HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

How I Met Your Mother is a sitcom which has been broadcasted in an USA channel CBS since 19^th September 2005, created and produced by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. The main character of the series is Ted Mosby. In the beginning of the series Ted starts to tell his children how he met their mother and the series returns to the year of 2005. Each episode Ted talks about a woman he went out and his children listen to him every time as if the woman he mentions is their mother. Although there have been 7 seasons so far, the children’s mother hasn’t been known yetJ

I think the most attractive side of this sitcom is that: The idea of ‘Let’s write about our friends and stupid things we did in New York’ was Bays and Thomas’ idea while they were producing How I Met Your Mother. They inspired from their friendship when they created the characters:  Bays mostly stands out with the Ted-character, while the characters of Marshall and Lily are inspired from Thomas and his wife. Rebecca, the wife of Thomas, was sticky about creating a character inspired from herself and she would give permission on the condition that: Alyson Hannigan would personate her. Luckily, Hannigan was convenient and much willing to take place in sitcoms.

Another interesting point is that: MacLaren’s, one of the places used in HIMYM, was created and inspired from a pub, named as McGee’s, which Bays and Thomas love so much and want to take place in the serials. Furthermore, pub was named by the assistant of Bays, Carl MacLaren (he also gives his name to one of the workers in the pub).

I really watch HIMYM with a good grace, especially I love watching the character Barney. He is so entertaining and charming that I cannot help laughing while watching him. Here is one of my favourites of Barney, enjoy it :)

WHAT A HAPPY WORKERS!

 About two days ago I came across an article while reading a magazine and it really attracted my attention. It was about the opportunities for the ones who work for Google. The employers think so: the more comfortable and happy the workers are, the higher the incomes are. Here are some examples:

• Workers have an opportunity to sleep whenever they like.
• Nobody in the center put on a tie- even there are ones who go to work with their pajamas.  
• There is so much in the way of entertainment in the area of Googleplex- such as volleyball courts, billiard tables… Workers can make good use of those opportunities whenever they want in overtime period.
•  Google doesn’t forget its workers’ health. Workers may do exercises in fitness centers anytime in a day and there are 5 doctors ready for any health risk. Google also offers its workers free check-up service.
• Google allows 10.000 persons the opportunity of work and the ones who work in its head office can have their lunch in any of the 15 cafeterias. All the fresh juices, chocolates and beverages are free in cafeterias.
• Workers can bring their dogs to their work places and play with them in their offices; but there is just one condition of Google: dogs aren’t supposed to ‘urinate’ inside the offices:D  

A TV administrator in Thailand married his fiancé who died in a traffic accident.

According to the news of the web site ‘Pattaya Daily News’, while 28-year-old Chadil Deffy was preparing for marriage with his fiancé Sarinya Kamsook whom he had been together for ten years. She had an accident and died.

Deffy said that his greatest wish was to marry his fiancé and 4 days later after the accident he married the body of Kamsook, which was worn a wedding gown, in a Buddhist temple in a province, Surin, at the northeast of the country.

Deffy put the wedding ring on Kamsook’s white-gloved-hand. He said: ‘Our love was very big but we cannot change the past. Today I am fulfilling my greatest wish. Our souls have joined each other forever.’

A television channel broadcasted the wedding and Deffy shared the photos of the ceremony on Facebook.

After the wedding the bride was buried.

BEING A STUDENT AT METU

I was graduated from Zonguldak Anatolian Teachers High School. Normally, high school students in metropolitan feel the difference when starting to go to university. But, in small cities, like Zonguldak, students, like me, feel a great amount of difference. Because, living standards as well as high level education become quite unfamiliar to them. So the first year, especially the first term is called as adaptation process. Every student has this process: some of them orientates easily while other part of them has difficulty in adapting.

At first, students prefer other cities. Because at those ages people love freedom and living apart from their own town or their parents affect them. Although I stayed in dormitory in high school and got used to live apart from my family, I couldn’t see the challenges of living alone.

High school is quite different from university. The responsibilities are bigger. You are on your own all the time and your safety is in your hands. So it can be said like that: university is a place which you learn about real life in. Thus, METU is the right university for me. It is located in neither a crowded and complicated city like İstanbul nor a city which has less facility than it. Besides its educational quality, METU’s social activities help me to adjust and made it easy to spend my years in METU.

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 According to Krishna in USA their work is a kind of teamwork, which she personally very likes to do. For Linxi, American schools offer more opportunities to practice than Ohio in which one has to get very high scores to be major. Both educationally and personally, studying in the US is good for them.

2)     In China, there are some programs providing information about schools in abroad and you can choose what do you want. Thus, Linxi could go to the US. Krishna has a grandfather who has been living there for 22 years and one of his friends graduated from Ohio advised her to go there.

4)    America seems to Arata quite different. First, there are smaller classes in which communication among other members of ONU is easy. And in his own country, students can take one major program at once which is unlike to America .Secondly, according to Arata’s observations, Americans re more outgoing and social. Krishna likes the flexibility of Ohio’s education system. To her, one can do much more things besides studying his degree. For these reasons now she has a new goal in her life. For Linxi, one of the differences is the using of dry machines. In China, her home country, they put out line out to dry, so this is unfamiliar to her. Generally, they like American culture.

6)      To study in the US, you need to pay for about 30.000 dollars per year. But it can change according to one’s school, lesson terms etc.

8)    Americans are used to wear short even in winter or drinking too much coffee which are different to them.      Of course they have. At the beginning they felt confused and surprised. But according to Krishna it is quite normal to feel like that. Because it is totally an unknown place for them. Once, I had a thought about going abroad and even studying in Canada. I made some researches and liked Toronto University very much. The reason why I wanted Canada rather than America is that Canada is less crowded and like a world just for students. It is also easier to make ends meet than America. These are good sides of America. There are also challenges of being at north. Coldness is a big problem for me. Maybe it would be great to study abroad but my university METU is an international association and I’m so happy.

yeeessss the last fashion of the dwellers of section 4-KARLI KAYIN ORMANI- and I think it's impression will last for long;D

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I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who has seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah