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There is a wonderful song called ’Olympic Dreams’ by a German band called Mr. President. I would like to quote here the lyrics and you can listen to the song at this link on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AClVcmBvxGEfeature=related
Listen to it, because it is one of the greatest of all and expresses the spirit of the Games so truly!! :)

Olympic Dreams

No day before
so full of deep devotion
and in my heart
I feel a strong emotion
Olympic fire
wakes my desire
to join in the games of the world

So far away the day's of pain and sorrow
enjoy the games
there's a new tomorrow
let's share the story
of fame and glory
the party of friendship for all

Refrain:

Goin' for Olympic dreams
Goin' for the gold
Goin' for the medals
That I never thought I'd hold
Flyin' on the wings of freedom
reachin' for the sky
the Olympic dreams will never die

The time has come just do it now or never
a star is born
and it will last forever
congratulations
and celebrations
it's only one moment in time

Refrain

The winner really takes it all
no loser will be standing small
so come on let us celebrate together

Refrain

(performed and written by Mr. President and Nino de Angelo)


I feel very proud of the athletes of my country who reached the 21st place of the overall medal standings for Hungary in Beijing.

Gold Medallists:

Canoe/Kayak - Flatwater
Canoe Single (C1) 1000m Men VAJDA Attila Sandor
Kayak Double (K2) 500m Women KOVACS Katalin, JANIC Natasa


Water Polo Men
SZECSI Zoltan, VARGA Tamas, MADARAS Norbert, VARGA Denes Andor, KASAS Tamas, HOSNYANSZKY Norbert, KISS Gergely, BENEDEK Tibor, VARGA Daniel Rudolf, BIROS Peter, KIS Gabor, MOLNAR Tamas, GERGELY Istvan


Silver medallists:


Canoe/Kayak - Flatwater
Kayak Four (K4) 500m Women KOVACS Katalin, SZABO Gabriella Timea, KOZAK Danuta, JANIC Natasa

Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg FODOR Zoltan

Swimming Men's 200m Butterfly CSEH Laszlo
Men's 200m Individual Medley CSEH Laszlo
Men's 400m Individual Medley CSEH Laszlo


Bronze medallists:

Canoe/Kayak - Flatwater Canoe Double (C2) 1000m Men KOZMANN Gyorgy, KISS Tamas

Fencing Women's Individual Epee MINCZA-NEBALD Ildiko

]]> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:36:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/462945 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/276027 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:43:00 EST http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/276027 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/275367 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:32:00 EST http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/275367 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/258389 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:54:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/258389 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/244855 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:04:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/244855 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/244757 I have a strange feeling in me as I think of the big adventure the storks embark upon now, and I cannot help remembering my own life. We all have aims and dreams in life, goals to work for and to be attained, a long and difficult journey we have to make in order to reach what we want. And we have to do this again and again, each time as a new goal appears. Exactly as the storks, although they have the same goal every year, that is to bring up their 'kids' safely, and reach to the warm place before winter.

* The east-european storks, among them the Hungarians fly through the Bosporus then towards the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea which they follow until they reach Africa at the Suez-bay. From this point they fly along the Nile and then cross Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe as far as Cape Colony. Some of the storks however stop in the middle of Africa and spend the European winter months there. The whole Darány stork family has been ringed so ornithologists will be able to establish what places 'our' storks visit. The parents will be back next spring, but the youngsters may spend their first year in Africa and return to Hungary only in 2009.



]]> Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:17:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/244757 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/242979 On the pic you can see the Hungarian crown made of flowers, the flower crown along with other beautiful flower compositions was exhibited on the Flower Carnival which is held always on the 20th of August every year in the town of Debrecen in Hungary.

