..::Boats out of Watermelon Rinds::.. // ..::Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak::..

Hope...

Dream...

Love...

INNOCENCE...

DISAPPOINTMENT...

With a great folksong "Beyaz giyme toz olur" this film took the first order in my favorite list.It was represented in 2004.Then,I heard about it but didn't watch.I watched the film in holiday two weeks ago.After I searched about the film,I understood that the director Ahmet Ulucay told himself in the film.He always wanted to be director and at the end he carried out.Unfortunately he is ill now.I hope he would be better soon.
I want to tell you about the film a bit.The film was shooted in Tavsanlı,Kütahya.The leading role actor -Kadir Kaymaz- is an amateur.But he plays like a professional man.With his close friend (it is about 40 years ago) they want to create a film-machine.But it would not be easy of course.Nobody believes them except for the madman of the village -Ömer-.They endavoured a lot and at the end they carried out.They prepared everthing by hand.Beside all of the things,there is a fire in Mehmet's heart.He falls in love with a girl who is older than him.She never could answer to his love.Mehmet works as a watermelon seller in Tavşanlı,but their work falls away and Mehmet has to go back to his village.He wrotes a letter to Nihal.But before he is answered,Nihal and her family moves to another place.Mehmet gets disappointed again.He decides to major on film-making.But a bad surprise waits him.Mad Ömer makes all of the machines broken.The boats to which Mehmet loaded his hopes go to the bottom...

Obligations...

As most of us feel nowadays,I feel sad and helpless.Because that wonderful holiday is finishing in two days.Again,lessons will begin and also exams...Next time I will come to my home when school finish.I think it's about at the end of January.Besides,this year it will my first new-year's day that I will be outside from home and away from my family.If Tekirdağ was close to Ankara,I would go to home but it is not...Luckiliy,my best friend is at Metu,too.This helps me feel happy.
As I walk around at home,I feel a deep sorrow...I know,nothing will be the same anymore.I never will be the same as I was in the past.I will always be a guest at my home.No matter how long a holiday it is,one day it will finish and again come bact to my real place..School or work or a new home...Time is a big liar...19 years passed so fast.How I wish to be a child right now.But never,I will be..I can't catch the time.Monday I will be in Ankara.In the morning I will be in Tekirdağ and then in the evening I will be in Ankara...What a big destruction !
I know,I know it is an obligation.Yes,we can do nothing...but..How should I know,I can't adjust myself.

// anKARA \\

It was raining heavily...Last Friday,while supping my tea and looking outside,sat and thought Why I could NOT like this city?I didn't find the answer again...Ankara is the heart of Turkey,It embraces the whole Anatolia,it is the interface of all the ways.I remembered Cemal Süreya's verses : "...Ben Uzunminareliyimdir doğma büyüme,ne yapıp denizi görmek isterim..." I never thought before,I would miss such a lot of..Really,I saw Sea in my dreams...I will die of sorrow here.Such a sorrow that I can not tell to anyone.Noone can understand me.
I hate Ankara.Because :
-Dry-Cold-Serious-Formal
-The only activity of most people going to big shopping centres sprinkled around the city.
-Sealess-only artifact waters...
-Full of people who have to catch somewhere...Their eyes are on their clocks..
-People,all of them under umbrellas...
-People's the only scene is city lamps!
-Construction everywhere!
-Sad people...Strange and cold...

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You can say GO then...I will,I will...Next year...I HOPE ...

..::DaMiEn RiCe::..

It has been two years since I fell in love with him and his songs.First I listened one song which my friend suggested.It was The Blower's Daughter which is also the soundtrack of the film "Closer".It was such a good one that I listened it nearly 30 times again and again..Then,I found his all songs.From then on I have a tense relationship with his songs.I want to share some information about him.
He was born in Ireleand on 7th December of 1973.He's made 4 albums ; O , B-sides , Live at Union Chapel , 9 .The Blower's Daughter is his best-known song in which Rice tells his love about his instrument teacher's daughter.Recently I often listen Amie, a song dedicated to his darling committed suicide.The lyrics of the song are very tender,for example saying "I saw a spaceship fly by your window,did you see it disappear?".In an other song he suffers from his darling's marriage saying ; "Cheers darlin' Here's to you and your lover boy.Cheers darlin' I got years to wait around for you.Cheers darlin' I've got your wedding bells in my ear...What am I darlin'?A whisper in your ear?A piece of your cake?What am I, darlin?The boy you can fear?Or your biggest mistake?..."
His voice makes me peaceful and also melancholic.He uses different kinds of instruments in his songs such as piano,cello,violin,violoncello.With this aspect,sometimes I assimilate him to Teoman.He is also my favorite in Turkey.
I am really looking forward to watching him in Turkey.I hope one day...

