I want my blog :((

Today most of us are aware of the importance of blogging. Many people share their knowledge and experience via such websites. Everybody cannot afford to get a domain of course. So blogs is a solution in such cases. Domains are not very expensive today but people still prefer to use blogs. I think getting a blog is better than having domain. You can train and improve your writing skill via blogs and share your ideas and writings with everybody by this way. In the days of old, just some of fashion people (aristocrats) could publish their ideas. But today everybody can do it. That is a great matter. It is not only for sharing something, but also a great way to meet new people. It is so easy to have a blog. Just takes a few minutes. I recommend everyone to get a blog. I too have been blogging for years.
I had created my first blog on blogcu.com three years ago. I wanted to write something and published them on it. But long afterwards, I went cold on writing and forgot my password on blogcu.com. I used to add something on it but they were not my own writings. So it was not so enjoyable and joyful for me to deal with it. I quited to manage the blog later on. I don’t know how it happened but last month I reopened a new blog. But it was not on blogcu.com, I opened the new one on the blogspot.com. It is more useful than blogcu. It is belong to google inc., so I thought I would use it free of problems. But last week when I tried to open blogger.com, it couldn’t open. I thought my computer caused the problem, but after trying at some different place and times, I couldn’t believe my eyes but it seemed that blogger was banned in China. I was really surprised. I never thought that blogger can be banned but it was. I had no feeling to write any more. I hate prohibitions.
It has been more than ten days that blogger is banned in china like youtube. Yeah, youtube also has been banned for one year. We got used to live without youtube already, coz there are youtube’s alternatives here such as youku.com or tudou.com or a Turkish video portals like izlesene.com. But youtube has comprised all videos on other websites I mentioned above. So it was so convenient to use, now I cant find all videos I want on other video portals. Anyway, let youtube alone, china banned blogger as well unfortunately. I could not log in my blogger account for days, but fortunately I found another way to enter the blog now. Thanks to tunnal websites that I can log in. But worse luck, I can not add photo and video beside my writings when I published them on the blog. So that is why my last several articles published without picture and video. As you can see below, I published them unattractively. I hope that blogger will open again soon.
It can be used in other countries as I know. So I don’t quit writing. I am still writing. After getting back to Turkiye this summer, I want to rearrange them and make them more attractive by adding related article photos and videos. And hope to find blogger as open after returning to China. It cannot be stopped. Yeah it is unstoppably spreading everywhere. Many people use such websites and they may criticize such prevention. So the prohibition can last one year at the most. Because, blocking is not the solution.

