self help; emotional melt down and life

i like to help people out, and i had people coming up to me with some issues and i gave them advices ,i wanted to share my thoughts, i hope it will help.

1.You are always alone in life
what i mean is, ones you loved will always be around you in your bad days and good days. real friends and family will be there for you in your worst days, but will they really be there when you are out of control, will they put their lives before you, to protect you? you will understand what i mean if you experience it ,what i means is you always have to be able to send on your two feet in every condition,
You can’t depend on people. You have to be strong individual.

2.You shouldn’t repeat your mistakes
If you keep doing the same mistakes, its almost like you are living in the past, because you have to go over the same path every time.

3.People never change
Don’t try to change people, people never change. They will act like they changed, once you turn your back they will go back to way they are. People will only change when they want not because you said so.

4.If people show their selves bad believe them
If they are bad and hurt others they will do that you also on day because they are heartless, when they go crazy they don’t see anything. They will hurt you, your feelings. Don’t think maybe they are good inside, no they are bad believe them. Don’t wait until it happens to you just run.

5.You can only get better, when you want to help yourself
if you are sad depressed or cant get your stuff together to do something, don’t wait for someones help, life couch, physiologists, religions people. they cant talk to you for an hours but if you don’t take action you will stay in same spot. you have to realize first you need to help your self, and you should want to get better and work hard to be better, try and not give up.

6.Life is not perfect but not bad either
life is not all about flowers, lollypops etc. life is hard, everything could go wrong in a minute. but it doesn’t mean everything is over, and you shouldn’t give up. you have to be strong for yourself first, you have to believe in yourself. for example babies fall down when they start to learn to walk, but time to time they learn how to stand on their feet and start running. same thing, you have to believe in yourself and you shouldn’t give up.

7.Every mistake is a lesson
Don’t punish yourself for your mistakes. Every mistake you make in life will teach you something. You will learn not to make them again, you will learn not to trust, how to protect, how to choose , etc., but they will make you a stronger person, in future you will learn how to handle your situations.

8.dont live in the past
Look farther, there is so many things you are missing. If you live in the past one day you will look back and say, i did nothing for years. and you cant take the time back. Take action do it now. don’t waist anytime, life is short.

9.dont blame anybody, your biggest enemy is always yourself
maybe you let that happen or maybe not. Now you are not helping yourself to get over it, If you think like that forget it. learn to forgive, try to be better, an higher person. God says forgive people be a good person, do it. You will fell better when you forgive people, because psychologically, you will fell like a better person and you will be a better person.

10. Dont hurt yourself
Don’t hurt yourself, don’t beat yourself up with your words and actions. You deserve better. You can do so much better. Always believe everything is going to be okay, You have a long and beautiful things to live for, they will happen if youbelieve and take an action, learn how to protect your self from your bad thoughts. if you start to think try to clear your head.

11. be a good person
try to help people out, with anything. be good person, good things happen to good people. When you help earth or God what ever you believe in will return your favors, they do happen. And getting thank you’s and appreciations, will make you feel so good.

you can do anything, but first you have to want it make it an action. dont give up, you

American commercial’s on Turkey

After all these commercials and advertisements Turkey did, I guess it made Americans wonder about Turkey in these days. what does Turkey looks like from a Americans point of view or what does Turkish people looks like, or for mans what does woman looks like in there. Well I started to realize there is been more American commercials or adds are inspired from Turkey or lets say Turkish people. From one media to another they all effect each other in some way.

Here  is the commercials made by American media.