(Y)ummiest-(A)dorable-(L)enient-(C)ongenial-(I)ntellectual-(N)oted (C)lever-(E)motional-(Y)outhful-(L)ogical-(A)rdent-(N)otable-(I)nternational

I want to tell you about my English teacher -Yalçın Ceylani- in 'Marmara Büyük Dersane'.I've known him since 2006.In everyweekend and one day on weekdays we are together with him.I account myself lucky for being his student.I will tell him with using the adjectives above.

-He is the Yummiest Man I know :) If he is not working on important things,he always makes you smile with jokes.If he sees you unhappy,comes close to you and tries to change your mood.

-He is Adorable.Not only I say this,but all of his students.I know noone who don't like him.I always used to try sitting front desks,but it was not possible generally.

-He is Lenient.He always wants you to be happy.He believes that if someone feel himself bad,he can not learn anything.If he sees any of us sulking,he allows us to go out and take some breath,drink something and solve our problem.

-He is so congenial that he behaves us as a child of him.Any time we could go near him and talk about anything.

-He is one of the most Intellectual Man I know.He has full of knowledge of English,Turkish and American Literature.While we were at the beginning of the class,he used to write a novel name and suggest it to us.Or,he used to write a name of a novel or author and then ask us about him/her.I learned lots of things from him.

-Being Noted is one of the outstanding features of him.When you tell someone 'I began this year Marmara' he/she tells you about Yalcın Bey mentioning his being culture and education attaché in America.

-I think,it is not necessary He is clever of course he is very clever =) But never says I know everything on the contrary he says I do not know everything =)

-Emotional...Yes he is :) You can see emotion in his eyes and hear from his words...

-He is old in age but young in life.With his curly and curly hair he is like a jazz soloist =) And of course with his fashionable braces =)

-With His Logical ideas,many times I have decided truely.There would be always good and logical ideas in his mind.Whenever I had a problem he showed me the proper way..

-He is so ardent that throughout long years he's never given up his dear job -teaching-.He loves teaching hearty.Always he wants to give his students new things.

-Notable! :) I've mentioned his curliest hair and braces:) He is also discirminating with his clothing and fashion.

-An International Man in Tekirdağ...He worked in U.S.A. as a attaché for 5 years.He lived and worked there as teacher.He learned American culture very well and always told us as footnotes...


...Thank You My Dear Teacher...You edified me...You made us remember to be a human...

Yesterday was Teachers' Day and I miss you very much.Hope to see you in holiday next week!

"CuMaLıKıZıK"

It was the beginning of last summer that I first saw such a beautiful village near a metropol.I mention Cumalıkızık,Bursa.I've lived in Bursa when I was 3-5 years old but first saw this place.We went there with my closest friend Ceren who was born and lived there.Until I went there,I didn't hear anything about Cumalıkızık.Just it is where the tv movie -KınalıKar- was rejected.Anyway,we went the central of Bursa to get on to the bus.With bus,it takes 40 minutes or so.We got off the bus and found ourselves in an open bazaar.There was lots of marmelade citrus fruits,walnut,raspberry,mulberry and gift sellers around.We learned later that raspberry is peculiar to Cumalıkızık and also every year there is a raspberry festival.The village is one of the five Kızık Villages founded on aproaches of Uludağ.According to the rumours about its name; Osman Bey found the village on Friday so its name is Cumalıkızık.Another rumour is that the people from other villages used to come here for Friday prayer so its name became Cumalıkızık.The village was found in 1300s as an Ottoman village.And still now,it is a historical Ottoman village with well saved historical heritage.Famous Cumalıkızık Houses are made of rubble,wood and mud-brick.Houses have window bays.They are very colourful as blue,purple,yellow,orange,white,brown.Between houses,there are very narrow stone-made streets.These streets are pitched so that in spring the melting snow waters could flow down.
People are very warm-blooded and hospitable.Some of them have converted their houses' entrance floor to a 'Gözleme' eating house.They make everything by hand.You can eat a delicious gözleme with hand-made rapsberry juice.For accomodation there are some pensions which are also Cumalıkızık Houses.I certainly reccomend you to come here,it will refresh you.. ;)

CHARLES CHAPLIN :)

In 1911 a penniless young music-hall artist left England for America.His future was uncertain,but he did not believe it could be unhappier than past.He had grown up in the slums of London's East End and had experienced great poverty.His mother's life had been so hard that she had finally gone ,and his father had died of drink.Both parents parents had been on the stage and lived in the hope that they would be stars one day.Their son was determined to succeed where they had failed.By 1914 his optimism and determination had been justified.Charles Chaplin was the most talked-about man in America,as the king of silent movies.He was not only admired as a first-class actor and comedian,he was also making his name as a director.This was not an instant success.His attempts to copy other slapstick comedians who were popular at that time were a failure.However he gradually began to develop the character of the tramp that will always be connected with his name.He borrowed ideas from many sources and though he stole most of his clothes from other slapstick comedians of the time,he developed his own special mannerisms to go with them.He used his bowler hat to signal secret messages and his walking stick allowed him to cause confusion and punish his enemy from a distance.He got the idea for his famous flat-footed walk from a London taxi driver who had sore feet.