mosquitos.

If there was a formula, to remove all the mosquito and mosquito-kind flying insects in the universe, whatever their contribution is to the balance of nature is - other than sucking human's blood more and more, I couldn't care less and I would pleasurably wipe them out.

Last night, just 1 of them, didn't let me sleep until 5 am.. and I have a job interview today, and I am over-cranky this morning.
I even searched for a mosquito repeller mp3 file to shut it away. I did find one, but after an hour I woke up again to that sick noise... zzzzz.zzzzzzzzz.zzzzzzz... >:((   i guess that stupid mp3 doesnt work.

Even Ginny doesnt bother hunting them anymore. We used to be a team. She located the little flying devil, and I spread the poison. Now she just takes a look and goes back to sleeping.

I really am over-cranky this morning.

sonunda günler uzamaya başlıyor.
kışı sevmediğimden değil, ama günümün çoğunun aydınlıkta geçmesini tercih ediyorum.
dediğim şeye bak. iklimlerin, doğal dengenin bile bana endeksli degisim icinde olmasını istemek ne kadar "insani" bi yaklaşım.
hayatımda bir hareketlenme yok, ama en azından bir görüşmeye çağrıldım cuma gününe. görüşme dediğim, stajla başlamamı istedikleri bir pozisyon. ama sertifika programlarına binlerce lira sarf etmektense, stajda öğrenirim öğreneceklerimi. yeni bir alana geçmeyi göze alan bendim sonuçta.

yılbaşı yaklaşıyor. büyük bir parti organize ediyoruz. şekil olarak "not exactly my taste".. yılbaşında şık, elegant bir parti organize edersem, sanırım bu ilerideki 10 yil içinde bile olmaz. benim için yılbaşı partisi, zarafetten ziyade daha cozy bir ortamı çağrıştırıyor. neticede tek başıma organize etmiyorum, o yuzden uyum sağlıyorum.. benim için yılbaşı partisi gibi olmasa da, güzel bi parti olcak.

Evet, Red Hot Chili Peppers' in muthis gitaristi gruptan ayrilmis. Artik solo calismalariyla muzik hayatina devam edecekmis. Grupta calmak yeterince tatmin etmiyormus onu. Keske ikisini bir arada yurutseydi. Ilk dinledigim solo albumunden (Shadows Collide with People) Song to Sing When I'm Lonely, duydugum en guzel ve romantik sarkilardan biriydi.. hem de akustik albumu versiyonu.. Bir de Omission. Frusciante'nin normalde kulagimin tercih etmeyecegi turde yanik bir sesi var. Ama yaptigi sarkilarda beni rahatsiz etmeyen hatta icime isleyen bir unsura donusmus durumda bu ozelligi. Adamin gruba katkilari da goz ardi edilemez ama daha da iyi  solo albumler cikartacaksa, varsin ayrilsin derim..
Hem onun yerine de gayet deneyimli ve basarisini kanitlamis olan Josh Klinghoffer gececekmis.

**Gene de Turkiye'ye Frusciante ile gelmelerini tercih ederdim - bir gun gelirlerse..

"..Böylesi bir hızla aşık olunuyorsa, bunun nedeni belki aşık olmak arzusunun, aşık olunan kişiden önce gelmesidir - gereksinim, kendi sonucuunu doğurmuştur. Aşığın ortaya çıkması önceden duyulan (ama bütünüyle bilinçaltında yatan), birisine aşık olmak gereksiniminin ikinci bir evresidir yalnızca - aşk açlığımız o birisinin özelliklerini şekillendirir, arzularımız onun üzerinde billurlaşır.."

                                                                                            - Alain de Botton




unemployment vs unhappy employment

Job Mining

I hate job mining! It's like, every friggin company is looking for a candidate who has an experience of minimum 2 years. Man where's everyone getting their experiences from? Where do they start working to become adequate enough!?! URGG, I'M SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW. I have been in a "trainee" program for a year, so I definitely do not wanna start over. Yet, I have to change my area of expertise from sales to HR.. so it seems like I will be starting over in a sense. But hopefully wont last for a year. It's just really frustrating because I have sent my CV to approximately 50 or 60 spots, but only 4 of them called me back and 2 out of 4 interviewed me, and I got rejected from one, still waiting for an answer from the other (and it's been almost 2 months since the interview)..
Well I have to mention other 2 offers I have rejected. One was in an Adv. Agency and the other in a really small office.. but I have to say that I regret turning down the second one.
I feel awful tonight :( I think I'm done thinking and speaking for now.

Ginny!!


Since I was ten, sometimes when I'm alone at home I dance. Yes, I turn on the the grooviest songs on my playlist and dance really hard till I fall down :) Its kind of a way for me to freshen up or something. But since Ginny started living with us, I cant do it unless she's out of the room. It's the way she looks at me. She widens her eyes with wonder.. and I just cant stop laughing.. Look at her face!


