Category: Lifestyle
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A Silk Road Tale by Fazil Say
Fazil Say is my favorite classical music virtuoso. He is one the biggest artists in his time. Because he is not only a performer but also a composer. Can you imagine that he composed his first piano sonata when he was 14 years old? I barely started to write my first stories, at that age,…
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Best Williamsburg Coffee Shops to Work or Study
I lived in Williamsburg for a year and I never need to go coffee shops like I do right now. And I haven’t thought of writing about best Williamsburg coffee shops. I used to live in this building that has so many space and amenities with a beautiful East River view. Fatih used to push me…
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Coffee Talks with Newest Yorkers: Melissa A. Martin
I finally complete my new Newest Yorker interview. I promise to do this videos every month but I was so busy during October and Arriana was so busy for November and I was kind of being lazy to pursue one of my friends to do this coffee talks with me. I was being late to…
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Best Coffee Shops in Greenpoint for Freelancers
Finally, I decided to write coffee shops in Greenpoint. I moved to this neighborhood last September. Since then I am all around the place. But first I want to talk about the history of me and coffee. I love to try new places, especially new coffee shops. I have to admit when I first come to…
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East Village Day with Alley Girl
Today’s look is from East Village. I love to show you around in New York, I feel like you are browsing the city with me. It always fun to go a place and meet an acquaintance from the city to show you around just for a couple of hours. I think this is what I do with my…
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16 Seed Funding Terms You Should Know Part-2
You’ve already read my previous seed funding terms list. So I decide to make the list larger. It has been ages I didn’t share anything on my Alley (Internet) Talks section. This is the perfect subject to share. Due Diligence Friend, family and fools Exit/Exit strategy Incubator Initial public offering (IPO) Joint Venture Market valuation Merger Preferred…
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An Eid, A Newborn Baby, A Wedding, The Ultimate Istanbul Vacation
Here I am again going to Istanbul. This time just for 10 days. I am going to attend one of my best friends’ wedding in Istanbul. You may know Deniz from some of my IG photos or not. Actually, this isn’t very important. The thing is she is my friend from college and we both…
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Central Park – New York Fairy Tale
Central Park is probably my favorite place above all. It is another universe in the middle of chaotic New York. I was one of those lucky people who live close enough to run in the park every morning. Those were the pretties 3 year in UES. (Check rest of New York Guide Posts) I realized…
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All White Business Look
I did this photo shooting with my brother to show casing “business look”. I’m acting as fashion magazine editor in a very busy fashion week. 🙂 I bought this Prada skirt last year from one of my Woodbury visit. And the Prada shoes are from my famous ebay hunting session. These shoes were very iconic…
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Coffee Talks with Newest Yorkers *
I was thinking about starting this video series for a long time. I attempt to do by myself months ago for the first time. It was kind of disaster in terms of my editing and camera skills. When I was lucky enough to find Arriana, I was so excited about finally doing my youtube videos.…
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10 Place You Should Visit in Central Park, New York
I am living in the city for 5 years now and Central Park is my the most favorite place in the city. The idea of writing about this list occurred to me after this photo shooting we did at Central Park with my brother last spring. I wanted to show him some hidden places other…
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Dumbo, The Wall Street of Tech Guys
I continue my New York guide from Dumbo, Brooklyn. If you are planning to visit New York, So check my previous Times Square, Flatiron, West Village posts. Dumbo’s popularity has started around 198os. After one of the most famous management company (Two Trees Management) started to buy properties, people started set eye on this area…
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Heart of Manhattan – A West Village Guide
West Village is my favorite neighborhood in Manhattan. So I decided to do my next iconic New York shooting in West Village.(Check Times Square and Flatiron – Silicon Alley shootings.) I consider West Village as heart of New York. The places you’ve seen on movies are generally from West Village. So don’t spoiled your New…
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Silicon Alley Girl Look
I want to share my Silicon Alley Girl look today. What does that mean? My blog name is coming from Silicon Alley and I finally made my Silicon Alley shoot earlier May when my brother was visiting me. It is long time desire of mine to make this photo shooting. This is the second post…
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4th of July and San Francisco
I’ve never been San Francisco before. I have never been in the west coast until this May actually. It has been 5 years now that I moved to NY. It takes time to start to discover USA. You know your first year in NY is crucial, you barely find time and money to go around.…
