DOGS

This week, i want to talk about dogs. I love dogs because they are very intelegent and pretty animals. Nowadays, i and my family think to buy a dog but we dont decide what genus of the dog is. I have searched on the internet about dogs and now i want to buy all of them. Unfortunately, i can't. 

Their sense of taste, hearing and smell is very good. If they are licking their nose, its mean that they will save a scent their memory. They see the colour of yellow and blue better than other colours. We can train them easier than other animals because of their intelligence. They must be trained when they are 6 months old. Moreover, they are a good swimmer.  They are so loyal to their family.

The dogs have an advenced and sociable communication with people. Thus, they want to play games and they can live in a house easily. They are very helpfull animals. For example, they work to rescue people or animals from under debris. They always want to protect their owner. 

There are 300 variety of domestic dogs such as husky, golden retriever, labrador, german shepherd, cocker spaniel, pitbul and terrier. It is said that the pitbuls are very agressive and attacker but according to experts, normally they are not agressive. If they see bad act from people or they are grew bad conditions, they can be agressive like all animals. 

If we decide which dog we buy, we will train it more carefully and love all of its life.

Nasrettin Hodja

I want to talk about Nasrettin Hodja. I think he was a funny person. There are a lot of story about him but noone still knows when or where he lived in.There are only the predictions about them. It is believed that he was born in Sivrihisar in 13. century and he died in Akşehir. He was an imam, a teacher and a muslim judge. So, the appellation that is 'hodja' was given to him.

While he was telling about the Anatolian people's life-style with funny and regimental items, people learned their mistakes. He showed people the true ways. Nowadays, his events are told as a humor.

I want to write some of his events..

• One day, Nasrettin Hodja bet with his friends. If Nasrettin Hodja wait for a day at the park, his friends will prepare a good dinner. Unless he wait, he will prepare a dinner for them. He waited all day at the park coldly. Then, his friend came and said him " you didnt win this bet because you heated with a candle which is at far away. Nasrettin Hodja admitted it despairingly and went to prepare the dinner. He put a candle under a big saucepan. His friends said him " But you dont cook a meal with a candle". Then Hodja said " how i heat with a candle, this meal will be cooked with a candle".

• One day, Nasrettin Hodja wanted to a pan from his neighboor. Then his neighboor said that his pan was eaten by mouses. After two days, he wanted to hodja's donkey from hodja to go to market. Hodja said " my donkey was eaten by a mouse." Then the neighboor asked how a donkey was eaten by a mouse. Hodja answered " if mouses could eat pans, they could eat a donkey".

   

"face" or "fake" book

I want to talk about "facebook's site" this week. Why is the facebook being used? Why does it become the most popular site? What is the aim of using facebook? First times, everyone wanted to find friends from their primary school 'allegedly' so they made a facebook account. Then students from primary school had an account and in a short time, everyone had an account from this site even a child who is 3 years old was taken a facebook account. I am laughing that and actually there are a lot of ridiculous events about that. Whenever i hear something about facebook, i say "fortunately, i dont have any facebook account".

The word that is 'facebook' has been adopted by everyone. I hear it is used at least one time a day. One day, while i and my friends were sitting and eating something, a girl who sat near our table said to her friends " i ate facebook yesterday". We were shocked. In fact, she had wanted to say "i ate fastfood yesterday".

Do you know İsmail YK's song? Its name is "facebook". He says at this song " facebook facebook i had been searching before i found this girl there". Is it an aim of using that?

People have been very curious since ancient time. Sometimes this curiosity caused inventions, sometimes it caused doing unnecessary things. I think people who use facebook are like a spy because of their curiosity. Who? Where? When? I guess people love looking their photograph or showing their own photograph.

Is there any social problem between people? Some researches say "people assume having a lot of friends provides a social status with facebook". If it is true, there is a serious social problem in 21.century.
 
Most people have become addicted to facebook. I think using facebook's site or similar of that is a waste of time. I also say that fortunately i dont have any facebook account.