"Whatever. None of it's working.
I've had a guy leave a voicemail for me at work,
and then I call him back at home,
and he emails me to my Blackberry,
and then I text him to his cell,
and then he emails me to my home account from the plane phone..
--and it just totally gets out of hand.
I miss the days where you had one phone number,
with one answering machine that housed one casette tape,
and either the cassette tape had a message from the guy,
or it didn't. That's it.
Now you have to go around checking all your portals and get rejected by seven different technologies.

It's exhausting!"

 


This is from the movie He's Just Not That Into You, quoting Mary (Drew Barrymore).. 
What she's saying is just so funny and dramatically true, isn't it. Technology and all these portals are supposed to help us build relationships at an easier level. But the actual outcome of all of it,  is simply complexity.


Yesterday we had a reunion kind of dinner with old friends. One of the topics was that how there was a romantic aspect of writing letters and waiting for a reply for days and weeks. I dare say; patience, longing, curiosity and scarcity of information were the building blocks for long lasting relationships. 


I wonder;
what are the building blocks of the modern world's relationships? 
 

Camera

I think I'll sell my new camera and replace it with a new one. My favourite camera broke during my interrail trip this summer. And when I came back I just went to one of the electronics shops and bought the first one that felt sufficient to me. Well its actually a better equipped one compared to the one I broke, but I just checked my old photos and the image quality seems much more satisfying than the photos I've taken with the new one.
I think its time for me to buy a fully professional camera now. But first I gotta sell this one. I may head to Eminonu tomorrow.

Iki gun once turkuazoo'ya gittim. Avrupa'nin en buyuk akvaryumu oldugu iddia edilen bu kompleks, Forum Istanbul'un, icinde bulunuyor. Yani Bayrampasa'da. Bugune kadar gezdigim ya da gezdigimi hatirladigim tek akvaryum Singapur'dakiydi, ki gercekten buyuleyici bir akvaryumdu. Burasi da orda gezdigim akvaryum ile ayni formattaydı. Akvaryumlarin konumlandirilmasi, tunel ve tunelin icinde ilerleyen mekanizma vs.. hatta Turkuazoo'nun metrekare olarak kesinlikle daha buyuk oldugunu soyleyebilirim. Fakat balik cesitliligi acisindan cok da zengin degildi. Karsilastirma yapmak ya da olumsuz elestirmek istemiyorum. Sonucta Turkiye'nin ilk akvaryumu. Daha bir hayvanat bahcesi bile isletmeyi beceremeyen ulkemizde bu tur bir girisimde bulunulmasi sasirtici, belki biraz da umut verici..

Darica'daki hayvanat bahcesine gideniniz var mi? Ordaki hayvanlarin nasil bir sefalet icinde yasadigina - hayatta kalmaya calistigina - sahit oldunuz mu? Parcalanmis olanlarini onarmak yerine defalarca ust uste tel orulmus kafeslerin ardinda, pislik icinde yasamaya calisan, hastalik kapmis, ve yanindakilere bulastirma tehlikesi olan o zavallilari gordunuz mu? Farkinda olmak adina gitmenizi oneriyorum. Aglayarak, mutsuzluk, umutsuzluk, hayal kırıklığı ve öfke ile ordan ayrilacaksiniz.. cocugunu goturup hastalikli ponylerin kafasini oksatan, bir yandan da bunu fotograflayan ve durumun absurdlugunu algilayamayan insanlari gordugunuzde, omuzlariniz biraz daha dusecek..







..

the only true and honest being in my life is Ginny.

Project X

I have a new project on my mind. It will help me feel less unuseful and unproductive. I'm kinda excited about the idea of the project, but its pretty challenging. From now on every observation I make, every book I read, every conversation I have, every movie I watch..even every freakin weird dream I see.. everthing will be a source for my project. I'm afraid I won't be sharing itself in public- not even privately. Because once you share an idea with someone other than yourself, it turns into a reponsibility. I don't want people asking me how the project's going and how much I've achieved since I've started.. I don't wanna feel liable to finish it. Maybe I'll never be done with it. I don't want any influence on me with this.
Okay it is obvious that I want to share it with the world! Otherwise why would I be announcing that I am starting to work on a mysterious project. But this is another thing I have to learn: Keep your mouth shut time to time! Don't be that open to everyone. Keep some stuff to yourself!

Son zamanlarda - dediklerine gore Issız Adam furyasindan sonra - Cukurcuma, Cihangir ve Asmalimescit taraflarina artan bir talep soz konusu. Akin akin insan seli ile karsi karsiya kaldigimiz bu bolgelerdeki isletmeciler, bu durumu firsat bilip, arz/talep dengesini korumak adina, yeni yeni mekanlar aciyorlar. Bu yaklasik bir yildir suregelen bir durum. Fakat ben bir turlu bu yeni mekanlara ayak uydurabilmis degilim. Korun degnegini belledigi gibi, her daim ayni mekanlara gidiyorum. Artik bunu asmam gerektigine karar verdim.

