Szilárd VAJDA's blog

The year ends soon, many things have happened in the last 12 months. Bad things, good things, joy, happiness, sadness, failures, success, etc. Personally, I think it was a great year. I would like to avoid to summarize the year because it is quite impossible. I would like to thank you all for reading my blog from time to time and for those comments even though some of you in not really keen on doing such thing.

I wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year full of joy, happiness and success! Be part of the present and you have your place in the future!

In a few days Hungary will take over the presidency of the EU and days ago the Parliament voted for a media law which seems to jeopardize the freedom of the press. However, PM Orban is quite confident about this law and despite of many concerns raised by really democratic countries like Germany or Luxembourg he is not even thinking reconsidering this or adopt some amendments.

Hungary became a communist country after the II. WW and the Paris treaty. In those times there was no free press in Hungary and many citizens can still remember those dark days. Today we claim being a democratic country but adopting such restrictive laws push us towards a new type of neo-communism.

Considering the text of the media law adopted the different TV channels, newspapers, media portals can be fined with huge amount of money for violation of the previously mentioned media law. Such restriction can really damage the image of a free media in Hungary. While countries where democracy is really not an issue anymore question this law, the hungarian PM is showing again his arrogance and ignorance. The comparison of Gyorgy Conrad with the raise of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) in 1933 probably is not appropriate at this particular moment but I am afraid it may become a reality soon.

The election held last April in Hungary empowered the FIDESZ as absolute power obtaining a two-thirds majority in the Parliament. It seems instead of giving them more responsibility this power gives them more arrogance and ignorance.

Ps. I am not an oracle, but I think we can expect new restrictive measures in the near future.

Karacsony. A legszebb unnep a kereszteny vilagban es ketsegtelenul az en kalendariumomban is dicso helyet foglal el. Mindenki varja, mindenki boldog es ennel jobb dolog nincs is a foldon. Van benne valami misztikus valami foldonkivuli, meg ha sokakban nem is tudatosul. Az emberek is maskeppen viselkednek, sokkal inkabb a szeretet, a csalad kerul eloterben es manapsag ma ez igencsak nagy dolog ebben a rohano vilagban.

Sok Karacsonyt megeltem mar es mindenik a maga nemeben egyedi megis harom olyan Karacsony van az eletemben, mely kulonos fontossaggal bir. Az elso Karacsony volt a legszebb, hisz szerettek es nagyon-nagyon vartak. Nem emlekszem ra, de nehany kep meg arulkodik rola es anya mindig ugyanolyan atelessel meselni azokat a kellemes perceket.

A masodik is regen volt, de arra mar emlekszem es csodalatos Karacsony este volt az szamomra, de annak mar 9-10 eve. Es van a mai este, ami szerintem minden Karacsonyt felulmul(t). Ketsegtelen, nehez hasonlitani, de ugy erzem, hogy ez a mai este mindeniknel fontosabb. Olyan ajandekot kaptam ma este, mit sehol nem lehet vasarolni. Nagyon halas vagyok es orvendek, hogy megadatott nekem ez az ajandek. Koszonom!

I am in Budapest, Hungary. It can be considered as a second home for me. However, wherever I am I can considered it my home. Of course the best ever will be my home town Marosvasarhely, Transylvania.

My real carrier started here in this town somewhere back in 1999. I have really good memories linked to this city. I spent some of my happiest years of my life here but I think I will never ever come back here. I have really good friends and good memories but I do not belong to city anymore. I never did really.

Ps. Thanks guys for those unforgettable moments.

These are my last hours here in Dortmund and soon I will leave for the airport and direction is Marosvasarhely, Transylvania, Romania. Even though is a small city in Transylvania it is my home town and there is no better thing then returning home.

I am traveling all over the world but there is no other place than my home Marosvasarhely. It is rusty, not always shining but still mine. I think is really important to have such a place called home. Otherwise you just travel and travel and you will never stop. Each town, each place will be just another stopover and nothing else. You need roots to grow-up.

Orommel olvasom a hirt, hogy netan meg megszabadulunk nepunk es nemzetunk "legfobb oltalmazo(tt)jatol", de rogvest el is szomorodom, mert a kinevelt utod keszul az uj/regi beosztasra, mindez Kelemen Hunor ur tiszteben. Leven, hogy Kelemen ur igencsak keveset mozgatott a [erdelyi magyar] koz erdekeben, valamivel be kellett robbanni a politikaban es mivel massal, mint populizmussal: lasd autonomia vagy netan Orban Viktor ur a szomszedban. Kelemen ur szerint, ez nem is kerdes, hogy "ha" es "mikor", hanem "hogy." Lasd Uram 21 ev alatt semmi nem tortent ez ugyben, es most megjelent a profeta az erdelyi magyar ugaron es beszel. Mert sajnos mindez csak szobeszed es populista szoszatyarkodas. Sem tobb sem kevesebb. Messianikus szerepre keszul, de szomoru es csufos bukast josolok neki. (Megjegyzes: Bar en tevednek, de sajnos a racionalizmus es a roman nacionalizmus eleg komoly ellenfel Kelemen ur!)