CARL’S JR. MISS TURKEY

In this add they are kind of joking around turkey the; ‘animal” and Turkey the “country”. Well this add starts with Miss Turkey walking with her bikini and eating a burger. Commercial says “we hired Miss Turkey to taste and prove our turkey burger”. So they are both Turkey, she is actually “Turkish” not Turkey, but  in my point of view;  this is what commercial is trying to say that she is beautiful,hot and have been chosen to be; the best woman in Turkey 2011 as Miss Turkey and she must understand the best turkey to eat, because she is Turkish. So its trying to prove Carls JR. has hot,sexy burger just like Miss Turkey and Miss Turkey understands from the best turkey to eat if she chooses the best then its the best burger,

CITI BANK COMERCIAL

Its starts with a guy talks about his dad transferring to Istanbul for work. He talks about his dad and mom figuring out the city, getting used to it, making friends. But he says; they were missing something N.Y. So it gave him an idea for their 30th anniversary since he couldn’t t be there he asked citi bank how many thank you  points it will take them to give them something special. and he send his parents seats from the old states. at the end it says citi thank you points could use for anything you want.

Turkish advertisements

Advertisements are great way to pull peoples attention to make them buy, travel, see or make people to get an idea what you are presenting. well Turkey is going all out with the advertisements. According to the news Such a growth will possibly make Turkey the fastest-growing advertising market in Europe. Spending on advertising rebounded in the first half and reached 1.83 billion Turkish lira, a 36.3 percent rise from the same period a year earlier. Turkey’s advertising market, which contracted 15 percent in 2010, is expected to grow over 30 percent in 2011.Spending on TV advertising grew 45.9 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2010 to 1.02 billion TL. Spending on online advertising, which increased to 121 million TL from 74 million, saw the highest growth when compared to other medias.

—Well they always made commercials, advertisements on the buildings or billboards  etc. but after straight flights started from Istanbul to L.a  it just start pulling people’s attention. Lots, of lots of tourists comes to Turkey in summers. Mostly from European countries. there is bunch of place to travel but it just gets better in summers. Turkey has four seas around it, every  city is just better than each. Mostly people from Netherlands, France, Germany, Russia comes to visit Turkey. Probably Turkish media was trying to pull Americans attention for once. straight flights from Istanbul to L.A. came out because there was a lots of travelers, and its better for some other countries also because  instead for other countires to take 3 or more flights they could take turkish airlines. Smartes thing Turkish media did was to put Kobe in to the comercial. When basketball fans saw Kobe ,who is peoples role model they might say “wow if Kobe is traveling, it must be good” so this adverstiment been on billboards in downtown, sunset blvd, santa monica blvd. etc. On tv and it also been in news beacuse Armenian celebrities  said they were upset with Kobe for advertising for Turkey, but Kobe left no comment on it. Turkish airlines also caries all the Manchester United soccer player, they have contract and turkish airlines caries them to all of their games. and they also have commercial with all the players.

—When i was looking at L.A times news paper, i saw 4 pages advertisment from Turkey. title was Turkey welcomes you,  there was pictures of seas, historical places. Even I’m Turkish and I visit every year, it made me want to go those  places again. Using media is a great way to pull people’s attention. its a diffent kind of media, Turkey uses news paper to advertise to pull people from diffrent  presepectives. there is other adds i saw also on sunset blvd., comercials advertising that advertises Turkey.

Now i want to share a video that collects all of them at once the turkish airlines commercial and there is the traveling to Turkey commercial

TURKEY WELCOMES YOU

KOBE TURKISH AIRLINES

MANCHESTER  UNITED TURKISH AIRLINES

Top deserts to eat

lets talk about deserts. i want to share most unique and most delicious deserts that i know. we all know chesecake,tiramisu , apple pie, brownies. I was reading this add and it gave me an idea there is so many restaurants in L.A but where what is the best deserts to eat in L.A and which ones are most popular, well most of the signature restaurants has random looking deserts, maybe you never saw them before. but now i present you……

1. soufflé dessert

soufflé is a French dessert. soufflé is a light baked cake made with egg and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as as a dessert. souffle comes from French verb souffler, which means to blow up or puff up. its chocolaty amazing desert .

2. crème brulee

consisting of a rich custard base topped with a contrasting layer of hard caramel. It is normally served cold. The custard base is traditionally flavored with vanilla.  Its like a pudding and its great.

