Till we meet again...

With a heavy heart full of guilt within me..i stepped out of the flat.. guilty because i was not bringing him (he would get cold!!).. guilty because i would be leaving him for hours while i would be enjoying myself..guilty because i knew deep inside to go to the other side of the bridge and to return before 2pm was an impossible task.. ..guilty becoz by 2 till i reached home, mahture nene would be looking after him...the mother would be out...out to join the 4 single girls for a day outing....

but then..hey!!is it often i get to have their company?is it often i leave him alone like that? is it often that i get to relive my youth?? ( hey! i am not that old!!) ..and just look at the day!! Nice isnt it?

A view of Kadıköy from the ferry

Anyway, they reached our home from yolova on wednesday evening.. We went to the other side of the bridge on thursday since they needed to do their last minute money finishing shopping for the last time...but i returned earlier since i needed to buy a new monitor for our pc..(yeay!! we r a proud owner of an lcd monitor..phew we r broke!! lepas ni makan tanah je larrrrrrrrr).. and my own most guilt of the day... baddin was with mahture yenge..
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and now....it is almost half an hour since their flight is scheduled to fly... Safe journey my dear friends..please do come again.. hatice and baddin have enjoyed ur company so much!! Can u imagine? hatice's bed time was supposed to be at 8.30pm last night but both kids.. with loads of scolding only went to bed at almost 11pm!! why?? because they wanted to spend time with the 4 ablas!(sisters!!).. sabar aje laaaaa...

It is nice..i got to meet my once upon a time roomate at ukm hostel....that would be dydy (budak yg asyik dok selamba aja.eeeeeeeeeee tension akuuuuu.. expression la sikit weiiiiiiii :0))... and i got the chance to meet Shida..KC (not keçi (GOAT) -hahahaahahaha - the two unseparable girl friends)....and of course the one most huggable person of all vim..sedap dipelukkkk!! hahahah..

i notice one thing too.. i am the type that..if i use one glass, i can use the same glass to drink coke and fruit juice (for example).. that usually end up with halil giving me a weird disgusting look..because if he drinks coke, he will need another glass to drink his fruit juice.. and the glass used during dinner will not be used for later (ie.. the glass of water he drinks next to his coffee)..many many usage of glasses.. while my friends were here.. even when i provided 2 glasses for each person.one for cola turka..one for fruit juice, dengan selambanya they drank both types of water using the same glass.. that makes me wonder.. is this a malaysian trait..or is this a matter of similarity of life habit? what do u think?

At one time during our conversation, being curious about indian curries, i asked vim(indian indian) and shida (indian muslim) of the recipe....from what they told me, i discovered that indians do not use any coconut milk inside their curries...and in the olden days, they prepared their own curry mixture..(though they suggested that for normal people like us we stick to the already packed curry powder...and when i asked them about why there r different curry mixture for fish..chicken..meat.. i was told that..for chicken curry for example, some spices (cant remember which) within the curry mixture r added more as to counter react to the smell of fish..

.this one question strucked me as i saw vim putting on make up on her face.. If u notice from the color of her skin.. her skin tone is very dark...call me ignorant but the fact that a dark colored skin wearing makeup is a very new field to me.. people doooooo wear make up right?? so just because u r very dark.. u r not an exception, right? thouusands of people r dark..

Trying not to sound like a racist..i approached her on the matter..she said that it is really difficult to choose a make up ..For instance.. for a lipstick..if there r 40 colors on display.. after trying all of them, only let say 2 will match her skin...normally, she wears the brownish one.. and she strongly suggest.. for dark colored people like Vim here..she said *BOBBY BroWN* brand is the best... it is very expensive as well but the brand caters specifically for the dark colored people -indian..african...that lot in the beauty range...interesting discovery huh?

I also notice that some letters in turkish r difficult for us, malaysians to pronounce (orang india like vim lagi la kan ..lagi la mulut dia terbelit hehehe..)..last night while Dydy and KC were playing with hatice and baddin...hatice was trying to teach them how to pronounce the things in the flash card in turkish...letters with ö,ü ... r sooooo difficult for them to follow.. practice ladies practice :0).. practice makes perfect...

And before taking a cab to the airport.. shida brought back to malaysia buah delima 6 biji!! (pomogranate)!! hehehe as if we dont have that in malaysia, right? But then, i dont blame her...we have wonderful pomogranate here in istanbul... merahhh delima menyala menawan hatii...

Halil thinks that they r sweet people as well....he doesnt mind being *thrown* out of his own home for a few nights..i think to him... to see that bigggggg smile on my face...to hear me laugh mcm nak rak in the living room (he told his bro selim that we had a fight n i had thrown him out of the house.. hence the reason he had to stay at baba! hahah)... made everything all worth it!

dont get me wrong.. i love my turkish family.. i laugh with them as well.. i talk to them as well.. Alhamdulillah..i have a wonderful family in turkey..but when u have someone from ur own country...speaking the languages u know (semua budak tesl...so u can imagine 5 tesl grads chatting with halil at dinner..asking about the phonetics bla bla bla)...especially when u r in the midst of missing ur own family (thanks joe for the satellite map)...u feel better..for a while..

They r gone.. i am back to my normal routine... i miss them already... no more hiruk pikuk in malay and english in this house..duit raya yg korang kasi utk hatice n baddin tu nanti kitaorang masukkan dalam bank account diaorang...*cheekyyyy cheeky friends u guys r!!*..u guys guessed right that aku tak leh tolak duit tu if u bagi atas nama diaorang...grrrrr cheeeky..siap letak atas meja kat bilik lagi...!!

People were staring at us..perhaps it was from the noise we made.. or perhaps from the language we spoke..or perhaps they were trying to decide from which country we came from (being the united colors of benetton and all)

DyDy and I
Two old friends..


Before leaving for the airport..the last pose in front of our Apartment

The taxi they took...

Thank You for stopping by...We really really hope to see u again one day

...be it in Malaysia or in Turkey..till next time..


P.s hatice manangis teresak esak bila dia balik sekolah dan dapat tahu the 4 sisters dah balik..