tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41032742607943660302024-09-27T14:56:28.340+03:00in case anyone caresAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125050042830397524noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103274260794366030.post-17370261813379630732013-12-09T15:15:00.000+02:002013-12-09T15:15:00.581+02:00

Do you know what Bolito is? You will. Well, it is some kind of a gadget designed to kill you. It is simply a steel thread with a powerful motor and when someone puts it to your neck, you can't take it off or stop it. So you die. Now of course I can't tell it as elegant as they do in the movie The Counselor. But I have to warn you, the trailer video has a spoiler. By the way, I'm not sure

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As our son grows up, we hear more and more about this situation which can safely be called: 2 year old syndrome. People warn us to be preapared for a more rebellious child. He won't listen to us and he will try to do what he wants to do. Actually, I can observe the early signals of this syndrome at the age of 1,5 -especially when we call him to have his meal. Sometimes, if he is really hungry,

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When I first started using Twitter years ago, I realized that it took more time than it should and actually became a problem, as if I didn't already have tons of other means of distraction. So I found an interesting solution which included Twitter, too. I started twitting and announcing the world that I would completely devote myself to the project at hand for the next one full hour and won't

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan never misses an opporturnity to remind us that Turkey is now in the advanced democracy phase, as opposed to archaic regime the Republic used to have before their time. It is so advanced that it is clearly beyond the scope of the minds of a lot of people who can't make sense from the words: "There're male and female students who live in the same

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If you've watched the Hit and Run movie, then you can't have missed it. They talk about this pouncer app all the time. And I wonder what the hell it is? I just don't get it. No, of course I don't mean I don't get what it is for. Well, you can't have missed it, they talk about it all the time. It is almost like this application is sort of their sponsor and they're trying to promote it. And

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Has anybody seen the movie I am Number 4? Ok, and for those who raised their hands, did you see the Turkish map in it? Probably not, because it was a very quick scene. I mean, you must of course have seen the map, but maybe you haven't noticed it is the Turkish map. Well, it was the dream destination of this girl and she wanted to go there one day. And the rest of the movie? It was alright

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In the movie Magnolia, Tom Cruise portrays a showman, a very popular public figure. Sorry for not providing more details because it has already been more than a decade since I watched the movie and it has been even longer than that, that my memory started to betray me. But, in one of the most significant scenes which I happen to remember somehow, a woman interviews with Tom Cruise's character,

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I am oficially 39 now, and I am too tired to write something  obscure enough to make me look like a wise man. I am just getting old. And old is old, not wise. I am sorry, the 38 years behind me didn't leave me any keys to share with  you. I still don't know why on earth we exist, but at least learnt not to think about such matters and just try to enjoy it while it lasts. Hmm, maybe I am

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This picture was circulating online some years ago, helping our day with a great stock of laughter. In case you don't know Turkish and wonder what possibly the sign in English is trying to say, it is trying to say: "Grilled Chicken". Lost in translation? Well, you can say so. Other than being mocked by the entire nation, the owner of this sign probably has another problem: i bet he still

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Just for the sake of spreading the word, i will share some articles on the Syrian issue which you will probably never see in main stream media. I will update it from time to time but just don't expect a fully up-to-date list. Syria’s “Liberated” Future: Ethnic-Religious Cleansing and Genocide, by Shamus Cooke Washington Wired for War: Why Syria Could Spell World Catastrophe, by Finian

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I really don't want to fill this blog with political posts but I just need to sum up two previous posts about this pattern I have seen in the political arena in Middle East. As I said earlier, the incidents in Syria and Turkey's own PKK problem share similarities which can't be explained by coincidence. The methods, the support system, the way international media prefers to look at the matter,

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I've been using this online tool, toggl, to measure the time i spend working. The result was quite shocking. It turned out that I work far less than i initially thought. I don't mean the time spent in front of the computer. That must be as long as forever. I am talking about the time i actually do professional stuff to make money. That's either translating, or some other errand closely related

