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Another youngster gets his chance for first-team

Eser Ozvataf November 10th, 2009 No comments

After years of our generous young generations which have Uğur Uçar, Arda Turan, Sabri Sarıoğlu and etc., there is a long waiting for talented youngsters who own capacity to play for Galatasaray. We’re still expecting that new ones will be brought to play for first-team.

Whatever, within absence of our greatest striker Milan Baros, our coach Frank Rijkaard has plans for backing up him place with a young player. Needless to say, Kewell has more functionalities for our tactical approach rather than being a central forward on the pitch. Also Nonda is such a slow player to challenge with opponent’s defence. So none of them can replace Baros’s defence-piercing-forward player role.

It seems, the first candidate to take this place is Anil Dilaver. He was the most scorer of 2007-2008 Turkey Super Youth Tournament. 19 years old player scored 17 goals previous season. Our assistant manager Johan Neeskens watches him and reports his current status to Rijkaard. His primarily characteristics which can be noticeable at first-sight; creativity, technique and playing with both feet.

Things are going to be deprecated in 50 years

Eser Ozvataf October 1st, 2009 No comments

I’ve read an article about things are going to be deprecated in 50 years. I wanted to share list of these things.

By the way, there should be a self-criticism because I couldn’t imagine myself reading these type of “catchy things” short time ago. But It arouses curiosity due to relationship with future. (Also this curiosity comes from mixture of futurism and science-fiction culture and it makes an occasion :P) Nevertheless, It’s not the same thing with what Internet journalism do.

According to futurologist Richard Watson’s list:
- 2009: Repairing things.
- 2012: Television with tubes.
- 2013: Fax machines.
- 2014: Getting lost.
- 2016: Retirement.
- 2017: Cellular phone, hankie.
- 2018: Secretarial, DVD.
- 2019: Post office, Library, Butchery, Free car parking.
- 2020: Patents.
- 2022: Blogs.
- 2024: Weekend vacations.
- 2025: Free highways, AM Radio.
- 2026: Skin wrinkles.
- 2027: Lunch, Privacy.
- 2028: Unions.
- 2030: Keys, Reality shows.
- 2033: Coins.
- 2035: Crude oil, Spam mails.
- 2036: Addictions.
- 2039: Deafness, Carbon emission, National currencies, Paper money, Wallets, Sleep.
- 2040: Ties.
- 2045: Living room.
- 2049: Newspapers, Blindness.
- Beyond 2050: Death, Pain, Ugliness, Plastic surgery, National governments.

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Sympathy For The Devil

Eser Ozvataf September 6th, 2009 No comments

Supernatural's Lucifer The premiere date for the Supernatural season 5 is 10 September 2009. Every season surprises us with new character additions, now we’re all waiting Lucifer’s arrival. In the meantime, we spend time with watching season 5 promos.

If you’re a watchful person, you might have noticed similarities between Lost’s and Supernatural’s season endings. Both of them flashed to “white” cast screen whereas their original episode endings are usually use black cast background. Another similar point is apocalypse metaphors. They created an ambition like the things will happen in coming seasons will be irrevocable for characters.

And the last one is Mark Pellegrino! The actor who introduced as “Jacob” in Lost, has been cast in Supernatural to play “Lucifer”.

Arsenalisation

Eser Ozvataf September 5th, 2009 No comments

Fàbregas I haven’t written any blog post about Arsenal for a long time even tough a transfer period has been passed. Actually, I haven’t found a space while trying to chase Galatasaray’s transfers including Leo Franco, Kader Keita and Elano Blumer. On the other hand, Varmaelen was the only remarkable transfer for Arsenal during the transfer window.

After Adebayor and Toure departure, Arsenal hasn’t replaced their place with experienced players. I haven’t read or heard other supporters’ thoughts about these players’ transfers but that reminds me of Henry’s leaving. I doubted that Wenger is preparing next youth project because things was going differently than I expected. Nevertheless, squad’s lack of experience isn’t the only thing that makes these two transfers “risky”. It has been made by Manchester City which claimed their season target as first five in ranking.

Despite negatives, Arsenal started the season with a stunning performance. The most genius tactical difference that I noticed, using Arshavin, RVP and Eduardo together in forward line. I think Song, Denilson and Diaby will find more chance in absence of injured Fàbregas and Nasri. Wilshere, Ramsey, Merida and Bendtner would be rotation players for now. I don’t want to talk about defense right now except for Varmaelen because I’ll watch and see. Varmaelen sprinted 90 meters to prevent Celtic’s counter-attack in champions league game which was ongoing 0-0. His will, pace and courage impressed me too much.

Season’s first defeat, Manchester United match had a controversial penalty and an own goal of Diaby. Also ManU supporters called Wenger as “paedopile”. I haven’t decided which was more shameful than others yet. By the way, I can’t understand why ManU supporters sell their chants about Arsene Wenger over the amazon.com. Who wants to buy it?

