the language of colors

Tell me your color, I will tell you your personality.
Today I read a news on the paper that told your favorite color is related with your personality. I already knew this. My favorite colors are black and white. I always wear black and white T-shirts,socks and trousers, even shoes as well. Sometimes people ask me if I dont have any other color clothes, I say that I love that s why I always wear these two colors.
I was curious about the personalities of people who love black and white, coz I am one of them as well. The article diveded colors into two groups... bright colors are red,yellow,orange... - and sad colors consist of green, blue, purple, black... and so on. Every color tell something about its lover’s state of mind. What does black tell about me? :) It said that I am authoritative and bossy if I like black. It said black is the sign of power,ability and autority... I dont know how much does it right but there must be partly correct as for me. Anyway ... let s have a look for white...
How about white? What does white tell about my personality and state of my mind? It said people impressed so much from the people who like white, because white is the sign of sincere, purity,innocency,honesty and so on... This one is almost totally correct for me, because I cant deceive people even if I want. Something prevents me from doing so and it should be my conscience and heart.
Red is the sign of being friendly and merciful, yellow is the sign of being intellectual, orange is braveness and loving adventures, black is the sign of being authority, blue is popularity and so on... So does your favorite color give any clue about your personality? It gives to me...

life is better without smoking, isnt it?

Cigarette is banned in Turkey as from 19 july. You cant light a joyfull cigarette after eating dinner in a restaurant or while sipping your cafe or during playing cards or backgammon with friends in a cafe house anymore. Turkish style coffe houses are known as the place where you can play cards,drink tea,watch football matches and pass the time of day by chatting. Almost all of people who go the coffe houses are smoking. What s more, most of them complain about being out of a job, I hope this ban will help them to go out and try to find a job because passing whole day in a coffehouse never make you have a job. You must go after jobs, if you wait a job to come a coffehouse and find you, dont wait for nothing coz ıt will never find you. :) anyway .
The expression –smoke like a Turk- may be history soon coz I think the ratio of smokers will decrease after this ban. At least I hope so. I dont know how many people smoke in Turkey but the number of smokers are not a few. Many people around me smoke though I hate smoke and smokers. Most of them are my relatives and there is no way but be present in same place with them. Personally, I dont like to accopany with a smokers since the midle-school. Unfortunately the age of starting to smoke has become almost 13. I dont know how I didnt start to smoke in middle-school as most of my friend was smoking. Oh God was protected me I think. You can start to smoke or drink alcohol or get any kind of bad habit thanks to(!) friends. Thanks God that my all friends dont smoke and drink.
As I said, my all friends dont smoke and drink, so I am really very easy annoyed of smoke of cigarette and smell of alcohol. Especially when I think that the smoke comes out from other mouth and go in my nose, auww... I never find a good side of smoking. It s totally harmful and damaging to both budget and health ... There are plus damages of smoking like 69 tl penalty after smoking in closed area. :)) be careful and never say - so, what will happen if I smoke here!. hehe
It will be great for Turkey and Turkısh people. Turkish people will be more healthy from 19 july. As health minister declared, over 100.000 people die from smoking every year. So people wont die anymore from smoking. Is there any good news from this?
It s said that the ban can affect the economic situation and many people can lose their job, but health is more important than everything. People can find another job but cant get his life again. No matter what happens, many people support cigarette ban. They can eat their meal beneath a clear weather and shopping in a good environment.
Although some opposition, most of Turks are happy with ban even if they are smokers. Many people want to quit but await for an excuse, and this is a great excuse for quitting . come on! It s time to quit smoking. I wish smokeless days for Turkey. We all are deserve to live beneath a clear weather. Thanks to government for this award.

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. :)))