3.Napoleon dessert

Napoleon appears to come from napolitain, the French adjective city of Italy Naples, but it has association with the name of Emperor Napoleon of France.. In France so people call it mille-feuilles in Italy they call it mille foglie. But in America we know it as Napoleon. Its filled with almond flavored paste. It tastes delicious.

4. butterscotch pot de crème

butterscotch is made out of brown sugar, butter, caramel salt etc. meaning “to cut or score” for the word “scotch”, as the confection must be cut into pieces, or “scotched”, before hardening. It almost like a pudding.

5.Baklava

Baklava is rich sweet pastry made of layers of filo pasty filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey.  It is characteristic of the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire. here is strong evidence that it Turkish origin, with its current form being developed in the imperial kitchens of the Topkapi palace.

5.macaroons

The macaron is commonly filled with buttercream or jam filling sandwiched between two cookies. Its name is derived from an Italian word “maccarone” or “maccherone”. This word is itself derived from ammaccare, meaning crush or beat, used here in reference to the almond paste, which is the principal ingredient. Its great to eat with coffee or with ice cream.

6. Choux à la Crème : cream puffs

 the dough is mainly common for French deserts, its filled with cream and its crispy outside its good to eat with fruits and jam.

Dreamcatcher!

Today im going to talk about Dream catcher. It is a traditional Native American object. It’s a native American tradition, from Ojibwa (Chippewa) tribe. They hang this dream catcher as a charm to protect sleeping children from nightmares. Traditionally Native American dreamcatchers are and made of bent wood and sinew string with a feather hanging from the netting.

How does dream catcher catches the dreams?

Native Americans believe that the night air is filled with dreams both good and bad. The dream catcher when hung over or near your bed swinging freely in the air catches the dreams as they flow by. The good dreams know how to pass through the dream catcher, slipping through the outer holes and slide down the soft feathers so gently that many times the sleeper does not know that he/she is dreaming. The bad dreams not knowing the way get tangled in the dream catcher and perish with the first light of the new day. When the sun rises in the morning, sunrays will destroy the bad dreams trapped in the dreamcatcher web (according to Objibwe story)

What does dream catchers are made of ?

Dream catcher hoops were originally made out of willow and covered with sage; the web was made from deer sinew. Modern dream catchers are made with wood or metal wrapped in leather strips, artificial sinew replace the now forbidden use of deer sinew.

 A story people believe….

This legend states that a woman whom the tribe called Spider Woman helped bring the sun to their people. At that time, according to legend, all people lived in one general area together. Spider woman would build her lodge early each day, and could be seen as the dew settled on the spider webs around her lodge. These dewy webs caught the sun’s rays each day. Later, when people began to scatter to the four corners of the Earth, Spider Woman who also cared for the infants of the tribe could not follow everyone at once. So she took the sinew of the dew-covered plants and webs, weaving them into a circle that represented the sun. These were the first dream catcher.

Where can I put my dream catcher?

Dream catchers should be hanged over bed, so it could protect you while you sleep. The dream catcher charm should be hang from the hoop on the cradle.

Does it really catches my bad dreams?

Nobody know the actual truth, when people believe, psychologically they feel better and safer, when a person hangs dreamcatcher and believe is it, he/she can sleep in peace because dreamcatcher is there to protect. And I think when you believe it just comes true.

lets talk about wine!

 

From the numerous contributions the Romans made to the world, both ancient and of those passed on to modern society, perhaps the most lasting was the art of wine (vinum) making. Wild grapes, though now nearly extinct, grew in abundance throughout the Mediterranean and were cultivated in earnest throughout the region. The Etruscans and Greeks were the preeminent wine consumers in Italy prior to the rise of Rome, and though wine was an important part of the Roman diet, it didn’t become the cultural icon of their society from the very start. Wine has a rich history dating back to around 8000 BC. The areas that wine had found were Georgia, Iran and Armenia. Lot of empires believed that wine is special. Even in Christianity wine used beverage as a common part of everyday life. According to the article Body of Christ, the Bread, the Wine,” Wine is traditionally to bedrunk by the presiding minister. Christians use wine in Holy Communion, namely, the body and blood of the executed Jesus. However wine has a huge impact on today’s world economy and human’s health.