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A cat has been blamed for child pornography

Eser Ozvataf August 11th, 2009 No comments

A Blamed Cat The stupidest thing I’ve read ever, according to guardian.co.uk, A Florida man blamed his cat for downloading child pornography by jumping on the keyboard. Upon the police’s discovery of 1000 images on the suspect’s hard drive, he claimed that his pet would be capable of surfing on the web.

Actually, I’m interested because I need my pets’ assistance for computer works. I can’t afford the human one. If he can prove his cat has some computer abilities at the court, I’m beginning to train my cats from now on.

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Supernatural has a chance to continue

Eser Ozvataf August 10th, 2009 No comments

Supernatural

I’ve been waiting for coming season of supernatural for a long time. As a fan of this demonic-hunting-drama, I heard some good news from latest comic-con. The series’ creator, Eric Kripke has made some declarations about Supernatural’s future.

He said: “There was a five-year plan and we are in the fifth year of that story. This is the last chapter of this volume and we plan on telling it well and climatically, but we are certainly also batting around ideas and there’s no reason there can’t be another volume.

There’s no reason another new epic story can’t begin. We’re not going to stretch this one out past its expiration, we’re not going to drag this one into a place it isn’t. We’re going to tell this one the way it’s supposed to be told, and it’s going to end, but another story can begin. And that’s what we’re preparing for and we’ll just sort of see how the season goes.

I’m going to cross that bridge when I get to it. I’m breaking episode six of the season. My head is so far away from season six that I honestly have no idea.

I’m very interested and anything can happen and we’ll see. I need to see how this season goes first.”

By the way, according to digitalspy.co.uk, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki had previously signed six-year contract deal. These signs show us, there’ll be another season for our favorite cult show.

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Gala 2009-2010 jerseys released

Eser Ozvataf July 28th, 2009 No comments

Galatasaray 2009-2010 Jerseys

My first disappointment about coming season, I hope it will be the last at the same time. While we’re watching relegated Newcastle United’s “yellow” jersey sales from the distance, Galatasaray surprised us with purple jersey. I dare say these jerseys are going to cause an outcry too.

We’ve visited Galatasaray Store tonight to take a closer look at them. The store staff informed us about sales, jersey advertisements and future products. And after that I began to consider that Alternative jersey isn’t the point indeed, because fans quickly got used to last season’s orange jersey as I remembered.

The point is, first two jerseys aren’t nearly good enough to satisfy people’s expectations. First of all, Gala haven’t produced the perfect remake of its classical jersey named “Metin Oktay Classic” and straight white jersey. Every season jerseys have some design, quality or advertisement problems in detail in spite of fans’ common ideas and guidance. I must say, I will regret to watch Galatasaray in those jerseys.

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No tolerance for metal

Eser Ozvataf July 28th, 2009 No comments

I don’t prefer to write about current events but I get fed up very often when I hear a great amount of nonsense and then I find myself writing manifests. The latest news I heard reminded me of ten years ago, the time of head-hunting sessions for walking satanism on the streets. Those days, the police claimed that anyone wearing black t-shirts, has long hair and even a beard could be suspected because of their “satanic” appearance. I still want to know how they managed to create a public disturbance with such a pointless criminal search.

The other day, five guys were arrested for disrespectful behavior, which was gesturing sign of the horns in the front of the prime minister and they were taken into custody for 21 hours. According to their statements, police asked questions about their political views while they were under surveillance.

Football won’t escape the recession

Eser Ozvataf July 27th, 2009 No comments

Arsene Wenger's View

Everyone knows that Arsenal is my second favorite football club after Galatasaray. My adoration began with Bergkamp, and then continued with the legendary 2000’s. On the other hand, I always put Arsene Wenger in a different place than others, he deserves it with his respectable vision. You can check Wenger’s career and successes from wikipedia. So in this blog, I’ll write stories and news about Arsenal and Wenger very often.

According to his comments, Arsene Wenger believes that the global recession will hit football before the end of the coming season. Consequently he believes everyone will have to re-consider their spending patterns soon.

Wenger says: “It looks like football has not been hit by recession but that is only due to exceptional circumstances. I still think that we will have to become more reasonable in the game, even if you have exceptional circumstances like Real Madrid and Manchester City. I believe that in the next eight to 10 months football will suffer much more than people think.”

Source: arsenal.com

Optimus Prime on Sale

Eser Ozvataf July 26th, 2009 No comments

Optimus Prime Sculpture The main reason of my large house obsession is about the stuff I want to put in my house. The biggest thing was the piano I want to buy until I met with an steel Optimus Prime Sculpture which is 2.5 meters tall and has 550 kilos weight.

Despite Megan Fox-centric Transformer movies’ failure, I still love my favorite childhood cartoon and its heroes. But the point is, is my nostalgic relation with optimus worth 5,500 euros?

If you’re interested, you can buy an Optimus Prime copy online.

PS. A friend of mine noticed that there is an interesting note on manufacturer’s web site: “The parts used for construction range from a car, a boat, a dishwasher, a motorbike, a television and other pieces of recycled steel.”

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