Bugun bir arkadasimla (dilara) Cukurcuma taraflarini kesfe cikalim dedik. Amac spesifik bir mekani bulmakti, ama adres olmadan, kaba bir tariften yola cikarak yurumeye basladik. Oncelikle, aslinda Cihangir'in Istiklal Caddesi'nin gobegine inanilmaz bir kestirmeden baglandigini kesfettik. Yillardir ort pas ettigimiz bu cahilligimizi itiraf ettikten sonra, vintage dukkanlarin, antikacilarin, birkac metrekarelik sevimli cafelerin onunden sohbet ede ede ve fotograf makinemizi bugun yanimiza almamis olmamiza yana yana yuruduk de yuruduk.. Ahsap kokan dar sokaklarda ilerlerken tesadufen bir de cekime dahil olarak, figuran bile olduk bugun..
Cukurcuma'yi ve Cihangir'i resmen arsinladik. Tamam iyi guzeldi ama aradigimiz mekani bir turlu bulamiyorduk. Yaklasik iki saat gezintinin ardindan, tatli bir tesaduf sonucu Hatirla Sevgili'nin cekildigi evi de gezdik.. Ama hala ariyorduk. Bu arada Tom Tom Mahallesine de inip ciktik :)
Sonunda, basladigimiz noktaya donmeye karar verdik. Akabinde, tek denemedigimiz sokagin sonunda neon isikla parlayan "Baja" tabelasini gordugumuzde hem cok acikmistik, hem de tabiri caizse, ayaklarimiza kara sular inmisti..
Baja ile ilgili onumuzdeki hafta yorum yapacagim, cunku orda bir etkinlik planliyorum. Ip ucu isterseniz, ilk izlenimim; cok sevimli, sicacik, leziz, zevkli, cesitlerin cok oldugu, hizli servis yapan ve genelden farkli bir mekan olmus. Iyi ki acmislar burayi dedik.

Ordan ciktiktan sonra da 49 ile karsi karsiya geldik. Gunun sonunda ictigimiz kahvemizi keske burada icseydik diyorum simdi. Buraya da baska bir gun mesai ayirmaya kararliyim.

Biraz da gunduz gozuyle Asmalimescit'i gezip, hava kararincaya dek Tunel'de bir kahve ictikten sonra, yarina Dolunay'a donusecek Ay'in esliginde evlerimize dagildik.

There are a few holidays/celebrations in a year that really stir me up;

Birthdays: Mine, my best friends’(if they throw are a good party :p), my boyfriend’s, my sister’s..
Halloween: because I adore costumes
New Year: because I just love the Christmas spirit and the idea of leaving a whole year behind, along with the idea of new experiences, people I haven’t met yet and opportunities, waiting for me to find them out when the time comes.

These last couple of years I feel like I have developed a tendency to be more pessimistic. And it started feeling a little foolish to just hope, fantasize, be optimistic about life. Well here I am, listening to Bob Dylan, and I say it is just wrong!
Next year, I’m totally determined to be happy. Enough already with the frowning and the negative mood! This year’s Christmas spirit is gonna shake me up and bring the old me back.

What I also love about New Year is that it pushes people – in a positive way – to make fresh starts in their lives. Drastic or minor.. Some people just don’t have the inner strength to put their fist on the table and go along with their decisions. So they take New Year as the turning point for their future.

Oh and I don’t wanna mention the food! I’ll write about the feast that me, my friend and her mom are gonna throw, the following days.

And lastly, yet most importantly about New Year.. I love presents. Especially presents that surprise me. Because I love presents and surprises. Dear Santa, I want to be fascinated this year:) I want a shockingly amazing surprising present.

Did I mention that I love presents?

itching!

So, one of my feet was literally itching when I came up with this blog.

Due to the vast amount of spare time I have, I find it pretty convenient to just lay in bed all day. I was thinking about the weirdest dream I had the other night. I was at a party in the city, dancing and drinking.. Then, I felt like I needed some fresh air and went out.. And there it was, the beautiful beach and the ocean right in front of me. I suddenly felt an urge to jump in the water, so I started running and got wet etc.. the dream goes on.
Right when i was recalling these scenes, my left foot started itching. The thing is, my cat was lying on my legs, sleeping, and I didn't want to wake her up, so I let the itching give me this terrible discomfort.
It was getting worse and worse. I was trying to think about something else. But everything was about the awful itch.

At that moment, I remembered what my mom always says about someone's feet itching. It's kind of elating to think that I will be having a journey somewhere soon, and that I don't have any clue about where.
This is what happens when you don't have a job. You give meaning to random happenings and daydream.

I know, it's pathetic. I was lying when I said I felt convenient about laying in bed all day. I feel so unuseful to the world.
But at least now I have decided to keep this blog and write until I find the job of my dreams.