Mid work update!

So update since I want to get back into blogging and I haven't had a chance to for weeks now. D=

I've started my internship on April 6th. I'm working with a great group of guys who a. know what they are doing, b. don't actually mind explaining stuff and answering my endless questions, and c. are a great laugh.

So all in all I'm enjoying my time here, and really picking up a lot of things. :)


A couple of my friends from highschool are planning to meet up in greece but I'm still not sure if I will be going. I think I will give them an answer by the end of this week after I finish thinking things over.


Had an ISS party last saturday which turned out really well. We had over 50 people in the place by 10 pm at the Old Oak! The manager there is great, she was nice enough to give us the deal for free food as well so that was super of her. :) If you're a first time visiter in Cork Ireland, I would recommend going to the Old Oak. Great traditional irish pub with a fun athmosphere.
We are thinking of possibly throwing another party next weekend, so it should be lots of fun for everyone!


I at last brought myself to the apple store and got myself one of those new ipod nanos. Purple color this time (no pink ! D= thought the color would grow on me....no it didn't). Very good quality, so anyone who is thinking of getting an ipod, but doesn't want anything really fancy, I would recommend the ipod nanos. Sleek, and full of room for all your fav. songs. ;)


If you haven't been paying attention to any news about turkey lately, the country is pretty much all news news news about the political parties and their leaders. Let's just say I hope certain leaders take back the position they were in a way, forced to give up. D= (baykal) I'll give more information on this in my next post.


I haven't played any basketball for two weeks, since both saturdays I wasn't feeling well enough. D= Feel so out of shape. I don't know about you guys, but I can't do the whole "go to the gym" bit. I don't feel comfortable there, and the only way I can relax is mostly through playing a sport.
I want to run around, have fun, instead of just running on a treadmill, running on one spot all the time....that's pretty boring to me. Here's hoping I'll be able to play some bball this weekend, we'll see.


That's it for now, I'll update more later. =D

Work-Work-Play-Work-Work-Work!

Hey everyone,
In attempts to keeping this blog up todate:
We've been given our third year project, everyone assigned in groups of three.
So it's a group of all women, and none of us are from Ireland. Which makes things interesting,
and pretty fun. xD I'm not saying being the only girl in a computing course for two years was
bad in anyway. You get used to the boys and their interesting conversations. It is nice though,
to be able to have another woman around to chat with in class.

Speaking about classes, I've got two classes for this semester, Systems Programming, and
Network Security. Both I think are rather interesting.

I have a friend who is MADD(hinthint) busy with too many things to mention here right now. I don't think I have talked to him yet without his brain being busy with a million ideas at once. That boy is like an energizer bunny-He wont stop moving forward! (which is a great thing, so keep it up!) I offered to help out with some Javascripting, but haven't gotten around to doing anything yet [Baaad Ezgi Baad, I know. D=]. I'm hoping to jump into it this coming week. Hopfully it's not too late to help him out. xD

Another friend is busy setting up his own radioshow. He's been working pretty hard to get things in order, bring in new DJs, setting up events, and just working hard! I was asked to help out with writing a weekly newsletter for him. I'll try my best, and hopfully he'll like the end result of what it looks like. :)

Got headphones for my keyboard finally (not computer keyboard I mean, piano keyboard-or electric keyboard-I just call it "a keyboard"). I'll be able to practice more now, knowing I wont be bothering anyone with loud and repeated practicing. :D It's hard remembering the notes when you don't have your old music sheets with you! Dx I'm planning on tracking down every single one of them. I don't know if I can but if I ever get to playing the piano well again, I want to try playing over at the grand piano they have here. ....But I wont say when or where it is. =| no one is allowed to watch. >=| ...I'll be too embarrassed so please don't ask.

We were worried for my Sister, she had to have some scans done. Had been complaining of her eye hurting her for a few weeks. My mom went over to be with her when she visted the doctors. Thankfully everything is A-Okay! The scans came back clean, they want to do a blood test as well, but it's not for anything serious. I'm so glad that she's alright. I love my sister, she is one of the main idols in my life. My confidant someone I turn to for advice and guidence during my troubled but as well as for my happy times. She works harder then anyone I've ever known, and doesn't take crap from anyone! I think there are LOADS of things that she will accomplish, just you wait and see. xD I'm thankfull, glad, and proud to tell people that I'm her little sister. ;) She doesn't let obstacles slow her down, or get in her way. I can only hope I can be as strong as her as my own obstacles pop up in my own life. So yes, I'm glad that everything is alright, that she's okay. <3

Mom is coming back today so yaaay....that does remind me...I have to clean up the house before she gets here! xD

Yes, I'm still working in the International Students Society. We have our Welcome Back Party on tonight actually, at the Old Oak, so that should be fun. Including an International Dinner, Galway Trip, and other events I'm looking forward to. :)

Lets do a quick Random News segment while we're at it:


If you haven't already gone to see the Avatar I suggest you get over to the nearest cinema that is still showing it. It's a movie that you MUST watch in the cinema theaters, wearing the dorky 3-D glasses. Don't worry no one will see you in the dark while you wear them (the ones we had made us look like Carl Fredricksen from the animatino UP-all we were missing was the walking stick with tennis balls at the end). Fiddling around on youtube, watching some videos about the "making of the avatar" I stumbled upon a review that made some pretty interesting points. The creaters of review: RedLetterMedia Link: Here
Warning: It pretty much goes through the entire movie so watch at your own risk if you haven't seen the movie yet. Also get ready to laugh your heart out. I couldn't stop laughing through the entire review. :)


If you don't already know there was a huge earthquake in Haiti. With 200,000 Haitians killed by it, everyone around the work is putting in their efforts to help the people out. If you would like to help out and donate I suggest you visit the website for the Red Cross and Red Crescent
and make a donation. Link: I want to Help out!


