It's the end of an era, you know..

How Did We End Up Here?

Call it the million dollar question, call it the motto of the year, call it whatever.. It just fits the situation so well. Seriously, how did we end up here?

Smart girls from smart private schools, confident over-achievers, somewhat excentrics.. We ended up thinking to ourselves "how did we end up here?".

We don't particularly love our jobs. Realities of business life certainly didn't live up to our sky-high expectations. We constantly worry about our careers. Personally, I have long lost my motivation.

Don't even let me start on the love drama. 

When work takes %80 of your time and energy, you tend to find yourself trapped. Thank god, we come together every now and then and laugh a little, relax. 

What seems to be so puzzling is that we talk things over, analyze and draw a roadmap but we are surprised each and every time we end up somewhere completely different.

  

How To Survive Your 20s

F*R*I*E*N*D*S: Just accept the fact that, you will not survive your 20s without your support circle.

Having a night out with the girls usually involves; countless shots of Jäger, crazy dancing on sky-high stilettos and playing cruel jokes on boys who hit on you at the bar and thats all OK. Just remember to take an alka-seltzer before you go to sleep.

Girl talk is what you need on a Sunday night.

Get wasted only when surrounded with close friends.

R*O*M*A*N*C*E: Boys will be boys.

Don't listen to what men say. Don't listen to your heart either. Both would say anything to get what they want.

If a boy is reluctant to call you, care for you, learn more about you a.k.a put a freaking label on your relationship, DO NOT stick around. Stop kidding yourself and stop making excuses. Grey doesn't exist in love, its either black or white but never grey.

C*A*R*E*E*R: Get over yourself.

"Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."

Confucious is the biggest liar of all times.

Work fucking hard and learn from your mistakes.

Feel bad when you fuck up but know that kids in Africa are not dying because you were 5 minutes late to a meeting. 

When you have free time at work, spend it on TED.com not on Facebook.

L*I*F*E: To be precise, life sucks.

Life is complicated. So, laugh at all times. It's good for the soul.

Travel..you must travel frequently and preferably to far far away lands. Getting lost will help you find yourself.

Let Me Go Get An Umbrella !

Hoping for sunshine, expecting rain

Let me go get an umbrella then!

Virtue is such a high ranking word. It has class and it has power. It has gravity. Patience is a virtue. It's easier said than done though. 

I for one am super inconsistent with the concept of patience. I sort of suck at it over all but there are rare moments in which I gracefully carry out the enactment of this particular virtue.

The key is not to panic when you realise you've already lost it. 

Try to hold back the grips. And wait for the next moment that you need to be patient.

It'll come in no time, pal. 

One might fail to do so hence end up heating up the situation. 

When you find yourself there, just go get an umbrella.

   

Up Kafası

Rengarenk balonlarla gökyüzüne yükselmek.. Up kafası.. Ne kadar da pozitif, ne kadar da iç açıcı.. Up kafası işte.

.Jumping into conclusions.

Bugün ne kadar da jugdemental olduğumu yüksek sesle söylemek de iyi bir adımdı. Kafamın nasıl çalıştığını dışarıdan 3. bir şahıs gibi izlemek thrilling ama fail ettiğini görüp önlemek için çok geç olduğunu da bilmek garip bir çaresizlik hissi yaratıyor. 

Bir veriyi analiz edip, daha önceden çözümlenmiş denklemlerin içine sığdırmaya çalışırken de aceleci olan algıma sağlık bir günüm bir günümü tutmuyor; dalgalanma konusunda IMKB ile kapışıyorum ve ironically kazanıyorum.

.Mendilin 4 ucu.

Mendilin 4 ucu bir araya gelmiyor arkadaş. Bunu kabullenince hayat da kabullenilebilir oluyor. 

Durup bir nefes aldıktan sonra stratejik düşünmek lazım. Kazananı olmayacak şavaşlara girmemeyi hatırlamak lazım zaman zaman. 

Yine de, şöyle bir arkana bakıp gördüğün şeyden memnun olmak güzel bir his. Seni arkana dönüp baktıran ne olursa olsun.

.Uncharted territories yet, known waters.

Do you know what happens to the boy who suddenly got everything he ever wanted?

He might have lived happily ever after or he might have failed to handle the pressure and shot himself.

Çalıştığın yerden çıkan sorularda nasıl kendine güvenle karalıyorsan kağıdı, bilmediğin yerden gelen soruda da bir o kadar arada kalıyor insan. Hani gözlerini kısıp soruya uzun uzun bir bakarsın ama "yok, çıkaramayacağım ben seni nereden tanıdığımı" der yenilgiyi kabul edersin ya. Tam o kabullenişin hemen öncesi bu bahsettiğim. 

