Journal of My Journey

One of the new things that has been added to my life this year is Karate. I had always been interested in learning some kind of martial art, so finally starting to learn karate was like a dream-come-true to me. Recently I've been promoted to yellow belt from white (belt ranking starts from white and gradually climbes up to yellow, orange, green etc.). Today I'd like to share with you some thoughts regarding my karate journey. First, let me tell you about our karate dojo (where karate is taught). Honestly, I've never been to a place full of so much positive energy before. No negativity, only hard work and learning. I think it's wonderful that we willingly keep coming to the place which keeps giving us tough time every week. I doubt even 1% of this willingness is present when it comes to going to school. Another different thing about this place is– here age doesn't make you junior or senior, your skill does. Often we learn from someone who is much younger than us and

Hi! Posting after a loooong time. Hope y'all are doing great. Recently I've finished reading Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' and it was such an exciting yet calm and a good read. I'll share some of my thoughts on this book. Also, I'll review the webtoon 'Tales of Greed' which I randomly chose to read but turned out to be pretty interesting. (Pardon me for reviewing a webtoon with a Nobel winning classic. Such a terrible match :') ). Here you go– The Old Man and The Sea   Santiago, the old fisherman, went out in the sea after 84 consecutive days of fishless fishing. He caught the biggest fish in his life after fighting with it for some restless three days but by the time he reached the shore, there was nothing left of the fish but its huge skeleton. The book is mostly about the old man's principles and philosophy. He is a man of dignity but his dignity doesn't take over his humility. He is too stubborn to give up but his ambit

Did you know our current millennium started with what people had thought would be an apocalypse? It started with a simple but vastly used in application programming bug  ⃰. Back in the 60s, even 1 kilobyte of storage was much expensive. So programmers were always finding ways to write codes as succinctly as possible to save up some storage space. One such way was to write the last two digits of a year instead of the whole year in date formats (12/3/95 instead of 12/3/1995). Everything was rolling on perfectly fine but one day someone poped up question– what would happen in the year 2000? Only having 00 instead of 2000 would leave computers with high chance of misinterpreting 00 for 1900 and that could be a huge problem for areas like banking, airlines, nuclear power plants etc where many operations are conducted based on time. This problem became known as the Y2K, also known as the 'millennium bug'. Solution to the problem was to expand the year digits to four or writing additi

Recently I've enjoyed two movies and a webtoon all of which coincidentally had a common theme. You guessed what it is from the title. They're literally so heart-touching that you might need a box of tissue with you while giving them a go. 1. Miracle in Cell No. 7 A mentally impaired man got falsely accused of murdering a young girl which separated him from his loving daughter whom he loved more than his life. After years, the grown up daughter looks back at the time and reminisces the bitter-sweet memory of that difficult time. This 2013 Korean movie has such a beautiful story, it has inspired remakes in four different countries. The Turkish remake in 2019 got the most popularity and brought this movie in the lime light. This one is slightly different from the original story for its different ending. 2. Ayla: the Daughter of War Süleyman Dilbirliği, a 25 year old solider  in the Turkish troop sent to help South Korea in the Korean War in 1950, found a helpless child amidst

  Wow, it's already the 10th month! I hope you all are doing great. Today I'm gonna share a few contents I enjoyed last month. They're listed in the order I read/watched them. 1. IKIGAI (book) As you can guess from the cover, Ikigai is a self-help book that tries to explore the secrets to longevity. The book mainly focuses on traditional lifestyle of Japanese people who are well-known for their high life expectancy. The book also sheds light on some researches regarding longevity . From the mindset towards p ursuing passion to a healthy lifestyle leading to a potential long life, this book has lot to inspire you about. 2. JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI (documentary film) This one is linked to the previous one since I knew about this documentary film from the book 'Ikigai'. The protagonist of this documemtary is Jiro Ono who has taken making sushi on whole new level with perseverance and passion for his work. He's currently 95 y/o and this month he's supposed to tu

  I'm one of those people who often prioritize what may happen in the future more than what needs to be done in the present. That's a troublesome mindset I got there and fortunately I detected it not too late. Here I'm sharing one of the many experiences that made me realize this. Once I bought a sketchbook with special watercolour paper. I was supposed to practise using watercolor there since I was a noob but I was strangled with the anxiety that the papers were so special, if I painted even one careless stroke on them, it would be the end of the world. I was worried about all the 'future masterpieces' failing to earn a place in the sketchbook just because of some worthless scribbles. And who can ever practise painting with that kind of mentality? So, lack of practice resulted in no improvement and soon enough, I became frustrated with my mediocre artwork. Now that sketchbook lies in a corner with most of its 'precious pages' unused. That's a fairly s