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These days I start to listen more classical music..

Discover the playlist klasik with F.Chopin

In fact, I try to profit from the headphones that I bought.


Also, you can listen this nostalgic song...

Made in Istanbul

Movie clip of Shantel made in Istanbul..

Very good music... Gives energy..

What I'm doing now since last 50 days

I noticed it have been long time that I didn't write in the blog.

So, 50 is the number of days after that I left the army...

For the ones who want to know it; here is the list of the things that I did : )

- Shopped.
-> Bought very comfortable shoes from Slazenger
-> good headphones from Cresny (corean made)
-> a winter jacket and an umbrella from tchibo (very good quality and cheap price)


- Searched and Applied for new jobs..
->passed about 5 job interview but there is no result until now

- Went to familly firm to help for some stuff
-> NAS with 1 tb capacity (WD world edition - network attached storage) for backuping and downloading new movies..
-> I'm developing an application for tracing the production
-> Reporting
-> ****

- Watched movies
-> Heat, District 9, Agir Roman, Barda, Heat, wall E

- Met with friends...
-> visited many places in Istanbul (sultanahmet, galata, beyoglu, kadikoy, ortakoy ..)
-> did a bosphorus trip
-> rahmi koc museum
-> played football

- played in the stock exchange

- searched for new business ideas

- took a new passport

- walked everyday minimum for 20-30 mins..

- rided motorcycle

- planned a trip for southeast of Turkey and Syria. But didn't realize it.. Because there wasn't someone who supported me for doing it.

- searched new software for office stuff
--> TrueCrypt: very good encrytpting tool for making safe your files.

Music Time

I guess this song will give you some energy!

The cool thing in the video clip is that The guy in the market reads a turkish newspaper.




Hadouken! - M.A.D

Hadouken! | MySpace Video

What I'm doing during the army...

Two months passed in the army made me think about many things; family, friends, city, carrier.

Sometimes, I feel that it's a big waste of time. But It's for sure, there is some good parts...

Firstly, life in the army is very social . It's a good opportunity to meet people of all kind. Generally people are cool, but also there is
some problematic friends (who uses drogs, and who damages theirselves with blades)...

Secondly, it makes you stronger psychologically and physically. I didn't know that I could be so patient to these conditions..

Since 2 weeks, I'm very cool in Konya, I guess it'll continue like that. I'm responsable of the cinema of the military base. During week days, I play documentaries about republic and Ataturk. And week-ends, we watch holywood movies.

So,the most difficult part of the army is finished.
The first part was hard; we walked about hundred kms, and waited for hours without sitting under the sun (max 12 hours in one day)...

Now, we are counting days, only 95 day is left.

See you! ; )

A new job

I found a job last month (since first november) in a young company. They are specialized in SAP BW consulting. For now, I'm working from home. I read documentations (about 1000 pages) and practice the system. I guess in one month, I'll participate to a project (unilever).

SAP is the most common software (%40 of the market) used in big enterprises (especially the global ones). Because, this huge system has lots of flexibilities, it supports many languages, many accounting systems, and it is independent from other database technologies.

The module I'm working on, basically is the reporting part of the system. So, it help the users to make analyses with reporting tools. For any department in an enterprise: Sales, Production, Procurement, HR, Accounting etc..

All this can be done with Office Excel, in small enterprises, but as big companies has big volume of data, they need a system for managing it.

SAP BW is a system for providing and organizing all these reports. Think the enterprises which sell millions of products. So, as the data is huge, the BW system also has huge functionalities.

Paris Combo

Paris Combo, they are wonderfull... If you also like Pink Martini, you'll adore them.

Especially, their song -attraction- is great. It's a pitty that I discovered them only now. Because, I was listening their song -Istanbul- since 2 years; but I wasn't aware that it was them who sing this. (the tag of the song was wrongly written, the singer was named as "Carla Bruni" in the mp3 : \ )

A friend told me that, it wasn't Carla Bruni, but Paris Combo : )

So listen them, from here.

Politiki Kouzina

Yesterday, I watched a greek movie called "Politiki Kouzina", I like it a lot.

It talks about historical relations with greeks and turks. The story tells this story from greek side. Unfortunately, many greek familly are forced to leave Istanbul (greeks call it, Constantinapolis ;) ), after the Turkish Republic founded. The same thing happened in greek side, lots of turks left Greece. The population exchange is made only by looking to the religion.

The exchange is made many times, 1924 and between 1950-1960. I think, Turkey lost a good human resource, it is a pitty. But this is politics : \

One month ago, I met with two greeks who had same situation at 1960's.

This situation is caused by political crisis happened because of Cyprus Island.

Islam in a nutshell

I think, this text is telling islam very basically. Everyone, who doesn't know about islam, shall read it.

pivot table

Hey.

I would like to share something that I find very usefull.

In excel, there is a utility called Pivot table. Maybe you already know, it is very smart, you can use it a lot when reporting.

If you have data somewhere, (in another excel file, or database), it is very simple to create pivot tables.

You can also use, numbergo as an alternative program for this. The essential is that you have accurate data.

You can learn this concept from here.

