8. Tough Guise

Today we watched "Tough Guise" and to be honest I wasn't expecting a film like this. Usually we watch boring films in class (I know that I am generalizing but I am doing this to exaggerate :)). However "Tough Guise" was very interesting, funny in some ways and heartbreaking.

"Tough Guise" was very interesting because I never realize the change the size of the toys. Maybe because I wasn't a kid in 1970s but I felt sorry about it. I should have realized it before somebody mentions it. He was right!! As the girls become smaller, boys become bigger and bigger and bigger!! UNBELİVEABLE. We as the girls; go on diet, sacrifice, eat less and spend hours in the gym to look smaller. Why are we doing this? Because an anonymous power* force us to do this. But why actually we are doing this? Don't we have brain? Does the shape of our body controls everything? Why do we care about how does a skinny jean looks like when we wear it? I could pretend that well I don't care about it, I can eat what I want, I don't need to spend my hours in the gym but this is not case, unfortunately. Sometimes even I am thinking how do I look like. This was the case of a girl but how about the boys? It seems like the boys don't care about their physical appearance but I think this is not true. Especially in high school and in college they do care about their physical appearance. When you go to fitness center in SU you could see more boys than girls.

"Tough Guise" was funny because the music video where black boys act like a Italian gangster and then white boys act like them and it looks very funny. Well the concept at the beginning is very funny. Why do we have classifications like Italian gangster, black boys and white boys. There are all people and these properties shouldn't make them different from each other. Anyways the video was very funny.

"Tough Guise" was heartbreaking. I slept at 4.00 am yesterday and I was planning to sleep after the lessons but when I got back to dorm I couldn't sleep because I felt sorry. The statistics made me very sad. I could guess that men are more dangerous but the statistics shocked me.


*I don't know who imposes us the men are stronger than women but I don't think it is only the media so I will think and read about this issue more and write another post. Wait for it! (I felt like 6 billion people are reading my blog :))

7.Perfecting lives with strangers

Hello everyone,

There is a band called Little Joy and they have song called "with strangers". It is a very sad but in a way peaceful song. "with strangers" is my favorite Little Joy song and in that song Rodrigo Amarante says "perfecting lives with strangers."

It is always the same story. There are strangers, then they are friends, then they are strangers again.

I hope none of my friends don't read this post, if they do they will make fun of me but this line "perfecting lives with strangers" is directly related to the Reality TV. Those people in the Reality Shows are strangers and we are perfecting our lives with them. It doesn't have any difference.

I hope you will have a very happy evening.

6. The Secret

I don't know why I wrote "THE SECRET" but it is not a secret that I have fraternal twin sister :)
Because we don't look alike very much, it takes some time to convince that we are actually twins.
I don't know how to explain this but, we are totally different. I mean if I am white, she is black.
There is a huge gap between us but it is not in a bad way. I love her, she loves me and we always respect to each other.

Anyways, we ordered pizza and we were about to eat it. Then one of our friend realized our photos on my sister's table.
In the photo, we were 5 years old and we were dressed the same. I was taller than her, my hair is lighter than her hair and we look like strangers. Our friend said that "I couldn't decide which one of you were adopted." Then she looked at us, suddenly said that "I think both of you were adopted, it must be a joke that you should be twins." It was very funny at that moment. Then my twin sister said that this could be a very popular Reality Show like The Truman Show.

This is another eng 101 related and not related post.

PS: I am definitely sure that now everyone's working for the first math midterm but I just wanted to write this. Good luck everyone.

5. Everything about enthusiasm

This is going to be my first post which is not directly related to English 101 but it will be related indirectly.
To start with: what is enthusiasm and why enthusiasm? Who can be an enthusiastic person?
According to dictionary.com enthusiasm means: "absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit." For me it enthusiasm is more than this and I believe I could explain this by answering the question: "why enthusiasm?"
Enthusiasm, because it is the only thing that makes me move on, that wakes me up, that provides fresh air and everything that helps me to live and who can be an enthusiastic person? I wish the answer could be easy and safe. But no, unfortunately if you are patient, if you can fight with anything and if you could stand straight against anything you face then you be could enthusiastic.

Today, especially now, I don't feel enthusiastic anymore. You could ask you are not enthusiastic about what? About anything or about everything. It is now very hard to eat. It is now very hard to think. It is now very hard to talk.

But why?

Because whatever I do, does not fit to this world! If I try to be sincere, it does not work. If you want be happy in this world, you should be nasty. Being nice to the world, to the people, sometimes even to the animals doesn't work.

As a result of this unorganized post if you don't want to be disappointed don't be enthusiastic!

4. About English 101

Now I am very happy because we have an exact question: "What have you learned, improved and/or become more aware of so far this semester in ENG 101?"

As Janbek mentioned, English 101 is familiar to me because the syllabus and the expectations are very similar to our english classes in high school. Therefore it did not take time for me to get used to the English 101. As a result I am very happy and comfortable in the English classes. The first thing that I learned from the English 101 is how to write an e-mail to an instructor. The word document was very essential. Before English 101 I usually end my e-mails by saying "Thank You". However I did not know that this is very impolite. I always think that it was a very polite way to finish an e-mail, but it wasn't. Of course there are some more important things that I have learned in English 101, but I cannot think of them now. The thing is I don't feel what I have learned which is wonderful. I will probably realize them as the time goes by, when I face with the difficulties of Sabancı University. That's it for now. Afiyet olsun!