Do u dare try?

Will you drink your juice if it contains......

water,fruits and vegetables puree and concentrate (apple, sour cherry,red grape,pomogranate, strawberry, tomato, carrot, beetroot,celery root,lemon, cucumber,cabbage,onion) salt, vinegar and natural fragrants...

or...



water,fruits and vegetables puree and concentrate (apple, orange,guava,passionfruit,pineapple,mango,apricot,banana, grape, lemon, kiwi,carrot,celery root,cucumber, lime, cabbage, beetroot,onion, chilli) natural fragrant

or

water,fruits and vegetables puree and concentrate (tomatoes,carrot,chilli,beetroot,cucumber, salary root, black grape,lemon, cabbage, onion, green salad), salt, vinegar,spice mix,natural frangrant, oil and basil abstract

Oh yeah.. Kerim (my bro in law) was the one responsible for discoring these juices from a mini market in Sapanca called *küçük ev*....

This market is really special coz if u wanna find newly produced products (the ones u cant even find in most supermarkets in istanbul ).. u can find them in küçük ev...

He made halil n i tried all the 3 flavours... i practically almost couldnt stomach 2 of the reddish flavours! it was really terrible! (unless u like to drink turşu suyu..pickled veggie water!)... but the green one... the second ingredients out of the three (the middle one)..it tasted kinda nice...it is still sour tasting but a nice one...(with ice of course! :0)

So what about you? looking at the ingredients.. do u think u will be able to stomach any of the juices?

U decide

:0)

As in friday nite.. i will be off again to the usual gateaway place...will be staying there insyaAllah for a week...

See ya when i get back here! muahhhhhhh miss ya already :0)

The truth is..istanbul is getting too hot for all of us (it was 38 celcius yesterday)...hatice is getting headache from the heat... n i do have to say.. splashing inside the pool n doing the jungle trekking (i am sure the wild black cherries r ripe by now..at least some)... sapanca is the obvious choice...

Please pray for our safe journey...take care!

(good luck to me.. i havent packed, ironed the clothes, cook etc even! help!)

And for the dear one who will be undergoing an operation this Monday.. our prayers will always be with u...

On the other hand, i have just recieved a call from Meşe.. the Sapanca's house fridge is broken!!! THAT will determine whether we will al be going to sapanca AT ALL coz without a fridge, there is no use going there... Mıstık has called a fixer to fix the fridge but if the guy cannot fix the fridge... we may have just cancel the sapanca trip for some other day...frankly speaking.. that fridge is just counting its time to *die* anyway.. i think we need a new fridge in Sapanca..

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I am a fanatic...

Unlike those in US or UK... i was at ease.. confident that there was no need for me to go on long que... that no matter what time i would be going to the shop, i would still be able to grab one...the fact that that street alone has many many branches of bookstores along the main street... calmed me down.. though Allah knows how xcited i was to get a copy of it...

I knew that if i went there early and get my copy, simah would be cancelled for the day...simah would do nothing.. care for nobody but just stay focussed on her long waited precious till it was over... i forced myself to not look at the computer at all that day.. not wanting to spoil the suprise..... tidied up the apartment... did a bit of ironing... and after feeding the kids lunch.. at about 1.30pm..only then did i tell the kids to get ready for a walk towards my much awaited destination... why not take the taxi? it would have been quicker? i just somehow simply enjoyed the torture.. the suspence heheheh crazy huh?


I chose D&R coz i have a discount card there... and how happy i was to enter the shop and see that one i had longed to see for months.... as if caressing a lover, i took 2 copies...each with different picture cover... one with figure pictures with more colors... while the one with the picture of a locket...darker...more evil to me...and i chose the darker one.... i felt a bit devilish then...and that was the last copy of that cover in the shop....



And YES! i was and am the proud owner of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows... the last book in the series....!! İ was 59 YTL poorer.. but happy *big smile*

just assume that that sword is the gryffindor sword hehehehehe

I blame this Harry Potter fanatism to Mehveş,Safa and Merve in particular.... As much as i love to read books, i simply didnt buy story books in English after I came to Turkey... Well.. Books in English r hard to findunless u go to the main famous bookstores..the variety is less as well.. everything r translated to turkish...which i avoid reading... and especially in the early years of our marriagr, halil's salary was meagre and we had to live under baba's financial support... I didnt want to burden him more than we already had....

But it was that one night when we went to Meşe...10 minutes before we were to leave her place, this one movie in english caught my eyes...it was the first harry potter's movie!!!

