February 2012
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Food to Fuel the Quarterlife Crisis
Today, I bought a box of Frosties. This is the first time I have consciously decided to buy Frosties since I was about nine years old. Standing in the Tesco’s aisle, bogged down in a fog of Sunday-morning half-sleep and general grumpiness, my eyes wandered from the end of the aisle where cereals are decorated with smug wheatsheafs and claims of 0% fat, down past the neutral-not-so-unhealthy...
January 2012
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Foody post: Earl Grey Cupcakes
So, since ‘Keyf Yapmak’ is all about things that make me happy, and I have a healthy obsession with food, I have decided to add foody things to this blog as well. However, I tell you the things that the recipes with magazine-perfect images of their perfect food don’t tell you, things like ‘cream together butter and sugar’ is not that easy. So basically, here is the...
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A Day at the V&A: Postmodernism (a.k.a. Teapots...
So I wrote this review during the opening week of the exhibition, and like a complete tool never clicked ‘publish’. Yes, I am a disgrace. I am aware of this. However since this is a good opportunity for anyone to see the exhibition before it closes in February, this is a good a time as any to publish it. Enjoy.
It’s comforting to know that after all those seminars at UCL where I...
December 2011
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Toy Story: You DO have a choice
I remember the first time I walked into Hamley’s as an adult. Ironically, it was to buy my mother some Harry Potter merchandise. I remember walking through a flurry of bubbles into the magical world of The Mega Toy Store, filled with screaming children and stressed parents. As I tried to figure out where the Harry Potter stuff was, I was genuinely surprised to see the floors clearly...
August 2011
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Wotever Sex at the Royal Vauxhall Taverns
What do you usually do on a Tuesday night after work? Trudge home, inhale dinner, chill a bit, head to bed? Maybe a bit of thrilling laundry, or, *gasp* ironing? That is unfortunately what my Tuesdays are usually like. However two Tuesdays ago, I was invited into the world of Wotever Sex, and saw a lot of things I normally wouldn’t see on a weeknight before 10pm. Or even after 10pm. Or...
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Nocturnes by John Connolly
A few months ago I was given John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things to read. After not being able to tear myself away from it, I was determined to read anything by him that dealt with the supernatural and dark fairy tales. I certainly got what I asked for, and far more.
The most concise way that I can describe Nocturnes is that it’s Roald Dahl’s short stories, but with actual...
“In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.”
– T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Nation by Terry Pratchett
I had certain expectations in mind when opening the first page of Nation. I have only read a few of Terry Pratchett’s books, all of which were part of the Discworld series, so I was expecting his signature tongue-in-cheek humour, ridiculous names and a clever tale that would make me laugh uncontrollably.
So I guess the first thing I should tell you is: throw your expectations out the...
Doing some Keyf
Keyf Yapmak is a Turkish verb, which means ‘to do ‘Keyf’. Keyf itself is a complicated word, and from what I gathered from a semi-translation from a friend, it means a mix of a personal happiness/contentedness/being happy or content in the moment. This is what I get from reading and looking at art, and so I have decided to name my blog after this amazing term, to begin a...