eurovision and success of hadise

Eurovision was held in Moscow last week. I actually don’t follow that competition enthusiastically but I can say that many competing songs are fairly well. Especially in recent years, eurovision is held more professionally and quality. Singers and songs are better than before. That is so at least when we consider the case of Turkiye.. Yes, Turkiye also has participated assertively in that competition every year since 1975 but only one time came in first with the performance of Sertab Erener.
Turkiye has been participating in that contest since 1975 and two times brought up the rear. Turkiye got the first serious degree in 1997 as being third with the performance of Sebnem Paker. The song was Turkish and despite of this, it got a big success and made us believe that we could get a better grade in the future. And we achieved the success and came in first six years later with the song ‘ Every way that I can’ . After that serious success, we don’t have any other important achievement except becoming fourth with Athena and Kenan Dogulu. Athena was deserving of coming in first but performance of Kenan Dogulu was awful and I think he didn’t deserve to be fourth in that contest. Anyway, that is just my opinion and no need to evaluate all of singers here.
Let s come to the nitty-gritty, this year as all we know, Turkiye was really assertive and hopeful of the performance of Hadise but we all disappointed as Hadise herself did. Yeah Hadise is also made herself believe to be the best that she didn’t satisfy with the result and angried committee of Eurovision after releasing the results. Well, were they unfair to us then? Or have we expected so much? I think there was no unfair thing, we just expected so much. Remember, when the song released on TRT at first time, didn’t we declare Hadise as first before contest. Performance was great as for most of us, but simplicity won again as it has won before. Yes, if you still remember the show of Sertab, you will understand what I mean. Her show was simple like the show of Rybak, the winner of 2009. We were positive of the song that we let it beside and started to debate about what Hadise would wear for the final night. So what is the result? It is a huge disappointment.
I must say that it is not a frustration for me. I think Hadise achieved a huge success by this result. The song is ok and deserved being fourth not anymore. Don’t say they were unfair of us just because we are Muslim or Turk. Azerbaijan is also a Muslim and Turk country but they got a better grade than us. And don’t forger that we have a first place in that contest. If they think so, they never let us to get this grade. Am I wrong? Our high expectation caused a big disappointment. That is all. When I watched the video on youtube, I browsed an eye on the comments and figured out that Turkish people really expected to be first from that time. They had been taken ‘dum tek tek’ as the first and best. But we have seen that it is not as great as it is exaggerated.
Hadise made a statement at the airport after getting back to Turkiye and said she won’t participate in the competition again. Don’t worry Hadise, we Turkish people also don’t want you fly Turkish flag one more time. Go to represent the place where you belong to, as you also know, you don’t belong to Anatolia. Go to at the end of nowhere.
I think authorities should select a person who can show our national character and perfom the national music. A person who has national feelings. We must use our own musical instruments like kanun(zither), ney(reed flute), baglama and so on. We may not be the first but I think our aim with the participation in contest must be introducing our culture and instruments to the world. Believe me, we can be first many times if we do so. So I recommend to participate in next contest with a folk song. I watched the old eurovision songs and unfortunately saw that there is no folk music among them. So doesn’t it worth to try at least once? We should be ourselves.

my brother

The other day, I listened a folk song from Erkan Ogur. The name of the song is Zeynebim and it is a well-known and beloved folk song undoubtedly. It had been a long time that I have not listen it. It is actually a great love song and I think if you listen it, you doubtlessly can be regarded in love or were in love before and still remember your beloved. That is why you still listen it as for me…But it is never remind me someone I love or loved before... I remember my brother when I every time listen it. Because, I had heard that song from my brother for the first time. Not just this song, there are some other songs such as ‘kara tren’ by ozhan eren, aysem from orhan gencebay as well. He was always listening these songs when we stayed in the same room. So I still listen these song with a great pleasure.
Erkan Ogur= Zeynebim
Orhan gencebay=Ayshen
Ozhan Eren=Kara Tren
When I was five, my brother enrolled a public boarding school and studied there until graduated from middle-school. And he got back to home only one time for a month and stayed only two days with us. I always missed him so much. I didn’t have chance to play with my brother. I have never played football with him…but to tell the truth, he also liked football so much just as I did. I still remember when he returned to home for a weekend, he has always talked about the match which he played with his schoolmates at the school. And I still remember, I once entered his room and saw him when he was trying to listen something in the radio. I asked him
-‘what are you doing here’ and ‘what is the program you are listening?’… and he said;
-‘come to join me, this is the football match, my team’s match. Besiktas. Do you want to listen with me?’ He asked me. He watched it with a huge enthusiasm in so much that I couldn’t able to desist myself from joining. Today I support Besiktas football club just because of my brother. He liked it and that was the reason I like too. I admired my brother and I like almost everything he likes. My brother is unique for me. I love him so much.. And I think the reason was the distance between us. He was away from home and I missed him so much and accepted what he had. But I don’t complaint of course, because I have never seen a bad side of my brother. He taught me to ride the bike, he told me the importance of the books and gave me the first novel I read, he took me to swimming all the setting my mom’s face against it and many other activities like that.
Now we are still away from each other unfortunately. It seems that we got used to be far away.  But anyway, we have dreams that we want to realize.
We have never been two friends. We are always two brothers. And we always respect each other. He trusts me so much, so do I too. He has been married for years and has two children. I love my nephew and niece so much same as I love my brother. I pray for my brother to has a great life and family for a lifetime..My brother deserve everything good in the world. I am lucky to have a brother lihe him. In a word, I love my brother and the things he loves. And I miss him so much.

