Journal of My Journey

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...

Crime and law related K-dramas have never failed to amaze me and my recently watched 'Law School' is another addition to that list. Here I'll discuss what I liked about the drama and a few lessons I took from it (yeah, I love to take nerdy approach towards everything). The story of 'Law School' starts from the suspicious death of a professor of Hankuk University's law school. While the mystery keeps branching in the process of capturing the murderer, Professor Yang tries to hunt down the root of evil along with his students. The whole story was like a jigsaw puzzle . Every charcters' incidents had connection and throughout the drama, the puzzle pieces were being put into place revealing the connections. I think Professor Yang's obsession with jigsaw puzzle indicates to this characteristic of the plot. Each individual's story fairly contributed to the collective story and they were interesting enough on their own too. If I'm talking about the less...

I've just watched a video that addresses a problem I had to fix not so long ago. Here's the video. I love to watch anime. And there are a few certain directors whose works I really like such as– Makoto Shinkai, Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosoda, Satoshi Kon. The problem was— I used to feel that I had to watch ALL of their movies or other contents and I set it as my goal. I didn't even care whether I was enjoying the movie or not, I just had to finish one and tick off the box. Thus I watched all of Makoto Shinkai's works in a go and burned myself out. I didn't do so with the other directors' works but surely suffered for the list of unwatched movies and not ticking the unchecked boxes. Later I realized the problem with such mindset and fixed it. Hobby is no such thing you have to stress yourself out for. Well, that's the reason it's hobby; silly meh. I used to go through the same problem with my watch-later movie or anime list and to-be-read books. I never kn...