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Overview

  • I work as an electrical engineer in a construction company
  • High School Complete
  • From Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I just love discovering other cultures

ABOUT ME

I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid I haven't lived enough :)

PHILOSOPHY

travel is our passion, discovery is our vision and the world is our home.

Interests

travelling, h​iking, singi​ng and dancing, taking photos with my stupid camera, watching movies, or straight play in theater, reading books, and all the new stuffs.....

Music, architecture, photography, literature, beauty, skiing, potholing, climbing, 3D graphics, games, computers, building engineering, driving, karting.

Music, Movies, and Books

Books I like, from the top of my head:
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by R. Sheaa/R.A. Wilson
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
...Chuck Palahniuk, Haruki Murakami, and... (more later)

Movies:anything directed by Martin Scorsese, Tarantino, Guy Ritchie or Fatih Akin
Music: Quimby, Mitsoura, Parno Graszt, Kings of Leon, Coldplay, Kaiser Chiefs, Yael Naim and so on + real traditional folk music (irish, gypsy, turkish,balcanic, etc)
Books: the list would be veeeeery long (I guess you can call me a bookworm)

Movies I like:
- American Beauty
- Fight Club
- Groundhog Day
- City of God
- Eurotrip
- Magnolia
- Das Leben der Anderen
- High Fidelity
- Most of Tarantino's movies.

Music? Changes all the time, but I keep coming back to Justice, Tool and Simon Posford projects as Hallucinogen, Shpongle and Younger Brother, plus old Infected Mushroom. Oh, and the best live concert I went to was Gogol Bordello, though I don't usually listen to them.

Amongst others, I like listening to most things with Fingerstyle and folk guitar (like Nick Drake, Jose Gonzales). I like tabla. Books and Movies that I find provocative, or which make me laugh (uncontrollably).

Music: Rock, Punk, Blues, Jazz. Quite open though, so I can enjoy of some pop music every now and then.

Books: I'm not a great reader. So when I do read I try to pick something entertaining. Lately I've been reading a lot of Jo Nesbo.

Movies: All. I love going to the movies or watching some at home. I Try to avoid some Hollywood comedies though.

Into the wild, Scorcese's, 007's (except those with Pierce Brosnan), Mr. Nobody, Apocalypse Now, Memento, There will be blood, Aliens, Documents of Werner Herzog like Lessons of darkness, Encounters at the end of the world.
Music: well, I look into my last.fm's profile and this is what I find - Opeth, Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield, Dream Theater, Biosphere, Porcupine Tree, The Real Tuesday Weld, Rodrig & Gabriela, Riverside, Jesper Kyd, Eddie Vedder, Arcturus, Queen, Indukti
Books: Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Milan Kundera, Andrzej Ziemiański, Little Prince, Zafon, Marquez, Camus.

All Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, David Fincher, Emir Kusturica, Fatih Akın and Pixar films, Hayao Miyazaki's animes, some David Lynch Films,and some films such as : bucklet list, fight club, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, eşkıya, babam ve oğlum, A.I., finding nemo, ratatouille, godfather, pi, god city, zorba, casablanca, matriks1, terminator2, .........

Massive attack, sezen aksu, barış manço, portishead, jay jay johanson, bon jovi, creed, scorpions, cake, evereve, ilhan irem, tanju okan, metalica, alice in the chains, nirvana, morphine, led zeppelin, ac/dc, black sabbath, brian adams, U2, placebo, muse, system of a down, bob marley, deep purple, white snake, goran bregovich, feridun düzağaç, moby, radiohead, rolling stones, queen, suede, gun's & roses, Livaneli..(these are first ones that i can remeber:p)

Movies: Amelie, Life is Beatiful, Matrix Trilogy, Godfather, Good Will Hunting, Intacto, Serendipity, Family Man, Pay It Forward, Butterfly Effect, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bee Season, Lake House, Last Samurai, Volver, In Brugge and so much more..

TV Episodes: The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Californication, The Cosby Show

Kafka, Oğuz Atay, Nietzche, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Orhan Pamuk, Herman Hesse, Balzac, Jack London, Tagore..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One day, I will make a movie about one of the amazing story I have experienced via CS:) If u r curious, maybe i can tell it in person ;)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can not teach anything, I am a student of life but I really happy to share what I know.

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