eye-catching ads

Advertising is a necessary way to exhibit your product to consumer. Today there are many ways to advertise your products such as radio and tv commercials or placing ads on papers and magazines. The ads published on magazines and papers or radio and tv commercials are the most effective ways to reach the target group in the shortest time possible. If you use the Tv and radio to broadcast your commercial films, you of course can reach a wider audience and promotion campaign can reach the goal easily. It is a great way but expensive though. Yes, especially tv and papers charge a lot of money for their services. So clients turn towards other alternatives and also start to consider new alternatives. The soaring costs of TV are prompting clients to consider something new and cheap.
Nowadays, another way to place ads is available. Yes, internet is also a great opportunity to reach consumers. Producers use internet so much and place most of their ads on the net in place of TV. one decades ago, you could see people to spend their a lot of times watching TV, but it is not same as before, because people already spend their times before internet more than spend it in front of TV. So it can be regarded more cleverly to give your ads to influential websites instead of TV or radios by paying a huge amount of money. But as far as I concerned, internet advertising is getting more expensive if you want to place your ads on an effective and visited website.
Today most of manufacturer head for outdoor advertising. And they think the cheapest way of ads is outdoor advertising even though it is not address a wide audience. It is so cheap and effective too. You can come across with huge advertising boards on the streets… Not just boards, you can also see ads on public buses, taxies, boats, building walls and many such places. But if you want such ads to be more influential, you should make them more creatively and unforgettable. By making so, people will tell each other and your ad will spread everywhere from mouth to mouth.
Because I saw some ads on the net and they appeal to my visuality. It was really exhibited spectacularly. So it is so hard for me to forget it after seeing only one time. And I spoke of it everywhere and recommend people to see such ads. Coz they are really worth to see. There was a correction fluid ads’ picture on the net and it was artful and reasoned. There was a big box of correction fluid at the start of the zebra crossing on the street and it was posed as if the lines drawn with the fluid in the box. That was really artful and unforgettable. So I liked it. And there were many such eye-caching ads on the site.
When I was in middle school, I watched cartoons and music channels instead of TV shows. And it was a pleasure for me to watch commercials as well. I never missed them. Yet more, sometimes I was being sad when the commercials were over and the program I watched started. But I watched them with a critical and judicially eye. I sometimes didn’t like some commercials and thought how would I do if I were the person who prepared that commercial film. I thought I can make a better one and I decided to be an adman sometimes. Now I am not an adman but still like to watch commercials with a critical eye. But today it is obvious that the commercials are made more effective and funny in order to catch eyes when we compare with before. So nowadays spending money is increased and people don’t satisfy with what they have. That is the negative side of the advertising. The most important thing is being conscious consumer. If you are conscious, you will never waste the things you have. Try to be so…I will. Good luck to everyone of us...!

if you see a good idea, copy it!

for made in China, using is believing!