Szózat (Appeal)

Hazádnak rendületlenűl
Légy híve, oh magyar;
Bölcsőd az s majdan sírod is,
Mely ápol s eltakar.
A nagy világon e kivűl
Nincsen számodra hely;
Áldjon vagy verjen sors keze:
Itt élned, halnod kell.
Ez a föld, melyen annyiszor
Apáid vére folyt;
Ez, melyhez minden szent nevet
Egy ezredév csatolt.
Itt küzdtenek honért a hős
Árpádnak hadai;
Itt törtek össze rabigát
Hunyadnak karjai.
Szabadság! itten hordozák
Véres zászlóidat,
S elhulltanak legjobbjaink
A hosszu harc alatt.
És annyi balszerencse közt,
Oly sok viszály után,
Megfogyva bár, de törve nem,
Él nemzet e hazán.
S népek hazája, nagy világ!
Hozzád bátran kiált:
"Egy ezredévi szenvedés
Kér éltet vagy halált!"
Az nem lehet hogy annyi szív
Hiában onta vért,
S keservben annyi hű kebel
Szakadt meg a honért.
Az nem lehet, hogy ész, erő,
És oly szent akarat
Hiába sorvadozzanak
Egy átoksúly alatt.
Még jőni kell, még jőni fog
Egy jobb kor, mely után
Buzgó imádság epedez
Százezrek ajakán.
Vagy jőni fog, ha jőni kell,
A nagyszerű halál,
Hol a temetkezés fölött
Egy ország vérben áll.
S a sírt, hol nemzet sűlyed el,
Népek veszik körűl,
S az ember millióinak
Szemében gyászköny űl.
Légy híve rendületlenűl
Hazádnak, oh magyar:
Ez éltetőd, s ha elbukál,
Hantjával ez takar.
A nagy világon e kivűl
Nincsen számodra hely;
Áldjon vagy verjen sors keze:
Itt élned, halnod kell.

Written by Mihály Vörösmarty (1836)

Appeal (Literal Translation)

To your homeland without fail
Be faithful, O Hungarian!
It is your cradle and will your grave be
Which nurses, and will bury you.
In the great world outside of here
There is no place for you
May fortune's hand bless or beat you
Here you must live and die!
This ground on which so many times
Your fathers' blood flowed
This, to which, every holy name
One thousand years has coupled
Here fought for home the hero
Arpad's hosts
Here broke apart the prisoner's yoke
Hunyadi's arms
Freedom! Here is carried
Your bloody standard
And our best were felled
During the long war
And through so much ill fortune
After many feuds,
Though depleted, but not broken
The nation lives on this homeland.
And home of the nations, great earth!
Shouts bravely to you:
"A thousand years of suffering
demands life or death!"
It cannot be, that so many hearts
Uselessly spilled their blood
And in vain, so many faithful hearts
Were broken for the homeland.
It cannot be that mind, might
And so holy a will
Would uselessly wither
Under the weight of a curse;
It still needs to come, it still will come
A better age, for which
Fervent prayer yearns
On hundreds of thousands' lips.
Or it will come, if it must come
The glorious death
Where above the funeral
A nation wallows in blood
And the grave, where the nation is lowering,
Nations surround
And in the millions of peoples'
Eyes, a tear of mourning wells.
Be faithful, without fail
To your homeland, O Hungarian:
This is your succor, and if you fall
With its grave it covers you
In the great world outside of here
There is no place for you
May fortune's hand bless or beat you
Here you must live and die!

Translated by Laszlo Korossy


Appeal (Lyrical Translation)

Oh, Magyar, keep immovably
your native country's trust,
for it has borne you, and at death
will consecrate your dust!
No other spot in all the world
can touch your heart as home—
let fortune bless or fortune curse,
from hence you shall not roam!
This is the country that your sires
have shed their blood to claim;
throughout a thousand years not one
but adds a sacred name.
'Twas here brave Árpád's mighty sword
ordained your land to be,
and here the arms of Hunyad broke
the chains of slavery.
Here Freedom's blood-stained flag has waved
above the Magyar head;
and here in age-long struggles fell
our best and noblest, dead.
In spite of long calamity
and centuries of strife,
our strength, though weakened, is not spent;
our country still has life.
To you, O nations of the world,
we call with passioned breath:
"Should not a thousand years of pain
bring liberty—or death?"
It cannot be that all in vain
so many hearts have bled,
that haggard from heroic breasts
so many souls have fled!
It cannot be that mind and strength
and consecrated will
are wasted in a hopeless cause
beneath a curse of ill!
There yet shall come, if come there must,
that better, fairer day
for which a myriad thousand lips
in fervent yearning pray.
Or there shall come, if come there must,
a death of fortitude;
and round about our graves shall stand
a nation washed in blood.
Around the graves where we shall die
a weeping world will come,
and millions will in pity gaze
upon the martyrs' tomb.
Then, Magyar, keep unshakeably
your native country's trust,
for it has borne you and at death
will consecrate your dust!
No other spot in all the world
can touch your heart as home;
let fortune bless or fortune curse,
from hence you shall not roam!

