elections and methods

The new communication technologies and human-oriented media have power to affect the process of political campaigns directly. Due to existence of the new communication technologies, people can reach all kinds of information with just a click. Voters want to know everything about the candidates such as which party the candidate belong to, what his/her promises and what is the detail of his/her campaign. So, it can be said easily that politicians who considering the influence of the internet on the society, become more successful in elections. Internet is the best way to reach to voters. Most of parties and candidates are aware of that reality and use this way to spread their campaigns. On the other hand, a new media has emerged with the communication technologies alongside the old media in recent years. Netizens frequently use this media and it plays an important role in elections: Blogs. Due to its simplicity updating and becoming also an easy way to exchanging information, blogs can be counted as the most ideal media tool of nowadays. So, social media is the cheapest and fastest way to reach the voters directly and therefore, blogs that offered by these technologies, play an important role in current events and also in elections. The best example of the issue is 2008 United States presidential election. In this election, millions of voters signed to Obama and McCain blogs by writing their opinions and comments. I think we can get the importance of the blogs better and better if we can see clearly how blogs kept an A lot of information and communication technologies are being used in the process of political communication and usage rate is increasing every passing day. Especially if it used properly, internet is the best way to send unlimited messages and reach unlimited people to obtain better results. New communication technologies offer blogs in recent years and it is known as ‘internet blog’. Blogs have simple structures and could be updated everyday. They are the best and simple platforms to discuss all election campaigns. During the United States presidential election in 2008, both Obama and McCain actively used their blogs and connected directly to millions of voters. and it was seen and proved that the blogs are so effective on the decision of voters. so, politicians which use social media and blogs effectively, can reach more people and can announce all campaigns. to use social media and blogs will bring more success to u, and you know what amigo, it s no matter which field you are in. ;)

what a great surprise!..

something has been changing in Turkish football league. You never could see a champion at the end of the Super League but only four teams which counted as the 4 biggest teams of Turkey. They are Besiktas, Fenerbahce, Galatasaray and Trabzonspor. But today i really surprised when i opened the news and saw that the champion team of this year is Bursaspor. Bursaspor became the Champion team of Super league.

i didnt follow the league, so i didnt care so much which team would be champion, because every year, without exception, the champion team had become one of the 4 biggest team which i mentioned above. But this year as i said, it is different. It is the best n

ews i have in the morning. I am still in surprise but very happy.

I congratulate Ertugrul Saglam, the coach of Bursaspor and also a member of Besiktas family. I am a fan Besiktas and Ertugrul used to play in Besiktas for years. His name is mentioned with its membership

of Besiktas just like Nihat kahveci. I am not a fan of Bursa but I

wouldnt be happy like that if Besiktas became the Champion in place of Bursa. I am especially happy in the name of Ertugrul. He is an honest and successful coach. He deserved that victory. Congrats Bursa, congrats Ertugrul!..

Shanghai: a History in Photographs, 1842 - Today

Today, same as usual, I slept too late and got up mid-day. I have to regulate my life and my sleep in particular. Anyway, I don’t intend to write my complaints in this post, instead I want to give you good news if you are interested in China, Shanghai or at least Photography.
This mid-day, after getting up, I have seen that the weather was extremely hot and damp. I didn’t feel to do something, so I just sat on couch and switch on the tv and zapping channels. Telling the truth, I hate to watch tv but sometimes news, documentary movies and discussion programs are better if you watch them on tv in place of watching online.
I opened CCTV9 (Chinese international channel and broadcasts in English) and watched sports news. Chinese people don’t like football very much, so you can see many kind of sport news on tv, many kind of sports which I don’t even heard before. I was about to switch off while I saw the face of Yang Rui – the anchor man of the Dialogue-. After news finished, Dialogue has started. It was mid-day and I didn’t expect that. I didn’t expect to see the face of Yand Rui at that time. It was really dialogue, my favorite programme on tv. By the way, Dialogue is one the best discussion program on CCTV9 and I really don’t want to miss it. It takes only half an hour and discusses various topics with various people from different countries and fields.
Today’s topic was a book on Shanghai. The name of the book is ‘Shanghai: a history in photographs’. It handled the history of Shanghai in photos from 1942 to nowadays. There are many selected photos related with Shanghai.
If you have this book, you can see the development and changing face of Shanghai clearly. It was a fishing village one hundred years ago but today it is one of the biggest and most important city in the World. Today, millions of people rush into China in order to see Expo in Shanghai.
Shanghai is already the biggest city which attracted domestic and foreign tourists. Millions of people visit Shanghai every year.
Can you imagine it? From where to where? Yeah, you won’t believe your eyes after seeing the photos. It is really unbelievable.
Another point I want to mention here is the price of the book. It is really a bit expensive. I checked some photos from book on the net but I want to see all the pieces, so I must have the book. I have to find a way to buy it. ;) I asked my friend to get for me in Shanghai but as he said, he couldn’t find it in the biggest bookshop in Shanghai. I will buy it online, from amazon.com. no way! But I don’t know if I need a credit card for buying something online on amazon. Anybody knows? I don’t have a credit card, so I don’t know if I can buy the book online. A friend bought a Nikon Dslr camera from amazon and as he said he paid the fee at the door. so I think I can try the same way. Online shopping is so popular today but I still don’t trust online shopping so much. I don’t know, I may not true to treat so but I can’t help it. I will accustom myself to the online shopping at once. It is easier and better. There are two books in my basket now. I will order both as soon as possible, coz I need these both books. Don’t forget to have ‘Deng Xiaoping: Leader in a Changing China’ and check. As I said, you will like it so much. Ah, don’t forget the price as well, as I mentioned in previous paragraphs, the price is a bit expensive. But the book is woth it. It contains thousands of pieces of photos, so it is a big and heavy book like a volume of an encyclopaedia. You can see the details about the book by clicking the link.