China’s economy is developing rapidly and it is being expected to be the most powerful economy in the world in spite of USA and European Union. If you just think of china’s history of two decades ago, you will understand clearly the developing rate of china. I have talked with a person who lives in china for more than fifteen years, this mean he experienced half of development from the start of the 80’s, he said, at that time there was no sign of development even in the biggest cities of china, but today you never believe your eyes if you had been in china at 80’s. When I landed at the airport in Shanghai at first time, I didn’t believe my eyes after seeing Shanghai scenery. It was amazing coz I didn’t except a Shanghai like that. In a word, as for me China is not an undeveloped country any longer.
China is developing rapidly, that is known by everyone who follows daily agenda. But how it can be possible to develop like this? First of all, china is the most suitable production place in the world coz you can find the cheapest manpower in China. You can find and produce almost any kind of things…Second one, In china you can find many things with a cheap price. It can be not original but as same as its original. Yeah I mean its copy. Chinese people can copy anything from clothes to cars as good as you are not able to imagine. If you want to buy a Nike or Adidas sneakers but you don’t have enough money to get an original one, don’t be sorry, because you can buy a new sneakers with a low price. Yes it is copy but nobody knows if it is copy or not, it is a master copy. :))) haha
There are fake markets in every part of china. When I was in shanghai, I sometimes went to there and buy some fake clothes. They are not hardwearing but you can wear at least one year. I had seen many foreigners to buy fake products in such fake markets, because in western countries produce fake products are illegal and it is hard to find copy goods. They come to here for travel or business and before returning, they stuff their luggage with many fake products.
Now I don’t go to fake markets as much as before. I am not a brand slave person but I still try to buy original brands in spite of the high prices. Yeah you can wear them for a long time. Sometimes I am using Chinese brands as well. I don’t want skip the fact that Chinese people not copy only clothes, but also copy brands as well. Li Ning is a Chinese sport equipment brand and its slogan and logo are almost same with Nike. As all we know Nike’s slogan is ‘Impossible is nothing’, and try to guess what is the slogan of Li Ning? It is ‘ Anything is possible’. So easy to guess, hih? :)) But such brands are more quality and pricy than fakes ones.
How about the other fields?
If you want to get a new car, but you can’t afford to buy and the prices are over your budget, they don’t need to cow your eyes anymore, because here in China you can find a car according your budget. No need to pay a lot of money to buy a BMW X5 , get a cheap imitation, I mean SHUANHUAN CEO or get a BYD with a low price, no need to buy a TOYOTA, get a BRILLANT AUTO instead, don’t buy a HONDA CRV, buy a LAIBAO SRV in place of it. Don’t worry, appearance is almost same, but I don’t want say anything on their quality. hehe :))
China is really well-known for their capability of imitation almost everything from DVD to automotive parts and even car design.
They made a small difference when they copy the models. China imitates the cars with a small difference in order to prevent a probable problem. Because, many automakers make complaints on imitation issue. Chinese automakers are sued by many well-known automakers because of that imitation matter. Chinese courts, in any case, make decision in favor of Chinese brands and they show the small differences between cars as the reason. In result, they can not do anything because of that small difference. Anyway, it seems that nobody can manage to get this problem under control, yeah anyone and any country can stop China from imitating the things.
When I was at the Shanghai auto show last month, I was surprised seeing a lot of Chinese visitors taking many pictures of new car models. They took many pictures of motors, bodies, wheel rims and all other parts of cars carefully with their high quality DSLR cameras. They did that in order to imitate it later on.
I don’t care what people think about that imitation issue but I want to say that I support it although I know it is not a correct etiquette. Think a bit, America copied UK and got the quality later on, Japan copied USA and attained quality, even got ahead of them and now China imitates Japan, USA and Europe. They start to attain quality in Chinese product when you compare with several decades ago. Two days ago,I have read an article written by Hong Liang about SLR cameras adaptors quality under the title of ' For made in China, using is believing' on China daily. The columnist compared the Chinese products with Japan and Germany products and said China starts to make goods quality better than other countries by giving an example from himself. Some people added comments and one of them said ‘Quality is a problem when buying Chinese made goods. In my experience, it is not how the Chinese made goods looks or works in the store. The problem is that when you take it home, it doesn't last long. Everything i buy in China or in other countries but made in China breaks after a few weeks. Things that are supposed to last years, only last a month. That is the problem with Made in China.’
Do I agree with that person as a person who live in China and see Chinese products? The answer is no of course. In Turkiye, China was known with its cheap and nasty goods a few years ago. There were many shops at that time where you could find one lira’s poor quality Chinese goods. Like as the person who made comment on the article, many Turkish people also started to face same problems after buying made in china goods - of course no one should expect from such products to last for a long time, because you pay a low price for it- and people started to mention China with its cheapjack goods. Now, Turkish people still don’t trust to made in China products even if they have a good quality. But that was not the fault of China, that was the fault of Turkish businessmen who bought poor quality goods from China and gained a lot of many from demand. If you ask manufacturer in China to produce quality goods, no doubt, they will do it.
No matter what people say, China really starts to produce quality products. I think we will find high quality Chinese products in the future days. And I also think Turkiye too should start to copy. Look, we don’t even have a domestic car. And look at China, you can see many Chinese brands domestic cars. They already entered the Turkish car market as well and cherry’s TV commercials broadcast on Turkish channels. You will find many Chinese brands cars on our streets in the coming years. So why don’t we imitate their cars and motors for producing our own car. I think we should do it. Don’t say I had started to think like Chinese because of living with them, they are doing right(!). If you see a good idea, copy it. :)))