Translated by Watson Kirkconnell
]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:04:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/242979 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/236695 start their long journey towards the South, to the African continent in order to spend the chilling months of European winter in a warm place. ]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:45:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/236695 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/215299 http://81.160.240.41/cgi-bin/guestimage.html ]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:09:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/215299 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/209851 Fri, 25 May 2007 12:23:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/209851 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/208917 http://195.199.93.181/webcam.htm
You can see with how much care try the parents to defend the little storks from the heat of the sun or from the rain, and how they feed them.
The stork couple (mother stork: Ludmilla, father stork: Chuck) has 5 little storks named Una, Unika, Uranus, Ubul and I dont know the name of the fifth little stork, but will write it here as soon as I get to know it.... :)
The webcam refreshes every 10 seconds.
The link can be found on the righthand side of my blog under my favourite links, too.]]> Wed, 23 May 2007 10:39:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/208917 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/204503 You can listen to her performance on the following site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyE_4bVsqUs

An interview in English with Magdi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alnsvjJSe7ofeature=RecentlyWatchedpage=1t=tf=b

She finished 9th and she won the Best Songwriter Award.]]> Tue, 15 May 2007 08:56:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/204503 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/178337 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:59:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/178337 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/174791 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:03:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/174791 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/174149
]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:05:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/174149 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/171877 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:35:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/171877 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/166621 On the 15th of March in 1848, Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849) recited his poem, the 'Nemzeti Dal' (National Song) on the steps of the Hungarian National Museum. This event marked the beginning of the Hungarian Revolution…

Nemzeti dal

Talpra magyar, hí a haza !
Itt az idõ, most vagy soha !
Rabok legyünk, vagy szabadok ?
Ez a kérdés, válasszatok !
A magyarok istenére
Esküszünk,
Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább
Nem leszünk !

Rabok voltunk mostanáig,
Kárhozottak õsapáink,
Kik szabadon éltek-haltak,
Szolgaföldben nem nyughatnak.
A magyarok istenére
Esküszünk,
Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább
Nem leszünk !

Sehonnai bitang ember,
Ki most, ha kell, halni nem mer,
Kinek drágább rongy élete,
Mint a haza becsülete.
A magyarok istenére
Esküszünk,
Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább
Nem leszünk !

Fényesebb a láncnál a kard,
Jobban ékesíti a kart,
És mi mégis láncot hordtunk !
Ide veled, régi kardunk !
A magyarok istenére
Esküszünk,
Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább
Nem leszünk !

A magyar név megint szép lesz,
Méltó régi nagy híréhez;
Mit rákentek a századok,
Lemossuk a gyalázatot !
A magyarok istenére
Esküszünk,
Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább
Nem leszünk !

Hol sírjaink domborulnak,
Unokáink leborulnak,
És áldó imádság mellett
Mondják el szent neveinket.
A magyarok istenére
Esküszünk,
Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább
Nem leszünk!

(Pest, 1848. március 13.)


In English:

National Song

Rise up, Magyar, the country calls!
It's 'now or never' what fate befalls...
Shall we live as slaves or free men?
That's the question - choose your 'Amen"!
God of Hungarians,
We swear unto Thee,
We swear unto Thee - that slaves
We shall no longer be!

For up till now we lived like slaves,
Damned lie our forefathers in their graves -
They who lived and died in freedom
Cannot rest in dusts of thraldom.
God of Hungarians, we swear unto Thee,
We swear unto Thee - that slaves
We shall no longer be!

