Singapore… (Part #1)

It has been 1 month and 10 days… I am in Singapore and I have started working in Singapore. Singapore is tiny island in Pacific-Asia and most of people on earth can hardly show it on map. Even if you know where it is it is not easy to find it on a world map due to its size. Although its size is small, it is a big city-state in terms of life and economy and it is one of the four Asian tigers. There are people from almost every nation, race, religion, color… It has got one of the most active ports of world and in every 3 minutes a container ship is arriving or leaving.

When you first come into Singapore the first thing you will realize is hot weather and diversity of people. It has got tropical weather conditions and it can rain hardly anytime. In this small island there are 4 official languages and 3 major races. English, Chinese (mandarin dialect), Malay and Tamil are official languages. Percentage of Singaporean-Chinese people is ~%75.2, Singaporean-Malays are at ~%13.5 and Singaporean-Indians are ~%8.8 and others are ~%2.4 . In streets even though people have different ethnic background they identify themselves as Singaporean and having different background or speaking different languages is not a barrier or reason for a conflict. This country with its very low crime rate is a country of peace…

In this country almost anyone is able speak English but still almost every signboard has all 4 languages and all announces in metros are being announced in 4 languages. For example when you get in that very long metro trains you might be amazed how many different kind of people there are. You might think that there are mostly Asian looking people but if you look at carefully, you will realize Hindus with their red or white sing on their head and traditional clothes, Muslim men with their caps and women with their headscarf, Sikh men with their kesh, Malays or Indians with their dark skin, and Chinese people with every diversity that others have, European expats, Asian expats and list goes on…

Electric Guitar!

I have always dreamed… And finally i made it real… I have bought anelectric guitar… I think i saw it in a foreign(not Turkish) moviewhen i was a child, a blond guy was sitting in front of door of houseand playing it slowly. The most interesting thing was for me how theguitar was making such a thin and delayed sound. He was not using anamplifier(i didn't know this at that ages) but i guess the sound hasbeen added later… And also the guy in the movie "Backto the Future" was playing such a guitar and i loved that movie when iwas child(i guess i was 9 or 10 years old), that guy also impacton me about buying this guitar. But my main passion started by listening metal music when i was at high school. Actually i didn'tlisten too much but later when i come to university i get hooked withmetal and rock music. After all years i finally bought one electricguitar to make my own composes :) . There is a friend of my friend whohelps about playing. I am happy now; another dream of me come true butnot totally yet, since i can't play fluently (but i can a little bitnow. i am writing this entry 1 month after i bought ).

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The first thing i was thinking about before i start writing/creating my
blog was to write it in English or Turkish. I wanted to write it in
Turkish since it is my native language and wanted to have more readers
from my own country. But while the world is getting more global and
when i think the number of English speakers and Turkish speakers, i
thought writing in English may be better than writing in Turkish. As
you read it is in English :)

I want to keep my first post as
simple as possible. I hope my new blog will help all of us, from
different aspects but mostly technology and software development.