Wine is playing a major role in the world wide trading and economy. The process of producing the wine plays a huge role in developing lots of jobs and markets for itself in every producing country. Planting and harvesting the grapes to the process of making the wine, then bottling and storing , to selling it either locally or exporting it require a huge amount of labor force and investments and creates markets that are huge as well for itself  will enhance the economy of the producing country.  That’s why nowadays so many counties such as France and Italy consider wine production and trading to be a corner stone in their economy.  The largest producers of wine in the world are Italy, France, USA, and SPAIN. For example; Italy is the first or the second largest producer of wine in the world. According to the Italian Agriculture Census, there were 2.6 million farms in 2000 (down from 3 million in 1990,) covering 19.6 million hectares. The vast majority (94.7%) are family-operated and small, averaging only 5 hectares in size. Of the total surface area in agricultural use (forestry excluded,) vineyards 5.4%.“As the country recovers from the recessionary environment, the wine industry continues to look positive,” Eric Schmidt, manager of information services for the Beverage Information Group. Another telling number came from The Wine Institute. Though California vintners shipped more wine to other parts of the country in 2009 than the year before, total sales revenue slipped to $17.9billion, about 3 percent less than 2008. We can say that at present America becomes one of the biggest wine markets in the world.  According to The Times newspaper, “Analysts believe supermarkets could have to pass on further price increases in the coming months on some products such as bread”.

Studies have suggested a close relationship between the moderate consumption of red wine and a healthy heart. This phenomenon goes under the name French Paradox because although the French eat as much saturated fat as Americans, they seem to enjoy better overall cardiovascular health. Even though these studies show that polyphenol, which is in red wine, can help your heart, blood circulation, and many other things, doctors still argue about this, especially American doctors disagree with this outcome. On September 14, 1998, a team from Pap worth Hospital in Cambridge England successfully demonstrated that red wine contains a high proportion of substances called polyphenol, which inhibit the deposit of fat in the blood vessels. These plant pigments tend to be a very strong antioxidant. Polyphenlos can be found in grape skins but they are discarded early in the process of making white wine. The study found that red wine, but not white wine, has antioxidant activity. According to Wikipidia.org “A polyphenol antioxidant is a type of antioxidant containing a polyphenolic substructure. Numbering over 4,000 distinct species, these compounds have antioxidant activity in vitro but are unlikely to have antioxidant roles in vivo. Rather, they may affect cell-to-cell signaling, receptor sensitivity, inflammatory enzyme activity or gene regulation”.    “A thing is right when it tends to preserve in the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.  It is wrong when ittends otherwise” (Aldo LEOPOLD 745).We can think that wine has a good effect of human body. Doctors offer to their patients to drink one or two glass of wine in a week. Drinking wine once or twice a week reduces the risk of heart disease especially in middle aged and elderly men. Even in first three months pregnancy drinking a glass of wine has no harm for the baby. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has produced draft that pregnant women can consume up to 1.5 units of alcohol a day after the first three months of pregnancy. A glass of red wine contains tiny amounts of carbohydrate and protein but no fat. Therefore, in the diets people prefer to drink wine instead of drinking any other beverages because red wine designed to help people lose weight and eat a healthy diet.

In conclusion, it’s been so long time that we have wine in our lives. Wine is alcohol beverage that is made from usually grape, apple or berry.  According to the Michael POLLAN in “Botany of Desire”, in early ages alcohol was the great beneficence of sugar. The sweetest fruit makes the strongest drink, where grapes didn’t do well, that was usually apples. But wine is not only an alcohol, it’s a life choice. In my opinion Food taste so much better with wine. Besides it helps on keeping people in shape rather than saving all the unnecessary fats in the body.

Evil-eye!