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Crazy New York – Times Square
We made this crazy Times Square shoot last month with my beloved brother. Whom follows me closely knows that my brother was visiting us last month. So I took advantage of him deeply 🙂 We decide to do photo shooting all over the city. We started from Times Square to Flatiron District known as Silicon…
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I love New York
I love this city. It is truly dream city. New York is attractive to many young, modern indivuduals. I always feel so lucky to live in this city. I was lucky before I move to here. Before New York, there was only İstanbul for me. İstanbul was always my number one. Unfortunately İstanbul is destroy by…
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One Very Bold Lab Day with LISTERINE®
Some people are bold all their life long. Me? It is little complicated but I know I can be bold as hell. Let me tell you my boldest move ever. By the way, when I say “move” it is a literal “move”. As most of you know I moved to New York after my husband…
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Midi Skater Dress in Washington Sq. Park
I was shocked when I woke up to rainy and gray day. Nobody can stop me to wear my favorite skater dress, neither rain. We had such a great time on Sunday with friends. We are all from Turkey and We Turks love our traditional Turkish breakfast. So we decided to go long time favorite…
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Union Square Organic Market
Since my husband moved his office to Union Square , we become master of this neighborhood. If you work or live in a certain area in New York you learn so many new places and so many things to do in that certain place. We discover so many nice places in Greenwich Village, Union Square,…
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Robert Clergerie in Istanbul Brought by Alley Girl
This is not an actual Istanbul trip. While we are going to Maldives, we decide to stop in Istanbul for 2 days to reunite with our families. Because It has been almost one and a half year since we’ve seen our families in Turkey. So we decide to buy our transfer tickets with 2 days…
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Six Senses Laamu – My Dream Honeymoon in Maldives
I wrote how my honeymoon in Maldives journey started about 2 years ago in my previous post. This time I want to write about our magnificent stay in Six Senses Laamu. As I mentioned in the previous post, We heard about Six Senses from our friends. They were crazy about this place especially about hotel’s barefoot…
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Munich, I’m Sorry but You’re not Berlin
When we told people, we were going to go to Germany, everybody told us oh Munich was the best place in Germany. We were very excited about this. Apparently, people’s taste can be very very different. Both Fatih and I weren’t impressed by Munich as everybody told us. I don’t know maybe I should live in there…
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Prague, The city of Everything
After our very satisfying Berlin trip, we checked train tickets for Prague. Our little journey took four and half hour between Berlin and Prague via train. In my experience train is the best way to travel around Europe. I love train trips and I think the train ride is always a good idea when you…
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Berlin where is the Newest Hipster City of Europe
I think I fall in love with Berlin. The city has so many things to tell you. So much proud, so much pain…so many struggles… Yet, It still stands as the most powerful European city (I point this as economical and political power). I’ve lived in Germany for 5 months as Erasmus Student (European Union…
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Small Europe Travel: Berlin, Prague, Regensburg, Munich
Fatih and I are planing to have a small Europe travel, before brutal winter hit us. In fact New York winters are not so bad but last 2 years everything changed. So you never know. I do know Germany has really relentless winter. Even the time (which is October) when we will be there looks…
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Our New House in Williamsburg
If you move to New York from another country, you should live in Manhattan for the first 2-3 years. Of course, there are some hipster ones of you are going to object this!!. Because my theory is for the ones who are obsessed with SATC and bunch of other romantic comedies based on NYC. If you…
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Buy Designer Shoes and be Ethical
We all follow so many famous bloggers. We admire their beauty, their clothes, their lifestyle… we love their world. It is so glamorous. And the fact that they used to be like us is more attractive. Ordinary people who can’t reach those incredibly expensive brands. And some day they start to become celebrity. Perhaps this is…
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Fazıl Say and Chamber Symphony
It was beyond magical. When: Saturday, Where: Carnegie Hall Who: Fazıl Say and Orpheus Undoubtly Fazıl Say is the greatest composer of Turkish Music. I was so proud to be there in that magical night. When I was a little girl I was reading this book and the main girl from the book was invited to…
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Want Different Fashion Event? fashionMIND is for you!
One of the best things about blogging is meeting with new people. I almost get e-mails every months because of the interview I did with my close friend Mumin Erakbas. I shared my experiences about the quit my job and come to New York to unknown… I start to get some e-mails and attentions because…