EA News

 

The latest job related news is that Monika gave up the weeks long and unsuccessful searching for Spanish environment job -- and applied for the EA. She was hired and since September we've worked together again. As she is the only female Hungarian tester, she automatically gets all the easy or girlish games: she is testing Harry Potter and Sims right now. As I recently regroup fighting units in my dreams (I am testing Command & Conquer - Red Alert 3), she continues making magic potions and practicing spells at night... :))

 

 

Moncs became an EA employee                                              We are working together again :))

EA híradó

 

És az utolsó munkahelyi hír, hogy Moncs a hosszú hetek eredménytelen keresgélése után beadta az EA-hoz is a jelentkezését. Fel is vették, és szeptember elejétől megint együtt dolgozunk. Mivel ő az egyetlen női magyar tesztelő, automatikusan ő kapja a nyugisabb, lányosabb játékokat: most éppen Harry Pottert és Sims-et tesztel. Ahogy én mostanában még álmomban is a harcoló egységeket csoportosítgatom át (a Command & Conquer - Red Alert 3 teszt miatt), ő a bájitalkeverést és a varázslást folytatja éjszakánként... :))

 

 

Moncs is EA dolgozó lett :)                                                    Megint együtt dolgozunk :))

Fehér éjszaka / White Night

La noche en blanco en Madrid

Zaragoza Expo 2008

Az idén Zaragozában rendezték az Expót, aminek az utolsó hétvégéjére sikerült eljutnunk. Maciekkel és új iskolatársával, Zolival (ennyi magyart ebben az országban! :) ) jártuk végig a rendezvényt. A sok időrabló sorbanállás miatt nem jutottunk be mindenhova, de így is sok szép dolgot láttunk:

This year the Expo was held here in Zaragoza. We could visit it on the last weekend with Maciek and his new schoolmate, Zoltan (how many Hungarians in this country! :) ). Dispite of the time consuming queuing ups we could see some nice things:

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Nike+ The Human Race 10km

2008. augusztus 31-n a Nike világrekordot kívánt beállítani: 24 órán belül a világ 25 városában egymillió résztvevővel futóversenyt rendezni. Nem tudom, hogy valóban összejött-e a várt egymillió futó, de marketingből újra jelesre vizsgáztak. Itt 11 ezren indultak, és a futók átlageredményét tekintve Madrid lett az első a városrangsorban. Tényleg nagyon erős mezőny volt, le a kalappal a spanyol futók előtt!

Azt hiszem, ez volt életem egyik leggyorsabb 10 km-e: 45'39" alatt futottam le; ezzel a 914. lettem Madridban és a 11378. világszinten. :)

Bár én is végigfotózgattam a versenyt a kiskamerával, Moncs is eljött a pálya egyik pontjára a nagy masinával, abban a reményben, hátha le tud kapni futás közben. Sajnos a spanyolos szervezés miatt nem indulhattam a saját időmnek megfelelő rajtboxból, hanem hátul, a legnagyobb tömeggel együtt kellett rajtolnom, így Moncshoz is a legnagyobb tömeggel együtt érkeztem. A vak véletlennek köszönhető, hogy épp akkor előztem a bal szélen, amikor elhaladtam előtte: csak annyi ideje maradt, hogy felkapja a kamerát és exponáljon, szólni már nem tudott. Anélkül rohantam tovább, hogy ebből bármit észrevettem volna, este jött csak a meglepi, amikor hazaértem: van rólam futós fénykép!
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On the 31th of August Nike wanted to set a world record: organizing a running race for 1 million people in 25 cities in the world in 24 hours. I don't know if the expected 1 million starter eventually -, but they did an excellent marketing job again. 11 thousand people participated here, and regarding the average result Madrid became the first one among the cities. It was really a strong outfield, hats off the Spanish runners!

I think it was my fastest 10k in my life: my result was 45'39" and I was the 914th in Madrid and the 11.378th worldwide. :)

Though I took my small camera to the race, Monika came to a point of the track with the big camera with the hope of snapshotting me running. Unfortunately because of the Spanish-like organization I couldn't start from the section that was determined for me according to my planned time, but only from the last section with the hugest crowd. So it was only a mere luck that I was just overtaking a bunch of people when I passed Monika: she spotted me, took a couple of shots but had no time even to say a hello! I ran away not realizing anything of this and it was a great surprise in the evening when she showed the pictures for me.

Cuenca képek / Cuenca Pictures

Maciekkal és kedvesével, Magdával látogattuk meg a közeli kisvárost, a "függő házairól" híres Cuencát.

Can you remember for the common lesson at the school in Malaga? Finally we made it and visited Cuenca! :))

Weekdays in Madrid 2.

In the beginning only a few occasional parties balanced the laborsome workdays. In our second week here the company celebrated the 1 year anniversary of opening of the central Madrilenian office. They hired an Irish pub for this occasion with free drinks and food in the first 4 hours... You can imagine how much the crowed got soaked! I was with them in that of course... We headed home at half past 1 in the morning with Monika, tried to catch the last metro. Unfortunately the last one already had gone so we went to the surface again and tried to find our bus among the numerous night buses. Well that was the moment I fell into my very self-respecting, slightly resented drunken-state! I declared that "I don't need help, I can go home alone" and with a metro map (colorful schematic lines on a white peace of paper) on the surface I was trying to find our way home... Later Monika summarized the story in a letter to her friend like this:

...Ákos was asking me, which metro we had taken, and where we were right there. I told him in vain that we didn't travel and we are right there as before, he didn't believe me... :) (...) Then a bus came and fortunately it brought us very close to our apartment. It seemed he knows again where we were, so I walked ahead while he was watering a nearby bush. When I looked back he was wandering far away so I had to run after him before I loose him completely...

The next two weeks went by uneventfully. Then 2 of our Hungarian colleagues and their flat mate a German guy organized a house party. Well the organization wasn't the best but those few who eventually came were enjoying themselves. Though I was cautious this time, the Spanish beer conquered me eventually. Again there was two good hours I cannot remember. I performed again a kind of chair dance and finally I even drove the porcelain bus! Madrid-Ákos: 2-0   After training so hard in Malaga nights, I was quite disappointed by this result... :))

We were preparing much better for the next party even we made flyers! But finally the owner interrupted. Referring for a previous hardcore night (flying carpets and golden shower from the balcony - we weren't there! ;) ) he forbade any parties in the flat. That's life.

The flyers edited strictly in Microsoft Paint... :))

I got into busy projects at the job (FIFA 09, Need For Speed Underground, Red Alert 3) - and I had to do lots of overtime. But sometimes funny moments broke the hard work:

I posture with Maciek, the economy lecturer from the Gdansk Uni...

Well, you want to stand out somehow... :)

My workplace with a sleeping Siergei. The only desk in the world where a PlayStation2 and a PSP are must. And I was able to get a ball-armchair like that - it cannot be an accident! ;))))

This is already the Need For Speed test. Life is hard! :)

 

Siergei again with one of the fixtures