Houston, do you copy?

Salute, my precious friends. How are you? What have you been doing for the past few months? I have a huge list so I'll try to stick to some of the headlines for this catch-up entry. Feel free to tell your story in the comments =D

First of all, the reason behind my delay between my posts is the...ırr... actually I'm not really sure. Most probably Its the fuckin' heat wave around Istanbul - or maybe it is that writing this blog was a little get away from the last semesters work, and now that I'm literally FREE, which means I can find more creative ways to relax =)

Starting from where I left you, I was part of the event Intel GameX, kind of a LAN Party - Tournament thing. It was hosted inside this years Compex show, so it was the biggest public gaming event I have seen. The most important thing about this event is not what happened there, it is what I came home with. Every summer I put away my fluffy orange carpet but this year I found an incredible replacement =). I had much of a trouble to take that huge 2.50m*2.50m hard based poster but despite the inconvenience of my friends, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! =D

More over, I started playing strategy games like Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, and StarCraft: BroodWar. The CnC3 is an incredible game with beautiful game play and graphics. Where as StarCraft is a lot fun to play with pals old pals =) - Unfortunately I had to delete both for storage space...

More over I attended 2 concerts this summer.... eventually I attended much more but at least I really enjoyed these two "Dream Theater" and "Within Temptation". 2 concerts single word: INCREDIBLE! You can see the pics from DT concert I took with my shitty cellular-cam. Also check out what I wrote to WT's GuestBook; "Thx for the amazing performance in Istanbul! WT was the solo reason for me being in this festival and I got more than I expected. It was an insult to schedule you guys to 6pm just before some freak show but anyways.... thank you soo much for coming to Istanbul, for this performance - seems like you enjoyed the crowd too...hope we meet again."

By the way, if you watched Transformers; "dude that was awesome =) " it really is "More Than Meets the Eye", If you were in a country like Germany where they don't show movies in their original languages... how bad for you, Go buy the BlueRay realase, get a PS3 to play and a full HD screen to watch that piece of CGI Heaven (Yes it was that good). Even though I watched on the cinema, I'm definately planning to watch it again frame-by-frame.


I won't get in to politics or future plans for this post, I'm planning to post another within the week. More fun is on the way ]:-D Stay connected..

hint for the next episode: I'm moving!

if it doesn't kill me, wounds make me stronger

The last month....it'll be hard for me to explain in words, but maybe I can explain in labels: finals, projects, job applications, midterms, final projects, reports, intel gamex, fights, stress, tempo, sleepless nights, alcohol free

omg, that was incredibly stressing, there is still one week of work left till the end of this semester but isil bozma (my project advisor) is eager to make us work till early july

by the way if you don't have a facebook account !get one! you'll be amazed by the old friends you came across, they recently added last.fm support - in a couple of years we may be expecting google to buy facebook (news: google bought panaromia for couple of millions)

so what is the special occasion for me to start writing again after a months break...my final project report - its due on monday but my PI requested it today for proofing so I have a day off and I am spending it wisely - at home with varying types of alcohol in my cup, chatting - listening music and filling this blog

oookkkk, so little review of previous week, hard working bla bla bla a midterm on Wednesday which was supposed to be 2 hours but ended up being 3 hours which all my class mates spent cheating for the last hour - so what happened - curve bumped up - do I care? depends =)

for the time being question is "should I drink my can of apricot with absolut mandrin or with %50 alcohol?" polls reveal that smirnoff would be a better choice =D (there were some experimental advises like adding milk but I'm not in the mood of spilling my %50 smirnoff =D

monday monday, I still need to review the final report for monday but it's my only deadline left - just a temporary little relief but it feels damn good =)

I think I will keep you posted from now on....

don't worry, be happy