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Friday, March 25, 2005

Lots of "me" time this weekend. And I must admit it is doing me plenty of good:)

the weekend started with our chat with Slim on msn and a great breakfast i ve cooked for my auntie:) Then I was at the Eymir lake for lunch and spent the rest of the day by the lake...and had plenty of fresh air to refreshen my soul on saturday.

on sunday ...I had the chance to watch The Miser (L'Avare) written by Molière and played by Haluk Bilginer and after the play i had lots of time to kill with my Auntie in Tunali...and the bookstores were the best places to escape from the rain:) I bought a book everyone's talking about here: "100 strokes of the brush before bed"-100 Colpi Di Spazzola Prima Di Andare A Dormire- written by Melissa P. This diary of a teenage girl's sex life is a work of deceptive innocence and it is both erotic and literary.

I have finished it, and I am a little bit disappointed as I had expected something more...believable. They say the story is autobiographical, and that the 16 year old (now 18) describes her first sexual experiences in the city of "fast beds", as I read somewhere. In this story, Melissa P needs love and to be loved, and she believes that to find that love she has to submit herself to man's lowest instincts and different forms of humiliation...I can't believe it is Her who went through all this. How much truth is there in her accounts?

I wonder how would you feel if you were the girl's parents? To my surprise, her parents are just grinning and bearing it!Frankly I wouldnt sit there and enjoying the book's profits..and bear all this if was the mother of a girl like this.

While I was reading the first jaw- dropping pages, I could do nothing but wonder...is this girl an exception or just a sample of a growing and widespread form of behaviour?

I believe the author, Melissa P does however, deserve merit for her brutal honesty and frank vulgarity.

She was in Turkey a few weeks ago i guess...and she has a website in italian.[ http://www.melissap.org/ ]and a blog as well. And you can read her last post about TR with the help of the translation sites..if you dont know italian.

B A S A K at 2:23 AM

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Scandal! It was a huge scandal when the Queen of the bO-Land found out the truth about what caused her big allergic reaction. She was bitten all over her right leg by the small creatures; called to be ++BeDbUgs++ . Since the Queen had a serious history about all sorts of allergic reactions , this incident caused a big deal of concern in the Royal Family...and she was taken to the hospital.

She had several large reddened wheals, localised swelling and blisters....and they were itching like hell!!! And it was becoming impossible for the Queen to resist the urge to scratch.

The diagnosis exposed this devilish plot...the assassins were the : BedBugs. They are known to be one of the oldest terrorist groups! These terrorist group is nocturnal, which means they rest during the day and feed at night and this makes them so hard to be busted. They are small, wingless insects with highly developed mouth parts that can pierce skin and feed off the blood of humans and other mammals. But humans are the preferred host and they are attracted to body heat and the carbon dioxide in expired air, which is how they find their host.

On friday they used exactly the same old method to locate the Queen and suck up her blood! They were even with her at the concert on saturday night...listening to good music and spending some quality time with the Royal Family.

The Queen had 2 painful shots and loads of medication to stop that awful allergic reaction. She is still on medication that makes her sleep through the entire day. The sedative effect of the medication still affects her daily life...and the harsh truth that some of those terrorist are still hiding in the tiny holes of her palace, is worring the entire nation.

Now all the citizens of the bO-land send their best wishes as they get together every night in front of the palace and shout all together.

" Night, Night! Sleep tight! Don't let the BEDBUGs bite!

Hurrah hurray! Long live, the Queen"

B A S A K at 7:58 PM

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Saturday, March 05, 2005

this year the festival started at the new movie theather of " Buyulu Fener" in Kizilay. It was my first time in that new theather and i was facinated by the architecture and the style of that new place. Actually i wasn't planing to go out yesterday, since i was skint and i was stucked at home. but Basak has persuaded me to join them for the short movies and documentaries session... and i head to the new movie theather with the last liras in my pocket.
The first session was the basque-spain short movies. (for further details you can click on that link http://www.filmfestankara.org.tr/ispanya.htm, but i m afraid the entire site is turkish) I hd the chance to watch that movies...and i do recommend you guys to watch the ones i ve starred.

• 7:35 De La Manana / 7h35 In The Morning(***)
• Expreso Nocturno / Night Express(**)
• Lepokoa / The Scarf
• Las Superamigas Contra El Profesor Vinilo / Superfriends Meet Profesor Vynil(**)
• El Tren De La Bruja / The Spook House(****)
• Ecosistema / Ecosystem (****)

The following session was the int'l documentaries . http://www.filmfestankara.org.tr/yasam.htm) The first one was the Sahara Marathon. Frankly i wasnt really aware of this conflict b4, but this doc had given me the chance to learn more about the Saharan people and what they have been going through. If you wanna get more info about them. you can visit http://www.wsahara.net/.
The other one was the Brass Sounds, A Story of Bulgarian Gypsy Musicians.

The fest programme is really full of nice movies...i ll try to catch up with their agenda as much as i can this week.
B A S A K at 7:32 PM

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B A S A K at 6:53 PM

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yeah i do hate the people at my faculty and i even do hate some of my lecturers... i really do hate the paralysed management of school and stupidity of all the system...For the last 4 years i was trying to get rid of my regrets about coming to this faculty, but somehow or sometime the harsh truths were sticked to my brain like a tattoo. Studying in that faculty was a torture, but against all odds, i ve got my life's one of the best gifts ever when i ve met that girl. Having the same name, the same zodiac sign...almost the same interests and outlook on life... was one of the best coincidence of mylife:) She is a real beauty and character that i praise:)
B A S A K at 12:10 AM

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Friday, March 04, 2005

Another traditional and weekly sunday meeting was held at my Gran's as usual last week. After getting together for the sunday feast, the coffee talk session has started as all the ladies of the Royal Family started to take a sip from their coffee. This one was one of the most fun coffee talks ever, since the oldies of the family get the chance to interact with the new technologic stuff. This time nobody was fussing about tiny problems of their life, but enjoying the interaction between 3 generations. And now my grandma is so eager to get a notebook of her own and a digital camera. She has already started to check the newspapers for coupons of a notebook campaign:)
B A S A K at 11:46 PM

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