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When Kurdish terrorist group PKK was first established in mid 80s, they started to attack Kurdish villages, massacring everybody, including children and even babies. Later on, they started to attack public servants such as teachers, doctors and imams. Today, they shifted to mostly military targets to claim that they're freedom fighters, not some bloody terrorists. But that's what they are. And

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There is an evil regime in Syria and they don't hesitate to kill their own people just to stay in power. And the world has to do something to protect Syrian people against their own government. This is the kind of bullshit they want you to believe if you are following the main stream media. Thanks God now we have internet which lets us hear the same story from different vantage points which may

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When I first heard that Nicholas Cage was in Turkey for the shootings of some of the scenes of the movie Ghost Rider 2, i simply thought: "It probably won't worth for all this media fuss." And it didn't indeed. The first movie was a big dissapointment for me. And I wasn't expecting much from the second movie - which turned out to be anotherdisaster. And also, it was probably one of the worst (if

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Some time not so long ago i had a harsh dialogue with one of my  clients. Even though my intention was to take things easy, i just couldn't help but speak in a harsh tone. The client wanted to change the initial agreement we had due to change of situation. Well, that simply meant they changed their mind about a project, and my biggest error in here was not to estimate this change of mind in

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In a typical sunday morning when i have proper time to have a proper breakfast with my wife, i pretty much love to mix different flavours. I mix honey with cheese or egg. And I find it pretty delicious. Interestingly, I met many people who just can't understand how delicious this is. It is a taste bomb for me, and yet, many people think that it is rubbish. My enthusiasm to mix different flavors

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I read an article about a watermelon which was forgotten in a corner in the kitchen. So it got spoiled. The bottom line of the article is that, there are things we tend to keep in a corner planning  to deal with them  in a more appropriate time,  but we totaly forget about them until they get totally rotten. So we should either do things at the exact time of initial

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My last post was about a memory of mine, and speaking of memories reminded me this stupid news story of ignorance and complete bigotry: Mina Ungan There is a book titled "The Memoirs of a Dinosaur" written by Mina Ungan which became a bestseller in Turkey when it was first published in 1998. I remember that the book was around at the time but I don't particularly remember reading

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In a post I wrote some time ago, I mentioned about the new Tron movie and how it made me connect to my childhood. The same thing happened with the movie The Fury, directed by Brian De Palma. I can always trust a De Palma movie, and this one from the year 1978 did nor fail me: It is indeed a great movie. Brian De Palma But the thing I loved about it was more than a great movie experience.

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The movie 13 Days starring Kevin Costner was about the Cuban Crisis that took place in 1962, when. Americans found out that Soviets were about to plant nuclear missiles in Cuba. And of course, USA had no intention to allow such a risk so close to their mainland. But it was somehow a minor detail in the movie that, USA had already planted nuclear weapons in Turkey, which is pretty much the very

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I don't think it is any news to anybody that USA used Islam as a tool to achieve her goals. The notorious Al-Qaeda is nothing but a by product of the US policy against the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan - only if you can call the supporting troops of an allied country back then as an invaison army. I don't suggest that USA has a secret agenda spesifically about Islam. It is only that, Islam

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I remember reading an article about the piece of a famaous artist. The man who bought the picture calls the artist to make sure if a certain spot on the canvas is a mistake or something delibarate. So the famaous artist comes and checks his work, says that it must be a glitch, and corrects his painting right away. So in a way, the article says, a picture is a never concluded art form and the

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We learn and we adapt. And that's how we survive. Or at least, this is how we tend to perceive ourselves. But this might be a wrong perception at all, especially if we learn the wrong things in the first place. Sometimes we learn not to adapt. There are a lot of people out there who refuses to adapt without even thinking what they are actually opposing. Obviously, this is not a wise way to

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There is a very interesting scene at the beginning of the movie Pirates of Caribbeean - Dead Man's Chest. The lead character Jack Sparrow - played by Johnny Depp - gets cursed and doomed to death by this mithological monster Kraken. Figuring that the monster will track his smell, he throws out his hat to the ocean, only to be found by two fishermen. The very interesting thing about these

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