Hungarian art hasn’t ceased to amaze me yet. Omega is an iconic but underrated progressive rock band in the world. Anyone who wants to understand music in a different level must at least once listen to Omega. Their song “Léna” (also in English called “Russian Winter”) is about a Russian guy, Dimitri (of course), telling … [Read more…]
It’d been a long time that I hadn’t written anything. I don’t know why. But I felt like I couldn’t connect with myself. In the meantime, many incidents happened. Some apparently good incidents, and some apparently bad. I just call them “incidents”. Different people crossed my road. I traveled with some, and ignored some others. … [Read more…]
Have you ever heard that when you lose something, and you can’t remember where you’ve left it, you won’t find it again until you really let it go and get over it (unless it’s stolen for real). For example, you can’t find your keys. You keep searching and searching… and searching… but nope! It ain’t … [Read more…]
Man has always been looking for perfection and peace (of self). They do whatever it takes to have it. They start with providing for the basic needs to more intellectual and abstract needs. Like the way Abraham Maslow describes needs in his “pyramid of needs”, we are always struggling to achieve the top. Where every … [Read more…]
Sometimes things do not work the way you want them to, sometimes they work the way you do not want them to, sometimes they do not work the way you do not want them to, sometimes, they work the way you want them to. It’s simple. It’s just a matrix of two verbs and an … [Read more…]
The truth is ugly. And if you can’t see this ugliness, you’re not real. The truth is that we see the world as it should be, not as it is. I’m sorry for us. We talk about carpe diem, seize the day, live in the moment. The truth is that we never really believe in … [Read more…]
People can be easily pissed off at things. Doesn’t matter what conditions they have, they just find a reason to be pissed off. I’ll give you some diverse examples. Some people, Iranians for example, are always pissed off at economy and how much the former president screwed up the financial comfort of the society. Likewise, … [Read more…]
I am waiting. Waiting for a bunch of lunatics to take a decision on my life. They call it background inspection. You are probably wondering if I am a criminal waiting to be tried or something. To tell you the truth, I picture myself in that situation sometimes. I picture this dramatic scenario that I’ve … [Read more…]
View Larger Map It was a crazy idea for us to just hitch-hike this long distance. After checking the train prices, we decided to go to Tabriz (about 900 km) by train which cost $3 each. A > B Early in the morning, we arrived in Tabriz at about 6:00. We had an Azeri breakfast … [Read more…]
April 6, 2013 I was at Ankara Gari (Ankara Railway Station) or TCDD (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları) and I was just looking around just like I have seen something unfamiliar and new. It wasn’t my first time to be in an unfamiliar and alienated place; however, every time I arrive in a new place, I feel … [Read more…]