pleasant experience, it took 4 days of actually moving and one day of sighseeing in Budapest. We did some 300kms, two thirds of which in two days. I must say, that with the heavy bags on the back of my bike (we carried tents and sleeping bags with us) my legs did hurt rather badly the fourth and fifth day. The weather was more than nice, it was searing hot during the days, very sunny (guys got burnt, I didn't, having been tanned from Croatia already), though the first two nights it rained and was quite stormy. The sighseeing in Budapest was rather tedious, as the city is very similar in nature and sights to my beloved hometown, Prague, only much larger. We had no problems on social level among our group, which was good. I can recommend the way along Donau to everybody and anybody, as the tracks there are very smooth, well-maintaned and it generally is possible to find a camp or some sort of accomodation (we only had to sleep outside a camp once, because we timed out journey somewhat wrong).
Next: the United Islands of Prague. What I had chance to witness was pretty nice (though I had serious problems determining the gender of the lead singer of Bratři Orffové band, in higher positions he sounded 100% like a female, at lower he was somewhat weird male, and he looked like a guy too) and I feel a great moron for leaving. I met there with a female friend of mine, Al the great friend of mine and some other known faces too. I left without uttering words of goodbye and without a reason. Well, almost. As I already told those of you that this matter involves, at times I get really lonely when surrounded by people having fun, be them my best friends, it doesn't matter. This feeling was stronger than I and I had to leave to be by myself, as I couldn't bear it. I know this doesn't make much sense and I hereby humbly apologize to those of you that this affected. Sorry, I will try not to do this next time around. It's stupid and insensitive towards you and it makes me miss out on great fun and stuff.
What's next, hm? My job is fine, I still translate for the Winsite company that provides services to the Prague City Hall, it's fun and it pays really well. My desktop is awesome and also a lifesaver - as my laptop broke on me. My plans for holidays are...well, next to none. I don't have nothing planned, but I would like to do things. Any ideas, any suggestions, any invitations?
I shall not delve into the intricacies of my love-life in this post, as they are rather bleak and disturbing and I do not wish to make this an emo-like post. I could, however, use your advice on this matter, preferrably in person, actually. Should anyone feel up to the task and would like to give me a tip or two on this matter, invite me for a beer or something, we'll make something of it.
I don't see anything else to post about in this very moment, so this is it. Any suggestions are welcome and you know it, right?
Toodle-pip!
Adam
First: the setting. I'm sitting in my comfortable, adjustable, very prominent chair, typing on my new desktop, as my laptop is still broken, it's raining cats and dogs outside, I'm having my tea done and meanwhile I'm sipping refrigerated sangria, thus further fueling my mild drunkness that, as usually, lingers around from two days ago.
Now, the trip first. I went on a cycling trip with Vocta, Tomba, Slev, Hořec and Mikee. It was quite pleasant experience, it took 4 days of actually moving and one day of sighseeing in Budapest. We did some 300kms, two thirds of which in two days. I must say, that with the heavy bags on the back of my bike (we carried tents and sleeping bags with us) my legs did hurt rather badly the fourth and fifth day. The weather was more than nice, it was searing hot during the days, very sunny (guys got burnt, I didn't, having been tanned from Croatia already), though the first two nights it rained and was quite stormy. The sighseeing in Budapest was rather tedious, as the city is very similar in nature and sights to my beloved hometown, Prague, only much larger. We had no problems on social level among our group, which was good. I can recommend the way along Donau to everybody and anybody, as the tracks there are very smooth, well-maintaned and it generally is possible to find a camp or some sort of accomodation (we only had to sleep outside a camp once, because we timed out journey somewhat wrong).
Next: the United Islands of Prague. What I had chance to witness was pretty nice (though I had serious problems determining the gender of the lead singer of Bratři Orffové band, in higher positions he sounded 100% like a female, at lower he was somewhat weird male, and he looked like a guy too) and I feel a great moron for leaving. I met there with a female friend of mine, Al the great friend of mine and some other known faces too. I left without uttering words of goodbye and without a reason. Well, almost. As I already told those of you that this matter involves, at times I get really lonely when surrounded by people having fun, be them my best friends, it doesn't matter. This feeling was stronger than I and I had to leave to be by myself, as I couldn't bear it. I know this doesn't make much sense and I hereby humbly apologize to those of you that this affected. Sorry, I will try not to do this next time around. It's stupid and insensitive towards you and it makes me miss out on great fun and stuff.
What's next, hm? My job is fine, I still translate for the Winsite company that provides services to the Prague City Hall, it's fun and it pays really well. My desktop is awesome and also a lifesaver - as my laptop broke on me. My plans for holidays are...well, next to none. I don't have nothing planned, but I would like to do things. Any ideas, any suggestions, any invitations?
I shall not delve into the intricacies of my love-life in this post, as they are rather bleak and disturbing and I do not wish to make this an emo-like post. I could, however, use your advice on this matter, preferrably in person, actually. Should anyone feel up to the task and would like to give me a tip or two on this matter, invite me for a beer or something, we'll make something of it.
I don't see anything else to post about in this very moment, so this is it. Any suggestions are welcome and you know it, right?
Toodle-pip!
Adam