Who wants to be lucky today? Well, Evil Eye will bring you luck and will protect you from danger.

if you believe in luck and energy, this is perfect topic for you to listen.I grow up seeing Evil eye amulet everywhere I go. Many regions believe in it, Europe, South Asia, Middle East, but mostly Mediterranean regions.  In Turkish we call it “Nazar Boncugu”.

At almost every culture, Man looked for assistance of magic objects tobe protected from evil forces. Turks come up with symbol of an eye figure that they believe; It will protect them from evil forces. Evil eye is blue amulet looks like shape of an eye made out of glass or plastic, In good manners People believe that it bring bless to persons life. Evil Eye brings you good luck, and it will take away bad energy. Evil eye will see wickedness and evilness and protects you from enemies.Evil eye will bring joy, happiness, and wealth to your life.

What is the actuall meaning of evil eye?

There is many meanings of evil eye but actual meaning of Evil eye is not good as you might think. Evil eye is like a devil eye. If you are wearing evil eye or you have it hanging in somewhere in your area it is like showing devils eyes to your enemies or to jealous people. Evil eye will protect you by declining with devil look to the bad spirits, enemies and any other bad things you can think of.

Where does evil eye come from?

Turks came up with idea of a evil eye by religious believes and inspired from tales.  First evil eye come from Anatolia, Turkey. As humans, we always look for mystery, a story, reality or belief.

Evil eye has hysterical story by it own!

The story people believed in Anatolia was; Evil eyes belong to Medusa’s eyes. As we all know Medusa turned people to a stone with her evil eyes. After Peruses killed Medusa he started to show Medusa’s face to his enemies to turn them to a stone.  Evil eye presents Medusa’s killer eyes.

How medusas eyes turn in to evil eye amulet?

Long time ago in Anatolia, most of the buildings had Medusa’s face on some part of the buildings. In those day manual laboring was cheep, But now there is only evil eye amulets are on the buildings that presents Medusa’s eyes.

Time line?

Even in modern religions with a single God have their own symbols on talismans.  We find almost in every culture and fait for thousands of years.Evil eye was first recomened by Mespotamians about 5,000 years ago in cuneiform on clay tablet. Over evil eye tradition find a new identity in the 3000 years old glass craftsmanship of Anatolia. .

Why eyes are luck than?

It believed that; Eyes are the one, who opens the windows to the world. Eyes are like a soul, you can lie with your words, but eyes are pure they can never lie.  what evil eye is made out of has significant meanings.

Why evil eye is blue?

There is a reason why original and real evil eyes are blue. Blue is a fresh and peaceful color that will keep away bad spirits.  In Turkish culture they believed that blue color blocks and pushes blood away that’s is a other reason evil eye is blue.

Real evil eyes are made out of glass. When it breaks it have meanings!

Turkish people believe that with evil eye amulet you will be protected. If evil breaks it means bad luck on you is gone. Evil eye will break if enemies eye ray of light and bad energy will be directed to amulet.  If it breaks from no reason its still belief that bad eyes on you is gone. No bad energy will reach you since you are protected with the amulet of evil eye.

Evil eye  presents Medusa’s evil eyes that will bring luck and will keep away enemies away.You can see evil eyes in many places in Turkey, such as houses, necklaces, bracelets, shirts, hair clips, on walls, on buses, air planes, on cars. Also babies have it hanged in their cloths.  Evil eye will always be there when ever you need it.Evil eye is 5000 years old amulet, came out from Anatolia and separated to the wolrd.

Are you wearing your evil eye today?

Theremin

Today I am going to talk about Theremin. Theremin originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, Thereminphone or termenvox/thereminvox. It is an instrument played without touching the instrument. professor,  Leon Theremin who patented the device in 1928. The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas which sense the position of the player’s hands and control oscillators for frequency  with one hand, and amplitude volume with the other, so it can be played without being touched. The electric signals from the Theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.

History of Theremin

The theremin was originally the product of Russian government-sponsored research into proximity sensors. Later In 1922,  Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known in around the world as Leon Theremin. He invented many different devices, but it is the instrument that bears his name that has assured his memory in the collective minds of musicians, engineers..