China is strongly suggesting that USA cancels their meeting with the Dalai Lama.


Beware of the women who are quick to anger and love highheels. A man in London wasstabbed
in the eye by....a stiletto! Ouch!

A colorful Carnival went on the Venice! Huffintonpost has some great photos of the event!
Go take a looksee-> Here!

Apparently Bill Gates made some interesting points during his TED speech. Involving how technology should focus more on Climate Changes. He used some interesting props during his speech.

The Olympics has started out on a sad note, with one of the competitors passing away just hours before the event. You can learn more about the story here.
Most of the athletes donned black armbands.


Well that's about it for this post. I'm trying to keep things short for now (didn't do a good job of that today). Have to finish up some labs, and get over to the sports hall for some basketball. I think with all the stress and work going around me, playing basketball is one of things that helps me relax. I'm not too comfortable in the gyms, and it's a lot more fun running around then just staying in one spot on a machine (in my view anyway).

Hope you all are having a great weekend. Work hard, party responsibly, and don't be afraid to reach for the goals you have for the year 2010!

You can do eeeet!

-Ez.

Happy New Year...and Happy Birthday Me...

Hope everyone had a great new years party whereever you are in the world.

Also, today is the...15th of Jan, my birthday.

So,Happy Birthday Me! =D

-Ez.

PS: Spending my Bday and the weekend in Dublin with mom, sis, and Mustafa. :) Plan to be back in Cork on Monday.

Greyhound Race Tracks!

We had a good group show up to go to the dog race tracks on friday. My neighbor races his dogs there as well, so he was able to meet up with us and give us a bit more information about the place. It's a very nice looking place, bar on both floors, and a resturant at the second floor with a cool view of the race tracks. I managed to win twice xD though some of the dogs names were rather funny. =P It was a very interesting and fun trip.

Will be putting up photos of it later. :)

-Ezgi

Helloooo-o-o-o-o!

Oh Haaaaiiiiii!
Wooow It's been a while, I'm way behind on the posts. I'm in my third year now, and have been kept pretty busy. Aaanyway, some news from me:

-I Got a Summer Internship ! Woohoooooooooo!!! Yaaaaay! ^_^
So for this coming summer, I'll be working for Strencom.
It's an irish networking company. The guys who came down
for the interview were very nice, made it easy to talk to them. :)
Sooooooooooo I'll be in Ireland for the summer, and mostly over
in Blackpool. ^_^


So yeah ! YAAAY!

-I am the Chair Person for the International Students Society in CIT!
Yaaaaay! =D I wasn't sure if I should go for the position or not, but I ended up going for it in the end. ^_^ I'm enjoying my time as the Chairperson so far. It helps when you have such a great committee who are dedicated and willing to make time to organize the events throughout the year. As a committee so far we have: 1 person from Turkey (Meh xD), 2 from Germany (Sandra[PRO], & Kathrin[Secretary]), and 2 from France (Mathieu[Treasurer], & Maud [Assistant Treasurer])

So a good mixture really. :)
We have around 117 members in the society, so we're trying our best to make this a fun year for them. The students are very nice, and they all get along well with each other.

We've done: A welcome party, Halloween party, Bowling night. Tonight we're all going to the Greyhound rack tracks.

We also have a facebook page, look us up when you have the time. ISS CIT. =D


hmm that's all the news from my end to be honest.
In other random news, Neil Patrick Harris is on twitter. =P Yes I do use twitter, so it was nice to hear the news. If you don't know who he is I would suggest you look up "Dr. Horribles' singalong blog" on youtube, or start watching the tv show: "How I met your mother". He's very good.

The show is about a guy called Ted Mosby, telling a story to his children about how he met their mother. Neil plays a woman crazy Barney Stinson, who is one of Teds best friends, determined to teach his friend more about the ways with women. Let's just say there are too many hilarious momments in the show to be able to list them all here in this blog. :)


He's not the only one, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day are also on twitter. They were both in "Dr. Horribles singalong blog" with Neil Patrick Harris.

Nathan Fillion stars in the tv show "Castle" as a rather funny mystery novelist Richard Castle, who ends up tagging along with a young detective Kate Beckett (played by Stana Katic). He uses the excuse of wanting to use her as the next character in a new book he is writing.

Famous & filthy rich novelist + a rather tough female detective = comedy ensues!!