ÇATURANGA

Çaturanga is the father of chess. It was started to play in India in AD 600. Çatur's mean is four and anga's mean is part. In India, Indian army had four parts which was infantry, elephant, cavalry and chariots. So Indian people gave this name. In 625, çaturanga was played in Persian and Persian people changed its name as çatrang. 25 years later, Arabian people met and loved this game and gave a different name that was 'şatranç'. After that, this game had been continiued to spread other countries. In that period, when its name was changed, its rules were changing a little bit. Movement of çaturanga's pieces is closely the same with movement of chess' pieces. All of them have strategical movement and have a lot of benefits for human. For example,

• Chess teachs obeying the rules, playing friendly, admiting defeat and congratulating the winner.
• Chess improves the self confident of player.
• Chess affects the human's personality positively.
• Chess shows the importance of being planned.
• Chess helps thinking quickly and rightly.

The first formal chess tournament was made in England in 1851. Nowadays, the best chess player is Kasparow. In 1996, he played chess against computer and he won. Then the program was improved and Kasparov played chass with computer again in 1997. The result of this, computer won. That was the first game which Kasparow lost against the computer.

I love playing the chess. It is very exciting and strategic game. I have been playing chess since i was 6 years old. I played my first game against my father and i lost. But i enjoyed and liked it. I hadnt won my mother and my father since i was 11. Then i had played at tournament in my primary school and i was choosen champion. Unfortunately, at high school, i didnt attemp the tournaments of chess. Sometimes, i play chess with computer.        

DO YOU LİKE TURKİSH COFFEE?

This week, I want to talk about coffee which belongs to turkish culture. This coffee was found out by Özdemir Paşa in 1517. He liked taste of coffee and brought it to Istanbul. After that Turkish people had prepared new method of this coffee. It was made in churns and pots. Then, the name of new coffee was turkish coffee. It is only one of coffee which is served with sediment. It continues its heat very long time due to shape of cup.

There are a lot of benefits the Turkish coffee. Some of the benefits are:
Much more caffeine is harmful for human's body but little amount of coffeine has a lot of benefits. Because of shape of pot, turkish coffee has enough caffeine for human's health. Moreover, this coffee included less caffeine than other coffees. The caffeine which is included by coffee gives energy, provides staying without sleep and activity of brain becomes stronger. According to some researches, a man who drinks coffee everyday has the mental activity faster than a man who doesnt drink coffee. Another some interesting researches say that one who drinks coffee has less tooth decay. The turkish coffee prevents hearth diseases. The digestion becomes easy. The turkish coffee which is drunk two times a day benefits for human's health.

I think the most enjoyable part of drinking turkish coffee is to look horoscope. Some days, i and my mother sit and look our horoscope and say somethings. It is funny because we always concoct everything. Sometimes, my mother comments ridiculously and we laugh that.  

In fact, looking horoscope with coffee has been done since turkish coffee was found. Its purpose is to say good things and to provide looking hopefully to future. In my opinion, it should be done just for fun, believing that is wrong.

Haggard "awaking the centuries"

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HAGGARD..

"Haggard" is a very successful senfonic metal group, i've ever listened. When i listened to this group first time, i loved. Actually, Haggard is a young group. It is the same age with me:) This group was established in 1991 and it had 21 members. However, nowadays it has 17 members. Fortunately, success of this group continues. Group members are from Germany and Denmark. Their first demo was "introduction" which was made in 1993. Then, the first mini album "progressive" which has five songs was made in 1994. Haggard had been making their music as deaht metal until 1995. In 1995, they began to use classical items in their music. They added violin, cello, piano and a soprano in their music. Using senfonic and classical items affected their future careers positively. In 1997, they made a new album which is adored by audience. This album contains melodies of deaht metal and medieval classical folk music and lyrics of english, german and latin. It is talking about story of "Notre Dame". In 2000, Haggard made "Awaking The Centuries"which i loved it. This album is talking about real events of history and the remaining part of the story of Notre Dame. The last album was "Eppur si muove". This name belongs to Galileo.Its means "despite everything the world is round".In 2004, Haggard succeed in with this album again. I have still listened them fondly.