UNDERGROUND ISTANBUL >>Tarlabasi district

Is Tarlabasi a ghetto? Maybe... I can say it's like the Harlem, for us..

This is an area which lies the spirit of Istanbul... At least, a part of it.

So, today I could make a little trip to there: I just could take the main street (Kalyoncu Kulluğu). I entered, and get out in 10 mins.

At every corner, there was a strange man, I guess they sale some weed... It's like a place where nobody wants to live.

I don't know why, but this district was always attracting me. A dangerous underground place. As something that your mom tells not to do : )

And the district is attracting me more, after watching the movie Agir Roman (turkish movie made at 1996)...

The movie was taken in Kurdela Sokak...

That movie has an important place for me. Because, when I was in the army, everybody was wanting me to play this movie.. I asked this to my commander, but he didn't allowed. Now, I understand why these guys wanted to watch it, and why my commander didn't allow : )

Because, this is a cult movie of Ghetto...

So, this is the trip plan...

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

Heat

This is one of the best movies I have ever watch....

I put it at my top 5...

 

Good songs

Good Song

David Vendetta - Unidos para la musica
Yükleyen David-Vendetta. - Öne çıkan müzik videolarını izleyin.

I'M BACK

Yes, finally... The army story is finished (158 days!) .

At 17 september, I walked out the main gate of the base... And I didn't even turn back...
It was a happy moment ;)

I took an airplane, then I was in Istanbul...

I feel still a little strange, when I think about the fact that I'm at home :o)

Now, I'll be free for doing what I want. Let's wait, and see what happens....

By the way, It's sad that I couldn't swim last summer...

Stock Markets

Stock Markets is something which I'm following since one year. All is started at october 2008.

After participating to general meeting of Galatasaray sport club, I decided to learn about finance.

Because everybody were talking about financial tables for getting a bank loan; and I couldn't understand nothing about it.

So I bought most selling books about economy, finance and read stock markets internet sites..

(for example: The Instant Economist by Ross M. laroe, John Charles Pool)

Then, I started to invest a little money, and understood how to do investment for future.

The thing that I learnt: the place for making lots of money is not stock markets; because it could only make you earn x2, x3 of your capital.

If you want more, you shall have an IDEA and you will win x30, x100.

I hope I will find it in near future...

Thoughts

Only two weeks remains by now. I can say since my last post, there is some changements:

At my last post, I was saying that it was passing like holiday.

At august, I participated to two ceremonies which made me very tired. We stayed stand up about 4-5 hours non stop (we did about 3-4 training days before the ceremonies).

The thing which made me angry is that they choosed only me among 200 people for participating to these ceremonies.

When I think about these moments right now, I can say they will be one of memories I won't forget : \


So august was fastest month for me during the army...

At last saturday, a soldier came next to me and asked if I can teach him "high school" level mathematics. He quited high schooI at second class. I started to show him how to find line equations, then I noticed that he doesn't even know how to do operations with fractions.

For example, I asked him two questions, and he couldn't answer unfortunately : (
--> 3a = 1; a=?
--> 1+1/2 = ?

It made me show how our education system is bad.
During all my military service, the notion which made me think the most is "Logic". Maybe, in the army, a soldier doesnt't need to have a logic, he should be only phsically enough for fighting and need a basic brain for doing his mission. So, that'sa the type of men that I meet generally these days...

Reading books, watching movies

the books/magazines I read during the army:
-Guide for investment / Robert Kiyosaki
-Buyology
-advices to youngs / Üzeyir Garih
-advanced analyzing technics ( for stock exchange)
-Access 2003
-Cash Flow / Robert Kiyosaki
-BusinessWeek Magazine
-.....

By the way, since 2 weeks, I started to learn italian...

the movies I watched:
-The last castle ( 9/10 perfect movie for the army)
-the slumdog millionaire (9/10)
-the enemy at the gate (7/10)
-sex and death (8/10)
-Issız adam (8/10, a turkish movie)
-007, Casino Royal (9/10)
-Fast And Furious Tokyo Drift ( 6/10)
-The bachelor party (8/10)

Les jours heureux (happy days)

Hey Friends! I hope, everyone is going fine.

Here, in Konya, life is going well. I can say, since my last blog entry, the army seems very cool to me.
The people that I come across on the floor, are no more strange people for me. It means since two months, I met lots of new people.

The war planes and acrobatic squadron flying over the sky make me feel like I'm in a holiday camp.

Some of my opinions about army started to change, I think the army is a must see at least for 1-2 month. There is many colorfull people to meet here.
Generally, the level of education is very low. But, it's a good thing, all of these people make you realise, and notice other kind of people.

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! ; )

My base ; )

Here is the place where I'll be for 3 months...

It is the most known airforce military base in Turkey. Every year, in Konya airforce military base they organize international military operations with US, UK and some other countries.

It's for about 3 weeks I'm here.

And I can say, sometimes I feel good but sometimes it is true that it is a waste of time.

We'll see, I hope I won't have any problem

Air Forces - KUTAHYA - short (5 month)

Yes, this is the place where I'm going. I can say, I'm very lucky, because they say that it is a paradise for soldiers..

I guess, it is my last entry for at least one month.

So, today, I'll have a last meeting with some of my friends ...



see you.

Driving into the wild

Last saturday, the weather was good, so I decided to make a motorcycle trip about 70-80 kms in 5-6 hours .

I drove into the jungle, into the wild : )

It was quite perfect. I discovered many cute places..

Above is the road that I made...

I also want to say that, the decision is officially taken, I'll go to military service at 12 april.

For now the place and the length is unknown, they'll decide at 10 april. I had an exam two days ago.. I will write a post about : )

My playlist

I wanted to share some songs that I like.. Here is my playlist!

Fener Balat trip

Last saturday, we had excellent time with people from Couchsurfing.

I'm very happy that this site exists, everytime I meet such cool people; and we do very interesting events.. (this was my 5th event: two in Paris, three in Istanbul). I hope I will experience as much as I can...

This time, we visited an old district of Istanbul.. We climbed to city walls and then to a minaret. It was the first time that I did these things.

With Al from Germany, Kjelti from Canada, Stephen from USA, and Meric, Ünsal, Sibel from Istanbul.

Today, I met with Sam from UK also Hakan from Istanbul. We had a motorcycle trip in Asia side of Istanbul with Sam.

Two movie at same time: Cloverfield - 28 Weeks later

I watched two movies yesterday, first is Cloverfield which is a very different and also notable movie from the producer of Lost. It made me feel like, I'm playing a computer game like Half-life. Because, all the movie is taken with a handy cam.


The second is 28 weeks later. I think, it was an original zoombie movie but a little weird... Because of that movie, I could'nt sleep well last night.

Yalova Trip

As these are my last days before joining the army, I decided to profit all the spare time I have. So every weekend, I'm planning to do what I was dreaming before :o)

I realized the first part of this by going to Yalova.

Yalova is a very cute place, full of forest and also it has thermal water sources. So, first, I had a trip with motorcycle into the deep forest, then I went to thermal sources. I swimmed in very hot water. It was funny, also I met there some new people. I hope, It'll possible to go to there next time with friends.

Slumdog millionnaire

I watched the movie yesterday. It was one of the best movie I watched this year. (with Dark Knignt)

Absolutely, a must watch..

Soundtrack of the movie is very very good.. Listen it. Another movie I like a lot is Awara. It has the same style with Slumdog..