My LOLDog

So I was just browsing through Eren’s flickr to find some pictures of our dog Shiva. I found some pretty funny ones from when she was a puppy. She’s two now and the pics were from when she was 3 months old.

What do you think, loldog material?

emo shiva

and winking

any ideas for captions?

Why I don’t have Susan Boyle fever

So everyone is going crazy over Susan Boyle.

She’s this Scottish woman who was on Britain’s got talent.

So what’s her deal that everyone is going crazy over her.

First of all she has an amazing voice. So far so good. Over the past years many similar shows had some pretty talented people on them. Nobody became this famous, or got this much attention.

So the big deal with Susan Boyle is that, she is UGLY, OLD and FAT.

OH MY.

What a big bloody talent. She’s fat and ugly so it’s impossible for her to have talent, but here she is breaking every law of physics.

This is where I come to the conclusion that people are idiots and EXTREMELY superficial. Of course no surprise there.

For the past few days I’ve been noticing how people on friendfeed like to discriminate against others who are different. I’ve seen them discriminate against people with birth defects, people overweight, homosexuals etc. But then again, that’s another subject.

So, back to what I was saying. I’d much rather watch this lovely, very talented girl blossom into an amazing artist than freak out about an ugly fat woman that can sing. I also have to admit that I was intrigued when I watched Paul Potts the mobile phone salesman from wales who just got up and started to sing opera, it was interesting because it seemed like a hidden passion of his.

I’m not saying Susan Boyle is not talented or not worthy of fame or attention. I just feel like it’s the wrong kind of attention. Wikipedia refers to her as “another unexpected singing talent discovered by British reality television”. Why does being ugly make her an unexpected talent? Argh, I just find it twisted and unjustifiable. Bunch of bigots. Fucking pisses me off.

Suprise! Western Union Sucks

I’m in an extremely bitchy mood so I guess this is a good outlet for me. It’s not the I’m gonna stab you in the face kinda bitchy but more of a I want to just rant and rave kinda thing.

So my friend ugur’s dad sent him $3000 via western union so he could pay his tuition. Here is some background on the subject. Ugur is Turkish and the money was sent from Turkey, also his English is, well, not so well.

So ugur goes to a western union agent and is told that he needs a social security number to withdraw money. That’s stupid since the guy does not have one since he is not American. This should be pretty obvious to anyone with a brain.

He goes to Safeway, where he is told that they could not write checks for amounts less than $3001 dollars. He goes to money mart and is told he needs a social security number – yet again. After visiting about 10 western union agents, he comes to me asking for help.

This is where it gets stupid. I called Western Union to see what was happening. The guy with an very thick accent answered, we basically couldn’t understand each other (the reception is shit at school). He asked me if I would like to talk to somebody else. I told him to get someone who spoke Turkish so I could give the phone to my friend who was having the problem. After being put through to four different people who spoke french, arabic etc. they figured out that WU did not have a Turkish operator. That was fine. I gave up and explained the situation to the guy I was put through to.

I told him that my friend could not withdraw his money because WU agents asked for a social security number and my friend did not have one since he was a foreigner. The guy then told me to that Ugur needed to have two valid ids. the rest went something like this.

Me: He has his passport
WUGuy: Is it an American passport.
Me: no, it’s a Turkish passport. He’s Turkish.
WUGuy: Oh, We can’t accept that, it has to be an american passport.
Me: Are you telling me that foreigner’s cannot use western union.
WUGuy: No they can. They just have to use an id that’s accepted by the (in our case) state of California.
Me: A passport is universal.
WUGuy: Does he have a driver’s license?
Me: He has his Turkish driver’s license.
WUGuy: Nope, that’s not gonna work.
Me: So what should we do?
WUGuy: Let me talk to my supervisor to see if I have correct information.
**waits**
WUGuy: yeah, he needs to have an American ID. The sender should change the name to someone who has valid identification.

This pissed me off because the guy did not know what the hell he was talking about.

The next day I called back and the conversation went like this.

