Nice Jokes

1. I went round my mate's house the oter night and his kids were running around the place screaming.
He looked at me and said, "Don't ever have kids, man."
I said, "Hard work?"
He said, "No, you're just ugly."

2. In the bible, god made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights. That's pretty good summer for Wales. That's a hosepipe ban waiting to happen.

Intense Week

Well it's time. Believe it or not, I'm leaving for TBA:) on Sunday, 12th. Thus, I can say this week consists of 6 full days. I'm pretty confident that I didn't waste the first day for nothing. I even get to combine education and leisure into one:) I will be taking toefl on Friday so I have to study, at least a lil bit in order to prevent any regret that my occur after the results. At the same time, I've been frequently exercising for a month and want to keep my pace. Furthermore, exercising helps me protect my mental health. Anyways, today I met with Arda at the pool for some swimming and water polo shoot out. After that, we gobble down some food at the nearest local restaurant and headed home to watch some movie. We bought 5 dvds from our ultra-trustworthy and mega-legal corner shop.

By the way, in today's case, watching movies was the combination of entertainment and education.

After we finished the movie called Other Guys, Arda set off for his hoops meeting at Enka. Unable to decide what to do and by the help of sluggish mood caused by swimming, I put another dvd, Scott Pilgrim vs The World. The movie, though completely absurd, had a good sense of humor and drama in it. Comicbook motives and effects were the key elements that made the movie different. Oh, I was about to forget to mention that musics in the movie were really cool unlike the Turkish folk-like ones in Other Guys. Then I went back to my mother's and ate a great dinner and took a look at my toefl book.

My plan for the rest of the week includes swimming everyday, but Friday, watching as many movies as possible, hanging out with different friends, drinking(I haven't decided the level of that yet). I hope it's gonna be a lot of fun!

Best Surprise Ever!

Today did not start well and got worse through the midday. I couldn't even live my depression thanks to the newly started cleaner at my father's. Thanks to her I completely unintentionally went to the pool for some relaxation. The relaxation became a Harakiri. I swam 3km (I haven't swum that much since 2007) and after I finished I felt like I was about to feint. Luckily I survived and went to Kalamis for WS Team meeting. I was expecting, or to be honest, hoping for, a very intense and serious meeting. We gathered at the sea side on the grasses, while the wind was slowly making his way through the shore. Ismail, the head coach, started talking about financial problems, when I joked whether the team was going to be shut off. Harun replied to me that I was right. Then, suddenly the topic shifted to another path and the team was told to be shut off because of a person's absence for next 6 months. Ahhh now I got it, that's gotta be me haha:) Then the cake came and the team gave me a lion magnet and a finn signed by all the members of GS WS. It was incredible! Thank you all guys, it means alot:)

I wish..

My mind is full of "I wish..."s lately. I guess the latest developments triggered my mind. You see, I was not a person who is always dissatisfied with his life, yet I've been recently asking myself "Where did I do wrong?" too many times. For all these years I always thought I knew myself very well and I successfully reacted to even major changes in life. But, it turned out that I did not know myself at all. That's why I now believe the quote: Whatever doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar. Indeed, it at least leaves a mark that no surgery can cover up. Everyday we learn about ourselves and it's sad that it has to be always bad things that remind us we do not have a fucking idea what is going on with us.

What a difference a day makes

Simply the difference is you.

Everyday in our lives we do something, I mean at least most of the people do something, right. Well, it's been awhile since I re-took on swimming and today was the toughest training I had in years. As a former athlete, I am very competitive. Not that I try to race everyone I can take, but I try to improve myself every time I do something, no matter if it is work related or physical exercise. That is what basically keeps me motivated about life in general.

I cannot think myself doing the same things on on again, at very exact moment everyday. For instance, even doing a little amount of exercise or spending some time for my hobbies is what I try. And that is really what bothers me about military. I am really not worried about ending up in a bad place or serving under an asshole. I guess, after all, spending all of my money on books and magazines before I go to military was not a bad decision. I hope can find time and a good place to read those...

Today me and Arda went to the pool. After a some 20 min. running we jumped into the pool for a top notch training. Just next to us, there was a weird guy who was not stopping at any end of the pool and continuously hitting lanes. He was so persistent at hitting that I cannot get my self thinking of about if I hit the lanes that many times during my entire swimming career. Anyway, after the training I ran into the guy at the showers and witnessed another ridicules moment. He was showering and there was shampoo all over his open eyes and that was just before I saw his white stick hanging on the hangers and realized what it was all about. That blind guy swam for maybe more than an hour and half without having a break. What a passion for life! That experience really made us review our lives once more. I can feel I am now a different person compared to who I was yesterday.