OK, I absolutely love Amy Winehouse's voice, but when will she grow up? She's wasting her amazing voice by getting wasted or high all the time. Just listen to this video of her performing at EMA. It's disgusting...
And now listen to this, where she sings with Charlotte Church. Church actually sounds better than Winehouse...sad...!
Monday 12 November 2007
Saturday 10 November 2007
Remembering 10 November 1938, 09:05
I can't hold my tears back as I watch original footage of Ataturk's ceremony. 69 years ago, the leader of the century closed his eyes and left the newly-founded Turkey on her own legs. Having been force-fed western values as the ultimate modern and best, I had forgotten how rich our heritage really is and how much of it we really should be proud of. Looking through the slideshow composed of pictures taken from the original ceremony, I can't help but feel like a traitor for leaving my country in pursuit of my personal gains and goals. I feel irresponsible and it makes me feel awful. This might be a foreign concept to a lot of people, and it might really be unique to countries that have formed out of nationalism at its peak, but it's something that I feel very strongly about: to contribute back to Turkey for what I've gained from my ancestors.
The one thing that makes me happy is that we, Turks, are now coming to our senses in terms of our identity. We don't accept ourselves as "third world" or "second-class" to the rest of the world anymore, which has been projected to us all the time we tried to make ourselves more modern. We are now at the brink of creating our kind of modern that lives hand-in-hand with our past. We are becoming independently modern. Looking at the pictures below, I almost feel like we're catching up with our past, which we had lost for some reason. It looks as if we were more modern back then than what we have become now. Regardless, I'm glad to hear half a million people visited Ataturk's mausoleum today in remembrance for all he started, lead, finished, and paved the way for.
The one thing that makes me happy is that we, Turks, are now coming to our senses in terms of our identity. We don't accept ourselves as "third world" or "second-class" to the rest of the world anymore, which has been projected to us all the time we tried to make ourselves more modern. We are now at the brink of creating our kind of modern that lives hand-in-hand with our past. We are becoming independently modern. Looking at the pictures below, I almost feel like we're catching up with our past, which we had lost for some reason. It looks as if we were more modern back then than what we have become now. Regardless, I'm glad to hear half a million people visited Ataturk's mausoleum today in remembrance for all he started, lead, finished, and paved the way for.
Thursday 8 November 2007
Son, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy?
...and then it was time for the scariest time of the year - Halloween! Having never celebrated Halloween before in my entire life, even though I've lived in the US for more than six years, I decided to make the most of my circumstances. I was in Chicago, it was Halloween, my sister was throwing a big Halloween party, I could invite my friends - what was I waiting for?!?
The inspiration struck me when my best friend in Chicago promptly reminded me of how much I look like Johnny Depp. ;) OK, she only said, with the right amount of make-up and some acting on my part, how convincing I would be as Jack Sparrow, but I took that to mean I'm as handsome as the Depp himself. It was on! I scouted all the seasonal Halloween stores in search of the costume and the wig/hat, and I could only find it an hour outside of Chicago.
After about a week and a half watching looped clips of Pirates of the Caribbean and studying the captain's make-up, I arrived at my sister's house a day before the party to start the preparations. My sister successfully completed the make-up and I was ready to flirt, get drunk and move my hands around like Jack while confusing others with my endless chatter.
...Friends... This is the day that you will ALWAYS remember as the day that you...
[backs up and trips over ledge]
If you want to see the complete set of pictures and an incredibly ridiculous video of me as Jack dancing to Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man," just go to the following online album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ysolmaz/HalloweenPartyChicagoOct2007
The inspiration struck me when my best friend in Chicago promptly reminded me of how much I look like Johnny Depp. ;) OK, she only said, with the right amount of make-up and some acting on my part, how convincing I would be as Jack Sparrow, but I took that to mean I'm as handsome as the Depp himself. It was on! I scouted all the seasonal Halloween stores in search of the costume and the wig/hat, and I could only find it an hour outside of Chicago.
After about a week and a half watching looped clips of Pirates of the Caribbean and studying the captain's make-up, I arrived at my sister's house a day before the party to start the preparations. My sister successfully completed the make-up and I was ready to flirt, get drunk and move my hands around like Jack while confusing others with my endless chatter.
...Friends... This is the day that you will ALWAYS remember as the day that you...
[backs up and trips over ledge]
If you want to see the complete set of pictures and an incredibly ridiculous video of me as Jack dancing to Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man," just go to the following online album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ysolmaz/HalloweenPartyChicagoOct2007
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