Me: I have a problem and I need it to be fixed. My friend was sent money from Turkey. He cannot withdraw the money because they ask for his social security number. He does not have one because he is not an American citizen. He has his Turkish passport. Passports are universal and the state of California accepts passports as valid identification. He has his Turkish driver’s license. Right now, If he was stopped by a cop and he showed his Turkish driver’s license the cop would accept it. It’s a valid, legal piece of identification.
WUGuy2: Ma’am. Those are valid IDs. They should work. If they say it doesn’t just tell them to call us and will validate the information.

So after hearing this we went to an WU agent.

Okay. This became too long. So, long story short. We walked from agent to agent until we found one that had enough cash (in the tenderloin) or was not run by a bunch of idiots. And finally got the money.

point of the story? do not use western union or something like that.

Turkish City Hall Elections Suck

I love Turkey. From the bottom of my heart I can say I love it. But the past 8 moths I’ve clearly seen that it is not a “developing European country” but an Iran in the making.

The city hall elections were today. One of the most manipulative, religious extremist bastard of a party AKP (ak parti) almost won every city election. WHY? isn’t it obvious, let me put it this way Bush-Gore 2000 elections. Same thing.

The past month my mom told me not to talk about the government when I was on the phone with Turkey. We received a gazillion threats when we’ve written about the government. Some even dared to ask “how we weren’t in jail yet”.

Do you know why we aren’t in jail yet motherfucker? Yeah.. Because we moved to the United States of America and no matter how fucked up the foreign policy might be, We can say whatever the fuck we want! It’s a little thing called FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

In elementary school in Turkey they teach you that you have freedom of speech, it bullshit.

I live in Ankara for 18 years, then I moved to Istanbul. The mayor for Ankara is an absolute asshole. For the past two years he poisoned Ankara by mixing the river water with its main water. The river water was high in Arsenic, and when I was in Ankara I got sick because of it.

Basically I don’t even want to talk about the politics. I wanted CHP to win. It’s the only strong liberal party. It has a million flaws but it’s the best of the worst.

What pisses me off is to see the idiots in Turkey. Who have not seen any better and believe that putting people in jail for what they say or what they think is okay. Most of the elected officials are elementary school graduates! Seriously, I’m not joking. Would you let a 12 year old run your country?

Turkey is supposed to be secular.. and so is America. You know what… bs. They’re neither secular nor democratic.

Turkey is turning into Iran right before our eyes. Watch Persepolis and tell me if you can’t spot the hundred similarities.

It’s a sad day for Turkey, as usual. I’m waiting for the day that I don’t dread going back and living there. I’m waiting for the day when the millions of bright young kids get the chance to live up to their potential.

Checking in

I haven’t checked my lovely blog in a while now (probably a few days… i dunno). I have been insanely busy with homework. I have a collection (no sewing only designing) to finish until tuesday. I have to bodices to sew and a gazillion patterns to make. I was supposed to write about my vegas trip. I’m going to give you an example of what my design class has been like so you can understand why I did not even log in. First I did some quick sketches for the collection (my inspiration is Australia), my darling instructor told me they were too “trendy”, “too now”. I had to change them, I probably designed about 50 more garments when she said she’d seen them before, it was a bit disappointing but never the less I went back to work. I came up with 7-8 garments that I loved. Again “oh my darling flore my darling” told me they were “too pretty” “too feminine”, then she said they looked like “old Valentino” (bare in mind I would give my right arm for an old Valentino gown. I get it she doesn’t like dresses. She wants us to be avant-garde. She think everyone want to be couture designers. Anyways it was weird getting the best compliment you ever received and feeling like shit. By the way I still like my instructor a lot. She is just great.

Other than that I am obsessed with Gossip Girl and I’m planning on writing a review on the fashion on the show and its effects on the youth and the fashion business. I feel like I need to write more about fashion.

Meh.. Lets see.

Back Home – Part I – Barstow

So I came back to San Francisco on Friday. All I did was try to recuperate from the hectic 4 days I had. I finally feel a bit better. I had an amazing time. I’ll write every day as one part so it’s easier to understand.

on day 1 we left San Francisco to go to Barstow. I’ve been bitching about how small of a town Barstow is for a while but what I saw was far more worse than I imagined. The town consisted of two inns, one outlet mall and a bunch of fast food joints. I seriously did not see one house. We stayed at days inn and had a lot of fun just goofing around.

on the way to Barstow we stopped at Cupertino (also known as the town where Apple Inc. is).  We didn’t get to see Apple but it was a cute town and we got some snacks from a place called marina foods.

