Kurban bayram 2006-my conclusion.

These r the biggest group of visitors we had this bayram at baba's. ..in fact, with the addition of a few new faces, they go to baba every year... Who r they? they r the academicians.. be it. from istanbul uni where baba served till he retired... be it from old academic friends... collegues..etc.. and every year... this group...they choose a day in bayram and they visit a few selected hocas' houses...apartments.......an effort worth admiring... :0)


Sweet baba, he always make sure that this group come on the day where mıstık will be around..usually on the third or fourth day of every bayram..be it the ramazan bayram or the kurban bayram.. i managed to escape this group a few bayrams heheheh (well..they r so many!!)... at times.. meşe would be the victim hehehe but this year...mıstık, halil n i joined forces to serve them tea, the borek n bakla n tea and tea and tea and tea..... we barely could cope..n by the end of the day..i was ............puffed out! :0)




The thing is... when anne was still around, our family bayram was usually celebrated in sapanca..at baba's sapanca summer house.... anne loved it there... but after anne... baba celebrates his bayram at his home in istanbul... and thus, we too stay here....we r whereever baba is...as simple as that :0)



What i conclude from all the bayrams so far...there r regulars who always..without fail who come to baba.They r the ones we can predict which day they would come...for how long... bla bla bla.. of course there r unexpected visitors....and the phone just rarely stop ringing...



one of the visitors really remind me of saddam hussein.. hehehe this year.. suprise suprise..he had his beard n moustache on hehehehe totallyyyy saddam look..if u can see him..u will totally agree with me....hehehe



The highlight of this bayram is always the siblings visiting.. as usual..4 zaim siblings stay in the 2 zaim blocks... only meşe stays at baba's apartment block.. So on the third day when meşe started her visits to one of the siblings... the rest of the siblings, and their wives n kids follow suit..



Normally, our home would be the last place to be visited coz halil is the youngest.. but this year.. on the third day of bayram..meşe, mesut, merve n safa started with our apartment first.. together, we all (meşelar n halillar)went to halimlar... later, we (meşelar n halillar) went to muyessa yenge... later, everyone (meşelar, halimlar n halillar) went to selimlar... then..we all hopped to another door (kerim's).. and later meşelar went home. Selimlar went to halimlar while halillar (that means us) went back to our place coz i needed to feed my kids..and finally... halimlar n selimlar came to us for their bayram visit .. is this confusing enough for u??hehehehe ..the end conclusion is.. *this is the siblings visiting of the zaim siblings* hehehe



While doing the bayram visiting at our place, keremcan (halim's son) wrote this poem.. it is about basketball...i cant translate the thing.. i will have to ask özlem (his mom) to translate it for me...so özlem..bu şiir tercume yapar mısın? sağol..:0)




And this is the translation of keremcan's poem..
Basketball

I wake up and play,
I break baskets,
I am the best,
I beat Iverson.


SAturday and sunday I loose myself,
I jump into entertainment,
I beat every body,
I sweat and come back.


This is a poem written by Zeynep (Selim's daughter)..The poem is talking about fruits.. in order not to destroy the beauty of the poems.. again..i will have to ask her mom- funda to translate this for me... so funda.. bu şiir tercuma yapar mısın? sağol..:0)

And here is the translation of the poem..as written by funda:

Fruits

How nice are the fruits,

I eat delicious fruits.

I take vitamins by eating fruits.

I like fruits very much.

How nice are the fruits,

I eat oranges for instance.

I like all the fruits

Also eating the fruits.

The 2 younger generation of the Zaim family...keremcan and zeynep..

how talented they r... :0)

And before i close this blog for the week..here r my angels posing this bayram..

Have a nice weekend everyone! :0)

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Kurban Bayram-The first day

The coordinator of the day.. In charge of tidying up the breakfast table..and doing everything else..we the people with meat smell on our hands could not do :0)

The big sister. In charge of making sure the Great cook of the day (Kerim) did not put too much fat in the special dish. He did of course hehehehe

My beloved hayatım...cute isnt he? (if u look from neck up hehehe)

The Great Cook of the DAy (kerim) n mıstık doing all the hard work..


Our beloved KAVURMA in the cooking process ..it is a special dish we eat for kurban bayram
(this one is meat)


Kavurma (liver) in another pan..
Özlem ready to tuck in.. Kavurma (meat..liver..bla bla bla) eaten with rice.

Half of the kurban in the family were given to organizations. The rest..7 sheep were bought n slaughtered at the slaughtered house....it is more expensive than giving to organizations..coz for example.. one organization charged around 225YTL for a kurban.. today for example, the zaim men paid around 330YTL for one sheep and 20 YTL for the fee of the guy who did the slaughtering.. anyway.. like the people would say in turkish..*Allah kabul etsin* (may Allah accept ur deeds)...The meat were distributed to the kurban owners by our Zaim men... so that the meat could be distributed to the needy..and for certain parts of the meat to be used by the kurban owners.... and by 11.30am... 2 of the sheeps' meat reached baba's apartment..

Eversince Anne died... it was usually mıstık, kerim n meşe who did the meat cutting of the kurban meat. I didnt used to help coz at that time my kids were still quite small. This year however, we did help... selim, halil n i went to baba to help out...

It was a good decision coz this year, we had extra meat to cut....The kitchen was in havoc as the 4 siblings, one bride and mıstık chatted away...We finished cutting the meat by almost 2pm...and the kavurma was cooking by then.. we were scheduled to eat the beloved kavurma by 3.3.0pm or by 4pm..but only at 5pm hmm... or was it5.30pm?.....everyone..hungry as one could imagine (it was supposed to be lunch!!)..were able to tuck in!! Yummy!! Eline sağlık everyone..!! Of course, before the eating, we all did form a line according to age and kissed each other and said*iyi bayramlar* to each other...we skipped the chocolate offering coz everyone was famished... we snapped the family photo n then..hum hum hum!!..n not forgetting.. eline sağlık to meşe, özlem and funda for the delicious cold dishes... :0)

We were there at baba till 11.30pm.. tomorrow and the third day of bayram..we will be there as well..to serve the guests at baba's house..as we always do every bayram...i am tired n sleepy now.. i will leave u with the photos i snapped today

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Bayram Eve

Watched the *saw 3* with halil earlier on. The creator of that film must be nuts. Very creative..but nuts. A very good movie..Glad we watched it at home. In the cinema, i would probably hide my face behind halil most of the time.

We Called Malaysia at 1.30am my time n ..subuh time over there. Talked to my mom..my dad was not around..My mom cooked Nasik hujan panas..everyone's fav in the house. Talked to her.. couldnt stop yawning. Gave the phone to halil. She cried then. She was thinking that hatice n baddin never get any duit raya in person from my dad. I did not cry. Biasa la..simah hati batu heheh...Time to sleep. Need to clean..vacuum n mop the house ..i mean flat in the morning.

One sms recieved from a dear one earlier on also keep me frowning tonight. On this very happy day..this aidiladha..that dearest is sad.....the joy of bayram snatched away from her. ..n i.. in my helplessness to help have only my hp to comfort that dearest... i should thank technology at least...*sigh*



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