working hard
March 8, 2007


it's saturday again. after 5 days of military service, now i got 2 days to work hard!
we launched our new website on kyrenia hotels - nice design, up-to-date info and good hotel pics.
today, i worked 14 hours straight, sent 62 emails, added 4 hotels to the booking system, compared hotel only rates with competitors, sent monthly reports for my car hire websites, assigned the march 2008 job list to our writer, did an email campaign for gnc, paid invoices standing for a few weeks now, did some internal accounting, etc.

maxtor 1tb
March 1, 2007

i bought maxtor one touch III 1 TB external hard drive from hepsiburada.com, coz my 300gb was no more enough!

i am also using it at raid 1 mode, so my data is safe even if one drive fails. good stuff! :)

and my whiteboard space was not enough.. so i bought another whiteboard :P
my father brought his drill and together we managed to hang it right next to the previous board.
my mum and sifa has been complaining a lot.. "is this your home or office" – well, it's both!

east kyrenia tour with kemal
February 3, 2008

we drove to arapkoy and took a left turn into the forest (opposite to the turn to the buffavento castle). we drove till alevkaya and visited sourpmagar monastery on the way. we then drove down to esentepe and back home to catch fenerbahce-galatasaray fortis turkish cup match (which ended 0-0 btw). it was an interesting journay. we took lots of photos. after smelling kebabs in alevkaya picnic area, we couldn't stop ourselves from ordering seftali kebab from niazis... mountains & sea | stuck | tarmac | viewing dock

mom's birthday
January 30, 2008

we went to babacakka fish restaurant to celebrate mom's birthday. the food was good.

we talked about my internet businesses, aysem and other stuff.

mom & dad

sifocan at uludag
January 25, 2008

sifocan was in uludag.
she claims that she now knows how to ski.. we'll see :)

it began at 1138221000 unix time().
now is 1201293000.
that's 63072000 seconds.
or 2 years for dummies. lol.
hint

trip to korucam cape and akdeniz village
January 13, 2008

we drove to korucam cape and akdeniz village.

driving on the beach was so much fun! especially once we disabled traction control. it was during sunset too :)

sea cliff | mountains & sea | guzelyali coast | vow tree
kemal during sunset | kemal & musti | izzet
funny kemal the night before | my dirty car | goats

new command centre
January 12, 2008

yeyyy for the new philips 19" lcd and microsoft keyboard.

they get connected to my laptop so i can enjoy the desktop experience with a larger screen :)

it's same resolution with my laptop so that's good.
1440 x 900 pixel

another angle

aysemmm
January 9, 2008

we went to galabalik seafood restaurant with mom, dad, aysem and our cousin gokhan. mom & dad

ahmet dervis and burukan came for a short holiday and we had fun. burukan helped me with some 44 stuff. musti is complicated :D military is getting boringgg.. kemal says "sheeps, goats and three dogs" and snakes! i miss sifa. my phone is broke.. the old mighty front speaker. power cuts started again. no time left for work after 5pm so it sucks!

november: htc touch, sifa hacettepe mba, military
November 30, 2007

i had a small car accident when a van hit me!
on the second day i m back on the island.. ugh!!

i chose military canteen next to my house. time is passing quickly. i don't get to be a duty officer at all! shhhtt! ;)

my new phone, htc touch is superb!!! it's so sleek, thin, light and comes with wm6 and touchflo. visit offical website. i felt in love with my i-mate jam when i bought in 2005 but this new thing is uncomparable! it's amazing how things improve so quickly. good camera: mom

btw, sifa the-puzzle-monster was accepted to hacettepe mba.

tuzla infantry academy
October 31, 2007

graduated from tuzla infantry academy at tuzla town of istanbul and acquired rank of second-lieutenant.

i became no. 29 out of 633 and i've been given the chance to choose my place of duty. ;)

got 9 months ahead to complete my military service. hopefully it'll be easy and most importantly i'll be back home everyday after 5pm and weekends are mine too. they even pay us a decent amount!


my team | ahmet | gurkan | sertac | polat | orhun

izzet & gurkan | izzet & sedat my buddy | dormitories

izzet & onder our team leader | bestami our squad leader

the "intikal" | 200m g3 shooting | manoeuvres | nbc tent

g3 rifle | pistol | mg3 machine gun | ak-47 kalashnikov

graduation | camouflaged | smoke | training | push-up

sifa graduates
June 29, 2007

sifa graduated from baskent university. :)
she will be doing mba in ankara for 2 more years.

a smiling face in the crowd - sifa and izzet

sifa with family - sifa and tuba - sifa at starbucks

the month may
May 26, 2007

went to sifa for a few days and got sick from food poisoning because of penne at peppermill. had to visit the hospital! ughh! sifa looked after me very well though :) balloon

found tickets to the gs-fb match 4 hours before the start. booked atlas jet flight tickets to istanbul on phone, packed up a a few things in a min, picked up berkan on the way to airport. 3 hours left. 1 hour flight. 2 hours left. istanbul traffic... but managed to catch the game.. even 15 mins early :P we were in vip section and everyone was wearing business and we were in tshirts! it's fun! :) ali sami yen

signed up for the military service. need to pass exams to be a second-lieutenant. starts in august for 1 year :(

the month april
April 26, 2007

i think the month april is the most boring month of the year. it was true in 2006 too :P

one funny thing happened though. musti, kemal and i went to diana beach in karakum with my car around 12am with a few beers, but the car engine did not start afterwards. coz it was late, we decided to walk back home. it was adventurous. we talked 5.5 km back home in exactly one hour.