A week later, i encountered the third book in the series *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*...i thought i'd give it a try since it was in paperback.. it was cheaper than the hardcover one...

I fell in love with it immediately.. the way the writer told her story captured my heart.. i was in love....

Then..on halil's next salary...i found the second book in the series...*Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*... i couldnt get enough...!

I found the fourth book at a local bookstore *Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire* and started reading....

When the fifth book..*Harry Potter and the Order of Pheonix* was out in 2003, i couldnt afford to buy it... the hard cover version was too expensive for me...i just simply kept my silence...

But Meşe...a Harry Potter mania herself... knew my unspoken dilemma... and for my birthday that year....the fifth book flew into my arms...signed..

*Happy Birthday Simah. We love you. Merve,Safa,Mehveş*

Yippie! i finished that 766 pages book overnite...!

But then, i coudnt find the first book! I looked everywhere....can u imagine? i was readng my fifth book of the Harry Potter series and i did not read the first book evem!

... and Funda suprised me after her holiday trip in Holland when she presented me with the first Harry book...*Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone*....

She signed... *Good to contribute to your Harry Potter Mania...Lots of love.. 25.7.2004*

And i was forever grateful!...Muahhh...I am so glad to have really really supportive sisters in law :0)

The sixth book was just like my fifth book as well...I knew the book was coming out... i knew it was useless to hope that i would be able to buy it that same day it was produced... and what did i know?

That nite...*Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince* knocked my door... a gift from Meşe!

*With best wishes 16.7.2005*.. she signed the book (she signed later)...

Am i lucky or what?Alhamdulillah....

And i have finished reading the last book 2 times already eversince saturday..i am into the third time... halil knows that i will keep reading that book again and again... all the 7 books without fail...for countless of times...

But having Harry Potter Fanatics in the family... helps :0)..Meşe, Merve and Safa are still waiting for the translation of the book in Turkish.. they will have to wait a little bit longer.. but yes....

Simah-Meşe-Merve-Safa... we are proud to say.. we love Harry Potter!

maybe some of u may not understand why... but we all just do! Respect ..:0) I will have to say the last book is so far my favourite book coz it explains about just everything! the secrets..the hanging logics...the things why some things were not explained in the previous books... Rowling is just simply brilliant! My precious Harry Potter books r stacked in my bedroom.. at the bookshelf where i can easily take them out to read (i used to sleep with them all)... halil n the kids know not to touch my harry potter books...

I know some people have critism on the harry potter mania... but if this book can make people wanna go in line just to buy it... kids wanting to read it..teenagers...adults...millions worldwide...i think that book in itself is an achievement to the world of books....:0)

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The bee..

Staying in Sapanca meant having to co habit with nature.. to be able to enjoy the green life has to offer.. the birds chirping to different sounds.. the squirrels stealing the hazelnuts from the trees...the mosquitoes.. the bees...the lot..

It was the bees of Sapanca that actually caught my attention... they r no human shy definitely... i can still remember how many of them (as well as other flying insects) shared our swimming pool to cool down their body from the heat of the day (and most probably drowned themselves n it).. or how many times the bees flew above our heads while we were in the pool that more often than not, baddin or hatice or i kept having to shriek *duck into the water* in turkish....

but it was with great suprise that i discover that everytime it was lunchtime..everytime i tried to feed my kids... a bee would without fail fly around us.. not to bite as bees normally would.. but just to hang around...was it the fresh fruit cocktail that i always feed my kids attracted the bee? it is possible... in fact, that was what i thought until...as one day as i was feeding baddin soup... this one bee flew right into baddin's bowl of soup !! hahahahah

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Bear with me :0)

Sunday-22.07.07

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It was past their bed time...was it 10.30pm? i am not so sure... We just got back from baba... a superb dinner at baba's prepared by Kerim...

As we reached the outside part of the apartment, halil and i (n the kids) parted ways.. he needed to go to the bank....Well.. well.. and i couldnt find my key! Searched i did my totally full to the brim sling bag...... but after twice looking at every crook n nook of the bag.. i gave up n gave halil a call... *I will be right there soon*... and so we waited outside the apartment entrance door at the stairs...waiting peacefully...


3 cars suddenly stopped in front of the apartment. One guy came out rushing.. practically jumping over the fence of the apartment while the 2 guys from the other 2 cars was saying...*yapma* (dont) as they tried to calm the angry guy... they were right next to we were sitting as the guy started to bang the door..etc..etc...