How to play

The Theremin is almost unique among musical instruments in that it is played without physical contact. The musician stands in front of the instrument and moves his or her hands in the proximity of two metal antennas. The distance from one antenna determines frequency pitch, and the distance from the other controls amplitude volume. Most frequently, the right hand controls the pitch and the left controls the volume, although some performers reverse this arrangement. However, it is easy to learn but difficult to master, Theremin performance presents two challenges: reliable control of the instrument’s pitch with no guidance (no keys, valves, frets, or finger-board positions), and minimizing undesired portamento that is inherent in the instrument’s continuously-variable-pitch design.

Where does it used?

Theremins are popular instruments among avant-garde and new music artists because of their perceived freedom from traditional compositional structures. It is also performed as a classical instrument, and is occasionally used jazz improvisation. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin used a variation of the Theremin minus the loop during performances of “whole Lotta love” and “no quarter ” throughout the performance history of Led Zeppelin is one example of Theremin use. Led Zeppelin.

And here is the video, that shows what kind of sound comes out of Theremin and how do they play it without touching it.

Amele Elif Aktan

Hey everyone today I’m gonna talk about something Today I will talk about something a lot different. I introduce you “AMELE” how do you pronounce it?(aomalé) what is Amele?, who can be Amele? what Amele’s do? what can you do to be Amele also? so simple i will go step by step
What is Amele?
Amele means construction worker in turkish slang, and you can call some certain people that name.
Who is Amele?
It’s so simple there is so many Amele’s out there. How can you tell? Well, my favorite Amele is Elif Aktan. She is a gangster, she calls herself EA. She rides white truck all over the city, she barely reaches the steering wheel. She jumps, when she tries to get out of the car. She is adorable. She eats kebab 24/7, before food she eats two deserts a head, When you ask her why she will tell you “Food comes late, desert is faster, I’m hungry.” Thats fair enough . She eats every kind of food, When she eats Mexican food, she likes to drink HOT tea next to it. She loves Risotto, she loves Manti, and Caesar salad who doesn’t? But Elif likes her Caesar salad different. She adds stuff in it. Imagine Classic Caesar with Caesar dressing, chicken and….she adds, raw salmon, pomegranate syrup. yump?
How to be chic Amele?
Elif knows how to work that style. She got all the rainbow colors on her. If you lost her for a second in a crowded place, you will find her right away. Because she is sparkling like sun. she can wear pink, green, orange, blue even more at the same time. she has every color of bag, shoes,clothes. You probably had times that you saw a dress and taught who could wear something like this? Well guess what My Amele will wear it better than y’ALL! She broke her daddy’s bank by shopping.
What a gang Amele listens?
hell yeah this is my favorite, Elif is “kiro” which means guetto and she listens every kind of music but she mostly listens Ismail YK, Cankan, Ibrahim Tatlises, Ankarali Turgut, Muslum Baba. she is so fly like a G6.
What Amele’s do?
Amele Elif doesn’t work. she sleeps all day, she eats, she runs around picks on people, she goes to clubs with sun glasses on her face at nights, she dances like a gangster she has the moves that nobody has ;D, she eats the world but she never gains wight, she does what ever she likes, she doesn’t care what people say. Sometimes she embarrasses herself and rest of the people around her. She talks so guetto, she eats guetto, she acts guetto. She is funny and its fun to be around her. she is AMELE and I love her the way she is.
How can you be Amele?
I can’t teach you how to be Amele, you can only born as Amele or you can learn from the best. Just follow Elif’s foot steps.

One Last Thing hands up for Elif, It’s her birthday!!!!

by Merve Onur…..

Seat Belt Commercial

I watched this commercial few years ago and i found it very interesting. it is a sad commercial that makes a point. it shows what might happen if you dont wear a seat belt and also it show is it in a weird way. it tells us that seat belt saves life and it proves it. Comericals like this makes people sad and upset, makes people emotional and they way its is interesting it get stuck at peoples mind… watchhh it