my golf is improving. i can hit with irons just fine but my driver sucks! ughh! it's driving me crazy.

we hired an employee for gnc and she is good. i m planning to give her full control in the next couple of weeks so my workload will ease a lot - hopefully!

the weather is getting warmer.. yeyyy!
i plan to do my military service this august. ick!
sifa had her photo taken with a graduation cap for the yearbook. she just looks beautiful! :)

sifa birthday
March 26, 2007

sifa was born on this day 21 years ago :)

we went to biyer to celebrate.

lots of flowers, presents, hugs, kisses to the princess...
it was a very happy birth day :P

dinner - cake - happy birthday - fatos, sifa, nisan

istanbul trip
March 4, 2007

i went to istanbul with berkan and elif for a few days. we went to cem yilmaz show which was hilarious as expected. i think the best part was when berkan broke into laughter during a military joke about buying a tank thru promotion, "kampanya ile tank almak".

berkan and i went to fenerbahce-sivas football game. the score was good 2-2! hehe :D
here is a regular portray of fenerbahce fans.

seagulls coming after the ferry as ppl keep feding them with bread.

it was good stress-free 3 days :)

playing golf at korineum golf course in esentepe
February 21, 2007

berkan and i started taking lessons 2 weeks ago and we are improving quite well. see my first golf blog on cyprus44.

this is just an amazing sport!

izzet - berkan - osman - alena - driving range

official website: www.korineumgolf.com

5if4 7urk531
January 25, 2007

now we are counting years, right! it's just the beginning.. :)

what a bad start to 2007
January 20, 2007

i had a car accident last saturday - nobody got injured, calm down! i was driving within speed limits on the main road, when a woman-driver suddenly popped in front of me coming from a ONE-WAY road. she had 120 level of alcohol and i had 62 level of alcohol where the allowed limit is 50. so my insurance did not cover and i will pay some 5000 euros and wait for 2-3 weeks for the repair.

what else? my phone battery is dying and everyday my line drops during the calls. the replacement battery i got yesterday is broke! due to power cuts in kyrenia in the last 2 weeks, the power cable of my digital frame is not working. i went to tektan and alemdar and they could not find a replacement - how f*ing hard is it to make a 5V-2.5A power cable? my car hire company website for south cyprus had very bad drops in search engine rankings, from no.3 to no.8. i have redesigned the whole site, added some good content and i am employing good link building practices - we'll see!

meanwhile, i went to istanbul and play regular soccer in real world and on xbox with berkan.

2006 Blogs
Year 2006
surprise birthday cake December 20, 2006
mushroom hunting November 25, 2006
digital photo frame November 16, 2006
istanbul + ankara November 13, 2006
Cyprus44.com October 29, 2006
ankara October 22, 2006
cooking time with nezire October 7, 2006
CimbomArena.com October 4, 2006
rock concerto & dance show by tan sagturk September 23, 2006
paintball again September 10, 2006
Aysem September 4, 2006
waterpark sunday August 13, 2006
paintball August 6, 2006
camping 2006 July 16, 2006
serenity ad is up July 13, 2006
tiesto @ escape beach club July 9, 2006
Inhumanitarian Actions by Greek Cypriot Administration July 7, 2006
gnc turnover reaches £100,000 July 1, 2006
aysem's graduation June 30, 2006
ahmet dervis June 16, 2006
pacific has a new logo May 18, 2006
sampiyon cimbom May 14, 2006
trncwashdc.org May 13, 2006
well planned 5 hours May 4, 2006
the month april April 30, 2006
gnc announces 1st quarter profits April 1, 2006
what's going on :) March 29, 2006
prawn night w/ nezire March 14, 2006
"no no no.. u can't put .com in company name" March 13, 2006
ankara February 27, 2006
the shrimp party and ovgum February 9, 2006
sup January 29, 2006
the sausagefest 2006 January 6, 2006
google shares will hit $1000 January 4, 2006

2004 Blogs
2004: A Remarkable Year
Winter Break 12.11.2004
zappos.com 12.09.2004
the beach party 12.04.2004
tomorrow's beach party 12.03.2004
honors proposal 12.02.2004
Mailx0r releases StonyMail v1.0 11.30.2004
in memory of ahmet ince 11.28.2004
happy thanksgiving 11.25.2004
free MoMa ha? 11.14.2004
i like this part of the year... 11.19.2004
hotmail hacked? 11.17.2004
mailx0r meeting 11.14.2004
i won $45 tonight 11.12.2004
guys' poker night 11.11.2004
the weather 11.10.2004
american museum of natural history 11.06.2004
michelle 11.05.2004
BLOME II 11.04.2004
the Met 10.31.2004
indoor soccer 10.25.2004
texas hold'em night 10.14.2004
xda II 09.22.2004
summer 2004 09.10.2004