I got scared. I knew somone was going to be in a fight. I couldnt ring the door of özlem n halim coz the 3 guys were exactly in front of the apartment door.. i didnt want them to enter the apartment...

so i told the kids to wait outside the apartment fence near the road ...Hatice i saw was scared..really scared... she has still not gotten over the thief experience in izmir... and i dont think she will...

The angry guy in question started to bang the window (ground floor place) of the person he was angry with ... that left the front door of the apartment free...


I didnt know why i didnt try to go to the next door apartment.. the zaim brothers r there too...i guess like hatice, i too was remembering the izmir experience... i was not able to think straight...

Luckily özlem(my sis in law) was in the balcony... she saw us n asked what happened...i asked her to open the apartment door lock n we went straight to their place... Hatice started to cry as soon as she entered özlem's place...we all then went to the balcony to see what was happening...


The people involved were gathering... the angry guy was shouting... a lady was screaming her head off...angry... people were trying to calm each other....bla bla bla.. it was not a nice thing to see.. Thankfully, the angry guy didnt bring a gun coz according to özlem, the last time he was there, he was with a gun...

Halil came to özlem n halim's place 5 minutes later... and later we all went back to our place...

Hatice is reliving her fears... she is sleeping in our bed for tonite... she is sensitive to these things..easily affected... i am strong but i am afraid too....fear this time paralysed my logics. That was a grave mistake.. i could have endangered my kids... Allah korusun...

while putting her to bed, i tried to explain to her what was happening... but what touched my heart was....when she asked me....

*Anne bana söz ver... onlara gibi... boşanma*
(Anne, promise me... dont get divorced like them)

I reassured her that *divorce* is not a vocabulary i toy with...that i love her father with all my heart and might.. as i am confident that he ..i..



*söz veriyorum*
(i promise)

as i said that to her... i just couldnt imagine the child of the couple who is stuck in between the fight of her parents... how deep r her scars... how traumatic her life will be...May Allah help her... *****************************************************



Yes.. i know.. i am guilty as charged... i have been missing for a long time... i have been trying to write this entry about sapanca since ..well..u can see the date of this entry... many many days ago....

but.... i dunno... i just dont feel much of the zest of life these days... am i subconciously still grieving after the death of my nephew? it is possible... there is this feeling of nothingness in me... like i dont feel like doing anything... i am not even contacting anyone much from the blogland these days..nor do i visit their blogs... this is a stage of life i suppose will pass.. soon hopefully..

Sapanca was....well... it was Sapanca... but the main highlight would be when everybody got together and we all spent the day together...even Funda's mom was there too... n we celebrated meşe's birthday that day..it was nice.... I wont waste my time much with words... here r some of the d snaps taken in Sapanca... some by me and some by Funda...

The uncles teamed up as a team to bully the nephews...n nieces

At the sapanca lake...n believe it or not.. i just sort of sprained my ankle half an hour before that..and for half an hour, halil n i cycled the boat at the lake.

The end result?: i couldnt press my feet that nite.. n had to practically limp very painfully for a few days... but the fact that i stayed in the pool for many hours helped the ease the swelling...

Hatice, Keremcan n Zeynep..

just look how they hav grown up...

This year, minik mustafa came to Sapanca for the first time...

Halil was in istanbul..so mıstık, the kids n i went on the big tour *jungle trekking* together
(and my was still sort limping still hehehehe)
After the jungle trekking...before the pool...a glass of milk and a banana each for strength

Sapanca-the Zaim family with Funda's mom as the special guest

İlayda,her ll sister n her parents was with us on saturday...they were playing jump jump

..even safa joined in hehehe

the 3 cousins in the pool.. it took me hours n hours of walking with hatice n baddin to find the right swimming suit for her.. it was either too small or too tight or she didnt like the pattern...girls!

Halim n the twins

Somebody's socks heheheh

They r still bulying the younger ones hehehe

d cook as snapped by hatice

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MEME

I was tagged by arif.. n then by rad n theta... it is long overdue i agree but considering the situations..i am only able to do it only today..hopefully not too late...