are you aware of the danger? :)))

I have been obsessed with something for years. I am not able to remember when I start to be obsessed but I still remember people were angry with me when I was at high school because of my habit. I wash my hands exaggeratively. After using the bathroom, I always – without exception- wash my hands at least five times with liquid soap. Many people around me say only one time enough for washing hands if you use soap. I don’t think so and as I know, if you want to keep your hands clean, you must wash it at least two times. I think minimum one time, maximum three times can be enough. But I still wash more than three times. Because of this I said I have been obsessed with something. Yes, I have been obsessed with overwashing my hands. I tried to quit that habit but I couldn’t manage to quit. I know washing hands many times is waste of soap because my roommate always makes a complaint about soap and says to me that I run out of soap. I don’t do it intentionally indeed, I can’t help it. I always think there are still bacteria on my hands after washing several times, so I carry on washing until satisfied.
After outbreaking of the flu, the importance of washing hands is understood one more time. It is recommended to wash hands clearly and thoroughly after using bathroom, before and after eating something. And the most important one during that swine flu is that hands should be washed properly with soap after sneezing or coughing.
I read an article about washing hands on The New York Times under the title of ‘Many Don't Wash Hands After Using the Bathroom’ and it said most of people say they wash their hands after using the bathroom. But a new study suggests that many of them are not telling the truth. This survey should be made in USA but in China situation is not so far from the situation in USA. You can see people don’t even wash their hands with water, let alone washing with soap. So sometimes you really abstain from handshake with Chinese people. Of course I don’t say they are all same, because I saw many people who show attention to hygiene. If they wash the hands, they can be away from the sicknesses. That is important for their own interests. As I can see in China, people pay attention to their health, but when we take the hygiene, I can’t say the same thing unfortunately. That is the impressions they gave me.
So what is the case in Turkiye? I think we Turkish people are lucky, because using soap and water is regarded as necessary in our culture. You can find soap in every bathroom, even at public bathrooms too. I must say that this result from the Islamic culture. God commands to keep your clothes, your body and environment clean and forbid to remain dirty. So Muslims try to do so.
Another thing attracted my attention when I read the article. It was that women are more sensitive and diligent than men. According to survey, 90 percent of women washed their hands while only 75 percent of the men did it.
Then what is the problem? Education? This survey made in USA and they are so-called civilized community. They are really educated. So I think the problem is not education, it is the health education. Dr. Osterholm said like this in his article. And he gave an example too. Let me quote it from the article as same as he wrote. "It's not about education," said Dr. Osterholm. "It's about hygiene education. We have a problem at hospitals with doctors and nurses who don't wash their hands after seeing a patient. You can't get more educated than that."
Yes, the problem is really hygienic education. Not only Chinese common people, but also European and American people should get this education. I think western culture teaches China many things but not hygiene. Hope to see the day everyone become aware of the importance of hygiene. I at least want to see in China…Education is necessary.. :))