Felicia Day has her own show as well. Starting out on Youtube it got pretty popular. "The Guild"
about a group of WOW players, and the hilarious situations they find themselves in once they all decide to meet up in real life. Even for someone who doesn't play wow, it's still a pretty good show to watch. They also got themselves a deal with microsoft for their new season coming out (they're on season 3 now and going strong).


So all three are on twitter, and with rather amusing posts at that. =P


Started flooding in Cork on thursday. Thankfully things weren't too bad in Carrigaline, we were still able to get out and about. Though corks main street Patrick street was flooded really bad on thursday. Google it on youtube to get a better idea on how bad it was.

hmm No other news other then that for now. Finally finished a post. More will be coming soon if I manage to get work out of the way.

Soooooo anyways, stay dry, and hope you guys have a good month. =)

-Ezgi

Summer Time!

This post is way overdue, but a post midsummer is better then no post at all eh?

Let's see, I've passed my classes, and thankfully I'll be a third year Dnet student. =P

Didn't do much since after the finals, just did the one thing I've been wanting to do for a while which was to- RELAX!

Movies watched:

The Star Trek movie, and I liked it. I liked watching star trek growing up, think they did a good job with it, especially with Zachary Quinto as young Spock! He's playing Syler in the show Heros. Seeing Leonard Nimoy in the movie was pretty cool. John Cho had some impressive fight scenes, while Simon Pegg was just hilarious. Basically, anyone who hasn't seen it yet, you are missing out you fool-go get the dvd!

Terminator Salvation, which was fun to watch. Though I'll never get (spoiler) why a pregnant woman was allowed to come along into the fighting towards the end of the movie. She looked weird and out of place. xD Meh. Even with little bits that seem not to make much sense it was still overall a pretty good action movie. That's what this is, it's a perfect action movie for the summer. I've always been a fan of Christian Bale, he did a great job as always. Was impressed by Sam Worthington s actas well.

While wondering about what to watch next, a friend suggested 'Short Circuit'. After watching that, I ended up watching Wall-E (I had kept putting it off, finally gave in). Understandable why some people would ask why both robots seem familiar. Though I will say Wall-E wins on the cuteness scale. xD

hmmmm
what else?

I was very sad to hear about Michael Jacksons passing. I loved his music, and what he brought to the world. I'm keeping this short, since I think I'll be writing a longer post about him soon.

R.I.P. Michael Jackson. <3>

Well I'm in Turkey at the momment with the family. Planning on staying here till the end of August.

I'm a bit bummed that I can't make it to the Rock'n'Coke Festival in Istanbul though. :( I'm over in ankara with the family now. Maybe next year? We'll see.

Still planning on hitting the beach and enjoying the sun in Izmir soon enough. :)

Hope everyones having a great summer. ^_^

-Ez.

p.s. I need to get a new laptop. The one I have has served me well over the four years that I've had it, but it's given up on me, and I can only use the cousins computer for so long. xD

Finals....

Almost done with classes. Have a math's maple exam, project presentations for programming, and OO design. An exam in OO design, as well as in networking. Then three finals to survive through next week.
Wish meh luck.


On personal news, I finally caved, and gave in. Got myself an ipod shuffle (FINALLY!) ...it's color...ehm..pink. >.>; Yes I don't like pink but a. it was the only color they had and b. I did the lazy thing and bought it instead of coming back another day. If I put it off for another day then I would keep putting off for another month to be honest. Which I should have since as soon as I got home, dad was talking about how he had planned to get an ipod nano for next month >.> so that plan is shot now that I've already bought this one.

Hmmm what news for this month,


Everyone stay healthy D= and watch out for the mumps. Get the shot if you never got it as a kid (and uh guys especially XD ha! ). I asked the parents if I ever got it as a kid, mom was convinced that I had. Then she hesitated, saying maybe that was my older sister who got it instead. >.>; So that got me a bit worried, but she assures me that I did get it at one point.
In Turkey we call it "kaba kulak". Which I think is a bit of a funny name, but that's only if you translate it word for word to english "kaba" = "rough", and "kulak" = "ear". So yeah, stay healthy, and be careful, especially since finals are just next week. I do think you still have to take the exams if you still get the mumps so try to avoid it as best you can.



May Day, (which is May 1st) is usually a day full of rallies by labor unions. People protesting the government, the unemployment, etc. Turkey wasn't the only country that was full of protests and marches for that day. Hmm my thoughts on that? Well, I say protest if you have something to protest about, but keep it peaceful. You're only doing yourself more harm if things turn violent. Basically I don't see how violent protests really help your cause.


Dom Deluise passed away this month. D= Which really sucks, I thought he was a rather funny actor.

Swine Flu has gotten really bad. Everyone be careful when traveling. D=


This might be bit of old news, but I read that they were taking the grey wolves off of the endangered species list in America. Though at the same time because of this, "wolves can now be hunted again according to strict regulations." >.<>.> Honestly, just sounds wrong if you ask me.

Right, well thats it for this month. I have three big exams to study for. Hope to god they all go well. Study hard people and pass all your exams so you can enjoy your summer!

Good luck !


-Ez.