no, if we nuke them first!

I got this dialogue from a website: yahoo answers.. someone asked a question related with China and Chinese and a person replied the question in a silly way.

it is said that Mandarin Chinese never will be a global lingua franca if America nuke China. yeah, i can sense that you laughed a lot just like i did. anyway,

Look at the answer!!..

A: Will Chinese dominate English?

B: No if we nuke them first. (should be an american)

I have been writing a thesis for my graduation for several months. In order to get a better result and write a proper mini-thesis, I have read hundreds of articles and many books. With this study, I tried to analyse possibility of Chinese to become a lingua franca, a global or a local one. So I had a look on the net as well for what bilingual or multilingual netizens think about that possibility and if they see Chinese as a global language for seeable future.

During the process of deciding to write this topic, I saw that many people wonder the statue which Chinese may reach in the future and asked the same questions on the forum websites and on the yahooanswers in particular. The question is ‘Mandarin Chinese can dominate the world and can replace English as a global language in the near future?’.

Many people think that Chinese never can be a global lingua franca just because its hardness of learning. Is Chinese really so hard to learn? It depends on which country you are from and how much you have interest in languages. But there is a general thought that Chinese is one of the most difficult language on the globe and I am agree to some extent. As

a person who has been learning this language, I should admit that it is not an easy language and you need years to master its tone and characters. Anyway, I cant do it, I already don’t want to do it.

On the other hand, there are a majority think that Chinese can be a global language even in the near future. According them, there is no obstacle for Chinese to reach that statue. For a language being a lingua franca is related with the development of a country and its economy. So, they say China is on the way to be the most powerful economy. Millions of foreigners rush into China for learning Mandarin. Because speaking Chinese can help you to get a better job and earn more money. Business world needs Chinese-speaking people. Knowing Mandarin besides English may help you to get a better career in your business life. That is why people flood in China in order to learn Mandarin.

On the other side, Some people think Chinese is already a global language. Because Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, it has more than one billion speakers. (as a matter of fact, this reality doesn’t make a language a lingua franca). So as for me, Chine

se is not a global lingua franca.

I don’t know how many years this topic will be discussed but number of learners of Mandarin will be more in the coming years. That is so obvious.

Lastly, I want to mention that I saw an answer to a question related to this topic that the person who replied had said that China wont be a dominate language if we (Americans) nuke them at first.

It is a reality that Chinese government doesn’t want a prospective war or a disor

der condition. Because its economy is flourishing every passing day and China needs a peaceful world to keep this economical increment. China is already a superpower on the globe and Americans also know that nuking China can only be a dream for them, because let alone nuking, America can not dare to involve in the policy of Chinese government, let alone nuke China.

When Americans wake up from the dreams, China will already be the most pow

erful country on the globe. Because heedlessness surround

ed Americans while Chinese people work like hell. Not only America, but also most of western Countries are watching China’s expansion with curious eyes. We can not keep anything secret from the time. Time will show us everything

. The only thing we should do is predicting the future and anticipate for our future. Wish good-luck to everyone in advance!..

fizy:make your playlist and share

There are many music websites that you can benefit. Some of them which I know are imeem.com, lastfm.com, mixpod.com and ilike.com…There are these four websites that I know and use. I mostly used ilike.com till I found fizy. Now I mostly use fizy. It is so useful and has a huge data. It is really an awesome music database. You can find any songs you seek. You can list your favorite pieces and keep them for listening later. You can find the track version of videos as well. The other websites are also almost same but fizy is different as far as I can see.
The other day, I used IDM to download a song from boyz ii men from fizy. I thought it was a track mode but after download process finished, I was surprised. It was a video and two doof boys were lip-synching the song in that video. They look like two stupid guys, let alone being funny.
So I think I wont download anything from fizy. I just enlist the songs and start to listen, but you have to sign in if you want to see your playlists.
Fizy is known all around the world, and it is mentioned in an American-based paper as follow with complimentary words.
‘Fizy is a track-by-track search service. No playlists. No downloads. Just searching for and playing individual tracks you're seeking. So why try it? There are two big benefits to Fizy. First, it's database of music is huge. They're claiming over 75 billion mp3s indexed. Diving through the Fizy music selection made me nostalgic for the good old days of Napster when I could find practically any song I wanted to find. Second, it's international. Fizy supports at least 26 languages and is designed to be accessible to as many people as possible. As an added bonus, Fizy will also serve up a video of the track, if it's available.’