chinese wedding ceremony

One month ago one of my old Chinese friends got married. I met him when I was in Shanghai. We have done so many things together. We used to eat out, used to have good times together. He was always helping me to improve my Chinese. I still remember I asked so many questions, and he answered them consistently. He corrected my pronunciation mistakes, showed me how I should start to write a character, told me what is the best way to learn Chinese in the shortest time possible. I learned a lot in his hands.
He used to come to my room and cook Chinese foods. Thanks to him I got used to eat Chinese foods. I invited him to eat Turkish foods too. I also was invited to his home to have a dinner. His mother cooked assorted foods for us. That day was the birthday of his mother and we celebrated it as well. It was a good and unforgettable night.
Due to different cultures, sometimes we really had difficulty to understand each other. Once we went to an amusement park and went boating on the small lake. After a while, I bored with rowing. I begun to plash water on him for making him laugh and making environment funnier, but he looked at me as if I was out of my mind. He asked why I did it and didn’t believe when I said it was just a joke. After explanation he finally convinced that it wasn’t intentional.
We were really bosom friends till I left from shanghai. We are still good friends of course but I am afraid not as good as before. Thanks God I am still working to keep in touch with him. That is why I was invited to wedding. :))
It would be the first time for me to attend a Chinese wedding. I actually didn’t like any kind of ceremony such as wedding, engagement, funeral and so on, but you can understand it is necessary after growing up. Because you are invited personally. I asked some married Chinese couples how a Chinese wedding take place and what should I do during the wedding ceremony. They told me that I must get an envelope – it should be red, coz red color is regarded as chance in Chinese society- and put an amount of money and give it to bridegroom before entering the ceremony. Bride & Groom already welcome you before the door of the saloon. You should offer the red envelope to the bridegroom at that time.
They showed us a table to sit at until the wedding started. I sat with some of bridegroom’s relatives. We talked each other all during wedding. They were very friendly, hospitable, thoughtful and nice people. In the beginning of the wedding, bride and groom were called to the stage; and asked some questions such as where they did met and how, how much they love each other and a dozen of such question. :)) Then both of bride and groom told to each other good and romantic words and they also told to the guests the qualities they like in each other. Then dinner was served to the guests. And another thing attracted my attention was that bridegroom have walked around the tables one after another and propose a toast with the guests sit round the table. When the wedding finished, bride already have gotten drunk and he had difficulty in standing. I didn’t know how they have slept at that night after got drunk like that. J J ahahaha It is none of my business
In Turkiye you can see some wedding dinner ceremonies but most of wedding held without serving meal. In the days of old, people serve dinner during ceremonies and it was a custom in Anatolia but today weddings are arranged and held at wedding salons and it is only served cake and drinks. And it takes maximum three hours. My friend’s wedding ceremony was so monotone at least it was so in my sight. Let alone guests, even bridegroom didn’t dance. In our marriage ceremonies not only bridegroom but also people who come to wedding – especially youngs – dance named halay in Turkish. Every part of Turkey has its own kind of dance style. Chinese culture is a different culture. I didn’t find any fun while Chinese people had a great time during wedding. Yeah, they were content with the situation. :))
I don’t want to get marry with a Chinese girl, so my wedding ceremony won’t be like this at all. Actually I don’t like any kind of marriage ceremonies, I want to have a simple ceremony when I marry if my wife agree with me. I hope she would agree. :))

seize the day, enjoy it!

