AS-Enigmatic Astrologue

Sometimes I hate all, but most of all LEO. Oh papa, they're so conceited. What I hate most is a PISCES crying over the good old days. That humble, brainy AQUARIUS gets on my nerves. He's apt to be mobbed. I dislike the sneaky, self-centered SCORPIO, the stubborn ARIES, the all knowing miser CAPRICORN equally. I'm always in the mood of committing seven deadly sins even with a homely hubby born under CANCER. LIBRA makes me suffer inferiority.

I run away every time a SAGITTARIUS starts his unending philosphical speeches. TAURUS makes me sick with his nauseating love of beauty. I can't bear VIRGO's sense of humor as I roar my wrath over that chatterbox of a GEMINI. I might say I terribly need a doctor, but I just say hate is all I need. Having written down all these, she fixed eyes as if trying to remember something. Got it! She had softening of the brain and she was already dead with too much love. Ayten Suvak

AS-The Innovative Mind

Where creativity is defined as a derivative of freedom, playing with ideas, refraining from the judgement of people in a climate of challenge and high goals, innovation is defined as applied creativity. Creativity and innovation may be regarded as two siblings who play in the school yard together. They acquire skills for an ever expanding globalized market place.They learn that to be successful means to be creative and innovative in order to allure diverse customers to the market. Thus our future education would better take a way towards a symbiosis of creative and innovative knowledge and information. Our aim under the above title is to draw a poststudent picture through a philosophical symbiosis of knowledge and information: A student who smartly adapts the Platonic phrase ‘Know Thyself’ into its popular variety ‘Inform Yourself’ to be creative and innovative. We use brainstorming as a method to clarify our views. Our examples are somehow fictional while we try to draw the picture of a symbiotic student in between modern and postmodern tendencies experienced in the problematics of education. We endeavour to base the creative and innovative knowledge and information on the philosophies of British, American, French, Asian, Latin thinkers. Among many categories of educational research, ours can fit into The Educational Philosophy. Our method is also a literary quest which borrows some fictional figures of worldly known writers such as Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelly, Robert Musil, and last but not the least, our contemporary writer Hasan Ali Toptaş. Rather than finding an absolute solution for the ongoing problem of education, we attempt to adapt the idea of symbiosis, which we borrowed from Kisho Kurokawa, to the creation of a symbiotic student who stands for the reconciliation of knowledge and information. Ours may pass as an humouristic essay on our digitalized existence which can be elegantly summarized as ‘we are our memex.’ Our boss is creative and innovative information technologies which use knowledge as their recruit. If we are allowed to make a joke on this, we are doomed to be lifelong learners in order to survive in this era of communication which may be called as well, a type of cultural industry where there is always the danger of producing individuals in the service of business world. In a way they are creative and innovative slaves perfected by education. Future studies may further delve into drawing that slave student portrait in minutest details. Ayten Suvak

AS-What A Fate!

Things on the light side by chance Game of destiny is played in the dark By the blind Ayten Suvak

Some Words

Some words reminiscent of my childhood Now Listen Carefully Gal! A ringing bell that I was in trouble Ayten Suvak

AS-My Lines

@SuAy30: Two worlds in a heartbeat In fiery and ashy verses Of muted cries In stilted English imitating A sparrow's song Ayten Suvak

AS-Trapped In...

Trapped in... The Violent Daylight On my drowsy head I hear The Morning Melody Of a bird singing in the dew April breeze dancing on the leaves I start putting on my dress With a dainty hand I hear a merry air Over the smiling verdure As the hills are alive With the music Why do I feel Trapped Forever In my solitude? Ayten Suvak

AS-Now What?

He stood watching After the missed train After the missed love meeting Anyway he had always been tardy Ayten Suvak