Update and TAGGED

Let us together pray for Kak Elle's dad...for his recovery...

It was Wednesday... it was quite cold actually... as i was on my usual morning walk at my beloved park... drops of sort of ice started to fall onto me... small pieces of ice... SNOW? nahhhhhhhhh..it couldnt be! i heard no news of snow coming from anywhere... i continued my walk... and exactly 9.30am..my usual time... i left the place to head for home... it was then the snow started to intensify..i was wearing thin clothing.... but i was warm from my one and a half morning walk (i am as fat as ever..gained more kgs...still trying to get a constant walk but very difficult these days)... and so..in happiness..i walked on... to one of the bakeries near our street to buy my favourite tahinli ekmek (bread made with tahin.. i think it is made from sesame seed..added with sugar in liquid form... it tastes almost like peanut butter)......and guess what??it was still hot!! (saat 10 sabah...selimin sevdi firından tahin ekmek çok muhteşem yaaa) i was soo hungry...well... naturally.. the cold weather..the walk... the snow.... it did that to u... and so while walking home... i was eating my tahinli ekmek (it was hot n far too tempting!)...i ate half of it! hahahaha..i lost some calories and i gained more by eating that ekmek! hahahahaha..and kids... let me repeat that eating while walking is not recommended...eating should be while sitting :0)

It was that nite i heard on the news that snow was actually coming.....the weekend was to be with snow...
Oh no!! i said to myself... on Saturday, Mehveş will have to go to Bursa to give a lecture there. Hopefully she would be ok..i prayed... It was snowing... the snow was loads.. but she went home safe and sound...even halil had the meeting at the other side of the bridge that day... one in europe... and one a radio talk in Asia...it was really hard for him that day too as it was terribly snowing n the traffic was tremendously terrible... the weather worsened... as our pc decided to go on go on strike and refused to start!! Great eh? It was no pc eversince Thursday!

The kids n i had fun with the snow on Saturday....Istanbul was covered in snow.... it was wonderful (if u dont have to go to work of course) but that night the weather worsened....my mind started to get worried... i kept telling Halil to cancel his lecture in Bursa on Sunday... but he said... he couldnt cancel his first lecture......etc..etc...and so at 4.30am... as he called the taxi to go to the bus station for Bursa....

One wife's heart and mind started to worry as the road was again white in snow..... it should have been fun playing with the kids under the powerful wind and strong gush of snow everywhere... as snowballs were thrown to each other...but at a corner of my mind... i prayed non stop for halil to reach his destination.... safe and sound.... i held my handphone next to me for news of him...it was no use turning on to the news on tv.. everywhere u see vehicles were stranded... everywhere u see accidents... lives ended...as many got injured... and when halil called at 5.30pm to say that the bus tickets were cancelled due to snow... that increased my worry...I thought to myself... well...perhaps that was for the better.... even though deep down i soo wanted him home with me... but later he said he found a bus... the first bus to move towards istanbul eversince 1.30 pm...

How can this wife not be in the ultimate worry eh? the weather was bad... everywhere in Turkey..even Antalya which had not snowed for 15 years had snow!!...and so together with the kids.... we prayed for the safety of this one beloved of ours...my tem.. their baba... as the rest of the siblings too tried to get his latest update.... Alhamdulillah all our prayers were answered as at 12 midnight... he rang the door with 2 kokoreç n ayran (hahaha eating is a must).... i was soo relieved.... i had missed him so much...and so he was free to spend the 2 days of xtra holiday ( monday n tuesday was pronounced off days for school kids) with his kids.... and on Monday nite .... the pc decided to end the trike and be well again...(for now)..of course... i couldnt even check my mails or update my blog as the 3 *kids* in this home dominated the pc with their games... grrrr...

Ah...finally.. i managed to *throw* them out! hahahahah
Enough said....

I was awarded this *friendly site award* by our very own Kak Lady one of friendliest ladies on the planet... a blogger who entertains us of stories of her kids in her sweet way that most times u r left with a grin on ur face...a perfect antidote for bad days... thanks akak :0) so as not to break the chain.... i hereby tag....

*theta*
*mama rock*
*Queen of the House*
*mulan*
*Doctor in the House*

if it up to me.. i will tag u all up... tapi like kak lady said... malas nak type banyak banyak.. heheheh..u can see the links 2 their blogs at the right side bar of this blog...

Kak Lady, tagged me to list out five of my favourite links.

Then tag five more people to share their links. Did that :0)

They can be business links, favorite sites, affiliate links, whatever you want. At the end of the tag we would be able to share good links from others.
Rules:

1. MUST be clean. No X-rated sites. 2. Only FIVE links. 3. MUST tell 5 people. 4. A link back to the person who tagged you. 5. An active link.
İskh..bahaya ni..nak cerita ka ni?? ok la.. here r the sites i always go to :0)

1. Yahoo homepage coz i have to read the world news from there first... n besides... my rocketmail email account enters from yahoo homepage ..pagi pagi first thing in the morning... i always check my email ooo..:0)

2. imeem just to check out hot songs n singers names...so that later i can download them from limewire... a must these days coz i can rarely watch mtv these days.... i am getting outdated of the latests in the music world... thank God Merve n Safa (mese's kids) always update me as well of the latest news... :0)

3. İstanbul traffic Control Center xtremely useful to check out the traffic situation in istanbul... they also have cameras all over the main spots..so u can actually see the traffic situation visually... not just as dots...the dots... well.. u can see which road is jammed and which road is not...really really useful..i tell u... i am trying to download this thing to halil's handphone..but error keep coming out...hmm...

4. Yemek Sepeti a list of restaurants to order ur food online... i always check them out..just never really order from there yet...coz our family's fav food chain numbers r already pasted at the door..n we have very specific fav... lahmacun n kebaps from haci Başa... burgers from Mc. Donalds...pizza from Domino pizza..baklava from emiroglu... all actually quite near to our home... and fang fang... it sells tomyam as well...hmmm...(weiiii... tunggu bulan 6 balik mesia wei!!)

5. Today's Zaman i dont like reading the news online...i prefer to read the news from the classical printed newspaper... we r subscribed to Zaman (the turkish language newspaper...a sibling of Today's zaman)...but u know me.... i prefer to read english.... so until halil subscribes us to Today's zaman..i am stuck to reading online... *hint hint* heheheh

need to tidy up my home... i promise to reply the comments in my previous entry and blog hop whenever i can... sooo sorry... bukkannya tak nak blog hop... tak sempat....
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