Okey, this is the rule.If you are tagged, you need to write an entry related to the meme. At the end of your entry you just need to tag as many person as you like. You will then leave a comment in their blog to let them know they have been tagged. And to include this message,


"By doing this meme you are contributing rm127 to the Darul Izzah Orphanage".
Then please copy and paste this rule somewhere in your entry.


meme is about completing at least seventeen out of the following twenty seven sentences........ *These can be copied and pasted to your entry*


1. A person is only as good as he or she wants to be
2. Friendship is like the air condition to a sweating heart
3. To love is to be able to share what u want thelepathically..
4. Money makes me wanna buy more home gadgets heheh
5. I miss my bed
6. My way of saying I care is by offering food
7. I try to spread love and happiness by mumbling in my blog
8. Pick the flowers .... why when they start wilting why pick flowers when they r in their blooming time?Pity the flower eh..
9. To love someone is to pledge to hold n to cherish each other till death do us part.
10. Beauty is what the heart recognises, not the eyes...
11. When I was thirteen, what I remember the most was my basikal prewel
12. When I was twenty one, I remember me saying to myself...*leganyaa tak sangkut masa kat matrix dulu* :0)
13. I am most happy when my angels r happy and i see that relaxed boyish expression of my tem like i saw that last Sunday...
14. Nothing makes me happier than a look of love from him..
15. If I can change one thing, I will change some of the decisions in my past. But i cant.
16. If smiles were infectious then I should smile more more often :0)
17. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have no worries at all?
18. If you want to go back to Malaysia,then you have to .save more! :0)
19. Money is not everything but money lessen loads of my headache hehehe
20. The most touching moments I have experienced is...definitely private...
21. I smile when i am happy
22. When I am happy I sing.
23. If only I don't have to lose my weight, then i can eat and eat without caring what i eat
24. The best thing I did yesterday was to be able to train baddin to help out with the carrying the grocery bags.
25. If I ever write a book, I will give it this title,"These I shall not say...."
26. One thing I must do before I die is start praying properly.
27. Doing this meme, I feel like a lucky person to be given the chance by Arif to participate in this meme...thanks Arif!

I will not tag anyone in particular.. anyone who wants to do the meme..please do so... remember the rules :0)

Sapanca stories..coming up.. :0)

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Life goes on...

Yes... the pain of the loss is still raw... i cannot look at my nephew's picture without shedding a tear or two.... my brother n his wife r still in the deep mourning process....Afif is gone but life must go on.....

We THANK YOU for ur condolences and doas and kind wishes..

It is time to mourn the dead as well as to celebrate the living...

...my sister in law Mehveş is celebrating her 40 (cough cough) birthday today....however...since baba is in Sapanca, all the siblings n families gathered at the Sapanca gate away summer house last Sunday to celebrate her birthday...to cut the cake.. spend time with each other n of course to eat the BBQ for dinner.... what a pity exactly as we were all going to snap the family photo...my camera battery went dead...so..am waiting for the photos from Funda (hint hint) hehehe :0)

Stories of Sapanca will come soon...as for me n the kids.....sapanca was nice..restful n peaceful.... very healthy too.... but home sweet home we do miss... true... istanbul is hot compared to the wonderful breeze of sapanca house....i am glad to be home... and even halil admitted that home was not inviting at all to go to without the kids n i to go home to...

There is definitely no place like home.... well.... time to unpack! :0) So please excuse me ladies n gentleman.. this simah lady is one very busy lady heheheh

NİCE YILLAR MEŞE!

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Afif...Perjalanan Terakhir...

" Assalamualaikum w.b.t
InsyaAllah,
untuk pengetahuan simah,Allayarham Muhammad Afif pergi meninggalkan kita dengan mukanya yang tenang dan senyum dikala kita semua bersedih mengenangkannya,untuk simpanan simah abi telah menghantarkan gambar terakhir yang Abi sempat rakamkan sebelum pemergiannya pada hari khamis..gambar yang abi hantar ini diambil pada tarikh 3.6.2007 dan 4.6.2007
semoga rohnya dicucuri rahmat
insyaAllah,kami akan terus memberi sokongan sepenuhnya kepada Johari
wasalam"

So here r the pictures of Afif snapped using my younger brother's handphone the last time afif went back to my mom's house...

Afif n my mom..

Afif with the babysitter (am not sure).. and the rest two pictures of afif with his 2 younger sisters...

My nephew Afif telah selamat dikebumikan selepas sembahyang jumaat....his grave is quite near to my brother's house... in fact just now they had put him into the ground...

..I am sure there is no need for the angels munkar dan nakir to ask him questions much...he is an angel ....himself..a child who has no sin...

i just talked to my sister yana.... she said...

*Simah tau tak afif meninggal senyummmmm..lepas tu badan dia bau wangiiiiiiiiiii*

Afif died smiling....he smells so fragrant..wangi semerbaknyaaa....a clear indication that what he saw before his death was something truly wonderful.....waiting for him at the other end...that in itself...is a comfort to the living...