A coward and a lowly bastard
Is he, who dares not raise the standard -
He whose wretched life is dearer
Than the country's sacred honor.
God of Hungarians, we swear unto Thee,
We swear unto Thee - that slaves
We shall no longer be!

Sabers outshine chaine and fetters,
It's the sword that one's arm betters.
Yet we wear grim chains and shackles.
Swords, slash through damned manacles!
God of Hungarians,
We swear unto Thee,
We swear unto Thee - that slaves
We shall no longer be!

Magyar's name will tell the story
Worthy of our erstwhile glory
We must wash off - fiercely cleansing
Centuries of shame and condensing.
God of Hungarians,
We swear unto Thee,
We swear unto Thee - that slaves
We shall no longer be!

Where our grave-mounds bulge and huddle
Our grandson will kneel and cuddle,
While in grateful prayer they mention
All our sainted names' ascension.
God of Hungarians,
We swear unto Thee,
We swear unto Thee - that slaves
We shall no longer be!

(written on the 13 of March 1848 by Sándor Petőfi)
Translated by Adam Makkai


In the XIX. century there were many wonderful people living here in my country who contributed to our culture and life here greatly with their painstaking work, and the Hungarian people will keep their memory forever.

Picture: Poet Sándor Petőfi by Soma Orlai Petrich

The 'Nemzeti Dal" (National Song) was set to quality soft rock music in the second half of the 20th century by László Tolcsvay.]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:28:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/166621 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/84195 Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:07:00 EST http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/84195 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/67203
It was very interesting about Puskás Öcsi that he was a leftfooted/leftlegged footballer and had a such a sharp logic for the game that he could think well ahead and then realize all those actions on the field before the footballers of the other team could find out about what had actually happened.

He scored 84 goals in 85 international matches.

His results (Source: Wikipedia (Hungarian version
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusk%C3%A1s_Ferenc )

As a player:

Olympic champion (1952)
World championship silver medalist (1954)
European Cup winner (1953)
5-times Hungarian champion
4-times Hungarian ’goal king’
6-times Spanish champion (part of Real Madrid)
84-times Hungarian National Team member
3-times winner of Champions' European Cup
2-times ’goal king’ of Champions' European Cup

His work as a coach:

1966-1967 Alicante Spain
1967-1967 San Francisco Gales USA
1968-1969 Vancouver Royals Canada
1969-1974 Panathinaikos FC Athene Greece
1974-1975 FCL Murcia Spain
1975-1977 Colo Colo Chile
1978-1979 AEK Athene Greece
1979-1980 El Masri Port Said Egypt
1984-1985 El Masri Port Said Egypt
1985-1986 Sol de América Paraguay
1990-1991 South Melbourne Hellas Greece
1992: dealing with young Hungarian talents in the frame of MLSZ (Hungarian Football Association)-, later international director of MLSZ
April-July 1993: coach of the Hungarian National Team


From 1998 he worked as ’FIFA for SOS Children’s Villages embassador’.
He received the FIFA Order of Merit in 2004 for his talent and his sportsmanship and has been voted by people as The Greatest Footballer Of All Times, preceding such footballers as Pelé or Maradona.


Öcsi Bácsi was 79 years old.





More about him and his life in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Pusk%C3%A1s
http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/index/0,2527,125905,00.html?articleid=125905
http://www.uefa.com/uefa/history/associationweeks/association=57/newsId=168329.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/6155766.stm
http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/puskas-intlg.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-puskas18nov18,1,2453964.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

In German:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Pusk%C3%A1s





* bácsi = uncle, used to address old man in a kind but respectful way in Hungarian
** Magyars = means ’Hungarians’ in Hungarian




]]> Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:51:00 EST http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/67203 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/59659
He was the first rescue dog who has a bronze statue erected for him in his hometown Miskolc.
Recently he has been retired due to his old age.

