Things III

5 things that I love right now:

- learning about anthropology and development
- the sounds of london town and the song LONDONTOWN by MAN LIKE ME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFsMUHIWJQQ
- drum'n'bass -> especially 'high contrast'
- the new monkey island (love you)
- my bed sheets

5 things I hate right now:

- Bureaucracy
- Tuesday's which result in a ridiculous fatigue after 12 hours of being on campus.
- socks all across my floor
- missing being a child
- flies in my kitchen

High Contrast / Fabric

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNwEbNaBJ5s

One of the most banging drum'n'bass tunes ever. High COntrast is in Fabric this weekend. One of the most amazing live music venues on Friday nights.
Check it out:

http://www.fabriclondon.com/

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

I picked up this book from a second hand sale by the Thames last week during Thames festival. I'd heard a lot about it from various places and decided that it would be worth having a look at. I finished the book in a day. This book is very original. It is written from the perspective of a fifeteen year old boy, Christopher, who is very clever and knows a lot about maths and science. His next door neighbours dog is murdered and Christopher sets out to discover the killer and writes a 'murder-mystery' novel, which is what we have in our hands here, from his own words. The reason why this book is so different is because Christopher isn't like normal fifeteen year old kids. He is socially awkward and does not understand why people do not 'observe' the world as he does. An insightful book, it allows the reader to truly, even for a few days, think about the true and real things around him or her. I would recommend it to anyone!

Brida - Paulo Coelho

Brida is a novel for those wanting to escape everyday banality and enter a world of magic, true magic - a magic that only few can understand. Brida is a young Irish girl (based on a true story) in search of love and her true self. She will find it at the end of her journey. All inhibitions will be eradicated as she follows the Tradition of the Moon - a long magical tradition followed for centuries. It is a novel that we can all learn from: sometimes it is important to let ourselves go without thinking of the consequences, as we may discover great things about ourselves. A bit like the Alchemist - in the sense that you feel a great sense of peace and calm at the end of the novel. A profound understanding.

Bodrum/Kiz Kumu

So, now that I’ve finished University I’m having a summer enjoying every moment and looking forward to starting my masters next year in London. Until then, I have a month in Turkey. I’ve just spent a week with my friends in Bodrum (South West) having an absolutely fantastic time staying in a small hotel by bar street. It has a terrace that looks over the beach and it is very good value for the amount you pay each night. I would recommend it to anyone. (Especially students and backpackers)

See: Merhaba Otel - http://www.merhabaotel.com/eng.php

After waking up with a few hangovers, ruining both my phones at a foam party (Halikarnas disco, the oldest disco in Bodrum – Mum said she used to go when she was my age), swimming every day and going on a boat trip, I now find myself in a small sea village called Bozburun with my parents.

Dad hired a car and from Bodrum we went on a ferryboat to cross over to Datça – this is where my grandparents have had a summer place for years and I have been going there since I was a baby. Everyone knows everyone, there are no tourists and it has a ‘blue flag’ beach (meaning it is one of the cleanest places in the world). I absolutely love it.

Anyway, we stayed there a night (I will be going back in a few days) but we thought that for a change we would drive around and stay in some bays we haven’t been to before. Yesterday we thought we’d drive to Bozburun and Selimiye, which are about an hour away from Datça and Marmaris. On the way, we stopped off at ‘Kız Kumu’, which is a beautiful place where there is sand in the middle of the sea across two bays, so when people walk across it, it looks as if people are walking on the water. From above (the mountains) the colour change below is fantastic, as you can see the red sand path dividing the deep blue sea on either side.

There is a myth behind this path. Apparently a King took over the pirate’s area and so the pirates were angered and killed the king. While the king’s daughter was trying to escape the wrath of the pirates, she collected sand in her skirt and tried to lay out a path for her to cross the sea (all because she didn’t know how to swim). Unfortunately, the story did not end well and she end up drowning because she ran out of sand. Sad times. I would recommend anyone to go to this place just because it feels quite magical walking around in the sand with sea on either side of you.
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Next we ended up in Selimiye, which has a story of its own. This one however, isn’t a myth; it is our own opinion of one of the funniest places my parents and I have ever been to in our travels. This place has to have an entry of its own.