Kelemen ur inkabb arra kellene oszpontositson, hogy legyen "kinek" majd autonomiat "csinalni", mert amire elkeszul a grandiozus tervevel, mar nem lesz akinek. Az erdelyi magyarsag vagy elvandorol [joggal], vagy asszimilalodik, netan elhal, mert bizony melyen tisztelt miniszter ur, ha nem tudna, az erdelyi magyarok nem autonomiaval elnek, hanem nyugdijbol es kozalkamazotti fizetesbol. Igy hat talan az autonomia torekveseket ezzel kellene am kezdeni, majd azutan [talan] "autonomialodunk".

Es emelt fovel all a dolgok elebe, hisz megteheti, mert o is tamogatta a kozszferaban dolgozok fizetesenek 25%-al valo csokkeneset es "kollaboralt" abban, hogy Romaniat a csod szelere juttassak. Erre tenyeg lehet buszke, bravo M.B. ur. Gerinces dolog. Bevallom nem mernem merkerdezni M.B.-t, hogy milyen ideologiak menten politizal, mert szerintem csak hummoges lenne ....Szocialista erzulet, liberalis, nacionalista?

Ui. Jomagam csak szegyelem magam, hogy a romaniai tobbseg ma minden erdelyi magyarrol azt hiszi, hogy ilyen "kollaborans". Es sajnos be kell vallani, hogy nehez lesz ezt magunkrol lemosni. No persze mar evek ota kikertem magamnak, hogy M.B. es hordaja engem ne akarjon kepviselni.

Today I read a statement of Mr. Gyorgy Frunda where the senator wants to redraw from the government and change the head of the party. Even they [so called "big shots"] realized that with such a policy and such a looser party president like Mr. B. M. they do not have a chance. And the new hungarian parties should also be considered. They are really a threat for the existing Hungarian party.

Unfortunately, Mr. M even though probably he will not go for a new election [at least I hope so] tries to impose his candidate, Mr. Hunor Kelemen which is exactly the same as Mr. M but a bit younger. Nothing less, nothing more. Of course his Romanian is slightly better but still ....some communication lectures would be preferable for the current minister of Cultures.

Ps. However, I think is already too late for them and the hungarians will not vote for them at the upcoming elections in 2012.

Az Orszagos Szechenyi Konyvtar kutatasa alapjan oda jutott a nemzet, hogy mar nem igazan olvas es sajnos a legolvasottabb Marai, Wass es Kertesz (akit jomagam nem tartok egy nagy ironak, de gondolom ezen kijelentesemert sokan ma megkoveznek, hogy az egyetlen magyar (talan nemet allampolgar is) Nobel dijas ironkat ily modon lebecsulom) helyett a legkedveltebb irok ma [sajnos ... ] Lorinc L. Laszlo, Danielle Steel es Rejto Jeno.

Ez a sorrend mutatja is nagymertekben a szinvonalat. Ketsegtelen, hazudnek ha azt mondanam, hogy nem olvastam jomagam is hasonlo konyveket, de fontosnak tartom, hogy ne csak ilyen mufajt olvassunk. Sajnos a TV es az uj csoda, vagyis az Internet elhoditotta a konyvek mellol az olvasokat es manapsag a konyv mar nem ertek ... No de talan meg ez sem lenne baj, hisz maga az olvasas egymagaban is szellemi tevekenyseg de sajnos Magyarorszagon 50% az mebereknek egy konyvet nem fog a kezeben, legyen az Marai, Wass netan meg Steel vagy Rejto. Ez tragedia, mert ez egyertelmuen egy alacsony intelligencia szintet fog eredmenyezni es megjelenik a "Discovery generacio" aki a TV-n tanul es amitja magat. Oda jutottunk, hogy az emberek tulnyomo tobbsege a TV-t ugy ertelmezi, mint masok a Szentirast. Ha egyszer mutattak a TV-ben, akkor annak igaznak kell lennie. A gond csak az, hogy nem latnak a TV moge es nem jonnek ra, hogy nincs szabad velemenyuk, hanem a TV alakitja a velemenyuket es a gondolataikat.

Ui. Annyi az uromben az orom ha fogalmazhatok igy, hogy mas nemzetek sem allnak sokkal jobban, igy nem nagyon logunk ki a sorbol. Szamomra ez azert igencsak elszomorito, de legalabb a statisztikakban nem mutatunk majd rosszabbul, mint azt masok is teszik.