People should be careful with their wishes and desires. For instance, in my last blog post, I wrote something like „I wish there was a bigger snow here” – and finally, I got it. In
Usually, we hold these „Pre-Christmas parties” in my apartment, which is very close to the School of Law of my former university, but as it is not available now (it is not a rent, but my family actually bought me one, and it is lent as far as I study and/or work in Japan, which means a stabile monthly amount of money for my parents :)), so we hold in a suburb place. As for my friends in this party, they are all from my high school class – it can be strange, but we are very close even after so long years – quite interestingly, I couldn’t find such close friends in my former university, although, I made lots of friends in orchestras, musical courses, hobbies etc, but not in the university. That was a good place to study (and to feel the pressure always -.-), but not the best for social life. ^^” Anyway, in this party, we were really happy to meet each other – Böbe told us „Hey guys, do you read Peter’s blog? It’s better then
In this occasion, we drunk mulled wine again, which is a very simple but delicious drink, I already introduced it to Ninjin, Takumi, Kong-san and Faisal, and of course to Paul, but obviously, he doesn’t like it, it’s too sweet for him… :(
On Sunday, we went to the National Theater to watch an operetta called „János Vitéz” (I think I can translate it „英雄のヤーノシュ”) which is based on the poem of one of the most famous Hungarian poets, Petőfi Sándor (ペトーフィ・シャーンドル, 裴多菲·山多爾), who is well-known even among Chinese students, famous for this: „生命誠可貴，愛情價更高，若為自由故，兩者皆可拋”. I heard that this verse was often quoted in
Aa, and I didn’t mention that I met ジュジ…!!! I guess she doesn’t believe that I'd missed her, but actually, I did. ^^” OK, we are not 彼と彼女 anymore, and the possibility of being in that state is not very high in these years, but we are still very close friends and I like her a lot, so it is great to meet again. (And of course, I’m always trying to convince her to come to
On Tuesday, I met Patrik, also one of my best friends, who is a composer, he creates really good music, sometimes with a religious content. He had a concert from his own works in the beginning of December in the
And the greatest joke of these days: when we spoke about our plans for future, Patrik told me that he decided to become a priest!!! Let me repeat: not a conductor, not a composer, not even any kind of musician, but a priest! O_o … well OK, I am also a believer (or I should rather quote the famous psychologist Karl Gustav Jung’s saying: “I don’t have to believe. I know God.” :D), but it was a really big surprise for me – this kind of decision is quite rare nowadays, 99% of the people I know would never do that. He said the only thing which is more important for him than music, is religion. In this state, all I can do is to wish the best for him. ^^
Christmas Eve! Now its ornaments (pine trees, lights, reindeers, etc) are used all over the world, but without knowing the meaning of Christmas, it’s like eating soumen in Tanabata (July the 7th) without any knowledge about the story of Hikoboshi and Orihime. I think you understand what I mean. ^^” That’s a point I don’t really like in
Anyway, it is not important in my family to give expensive gifts and presents to each other. It is much more important to be together and enjoy this special day with each other. In the case of Japanese festivals, there are some meals everyone eats, but in Hungarian feasts, these are different according to families. For instance, in Christmas day, we eat this for lunch (sorry, I don’t know its English name and I’m too lazy to check it in a dictionary…):
And in the evening, we gather, sing Christmas songs, give presents to each other, and have a dinner together (in my family, it’s fish soup, always ^^). This year, it was the first Christmas of the son of my cousin, Akos (yup, the same name with my Hungarian friend in
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