We will never forget you, dear Mancs.]]> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:06:00 EST http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/59659 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/55617 I feel proud to be a Hungarian.
]]> Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:18:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/55617 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/50009
György Lahner ( 1795 – 1849 )
Lajos Aulich ( 1793 – 1849)
János Damjanich ( 1804 – 1849 )
Károly Knezich ( 1808- 1849)
Károly Leiningen-Westerburg ( 1819- 1849 )
Ernő Poeltenberg (1814- 1849)
Ignác Török ( 1795 – 1849 )
József Nagy-Sándor ( 1804- 1849 )
Arisztid Dessewffy ( 1802 – 1849)
Ernő Kiss ( 1799 – 1849)
Vilmos Lázár ( 1815- 1849)
József Schweidel ( 1796- 1849)
Károly Vécsey ( 1807- 1849 )


On the same day in Budapest Count Lajos Batthyány ( 1806 – 1849) the first Hungarian prime minister was executed as well.


The reason for their execution was that they were all fighting for the freedom and independence of Hungary during the Revolution of 1848- 1849 which ended in a bloody reprisal from the side of the Austrians who were backed by Russian troops. At that time Hungary was not an independent country, but our kingdom was subjected to the rule of the Habsburg (Austrian) empire.
After the War of Independence of 1848/49 the era of the so called ’passive resistance” came which lasted until 1867. In 1867 the Compromise between the Hungarian and the Austrian nations was reached, and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was formed which meant that Hungary gained at least full internal independence finally (but unfortunately not total independence) and this way came a peaceful era until the First World War.


We Hungarians will never forget all those people who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of our nation.


More on all eras of Hungarian history :

http://impulzus.sch.bme.hu/info/hunhist.html
http://www.webenetics.com/hungary/history.htm
http://www.hungarianhistory.com/ - Virtual Library


The picture is the litography made by Louis Noeli about the 'Execution of Count Lajos Batthyány'
]]> Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:02:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/50009 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/44795
The other day I saw a documentary on TV which was about animal communication, and scientists established that cats have the ability to recognize that humans communicate with their mouth. They look at humans as weird creatures, or many times as silly cats who use this strange way of communicating, as our feline favourites prefer using their whiskers, ears, eyes and generally their senses in their own circle to let each other know their ’opinions’ (that's another stuff when they are very angry with each other of course!). This is a much subtle way of communication than our human speaking if we think it along, and we still have a lot to explore on these fields. :-) So, our cat friends are in a way forced to change their communication because of us, they accomodate themselves to our needs in order to be understood.

Humans often become in a way part of a cat community when they develop deep emotional ties with a cat or cats of their own. Cats think that we are so weird cats who cannot catch mouse for example. I wonder if you ever found any dead mice in front of your doorway, or seen your cat coming towards you miaowing with a mouse in their mouth? And you usually cannot make them understand they are very kind, but you don’t need any mouse meat. They are so caring as if you were their little kitten who needs some teaching to become a real, serious cat. ]]> Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:03:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/44795 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/42264
The doctors and nurses in hospitals responded to the emergency quickly and they did and still do their best to assist people and save lives. Thank you for their painstaking work.

As everybody, I also have my opinion of the causes of the tragedy but would like to keep it to myself so I will rather stop here now. I feel very sad that such a horrible tragedy could happen in the 21st century in Hungary.

My heart goes out to the victims and their relatives.


]]> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:41:00 EDT http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/42264 http://eszter.tigblog.org/post/42221 Long after the death of Stephen I his right hand was found intact (when he was removed from his original grave) and the Catholic church regards this holy body part as a relic. There is a festive procession every year on this day when the Sacred Right Hand is carried along on the streets of Budapest.
Besides, we have lots of celebrations nationwide on the 20th of August like the Flower Carnival in Debrecen with lots of lovely flower compositions. Other open-air programs include the Celebration of Crafts in the Buda Castle in Budapest which is not only a market of folk artefacts but you can also learn how to make traditional crafts like pots, baskets, wood-carven objects from craftsmen or see how certain Hungarian dishes were made in old times and try them (for example the ’mézeskalács’ = honey-cake :-)). At the same time folklore programs with plenty of music and traditional Hungarian dances make the day more colourful everywhere with an air-show over the Danube and a water-parade which are worth mentioning as well. Even in the tiniest village there are balls and the atmosphere is carnival-like. Fortunately, the weather is lovely and if it stays like this then beautiful fireworks will end the day as usual.
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