OTHER EVENTS SZIGET I can tell you for sure that this is the best time and place to be! We are just in the centre of entertainment...and it’s just starting! As soon as easa006 is over the other huge event will take its place in Budapest.
There’s going to be a famous Sziget festival starting from 9th and continuing till 16th of August on Obudai island. So everyone who are still not fed up with Budapest or were too much involved in architectural/arcoholical events and didn’t have a chance to explore it enough... you’re more then welcome to camp here for one more
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Quiz Corner Find words within letters to reveal todays well known EASA catchphrase.
Queueing rant
(you are making me angry)
week! As we found out the tickets to the festival is not that fantasticly expensive. If you brought your tents with you, you could buy an all-included weekly ticket for 120 euros, the following is 99 euros for a week full of music without camping inside and then 24 euros if you wish not to stay there longer than one day. Unfortunate-
ly they probably won’t be able to play top 5 from our easa006 top chart, but I’m pretty sure that more than 20 stages with Franz Ferdinand, Jovanotti, Scissor Sisters, Radiohead, Placebo, Prodigy, The Gathering, Therapy?, The Orb and many many more, would compensate this loss. LEt the paaaaaartyyyy contiNUE!
Queueing: The act of standing in a queue - we all find it pretty boring - but mostly we recognise it as the best and only way of installing some kind of order to situations when if it didn’t exist there would just be chaos. It has to be said some countries do it better than others - we Brits are acknowledged as Masters of Queueing (or perhaps queueing is our master) with others such as the French claiming “we don’t queue” (which isn’t true - I’ve seen them do it, silly frogs! - I love them really :-D ). Which brings us round to the question: is queueing a cultural thing, or a personal quality? Personally I’m not so sure, and wouldn’t like to guess, just in case the Southern European nations come and hang me upside down from the scaffolding - (oops!) So, I don’t know about you guys, but it drives me crazy when people are so selfish to cheat the system - it makes everyone else look and feel like idiots, which is why I offer to will help you guys by spelling out the queueing manners below! Asking a friend to wait in the queue and then join them later is OK Asking one person for the nation to queue is OK also - although try not to make it like ten people - you will get dirty looks as strong as voodoo curses Moving to the Vegetarian bit is OK too, as long as you don’t take any of our lovely stew-meat (then you die and we eat you) Banging plates and cups while you wait is fine - the more musical the better, nobody likes to wait, and wait, and wait... Sidling/Sliding/Slithering (like a fast slug) up to the front of the queue looking all innocent is NOT OK - you are a clown. Arguing with experts in queueing is strongly advised against - it is like a religion to us, and one which makes much more sense frankly... I hope that clears it all up for everyone, happy queueing...
F1! We happen to bump into another famous and interesting event here in Hungary. Formula 1, baby, all the way around Hungaroring. Hungarian Grand Prix. Starting Friday, so we can quite make it. It costs money, but the practice is somewhat 10 euros. Sensible... So, if interested, here’s the table.
Friday 04 Aug 2006 11:00 - 12:00 Practice 1 14:00 - 15:00 Practice 2 Saturday 05 Aug 2006 11:00 - 12:00 Practice 14:00 Qualifying Sunday 06 Aug 2006 14:00 Race
Ledding it, stagging it
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Oh sure we ledded the Zsimpla Kert up yesterday. The participants of “Led attack” prepared 300 led-airplanes, climbed up the roofs of surrounding houses and attacked the courtyard. It was packed with both EASAns (sadly those who left the boat after the NC meeting were late for the show…) and random visitors of the bar. Two of them, possibly doctors, sadly remarked that nothing like EASA might be happening among medical schools. Yeah, we architects rock and we do enjoy that. The party continued until late night, putting the LEDs on weirdest places (like nipples), then them being collected by the participants and tutors (cuz they don’t have the money to buy more) people leaving it one by one (or couple by couple, we must say), and then two participants went wrestling. Of course, just for fun. The bouncer didn’t get those Dutch-Irish jokes, though, so the participants were thrown out.
Kassa boat filled up slowly, but surely, and around 3 a.m. the bar deck was occupied by eager dancers. The crazy DJ Nizar was acting weird, though, because he kept changing mood from reggae to electro, and the volume was up and down, up and down… Finally he was shut up by the unstoppable drumming machine, the concert that happens every night in EASA. The sun was met by yet another shower party! You don’t know what a shower party is? You poor thing, you are missing a very big adventure! Random people get together in either mens or girls showers, preferably dressed in white, and just let the showers go! The ones outside can be sure they will be washed away as well, as the showers have windows. Wiiiiild. Meanwhile in the sleeping area a loud shout was heard, and it said “By the way I am sorry for the Irish behavior”. It was of course shouted by one of the Irish, who were kind of having a stag night, because all of them were shit-faced and it was the last night in EASA for Franko, the big and handsome lifeguard-like boy. So, they just carried him out of bed and made to drink some more. More. And even more. All the way until regular morning, when people started waking up. But it’s today’s story already, so be sure to check the news tomorrow for some more HOT action.