...*sayang simah tak dapat tengok afif*
(what a pity u cannot see afif the last time) ..my sister said...

Her words struck the cord like lightning...as my tears fall... this is for the first time in 8 years that i truly regret living so far away...that for such a matter like this.. i cannot be there...

The last time we went to Malaysia, hatice and afif were always fighting while playing..... we were planning to go back next year for a visit..i was really looking forward to see whether both will be able to play without a fight this time around.. i guess there is no such chance now, eh?

But he died happy.. that is the most important thing... even that last weekend, my sister along even brought afif to the zoo (while sending ayin -my other nephew to the college).. held his hands... snap his photos...

Afif may be sickly all his life.. but he was a very lincah (active) boy.....that will be the memory all those who love him shall have difficult time to deal with as they play the memory of him in their minds...

Afif... Mak Lang Simah mintak maaf tak dapat balik tengok afif untuk kali terakhir...

Muhammad Hafif bin Johari...

Innalillahi Wainnailayhi rojiun...

Al Fatihah...

Papa mu menangis...

Mami mu menangis...

Adik Adikmu menangis...

Atuk dan Wan mu menangis..

Makcik makcik dan Pakcik pakcikmu menangis

Semua menangis...

Allah lebih menyayangimu...

Seorang anak yg berjiwa suci...

Yg pasti Syurga menantimu....

At least that is a comfort in disguise...

u will be in heaven

I have just recieved an sms from my brother...afiz dah tak ada..

this is the only way i can grief... by sharing it with u...

i cant go back to malaysia... i cant try to comfort my brother or his wife...no words of comfort can lessen their pain n sorrow

Afifz is/was after all their first new born.....

Joe..kak linda... redhakan....relakanlah...

i just cant imagine how my bro n his wife will tell the rest of the kids... that their big brother afif is gone.. never to come back again...

*sobs*

Please pray WITH me...

My nephew..Hafif... my elder brother's only son is critical in the İCU (immergency unit)... nobody knows what is wrong with him....he just fell sick out of a sudden...hospitalised.. n from the weak voice of my brother...i sense a voice of a father so hopeless n praying hard for his son's life...

It must have happened so suddenly coz i just talked to my mom yesterday...and she didnt mention anything about hafiz being sick....now my mom n dad... n my bro in law r all heading towards KL... Please pray for him...i will be heading towards sapanca tomorrow nite...so i wont be updating this blog for at least 10 days...

My nephew in the icu... my tears cant stop falling... please pray for him....

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Sapanca

Oh yeah... This Sapanca was a mixture of a lot of things... but what was beautiful was the nature...

We all reached Sapanca on Sunday.. n he left us there on Monday night... and by Thursday midnight, i had missed him so much that i started to pick a fight... on the phone... refusing to recieve his call.... which was silly really coz the only thing i wanted to do then was to hear that voice i missed desperately that it hurt to breathe....but by being sooo typical * a woman*...i refused to talk to him....... n thus, i suffered in silence *chuckles*...*bangang binti tolol* heheheh

Luckily the extra lectures he was supposed to attend during the weekend was cancelled. Therefore, he made a suprise *i am hereeeee* during midnight on Friday which was a silly thing really coz he was stuck outside the house waiting for someone to open the door heheheheeh...Thanks to mıstık who opened the door for him (mıstık jumped a few stairs coz he got scared something had hapenned) n i had the shock of my life when he entered the bedroom as we were all soundly sleeping *chuckles*.

Take for example this bird's nest... it is fascinating how the mom and dad of the 3 little birdies take turn to feed their younglings.. the mom comes to the next... feeds the younglings... flies away... then the dad comes....the dad to feeds the little one...all day long.. non stop....and u would think that the little ones would be full huh? such hungry mouths too feed.. and such hardworking parents! masyaAllah...

The mom ready to feed the hungry ones

The dad keeping watch at the top of the pool's curtain post while tryng to catch any insects that pass by in the air..

