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F1 Pre-Apocalypse

Isn't this ironic? Renault cars gracefully crashing. I loved the commercial. Now it looks like Renault had too much confidence on their crash-safety of their cars, and deliberately crashed one of their F1 cars last year in Singapore, so that Fernando Alonso could win by pit stop strategy. The news is allover. I find it a pity, but I don't think F1 has a bright future in the changing times, unless it re-invents itself. This abhorring display of lack of sportsmanship should shake Renault and the sport deeply.

About Battlestar Galactica, Shakespeare and Besiktas and Owning a House

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I am not an avid house-furnisher. As a matter of fact I bought the furnitures for my apartment with my dad, and organized them with my mom. Various ornaments in the apartment are either presents or stuff that my mum brought with her when she came to visit. Everything was fine until I came back from Turkey after the New Years break. I had not noticed how empty my walls were until I was back home in Turkey. It took another 3 months for me to take action, but I am proud of the result. What I did was to download the poster from Battlestar Galactica Website, get a print out on a A1 Paper and buy a passing frame from Ikea. Here is the result: Last weekend was a great sporting weekend for me. I haven't compiled a statistics, but the number of weekends, on which Ferrari won a GP and Besiktas won, is not very large. This weekend was in this sense a nice exception. Kimi Raikkonen drove a commanding race leading from start to finish. It was obvious that Ferrari was a a good .5 seconds fast...