20s

You're pissed at everything during your teens. You choose your area of expertise during your 20s. You're supposed to be mad at certain things. It means you're normal.

Worrying about your future is a given so does resenting your misfortune. 

The way to survive puberty is to make amends with your parents and the road to salvation during your 20s passes through your friendships. 

You gotta have a strong support circle to get you through the day. Your feel stuck between your job and the urge to sleep a little longer. 

And there are the occasional disputes at work that drive you crazy. 

During puberty, you think you're dumb but during your 20s you think you're the only one with a 3 digit IQ. Everyone else is complete morons. No one understands you during puberty, and you don't understand anyone during your 20s.

Only think you can think of is earning more money to travel further away from your life. 

You believe getting lost will help you find yourself.

You start redefining the concepts you learn during your teens such as love, respect, loyalty and friendship. Not so surprisingly, you realise you need to adjust your expectations.  

You learn the meaning of meditating for real. 

You need to learn to live a little between depressions and feel lucky when you avert a crisis or two. 

It's like a bad trip; it feels like forever but you gotta remind yourself that it'll end eventually. 

Travel Often Getting Lost Will Help You Find Yourself: The USA Episode

Finally getting to hit the New York highs put a huge smile on my face.  It was as hard as they said to figure out the NY metro and we shopped till we dropped at the Woodburry Commmon. Now we start sentences with "when I was/we were in America" and we giggle. We know how lucky we are.

LA beaches are gorgeous. Oh, and there was the art gallery at the 3rd street Promenade.. LA was a different type of high but Vegas is a whole new level. I can't tell how I feel about partying that hard. I've seen dirty pool parties in Çeşme but Las Vegas really deserves that "what happens in ..." saying. 

Breath taking, NYC style

Museum of Modern Arts (MOMA), without a doubt, is breath taking. 

Coming home from work, quite very tired, on a Friday night was hard enough so I decided to ease the pain New York City style. Looking at this amazing piece by Gilbert & George just makes me lose track of time and get lost in gorgeous MOMA. 

NY was lived quite chilled despite all weather conditions both in metaphorical and literal sense. It left us with a handful of stories to tell and reminisce for a very long time. Ohh, we were spoiled! 

We now get why people make a big fuss over Central Park. Shop till you drop motto is a New Jersey classic which is all the better when followed by a trip to the Cheesecake Factory. 

Broadway is really glamorous, its an art festive. 

Milkshakes are marvellous in Harlem.

Times Sq is too much.

Hell yeah! Its was wonderland and I was Alice!

     

It was better coz it was with friends..

Ummet Degil Millet Olan Turkler

Eyvallah dedik, dokulduk sokaklara dun gece. En son baktigimizda cevreciler parkta takiliyordu biz de haftasonu bakalim, fotograf cekelim enteresan pankart vardir simdi diyorduk.

Kendimizi 10. Yil Marsi soyleyerek elimizde tencere tava sahilde bulduk. Taksim sakindi artik Cumartesi sabahi. Olan olmustu. Carsi Ekibi, cevreciler, solcular artik hangi etiketi kullanmak istersen hepsi suyu, gazi yedi. Insanlarin piston dustu filmindeki gibi kalkip basi kesilmis tavuklar gibi kosusturmasi nasil bi adrenalin(!) Yok, boyle bi kafa!

Dolmabahce yokustur, kadehleri tokustur!

Rihanna bilmis de konserden hemen sonra gitmis zira, vur vur inlesin Inonu dinlesin stayla saldirdi polis.

Bra kuji xilas bu? Yok canim, Avrupa'daki parklarda takilmayi, kadin haklarini, halka kendi vergisiyle verilenleri ve bir de o meshur kadehi kaldirinca, katil gitti kardes oldu. Tum dunya durdu, Biz'e bakti.

Polis'in taraf degistirmesini bekliyorduk. Kadrolasmayi hesaba katmamamistik. Avrupali gibi protesto edene gavur zulmu reva goruldu.

Apolitik yetisen jenerasyonun, sivil orgutletme, provakasyon ve eyvallahsiz/orantisiz guc kullanimi konseptleriyle ilk tanismasiydi.

Buyuk ask yasiyoruz denebilir. Cok acayip!

Bra Kuji Xilas Bu?

A few weeks ago Radikal newspaper published the below article about "kardes katli"

http://www.radikal.com.tr/radikal2/bra_kuji_xilas_bu-1130285

Today, Turkish police decided to stop "bra kuji". Citizens all around the country marched a thousand miles.

Whole hell broke loose on Taxim Gezi Parki.

It's the awakening.

No one has seen this one coming. A tiny parkin the middle of the city, very much like Madison Square Garden turned out to be the first seeds of Turkish Spring. 

Neither "Akil Adamlar" nor any other phony initiative can make up for this epic fail.