And guess what? from hours of watching the birds... mıstık ( baba's helper) discovered that... one parent feed one little birdie... the little birdie will immediately do the *big toilet*.. the parent catches the *yucky thing* inside her/his mouth and flies away to dispose the stool..that way, the nest is kept clean... how brilliant, huh? And the feeding stops as the day gets darker and one parent(supposedly the mom) stays with the little birdies in the nest while the dad keeps watch all nite long from a place nearby...

oh yeah...did i mention this mummy cat n her 2 kittens who without fail will grace our door for food each meal time.. n whom mıstık gladly complied :0)

It was also interesting how in the few days when Turkey faced (faces) the hottest weather ever (33 -42 degree celcius)... how..even the animals were effected...a bird practically flew thru the water in the picture below (i couldnt snap the bird.. it was too fast n unexpected) to cool itself...And u cant imagine how many insects decided to cool themselves inside the pool.. not caring if they got killed in the process heheheThe bees especially did that.. leaving hatice, baddin n i screaming...

*mıstıkkkkkkk... böceklarrrrrrrrr varrr*

(mıstık.. there r insects!!)

and poor mıstık had to scoop them away hehehehe..oh yeah.. we r a family who r not so fond of flying things hehehe

I still remember how there was one time when i saw a bee in the pool as i was swimming... the kids were screaming as it was anyway... mıstık was no where to be found.. and so i decided to scoop the bee using my hands.... ı managed to coop it to the side of the pool n guess what? the bee was alive!! and what was the bee doing? it was heading towards the pool again!! i used my slipper to deter it from coming into the pool but it was adamant to get into the water!! in the end, i just threw it as far as i could from the pool...it was alive still.. but i was confident that that bee must have found a way to get into the pool again.. it was totally record breaking indeed... countless bees n other flying insects (n even ants) inside the pool... but as the weather got better n cooler ( we were walking around using sweaters the last 2 days ..only in Sapanca of course)...the amount of insects inside the pool lessened considerably...

Ahhhh the nature was indeed beautiful..the trees in the garden made the scenary really green n eye catching....when it was early in the mornings, when the birds think that everyone were still sleeping, u can see a bird or two hopping on the grasss of the garden... each bird making a different noise... u can only guess what they were mumbling to each other....in a language only birds know.... or at times when the big wild 2 squirrels of the empty house next door thought no one was looking, they hopped into our garden to steal the fresh hazelnuts on the trees... how brilliant they r....n how fast....

Halil n the kids in the garden..

I couldt help but to adore the bees on the wild berry trees (boğurtland) as well.. as we did our customary büyük tür.. the big jungle trekking (one hour n a half) with just the kids, halil n i...as we we puffing the first time we did it this year (oiii.. tinggi ooo nak panjat bukit...).. as we had to walk on muddy places (it rained the day before)...
as i tried to walk in my beach slipper (thanks 2 halil who forgot to bring my loafers)... as well as wearing a skirt for the jungle trekking (hahahahah not recommended)....

u cant imagine how many bees we encountered having a feast on the flowers of the berry... some already turned into green berries... maybe in a month's time... ready to be picked... i was fascinated especially by the big fat... black n strikingly bright yellow bees....they, u dont see near our sapanca house garden.... and the nature as though pitying my daughter, presented her with a fully ripe dark deep coloured berries for her to eat....making her one definitely happy girl :0)

the road changed very little really.... we still passed that one wild apple tree on our way...though a bit sad coz this year they will be no apples to be picked from that tree...we still passed that one house which smelled of cow n sheep dung.... we still pass that house with 6 sheeps lazing around in front of the gate... that black dog from inside that house still barked at us... but i am afraid that white dog who used to wait with the sheeps r no longer there..probably dead due to the age factor...the beauty of nature was none other ..at least not where u can find by looking at the bricks n mortar of istanbul.... n the smell of wild kekik (thyme) as u walk whicle jungle trekking.... just a rub on ur palm at the leaves....will leave u smelling wonderful all the way... (esp if u r gonna sweat while jungle trekking hehehe)...

Hatice n Baddin all ready for the second jungle trekking...

and a jump into the pool after the jungle trekking or everytime the heat gets to u (we spent around 3-4 hours in the pool each day)....made everything worth it! :0)As much as i love Sapanca.. i miss my home as well.... and that is why i am here for a day or two.. that is before i am once again back to Sapanca where mıstık n baba await us..... (kena la balik sana balik.. kalau tak nanti kesian lak pak mentua tak dak orang nak masak kat dia kan.. :0)

I know a lot of u r curious about my last Sapanca... so here i am updating this entry for u... i need to settle the bills etc..etc etc... so many things to do today as well as trying to get the laundry done etc..etc... forgive me if i cant blog hop yet.. will try to do it tonite as well as replying to ur comments in my previous entry....

Thank You for hopping by...Hope to see u again the next time.

I really miss u guys...!
But i am afraid.. i will be missing in action this summer with no internet connection more often than not...