It was almost a 10 hour ride to Barstow. My ipod’s battery died so all I could do was take pictures. The secnery was increadibly beautiful. California is beautiful. I really didn’t expect it to look like this. All my life all I could think of when I heard California was Hollywood, well this trip thought me better.

Here is a picture I took from the bus.

We arrived in Barstow at the golden hour. Here is what it looked like.

And here is a picture of the rest of the posse. I had a much more retarded picture of them but I decided to be nice.

So tell me what you think about Barstow. Next up is Death Valley and I have an awesome picture waiting for you guys.

Death Valley Las Vegas and Spring Break Plans

As I previously mentioned I am going on a 4 day trip for spring break. We’re leaving lovely San Francisco at 7:45am tomorrow morning. We will get on a bus infront of a starbucks at sutter street and we will be on our way to small town Barstow. Appearently we’re going to stop at a factory outlet (wtf?) and shop(yeah right). Barstow has 24K people living in it. Last year I was living in a city that had a population that was more than 20million. Culture shock.. a bit. We will spend the night at Barstown and in the morning we will get on the bus to go to Death Valley. I’m actually freaking excited about Death Valley. I’ll probably take a gazillion pictures. After Death Valley we go to VEGASS. Vegas baby!!

My Plan For Vegas:

• Get Drunk
• Take pictures while drunk
• Walk down the strip while drunk
• Take pictures while walking down the strip drunk

I’ve actually been to vegas before with my brother and mom and we had the biggest fight and I was the meanest bitch(I was 18.. no booze makes you angry) so hopefully this time around I’ll be a nice girl.

After a night in viva las vegas we will go see the grand canyon and then return to vegas. I will be staying in a room with 4 other friends which makes me feel pretty uneasy, its not that I dont like them -I do. I just don’t like sleeping in the same room with people that I’m not sleeping with (If you get my drift). The only person I can share a room, a bed and a life with is my boyfriend. Soo.. We’ll see how that goes.

So.. End of a kinda useless post of me rambling on about nothing.. I probably won’t be updating for 4-5 days but I’ll have a lot of pictures to show when I come back.

Have a nice week you nice people.

What I’m playing right now -Ginormo Sword

This is an insane pixel game that got me addicted to itself. Basically you are an ugly looking pink dude and you kill a bunch of monsters. Every level there is 3-4 caves/spots you go to to kill these creatures after completing all of them you fight the boss and proceed to the next level. You make your sword/armor stronger and you enhance your strength/intelligence/vitality etc. I’m at level 10/16.

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What to watch? Indie Sex

Fact: I don’t have a tv. I have Netflix and Sidereel. Netflix takes care of the movies I want to watch with it’s vast variety of movie choices and Sidereel help me keep up with my shows.

Fact: I’m a documentary buff. I love all of them, Indies, Biographicals, Historicals, Social and Cultural ones, Mocumentaries.

So the other day we were browsing netflix and we came across Indie Sex. A 4 part documentary about sex in the cinema. This is what netflix says about it.

For as long as there’ve been movies, there’s been sex in movies — a connection that filmmakers Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg explore in depth in this four-part series from the Independent Film Channel. In segments titled “Censored,” “Taboos,” “Teens” and “Extremes,” a long list of film industry veterans — including John Waters, Ally Sheedy, Dita von Teese, Tatum O’Neal and more — talk candidly about sex and cinema.

So we watched part 1: Censored. It was about censorship in movies and how it came about. It started with the peepshows and I was in awe with how raunchy the stag films were back then, oh gosh, they were pretty hardcore. I always thought people were more conservative back then. But I’m pretty sure some of the things they’ve done in those movies are pretty illegal now. Then it moved on to the 60′s and 70′s with the porn theater craze. How the MPPDA (which later became MPAA) came about. It talks about the harsh Hays Code, where kissing more than 3 seconds on screen was forbidden. It talks about how a NC-17 rating kills a movie.

The movie is unrated and it has a lot of nudity and sex (obviously) in it. It’s a DAMN GOOD movie. So if you can, watch it.

Tonight we watch part 2: Taboos. I think I’ve gotta brace myself for this one.