These days are so hot in Jinhua and you cannot stay outside especially during high noon and afternoon. I have class afternoon almost every other day, so I have to sett off for class at the hottest time of the day. That is why I don’t feel to attend afternoon’s classes, that is why I break down the classes sometimes. :((
After all, I like summer more than other seasons. You can do many things when the weather is open and sunny. You want to go out and never feel to stay at home. But now I can not do anything and can not go anywhere because of the lessons. I have to stay at campus and should study harder, because final examinations are about to start. So I try to make the campus much funny by doing the small things I like.
I admit that my greatest pleasure at these hot days is eating fruit yoghurt and ice cream. Especially fruit yoghurt. It is very difficult to find sour yoghurt coz Chinese people prefer to eat sweet and fruit yoghurt. Their taste is totally different from us. For this reason I already get used to eat fruit yoghurt but I don’t complain about that at all. J I like it so much.. When I get back to dorm after class, I try to stop by the supermarket where located on my way and buy an Yili（伊利brand – one of Islamic brand in China- choc-ice or an Algida cornetto (可爱多) ice-cream. I prefer to eat choc-ice and strawberry ones. I have been eating ice-cream here for years but never taste as good-taste as I had in Turkiye. Even same brand ice-cream like Algida is different in both China and Turkiye. So after returning to Turkiye, I will eat as much Turkish ice-cream as I want. :)) ahahaha
Now I am eating mango flavoured yoghurt. Hmmmm..delicious!..hahaha. I every other day go out for getting fruit yoghurt after seven pm. The weather becomes chilly and fresh. It is also pleasure to walk outside at that time. I go to market, buy some junk foods beside of the yogurt, get back to dormitory and start to look a new movie or surfing on the net while eat the foods I bought. What a pleasure! :)) haha
When the weather was cold and chilly here, I have cooked Turkish coffee instead. I still cook but not as much as before.. Anyway, if the weather getting hotter in the place you live and you also don’t feel doing anything but stay at home at sit before the internet or tv, then go to get a fruit yoghurt and enjoy it… and what s more, it is healthy too. :))) It is not healthy but you can get some junky food as well. It is always so up for almost everyone..hih? :))

take care, swine flu can be around you!

Recently a dangerous illness appeared in so many countries. This week, whenever i hear the news, its allways somthing to do with death or a new economic disaster . I think all of you know what I am talking about. Yeah that fucking swine flu spread all over the world unfortunately. You can hear from different countries same swine flu cases. Every passing day a new country added the list of the places where that damn flu sickness has been seen. Everyday confirmed a new case in a new place. This disaster should been prevented before being too late and spread to everywhere. Oh God. You can’t help it to be sorry. :((
Last day I talked with a Mexican girl on the net and she told me the schools had been closed because of swine flu. As all we know from the news, flu spreaded to other places from Mexico, yeah it was occurred in Mexico at first, and most of the death news comes from there. What a pity for them. L Yesterday I read a news from a Turkish paper and it said the school can be closed in Turkiye too. Today’s newspapers told that the minister of national education said there is no sign of swine flu in turkey till today but that is not mean it will not be. Yes it can be seen in Turkiye too. So everyone should be careful about it.
As I know swine flu is not infected from pigs, but I am not sure about that as well. Coz I heard too that swine flu comes from pigs and comes from people who already infected. I worried if swine flu infects by eating pork products and because of that I have done a research on the net. I saw a question on yahoo answers and the person who asked the question also worried if swine flu can be infected by eating pork.. I casted an eye on the replies and most of answerers were saying the same thing; Swine flu – also named as pig flu- is not caught from eating pig meat products. Yeah It may be not infected by eating pigs. Of course this should be asked to experts in order to be sure about that issue, but everybody says the same thing. So you don’t feel doing further researches. No matter what they say, if I had been eating pork, I never would eat it again after outbreak of influenza. I urge you to cook meat properly and kill the microbes if you cannot do without pig meat products. J
Anyway, if it is not infected by eating, then how do we protect ourselves from that serious sickness? What are the protection ways? What should we do for prevention? The most important way to protect from that sickness is washing hands thoroughly and covering the nose and mouth with a tissue during sneezing or coughing. And if you are very close to a person who is already infected, experts recommend to wear a mask for such cases.
I live in china and last years some dangerous flu cases emerged in china and the most important thing should be mentioned is that china already experienced a sars disaster in the last years. Chinese government will show a maximum effort to prevent and control swine flu if it will be seen in China. Today my mother asked me if I am safe or not. Thank God there is no sign of swine flu around me. But I am still trying to be careful. I pray for being headed off as soon as possible. Don’t say there is no sign of flu here, you should be careful no matter where do you live just like as I do.
I quoted some advices from a website in order to know how can be away from disaster and what kind of way should be followed after being infected the virus. Read and follow the advices.
-Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
-Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
-Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
-Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
-If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.