For researching it from Google your keyword is:

pivot table excel

Five Best Travel Sites for Cheap Tickets

A good list for finding cheap tickets:

Five Best Travel Sites for Cheap Tickets

Good Luck for Turkey

This is a notice board in Georgia near Turkey border. (Sarp border gate)

This made me laugh, they wish good luck to people who is going to Turkey.

Maybe they're right :)

Northern Iraq

After the thing happened today (15 turkish soldier died near Iraq frontier, at the point marked on the picture), I think that, Turkey have to occupy northern Iraq for a while. At least, until there is a more powerfull government in Iraq.

Because, it is almost impossible to make defense at this region due to geographical conditions (lots of mountains).

We shall advance until Kerkuk and Mosoul which are very strategical zones.

I guess nobody will let us do that, because Kerkuk and Mousoul's situation is a very complicated case. (These places are very rich oil zones).

I also belive that the actual frontier designed after WWI is wrong.

You shall research the region history to understand the current situation.

Here is the keywords for your research:
-First World War Ottoman Middle East
-Treaty of Sevres
-Treaty of Lausanne
-Treaty of Sykes-Picot

News

Hey!

It's for saying that I'm fine. But on Monday I had a car accident. It was the day before the national holiday which is 9 days. So, the roads were almost empty, but it was raining. I had my cousin going to Pologne (Krakow), my familly told me to accompany them to airport.

Everything is fine, thanks to God. The accident was serious, but we had luck.This is because of a car which forced me to change the line (the driver had no license), then another car hit me from the back. My speed was about 90 kms, the car who hit me was about 120 (maybe more). He made us hit the barriers then made us turn 360 degree on the road.

Unfortunately the report which is written by the police was invented for protecting the driver with no-licence.

I think the car will go to the trash. It is not very very serious, the car had insurance. But, the fact that there isn't justice made me uncomfortable for a while.

Now, I'm not sad, because I belive that, one day these people will pay their faults. (I hope, I can find video records which show road situation at the accident location. Today, I sent a mail to police department about the case.)

Facts about Iraq

When we look to the world, we see lots of things which are happening. Lots of people are died and still continue to die because of wars for getting the power.

Sometimes, the problems we have in the life become meaningless when we think these people life's. People in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Africa they are sacrificed.

Shell company signed a new agreement for 4 billion dollars with Iraq. Iraq and Shell will share this money for %50. I really hope that at least %10 this money will be spent for people who live in misery.

This stat below show oil production and revenue after the occupation of Iraq.

Praying

Selimiye Mosque Dome (Edirne)

Here is the translation of the main pray of Islam Religion.

In Turkey, people speaks turkish, and most of them don't know arab.
So, it seems me very strange that, people pray in a knowledge that they don't understand.
People generally memorize the prays, and forgot their sense.

Christians also were praying in latin in the middle age. I don't know if this thing (to pray in a language that we don't understand) still continues in europe countries except Vatican.

When I was in France, I saw the fathers who pray in latin but they were not accepted by the church,and they could only make their ceremonies at the garden of the church.

So, the prays, when we don't understand them, I think they are like magic words, for sure it make us feel the spiritual atmosphere;but, I think that, they are useless if we don't understand.

After the republic of Turkey, Ataturk changed lots of things. Turks started to use latin alphabet in place of arab alphabet that they were using since 8th-9th century.

The call for prays (ezan) began to be made in turkish.

We don't know, if Ataturk wanted to do same thing for prays also.

But, after 1940; the call for prays became one more time arab.

Searching a job

Last thursday, 4th september , I returned to Istanbul.

I can say my adventure of Europe finished. If I wanted, I could find a job in Europe, but the conditions made me choose Turkey (familly, friends etc). There wasn't so much thing which motivated me to stay in France.

Now, I want to find a good place to work here. Generally, firms want to recrute people who completed its military service, so finding a job in this condition it is harder.

The military service in Turkey it is obligatory, and it is not possible to refuse it. It takes 6 month or 1 year, the duration depends on the need of army.

Latest news

It is one week that I left Istanbul. Our trip (with Matthieu) by car was very good but a little tiring.

Wednesday night we slept in a beach near Thessaloniki.Than, we crossed adriatic sea with a ferry, and friday morning we were at Ancona. Then, we eat a pizza in Torino. Then that night we crossed France-Italy border, and slept in the tent near the highway.

The morning, we arrived to Clermont Ferrand. my friend Matthieu showed me approximately all beauties of the Auvergne region.
Then, monday morning I left him, and took the train for Grenoble, and met Ihsan.

Wednesday, I was in Geneve, Switzerland.
Thursday, I was in Annecy.

And tomorrow I'm going to Lyon.

trip Istanbul --> Paris

Next week, I'll leave Istanbul, and go to Paris by car with a french friend that I find by the help of couchsurfin.com

In France, I shall do a presentation to finish my master studies (at 1st september)

Actually, I don't know where I'll sleep during this 10 days.

So, if you have a suggestion contact me please.

I'll return to Istanbul at 4th september.


You shall use these phone numbers: (because I don't use my french phone no more)
0090 533 638 14 67
0090 541 638 14 67

songs which touch me a lot

1. Yann Tiersenn - Summer 78
2. Cranberries - TwentyOne
3. cat power - I found a reason