no freakin' idea

Yesterday, after a hard day’s work, I went to Istanbul restaurant to have dinner with a customer. I actually ate the lunch a bit late and I was not so hungry, but the customer gave the orders before I told him that I am not hungry and stated that I wont eat so much.
I left from the table for a while for the lavabo and when I got back to table, I really surprised. I thought I sat the wrong place but selcuk bey was there and asked me to sit. I sat and looked at the table with a surprised face. I was sure that I ordered only a piece lasagna, but there were a lot of things on the table. Selcuk bey ordered two stuffed mutton balls with a piece olive oily mixed farci for us. There is more, a portion tuna salad with a portion french fries.
I wanted to eat some dessert instead of eating a lot of things like a pig. I am already not a gourmand person, I don’t like to eat so much. So as a matter of course, I generally order food as much as I can finish. I don’t want to waste it. But this time I couldn’t do it, because it was really so much that one person – especially a person like me- never could finish it. Unfortunately, I wasted it.
The customer was really terrific at eating. He ate up all portions. What is more, he ordered two different kind of desserts with a teapot Turkish tea. Masallah to him.. 
I really don’t miss kebabs and salads so much but desserts. I miss milky desserts so much. Rice pudding, kazandibi (pudding with a caramel base), tavuk gogsu, chicken breast pudding and many other milky puddings.. I don’t like baklava (a kind of sweet pastry with nuts) and dessets like baklava.
I prefer to go ‘Bolulu Hasan Usta’ a famous sweet seller in Turkey ) to eat sweets instead of Gulluoglu or Seyidoglu (both are famous places for their baklava and baklava syle sweets). It is better for me to prefer milky sweets, because I can prepare these sweets thanks to ready-packet puddings. I have never thought to make baklava or sekerpare (small cakes with syrup), because it is not easy to cook them. Only a master can prepare baklava. It is also need a lot of time to prepare it. Maybe only a piece of baklava with some ice-cream can be eaten with zest, at least for me, otherwise, I am already not able to finish more than three pieces.
Turkish delight may be counted a bit heavy just like baklava when we compare milky sweets. I would like to eat Turkish-delight with a cup of Turkish coffee. it is more delicious like this.
This summer, if I get back to Turkey, I will definitely visit Bolulu or Mado to eat sweets as much I want. : ) If you have chance to visit Turkey one day, dont forget to taste Turkish sweets as well after eating your great Turkish meals.

Lemon flowers

I just saw the English lyrics of a Turkish song that I like so much. I don’t know who did translate it but translation was made totally great!
Some words, that can’t be found the exact meaning in the translated language, so here the translator explained what does it mean in the other language.
‘Zil calan etek’ has a figurative meaning in Turkish language and refers the meaning that being very happy and cheerful. The person who made the translation explained it as saying ‘(I wish) that your playfull skirts raise again (it has dual meaning, literally he talks about the skirt of his lover and metaphorically this expression means someone to feel overly joyfull)’.
it is explained the other figurative meanings as well one by one to make the lyrics more clear and understandable. Listen the song and think of the lyrics, I think you will like it so much. It is really an awesome soulful song.

Here are the best parts for me. Especially the part goes like this; I wish that I could drink the flower honey of your mouth while kissing.. :/

Far, very far away, in the south
pleasantly warm and in love in the summers
A city that is cold and without you in the winters
the city and me (we both both) feel cold
We wish that you stop by
..that you bring your season, your fruitfulness, your abundance
...and cover on us
(I wish) that your playfull skirts raise again
...that your pupils come and sit in my eyes
...that I drink the flower honey of your mouth while kissing

All lyrics are below. And the video is here.

Lemon Flowers
Far, very far away, in the south
(A city that is) pleasantly warm and in love in the summers
A city that is cold and without you in the winters
(the city) And me (both) feel cold
We wish that you stop by
..that you bring your season, your fruitfulness, your abundance
...and cover on us
(I wish) that your playfull skirts raise again (it has dual meaning, literally he talks about the skirt of his lover and metaphorically this expression means someone to feel overly joyfull)
...that your pupils come and sit in my eyes (he means they shall stare at each other)
...that I drink the flower honey of your mouth while kissing
...that I take your sin on my neck (means I shall be responsible for everything) and (take) you to my bosom (means I shall go to bed with you)
I wish that you be my poison, city, and lemon flowers at the same time (you become my everything).
I have not seen such swagger, strut, air
Hey God hear my voice make my voice heard
No one understands my loneliness (that I have no one)
Hey God reach me my god
My God hear my voice make my voice heard
She does not understand my desperation
Hey God give me a hand my god
In the remote, secluded, solitary place
In an ill-faithed course (of events)
I wish that I say a prayer longing for you
I wish that you become my insect my plant cover (vegetation) (He means even if he dies she should be cover on the grave)
that you become my prayer that comes true and I shall say amen and thank God
I wish that I lay roots in you soil
and that my life finds its end in you